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REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE
MASON BAILEY
BROKER
82ALBERTSTREET, CLINTON, ONTARIO
Bus. 482-9371 Res. 523-9338
“Suddenly It’sSold”
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY: Blyth, 3,000 sq. ft. plus
apartment above. Owner will consider leasing.
198 ACRES: Dairy farm, free stall for 100 cows, excellent
buildings, 2 Harvestore silos, Hullett Township.
15 ACRES: 5 miles from Clinton, 11/2 floor frame home,
farrowing barn for 35 sows. Property well fenced.
LONDESBORO: 1 floor rancher, finished basement,
inground pool, large lot.
100 ACRES: Hobby and bush farm, on paved road, 15 acres
workable, general purpose barn, large steel shed, house
newly renovated, all in immaculate condition, East
Wawanosh Township.
BRUSSELS: Commercial building on main street, oil heat,
apartment above.
294 ACRES: Morris Township, excellent cropland, good set
of buildings.
125 ACRES: Near Blyth, stately brick home, 60 acres
workable, 22 acres hardwood bush.
LONDESBORO: 4 bedrooms, 2 floor home, very spacious,
heated double garage, like new throughout.
BLYTH: Triplex, 2 floor brick on Dinsley street.
75 ACRES: On Maitland River, very scenic, no buildings.
BLYTH: Dinsley street, 2floor brick home on large treed lot.
46ACRES: Near Dungannon, with modern homeand heated
workshop.
BLYTH: 1 ¥2 floor frame home, close to school and business
district, 3 or 4 bedrooms.
4 ACRES: 2 floor brick home in good condition, 3 miles from
Blyth.
BLYTH: 3 lots on Hamilton street.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY: Ideal for office or store,
apartment. All redone, like new, main street, Auburn.
APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT: 14 units, nearly new, on 3
acres, well located in Lucknow.
BLYTH: Commercial Property, Queen street, presently
rented as Variety store, good 2 bedroom apartment above,
presently vacant.
KINBURN: 100 acres, 95 acres workable, systematically
drained, 6 bedroom frame home.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: An “acceptable level of
unemployment’’ simply means that the government
economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Grey Central Echo
It has been very busy here at
Grey for the past few weeks, with
many guests and activities.
Our cookery elective class were
trying their “wok” at Beef Chow
Mein. After carefully preparing
their dish they tested their experi
ment first hand.
Mrs. Diedre Graham came toour
school to help three classes with
visual art lessons while some
classes did some weaving and
other native crafts.
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The “Icons’’ were here for a
week. An Icon is a computer with a
store of educational games. Every
pupil at Grey had several oppor
tunities to work with the computer.
In the last week of school before
Christmas, we had our awards
assembly, recognizing several
noteworthy accomplishments by
the pupils at Grey. The Grade six
class were given diplomas and pins
for completing the “Values, Influ
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The world
view from
Mabel's Grill
Continued from page 4
of a cabinet meeting.”
FRIDAY: Tim was talking this
morning about all the fuss down in
South Africa about blacks and
coloured people having the nerve
to try to swim at beaches reserved
for white people.
“Isn’t it ironic’’ Julia said.
“Here are all these white people
lying on the beach trying to get
bl ack but they get upset when some
really black people want to use the
beach.”
“Maybe that explains it,” Tim
said. “Ifyou’djusthadatwo-week
holiday and spent the entire two
weeks lying on the beach trying to
get a dark tan wouldn’t you get a
little owly if somebody walked up
beside you that made you look like a
ghost?”
ences and Peers’’ programme.
Thanks to the Optimist Club of
Brussels for providing the pins.
As well, arm bars were present
ed toour Cross Country winner.
Soccer winner and the Student
Council representatives.
Our last day of school in 1986 had
a special visitor. Santa visited
Kindergarten to Gr. 3, while
Grades 4 to 8 had a Christmas party
in the gym.
When no less than two people guess the exact right weight of the
Brussels merchants taking part in the Christmas promotion, Brussels
Clerk-treasurer Hugh Hanly was called on to make the draw of the one
lucky winner of a trip to either Las Vegas or Nashville. The winning
guess belonged to Margaret Van Nes of Ethel. Here Beverley Brown,
advertising manager of The Citizen, helps with the draw. - photo by
Pat Langlois.
The International Scene
There's nothing quite
like living there
BY RAYMOND CANON
It sometimes takes me a bit of
time to take a look at the
newspapers that carry my column
but I generally do. I have just been
reading an article by Don Bork of
Watford who spent a year in
Finland as part of the Rotary Club ’ s
Student Exchange program and I
was extremely fascinated with his
comments. Having been to Finland
myself, I can vouch for much that
he says and, if he was able to get his
tongue around the Finnish langu
age, he was more successful than I.
This language does not resemble
any that I know and it created no
end of problems for me.
At any rate I am delighted that
the Rotary Club, being internation
al in nature, has seen fit to maintain
such an exchange program since it
gets young people at the age when
they are most flexible and ships
them off to learn the ways and
language of other countries; at the
same time people of the same age
are able to come here and see that
Canada is not a country of ice and
snow although at times it might
seem like that.
Don discovered what many
people before him have done;
namely that each country has a
variety of fascinating things which
are generally not to be found in
Canada. If, for example, he
discovered the ‘sauna’ in Finland,
so did land it is something that 1
retain to this day. I recommend it
highly and while there is no place
where I can run out sans clothes in
my neighbourhood, 1 have manag
ed to adjust to this part - a cold
shower seems to do the trick.
1 have also noticed in my many
travels that a goodly number of
communities have paired them
selves off with cities or towns in
other countries; this, too. is an
admirable step and I only wonder
just how active the pairings are. It
is no good if they are in name only;
there has to be active exchanges so
that as many people as possible can
get to know the other side. In this
context I have often wondered why
nobody has got around to pairing
off with a city in the Soviet Union.
Admittedly we are not exactly
enamoured with communism but
during my stay in Russia I
discovered that most of the people 1
talked with were extremely curious
about Canada, they were not
members of the communist party
and they did not believe everything
they were told by their government
about Canada (1 certainly hope that
you don’t believe everything you
are told about Russia.)
If we really want to do something
to make the cold war a thing of the
past, pairing with the Soviet Union
might be worth looking into. I say
this not knowing whether the
Russian embassy in Ottaw a auto
matically sidetracks any such
enquiries or whether any commun
ity in Ontario has actually asked
about such a move. It would
certainly, to my way of thinking, be
a step in the right direction.
Another suggestion that I have
while on the topic is for the various
service clubs or other similar
organizations to have ethnic speak
ers who are fluent enough in
English to be able to explain their
native country to Canadians who
have never been there and who
know nothing about it. How much
do you really know about the
Palestinian Liberation Organiza
tion or Sri Lanka or even Portugal
for that matter? It isn’t a question
of you having to take as ultimate
truth everything that the speaker
says;heorshe is. after all, just
givingapoint ofview butone which
is admittedly closer to the subject
than yours.
I recall going to Kitchener one
time to make a speech there to a
groupofbusinessmen. Having just
returned from the Soviet Union. I
naturally spoke on mv impressions
of Russia and the Russian people
and in the course of the speech said
some nice things about them,
things which I honestly still
believe. Ican’tsay thatl was totally
surprised a few days later to
receive a letter from the editor of
the Kitchener paper in which I was
attacked vehemently by somebody
who had heard my speech as a
lackey of the Kremlin no less. The
Russian leaders will sleep more
soundly tonight knowing that they
have such friends in Canada as Mr.
Ray Canon, concluded the letter.
No kidding, that is exactly what he
said! Frankly 1 don’t care how Mr.
Gorbachev sleeps.
In short you are going to have
somebody disagree with you no
matter how hard you try. So stick
your neck out. Go visit a foreign
country, have a foreign speaker
talk to your club, find a pen pal from
another country, adopt a child
through the Foster Parents Plan or
any number of other things that
you can do to bring this world a
little closer together. 1 have been
writing thiscolumn forwellon to20
years and I certainly hope thatl
have been able to bring the outside
world to many of your doorsteps.