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The Huron Expositor, 1976-03-18, Page 5JUNIOR WINNERS John Lawson, left, of RIR,,g,Clinton Vas the winner In the junior division of the Legion District publiC'speaking contest held tri-Seaforth last Saturday.Second was Leah Coulbeck of R.R.1, Ripley, and third was Tommy Diegel of R.R.1, Tiverton. (Photo by Wilma Oke) SENIOR WINNERS — Connie Baer, left oof R, R.5, Goderich was the winner in the senior public school division of the Legion district speak-off contest held in Seaforth last Saturday. Heather Brent of Wroxeter was second, while Vicky McCreight of Dublin was third. (Photo by Wilma Oke) .Y.Alaftillimitettg.,. • Remembering... Guaranteed inveStrnebt Certificates Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation ' TH titIRP.N..ANPPITO.k..10APPH• 1k -107a ,,m1 Best of Huron meets Perth for speeches The best-of--klureq.--County's, A walk in the woods Separate School speakers met the best of Perth County's Wednesday night in Dublin at St. Patrick's School for the final public speaking competition of the year, Mary Luanne Clare of R.R.7, Lucknow, .placed first in the senior division. The 13-year-old Grade 8 student at St. Joseph's School, Kingsbridge spoke on Teenagers. Jayne Delaney of R,R.1, Dubliln , won first place in the junior division with her life as a paper girl. The 11-year-old girl is• a student at St. Patrick's School in Dublin. The two girls were among 16 students who gave speeches before a full auditorium at St. Patrick's School. The contest was organized by the Huron-Perth Unit of the Ontario English Catholic Teacher's Association. President of the association , Terry Craig, said the contest was the first of its type to be organized by Separate School teachers in Ontario and that he hopes the provincial association will expand. it. Mr. Craig said the students wrote their own speeches. They competed in a series of zone contests to reach the finals. Joey Morrisey, 11, a Grade 6 student at St.Mary's School, Goderich, was runner-up in the junior division talking about Water Ski-ing. Runner-up in the senior division was ColleenSchmidt, .12, of St. Michael's School, Stratford, speaking on Hiccups. Every week more and more people discover what mighty jobs are accomplished by low cost Huron Expositor Want Ads. Dial 527-0240. Correspondent Mrs. Laverne Wolfe There was a basket of red carnations and white mums in St. Peter's Lutheran Church Sunday _morning. from the funeral of the late Mrs. Yvonne Quincey whose funeral was held last Wednesday afternoon in the Zion Lutheran Church in Stratford. The Fischer family spent ,,,the weekend with their parents Mr. and Mrs.Ralph Fischer, Laurie, Brodhagen Mrs. Wolfe home from hospital WINS ADVERTISING AWARD — Joanne Van Dr"unen of R.R.6, Seaforth, an advertising student at Sheridan College in Oakville has won an award "for outstanding achievement and potential for success at the College."Joanne won the Advertising Advisory Committee Award, $100. Clinton , accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Wolfe to attend the funeral of the former's niece, Mrs. Yvonne Quincev. Our sincere symnpathy goes out 'to Mr. Ed. AhrenS. iliarvey 1 and Jean Ahrens, Marilyn ,and Stephen, Mr. Wayne Ahrens, Mr. and Mrs. Rob Brady, Harold arid Norma McNaughton, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn McNaughton in the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ahrens who passed away in the Community Hosptial in Seaforth. Wayne Ahrens, Montreal ,and Mr. and ' Mrs. Rob Brady, Kitchener, spent the. weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ahrens, Marilyn and Steven, Mr. Ed. Ahrens and attended the funeral of their -. grandmother, Elizabeth Ahrens. Mrs. Lavern Wolfe was taken to the Community Hospital, Seaforth, three weeks ago Thursday morning by ambulance, We are pleased to hear. Mr. Wm. Diegel has returned home from undergoing surgery in the General Hospital, Stratford, Mrs. Michael Connolly, _ . Watburg accompanied Mrs. ,Jack Herald, R.R.#5, Stratford to call on Mrs. Lavern Wolfe in the COmmunity Hospital, Seaforth. Friends and neighbours of Mr. Norman Bode will be glad to'bear he has returned i. orne from the • COMmunity Hospital, Seaforth after his long stay. Sincere sympathy to Mr. and f Mrs. Norman Kistner and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gloor in the , death of their brother-in-law. 1 Norman Siemon. ViMUMUMXtraraglESUIM:M.MillnV`,0-.=0:41MMORW2.0*.WilAUM (NINSIMMUgiiiMAMEM:: .... Gaye and Mark: Dale and Starr Bachert, Blyth, Doug, Joy and Shawn Elliot, Walton #4, Greg' and Debbie Fischer, Chatfield,, Manitoba. They attended the funeral of their aunt, Yvonne Quincey. At the same home were Mr., George QuIficey and David, Mrs. M artin Diegel, New Jersey, Martin Quincey, Kitchener, Arlene and Jack Somerville, Charlie and David, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Wolfe, Footwear Service Main St, Seaforth WEDDING INVITATIONS AT The Separate Shoppe MAIN CORNER, CLINTON 4824778 (NEXT TO CAMPBELL'S MEN'S WEAR) OPEN 1-6 OPEN 1 -6 TIMM and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE- 1889 THE HURON. EXPOSITOR MATERNITY WEAR (13s- W. G. Strong) To one who is sensitive to nature, it is good o n a winter's (lay, following a recent fall of snow, to walk •amid quiet woodlands. Trees have been the friends of man since creation's dawn. They stand staunch and strong in our Nothern Elemisphere thr'ough' the •leary spring, the heat of summer, the glory of autumn and ;the blasts• of winter. Life has. its inevitable problems, Man rushes thrisugh his clays concerned with the MultitudMous details of daily living, As one follOws the familiar trails of routine riving with all of its tangled muicties and perplexities, pressure builds up. Yet we are admonished that labour is the lot of man: "the heart may conceive and the head devise in vain if the hand be not prompt to execute the design -. In pe yet' -wooillamk, for a time at least, one may find peace and relaxation. and the strife of the market-plac:: is "temporarily forgotten. ensions seem •'drain away and an ordered serenity replaces ini111-11111CC COnlplexities. Among the trees that have known the'•storms of a century or more there is a sense of peace and tranquillits , From their patient, strength one can hark est those intangibles which restore perNivilive in a seething. distraught norld, • Winter ss cat her. however, is unpredictable. A good, old-fashioned snow -storm has .no tumult iri its s% Cap; n o gusts o f wind to herald its approach, -.When men were all asleep. the snow came In large white flakes falling on the city brim n. Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying. • flushing the latest train( of the drowsy toss n; ' Deadening, 'muffling, ,.:.4j1ling. Its murmurs failing: I.afity 'and incessantly floating down and down: • Silentls sifting roof', road and railing; Hiding difference, making uncsenness even. Into angles and crevices softly (trifling and sailing. All night it fell. and when fitlt inches seven It lay in the depths of its uncompaeted light- ness, Thc,clouds blew off from a high and frosty liens en; ?Ind all woke earlier for the unaccustomed brightness Of the winter dawning. the strange un- heavenly glare,. The eye marvelled at the daiiling white- neSS: The ear hearkened to the stillness of the solemn air." (Bridges) notlifile. to to the woods for (ea m ers with their sleighs would be country-hound for their renezvous in some farmer's woodlot and a lift into nature's wonderland was welcomed. On every side brushes flaunted their powdered lace; shrubs wore long shawls; clustered weeds held tufted blooms. '"The .verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling 'deluge; and the bents And coarser grass, upspearing,o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright, apparekcjad, And, fledged with icy feather<7 nod superb." (Cowper) AlOng the country road, fence posts wore tall. , white, tophats.Topmost rails stretched their encrusted lengths and scintillated in the morning sun. In open fields, tall trees with branches bare stood etched in filigree and Clark spruces were silhouetted against a pearly blue sky. From telephone wires overhead sparrows chirped their welcome. Leaving the rural road: after adjusting his snowshoes, one entered a strange new world. A winding trail led initially through a grove of cedar. spruce and pine; their green needles. flecked with snow, revealed their dark. brown, dry cones., Occasionally when a tall.evergreen with its feathery load. bent too far in the gentle Mem. a mound of snow slipped off and fell in a brief sparkling shower on the unsuspecting wanderer. This wind that wrapped him round in the open was barely felt in the deep woods. 'through the tops of tall trees that swayed against the cloudlesS sky, the sun shone down between the slender boughs to warm his check and brighten the trail. From time to time the axe-strokes of a single farmer trimming tree-tops severed from trees felled by the miller's workmen, broke the silence as he prepared fuel for next winter. Nov.' and then there came a sharp report like a rifle-shot, a limb relaxing from the strong grip of Jack Frost, Far-off a woodpecker startled the stilln'ess with his frequent drummings on an aging woody trunk, On the whole there was muted music in the air for him whb had cars to hear.Nearby a cock partridge drummed his &ann. . Feathered Friends There seemed to he a comfort in the close presence of his feathered friends whose faint footprints were outlined in the snow , Curious brown-capped chickildei s paused briefly in their prying inspeilion of limbs and twigs. Making dark shadows. the jay. in royal blue, dropped down in almost motionless glides to hop from branch to branch whisking his flute-Pike call. A small Aim 0.11 fi athered .junco paused at a bent spray age as if in pCnSiVC ., MOM. On cc cry side snow blots frisked and frolicked. \k hen a tiny mole or field-mouse ventured !Oral into the dae /ling briglifneSs, the great ow I. perched high above, patiently followed the small dot on the crystalling surface, spread. its wings like an umbrella to carry ,it earthward in an instant., its fan-Shapcd tail feagyrs,aoting as a rudder. 'One 'long-clawed foOtArriched the tiny prey and the bulky feathered creature carried it aloft, .crouched low over his victim and seemed .,to revel in • his catch. At. times one could find -tattered • bits .. of feathers on the blood-stained snow portraying the dismal record •of something striking down . to 'devour some luckless, timid fugitive. One would wonder how those winter birdSN could find enough -food to sustain themselves but they were constantly on the wing, ever searching . as they went. The path through the woods became a talkative little trail for there were:- the footprints making'distinctive patterns. Paths led in all directions to dissolve magically in the shadows; dainty records of woodfolk abroad' in search of food, A roundthe base of a-decaying chimp Were the delicate markings of a squirrel. that had briefly ventured forth to reconnoitre. Rabbits had travelled hither: and thither on foraging prospeets. Together those markings revealed, a fascinating • map of adventuring, Snow Caught With" much snow caught in,the branches of the evergreens, there developed around the base of the tree a. bowl-shaped depression. The earth might be bare at the trunk belt the snow gradually increased thickness outward from the hole. An inch-wide channel disappearing. into a snow-roofed tunnel was definitely the route of a mole or mouse. In late fall, leaves and moss were combined to create cosy winter ,• quarters. Down there the temperature of the nest rea.sed to follow the fluctuations alio\ v. Under the snow coveVfie amount of heat remained more or less stable. Following the depressiOn, one could almost 'picture the little fellow shuffling down his icy corridor in hare feet to the warmth of his lair. In late afternoon as the son began to drop in the' darkening sky to lea t c a crimson afterglow and long blue shadows stretched across the went.. there came a period of muted stillness to be broken momentarily by the tinkle of sleighbells, the 'Squeak and crunch of steel The wayfarer rc allied that it was the woodsmen returning to town with loads of fresh-eut saw logs for the busy' mill. Team after team they came and he was assured of a ret urn trip without charge, With cheeks as red as flannel and 'beards as white as foam. sonic' will ride while others will walk and swing their arms crosswise round their shoulders till their fingers tingle for the wind is keen. Three-quarters of 0 century ago, Lampman witnessed a similar scene which led to one of his sonnets; "And here behind me come the woodsmen'4 sleighs With shouts and Glamourous squeakings; might and main Up the steep slope the horses stamp and strain, Urged on by hoarse 'tongued drivers - cheeks ablaze, Iced beards and fro/en eyelids - team by team W il t, fh tlinf g s ;os .:::,g,:•ci flanks and nostrils Alils those, days art in the past. The woods ha cc ht yi laid hare: sleighs have....beeWile obsolete. Snowmobiles have taken the pleasure out of walking. PLANNING A For the 'bride and groom we have special discount prices on room groupings. Drop in...we will be pleased to help you choose wisely, at money • saving prices for beautiful rooms. SHOP CLINTON BALL and MUTCH .untie 311111.1411ing.1 PHONE 4824505 CLINTON, ONTARIO Couaitry, Crossroads WEDDING? ••• DIEGEL'S DEPT. 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