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Clinton News-Record, 1983-06-15, Page 5PAGE 4 —CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 19Ji BLUE RIBBON, i .A a.F A R.D 9:8.0 1h Cabman 4v'4mwm-aana+wd b ®u,®aamberat wee Ifintingsnany net P.O. 6E®aa 89, cBQaosva+e. Cbat'rsva®. Cansrtiva, SUM UAL 1o0.: CSE -3=9. ce,aa • •1111.49 s, Ca®fmmm • 915.80 pest vaaea LI -S-A F6 aaaae a • '959.&'8 Q.+ yo.., of b %regal:mam9 ®cmaceztc9 aa=am mea ears pmol aft= tametvv aka orbunab eancmg=r UM. ahuo fbn.rfelneccanl aumn vw...tvend Bsa 1iria fikzm aaeavmav a mote fa.-s:waa. et .nzakna an MB. ®szf BR,n Canner a Etas. feened=fatw NW. Deena game va000 4,260. Inc rportiti 9 THE MLXTH STANDARD J. IOWA AMEN - iubilshor SHELLEY iiiMa1PHEE - Editor GARY HASH - 9Adv®rtising 6iltaniager MARY ANN HOLLEHRECIC - OiHee Manager A MEMBER MEMBER ®0epanv o®voota®aee® rote. ovaalvlaan m. vei:gwsaaa9. amain for Rcmao Cot® Mo. 08 e9801¢t0vo Oast. 1. 119®1, A pace to call home It's really hard to believe. The attitudes and opinions of some people just never change. Huronview, Home For The Aged is still thought of as "The Poor House" and "The House of Refuge" by some uneducated people in Huron County. They would undoubtedly be surprised to see the senior citizens home today. In an effort to promote the county home for the aged, Huronview will be hosting a public day on June 19 and a senior citizens day on June 20. These will be held in conjunction with Senior Citizens' Week. The third home in Ontario to host such an event, Huronview will be promoting its services, and activities. The event will also give people the opportunity to see the workings of the seven departments that help to ensure the well being of the more than 305 residents who call Huronview home. Huronview administrator Wayne Lester and the 235 employees have a commit- ment. Outlined in a special introductory book to Huronview the commitment reads, "The staff of Huronview is dedicated to the comfort, safety and well-being of all residents. Personal care in pleasant surroundings is provided by qualified people, concerned for the total needs of the individual. Huronview is a place where a person can feel at home and among friends." Residents at Huronview ore encouraged to make the most out of life. While many have given up their longtime homes, associations and established lifestyles, Huronview offers a new home, comfortable surroundings, necessary medical attention and a multitude of activities. Residents are urged to (earn new skills, pursue and expand on favorite hobbies and interests, and take part in many social and recreational events. Qualified staff provide nursing and medical care, dietary and laundry services, banking, post office and grooming facilities, a chapel, tuck shop and cocktoi: lounge. The wide range of activity programs include dances, shuffleboard, a choir, euchre parties, writing club, ceramics, concerts, plays, fashion shows, barbecues, shopping trips and exercise programs. A staff member Douglas Clark describes Huronview in these words - If your come to Huronview, you are our main concern. If you are happy, we'll lough with you, If you are downhearted, well try to cheer you, If you are in sorrow, we'll give our compassion, If you are lonely, we'll give you companionship, If you are sick, we'll nurse you, If you're unable to write, we'll do it for you, If you have a hobby, we'll encourage you, If you come to Huronview, we'll love you. Long gone ore the days of "The Poor House." -by S. McPhee yr behind the scenes Animals, our best friends It's spring, and around our place out at Muddy Lane Manor there's a lot of young new life teaching a lot of plain old truths about human and animal behavior. Watch animals for a while and you can see why old fanners are often seen as being very wise. There is so much to learn about people by watching the behavior of animals. For instance, there's our new litter of kittens, four in all. We humans generally have our families one at a time. Cats get whole families at once. Psychologists have long tried to tell us that the personality of a child was shaped by his environment. Two children in a family because they are brought up at different times with inevitably different experiences, end up having different personalities. Yet each of our four kittens has a dif- ferent personality just as each of our four children has. There's the one kitten that's the real scamp, always tackling the others from behind, jumping on top of the others when they're sleeping. And sleeping is what one of the others likes to do best This cat is laid back. Of course just like our own children the kittens have more energy than they know what to do with, rolling and tumbling, fighting their own reflections in shiny su- rfaces and generally providing a four - ring circus for any of us who want to watch. And you can see a mirror of parents everywhere in the poor mother cat who sometimes, while being suckled by one kitten while one plays games with her ears and another with her tail, looks up at us with wary eyes as if to say "How did I ever get myself into this mess?" We've also got a new batch of baby chicks eating their way to quick adulthood_ Now while kittens show the fun side of humanity, i've always found that chickens show the worst human character flaws, These range from mildly amusing to disgusting. It's easy to get a kick out of the birds, for instance, if their feed has run out and you refill the feeder and they all stampede over each other as if, if they keith rot Is ton didn't get to be the first to eat, they might never eat again- Humans are like that too so often particularly if there has been real hardship involved. Look at the fighting that will go on between starving people to be first in line if a truck bringing food aid arrived. Our human fault of discriminating against individuals who are different has taken to its worst conclusion in chickens who will peck at a stranger, or sometimes even a family member who has gotten a stain on its feathers and looks different, until the outcast dies. And talk about your macho men, there's nothing to compare to the men of the chicken house. The expression ''cock of the walk" comes to life for you if you've kept chickens. The roosters strut and preen and act as if the world would stop if they weren't around. There's also the small - man syndrome in evidence in the bar- nyard. I remember a few years back we had a rooster who was considerably smaller than all the others who seemed to need to prove he was the tougher for it. He earned respect with his tactics from the other roosters and he tried to impose it on us humans. He'd fly at your face with his claws extended. It got so no one in the family would go into that chicken house but me and if I went, I made sure I always kept one eye peeled so the little sneak wouldn't jump me from behind. (He eventually made a small meal but there was a certain pleasure in it ) And the human failure of foolish pride gets shown in the hen house. We once had a very proud looking rooster, a real show piece. He was larger than all the others. His feathers were a nicer color. And he knew it. But one day he got into a fight with a smaller rival and he lost, badly. That proud bird crawled away in a corner and refused to eat_ It wasn't long before he was dead. As people move more and more into city environments where animals aren't every- day neighbors, I think we're going to lose a lot of the insight into our own human behavior they can provide. And we're th' losers for it. Something good about you Wouldn't this old world be better If the folks we meet would say, " i know something good about you ! " And then treat us just that way? Wouldn't it be fine and dandy If each handclasp warm and true Carried with it assurance, " I know something good about you!" Wouldn't life be lots more happy, if the good that's in us all, Were the only thing about us That folks bothered to recall? Wouldn't life be lots more happy, if we praised the good we see? - For there's such a lot of goodness In the worst of you and me. Wouldn't it be nice to practise That fine way of thinking, too? - You know something good about me! I know something good about you! Anon from The Huron Expositor Father and son sugar and spice What Utter Waste! Nope, they don't make them there models no more." "Musta been a computer error." "Hell, we ain't stocked them things for 10 years." "You gotta be kiddin'. Haven't seen that rig since '75." "That part's obsolete. You'll hafta bur,- the whole unit." Does this all sound familiar? Are you as sick of it as I am? If the answers are, "Yes! ", what are we going to do about it? We hit the pits, although this has been a long -simmering fester, when my wife went to a super -market the other day — not a lit- tle corner grocery, mark you — and the on- ly potatoes they had were new ones from California somewhere at a hell of a price. We love new potatoes. But we like them in August, fresh out of the patch, boiled or fried, slathered in butter, along with some corn and green onions and real tomatoes that get red from the sun, not a lamp. I wonder how the farmers of P.E.I. and New Brunswick, as well as the local chaps, feel when they hear there are no good, old potatoes, even though they had to plow half their crop into the pigtrough because they couldn't get a decent price. But potatoes are only one little symp- tom of a disease that affects this country. It seems to me that with our economy in such a deplorable state, merchants and contractors and skilled workmen would get off their butts and get back to the business of keeping their customers hap- py. One way they could help is by refusing to accept the airy waves of manufacturers that there's a "shortage" of this, and a by Shelley McPhee "new model" of that and "We don't make parts for these any more," of the other. During a war, people grumble, but put up with, more or Less cheerfully, shor- tages, making do, using what's available rather than what they want. Last I heard, Canada was not at war, and I'm fed up to the teeth with lame ex- cuses about this being -out of stock and that #being out ofiashion.-: 'Buy something neW. Two years later it breaks down. Take it in for repairs and they look at you as if you were crazy. What? Mac, you gotta be kiddin'. Repair that toaster (iron, TV, set)? Cost you too much. Have to send it back to the factory. Durno if they still have the parts. Better off with a new one. What we should say is, "Well, listen, MAC, I happen to like my old one. It was a wedding present, and it cost plenty. Fix it or I find someone who can!" Instead, we mumble angrily, frustrated- ly, and wind up buying the new one, which looks cheaper, costs more, and will break down in ten months. By which time it will be obsolete and impossible to repair. There'a something else that bothers me about this whole syndrome — the utter waste. Recently, we bought a new TV set and a new fridge. No, we weren't trying to get the economy rolling, though every little bit helps. The old ones were — well, old. But both were still working. Know where the old ones went? To the dump. Something in my Presbyterian soul rebelled when I learned this. The TV set had a fine wooden cabinet. It would have made a great liquor or record container, or hope chest, or something. Into the dump. And the fridge, in any other country ( ex- cept possibly The States) would have had a kaleidoscope new motor and insulation installed and gone on happily keeping the beer cold for another five years. Not to mention the several hundred pounds of metal in it. Into the dump. I seethed inwardly. But I am not a cabinet maker. Nor can I install motors and insulation. All 1 can do with a fridge is take out the beer and put in the butter. But, into the dump? I felt rotten. Somebody could have used that old TV set, somebody who didn't have one. It still produced a picture and sound. Somebody could have used that old fridge, even though the ice cream melted and the butter froze. And I'm just skirting the fringe. Our en- tire society is built on waste, forced con- sumption, and passing the buck, the latest recipient of the passed buck is the com- puter. Get a bill for something you never bought. Write the people who sent it, pro- testing. You get a letter with interest add- ed and a threat. Write another letter and the varlets suggest they will take away your home and throw your aged grand- mother in jail unless you pay the original bill, plus more interest. If you take it to the Supreme Court, you might, just might, get a real letter admit- ting there was an error, but it was the fault of "the computer." Cut down the old trees. Destroy the handsome old buildings. Pave everything in sight. Erect structures that will be slums in two decades. That's Canada to- day. Send it to the dump. And when somebody comes into your store, waving something he wants to replace, be sure to say, with ill -concealed, malicious triumph, "Oh, they don't stock them there things no more." No need to paint the old thumb green this season. My beans are up and I'm all set for a serious summer of canning, freezing, preserving and pickling. Now if the fruit and vegetable crops will only co-operate, I should be enjoying my own jams and pickies about mid February. Mother Nature still insists on playing a game of extremes with us this year. First there was no snow, then there was too much rain and now - oh that heat, ain't it a scorcher. This drastic change in weather is definitely hard on the system, but I was encouraged to see Clintonians making the best of the heat. A walk around town on Monday evening saw 90 per cent of Clinton all doing the same thing, sleeping on the front porch. It seemed like our own version of Sleepy Hollow. + + + Mrs- Margaret Farquhar of Clinton is off to California for a holiday, but that sunny, hot state has nothing on us. Nevertheless, Mrs. Farquhar wanted to spent her 90th birthday in the Pacific sea coast state. I'll be thinking of Mrs. Farguhar on June 20, we both celebrate our birthdays the same day. + + + If you're in need of some garuella1ag tools, barbecue equipment or other sannmer items, I'm sure the Blyth Legion Auxiliary will have just what you're looking for. The Auxiliary will be offering bargains of the week on June 16, 17 and 18 when their haat their their annual Penny Sole. Local merchants have donated more rthan 125 gifts for this year's sale. Tickets 25 for 25 cents are available at the Triple R Restaurant and The Blyth Saga. Draws will be made at the Blyth Legion at 4 p.m. on Saturday. And don't forget that all the proceeds go towards a good cause. + + + If you're making the rounds on Saturday be sure to drive over to Auburn. The Lions Club is hosting their Giant Rummage Sale all day Saturday. Just as well that I'm busy on Saturday, I simply cannot resist a good rummage or garage sale. + + + Our hats off salute this week goes out to Toni Penbale of Bayfield. Tom has managed to give little Bayfield a big name with the beautiful wagon he was commissioned to build for Disney World. I hear that the wagon is really something to see, so be sure to drop over to the Penhale's open house on Sunday. + + + While mentioning Bayfield I'm in- terested in knowing if some community minded person would like to help with some news duties for The Bayfield Bugle_ Unfortunately we're losing correspondent Helen Owen from the press table to the council table. As Bayfield's newest councilor Helen will have her hands full and The Bugle needs a new council reporter. If you're interested in municipal affairs and believe that the public should be in- formed of council decisions and actions, we'd be interested in hearing from you. C-ouncil meets the first monday of every month. While Helen will be setting forth on a new venture, Doris Hunter will continue to give all Bayfield readers the round and about weekly happenings in the village. + + Oh, must not forget, we've got some winners to announce this week. Lucky tickets holders for the Clinton Hospital Auxiliary draws at the Spring Fair in- cluded: candy strippers doll, Evelyn older of Clinton; framed picture, Mrs. W.C. Jervis of Clinton; place mat set, Beryl Hogg of Zurich. Special thanks also goes out for the community support on donations of the gifts. The draw managed to raise $217 for the hospital. We had a number of calls last week from parents and grandparents, looking for the photo of the Spring Fair baby show win- ners in the nine to 12 months class. While i assured each of them that the photo would appear in this week's News - Record, I'm sorry to now report that it will not. Unfortunately the photo simply did not turn out. Still the winners deserve special men- tion. First place winner was Erica, daughter of Bob and Wilma Mehl of Clinton. Second place went to Bradley, son of Jim and Theresa Hickey of RR 3, Auburn. Little Rebecca, daughter of Pam Casey of RR 5, Vanastra took third place and Amy, daughter of Larry and Denise McCabe of Goderich won fourth. Apologies also go out to (lope and Burt Lobb and their little one Jessie. The second place winner in the up to four months class is a boy, not a girl, as we reported last week. Cemetery picnic planned for Clinton Dear Editor : The Huron County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has their cemetery recording program underway once again. We attempt to record all of the informa- tion from the tombstones and prepare a detailed report of each site which includes a history, all data transcribed, and an alphabetical index of the surnames. These reports are deposited with the main Ar- chives and are available for researchers. However, such a program is very time consuming and we need all the local help we can get! Families are welcome. We have found that children of Grade 7 level, or older, are most useful and willing helpers. We are planning a cemetery "picnic" ( weather permitting ) for Sunday, June 26th at Clinton cemetery north of town and would appreciate local assistance. We start at 10 a.m. and work through till 4 p.m. and would be glad of your help for even a few hours during the day. Bring a clipboard and pens and we will supply any other items needed. A lunch can be purchased, if so desired, for $5. This is a fund-raising effort and lunch will be served (smorgasbord ) at a local farm house. However, arrangement must be made in advance by contacting Alison Lobb ( 482-7167 I or Yvonne Porter (524- 9022). This is your opportunity to get some ex- ercise out of doors while providing a useful service. Come and bring a friend! Remember - Sunday, June 26 - Clinton Cemetery. More people need to back Branson Place Dear Editor: Brave for Mrs. Bezzo ( letter to the editor, June 8, 1983 News -Record). I'm glad to hear there are other folks in this town who think like I do. Good luck to the owners of Branson Place, we need more folks in this town who will stand up for what they want and believe in. Come on the rest of Clinton, show these people you support them. Kay Falconer, Clinton. No benefits from negative decisions Dear Editor: We find it most unfortunate, not just for ourselves, or even for the owners, but for all of Clinton that the council has found it necessary to close the doors on Branson Place Antiques. The people who were voted into town council are supposedly put their, overall, for the benefit of Clinton. This time they have failed miserably. Who could possibly benefit from a negative decision? Branson Place offered an attraction this town has needed for a long time. Russ and Jeanine Kraft, RR 1, Blyth_ `hanks from the Klompen Feest committee Dear Editor: Thank you To Clinton's Dutch Community and all who supported and participated in this year's Klompen Feest Parade. The families and individuals who entered floats have helped make our uni- que Dutch festival another great success. The Klompen Feest Parade is becoming renowned as one of the best of its kind in western Ontario and we appreciate everyone's personal contribution and in- terest. Next year there will be some special sur- prises and an even bigger and better parade. Congratulations to the community and the Klompen Feest Committee for con- tinued support of this annual event. Yours very truly, The Parade Committee Gary Haak Herman Reinink Ken Wood IAO V0014 harm an uJPiniein? frhy wof trrifa' us a letter to the editor, and let ereryone kwoae•. tll lettere are ,n hliehed, proridin' they ran be authenticated, and pReaeelonyrna are alloar.'d. 111 letters, hourever, are .. ,ehjert to editing for length .cr libel. 1'