The Citizen, 1996-08-21, Page 2MARK McINTYRE
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Wednesday, August 28
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PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1996
The happenings at Huronlea
Residents meet Huronview challenge
By Olive Sproal
July was a busy month at
Huronlea with many special events
taking place. We had our annual
strawberry festival, highlighted by
generous dishes of strawberry
shortcake, topped with lashings of
whipped cream. This treat was
much enjoyed by everyone.
Another event which has arrived
every July 7 since 1894 is Elsie
Cunningham's birthday. Her family
threw a party for her and everyone
joined in wishing her many happy
returns of the day.
The monthly birthday party,
honouring all those who were born
in July was held in the sitting room,
where we were entertained by the
St. Ambrose Youth who also
provided a delicious snack of
cookies and squares.
Our annual excursion to the
beach was on Wednesday, July 7.
We managed to pick the nicest day
of the month. There was a light
mist over the water when we first
arrived, but by the time the pizza
arrived, it had burnt off. We never
Winona Martin and her daughter,
Gwendolyn Tooth have returned
from a trip to the Arctic Ocean.
Martin and her husband Edwin had
done this trip in 1978, only in
reverse. In 1992 Tooth and her
mother had visited the Dawson and
Whitehorse area on their trip to
Anchorage, Alaska.
Flying this time from Toronto to
Vancouver for a tour, they boarded
the 14 deck Sun Princess, the
largest floating vessel made in Italy
and launched in December 1995.
For three days they travelled the
1,000 mile Inside Passage to
Juneau where the huge Mendenhall
Glacier was viewed.
Leaving the boat at Skagway,
they flew over Glacier Bay in a six-
seated plane. The White Pass
Narrow Gage Railway provided
many thrills of the Gold Rush of
1898 to Fraser.
The Bus was boarded to
Whitehorse with stops at the
Carcross area where parts of
"Never Cry Wolf' and "Due South"
were filmed. There were several
green lakes and a multi-coloured
one. They attended the Frantic
Follies (Sam McGee's burial) and a
boat ride on the Schwartha through
Miles Canyon.
On the way to Dawson they saw
Carmack, Five Finger Rapids
which proved difficult to the gold
rush prospectors. They also saw the
1995 forest fire area, Stewart and
Pelly Crossing where the North
West Mounted Police tried to keep
order, Moose Creek where the
statue mosquitoes are as large as a
pony and the telephone in a tree
reached by a ladder.
Dawson was much the same.
Pierre Burton's home, Robert
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tired of watching graceful sailboats
as they tacked to and fro, at times
sailing over the horizon while
others hovered into sight.
After enjoying pizza and ice
cream and a brief time of relaxation
we mustered up the energy to play
a few quizzes and word games. We
hated to end such an idyllic day but
eventually we loaded up, and
buzzed on home where we arrived
just in time for dinner full of
memories of sun, sand and water.
It seemed pretty tame, for a time
after that with the usual round of
therapy, fun and fitness, and sing-
along Monday afternoons. We had
the Nashville Rejects to play and
sing and tell some highly improper
jokes which were, however
screamingly funny. Phyllis
Mitchell also entertained.
We were galvanized out of the
doldrums (July 30) when Steve
Cook our activities director
announced Huronview, Clinton had
accepted our challenge to play a
number of games of various kinds
against them. They were on their
Service and Jack London's cabins,
#4 Dredge and gold panning,
Diamond Tooth Gertie's and
Cancan, Gaslight Follies, and to the
top of 1,700 ft. Midnight Dome
were some of the highlights. The
Yukon Loo boat took them to a
Salmon Bake on Pleasure Island.
The "Top of the World Highway"
dirt road left Dawson to the left,
and the new "Dempster Highway"
741 km. to Inuvick was at the right.
It is not paved but has a mixture
of tar and gravel which will stand
the perma frost. In 1978 this
portion was flown over. Each
suitcase was put in a garbage bag to
protect it from the dust. They
carried an "overnight bag" to Eagle
Plains.
Morning breaks and noon meals
were provided by driver and host.
At Engine Creek Park the driver
cooked for 38 people on a camp
stove covered with tinfoil. They
crossed the Arctic Circle. Some
bald eagles and a bear were seen.
At Fort McPherson was the
monument to the Lost Patrol who
died after dismissing their Indian
guide.
Inuvick means "Place of Man".
Flying to Tuktoyactuk was in a
smaller plane and took half an
hour. It just happened to be very
cold and windy here, Martin says.
way, would be with us for lunch
which we were to, share with them
in the tenant's dining room. He
proceeded to read out the names of
those who'd been picked to defend
Huronlea's honour. What a frenzy
ensued, as contestants rushed
around to get ready. Our
opponents, we were quite sure,
would be dressed to the nines; we
could not let our side down, by
doing less. It was a slicked up and
smiling group that greeted visitors.
A good many of our staff used to
work at Huronview and these came
forward to greet the visitors and
make them welcome. The visitors
were accompanied by Marlene
Verbeek, who, until recently, along
with Steve, was our activities
director, a role she performs in
Clinton now. Huronlea is now
looked after by Cindy Fleet, who
also hails from Clinton.
We had a nice lunch; it was
lasagna and ice cream. Promptly at
2 p.m. the contests began, with the •
teams neck and neck for awhile,
then, the visitors began to draw
They went on a tour and ended up
eating at Roger Gruben's of Arctic
Tours, $225,000 home. The poorer
class, here has very small houses
on pilings to avoid the perma frost.
Gniben provided a meal of soup,
meats, bannockburn.
Logs had floated down the
Mackenzie River from Dawson.
Pinto hills, some are used for
refrigeration purposes. Gruben's
wife gave a display of winter dress,
parkas, mitts and moccasins. Flying
back to Inuvick took 25 minutes,
where the visitors had a tour
including the famous Igloo
Patterned Church. There was
another dress display by a teacher
and a program of stunts by two
boys.
Flying to Yellowknife was the
forest region and ponds in the tree
zone and then stony parts and very
little trees and ponds. Yellowknife
is a growing city.
A flat bottom boat took them on
a shoreline trip on Great Slave
Lake. Many of the homes were
built on pilings out into the lake.
Then came a 770 mile flight to
Edmonton, then on to Toronto.
The natives are very clever
dressmakers, sculptors, artists,
dancers and musicians, Martin said.
"It was a very busy and interesting
trip."
ahead. Finally there remained just
one game of euchre and two rounds
of bean bag throw. When the
smoke of the battle cleared,
Huronlea emerged the victor, by
one point. Levi Carter pulled them
out of the hole, with fantastic
scores in the bean bag toss! We get
to keep the cup until the day they
beat us decisively and take it away
from us.
Hosts and guests had a lot of fun
and also gained respect for each
other, both for expertise and
Brussels
People
Eleanor Hemingway and her
daughter, Karen Phillips, enjoyed
the picturesque scenery and the
super hospitality of the folks in the
province of Newfoundland last
week.
Visiting Mrs. Mel Jacklin last
week was her nephew, and wife
Ron and Dianne Sauers of Calgary.
Mrs. Jacklin spent a few days in
London visiting her daughter,
Barbara Ross and Tyler and her
oldest daughter, Marlene Fosberg
of Dutton and granddaughter
Darlene and Carol and children.
sportsmanship.
Bill Campbell from Clinton and
Levi won a prize for racking up the
most points on their teams. Each
had a -,erconal score of eight out of
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