The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-02-01, Page 14PAGE FOURTEEN
THE. LUCKNO. W SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
Kathryn Todd, the. St. Helenscorrespondent finds time for knitting, crocheting a id ewfng even though
she is the mother of two daughters, works as a lawyer's400kkeeper and is busy helping her husband
operate their farm. Raised in a small town, she would never trade living in the country for urban life. She
finds the people of her community friendly and when . someone is in need, all the neighbours work
together to help . out.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1„ 1978.
St. Helens correspondent •
Enjoys country Iife
music khitting
The St. Helens correspondent,
Kathryn Todd, started writing the
column for the Sentinel two years
ago when she answered an ad in.
the paper. The previous corres-
pondent, Eileen Miller, was
retiringand the ad has run for
several weeks when Kathryn
decided she would be interested
• in writing the column.
"People like to see their names
in the paper," says Kathryn,
"but they would never phone the
paper with a news `item about
themselves." She .was interested
in writing the column because she
had often noticed that news which
could have been in the paper had
not been.reported.
She rarely phones people to ask
for the news. She u ually writes
the column from talking with
people in the community. She
usually hears about the activities
• in the community and calls only to
verify something .that she is not
certain about.
Kathrynfarms with her. hus-
band, Wayne, who is in pair -
ship with his,,brother Hugh They
have two daughters, Christina, 3
years, and Amanda, 8 months.
She was raised in Wingham
and after graduating from high
school she worked for six months
in Kitchener at Dominion Life and
for five months at . Stanley -Berry
Ltd. in Wingham before her
marriage. ,
Kathryn= lived in an apartment
until her last yearin high scho6l
and -while ; living in town was
handy for shopping she "would-
n't trade living in the country for
the town for anything."
She doesn't like the winter on
the farm as much but, she does
enjoy snowmobiling and she and
her husband belong to the St.
Helens Snowmobile Club.
"Being .snowbound in the
country in the winter isn't bad,"
says Kathryn, "there's always
somebody stopping, in because
the village is nearby and you
never feel isolated."
She . says that she wouldn't
trade the St. • Helens community
for life somewhere else, either.
"The people are more friendly.
The hydro was off for three days
once, and we all bunched up at
somebody's place where they had
heat and we all had a good. time.`
You would never find people in
town doing that," she observes.
She says "It's a good life" arid
has no regrets about coming back
to her home . community to live.
She lived in Kitchener for six
months and found it very difficult
to get to know people.
"I didn't really get to know
anybody except the people at
Ork," she says, "and they ail
went home to their own little
cliches."
° Kathryn has eclectic taste in
music, "everything but jazz" and
her current. favourite composer -
musician is Neil Diamond:
She reads fiction and non-fic-
tion with a . speciai interest in
historical novels about pioneer
American families.
She buys her own books
because she hates to take a bobk
back after reading it and finds
that through reading you "Al-
ways learn something."
Her mother taught her crochet-
ing and sewing -and she learned
knitting from her mother-in-law..
She finds it difficult to, read a
pattern and makes most things
from sight or. by being told how by
someone else.
She keeps a garden in summer
which is "compulsory if you're a
farmer's: wife."
Her husband, Wayne, .taught
her how to bake pies after they
were married because he had
always hung around his mother's
kitchen when she was baking.,
whereas Kathryn had never been
interested in watching her mother
bake. After all, he didn't stand
and watch his mom all those years
and not learn anything, as Wayne
has pointed out to Kathryn on
occasion.
Although she - • prefers the
country life for herself, Kathryn
does not feel that raising children
in the country is any real
advantage over raising a family
in town because'she feels it is the
home environment that its import-
ant. "I don't feel that I lost
anythingby growing up in town,
she adds.
St. Helens
BY KATHRYN TODD
Recent visitors at the home of
Mr: and Mrs. Allan Cranston
were. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hunt
and family of Owen Sound.
Mr. and Mrs. Verdun Du=
Charme of Wingham, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Todd and family and
Isobel Miller, Helen Todd and
Wilhelmine Rutherford of St.
Helens helped Christina Todd
celebrate her thirds birthday on
Sunday, January 22nd.
The St. Helens Snowmobile
Club had to cancel their regular
, Friday night trail ride due to the
recent snow storm. The excessive
snow in the fields made snowmo- •
biling impossible.
The regular St. Helens Wom-
en's Institute meeting will be held
February 2nd, 1978 at 2 p.m. at
the hall, if the weather permits.
This month's roll call is "•A T.V.
commercial that insults our
intelligence"
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