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Times Advocate, 1997-06-04, Page 8!'rt gt' 8 Times -Advocate, lune 4„ 1997 CDMMLThJITY Shipka couple celebrates 40 years Melvin and Gertie Stade celebrated their anniversary with family • and friends. By Annie Morenz Shipka correspondent SHiPKA - A number of relatives, neighbors and friends sat down to a smorgasbord dinner at the 3 AAA'. restaurant at 6 p.m. on May 17 to honor Melvin and Gertie Stade on their 40th wedding anniversary.* Guests came from British Colum- bia, Saskatchewan. Ohio, Barrie, Waterloo, Kitchener, Exeter and Dashwood. Bob Heywood was the M.C. and he entertained with his- accordion,and singing. Everyone returned to the Stades- home for cake, ice cream and refreshments. Frieda Wilson, of New Westmin- ster, B.C.; sister of Gertie, visited a' week with Melvin and Gertie Stade and also with 011ie and Sherry Ed- wards. On Saturday night, May 24 more than 20 neighbors and friends sur- prised Pat and•.Jake Schroeder on the evening of their 40th wedding anniversary with a chivaree. Table games of euchre. crokinole and -solo were played. Sympathy' is expressed to Larry Weido in the death of his mother; Nora Weido, on May 22. A memo- rial service was held Sunday after- noon at the Hoffman . Funeral Home. 'Many local folk attended an open house 80th birthday party for Thel- ma Beierling at Dashwood Com- munity Centre on May 25. While Hugh and Annie Morenz were having lunch at the 80th birth- day patty, they met Lois and Pearl, • granddaughters of the -late Abe Warner, the man who built Mo, renz's present hoqse many_ years ago, along with their barn that burned in 1986. Hugh attended Blackbush school with Lois and Pearl in the 1920's. Several area people attended the visitation and funeral service for the late Olive Webb, on the week- end of May 24 and 25. She was a former resident of this area. . A neice of Hugh and Annie Mo- renz, Cynthia Dell, youngest daughter of Shirley (Coleman) and Clifford Dell of Belleville, has graduated from the University of Victoria, B.C. with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoringin biolo- 8Y• Russel and Larry Miller of Mel- ville, Saskatchewan, brother-in-law and nephew of the Stade's, -re- turned home Tuesday after spend- ing a few days with -Melvin and Genie Stade and visited Oilie and Sherry Edwards. Ken and Marg Baker visifed on Friday with Elizabeth (Rohde) Coghlin and Tatyana in Listowel Memotial Hospital. Tatyana Mar: garet was born May 21 to Robert and Elizabeth and big sister Tiffa- ny. . She is the - eighth great- grandchild for Marg and Ken. Funds raised for Resident Council ' HENSALL - The highlight of the week at Queens- way Nursing Home was the Hensall Community Yard Sale on Saturday: Staff and Auxiliary volunteers sold yard sale items, donuts, coffee, hamburgs and hotdogs. The proceeds will go to Resident Council where resi- dents vote on how they wish to use the funds. Monday afternoon residents ehjoyed the last Bingo games of,the month with the Hensall U.G.W. Rev, Dean of Exeter Pentecostal Church led worship service on Tuesday afternoon. Breakfast Club was en- joyed by residents who made scrambled eggs, toast, cheddar cheese, tomato slices, orange slices and cof- fee-.Thevideo "Possibilities" was played -Thursday af- ternoon. Resident Council and Operations group -met on Fri- day and had a preview of the special events coming up this summer. - Winners of -the: draw on Saturday .at the yard sale were: Cooler - Bill Armstrong; Dad's Root Beer, bar- becue Pat Down; Queensway shirt - Pamela Gibbs: Queensway T-shirt - Lil McLellan": Coming events ' lune 6, 7:30 p.m. Friendship Friday with Clare Masse and Andrew Rau; June 12, 7.p.m.; Fathers Day Program with the Classic Tappeis.of London; June 14. Noon picnic. Your Views Letters to the editor Booze and blood - it can happen to you The girl thrown into the tree has her neck broken and, although she was voted queen of the sen- ior prom... she will now spend the next 60 years in a wheelchair. Dear Editor: This is the week before South Huron Dis- trict High's formal. Perhaps printing this article will give some of the students and their parents something to think about. We. don't want to lose any of our young people senselessly. Wendi Schwindt (This article was written by Dale Martel, with the Campbell River, B.C. RCMP Marine Division) This is an open letter to all parents of all young people everywhere. I am writing in response to. some of the questions you ask me daily. I am not one police officer, but:I represent every officer in every city and town in Canada. You may know me only as the cop who gave you a ticket last .summer, but I am also the guy who lives down the street from you. - i am the parent of three children and I share with you the same hopes, ambitions and dreams that you have for your children. 1 am faced with the same problems as you have. - I share with you those moments of agony and ec- stasy. 1 share with you the feeling of guilt, shame .or disappointment when my boy or girl get into trou- ble. The scene is a long stretch of highway with a sharp curve at one end. . It has been raining and the roads were slick. A car travelling in excess of 126 km/h missed the curve and plowed into an embankment where it became airborne and struck a tree. • At this point, two of the three young persons were hurled from the vehicle, one onto the roadway. where the car landed on him, snuffing out his life like a discarded cigarette on the asphalt. He is killed instantly and he is the lucky one. The girl thrown into the tree has her neck broken and, although she was voted queen of the senior prom, and most likely to succeed, she will now spend the next 60 years in a wheelchair. Unable to do anything else, she will live and re- live that terrible moment over again many times. When i arrive, the car has come to rest on its top, the broken wheels have stopped spinning. Smoke and steam pour out of the engine ripped from its mounting by a terrible force. An eerie calm has settled over the scene and it ap- pears deserted except for one traveller who called it in. He is sick to his stomach, leaning against his car for support. The driver is conscious, but in shock and unable to free himself from under the bent steering column. His face will be forever scarred by deep cuts from broken,glass and jagged metal: Those cuts will heal, but the ones inside cannot be touched by the surgeon's scalpel. The third passenger has almost stopped bleeding. the seat and his clothing are covered in blood from an artery cut in his arm by the broken bone that pro- trudes from his forearm just below the elbow. His breath comes in short gasps as he tries desper- ately to suck air past his blood-filled airway., He is unable to s ak and his a es, hul'ed and fixed on me pleadingly, are the only communica- tions that he is terrified and wants my help. • : I feel a pang of guilt and recognize him as a boy 1 let off with. a warning the other night for an open container of_alcohol in his crar. Maybe if i had cited him then, he wouldn't be here now. Who knows?• i. don't. He died soundlessly in my arms, his pale blue eyes staring vacantly, as if trying to see into the fu- ture he will never have. I remember watching. him play basketball and .wonder what will happen to the scholarship he will never use:. • Dully, my mind focuses on a loud scream and I identify. it as the girl who was thrown from the vehi- cle. I race to her with a blanket, but I am afraid to move her. Her head. is tilted at an. exaggerated angle. She seems unaware .of my presence and whimpers for her mother like a little child. In the distance, I can hear the ambulance winding its way through the rainy night. I am filled with incredible grief at the waste of so valuable a resource =- our youth. I am sick with anger and. frustration with parents and leaders who think a little bit of alcohol won't hurt anything. I am filled with contempt for -people who propose lowering the drinking age because 'they get booze anyway, so why not make it legal'." I am frustrated with laws, court rulings and other legal maneuvering that restricts my ability .to do my job, preventing this kind of tragedy. • " The ambulance crew begins the job of scraping up and removing the dead and injured. 1. stand by, watching as hot tears mingle with rain and drip off my cheeks. • . I will spend several hours on reports and 'several months trying to erase from memory the details of that night. I will be alone. • The driver will recover :and spend the rest of his life trying to forget. • I know the. memory of this fatal accident will be diluted and mixed with other similar accidents I will be called in to cover: • Yes, I am angry, and sick at hear with trying to do my job and being tagged the bad guy. ' • I pray to God that.I might never have to. face an- other parent in the night and say your daughter Su- san, •or yoiir sots:Bill, has just been killed in a car act'' cident.- • - You ask me, Jihy did this happen? '1t happened because a young person, stoned out of his mind, thought that he could handle two tons of hurtling death at 128 kin/h. It happened because an adult, trying to be a 'good guy' bought or sold, to some minor, a case of beer. It happened because you as parents weren't con- cerned enough about your child to know where he was and what he was doing; and you were uncon- cerned about minors and alcohol abuse and would rather blame me for harassing them when I was only trying to prevent his kind of tragedy. it happened because, as people say, you believe this kind of thing only happens to someone else. For your sake, 1 hope it doesn't happen to you, but if you continue to regard alcohol abuse as just part of growing up. then please keep your porch Tight on, because, some cold. rainy night, you will find me at your doorstep, staring at my feet with a message of death for you. Children's Hospital BBQ Clinton Credit Union staff held -a musical barbecue Friday to raise money: for Children:s Hospital of Western Ontario: Patrons enjoyed a grilled lunch to the music stylings of Bob Heywood and Ed Mittelholtz. A total of $900 was raised from the barbecue and various fundraising events held throughout the year. Sponsors included The Chocolate Factory, Country Bakery, Zurich Meat Market. Merrier Meats, Tim Horton" and MacDonalds. , Residents receive friendship bracelets ZURICH - Trinity Anglican Church. Bayfield, hosted the May birthday party at Blue. Water Rest Home: Teachers Mary Dagg 'and Terry Henderson assisted Roz_ Campbell as pianist to lead/the Sun- - day School children in their pro-: gram for the residents. Hilary Dagg; Jenna Schilbe, Byron. Colin and Robbie Henderson sang songs for the residents and played piano solos. •The children also distributed friendship bracelets they had made, and flower arrangements of /plum. blossoms, daffodils and tulips. Trinity choir members Marg Lang- ford, ,Alice Brandon and Evla• kat assisted with the singsong. Jean Burr, Clarence Farwell, Har-. - old •(Tiny) Thiel, Pearl Hooper. Loftus Denomme, Florence De- nomme. and Margaret Jones, who celebrated their .birthdays in May. received gifts from the Auxiliary. Monday afternoon, Sarah Stew- art, Clarence Gascho. Mabel Kyle. Clara Hamilton, Bob Carson, Kurt Gebel. Juliette Denomme. Rose Broderick and Elda Wagner went . for a tour in the country with volun- • teer bus driver Jim Purvis. They. went through Zurich. Varna. Bruce - field, Seaforth. Mitchell.. Staffa. and to Kippen and back home again. • • Tuesday evening.. members of Lakeview Consyrvative Mennonite Church visited the Home :and sang hymn, :or the residents. Wednesday afternoon tea was •served by Auxiliary volunteer Gla- dys Gingerich. Ann McBride. Hob- by- Room ,Convener. called Bingo: Friday afternoon in Mr. Risi's ab • - sence. • - , Rev. Brian Williamson. Bayfield Community Church, conducted Thursday afternoon Chapel Service with the assistance of his wife Mar- / lene as 'organist. • Fr. Matthias Wronski. St. Boniface Church, Zu- rich celebrated Massa Welcome to- /ArtCoker and his • wife Barbara of Bayview• Subdivi- sion. Art enjoys playing the organ • for the residents and will visit the .Home frequently to do So. - The home is in need of volunteer drivers to assist residents to medi- cal appointments. Quite often fami- ly members are working or are at a . distance and cannot assist. Anyone • who would like to volunteer their time to assist with these appoint- . meats. please call the Home at 236- 4374: " -The residents took forward to.an afternoon picnic with the 'Auxiliary June 3. a bus trip on June 4. "Tye' day June 11 and a trip to the Hen- sall. Spring Fair on June 14. SOUTH HURON CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE 493 MAIN ST. S., EXETER Member of the . ACUPt1NCTURE. COUNCIL OE ONTARIO DR. 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