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Times Advocate, 1989-11-08, Page 16Page 16 Times -Advocate, November 8, 1989 Colony A - Newcomers to the First Exeter Beavers Colony A are Mat- thew aithew Dietrich (front left), Kristopher Roy, Bradley .Cox (back left), Kyle Farwell, Jason Restemeyer, Brendon Buchanon and Jared Ne- ville (absent). Colony B - The newest Beavers in Exeter's Colony B are Johnathan Ens (left), Shawn Thomson, Christopher Darbyshire, and Chris Boy - es. Behind them is the First Exeter Beavers' new leader, John Thomson. Shipka by Annie Morenz SHIPKA - Dorothy Fenner re- cently enjoyed a plane trip to Nova Scotia to visit her niece Cheryl, and her husband, Rev. Allan Roach, their daughter Elizabeth, who live at Chester Basin. Side trips taken were to Halifax, Ma- hone Bay, Chester and Bridgewa- ter.. During Dorothy's holiday, her husband Lorne, accompanied by his son Jim of Camlachie, and six other men went moose hunting to Englehart, near Quebec border. These men said the weather turned so warm they didn't even see moose. Personals Donna (Baker) Yarrow, and her husband Mike, returned Wednes- day to their home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dinner and supper guests a day last week, with Hugh and me were Rev. Ruby (Coleman) Reid, Davi- son, Michigan, her daughters Isa- bell Steinburg, Port Huron, Cozette Monroe, Burton, Michigan, and the latter's daughter and grandson, Pau- la Morgan and son John, of Wasil- la, Alaska, Bill and Norma Cole- man, Kippen; Art and Mary Finlayson, Seaforth. Letters to editor on war, Fox run, VIA Editor: TORONTO - The 1989 Terry Fox Run set records in Ontario - 130,000 participants aap�id $2.7 mil- lion raised. Your comriiunity, along with hundreds of others in Ontario, continues to keep Terry's dream alive - that a cure for cancer will be found. We greatly appreciate your efforts to do the researchers who re- ceive the funds generated. If you have already submitted the money you have raised but still re- tain your pledge sheets, please for- ward them to: The Terry Fox Run, 60 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 309, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 1N5. We are committed to thorough and accurate receipting. If we do not receive the completed pledge sheets we will not be able to satisfy our supporters who have requested re- ceipts. Thank you so very much for your support. Breeda M Clew Provincial Coordinator * * * Dear Sir. Remembrance Day for me is memories of "C,pffy" Johnson, a shell-shocked, poison, -gassed vete- ran of World War.l. I never did -know "Cuffy's Chris- tian name. Cuffy lived in a shack in the park of a small Ontario town. I sup- pose the town considered him to be a loner, an eccentric. , Only a soldier who has experi- enced trench warfare, hand to hand - combat, adverse weather of all de- scriptions, and hunger under con- stant enemy artillery bombardment, plus the effects of a mustard gas at- tack, can appreciate what this does Convictions EXETER - Doug Wedlake regis- tered three convictions in JP court on October 3. Stephen J. Hunter, Hensall, had pleaded -not guilty to causing un- necessary noise on Main St. in Ex- eter on August 28 while driving his Camaro. He had been charged with the same offence in Hensall 10 days earlier. Hunter was found guilty and fined $53.75. , Joseph Graham, London pleaded guilty to no insurance, having an unauthorized liCence plate, and us- ing a validation that had not been issued to the plate on the_ vehicle. He had been stopped for speeding on Thames Road E. on October 15. Graham was fined $500 on the first count, and $53.75 on each of the second and third charges. Marc J. Vanderweyst pleaded guilty to going 95 kph in a 50 zone on September 20 in Crediton, and was fined $105. to the mind. Cuffy lived in the same town as my grandparents. Whenever I vis- ited them, I had use of a bicycle they had bought me at considerable financial sacrifice. There was only one thing wrong with the bike - it had wooden rims that warped whenever the weather changed.Sometimes this caused the heads of the spokes to puncture the tube. Cuffy was the only person I knew with the time, knowledge and patience to true up a rim and fix a flat. Because Cuffy liked me, I was one of the privileged few invited into his abode for tea. His home would not have merited the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. He would wipe out my cup with an old rag, and the condensed milk can was opened with a nail and a hammer. We discussed bicycles and all manner of other topics, but never the war. Shortly after Canada declared war in 1939, some youths who thought they were playing a joke came to Cuffy and told him the army wanted him, and was sending men to take him off to war. Short- ly thereafter, Cuffy shot himself. On Remembrance Day, I will wear a poppy to honour the memo- ry of a veteran of World War 1 who was a kind friend to a young boy. Don Reynolds RR 2 Kippen * * * Dear Sir. John A. Macdonald is recog- nized by history as Canada's nation builder Brian Mulroney will be rec- ognized by history as Canada's na- tion destroyer. John A. Macdonald built up Can- ada's railroads which hold the vari- ous regions of Canada together. Through his cutbacks to Via Rail, Brian Mulroney will drive these re- gions apart and contribute to the destruction of Canada as a nation. Mulroney's "Free Trade" "Give Away" has destroyed Canada's in- dependence. American politicians now admit that their major impetus to "Free Trade" was the availability of Canadian energy. Does any thinking Canadian believe that the Americans will tolerate any criti- cism of their foreign policy by their "energy supply?" Mulroney has destroyed Canada's constitution with his Meech Lake Deal. Now Canada's constitution has all the powers of a "eunuch" with much of the federal govern- ment's former unilateral powers be- ing given to the provincial govern- ments. Now Canada's federal government is powerless if the D provinces ignore their responsibili- ties to these powers. Yours truly. Vince Ryan * * Dashwood * Dear Editor. We have always been of the opinion that, with our democratic system of government, said gov- ernment was OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people. This, without doubt, ought to be the case. But let's hold it for just one min- ute. Here we have the faltering VIA rail system being slashed to pieces by our noble(?) conservative government. Past history, which re- veals that the building of the rail- road, from coast to coast, united this great country, is forgotten by the federal lads. Not only did the railway unite Canada, but it was a major force in building our nation for over 100 years. All of this is be- ing swept under the rug of political expediency. Is our parliamentary system of government sliding down the slip- pery plank of quasi -dictatorship? It does not take any one of us very long to recognize that this is indeed the case. Sincerely, Robert S. Cheery Palmerston, Ont. TRIANGLE ISCOUNT... Specials 433 Main St., Exeter 236-1661 Nov. 6 to Nov. 1.97 1989 - Economy , 8 roll 30" x 400" Christmas Wrap New! Klingers-Reusable Window Decorations 2" 29 Wampo(e, Synthetic, 400 LU Vitamin E 100 Capsules Capsules Diaparene, Reg. 150's or Baby Thick 80's Wash Cloths 59 39, Close -UP 100 ML. 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