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o:Lithern cop" •ort
• bands • and dozens -of floats
most with a Dutch theme. A
special treat was the Dutch
Boy Cadet Band of 110
musicians from Kitchener,
Waterloo.
Dr. H. Heeneman of Lon-
don, Vice Consul of the
Netherlands, officially open-
ed the festival which was
° followed by Dutch folk danc-
lig provided by Holland
Canada' Folk Dancers from
Ayr, the ,Netherlands Folk-
lore Group from Toronto.
Brantford Windmill Fops
dancers from Paris and the
Dykehoppers from London
(40 to 50 entertainers and
band members). The London
-played--the- Natitp131"
Anthem of Canada and the
Netherlands.
• About 3.200 people attend-.
ed the monster chicken barb- '
eque Saturday.
The Equestrianettes
Sunfield School of Riding put
on a show in the evening.
Riders were trained by Roni
and Arnold Zonneveld of
RR4, Goderich. A dance at
the arena coneludet
(lases events.
Robert Campbell, chair-
man, was pleased with the
success of the festival and
said• the crowd was bigger
than expected., He came up
with the festival idea to
recognize the contributions
to the community of the
many Dutch-Canadians who
live in the area. The plan
quickly gained the support of•
the local merchants, area
residents and • the Dutch
community and was given
the name Klompen Feest- a
replica of the Dutch Street
People
Mr: and Mrs. Wm. McMillan spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Eric Campbell of Exeter.
An enjoyable reunion of school day friends was held
.recetnly at the home of 'Mr. 'and Mrs. James J. Scott,
Those attending were Mr. Don. Turner of Hamilton.
Jack'Catte'r of Waterloo. Mrs. Mery Cudritore. and Edith
Bell. of Exeter and Grace Broadfoot. of *Seaforth.
celebrations.
Mr. Campbell says he has
a soft spot in.his heart for the
Dutch after serving in the
Canadian Army. He served
in Holland for five months
and was among the troops
which liberated Holland in
May, 1945, the reason the
same month was chosen for
Klompen Feest. ••.
Mr. Campbell said the
' Dutch took them into their
hearts and homes.
HPRESS teachers
tour outdoor areas
i-Pboard expan
special ed
BY WILMA OKE
The Huron-Perth County Roman Catho-
lic Separate School Board is expanding its
special education program by establishing a
second class in Stratford.
The new class, at St. Aloysius School,
begins September 1, 1981. The board
currently has two special education classes.
one in Perth County at St: Michael's School.
Strafford and the other in Huron County at
St. Joseph's School,
-111-effierinsiness at the meeting Monday
night., the board' agreed to rent a portable
classroom to accommodate an additional
class at St. Josephs school, Stratford. Many
schools will show a declining 'enrolment
when schools open in September. but at St.
Joseph's it, is increasing.
The comihunity will use St. Joseph's
school at Kingsbridge for • events this
summer asit did last year. Local people have.
been assisting with the purchase of play-
ground eqUipment. It is recognized as a
community school by the ministry of
education since there is no community
centre there.
The board received an invitation to join
with Other board' members, teachers and
principals to hold a golf tournament. June 12
At Mitchell• Golf course.
The board accepted the resignation of-
Principal at St. Joseph's School
at Kingsbridge, effeCtive August 31. He is
leaving for Yellowknife, Northwest Territor-
ies, where he will be principal.
Susan Johnson will be a special education
teacher, full time. effective Sept. I as will be
Helena Partridge. Beth will teach-in Strat-
ford.
Jo-Anne Eckert will be a special educe/ion
resource teacher at Holy Name of Mary
school, St. Marys. effective Sept. 1. (50 p cr
cent).
The board accepted three resignations.
Leslie H. Wood, teacher at St. Patrick's
Schook-Dublinv will- teach in-TeTreifte -tieii
year and Sister Mary Regier, teacher at• Holy
Name of Mary school, St, Marys is retiring.
Gary Prince, a teacher at Kingsbridgc. also
resigned along with Doreen O'Grady at St.
Mary's School, Hesson.
Mona Doher will be a classroom and
French teacher at Kingsbridgc.
Board member Ronald Marcy. Stratford.
reported John Vintar, former director of
education with the board, who is now with
the Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic School
board, 'has received his doctorate in educa-
tion from the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education. He reported. too, that Joseph
Tokar, who was formerly a superintendent of
education with the board. and now with the
Elgin County Catholic School Board, will be
going to the Dafferin-Peel board.
Letters of thanks were received from Cecil
Delaney and Chris Cook, two students who
received awards of $25 scholarships from the.
Stratford Music Festival this spring.
The board went tomato mittewof-theowlicile
as the generaLtneeting ended.
Something to say
SLEEPY SHOPPER Doris Glanville was one of -the many customers
who descended upon Seaforth's Main St. Friday to take advantage of
Midnight Madness. ' (Photo by Hook)
WHERE'S THE FIRE? — One attraction ' at
Midriight Madness Friday was the, miniature
fire truck owned by Frank Phillips, the chief
Everybody knows you sut
fer from cultrue shock u hen
you go pn a trip. That strange
slow dawning of "ohhhh. so
that's how they do it here - is
one of the reasons we travel.
We like to see hovw other
people live, get out ot our
routine and into their's tor a
few days. and .maybe take
home a few tips,. or at least
feW hilfriouS -;,Oter,001Vk to'
lighten etO ,re go l'ar existed'
back halite.
Picked pp a tw, good clues,
on lour %Fent.• trip, to the
Anted! 4ly,s04011.
mitOPIP:
We ate got wins, ,healthy
, of •vegetables- ereuni.
butter and eggs. meat'. fish
and fowl, diaper's' at Shaker,
town at Pleasant Hill for $8 to
SIO for five or six courses.
But even bargains and lar-
gesse can get boring and so
we ventured out one night to
cosy spot on the Kentucky
Murphy's at the River.
was once .Murphy,:s to the
Meyer, ctld photos. •lnit?t Wiest.
144..; laW:f.14C Atrniqt flouted
away, aleo), • years. agtt 'Olen
riser k9rt../7-10NiurfOlf s
cleaned °up, Ott .414
thriveS.OgitAi- •
for .catrohcA.
KtrUhres:aad.' after the
waltre.s.Vs'as44aitee:theraie
wouldn't get any heady little • .
ey0, or whiskers , on out
Prates.: that's what we or-
dered, '''From the river?" we
asked thinking of the 'muddy
Kentucky we'd wandered a-
long, watching birds: earlier
in the day. "No from farms."
she replied. It's big busi-
ness. They raise 'em in
tanks."
The topic of the Huron
County Federation. of Avi-
culture's June "meeting will
be "You've Come A Long
Way, Baby". Miss Gay
Stewart. a lawyer. will speak
on the changes in legal status
of farm women. The meeting
will take, place. Thursday.
June 4, 8:30 p.m. at the
Turnberry Central School.
just east of Wingham on
You're
The Seaforth Happy Cit-
izen; will hold their regular
meeting on June 5 at 1:45
p.m. in 'the Legion Half):
Please note change of date.
All Seaforth merchants are
invited to a meeting Monday.
lime in.. .the-town-hall at
7:30 to plan a Lions Carnival'
promotion and dis'cuss last
week's Midnight Madness.
NOISIER
And then, munching our
salad, we notice the noise
level getting louder and
louder, the jokes more rau-
highway 86.
Some of these recent
changes in areas such as
property rights have a major
impact on the dissolution or
division of a farm operation
and every farm family should
understand the current situ-
ation.
All farm families and in-
terested persons are invited
to attend.
June meeting of the Sea-
forth Women's Institute will
be held on Wednesday. June
3 at 8:15 p.m. at the home of
Mary Nolan. The roll call is
to be an exchange of bulbs
and slips and the speaker
will be- Steven--Hikleln dad;
Lunch committee: Mrs. R.M.
Scott. Jean McKenzie and
,,Mrs. Sam Scott.
cotes and the giggles more
pronounced at 4 table of
eight casually but expensive-
ly dressed .Kentuckians be-
hind us. Maybe it's some-
thing they put in the corn
linufrinens4 pile up a bit inside
the front door• waiting for
their tables. The male of
se:0;47601re is Crn471:7:4111:#
Appears, to he either a larse
bag.Like<the 1«r lb in 00
,••Et,,etteiltteaiennamerelati. cite
litthtMWDA; 0,1117ItkY's at
It ; e 'inky not liq uor
liven a 041*, gp.S.h There's
Ito Oteption to you bringing
lour own With Ott-
A chat with Mrs. Murphy
confirms that. "I can't sell
liquor hut I sure can't control
what' my customers bring in
to my place, now can I", she
tells us. We remember a
warm bottle of wine we've
carried around in the car for
a week and ask about brin0
ing it it. "So long as you
don't put it on your table,"
we learn. "We'll bring you
an ice bucket and glasses.
We've, got set-ups and ice,
but leave your bottles on the
floor!"
Lacking a bowling or a
shoe bag, we do the best we
can at slipping in the door
carrying a wine bottle- Its
surreptitiously transferred to
our waitress who wraps it in
a towel and whisks•it out to a
waiting ice bucket in the
kitchen,.
And we- finish OP OW'
holiday dinner wit111019 111
*eek, , • .
*PO nice people.
MOWS; anti- 7!)sf9.pera,
have Ph.044*P00e4oP wIth
4•41$:Y
ThOtO0,:tt•filth , ".
40oUttotigg$1
A store owner ftt Harrods-
hur4 says 'the arebootleg-
ger$ -though I wouldn't
know-who they are myself."
"Aw mom." her listening
daughter says.
The same storekeeper. an
ex-northerner who's been in
Kentucky seven years, says
she's lived in dry towns and
wet ones since moving south
and "there's something a lot
nicer about the- dry Ones."
Too many hotels and bars.
booze and drunks out in the
street in wet towns she says.
who took children on a ride through the streets.
(Photo by Hook)
. by Susan White
And so we settle down to
eat-bighowls of goodies from
the salad bar and wait for our
daring taste of this-Southern
' • 11teryvittiflititior,:".Oeer taf
aift'9n the,. moat at
.140r0f.s-''Ont Oat's*
vv.et,e .wised '•ahaOnenee '-
ft*.'seterattl#Y,S4t'Vleasant.'.
'T`he +'re itt the '.aatt - dry
-the river.
towards laitIVO'n . now.
that's anot er. ,,story Beer
stores, wine .with Atinner:
stand . up bars and other,
civilized (?) pleasures
abound.
`Farm woman's status is F of A 'topic
invite Pg.
•
while the the boozy partying
is kept 'at home ht, the dry
regions. •
How 49e$ a dry eoPafie
town function. we wondered
after a trip to Berea at the
edge of the eaRtlataitta. Just
fine thanks. one Kentuckian,
;tiniest instItte4• at the tines-
t'ha, -totit its, .•
• ' 0404
-netts •OTO• VIPer~
*WS
10„.00 education and .don't
•*ee.0:0004.. as fet*;
w"iistt?s of viols udder the.
influence• smiling. over
twisting coaits. from • wet
county to dry.
HoWever. That's how
things are arranged in Ken-
tucky. In much of the south.
And they're ,likely to stay
that way.
But there are dry places
and dry places, as we dis-
covered at Murphy's. &re-
quest- for similar- oecomoda-
tion' at a cafe in. Berea would_
likely have gotten us thrown
out on the street. The trick is
knowing ahead of time which
is which. °
Maven Feest a great success
1
The Klompen Feest:
Clinton festival celebrating
the•Dutch tradition here was
such a tticcess that it may
become an annual event. The
festival was last weekend.
• A Seaforth resident, Else
DeGroot, who teaches' in
Clinton and the Klompen
Feest committee's secretary,
said that 'many people are
already talking about what
'they have planned for next
year.
Mrs. De Groot, noting
5000 people bought buttons
and 3000 were at the barbe-
que, said these numbers
were "far more than.,1 ex-
pected." She also said
was a greatthing-for-fellow--
ship" and she expects there
will be a Klompen Feest
about the same time next
year.
Thousands of visitors were
welcomed to the first Klottp-,
en Feest or "wooden shoe
festival" to honor Dutch
Canadian people' of the
community.
Dutch flags flew from
every main.street light stan-
dard which were also adorn-
ed- with large wooden wind-
mills, the symbol of Holland.
Planters filled with tulips
added,. colour to the main
street scene. Many business
people dressed their wind-
oilis in salute to Klompen
' Feest and some dressed in
traditional Duteh costume.
Friday evening the two-
day festival began with
music. Strafing musicians
Eugene Bradley and John
Greidanus Sr. and Murray
Draper all entertained. Also
featured were school choirs
Clinton Christian
School, Central Huron Sec-
ondary School and Hullett
Central Schools band. the
Seaforth-area New Canadian
Klomiten• dancers, and the
Clinton Klompen Festival
Singers singing some of the
oldies from' Holland. A street
dance capped the evening's
events 'with music provided
by the Tyroler Brass from
Kitchener.
`Saturday, morning celebra-
tions were highlighted by
:hildren's kite flying. The--
street organist and the stroll-
ing. Musicians also were back
On the street.
At 10 p.m. about 10400
persons, young -old alike.
lined the streets for a giant
two hour parade featuring six
Trips to the Pinery.
Camp Sylvan, Mt. Cannel
and Lambton Heritage Mu-
scum are on the agenda for
Huron Perth Separate School
-EfeaTcriTiiiikh-system activ-
ity day. ,.
The board, which plans
five activity days: .for 150
teachers, has set the date for
June 1. George Van Slyck,
the Board'S resource teach-
er. said the day will provide
sample activities • for the
teachers. "We want to give a
thrust to get teachers to use
the outdoor facilities in the
local area."
Preparations were started
a year ago by -Gary Birming-
ham, chairman of the Pro,
fessional Activitiet- Commit-
tee. All. professional days
must be approved by the
Ministry of Education. The
Board has nine professional
, development 'days of which
five are organized for the
system by the committee and
four are organized •for each
school by the prineipal.
The board has had three
previous - activity days this
school •-year-which-involved
various subjects including
math. religion. E itglish,
music and family life and
there was a seminar on farm
safety in St. Mary s. Mt. Van .
Slyck is interested in the
farm safety. because "when
I came here, not much had
been done about farm safety
in schools-so many children
get hurt on the firin if
they're not careful." he said.
• The program for 'June I
includes node walks, film
presentations. a history
workshim and a tour of
Lambton Heritage Museum.
By exposing the teachers to
these • activities, Mr. Van
Slyck hopes they will get
ideas of what is Available for
their
r lastudsetilti:r. Theokssional de-
velopment day will involve
•
,plans for the school system.
discussion of long range
said Mr. Van Slyck.
- ' . Cathy Larone and Don Crocker, members of the committee: . .
'VISITORS FROM.SEAFORTH,* On theSeaforth retreat oecpmm tteses
float. in the Klompen Feest parade' at- Clinton Saturday were, standing,
A*efk
aviegort ride threugh the
r:
WAslopfteibERS AndretRamaket, 3, and her! ister-Witten& 4, enjoy.-
' streets of Clinton in the Klompen Peet parade Saturday. 'They were pulled• about by Ariaihs
'Dykstra, 15, and by Sennett Pooling, 13, Olbtabytike).
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