The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-05-23, Page 18Some provincial parks
usually have vacancies
Ontario's provincial parks and
campgrounds all full during busy
summer weekends? "That's a
myth," says Dave Helliwell,
parks information officer, minis-
try of n;: tural resources.
Even when popular parks like
Algonquin, Outlet Beach, Oast -
ler, Bon Echo and Serpent
Mounds are packed at least eight
other provincial parks in South-
ern Ontario usually have camp-
sites available --even on holiday
weekends.
These are as follows:
IROQUOIS BEACH, 17 miles
south of Tillsonburg on the shore
of Lake Erie, one mile west of
Port Burwell. The 560 -acre park,
once a day -use facility, now
- offers 229 tent -trailer campsites
which have been developed over
the past two years. In addition to
modern conveniences like com-
fort stations with flush toilets, hot
water supply, laundryroom and
trailer dump station, Iroquois
Beach offers two miles of sand
beach, parking for 1,000 cars,
boating and fishing (bass, rain-
bow trout, perch, catfish) on
Lake Erie:-
.
rie:-. July -August campsite occu-
pancy was low last year. Only on
the July and August lbng
weekends were campgrounds
anywhere near full, but sites
were still available.
SELKIRK, six miles south of
No. 3 Hwy., west from Cayuga.
The 145 -acre park on the shore of
Lake Erie offers 160 campsites -
88 pull-through type • for trailers
and 72 tent trailer sites. However,
facilities are limited. Fifty-five of
the sites are equipped with elec-
trical outlets, but toilets are
vault -type, not flush, and there
are no showers or laundry.
What Selkirk lacks in comforts
of'home,.it more than makes up
for in scenery and wildlife.
'dusk Creek flows through the
southwest earner ° of the park of-
fering wildlife viewing in a
25 -acre marsh area. Other points.
of interest include,an almost pure '
20 -acre stand of shagbark hick-
ory -one '.of the Carolinian spe-
cies, =
Last. season, ,.the July -August.
``"campsite occupancy rate was low
with campgrounds nowhere= near
foil exceptfor the : July 1 long
weekend, 'sileS b itt the:
maximum 160 were�occupied. -...
TURKEY POINT, situated 13
miles south of Simcoe, is one of
.the few provincial parks without
direct access to a lake or river.:
:Beach access to take Erie, how-
ever, is only one mile away. •
Perhaps this is why the park is
under -used, yet Turkey Point has
any -compensating factors.
pgrounds are heavily treed
with oak and pine. There are 473
campsites 70 pull-through types
for trailers and 403 tent -trailer
sites. Campgrounds are equipped
with comfort stations with flush
toilets and hot water.
Another bonus is the location of
a ministry -owned 9 -hole golf
course right next door, operated
by a concessionaire. Green fees
are moderate. Golf clubs and
carts can be rented.
The beach area, one mile south
of the park, is 1,200 feet long and
has ' four .change houses.
Campsites are plentiful during
the summer, except for the July 1
long weekend.
WHEATLEY, also situated on
Lake Erie, 11 miles south of Til-
bury, is 596 acres in size and
offers a total of 284 •campsites -
222 for trailers dirid 62 for tent -
trailers.
Forest cover is Carolinian with
a mixture of hickory, oak, maple,
beech, cherry and dogwood. A
lagoon and marsh area offers
abundant wildlife viewing oppor-
tunities and a trout pond is
operated on a put -and -take basis.
Campground facilities include
comfort stations with flush tot,
lets, hot water and laundry.
There . is a trailer pump -out sta-
tion.
Other attractions in the area in-
clude the Jack Miner Bird Sanc-
tuary, Omstead's Fisheries,
Heinz Canning Factory and
Wheatley Harbour.
EMILY, situated on the Pigeon
River, 14 miles west of Lindsay,
is a 157 -acre park offering • 300
campsites.
Facilities include flush toilets,
hot water, laundry, store and 52
sites with electrical outlets.
Emily, named after the town-
ship in which the park is situated,.
was once the home of a sub -tribe
of Mississauga Indians, the
4 me-mee, or in English, the
Pigeons.
As part of the Kawartha Lakes
system, the area offers good fish-
ing-sinallrnouth and large-
mouth bass, walleye, and muske-
lunge. Other attractions in the
area include the . Liftlocks and
Trent University at Peterbo-
rough 14 miles to the west.
Campsite occupancy last year
atEnilJwas
s le
th
tt6?�er�en't
{iiiguly'ardt. iiiiiititO.
-time was .the parkXfull.. An
PRESQU'ILE, the fourth old-
est provincial park, situated on i
the shore of Lake Ontario, three
miles south of Brighton, offers
520 campsites and 2,170 acres of
marsh, meadow, beach and sand
dune areas.
Facilities include flush toilets,
hot ,water, laundicy, store and
trailer dumping station. Because
the park is classified as a natural
environment park, there are no
electrical outlets. Swimming
beach is PA miles long with five
sets of ,change houses.
During July and August, an in-
terpretive program (slides, films
and lectures) is given three
nights a week. Additional points
of interest include a nature mu-
seum and lighthouse.
Fishing and boating are avail-
able on Brighton Bay or Lake On-
tario sides of the peninsula which
is roughly four miles long by
one-half mile wide.
The park is a well-known ob-
servation point during bird mi-
grations and the off -shore islands
are breeding grounds for gulls
and terns.
Campsite occupancy rate dur-
ing July and August last year was
rel tively low and at no time
rel
re the campgrounds full.
cRAE POINT, situated on the
east shore of Lake Simcoe south
of Atherley off Hwy. 13, is 170
acres with 205 campsites.
First put into operation during
1972, the park is oriented to trail-
ers and water-based recreational
activities but is not yet well
known. One hundred and twenty
pull-through sites are equipped
with electrical outlets. Facilities
also include comfort stations with
flush toilets, hot water, boat
launch, trailer dumping station,
1,300 feet of sand beach.
Other attractions in the area
include the Stephen Leacock
Home, Mara, Provincial Park,
The Narrows.
RESTOULE, situated off Hwy.
11, 27 miles west -of Powassan, via
Hwy. 534, is 1,635 acres •with 178
campsites, 33 of which are
equipped with electrical outlets.
Magnificent scenery combined
with easy „access to the French
and Pickerel River systems also
make Restoule an excellent
destination spot for canoeing
vacations. Two routes originate
at the park -the Restoule. and the
Dorkis, for which publications
areavailable at the park.
Facilities include comfort sta:
tuns . (with flush toilets), hot
water, boat launch ramp and
dock, two 1,500 -foot beaches.
Tree "cover is pine, spruce, hem
loc m
k,� aple and -birch.
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able except din 'the Au "'y
p gust long
weekend. July -August occupancy
n 1973 was 50 per cent but rarely
were campgrounds full. Busiest
time was the last week of July
and the first in August.
ricultural Tidbits
With Adrian Vos
1 was just reading some of the
price forecasts for hogs from the
end of January, The prediction of
the crystal ball gazers was for 60
cents to 55 cents per pound and
one was so pessimistic as to pre-
dict as low as 45`cents. Here we
are hovering around the 40 cent
level. Now is the time to fill your
freezer, folks. The Ontario Pork
Institute, which is mainly funded
by the Pork Board, has begun a
campaign to shore up sales of
pork. They stress the new pork,
meaning the lower fat content,
lower calorie content and the
higher protein. Pork is the best
buy of any meat right now. So
watch for those posters and reci-
l.
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In .his rural route letter in
"Country Guide", Pete Williams
has a very sane letter. It tells us
of a leading economist who shows
us how to increase our standard
of living. Pete says, "Who says
we have to increase our standard
of living? Right now, I'd say
there is something a little inde-
cent about a call for an increased
standard of living in this country
when two-thirds of the world's
people are inadequately fed,
clothed and sheltered."
He goes on to ask if we should
have more cars per family, or
two plates of food instead of one
so we'll get fatter bellies and be-
• hinds. We' demand ' snowmobiles
and outboards and soon perhaps
it won't be a 1*xury to own an air -
cushion vehicle. Keep going,
Pete, but it won't do any good
because we are t greedy.
oo'i
The traditional concept of poli-
ticians promoting growth to
expand the taxbase is archaic
and should be discontinued, said
Paul Steinberg of Woodstock. It is
time that the population pressure
on this part of Ontario was shifted
to other areas where prime agri-
cultural land would not be sacri-
ficed for concrete and pavement.
Amen, brother.
The political optimists are
again sticking their necks out and
predicting high prices for wheat,
corn, soybeans, etc. I'm not so
sure. The high prices of last year
induced every grower to plant
more. China had better crops and
cut imports from the U.S.A.
Result will be more American
wheat on the world market which
is bound to bring down prices. We
will probably . get the same
results as with high meat prices.
Oversupply and following, lower
pricea.J suspect that the political
economists predict high prices to
encourage farmers to over -sup-
ply.
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.Used machinery
valuable in
present market
situation
Easing of the current shortage
of farm machinery and equip-
ment appears to be unlikely
during 1974. Most, if not all,
manufacturing facilities are
operating to the limit of their
capacities within the constraints
of supplies of raw material,
strikes, component availability
and transportation delays. Pres-
ently, plant expansions of several
companies are underway but are
not slated to start production this
year.
"The spill -off of this situation is
now affecting the used machin-
ery market to a greater degree,"
says Hal Wright, secretary -man-
ager of the Farm (Machinery
Board. Good used tractors, like
most other equipment, are in
short supply and will remain so
for the coming season.
At a recent auction just south of
the border, tractors three years
old were selling at the original
list price, or above. While these
inflated prices prevailed mainly
with late -model tractors in good
condition and of 80 -plus horse-
power, the same situation applies
to a lesser extent to other used
machinery.
The reduced availability of
both new and used equipment will
force many farmers to stretch •
the life of a, machine by -one or
more years by making major
overhauls. This in turn puts
strain on the other aspect of
manufacturing -parts supply.
Since many areas are experi-
encing scarcity of parts and
delays in delivery, farmers
should start early to repair their
machines. If not already re-
paired, haying and harvesting
equipment should be checked
over early and parts ordered well
ahead of time.
YEAR OF THE TIGER
Better not get married, at
least if you're Chinese and be-
lieve in the customs of the old
Chinese calendar. As of Jan.
23, this is officially the Year of
the Tiger a bad year for
nlarriage, if youlrant to avoid
a tigerish mate.
MUST CHANGE HANDS -Elmer Wick, recreation director for the Town of Mount Forest,
and creator of the creative play leaders' training course, talks with, to and among pupils
at 'Mount Forest Public School. He also Listens. He says, "Leadership within the group of
children must change hands regularly to have good, creative play."
CHESS
Game
parallels
life
By JOSEPH MILL BROWN
In 'Norman Mailer's novel
"The,,Naked and ,the ,dead"
Lt. Hearn. P.h09$op ,h�lzes ` The
thing about chess that in-
trigues me, and ended up by
being just baring, is that there
is nothing 'remotely like it in
life." •
It's easy to seethe good
man knew nothing about the
game. Anyone who does
knows there is hardly. a facet
of chess that doesn't have a
parallel. in life. , -
Happiness, for 'instance,
and despair too. "I pity the
man who knows nothing about .
chess," Siegbert Tarrasch
noted a long time ago, "for
chess, like love; like music,
has the power to make men
happy."
But not all men. For H.G.
Wells there was addiction, but
no happiness. No chessplayer
sleeps well, he complained.
Especially when, at a crucial
moment in a game, "you see
with more than daylight
Make your 'shop
a safe place
Don Brown
Farm Safety Assoc.
Good housekeeping is good
business sense. A tidy ' place to
work enhances one's mental out-
look on the task at hand.
A farm shop can be one of two
things. A disaster area or a place
to work safely. A disaster area is
like a bomb ready to go off, with
each integral object having no
specified place acting as a shell
fragment to maim and injure the
unsuspecting worker. Its fuse is
already lit, a shake or jar can set
it off instantaneously.
Don't work with a gun pointing
at your head. . An hour or two
could make your farm shop a
safer place to work.
Spirit Lifter
By RUTH STAFFORD
PEALE
Life so easily runs down and
becomes depleted. People
say, "The life is knocked out
of me."
But not when you live with
God, for He is life itself.
Boundless energy is main-
tained, so that you move
through your days with zest,
vitality and a glorious sense of
completion and fulfillment.
"For in Him we live, and
move, and have our be-
ing...." --- Acts 17:28
clearness that it was the rook
you should have moved and
not the knight."
Ex -world champion Mikhail
Tal claimed the profession
closest to chess.is that of an
actor, who experiences.. both
the influence of the immedi-
ate onlooker and thedistant
fan. But one cynic complained
that chessplayers and actors
have another characteristic in
common: neither are real
people.
Does chess resemble his- -
tory/The problem at the ,1950
Olympiad in Dubrovnik. Yu;
goslavia, was what to do
about France - which in-
sisted on breaking the unwrit-
ten -rules by being the first to
play a woman as a team
member, Madame Chaude de
Silans. (She didn't set any
worlds on fire, but then no one
goes to the Folies Bergere to
eat the popcorn.)
Chess is famous for the in-
genious ways of giving your
opponent a nervous break-
doWn. Before the invention of
the chess clock, tournament
games .of 10 or 12 hours dura-
tion were not uncommon.. In
one famous game Louis Paul-
sen and his opponent sat fac-
ing.
ading- each other for several
hours without either man
moving a muscle. Finally his
opponentraised one eyebrow,.
"Oh," said ' Paulsen sur-
prisedly, "is it my move?"
Such fidelity to chess is. not
universal, as the divorce
courts can testify, but there
are exceptions. England's
William Hartston and . his.
wife, Jana, are both master
players, -devoted to chess and
to each other. But America's
international master, William
Addison of San Francisco, is
another story. For ' years he
was a free -wheeling bachelor
who played everywhere at
any time. Suddenly he mar-
ried, took a job, and disap-
peared from the chess scene.
"Someone called him at
home and his wife answered
the phone," an ex -colleague
revealed. "As soon as she
heard the word `chess,' she
slammed the receiver down.
My god!" he whispered
hoarsely.
Chess stfikes no such dis-
cordant notes everywhere.
Several month 'after giving
birth to a child, Maria Ivanka,
of Hungary, was back in ac -
on, busily winning the 1974
Hoogoven tournament, in Hol -
and. And in another division
the same tournament, a top
howing was made by D. M.
Baretic, of Yugoslavia. His
ife always sits beside him,
writing down the score of his
ame because her husband
blind.
Indeed, if love is the yard -
ick of man's connection with
e, chess has to be the divin-
rod which brings it all to-
ther. It was, after all, `an
rly 20th Century master,
e German Ernst Schottlan-
r, who told his wife in words
at Will live in the history of
ess and love: "Louise, if
e of us dies, I think I'll move
Berlin."
Hastings, England ---1974
SICILIAN DEFENSE
Mikhail Tall
(.USSR)
William Hartston
(England)
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