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Winners of the senior girls softball town league championship are Cunningham; back row, Mrs. Russ Archer, coach, Debbie Yule,
seen above. They are (front row left to right) Barb Aggerholm, Nancy Castle, Debra Hodges, and Sherry Hodgins. —staff photo.
'Ruth Ann Neilans, Brenda Smith, Sally Walden, Dianne
Junior, girls town league softball winners were: front row (left to row, Mrs. Paul Castle, coach, Ruth Ann Colclough, Sheila
right) Donna Strong, Melodie Howse, Brenda Butler, Michelle Dalgliesh, Janet Wonfor, Patricia Anstett, Barbara Smith, Nancy
Flowers, Lauries Blair, Sheila Arnston, Connie Horbanuik; back Clynick and Bonnie Van Riesen. —staff photo.
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An attempt to save one American Chesnut tree
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The long .summer vacation has commenced .for- Ornery and.
secondary school pupils. How glad they are to he free for the
summer and hoW glad most of them are to .W back ,into study
routine tigain in the September. And not only the students, but their
?Wets also, for they know Where the young fry are _Oxen,
Lucy has :nostalgic memories Of -the old Bayfield Public School..
She liked school but was as _keen as any of the pupils to carry home her slate and pencils, copy books, reader, speller and other books the
day school closed. Sometimes it Meant saying goodbye to the
teacher and there would be a little presentation for which the pupils
had collected money and selected .a gift. One would he .chosen to
read an address composed by an adult and a conple. .of the pupils
would make the presentation. That was one gf the niceties of the 'plci
local public schools in. those days,
School was always so glamorous to Lucy, but once she had
occasion to gp to the school for something she. left when caretaker
Thomas Sanderson was working there in the holidays. Could this be
the same Junior Room which she enjoyed so much? It was dull. Dust
covered the desks. She looked about.
' I be a sunbeam for Jesus" was still written on one of the side
.o
blackboardso in Mrs. James Ferguson's copperplate handwriting. And
on thepposite side blackboard the words of the Maple Leaf
Forever.
There was no singing teacher then. Mrs. James Ferguson taught
the pupils patriotic songs. Maybe some pupils voices were off key,
but everyone joined in. How our chests expanded in patriotism and
our voices rose in tresendo as we fairly shouted "The Maple Leaf
Forever" ending.
The
at time.
Twenty-third Psalm also graced one of the side black boards
one
Mrs. Ferguson opened school every morning with the reading of a
short portion of Scripture and The Lord's Prayer was repeated.
There was no religious teaching but I'm sure many a pupil recalls
those solemn moments a sort of dedication for the day ahead.
Lucy also recalls when "0 Canada" was first introduced, We were
required to memorize it just as we had "God Save the King."
°The late T. J, Merner of Zurich was Member of Parliament at the
time and he distributed printed copies of it to the schools. The lines
have changed somewhat since then but it is still "0 Canada". And in
1937 when Lucy's sister Jean attended the Dublin Horse Show in
Eire with her aunt, a Vancouver Band played "0 Canada' , Moved by
patriotism Jean stood up in her seat and sang it. Is patriotism to
Canada instilled through verse and song in the minds of young pupils
today? There was so much apart from the three R's given to us by
dedicated teachers in those days. It seems to Lucy that today in big
area schools the personal touch of the teacher has been lost. So
much is demanded of a teacher in our present educational system
that he or she has not time to give extra time to the individual
pupil's problems. And so it is more difficult for both teacher and
pupils than in the little old school house.
But to come back to that day during the summer vacation so
many years ago, Lucy saw arithmetic sums and a line froth copy
books still on the • big black board. They would be cleaned off with
the chalk eraser before school started again.
The place had a dank smell. Lucy shuddered and left after
retrieving a book from her seat. Where would she sit next year as
near the hot air register as she could locate! The room had had a
depressing effect. She learned then and there that school, large or
small, is not the building but is composed of the teacher and pupils
of various personalities working together on a prescribed curriculum.
This long, two-month vacation will soon slip by. As long as Carl
Oteln4et3 BairdISSChOol;',S,S. No I, Stanley (he left at Christmas in ,
holiday was for only -she weeks. 'Schodl re-opened the
`Middle of August. The long vacation period could be shortened again
in, future years.
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The American (sweet)
Chestnut was major component
of the upland hardwood forest
type around the turn of the
century. This species was highly
valued for it's wood which was
used as interior finishing and in
cabinet work and, because of its
great decay resistance, for poles,
posts and railway ties.
Its fruit, a, inetalljc brown
coloured nut, was also highly
valued for food. It was a large
tree; 70 to 90 feet in height and
2 to 3 feet in diameter, usually
with a long clean trunk.
Disaster befell this native
, giant when a fungus disease
called the chestnut blight was
introduced .from Europe,
probably on imported nursery
stock. The disease moved
through the entire range of the
species in a very short time,
bringing it to the brink of
extinction.
Most of the very few
remaining specimens of chestnut
are the result of its ability to
sprout vigorously. The sprouts
do not, however, normally
survive beyond 15 to 20 feet in
height before being destroyed by
the fungus.
On Tuesday, May 19, 1970
with the cooperation of the
Ontario Department of._
Highways who supplied the
specialized moving equipment,
an 8-inch diameter 25-foot tall
specimen chestnut of seedling
origin was moved from the
proposed new right-of-way of
Highway 24 to a new location in
the McLean Tract of Brant
County Forest.
The McLean Tract is managed
by the Department of Lands and
Forests. It is located on Highway
24 approximately 5 miles south
of Galt and is clearly marked
with a Brant County Forest sign.
The public is invited to view
this unique specimen at their
pleasure. It is located
approximately 100 yeards along
the forest access road. Bear right
at the fork and down the hill.
The tree is on your right. •
Please do not disturb this tree
in any way. An open wound
would allow entry of the deadly
fungus spores, and once infected
the tree would be doomed.