The Huron Expositor, 1978-11-09, Page 3HURON EXPOS TOR ()vow 9, 1970. THE
worked at a local' general
store:
Wanting to show 'off her
new found knowledge when
out driving one day with a
beau, my friend asked as
they went by two horses
grazing in a field, "now,
which one's' the filly and,
which one's a gelding?"
The young man almoSt fell
out of the'buggy laitshinfi,
And my friend finally found .
out what .flily, and gelding,
meant from an aunt. "A ,girl
horse and .a boy horse,"
ARE THOSE KNEES BUCKLING? — Ray
Anstett loads while Jim Bosman assists during
the Seaforth Optimist Club's bee on the
weekend. The club will be selling the wood for
We in fireplaces or wood stoves.
• (ExPositor Photo)
HEAVE, HO — Jim Bosnian, demonstrates
there's a lot of strength left in the old guy yet as .
,,he tosses a chunk of wood onto the truck during
the Seaforth Optimists' Club woodcutting bee.
(Expositor Photo)
GETTING YOUR EXCERCISE — This is one
way to get some exercise,' as an unidentified
member of the Seaforth Optimist Club cuts up
this tree trunk,. The club will be selling the wood
to raise money for community projects.
(Expositor Photo)
THE JOYS OF SKATING — These were" some
of the skaters who took advantage of the public
skating time at the Seaforth Community Centre
recently. The public skating is on Saturday
afternoon, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(Expositor PhA))
(Expositor Photo) south of 'town. FORGING COnatruCtion on
*Seafortn's storrn se wer project continues in t he he
Hibbert council at a
meeting on Monday accepted
a' petition for repair and
improvement on the Brock
Drain. After notification of
the Conservation Authority,
an engineer will be ap-
pointed at the inaugural
meeting of the new council.
Uderstadt, O:L.S. of
Orangeville, was appointed
engineer to bring in a report
for the repaid and improve-
ment (if necessry) of the
Staffa Municipal Drian.
A resoltition for Clerk
Charles Friend to apply for
interim financing from the
Ministry of Transportation
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A SPECIAL SOUVENIR —After cutting the ribbon, which offically
opened the Hensall and District and Community Centre last Wednesday
night,' Eric Luther, master ceremonies, Doug Mann of W.G. ThOmpson
Ltd. and Reeve Harold Knight alit up the ribbon and sold the pieces as
souvenirs of the arena's opneing. (Expositor Photo)
PRESENTING THE KEYS — Wayne Rekd, representing the town of
Hensall and the Hensall Parkt Board, accepts the keys to the new Hensall
and District 'Community Centre' from Peter James, branch manager of
C.C. Parker and Associates Ltd., the firm involved' in building the arena.
(Expositor Photo)
WATCHING THE OPENING EVENTS — These members of the Hensall
Public School Senior Glee Club„ who sang during the official opening
ceremonies of ttie Hensall and „District Community Centre last week,
watch as Reeve Harold Knight thanks members of the buildings
committee for donating their time in the Campaign which raised funds for
!.he new area. (Expositor Photo)
Sugar an,criSpice
by Bill Smiley
(Continued from Page 2 .)
feel like a criminal merely succeed in making
me sick.
Down in Ottawa, the waffling' and weaving
and ducking and bobbing go on, ministers
fall like autumn leaves, and nobody lets the
left side of his mouth know what the, right
side is saying.
Trudeau, after losing a dozen able
ministers in the last half-dozen years, totters
along with a , turncoat Tory, Jack Horner,
insensitive arrogancies like Otto Lang, and
political retreads like Bryce Mackasey, who,
as I recall "solved" the last postal strike 'in
only six weeks.
And His Eminence floats among these
lesser fish like an octopus past his prime,
still dangerous, still slippery, but given to
emitting squirts of ink, disappearing into a
hole, then tentatively thrusting out a
tentacle to pick up the latest poll, before
retr eating into the rocks once again.
And as if the general state cif affairs
weren't enough to give me abig pain in the
arm, there's the local. My. wife after
lugging her smashing new expensive white
coat for about 10,000' miles this summer, in
and out of 20 hotels, on and off countless
buses, and boats, trains and planes, has lost
the blasted thing in her own home town.
My daughter, with three degrees, is
workinpi,a file clerk, an honorable vocation,
but scarcely one to make the ereatiave
impulses throb. My son-in-law is looking for
a job, a rather harrowing business these
days.
And my grandboys are out of all thoie fine
new clothes we bought them last spring. The
only thing they're not out of is energy and
fiendish ability to dismantle things that
electrical engineers would be afraid to touch.
I have a brand-new set of gold clubs with
which I can hit the ball twelve feet. On a
clear day. With a strong tail-wind.
1 tell yez, b'ys, if it weren't for all them old
people, I'd be tempted to pack it all in and
head for Floridy, and sit on a bench in the
sun, mumbling my gums.
But I guess things could be worse, I've got
enough money to pay that $7.80 blackmail
for a non-parking parking ticket. I can fight'
the Feds on that mysterious assessment. I
can live without the pos4 office, though they
sure know how to hurt a syndicated
columnist, dependent on the mails.
And just maybe, when the dollar has hit 75
cents, unemployment has hit 10 per cent and
inflation settles in two figures, we'll get sore
enough to kick those tined flacks out of
Ottawa.
My wife will find her coat. I found my
pants last year, after thby'd been missing
four months. They were 120 miles away, in
the hall closet of my father-in-law. And there
was a twenty dollar bill in the pocket.
My daughter will get a job, probably as
head of the CBC. My son-in-law will get a
job, probably as his wife's copy and coffee
boy. My grandboys will develop into great
engineers. Or form a wrecking company and
get rich knocking things apart.
Maybe I'll sti deer out a few months yet.
But I wish I could do it like the
ground-hogs—just fatten up. crawl into a
hole and sleep until spring.
• 1, • , / • 1
ornothing to say
by Susan White
1g news aid more moo s
I won't lay claim to the title
of sleeping beauty, My
husband would kill himself
laughing if I did..
But there's been so much
going on in our part of
McKillop over the last week,
that's gone right over my
head that I think I've been
sleep walking, if not exactly
reclining with a pillow over
my head.
Yes, dear reader, two of
last week's biggest news
events happened right under
my nose. The new and
startlingt Begt.h.W.00d... Inter-
national Plowing Match was
unfolding its busy self just to
the east of our place, and the
first T heard about it was
call from an informant
i:should he be called Deep
Throat or Straight; Furrow?)
at the office. By then though
competition was over, signs
announcing prize winners
were in place and we didn''t
even get a chance to take the
baby over to shpw.her how a
really well run International
works. ' •
--FfOrn all reports.' Wing-
hand had nothing on the boys
at Beechwood.
'Then on Hallowe'en night
just to the west of us an
empty house burned down and
I missed it entirely. But I
wasn't the only one.
When Alice Gibb got the
address from fire chief Harry
Hak it looked like the fire has
been right next door. Now
I'm bleary eyed and half
awake. when I drive to work
many mornings but even I
would have npticed if
there' d been a fire right next
door. I think I would have
heard. something even. Be-
sides, the house next door is
newly renovated and filled
with a family, definitely not
empy and abandoned. •
Calls by Alice around our
neighbourhood couldn't find
anyone else who'd heard
about •the fire either. We
November meeting of the
Seaforth Womens Institute to
be held at the home of Mrs
R.J. Doig on Tuesday
evening. November 14 8:15
p.m ,Roll Call to be "Name one
thing the war years have
imprinted in your memory".
1978 v..bsidv was approved
Almost all of the subsidy had
been used, and there would
be an estimated deficit of
$15,000 for 1978.. •
Road vouchers for the
month of October in the sum
of $7819.26 were approved as
was the general account of
$171,885.15. This included
final payments to the schpol
boards, Perth County levy,
and fire areas, arena board
and planning.
Two readings were given
on the "Kleinfeldt" drainage
works bylaw to borrow
$5,500.00: and three
readings on a rating by-law
for $23,100 for tile drain-
age loans. The Clerk was
directed to apply to the
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food Di ainage Sectioh for
clarified the address and
move it two lots west of us,
"There's no house there" I
kept muttering while Alice
insisted the firemen really
had been at Lot 15, Con. 7
fighting a fire, not having a
particulrily vivid Hallowe'en
nightmare.
When - I finally re-
membered a house that was
half falling down, (about like
ours,' befOre we started
working on it) around the
corner on a sideroad we
decided tp go with tie story,
even though the closest
neighbour to the place knew
nothing about the fire.
But we on Con. 6 & 7 have
a slight excuse for missing
ithis particular event (I still
don't know how we missed
the Beechwood IPM, unless
advance publicity wasn't
very good). Seaforth firemen
don't use their sirens at
Hallowe'en night fires to
avoid any possible mob
scenes. They succeeded very
well last Tuesday night.
With fire truck escort a
very popular sport in
Seaforth and area, 1 never
thought I'd, see the fire that
nobody (except those whose
job is fire fighting) attended.
We've been critical in the
past of fire truck chasing but
now we know the fire nobody
knows about is• hard to get a
story on.
*OA***
Thanks to the readers who
searched pastures and feed-
lots for me, looking for a bull
who moos. Elaine Penner
caly to say they've got
mooing bulls at, their place.
So there.
Another reader com-
mented how times have
changed. "When I was " a
girl" (this lady. is 91) "the
words bull or cow, gelding or
filly were never even men-
tioned by my father around
the house."
When she was an older
Donations of used, clothing
and articles suitable for a
bazaar for Town and Country
Homemakers to he brought to
this meeting. Lunch Mrs. J.
McGregor, Mrs. C. Turnbull,
Mrs. A Pepper and Mrs. E.
Stephenson.
The regular monthly
meeting of the Hospital
Auxilary will be held on
Tues. Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. in the
,Board Room of the Hospital ;
Everyone Welcome.
Anyone, interested in •
tickets for the Christmas
Party or wanting to Alley
Bowl Phone Mrs. Jim
,MeNaughton or Mrs. Stewart
Pepper.
additional grants - if any - for
tile drainage loans for the
fiscal year 1978/79.
When the meeting ad-
journed at 10:30 p.m Reeve
Ross McPhail remarked it
was the earliest that the
present council had ever
terminated a meeting. There
will be a special meeting on
the 20th November to hold a
court of Revision on the
"Kleinfeldt Drainage
teenager this lady saw' "fil-
ly" and "gelding" on an
auction poster and didn't
have a clue what ,they
meant. "One's a two Year old
horse and one's a three old,
I think", she learned when
she.asked an older lady who
Hibbert meeting earliest yet', ends at 10:30
You're invited