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Just a few more notes on my
trip to Saskatchewan. If you
are bored, turn to the classified
ads.
That's trot just a wisecrack, A
western publisher who runs my
column, said: "You're right up
there with the classifieds, when
it comes to readers."
"Thanks a lot," I muttered
rather dourly. Turns out it was
a compliment. The classified
ads are the best -read part of
many weeklies.
Anyway, perhaps the nicest
thing I can say about Saskat-
chewan is that I'd love to go
back, 30 years younger, and
with two or three months to
spend.
After I got hgme,' I
discovered I have a horde of
cousins in Saskatoon, 'and
they're going to be sore as hell
when they learn I was there for
a few days and didn't call them.
But that's my problem, and
maybe I'll see some of them at
the great Thomson family
reunion at the "old homestead"
on Calumet Island in the middle
of the Ottawa River '--'hext
month.
It'seasier to get from here to
England than it is to get from
here to Calumet Island, but -I'm
going to bust a gut trying to
make it. My grandfather was
slidemaster there in the great
days of lumbering on the
• Ottawa, and most of nix
,western kinfolk sprang,
originally, from his 'stalwart
loins.
Speaking of loins, I didn't see
any in Saskatchewan, But I did
see a bald-headed eagle/ as well
as a few baldheaded editors.
Either it was a bald eagle, or
a dirty great crow who had just
had his hair dyed blonde. As far
as I' m concerned, it was an
eagle, just as that pike I caught
not weigh just under" 16
pounds.
And those western crows! I
spotted a :vasa black bird
skimming through the spruce,
" hat in the name of dear
Heaven is that?" I enquired.
"Crow," muttered our laconic
guide, Ovide, rather con-
temptuously.
Later i' learned that these
"crows," which look about the '
size of a Canada goose, are
really ravens, about ' three
times the size of a common, or
, eastern crow.. ..
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I' also Ikeard some wolves, but
they turned out to be young
Indians, and the wolf calls were
directed at pretty young
Indians of the opposite sex.
Ovide, the guide, didn't, I am
Sure, realize that he was named
CNESS CLUR NEWS
Last week the,' Goderich
Township Chess Club"gained
its 29th and 30th members of
the season. We wish to
welcome to. the club Nick
"'`canter and Vic Alexander.
Both Nick an.14 Vic appear to
have the ability to give a lot of
our members some good, stiff
competition.
Chas. MacDonald is
playing like his old self again
winning his -seventh, and
:eighth consec'utive games to
move into second place with
an impressive .875 win loss
percentage.
Benjamin Stadelmann
broke out of a small, slump to
win both of his games last
week and regain third place.
Mike Koszycki continued to
have a good season winning
two games to move into
fourth place while Dave
W earyf has picked up two
more victories to moveback
into Level 1.
In Level 2, , Larry Gower.
continued to upset the senior
members of the club by
winning all three of his
games. This brings Larry's
total victories to 16 leading
the club.
Bob DeLyzer surged all the
way from second place in
Level four to fourth position
in Level 3. Bob .is doing quite
well this.., ,year considering
tha is his first year with -the
club,
Also moving up -into Level 3
from Level 4 last week was
Brian Shortreed: Brian won
all three of his games and
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shows promise of becoming a
very strong player as he
grows older.
Armando Bartolotto played
his tenth game last week
qualifyinghimself to move
out of the honorary Level into
the regular standings.
If you are interested in,
playing • chess call Jim
Kingsley at 524-9019.
The standings as of
November 19, '1975 are as
follows: '
LEVEL 1: Doug Brindley
with 8 wins; 0 losses and 0
draws for 1,000 per cent;
Chas. MacDonald 14-2-0 .875;
Benjamin Stadelmann 12-3-0
.800; Mike Koszycki . 8-2-1
.773; and Dave Weary 8-3-0
728
, LEVEL' 2: Harold Kloeze
with 7 wins, 3. losses and 0
.draws for .700 per cent;
Darrell Kloeze 6-2-2 .700; Kirk
Lyndon 7-3-1 ' .682; Jim
Kingsley 9-4-1 .679; Larry.
Gower 16-8-1 .660; and Don
Bogey 15.8-2 .640.
LEVEL 3: Glen Wightman
5-3-1 .611; John Kane with 7'
wins, 5 losses and 0 draws for
.583 per cent; Louis
Stadelmann 8-7-0 .533; Bob De,,
Lyzer 4-7-0 F,.364; Brian
Shortreed 8-15-1; and Jim
Gower 8-15-0 .348.
LEVEL 4: Brian Miller
with 4 wins, 9 losses and 0
draws for .308® John Kloeze 4-
9-0 .308; Kathy Weary 2-6-0
.250; Bob Cox 3-11-1 .233; Rick
MacDonald 2-15-1 .139; and
Armando Bartolotto 0-10-0
.000.
HONORARY MEMBERS:
Dennis Little with 2 wins, 3
losses and 1 draw for .417 per
cent; Bob Dick 2-3-0 .400;
Nick Genter 1-2-0 ° .333;
Richard Facchinato 1-3-0
,250; Laird Eisler (.2-0 .000;
Vic Alexander 0-2-0 .000; and
Alan Facchinato 0-5-0.000.
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after a famous Roman poet of
erotic verse, but he had some of
the characteristics, "Caught a
real big fish last night," he
averred, -straight-faced,
outlining with his hands the
shape of the fish, w1 ich was
more of a bird than a.fish, to my
thinking.
Let's see, what other great
adventures did I have? Oh, yes.
1 meta prairie farmer, in his
seventies, who was up for the
fishing. German background,
solid type, figured to be a gentle
man, and he had the most
appalling string of profanity
I've heard since I left the air
force.
Did you ever see a law
student try to change a flat, tire
on a big bus? Nice lad. Had
been in the Mounties, couldn't
stand the crap of the upper
echelons, who are still in the
Victorian age, had quit, was
going through law school, and
then was going back into the
Mounties, to try • to do
something about it, Stout chap
and 1 hope he makes it. But he
sure had a battle with that tire,
while we stood on the road and
watched the perfect Vs of geese
starting their lung trek south.
Away up there in the nor-
thern wilds, where the calls' of
'loons and the snort of a moose
are to he expected, I was
startled. Went to a lodge with
the rest of the gang and wound
up playing shuffleboard and
shooting pool with a great fire
in the fireplace, I felt' sort of
disconnected.
It ain't cheap up there,
Brought a rate card ho..:e with
me. A modern cabin runs $120 a
week. Boat, about $50 a week.
Motor, about $60 a week. Plus
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gas, bait, fish filleting, fish
"reeling, and food: A fishing
is about $20 a day, t?tat
wor it 1 had all this for zilch
money, thanks to the gover-
nment of Sask. and my good
hosts, the Martins.
But on the other hand., it's not
really, expensive, if shared by a
group. That cabin held eight
people, or could have, and was
completely, furnished and
heated. A crumby cottage in
Ontario, ,on an over -crowded
beach, with no fishing, could
cost as much or more.
• Bacl‘to Saskatoon after a 10 -
hour bus ride, and everybody
exhausted. Some of these
crazy, intrepid westerners took
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miles."
Got wangled into a lobster
dinner, when all I wanted was
bed and a warm glass of milk,
Ordering lobster in Saskatoon
is like going to Halifax and
saying: "Bring me a big
western steak," Stupid.
Missed -my flight home.
Called the old Trouble 'n Strife,
who was expecting me that
nigh L, 1,200 miles away. Cost
me $13. Woke up In the morning
with a`'heavy chest cold and a
feverish feeling that I'd been
otrio another'planet for a week.
But I wouldn't have missed it
for the world. It's not every day
you s?e a baldheaded eagle,
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the most space -saving mechanical layouts we've
seen yet front -wheel drive, transverse engine
and a unique, independent rear suspension fea-
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Best. of all it is almost sinfully en-
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Goderich Airport
TEE HANGAR RTAL
The Goderich Airport Committee is considering the
construction of Tee Hangars at the `Goderich Airport.
All interested airplane owners are requested to advise
the undersigned on or before December 5t0, 1975, if
interested ''in loosing Tee Hangar ,space' at an ap-
proximate cost of 550.00 per month per hangar.
Please reply in writing on space below, or telephone •
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Name
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THE MAGAZINE FOR MEN AUGUST 1975
"VW's new Rabbit is significant because it is a
complete departure 'for Volkswagen, and also
because' it is the specific type of car that Detroit
will be building in the. 1980's.
The statistics speak for themselves: accommo-
dcition for four, a seventy -horsepower engine,
fuel' consumption of thirty-eight mpg (U.S.) and
a weight of under, two thousand pounds.
What they carte up with was a car that doesn't
have an ounce cff fat, one which ' provides
excellent operating economy, .as well as perfor-
mance and value. Personally, I think that VW's
Rabbit is one 'very''good idea ahead of its time."
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"The most important new import. for 1975 is
the VW Rabbit.
The 1800 -pound Rabbit is a mechanical mas-
terpiece. It gets up to 60 mph in about 12.
seconds -giving if the edge on some V8 subcom-
pacts. Its hatchback design provides 24.7 cubic
feet of luggage capacity with the rear seat
folded. -
VW got the greatest possible amount of
usable interior space .into the 'smallest' possible'
outer shell -and an exterior with some style."
Money can't buy this kind of advertising.
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