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Times-Advocate, 1982-03-10, Page 20pose 20 Times -Advocate, March 10, 1982 It's the kind of situation that moat people can only hupe for in their wildest dreams. A close relative moves to Nassau in the Bahamas and invites you to visit. You're welcome to stay in their guest house, swim in their pool, eat their food and have their maids wait on you. Sounds too good to be true? Wel, believe it of not, that's what happened to us! My sister, Judy, her husband, Andy, and their two children recently moved to Nassau, and we were more than happy to take advantage of the situation. Amazing -how our desire to visit them increased when they moved to Nassau. (And they say it's amazing how many more house guests they have while they're living in the Bahamas.) You see, they had been living in Washington, D.C. for the previous two years, and we hadn't found time to visit them there. And prior to that they had been living in such places as Thailand, Cam- bodia .,and Viet ' Nam - • not exactly dream vacation spots. My brother-in-law's profession with the American Foreign Service takes them to all these exotic locations. At present, he holds the post of Charge D 'Affaires in Nastllau.Because there is no American Ambassador in Nassau, Andy has a very important position. His influence was, ap- parent right from the beginning of our visit. We were at the tail end of a long line=up waiting to get through customs when we arrived in the Nassau air- port. On the other side of the gate. we saw Andy approach a Bahamian customs of- ficial. We were soon escorted through customs with no questions•asked! Judy and Andy's home (for which Uncle Sam pays a rent of 82,500 per month) is spacious, yet very com- fortable. One wing has two guest .houses with their own entrances. The other wing has maid's quarters and a garage. They have a large living room, dining room, modern kitchen, ' three bedrooms and a Bahama room, where they spend most of their time. The front veranda overlooks the bright blue uttec 11` South Huron Centre Wed. Mor. 10 High School 11:55-12:45 Precision SI -sting 4:5 p.m. Minor Hockey 5-10:30 p.m. Thurs., Mar. 11 Moms . & Tots 10-11 a.m. High School 11:55.12:45 Usborne School 2-3:30 p.m. Figure Skating 4-8 p.m. Ice Rental 8:30 p.m. Fri., Mar. 12 High Sc hc..1 1'.:55.12.45 Figure Skuting 4-8 p.m. Midgets vs Oshweken 8:30 p.m. Sat., Mar.- 13 Minor Hockey 6 a.m.-1 p.m. Public Skate 2-4 p.m. Minor Hockey p.m. Ice Rental 8-9 p.m. Sun., Mar. 14 Ice Rental 11-12 noon Minor Hockey 12:30.2 p m. Public Skate 2-4 p.m. Ice Rental 7:30-9 pr.rr. Mon., Mar. 15 High School 11:55-12:45 Figure Skating 4-9:30 p.m. Ice Rental 9:30-10:30 p.m. Tues., Mar. 16 Mom's & Tots 10-11 a.m. & 2-3 p.m. 'Minor Hockey 5-6:30 p.m. Rec League 8-12 Mary's musings By Mary Alderson waters of the ocean, while in the back yard is a large patio, complete with a pool. Two maids do the cooking and cleaning, a gardener comes twice a week to look after the grounds, and . another man comes once a week to clean the pool. While there is no ambassador assigned to The Bahamas, Judy and Andy have the use of a chauffer driven car. Not that my sister needs a chauffer! She whips around the island (which is only 21 miles by seven miles) quite nicely, thank you. Our ride home from the airport was our first experience with Bahamian transportation. The Bahamas still shows a great deal of British in- fluence - for example all the traffic travels on the left side of the road. However, they do not drive British cars! To confuse things they drive big American cars with the steering wheel on the left, on the left hand side of their narrow, twisting roads. Does that slow. down my sister in her big Pontiac? She passes anyone in the way - and it's usually taxis - they like to travel slowly to let the meter run as long as possible. And the taxis are Cadillacs, Mercedes or even Rolls Royces! My niece and nephew enjoy the hot climate and have playmates of every race and colour. They go to private schools, where .they wear English style uniforms. So what does my sister do all day while the children are in school and the maids look after the house? Well, she manages to keep very. busy with the other diplomats' wives. They have bridge clubs, tennis clubs, fashion shows, teas and so on. In fact, having an active social life seems to be. a very important part of the diplomatic corps. Judy and. Andy are frequently invited aboard cruse ships or navy vessels which are in port. While we were there we were able to tour the cruise ships Emerald Seas and Sunward. Andy was also able to get passes to take us to the cabaret show at one of the large resort hotels on Paradise Island. Recently, they entertained Mahammad Ali when he was in the Bahamas for his disasterous fight. Unfor- tunately, they were unable to meet 'Prince Charles and Princess Diana while they were holidaying in the Bahamas. However, we did get to go with Judy and Andy to a party at the Governor - General's. The Bahamian governor general is Sir Gerald Cash and his wife is Lady Cash. We arrived at their huge, old home in a chauffer driven limosene with the American flag flying on the hood. The party was held in a pavilion which reminded me very much of the old Grand Bend casino. We were directed to the second floor where we went through a reception line and shook hands with Sir Gerald and Lady Cash. (Incidentally,, Sir Gerald has just returned from seeing Charles and Di off.) The balcony overlooked the grounds, where the Bahamian Police Band provided music. They were a spectacular sight - all dressed in immaculate white uniforms wearing their spiked hats. The party was honouring the Miami to Nassau yacht race, and many big silver cups and trophies were presented to the yachtsmen. Fortunately, by this time my husband, Victor, had a deep golden brown tan and sun -bleached hair. He looked very much like the many crew members of the various yachts, and we blended in with all the other partyers. One problem though; he should have been wearing sneakers or deck shoes with his suit and tie. Usborne Township VIAL OFUFE' v Delivered March 15-20 by Hurondale & Elimville Women's Institutes CHECKING NEW OFFICE — Dashwood Medical Centre building chairman Jim Becker checks the measurement of one of the offices in the new building under the watchful eye of Dr. Gwyn Woodfine. The Medical Centre opens for business April 13. Tiger Times Good Day! Our . reporters are ready to inform you so get reading. Bye. Tony Tiger. The History Fair was held on February 23. The projects ranged from the first man or. the moon to the mammath. Winning first place ribbons and trophies were Bonnie Dillon on her entry about King Tut and Jerry and Joel Lamport on their entry on the topic Indians. Receiving second place was Joanne Slaght en her entry on mammoths and Lori Hut- chison alsc got second for her entry on the Corbett Manse. Third prize was awarded to Suzanne Fink- beiner for her entry of Seigneury. -Jerry Lamport. This year Mr. Negrijn is in charge of making houseleague basketball teams. Five teams have been chosen with six players on each team. The captains are John Willemsen, Greg Becker, Scott Miller, Wayne Denomme and Jerry Lamport. We will inform you of who wins the houseleague competition. Good luck to all teams. -.Roger Ward. Oh hi, if you are wondering who I'm yelling at it's the rest of my classmates. You see we are on a field trip to Hay Swamp. We were to bring the necessary equipment such as food, knives, spoons, forks, etc. plus those good old snow shoes. We lugged this equipment around he trails until we reached an open field where we ivere to build a fire with two matches. Then we had to boil half a pot of snow for the water boiling contest - 10 - 20 points were eligible for this game. After lunch we had a scavenger hunt and then we were back on the trails to *editor) • By MRS., PETER MARTIN The Crediton Firemens Association judged the grade 5 posters in Tuesday evening. Winners were: girls - Kelly Brintnell, Charlene Browning and Lisa Parsons and boys - Rodney Woods, Randy Hoffman and Jamie Brand. The grade 5 students of Stephen Central will be treated to a visit at the firehall in the spring and the trophies will he presented at that time. Twenty nine posters were entered by Stephen Central grade 5 students. A successful fund raising dance was held by the Crediton and District Social Club Saturday evening at the Huron Park Rec Centre. Maple Sugar provided the music. Proceeds are going to hall maintenance. Edgar Cudmore and Don Jolly conducted the church service on Sunday. They spoke about their work with the Gideons and Mr. Cud - more delivered a message on being a successful Christian. Joyce Preszcator provided the piano accompaniment for the hymns.: Hill Schwartz is a patient in South Huron Hospital, Exeter. Sylvester Wuerth is a patient in Barrie, Royal Hospital. Mr. Wuerth is a former resident of Crediton. Mrs. Anne Batt, 78 Queen Street. Hensall will celebrate her 93rd birthday on March 16. From Stephen Central School play survival. After this game we followed more trails to the bus arriving back at school tired, yet ready to go back again in the spring. - Bonnie Dillon February 19 Stephen had another hot dog sale. The profit goes to help pay for the yearbooks at the end of the year. The price is still 40 cents for one hot dog. The people who get the hot dogs ready for noon are Russ Finkbeiner, Lisa Hewitt, Lorie Lynn Schenk, and Mrs. Furtney the librarian. We sold 381 dozen: - Russ Fink- beiner. Hurrah • for Stephen Central! Wednesday, February 24 at the speak -off sponsored by the Crediton and District Social Club our students spoke against the other schools in the area. Patti Love and her speech "The Farmwife" the most important things on the farm. was judged the winner. Kelly Hern of Usborne Central was the first runner up andshe spoke on "Enthusiasm". Robb Hoff- man of Stephen Central was second runner up and his speech was about "Bandit" his 4-H calf. Other con- testants were Lee O'Rourke of Mt. Carmel who spoke on "Messy", Heather Hodgins of McGillivray Central talked about her "Trip to Arizona", Nancy Hamilton of McGillivraxx Central told of "Bus Patrofng." ENGAGED — Mrs. Glen° Tripp and Mr. Norman Tripp are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Lean- •na to Alan Merner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Merner. The marriage will take place March 20, 1982 at the Dashwood United Church with Rev. Barbara Laing officiating. Open reception to follow. Photo by Schwartzentruber. Bowling scores 'Tuesday Ladles JS J Parent585 HD I Campbell 627 DS L Dykstra 636 VW R F'veland 542 WH R Haines 635 . CP T Heywood 665 PP P Haugh 583 TA LMcFails598 GT S Kingma 616 WW S Hierling 567 AC S Edwards 521 •Thursday Ladies AC CD CE GF' GH La LG ST TH WR M(; S(' ('11 (X' EA FT L Smith 64(1 P Scott 606 I, Webber 703 S Wright 678 J Scott 664 R Luther 640 t Hurdon 524 1. Webster 640 1) Weigand N Westlake 584 Friday Mixed It Smith 511 KFaber 711 C Murray 620 .1 Steuer 579 S ('ase 588 G Snell 597 Sunday Mixed TS N Westlake 554 1111 1. Webber 745 131. R Hippern 658 AN H Mc Kichan 664 HR .1 Parker 554 NB R Kinston 513 7 71 5122 2 90 0 89 7 99 5124 2 128 3 72 4 69 5 60 2 49 3 85 2 60 5116 0 93 7 80 4 84 5 51 5 95 2 92 2 70 5 66 2 77 5119 2102 2 60 5 77 4 43 7129 7125 3106 0 52 0 49 DOUGH -NUTS Meeting four of the Exeter Dough -nuts was held at Mrs. Seller's house, March 3. We all recited the 4-H pledge and answered roll call. We made English muffins and looked at each other's samples of last week's home activities. We read through meeting 4's notes and answered the questions. The secretary's report was then read. We sampled our English muffins and cor- nbread that was made last week. We discussed our par- ty plans and the food we're going to bring. The next meeting will be held on March 10 at Mrs, Seller's house. Heather Jamieson I VW TM NN PF: 8th Wednesday Men (' Toornstra 722 D Hrintnell 744 H Oke 656 P McFalls 657 11.lones 652 Wed. Morning Ladies M Lovell • 11 Elgie 1, Snell A Wilson 1) Hackney G Heaver Mon. Afternoon Men G lloggarth I. Lovell 11 Johns H.Etherington W Shapton 5 love Senior Citizens B Etherington D F'ravne F, ('aldwell K Davis H Johns (' Down Huron Hop. MI. Masse E DeKort K Verbeck M Baker 4 49 3 55 530 2 39 7 60 448 523 643 588 431 493 454 454 447 526 389 381 354 360 322 380 310 326 110 106 100 99 Yoga Classes Starting April 6th 7:30.9 p.m. South Huron District High School Call School for more information Too many juniors Need senior badminton Coach Pat Rowe will have to contend with an im- balance of persons when she chooeee her South Huron badminton team! in the near future; there are 20 players vying for eight positions_ qn the junior squad, while"'kt the same time, there aren't enough players for (senior) to fill the senior rater. Rowe has yet to find a senior boys single player and will likely have to move one of the juniors up. "I was hoping the club would serve as a farm system to develop players for the team", remarked Rowe. This year's team will be led by 1981 OFSAA senior girls doubles quarter- finalists, Ronnalee Bogart and Ma ja Gans. According to Rowe, the duo should be able to repeat as WOSSA champions barring any major upsets. "We could also do well in the boy's doubles if the players had a better at- titude," she said. Greg Prout and Kevin Parsons have the potential to improve on their fifth place finish at Huron - Perth last year, in Rowe's opinion. WOSSA junior mixed doubles champions, Leslie Hunter-Duvar and John; McAllister are moving up to senior, where they should be able lo finish among the top three in Huron -Perth and qualify for WOSSA action. "It's a big step moving from junior to senior - the action is faster and the teams make fewer Pineridge Snowmobile Club pane Pineridge Chalet Sat. Mar. 13 9-1 Music by Whiskey Jack Food available Reservations 262-2277 236-4310 South Huron Jr. Farmer Bake Sale Sat. March 13 9 a.m.-12 noon Center Mali Exeter Proceeds to March of Dimes Pride of Huron's Dessert Euchre Tues., Mar. 16 Time -1:30 Place - Lodge Room Prizes Everyone welcome Kirkton Agricultural Society Dance Sat., Mar. 13 music by Mozart's Melody ' Makers Dancing 9-1 $7.00 per couple Midnight Lunch Proceeds to 4-H Work mistakes," noted Rowe. Cheryl Cann will compete in girls singles at the Huron - Perth tournament April 20 in. Wingham. Although only one member of the junior team is returning, Rowe has many promising first year players. She feels this healthy situation is a result of the badminton club. Where it fails with the senior team, it succeeds with the junior South Huron Jr. Farmers Dance- -A -Then Sun., March 14 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Huron Park Annex proceeds to March of Dime For more information contact Gerald Johns • 229.6154 Cliff Hide • 228.6312 St. Patricks DANCE Sat. Mar. 20. Lucgn Community Centre (Main Hall) Music by "Al Logi." Admission 15 per person advance $6 at door including lunch 9.1 Sponsored by `t. Patrick's PTA, Luca, 1st Centralia B eavers, Cubs & Scouts Craft & Bake Sale Sat. Mar. 27 1-5 p.m. White. Elephant table Recreation Centre Annex squad. Brenda Waldeck will be without her doubles partner when she steps on the court at the Huron -Perth tour- nament April 27 in Wingham. Waldeck and Janet Pfaff were second in girl's doubles last year, but Pfaff is unable to compete this season because of a knee injury. Among the boys trying out Brian Blackburn, Scott Bogart. Steve Merner, and players George Pratt appear the► most promising. 1111""IIIIIIIiiiiii J 11114'u a11'n11111111t. Anyone interested in the preaching and: teaching "Of the :Doc -c trines of Grace" contact Bill at ' 236-4979, Jim at . 565.5341 or Lawrence 482-9260 Huron Cattlemen's Association Spring Dance Saturday, March 27th, 1982 Goderich Township Community Centre, Holmesville Mucic by Jim Medd and the. Pleasure Packs. Dancing from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. $12.00 per couple. Lunch 'provided. Tickets available from Township directors and the O.M.A.F. Office, Clinton. Coming live to Wingham on Friday March 19 at F.E. Madill Secondary School 231,Victoria St. East Rally starts at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Watch Stewarship Days March 18 and 19 on CKNX T.V. from 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. and on Saturday March 20 from 8:30 a.m. - 12 noon. or Phone 357-1083 for free seats at CKNX Studio and watch the program live. Median Deluxe Reg. $6.00 5 o ;ow Garlic Bread With Cheese :100 rMryLCK V 1 11rizzullt EXETER - 235-2311 Domtntoii J'auen t 17tatn St u/itch presents The John Ham Friday & Sat. nights Mar. 12 8 .13 The original home of the BIG meal A sincere thanks for your patronage David and Marie Gelinas 236-4371 Zurich itis a small worlditi it . I travel ltd. ,-44 i‘ Qt)t ta.i sti Wh.r. goeci travel adviait is always fres A Breath Of Spring! 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