Village Squire, 1973-06, Page 30bourne township again, then return
you to county road 8. Go directly
across the road past the old school
bouse and you're on Hullett town-
ship concession 13. You'll see Blyth
Brook winding its way down to the
Maitland on your right side for a
short distance and then crossing the
road. You'll see some good farm-
land on this road. Farming is still
the backbone of the economy is Hur-
on county.
About four miles down the road
you'll come to Highway 4. Turn left,
and just up the road at the turn in
the highway you'll see the summer
home of George Radford a Blyth con-
tractor who has a wildlife area of his
very own around his cottage and a
man-made lake.. You'll often see
imported deer grazing and swans
swimming in the lake.
If you like leather and woolen
goods, you might like to stop and
browse for awhile in the two big
factory outlets for woolen and leath-
er goods at Blyth, one just south of
the village and the other in the
village itself.
As you enter the village, you'll
see a pretty little crescent on the
left side with a number of beautiful
modern homes.
If you're hungry and brought along
a picnic lunch, you can stop in the
Lions' Park on the left just after you
enter town, where there are picnic
tables in the summer months, a play-
ground with swings, slides, etc. and
a wading pool for the youngsters.
If you'd rather buy your lunch,
you can visit the Blyth Inn dining
room, a homey room, dimly lit with
nice decor and good food. Or you
can visit the Huron Grill where the
Chinese food is excellent and you
can eat in or take out. For a quick
lunch in a more intimate atmosphere
you could visit Grand View Lunch at
the south end of the village or the
Wallace Coffee Shoppe on week days
at the north end of town.
Once you've eaten, or if you're
not hungry, drive north through the
village on highway 4 and take the
third concession on your left (about
three and a half miles). Now, you
are in East Wawanosh township. You
will drive through rolling land and
see various branches of the Maitland
River. You'll come finally to a sharp
bend in the road to the left. The
area to the right, will eventually be-
come another park of the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority. The
land across the river is already a
pretty little park owned by East and
West Wawanosh townships.
You'll drive south now until you
cone to the next corner, then turn
right and drive just over a mile un-
til you come to county road 22.
Turn left and drive south again to
the village of Auburn. You can
turn right at County Road 25, or,
if you'd like to see the old village
which is officially called Manchester,
you can continue on straight and
turn right at the next corner and go
down main street. The street ends in
a narrow steep road down to county
road 8 where you can turn right and
drive back to county road 25. Turn
left, and drive across the Maitland
River and on through rolling land
with some very impressive farms.
About two miles west of Auburn
you'll see a rock on the right side
of the road with a plaque placed on
it in centennial year. It commem-
orates the old Young's school that
stood on the corner from 1840 to
1948, one of the pioneer school
houses of Colborne township.
The rest of the way is pretty
much straight driving, through Car-
low where the Christmas Country
Fair is held every October, and on
to Dunlop on Highway 21. Turn
left, and travel a mile or so, and
you're back where you Started.
We'll have another journey next
month.
Keith's Kolumn TV commercials
make me violent
It's summertime, and the TV's off
except for the odd ball game. And
thank goodness for that.
I'm fondly hoping that when fall
comes, along with the new shows,
there will be some new commercials.
The old have just about worn me
down. After a winter of watching
them (even with the limited time I
spend a week watching the set be-
cause of the nature of my work),
I'm just about to throw a TV Guide
through the picture tube.
Luckily, there are no Loblaws
stores in our part of the country, or
if there were someone might not
have been able to withhold the urge
to burn one down after having Will-
iam Shatner shake his fist at us all
winter and tell us: "But by gosh, the
price is right".
I'm so sick of seeing that lady dip
her glasses in the water to show that
soap isn't soap, that I'd like to drown
her in the soapy water.
My award for the worst all round
advertising program, however has got
to go to the genions who dreamed up
the commercials for Meteor. "Where
is your new Meteor?" is the theme
and every c ommerc la 1 seems to get
worse than the one before. Now you
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must admit it takes a real talent to
be that bad.
My mother and a few others I
know, have told me they never see
what's on television; that they have
the happy knack of turning off their
minds when a commercial is turned
• on. That's a knack a lot of us would
pay a lot of money to get. Instead,
we have to make trips to the wash-
room or to the kitchen. But let's
face it, we've got troubles. The
ads get longer, and more frequent
every year, and you can only do so
much in the bathroom and if you
eat every time there's an ad, you'll
soon have reinforced furniture when
you DO want to watch the tube.
Frankly, I think that's why all
those research projects show North
Americans to be in such poor shape.
Television drives them to eat.
And while we're talking about
the psychological effects of tele-
vision, what about violence on tele-
vision? Some people claim there is
so much violence on TV that it in-
fluences children to goy out and act
the same way the heroes on the show
do. I think TV is to blame for viol-
ence, but not in the same way. I
don't think kids are influenced by the
violence. I DO think kids get so
frustrated by the horrid ads blasting
at them every two minutes for two
minutes at a time, that they have
to vent their frustrations. Hense,
violence in the streets.
The only evidence I can give is
that every time I see a rotten ad for
the third time in one episode of one
program, I want to do something
violent. Don't you?
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