Clinton News-Record, 1984-01-11, Page 6rs
A e� for l ost fie':
By Stigma Stadela ►inn
I00411elc
Six tables of Lost Heir were played at the
Blyth Memorial Hall on Jan, 4, The winners
were: High Lady, Evelyn Smith; High Man,
Ray Madill; Low Lady, Mary Holland; Lilw
Man, Edgar Howett.
Lost Heir will be played again next week
and everyone is welcome to join in.
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Euchre
Eight tables of euchre were played on
Monday night and winners included: High
Lady, Flora Fear; High Man, Joe Holmes;
Low Lady, Marg Brooks; Low Man, Bert
Sear; Men's Lone Hands, John Hesselwood;
Ladies' Lone Hands, Ella Richmond;
Specie1, Marg McCullough.
Euchre matches continue
Everyoneis welcome to play.
Happy Anniversary
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Daer who celebrated their 45th wedding
,anniversar-y_aa.lan,...18...ltiaatfriends, from
Blyth attended an open house last Sunday at
Auburn Community Memorial Hall in their
honor.
Blyth Ladj'. Dies
Funeral services were held on -January 5
for Mrs. William Cockerline of Blyth. She
died in the Clinto&Public Hospital on Jan. 3
in her 88th year.
The farrier Hdiutdh-G+ertrude-Marshallef
Blyth, she is survived by two children Mrs. ,
Maurice (Maureen) Bean of Auburn and
Mrs. Brock (Janis) Vodden of Toronto. She
is also survived by eight grandchildren.
Rev. Ken Baumanassisted by Mr. Gary -
Shuttleworth of Auburn conducted the
complete funeral service at the Tasker
Funeral Home in Blyth. Spring burial will
take.place in the Blyth Union Cemetery. '
Seniors Enjoy
Hawaii Tour
Fifty-two Blyth Swinging Seniors had a
pot -luck .dinner on Jan. 4 in the Memorial
Hall..
Following the dinner one minute's silence
was observed in honor of the late Mrs.
Gertrude Cockerline who died on Jan. 3.
President George Harrower conducted a
short business period. John Hesselwood
poar
gave a.. _brief but.... excellent_._ret_of_.:the. ,_ -p ®. m� p�
seminar he had ministry v] ..e.an up . orders
next week.
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Last Thursday night, the Clinton Warriors and the 8th Liners did battle in Blyth Men's
Broomball League action. The 8th Liners came up on top and continue to be on top of the
league.( Rod Hilts photo)
Blyth facilities act on
attended in Goderich.
The highlight of the meeting was Hary
McDowell's presentation of . their trip to
Hawaii. He showed beautiful slides and gave
an excellent commentary.. '
• Following this a number of the group
remained for a game of cards.
The next meeting will be held Jan. 25 at 2
p.m.
BLYTH
Christian Reformed_.._
Church
"Guest Minister"
Service 10 a'""°
2:30 p.m.
Sunday. School 11 a.m.
• By Rod Hilts
BLYTH - Last month Blyth council. .
received a critical report concerning the
safety conditionstat the Blyth Memorial Hall
and the Community Centre.
The Public Institutions Report was done
by the Ministry of the Attorney General in
• ' September, however; council weren't .in-
formed .of the results until Nov. 30. ,The
Blyth Recreation Committee was notified of
---the ~problems at their Jan. 3._meeting. -T_he
report listed several areas m both facilities.
that required attention.
`\In the. Memorial Hall, the' report said:
Two -exit signs not lit; recomnnendationsto ., .
change red light to proper exit sign; • fire
extinguishers not mounted and have not
been --checked- -for-two---years-'or- more; ---
temporary stairs to stage not safe, per- ,
manent stairs have been blocked; only one
• exit sign in main theatre, recommend more;
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no tire ' extinguishers on second floor for
seating 491 people.
According to Blyth Clerk Larry Walsh
several of the concerns have been looked
after. Exit signs are .now lit and new exit
signs are on order. Fire extinguishers have
been checked and mounted, stairs havebeen
secured and fire departmenthas been
consulted tosee how many fire ex -
Woman travels
France is
un but Canada counts
By Wendy Somerville
Three months' ago, 20 -year-old Nancy
McInnis boarded a plane with a year's
worth of baggage and plenty of enthusiasm
as her thoughts drifted 'to the excitement
that lay ahead,
The young I31yrth resident travelled a
distance of eight hours by plane and
thousands of miles away from her family
and friends at home. She arrived in Paris,
France, and then hopped in a cab that took
her through the city's busy streets to a sta-
tion where she caught a train and journeyed
to a city called Annecy; situated near the
Swiss and Italian borders, near Geneva and
about one and a half hours from Italy.
Awaiting her at the end of her trip was a
family of three. Both parents were doctors -.
and their child, a small boy of almost three,
was to be cared for by Nancy in exchange
for room and board and some allowance.
Before she made the journey, the Fan-
shawe graduate did all the paperwork re-
quired to obtain such things as a visa,
passport .and.worlg_permit. With the help
of no one else, she filled out form after form
and had two medical examinations, one in
Canada and one in France.
With a slight French accent and home for
the Christmas season, Nancy described her
first reaction to the French people and their
country.
"I noticed a lot of differences between
Canada-anad-France-right-away,. When.' ar-
rived there, I just had to stand back and
watch for a while, it felt as if I had been
thrown in a whole new world."
Because both husband and wife are doc-
tors, Nancy's new family are considered to
be in a higher income bracket. Living in a
what could be described as a condominium,
they are able to afford many luxuries. The
wife of the family, according to Nancy, is
able to wear designer . clothing, and is
always impeccably dressed.
"Clothing and food are probably the most
important things to the French," explained
Nancy. "The people are so involved in food
and clothing that they will often sacrifice
many essentials in order to dress and eat
well."
The fahat the French economy is con-
sidered poor, creates a kind, of paradox
when one considers the French to bethe best
dressed people in the world. The country's
poor economy explains why Nancy is reluc-
tant to say whether or not she would move to
France permanently.
' "I like France very much; it's just. that I
see how different it is from Canada and how
we seem to live better than the French," she
. "commented. ' "Their government is , a
socialist one and is partly run by the Com-
munist party and France is having pro-
blems with Lebanon among other things, so
tinguishers are 'required for the second I just think we are far better off in Canada."
floor..:. _ .. . .: . .....•.:... � ...... , . I think . the franc will be devaluing once
The report also listed several problems at again in the spring,"she continued:
the ;community centre: Most exit signs not According to Nancy, the French are also
lit; exit stairway for upstairs hall has no behind technologically.
lighting, and is cluttered with garbage and "The. people I live with have just purchas-
cleaning,,supplies; two fire extinguishers in ed a microwave oven and it is really quite a
building and; knot dated, __.since .. _1979. _ail :.novelty. among their friends and relatives ,
showers not clean, hair and fungus growing because they know of no one who owns one,"
around showers; light not operating in she said. "Also, home computers are com-
referees' room and partition missing in pletely unheard of.",
toilet area. The report concluded that the Having to face a different economy was
housekeeping of arena and ice -making area not the only' adjustment Nancy had to make.
was very poor. The problem of communication was also a
Clerk Walsh said, that no arena manager great hindrance when it came time to settle
was hired at the time the report was done. into her new home. .
He explained that Russ Cook wasn't hired as Nancy said that because she .is a tem;
arena manager until mid-October. Since deal ora resient of France she has had to
with the police quite frequently
that time, the exit signs are in order; the . because they are the ones she must go_to in
upstairs hall has been cleaned;. the fire order to hand over visa documents and
department 'has been asked to update fire other important -papers,
extinguishers; the showers are cleaned; the "The lice o. speak English ands
lighting is in order and the partition has 1?
been fixed. Clerk Walsh said that the find it quite difficult to deal with them. Once
I had to give them my passport for a visa'
housekeeping of arena.andiccemaking area
is now in order.•and they kept it and I didn't understand
?hl
Nancy McInnis just might be able to "Love, Paris' in the Springtime." The 20 -year-old
Blyth woman is .enjoying a year of French cuisine and culture while learning a foreign
language. (Wendy Somerville. photo)
why. Because I was unable to speak French
that well, I couldn't ask them why they were
withholding my passport."
, Nancy said that many people are general-
ly a help wJ1 n she tries to communicate
with them. "Most of the people seem to
understand if, for example, my verb tenses
are wrong. They usually repeat what I -have
said the correct 'way and then I
understand." And learn.
Every day; Nancy spends her mornings in
the class of a nearby French university stu-
dying the language. Nancy's course is a
special one,.it.is designed to teach French to
students who have travelled to France like
Nancy and would like to become totally im-
mersedin the language and culture. There•.
are three levels and students are required to
write a test before they begin, to determine
where they- stand --and in which category
they cap be placed. Nancy said that "many
people enter the program not knowing a
word of French."
Learning French in this manner definitely
has its advantages. Nancy has become good
-friends-with three other female students.
They are natives of Norway, Germany and
Holland, and only the Norwegian girl can.
converse well in English. Nancy, said that
because no one is really fluent in the others'
native tongue, the 'girls have opted to speak
in French. .
"This is probably thebest way for us to
learn the language," she said.
Home for the holidays, Nancy was able to
spend two Christmases this year; one with
her new family on Christmas Eve and
another at home with her own family.
"On Christmas Eve, we all went to the
wife's brother's house and had aperitifs.
Later we went to midnight mass and then
we came home and ate, and I mean eat. We
ate course after course for three or four
THgB
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escargot, raw salmon of which I was not im-
pressed, duck liver and a type of fish that
was supposedly expensive."
The French, according to Nancy, find the
food we eat very bland. She gave an expm-
ple of an everyday dish they would serve
consisting of shrimp, octopus and rice.
After the large meal was eaten on
Christmas Eve, Nancy was able to get to
bed by 4:30 a.m., only to rise two hours later
to catch a train.
"Once I left the train I had to catch a cab
across the city to the airport," she
remembered. "Luckily I made the plane
with seven minutes to spare."
Travelling in the Paris cab was another
experience for Nancy. She saidthat people
think nothing of travelling at speeds of 160
kilometers down narrow streets with. sharp •
Curves and high brick walls.-
"Y`ou Can't help but get sick when you
travel under those conditions. I became •
quite nauseous and apparently a girl who '
was staying in the same home before me .
had the same problem," she recalled.
On June 1, Nancy -McInnis will leave the
beautiful mountain city of Annecy and
travel to a few neighboring countries. "A
friend has promised me that she . will take
me skiing in the Alps, and I haven't even
skied before," she said excitedly. ,
After the travelling is over, Nancy' plans
on coming home at the end of August. She ,
said that she will probably go back in 1989
because France will be celebrating her
bicentennial of the French revolution when
Louis XVI was overthrown:
Though she will probably, never move
there permanently, Nancy said that visiting
the foreign country is proving to be a great
experience.
"When I decided to go to France I said to
myself, if you're going to do something like
hours. We had champagne, ' oysters, this, you must po now."
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