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The Huron Expositor, 1978-07-27, Page 3TIDE 'HA MP OPPSIT00, 010(1211 1978'4- 3 Amen by Karl. Schueisier Christmas lights There's a fellow 'who lives just north of Mitchell on Highway 23 and he's got a great sense of humor. NoW; I don't know if he knows got humor, but I think he has. In one of July's hottest nights last week, we drove past his Not.. And. there on the front lawn on a small evergreen' tree blinked, all colours of Christmas tree lights. What's this man up to I wondered. Can't he read the .calendar? Can't he feel the heat? I should have stopped and asked him what's up. Instead I drove on and thought aboth what makes a man turn 'on Christthas tree lights in .luly. . Maybe Christmas lights were „exactly what we all needed on that black, breezeless night. Christmas tree lights told us that the weather has to cool off'. This hot spell can't last forever. • ChristinaS tree lights remind us that we'll be complaining it's too cold--give another five months. Christmas tree lights tell us there's only 135 more • shopping days before Christmas. . . Christmas lights made me wide awake. Before that, I started to drowse at the wheel. I could see. This man had something with' those colored lights. I had always wondered, though, about people, who kept up their Christmas lights all, year, I don't mean turned on, of course, but still strung up around the house or the porch posts or whatever.. Some of the villages do that with their main street decorations. Keep them up all year. It's practical. of course. Saves all the time of stringing lights up and down each December. You have ever present lights--ready' to turn on at the et-inch .of a switch. .Eint it always did seem so out of time, Sure. For the one month. of Deceinber you had your lights in place and in season, but for the rest of the eleven, everyone could say you•,had either put them up too early or taken them downk too late. It always seemed to m c Christmas lights were for Christmas. They're , something special, fora very special time of year. But a look at those Christmas- tree lights shining in a Jul' night made me think we need Christmas in summer. Those .fightS told, me something. They,said a Vs7iTied..and scorched, earth will soon turn •bare and snow covered. They said all seasons-all weather--all change: They reminded me that time comes in spellsL-hot. dry. wet, windy, cold--and that time changeS things. Time makes all things new. Maybe the fellow that' night had • no such reasons fel turning On this tree lights. Maybe lie was just checking the electricity outside., Or using the tree as a signal so visitors could find his place.' Maybe lie was using the Christmas tree lights to attract bugs, so he could zap them when they came by. Our neighbor does that. Stu...turns. on her porch light to attract flies. And right near the light she hangs from the ceiling one 'of' those gooey' 'bug 'bug coils that sticks 'cm dead. That way she gets the flie's before they reach her screen door. It works. It's black with. bugs .tins very minute. NoW., how many less flies would conic on the porch, if she hadn't turned on light, well .:. that's another matter: But no matter: I really don't know why that fellow turned on his Christmas tree lights. But I liked his idea. Not bad. .I want to thank hint for -n. For a little Christmas in July. • And when 1 piffled up in my own .driveway,. saw 1 had Jhe,. right idea too. In my„ own two, outside porch coaRtlariipcifiatellank the front,, door I notieed.the two green light bulbs. Not yellow hug light bulbs made just for summer. Or the usual frosted ones. I had in green light bulbs--inilbs • I had-put in a. Christmas time and never tot around. to to ::g out. In my own small way, in very practical' way, I was just like the fellow near Mitchell. Only I've been keeping Christmas alive all spring and summer without noticing it. NEW CROWN— Garry Hunter, hiuron County's newly-appointed crown .attorney, takes his oath of 'allegiance at an official swearing in ceremony held at the Huron County Court House Qn Tuesday morning before Provincial Court Judge William Cochrane (left) and Huron County Court Judge F.G. Carter. Hunter has worked for the last three years as an assistant Crown attorney in Windsor. He began his new, job in Huron County on Monday, July 3. (Photo by Joanne Walters) Huran't - new,crown sworn in • (Confirmed from 'Page 1) dairy farm at R.K. 4. Walton, has participated in the junior agricul- turalist program for five years. For the past fourjyears. he's s'pecifically asked for a girl to work on the farm, since he finds girls have a way with animals. This summer. Alice Plumley.-a Grade 12 student. from 'Sarnia. is spending nine weeks on the Fe& farm., ' _ Alice hopes to attend the University of Guelph in the future to study veterinary medicine, and she said college officials told her she should have sotiie experience working .with" animals before entering the program. When she applied fdt the summer program. she asked for either a. dairy or mixed farming oetation. Alice's duties include washing the cow's off, putting on • the milkers. helping around the barn, feeding the" animals. hitching up the 'wagons and gradually teaming to drive the tractor. It's obvious the life agrees with her-"I love it" she said. and added -working with the animals hasn't created any problems- -there are no kickers or anything like that 'to' Worry about:* Also, Alice said the experience has definitely been a valuable one-"there is no other way you get experiente with machinery, as well as with 'animals and crops. - She added, "It's good to see how the other • half lives sometimes too-iv's-not all fun and games for them." Right at Home When Alice arrived at the Eedy farm, she hadn't met any of the family before, which was "a bit_ scany.- Rut 'edv's have obviously made her feel right at home and Alice said. "these guys are fantastic." The only difficulties . she's experienced so far was trouble with hay fever during the first few days of haying and the fact she . wasn't as strong as theEedy boys who are used 'to heavy work around the farm. Alice's summer on the farm hasn'tursu discouraged pursuing y studies vet vet erinar y herat] from and p she's considering specializing in -work with heavier animals. Jamie Marshall, a Grade 12 student from Toronto, is experiencing a different kind of farming on the Gordon Blanchard farm. just down the road from the' Ec dY' sJamie, who has done, a good deal of trailing and hiking on the Bruce Trail in the past Five years. program applied turalist r t the as j tiannioorffsahgoroi et f .!3 AND NoWi PRESENtING tilt WHOLE' dAtkid,,,,- These are the rkeil-disguised bublinerS who attend the tuttirner playground program, all dressed up for their celebration Of Halloween in July. Anyone for trick or treat? (Expositor photo) Ornething 110 say by Susan White Let's be careful OH, CARNIVALS AREJFUN—Tammy Nash of R.A. 5, Seaforth whirls around in one of the midway rideS at the Seaforth Lions plub Carnival on Sunday afternoon. ' (Photo by Oke) For the past three years he has worked. as an assistant Crown attorney in Windsor. He is presently living in A mherst burg with his wife. five-y,ear,old .daughter and .t he. newest addition to his family, a daughter born on July 4 of this year. He plans, on moving his family to. Goderieh, within the next few months. The new Crown attorney began his new job in Huron, County on Miinday July 3. The county had been'. without it own Crown !attorney since the prOmotion of Mr. Cochrane to provincial court judge ' iti .January. Crown attorneys from other counties had been filling in. Mr. HI:mm.1% who won over tine' other applicants for the job. said he is pleased to he in Huron County:After his swearing in on 'Tuesday, he rcceied words of welcome to the county from both Judgb Cochrane and Judge: Carter and from Dan Murphy. vice-preside n t of the Huron Lakv A'ssociation and MacEwan Egener, secretary of the same Association, Judge Carter said Mr. Hunter,: at age 34. is bringing youth to the office of Crown attorney. Every Week more 'and .more 'people discover what mighty jobs are accomplished' by low cost . Huron Expositor Want 'Ads. Dial 527-0240: COnstancecouplo.attends reunion Correspondent Mary Merner • 482-7143 Mr. and Mrs. Carl 'Memel., S,andy,' Julie, Michael ,and :Shelley were •Saturday evening dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. John' ThompSon and family to celebrate their anniversary. Mi. and Mrs, Russell Xing of, Crediton were Saturday :evening visitors with, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pre"sicator,' Christine, Lisa, Christopher. and Greg. Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Sturgeon of' Bayfield, Mr. and Mrs. Ross . Millson, Cheryl, David, Patricia, Darren, Jony. and, Sara of • Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Bill ivfillson, Valerie. Bill and Brad, Mr, and 'Mrs. Gordon Dale -.and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Storey, Sandy and Chris, Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson,' Sharon. Bob an Brian Nesbit( enjoyed a fish' fry on Sunday at the home of Jim •and Sheila Thompson and Leisa. Mr.:. William Rueger. ' of Summerhill visited On. Sunday with Mrs. George MeLlwain. Mr. and Mrs. Sam McClure. Mr: and 'Mrs. John Thompson attended the Scottish show and dance in Clinton for Saturday evening. Mrs. J. Memer visited on Sunday evening with, Mr.' and Mrs. Carl Writer. Sandy. Julie.' Michael and Shelley. Mr. and Mrs. 'Robert Wilrods, Of Gananoque are .visiting' parents Mr. and Mrs. .Frank Steve McLlwain aand J'ohn Schulties of Stratford spent Saturday . with Mrs.' Geo: MeLlyvain. , Paul Van der"Molan of Oakville is spending the 'summer mollths with hiS grandmOt her Mrs. W.L. Whyte. 'Bill and Mr. Harold 'Whyte. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hoggart, Mr. and Mrs,,, Jiro Preszeator visited on Saturrday evening with Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Larry. Scott.' Dwayne and .C'raig of -Parkhill. Mr. and 'Mrs. Sam McClure and Dmig are visiting with her family in Saskatchewan. Barry Turner; of Tuckersmith spent a' feW days holidays. with Mr. and Mrs. Reg Lawson and John. Miss F.Ii/abeth Lawson ,spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. George Turner and Bonnie. Miss Margie Whyte of Guelph is spending a few days with ,her mother Mrs. W .11. Whyte Bill. and Mr. Harold. Whyte. - Mr. and Mrs. Jim Presfeator and "family. Mr. and Mrs. John Jewitt and family attended a family reunion on Sunday for the Jewitt family at 'the Clinton Conservation park, Mr. and Mrsr Steven, 'Sharon, Kenny. Michael and Andy and Kathy are camping for few days at Pine Lake. Mr. and,;•Mrs. . Reg Lawson., John. and Elizaheth attended a. family tetinion'held at the farm of Bob Lawson of Tuekersmith. Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson and family were her parents, Mr. and. -Mrs. Terence Hunter , of Colborne Township and her aunt Mrs. Vi •Arm strong of - Southfield. Michigan,. Mr. and ;Mrs, Nick Whyte attended the ,Guelph 0.A.C., Alumni Reunion held at AlliSton at the •Nottawastiga Inn over the weekend. David Whyte speni the weekend with Giandniac Whyte. Brian. CrySial and 'Murray spent the weekend with their aunt, and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Don Barker of Kings City. David is spending this week camping at Camp Mcnesctung near Goderieh. Mr. and Mrs. .Cail Merncr, Sandy. Julie.: Michael, and Shelley were Sunday visitors on Sunday with the Walter McClure family. Miss Trudy Dimaline of London is spending a few days ,with her parents Mr. and Mrs.. Hugh Ditualine. Don. Peter and David, PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM—Joey Looby clowns around as he and Mike Cronin provided the music for the Halloween party held last week at the Dublin playground. (Expositor Photo) It's probably a little late" to' comment at all, but that ' gas losion at a' camping ground in Spain was a terrible- thing. It's the sort ef-freak accident that turns one's blood cold. • Myljlbod got especially frozen . at the thought . of all those campers perishing as they sat enjoying their holidays because just a few years ago my-husband and 1 camped hi several of the Mediterranean fronted campsites' that run along Spaints coast. We know how beautiful it is there, how relaxing. And on a camping holiday in Spain, like any kind of holiday anywhere, it's so easy to get careless. Now there's absolutely nothing these holidayers could have done to make things turn out differ- ently. A gas truck left the coast road, which runs awfully close to a lot of campgrounds in Spain,. even bisects some of them as 1' remember. It ' hit a concrete abutment and exploded. preyentahle, at least not by the campers. But 'every year at holiday time there are accidents that., are preventable. That fife in Spain has made me vow t'o be a whole lot mote careful next time we go camping. Most tents aren't, fire retardent. • Some are potential "blazing Infernos".• We may be shopping for a new one soon. I'm going to make sure it's as fire. proof as • it can be.. No more taking the Coleman lamp inside the tent to read at night. Now that'sa 'great personal sacrifice (unless I can find a powerful. long lasting flashlight) but the lantern's too unsteady, .1 hope you too will make a safety inventory' of your cam ping. or cottaging practises...fire.s away from tents and buildings and out cold before you go to bed (that's the fires). Arid let's not stop at being more conscious of fire safety on our holidays, Most of us will be in or around water so likely it's time for a refresher course in artificial respiration. that c hasn't applied to me until this year, and most of you know a whole lot more about it than I do but, watch your kids like a haWk.'1 We've been, to the beach with our little one about three 'times and, already ' she's eaten several cubic centimetres of sand ,and would have swallowed' innumerable stones and crawled tight down to the waves if she hadn't been forcibly restrained. We're thinking about a leash... next summer for sure. I know they're not very dignified'. but my mother who had two or three toddlers at once used one 'on me, and I survived. Who wants 'to talk about aecident prevention • or , think' about tragedy when you're setting out on ,the annual 'getting away from it all holiday? "Yuk". as the more articulate kids say these days, But the older I get the more I realize that care, knowledge and slaying alert to possible problems before they happen' is the surest way of making sure they don't happen. 1 delft_ m ea n east- a • palroyer— my... holidays ,and yours. And I'm• not advocating neurotic worrying. But the 'best way to prevent tragedy, is' information, not the attitude that if we don't talk or. think about' it, it won't happen. Have a good holiday, anda safe one ar his interest in environmental studies. Although he'd talked• about farming with the landowners adjacent to the Bruce Trail, he wanted to experience living and working with a farm family. Last year his sister .spent her •summer as a junior agricul- turalist on a Jersey dairy operation near Fordwich_ and Jamie said "she really enjoyed her set-up," The Blanchard farms are a Mixed Farming The Blanchard farms are a mixed farming operation which includes 900 laying hens, some sheep, sows, and 51 head of beef cattle. Since Ron Blanchard has just bought one of the family's farms from his father, and is converting the farm from a farrow to finish to a strictly farrowing operation, there's lots of work renovating -.the barn and building new pens. Jamie's jobs on the farm have included everything from helping with the haying, to scuffling, weeding the garden, cleaning the pens, helping wean and sort pigs and "a lot of general labor" around the two farms. Jamie hasn't found the work particularly heavy, since he was already .doing grass cutting and general 'repair jobs like cleaning Pool heater (Continued from Page 1) had' net completed its work. Mr. Todd said it was not until Wednesday morning that the wiring to the heater was installed so that gas could be turned on. According to Mr. Todd the delay in installing' the• line has meant that about one-third of the swimmers registered for the first session of swimming lessons withdrew due to the cool temper- atures in the pool. This resulted in a substantial revenue loss to the Lions club. Additional revenue also was lost when cool water temperatures resulted in swimmers staying away frOm the pool. eavestroughs in Toronto. Also, his summer on the farm hasn't changed jamie's intention to pursue environmental-studies, although pow; 'he's. considering studying something in the agri- cultural line. Agriculture He said if he did study agriculture, it wouldn't necessarily be with the intention of going into farming himself but might include working for the government. Jamie's oldest sister is study- ing forestry at the University of Toronto, and has found a number of jobs opening up froth that field. Also, Jamie hasn't found it's been any adjustment moving in with the . Blanchard family. Coming from a family of five childreir, living -with the Elanelfards "is like going from one family to another." If Alice Plumley and Jamie Marshall are typical of junior agriculturalists, then the program has certainly succeeded in intro- ducing the urban students to rural life, and vice-versa. 4000 people (Confirmed from Page 1) bicycle. This is the first time in some years the club has included a bicycle draw in the c''arnival. Although carnival organizers don't have definite figureson the amount of money raised in the three day event to date, Gordon Rimmer, carnival chairman, said, "We understand the"- gate receipts were about 10 per cent higher than last year.- He said this was true of both the Friday and Saturday night receipts. He said attendance at the carnival was a little lower than the club had anticipated on Sunday" due to the bigger tractor pull held in' Lucknow. Mr. Riminer said the _club niemhers are hoping overall receipts from the carnival will be up from last year. $50,000 (Continued from Page 1) Mrs. McNichol said the fire may have started in the electrical panel of the barn, The tiro attracted a number of spectators who lined both sides of the road for,a half mile on either side of the McNichol farm. Fire Chief Hak said people around a fire are always a probleni and said the danger at the McNichol tire was that hydro wires could have .fallen at any time on the spectators. The chief also pointed out that under the law, no car should follow within 500 feet of a fire truck answering an alarm. 'The McNichols plan to build another structure to replace the barn lost in Monday's fire. Garry Hunter, Huron County's newly-appointed Crown attorney, was sworn in ' at an official, ceremony at the Huron County Court House in' Goderich 'on Tuesday morning by Huron County Court Judge F. G. Carter and Provincial . CoUrl Judge William Cochrane. Asa former policemen, both iti. Metropolitan . Toronto and in England, Mr, Hunter has moved from being a law enforcer on the street to -being - 'one in the courtroom. A native of Scotland. Mr. Hunter came to Canada at the. age of 21.in 1968. After serving briefly with the Metro police force, he enrolled in Osgoode Hall. That set .Off a 'chain reaction and exploded hundreds. of _....galopirtgr.gits,or-propAng-CATIOgr5 that are so popular with European campers to .run stoves. ,Likely almost everYone.had one outside his or her tent or. trailer. • There's no point in dwelling on. the terror that must have erupted. That horrible accident was not And--for brushinga[p 'oil beat • and .sWinaming, safety rules. And for driving Slowly 'and ettreiltily '' • and not getting ethight up in the rush to get nowhere that sometimes seems to afflict our buSy highways. • Here's one 'holiday warning •• •*. •