Clinton News-Record, 1979-08-16, Page 11Varna news
CLINTON NEW O:RD S� E .. R _. C.... , THURSDAY, AUGUSTI979--FAGg 11
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A. Varna family recently took part in the Lions
International Youth Exchange and welcomed an
American girl into their home for a brief vacation.
Bayfield Lions president Doug Sinnamon, • left,
welcomed Rita Vonland from Atlanta, Georgia to
Canada and the area. Rita stayed with Brenda and
Bill Dowson, seated on the right. Mr. Dowson is also
a Lions member. (Gwen Pemberton photo)
Georgia girl sees life in north
Five years ago the
Lions' International
Youth Program began.
Since then young men
and women fromall over
the world have been
visiting Canada for four
weeks each year.
This year, the Seaforth
Lions, member of district
A9 which works along
with A-15 on the project,
hosted 61 young people
from 19 different coun-
tries. The visitors spend a
week with their host-
family,
ostfamily, then a week at
Wildwood Recreation
Centre at St. Marys, then
return for two weeks with
their host families. They
range in age from 16 to 23
years.
Following are the
stories of • Rita Vonland
who came to Ontario
from an Atlanta, Georgia
suburb and Brenda
Dowson of the Bayfield
area, who went to
Brownfield Texas on the
exchange. Rita's host
family was Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Dowson and their
daughters Brenda and
Bonnie and their son
John. Rita is nineteen
years old, a student in
Accounting at West
Georgia College in
Carrollton, Georgia and
head cashier on
weekendsat a Depart-
ment Store. When Doug
Sinnamon, incoming
president of the Bayfield
Lions Club drove meto
the-Dowson farm to meet
Rita, she was out on 'a
motorcycle and about to
take off to a ball -game.
Jeffersons...
• from page 10,
Catherine (Jefferson)
Sauder of Thornhill came
the farthest.
Mrs. John Jefferson of
Cromarty won the prize
for having the -most direct
descendants , present,
numbering 30. As well as
having the largest
family, she has the ad-
vantage of being the only
one with great-
grandchildren, and all
;five of them were there.
There 'was plenty of
food left from the noon
meal, . and everyone was
having such a good time
that even the elderly
stayed for supper too.
She had spent a week at
the Wildwood Recreation
Centre during which she
had been on trips to
'Niagara Falls and to
Toronto where her op-
tions were to see the
Eaton Centre, Ontario
Place, the CN Tower and
to ride the subway. She
visited the raceway at
Woodstock and went
roller-skating in
Thamesford. The ex-,
change visitors at
Wildwood had a bus -trip
to Goderich where they
visited the museum and
the old County Gaol.
They had lunch at Clinton
and supper with the Lions
Club at Seaforth.
At the Dowson farm,
Rita has driven a
combine, assisted at the
delivery of baby pigs, had
a swim at Bayfield in the
`cold' water of Lake
Huron while at a beach
party. On the previous
weekend about forty
people gathered at the
Dowsons for a cook -out in
honor of the guest who
left for home on Satur-
day.
Here is Brenda
Dowson's personal ac-
count of her trip to Texas
as a Lions' Exchange
Student from Bayfield.
"On July 7, I left for
Texas from the airport in
Toronto, where I met four
other young people from
Ontario who were also
going to Texas. It was my
first trip on an airplane
and I was fascinated by
the shape and beauty of
the clouds.
"We were met at the
airport by our host
families and instant
friendships were
established. Marnie Hart
from Woodstock stayed
with the same host family
as I did in Brownfield,
Texas, for three weeks.
We made many friends in'
Brownfield and are.
planning to keep com-
• municating with them
"This trip was my first
time travelling without
my family and _it was
quite an experience.
There were a few dif-
ferences between Ontario
and Texas. in Texas you
see fields of cotton; here
you see fields of corn,
wheat, barley and beans.
The land there is very flat
and covered with
mesquite trees or types of
cactus. The houses in
Texas are different from
ours also. They dont
have basements or
second floors. Their
houses are mainly one
storey.
"While in Texas we
travelled for a week
visiting Dallas and
touring 6 Flags, a big
amusement park, to
Austin, the state capital,
and to San Antonio. We
also visited the Lions
Crippled Children's
Camp in Kerrville. While.
in San Antonio we visited
the Alamo. The Texan
people are very proud of
their heritage and are
very friendly.
"The legend that -
.everything is big in Texas
proved itself. The
mosquitos sure were
big!"
The expeyriences of
thesetwo young people
indicate that the purposes
of the Lions International
are being carried out - to
unite the youth of the
world, to promote better
understanding of each
other through discussing
education, the cost of
housing, ehergy food, law
and order, and govern-
ment.
olrnesville new
by Blanche Deeves
Worship service was
held Sunday in
Holmesville United
Church. Stewart
Farquhar and Irvine
Tebbutt received the
offering and the theme of
Rev. Oestreicher's
sermon was. "what's in a
name?"
Personals
'Mr. and Mrs. Snell of
Atwood visited with Alvin
and Barb Betties on
Sunday.
There is a young fellow
in Holmesville who had a
birthday Wednesday.
Happy birthday C.P.
May we wish those
folks from the township
who will be leaving
Thursday for Scotland
with the Clinton Legion
Pipe Band a very good
holiday and trip. -
Must have been a little
cool in Holtnesville. It's
reported that smoke was
seen coming from J. Mc's
chimney Monday
evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Addison
will be visiting with Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Norman.
Robin and Lee Norman
of Varna packed a little
suitcase and visited with
Gramma and ' Grampa
Norman.
BY
Mary Chessell
It would be hard to find
anyone who has had a
more interesting surnmer
than, Laura Roy, who
accompanied her
Grandmother Roy of
Waterloo on a visit to
Scotland and England
from June 21 to July 28.
She spent the first six
days at her great-
grandparents' house in
Prestwick.
All of the older houses
there are built of stone,
but the • new houses,
Laura says, are just like
ours. She was to Edin-
burgh and saw Edin-
burgh, Castle and the
tourist attractions on
Princes Street such as the
world-famous floral clock
and the stadium where
the bagpipe bands play.
She just imissed seeing
the Edinburgh University
Queen being pnl,led down
Princes. Street on a
wagon pulled by other
students, an annual
custom
She visited Glasgow,
from where she went by
train to Billericky,
England, to stay for three
weeks with her uncle,-
Allan
ncle;Allan Reid. While there,
she was the "Junior
bridesmaid at her cousin
Sheila's wedding. She
also celebrated her llth
birthday with a party
there.
-Laura toured London,
visiting Buckingham
Palace, the Tower of
London, Trafalgar
Square where the pigeons
are so tame that several
of them sat on her arm to
be -fed, the Prime
Minister's residence at 10
Sound of Music
to wind up season
The Huron Country
Playhouse in Grand Bend
winds up a most suc-
cessful season with a
family favorite, The
Sound of Music.
The Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical
tells the true story of the -
von Trapp family, who
fled from Germany
during Hitler's regime to
the safety of America,
where they became
famous folk singers.
It begins in the abbey of
Nonnberg, :Austria,
where a young postulant
Maria, played.by Deirdre
Van Winkle, is more
interested in singing than
doing her assigned
chores. She is sent off to
become governess to the
seven children of wealthy
widower, Captain von •
Trapp, played by Peter J.
Connell. Eventually, the
Captain and Maria marry
and escape from war torn
Germany over the
mountains to 'Swit-
zerland.
Cast in the roles of the
children are seven local
youngsters, Douglas
Woodly Lisa Cain,
Jeff `Greeiwood, Mary
Margaret Murphy of
Goderich, Jennifer
McCrindle, Myvonney,....:.....
Godwin and, Catherine
Inculet. Also in the cast
are Trudy Mason, Sister
Barbara Ianni, Lynda
Maxwell, Nancy Kerr,
Philip Street, Kimberley
McCaffrey, Mark Bolton,
Patty Gail, John Heath,
Mark Flear, Joseph
Vayda, Celia Punter,
Elaine Allen, Jillian
Brown and Kathy
Kaszas.
The Sound of Music is
directed by James
Murphy, musical
direction is by Erna Van
Daele with choreography
by Jillian Brown. The
show opens on August 22
and plays through Sep-
tember 1, except August
28. Two preview per-
formances will be held on
Tuesday, August 21 at
8:3q p.m. and Wed-
nesday, August 22 at 2:30
p m .
Downing Street, West -
Minster Abbey and York -
Minster Church.
Lots of girls have their
ears pierced, but Laura
had hers done in Scotland
shortly before she left for
home.
The day after Laura's •
return, the Roy family
left from Bayfield for a
holiday cruise on their
sailboat, the Tri -DAR.
The name is, derived from
the fact that the three '
male members of the
.family have the same
initials - DAR. They
sailed to the Little Tub
Marina at Tobermory,
then to Club Island, Little --
Current, Croker Island
where they picked lots of
blueberries, to the Pool in
the Bay of Fen on
Manitoulin,, back to
Tobermory and home -
two-week trip.
The night of the bad
storms, their anchor
didn't hold and they
scraped their rudder on
some rocks, but no real
damage resulted.
Bill and Mary Chessell
were guests at the Phillip
Chessell-Karen Daw
wedding in Mitchell
United Church on
Saturday, and • at the
reception and dance at
the Crystal Palace. On
Sunday they attended the
'Jefferson reunion.
Paul Stephenson was
among ,the linemen sent
from Clinton Hydro Area
to help repair the tornado
damage at Woodstock.
Members of the United ..
Church Women ,prepared
food and manned the
booth at the ball tour-
nament in Varna ball
park on Saturday.
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