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Times-Advocate, 1980-02-27, Page 19THE LONG HAUL — Pulling a toboggan in a race was all part of the fun at Stephen Cen- tral's winter carnival last Friday. Kim Wolper and James Desjardine rode the toboggan while Greg Lightfoot and Alan Renning, did the hauling. T-A photo SNOW CASTLES IN THE SKY — It was like being at the beach, only different, as one young competitor put it. This gang of children created one of the entries in the biggest snow castle building contest at Stephen Central School's winter carnival. C NORRIS, GEE & CO.. % Chartered Accountants 497 Main Street, Exeter, Ontario 235-0101 227-4455 J.A. NORRIS C.A. Suite 200, 190 Wortley Road, London, Ontario, 673-1421 L.D. GEE C.A. S.W. HOMUTH C.A. CHIROPRACTORS DAVID C. HANN, D.C. 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But Roy Morenz toil a sympathetic council Tuesday night that he has been having a lot of water in the basement of his Grand Bend. home. Morenz said that since the sewer connections were grailleaVATZBUR installed in his home last November, he has been pumping water large amounts of water out of his basement.continuously, Last December he estimated that about 7,000 gallons of water a day were flowing into his house, He has a sump pump running continuously and a hose pouring the water onto Highway 21, he said. Morenz told council that there Was some let up in the water in January. "It did decrease to about 3,50.0 gallons a day, but it's still a continuous stream," he said. Morenz said that he has had reparesentatives from the Public Utilities Com- mission, the waterworks and the sewer engineers to look at his basement. None of them offered any ex- planation. "There's more water running in my basement than there is in the creek behind the house," Morenz said. Reeve Robert Sharen suggested that the sewer construction may have broken a "bootleg" water line, that had been installed illegally at the time water was put in. Councillor Harold Green suggested that the water be shut off at midnight some night to see if the amount coming into Morenz's basement drops. The Chamber of Com- merce also sent a delegate to last week's council meeting. Secretary manager Bob Simpson came to council with more requests for this summer's Burgerfest. Simpson received council's permission to have professional parachute jumpers land on the beach as part of the burgerfest ac- tivities. In other business, coun- cillor Bill Baird offered to attend the annual meeting of the North Lambton Chamber of Commerce which will be held March 25 at the Fireside Inn, Thedford. In response to a letter from. Watford, council decided to look further into the closure of that village's public school "It seems a shame to close an urban school," councillor Keith Crawford commented. "They'd help us out if we were in that situation," Reeve Sharen said. The movie was good, and all that was missing was the popcorn. Members of Grand Bend council were treated to a movie by representatives of Para Sailing Canada at Tuesday night's meeting. Steve Douglas of Kit- chener and William Lewis of Pickering convinced the council that para sailing is sport needed in Grand Bend. This is where the rider hangs from a parachute towed by a motor boat. Douglas said that-he and his brother would like to set up a para sailing business and council ap- proved it in principle. The movie on pare sailing was made by Lewis, Douglas' consulting expert. Lewis holds the world para sailing endurance record of 11 hours. He will be selling equipment to Douglas, Council members were shown the strength of the rope used in towing, the quality of the harness, and the life jacket used. Douglas said that para sailors would be picked up at the pier and taken to a raft anchored at least 500 feet off shore. The para sailor would take off and land on this raft. Douglas said he plans to advertise extensively. Both men stressed the safety aspect of the operation, and said that no para sailing would be done in inclement weather. Before they left all the members of the council were presented with para sailing T-shirts. Times-Advocate, February 27, 1900 Page 19 Bystanders do the work in draw for dock space BY MARY ALDERSON I was very impressed with the speeches given by grade seven and eight, pupils at Exeter Public School last week. It wasn't easy being a judge with so many good entries. Eventually we picked a winner from the 10 pupils, and first prize went to Isabel Perry. Isabel gave an amusing talk on the sorrows of being sixth, As the youngest in a family of six children, she told of all the problems that go. with that position. She even calculated the number of speeches that have been written in her house, and told how difficult it was to find an original topic, Second prize went to Sandi McDonald with her speech on bone-heads and dumb mistakes. Sandi • was guaranteed to cheer up even the worst case of inferiority complex. She told of the stupid mistakes that have been made by different people, stringing together a hilarious selection of anecdotes. At the end of her speech, she dramatically dropped her notes all over the floor - just another stupid mistake, I guess. Karla Josephson took third place with her speech on body language. She in- corporated many actions, including a pleasant smile, into her talk. Because the judging was close, we decided to award honourable mention to two more , speakers. Colleen Glasgow gave a very in- teresting speech on the treatment of blacks in Missitisippi. Colleen called her speech prejudice, and told of the segregation she encountered on her trip. Sheryl DeBoer gave an interesting talk on cross country skiing. She gave many helpful hints on that sport., We were also treated to advice on tennis, by the only young man in the group, who actually swung a raquet for us. We learned what it was like to raise a baby pigeon, and how to break world records to gain entry in the Guinness book. Another speech was on why it's nice to have a handicapped friend, and we also heard about dogs. An interesting cross-section of topics, in- deed. Listening to these children give their speechestook me back to the first time I won a trophy for my public speaking, at age 10. At that time, my older sister was living and teaching school in Japan. Z used Japan for my topic, gathering information from her letters. I even threw in words like "ryokan", which is a Japanese inn, "tatami", which is their straw mat flooring, and "ofuro", the Japanese bath. I concluded my speech effectively by saying "domo arigato gazimasu", Japanese for thank you very much. Later I sent my sister a tape recording of my prize winning speech. She played it for some Japanese friends of hers, and all of them were appalled at' the way I had mangled their language, Fortunately for me, no one in my audience at Bosanquet Central School spoke Japanese. In 1967 I gave a speech on John A. MacDonald. A natural winner in Centennial year; I figured. I even in- cluded some amusing quotes about MacDonald's drinking, and rehearsed where I would pause for the laughter. This came when I told how MacDonald turned on Thomas D'Arcy McGee for his drinking. "This government can't afford two drunkards, McGee, (em- phasis on two) - You'll have to stop" (pause, wait for laughs.) I made the finals and figured the judges would have to like this speech. Before we went on stage I spotted one girl who seemed very composed, and figured she'd be my toughest competition. I asked her what she was speaking on. Wild birds, she said. Easy, I Mary's musings • thought, the father of our country tops wild birds anytime. But all the way through , her speech she would throw her head back and trill and warble in perfect bird imitations. I lost to a whistler. The other night I asked my husband what his best speech was about. Ice cream, was his reply. That year he had very zealous teacher who thought that all speeches should be memorized. She also stressed the importance of visual aids. So Victor told the history of making of ice cream, while holding a carton in front of him. He never faltered, reading his cues off the back of the ice cream, carton, and the teacher gave him a 96. Oh, yes, another speaker who should get honourable mention is principal Jim Chapman. In between each speech at the school, Mr. Chapman kept the audience amused with a talk of his own. At half time, he had the group stand up for stretch, telling them that the floor would be getting sore with all them sitting on it. Fitness. than it takes. paanagaSonit It gives much more By MARY ALDERSON It's not often that I'm given something to do at council meetings, In fact, sometimes the council Members don't even acknowledgethatI exist, as I sit there, writing down each word they say. But last Tuesday night, in the interest of fair play, I was given a job as was ob- server Bob Simpson. We were invited to draw the names for the great docking space lottery, After council was over- whelmed with applications for docking space at the first of the year, they decided to draw names to 8e who would get those coveted positions along the river, rather than try to award them on a first come, first serve basis. I was given the honour of drawing three names while Simpson drew two to fill the five spaces. Lucky winners were: Marilyn Ross, Lon- don, F.W. Burke, London, Joe Nader, Michigan, F.G. Struckett, London and Gord Clemas London. Councillor Keith Crawford drew an additional name as an alternate in case any of the first five had changed their minds. Brian Gaminage of London is the alternate choice. Garnmage attended the meeting, and was disappointed" with the first five names drawn, but said he was pleased that he still has some hope, Council decided that the five winners would be contacted, and asked for a cheque within 21 days. Unfortunately, they would also be told that docking rent has increased. The Cost this season will be $16 per.foot, up $1 over last year's rent. Nine names were entered in the draw.