The Huron Expositor, 1976-08-12, Page 3THE GANG-`S Att. HERE When Huron County CB fans met at
Vanastra last' weekend, they were .joined by CB clubs from other
parts of Ontario. Some of the grocrp; including trophy winners, got
together for tha-Expoltor photographer. (Staff Photo)
Texas visitor , Tim Carter
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.Speaking:..ellOg.ring, which I've
s„. heen 014 Lately, :from
gou!r7, to tolirs to 'the
local festiVids, I'M getting a little
expetience in another line of
work, Yes, shoirfd the n ewspaper
business ever.. fail,' I'm going to
set up as a freelance tour guide.
I've had. regular experience for
over two years naw giving guided
tours at our house in the evenings
and Oil -Weekends: The
' commentary there runs to
"Watch out for the nails en the
floor and don't touch the
, insulation or you'll itch for days."
Lately on Our house tours we
talk about how things are really
close to being finished althoLigh.... hiif too ... nobody asked to be, let • people knit or raee-shotses•• or 40
it. might not look that way. "As out after the doer was t saw uzzles fora hobby
soon as we get the ew' floor in The older kids had good Fr401c Sills has an •Old photo • .
the x the basement we can move The stimulating questions like "What thatt 0:11:ews.s;aion.e-aneeip.txwiganog hecao:a7tjtuegsrrit oft:
say
that.
oseeing rane‘PolifQ•litt9Y::o:fhiethfego4a111....-
inlife, It ranks right up there. with •
my husband's desire for a colour'
tv and an ..asseniblett -log cabin.
Has anybody got any suggest- ,
ions .for on' Where to look?..
and the wood out of the living
room," we say, as guests look
there, the honsekeeping.doesn't•
"`They
food her
don't
on t have any Mexican
I'm about to die if I
any Mexican food. We
•
Canada has language all its own
PROVINCIAL TRACKMEET WINNERS-These four
young men placed very well in, the Canadian Ontario
Legion Track and Field finals in London on Saturday,
and one of them, John Neilson, second from left,
leaves next , Friday for the Dominion meet in
Edmonton. Ple's, the provincial shot Rut champion
after winning a gold medal Saturday, and he placed
Texan says
Serviette, hydro and 'pgp- are- "wish rcould stay here longer", he
fa'tniliar words to anyone from • ..sayS.' ..the country isn't exactly
Ontario; ...but to. a . „ „perfect .
exchange trip from Lubbock,
Texas they are unheard of.
"I had never heard of, a
serviette before I cam here:".
said. Tim Carter, who is staying at
the :Marten Vincent home at
R.R.I Seaforth as part of the
Lions CI ub International
exchange program. "To us
they're just napkins. And Hydro,
I thought it had something to do
.with the water tap."
"Down in the United States we.
say we are going for a coke when
we want a sat drink. It doesn't,
mean we want a.' coca-cola, but
just any soft. drink. But up here
people say they are going for a
pop. I never even heard the word
before," he said.
, Tim, who come's from' a city of
180,000people, said that he never
heard of the word "Touring"
before, meaning to go out for a
drive. • , „
Tekas we say we are going
out to cruise around, but we never
say we are going for a tour. It
sounds like you are going for a
four or five day bus trip.".
Tim said that some of 'our
eating habits are different as
well.
"They ketchup me to death up
here. They put ketchup on eggs,
everything, They've even got me
doing know. My Mom is going to
die when she finds out how much
I eat now," he said.
"Another thing is putting
vinegar on c hips. We never do
that, but they've got me sold on
it."
But Tim has found that some
things in Canada are much the
same as in the States.
"I never knew you all *ere so
iquainted with Colonel Sanders,"
he said.
Since Tim has been in Canada
- be has visited the Ontario Seience
Centre, the C.N.Tower, Niagara
Falls aq the Stratford 'Festival.
he has attended the. Blyth
Summer Festival showing of
"The Blood is Strong" and spent
a week at the Lions Ititernational
Youth Camp,,with 64 other young
people at the Wildwood Park.
"1"'Ve been just going and
coining since I got here," he said.
But although Tim says
"Canada is a great country 'and I
God wouldn't,have
given us feet if he
didn't mean for us to
use them. "
Walk.
Amteromm
wail( Ani!!cplid#4
'wonderingly at the sawdust and
spiders' webs.
Although 'we've .been living in
McKiltop for some months now,
we are really only housekeeping
in two or three rooms. And even
extend to the floor. It's still a
dusty. splintery mess. AS soon as • •
we finish refinishing 'the kitchen
ceiling (it's nice, tongue and
groove pine) • we'll bring in 'a
sander and take care of the,floors,, ,„
But for now the kitchen and
bathroom look quite nice and
normal if you keep your eyes
above floor lever. .
Now, I'm not complaining
about these tours ... it's fun to
show off the house, even if we do
have to keep referring our gueits•--
to the piles of photos of before'
'rooms and, of work in' progress,
to assure • eirerybody that we
have indeed come along way. We
know that they look at the junk
and the. dust and they wonder a
bit..
• But the photos show that...there
were once piles of decaying
plaster, ripped off laths and
racoon dung where there are now
piles of, lumber, sawdust and
tools. I guess that's progress,
isn't it? We're not quite at the•
decorating stage yet, they have to
realize. (Will we ever be, is the
agonizing question that keeps me
awake nights.)
The house tours usually consist
of small groups, as friends and
relatives drop by by the carload to
see what we've done since the
last time they visited or maybe
worked with us. I had experience
with guiding far ge groups- a
couple of weeks ago, and se
tours were probably a little
lively than the average tour of our
house.
all at oneeA thank ite0enC.0 "01
one ,of ,those People Who" elaSS
nursery who I teachers _0; 0954. ids)
'to sainta.) . .
The k were from the
recreation department's allmMer
program -- two groups of three to.
-five year old s4 from Snoopy
Simmer School-and one group of
older kids from the Flay Selteol
program at the park.
Ali three groups were well
behaved,, and although we have a
few doubts about hay much the
litthrones took in, they, all now
know what a newspaper is and
were fascinated by the machines
of all types. The darkroom was 4
workshop out of the dining room . would you do if there was a fire buliltd!,sinnog.t
right now?': "What year were
you born?" and "Can we go up in.
the att is?"
I started something by showing
the small fry sonie of the lines of
metal type from the Expositor
linetype, used now mostly for job
printing, which are melted, down
into usable metal. Then
everybody wanted a piece of type
of their own, and several small
pockets were quite weighted
down as the three to fives'
waddled out the front door,
Itais fun to see the Expositor
office through very small eyes but
1 ,admit that 1 was..more than
'slightly worn' out and hoarse
when the, last group left. Atfd that
was after one morning with the
kids.
Hats off to the nursery and play
school teachers, who patiently
answer,their questions, carry the
shy ones around and give 'hugs
when reassurance is needed.
They are giving our kids a_
summer to remember.
The staff at the Expositor got
something to remember too, a
couple of days after the kids' tour
went through. It's a.thank-you
card, rolled up and about 30-feet -
long, that has on it the-names and'
hand ptints of most of the kids at
Snoopy Summer School. Thanks
We hope you'll all grow up to
be subscribers,
.On a slightly different subject,
but in the same vein, does.anyono
know where I could see a photo of
SeafOrWs first town hall and
market building? It sided in what
is now the Middle of the road at
the corner of,Jarvis and Market
e
":11'4eft •to 119006 '•§Pafo fire
'fighting .ecinipinpit. That Pq14,"
gm* and .everything else of Al*
was .lAst . when the .1?1.1011ifi
PMC:' It Wa-1)J'Oba145'.114t,..i'll'Pll,
the old; jdwit. halt .Auritt' down
3,Y6 got : onr-
.:,niocle:rA"toWnit4,11,in.1894,. But
fourth in the discus event. Mark Underwood, left was
fifth in -the long jump in London, John's brother,
Dennis, next to him, placed seventh in discus
throwing and Steve Underwdod, right "got silver
medals for the triple and high jump elients. The
athletes are all. sponsored by Branch 156, the
.Seaforth Legion. (Staff Photo)
The Seaforth Community Band
will be at fluronview Friday,
August 131t 7 p.m. and at 8 p.m.
will presenea, program at Clinton
Town Hall ,,Park the Same
evening. •
Thursday evening August 19th
at 7:30 p.m. will be bowling for
the Soole Trophy at the Seaforth
Greens. All members who wish to
bowl please write your name on
the sheet posted.
Next week our ladies are
senting rinks to Wingham on
We‘• nes e ly to the "Minta
Duv ' ournament and also to
Stra d on Friday, August 20th.
Good bowling to all.
You're invited to a Carnival in
aid of Muscular Dystrophy at
David Kunder's house on Friday
at 4 p.m.
. have it at least once a week •ae
home," he said:
• Tim also said that he object . to
Canadian's calling him a Yankee.,
"I live in a Confederate state.
Not too many people take it too
seriously, but it would be nice if • C. ad ris remembered `that
som us are rebels," he said,
' Another feature. about
Canadians that Tim noticed
during his stay ,was the, number of
flags we fly.
"Even with the bicentennial,
Americans don't fly as many flags
as they do in Canada," he said,
Tim said that he has enjoyed
his stay at Vincent's where he can
go over and work in the shop
when he isn't touring Ontario.
"They have'really got me
brain-washed for International-
Harvester up here. Our house at
home sits on two lots and we need
ariding lawn mower. I'll just have
to (ell them what to get now," he
said.
"They 'have given me the real •
red carpet • treatment up here,"
said Tim. "Everybody has been
so nice. I wouldn't say nicer than
the StAes because I have to go
back there, but people have been
really •nice."
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• According to the newspapers of
the day, it was a rickety old frame
building with a bell on top that
On those tours .1 took about 80
—kids through-the Expositor. Not
I' +e4alwaYS wanted tO aglow, What • •
the :old bollding looked like,
Tbe I lneWvappr• Comments,
about .its disreputable shape at
fbetirne of the fire are. so nasty
that, they ;get, me, interested, Wa
beCome a quest With me = M see a
photo of that first
',Crazy you.say? Yost. but other
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Do any of -our readers have an
early photo of the RoundhouSe at
the Seaforth • Agricultural
Society's fairgrounds? The
Roundhonse was built in 190 2
when Cameras were fairly
common and the Seaforth •
Architectural Conservation
Advisory Committee are trying to
find opt what-the building looked
like in its early days.
What were the windows like? -
(They ,are now boarded up). Was
there ever any kind of a porch or
topping off structure on the top of
the building's roof? Thegt are
some of the questions• • that
SACAC is wondering about and
trying to do some detective work
on.
Seaforth council
&dare -the—building a heritage
site last month and SACAC wants .
to get as much information as
possible' abou-t " what --"-the
Roundhouse .originally looked •
like,
We're passing on their plea for
readers. If you have 'a photo of the
Roundhouse in earlier days (how -
much earlier doesn't really matter
if the building I'doks at' all
different in your photo/ than ,if s
does now), let us 'know at the
Expositor. ,
We'll pass -it on to the SACAC
people who will- probably- ask to
borrow• your photo, rephotograph
it and give it back to you, with
sincere, thanks for your help in
their effo;rtS to retrace our past.