The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-09-22, Page 36•
PAGE 14A—GODERICH SIGNAL -S"1'AR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1977
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"I'm a plant lover," admits,Mrs. Blanche Deeves of RR3 Clinton. She waters her plants
once a day and occasionally talks to them and they just grow and grow. She has a garden
and belongs to the Clinton Horticultural Society. She says she goes a bit crazy when they.
have a plant sale. Mrs. Deeves is the Holmesville new correspondent for both the Clinton
News Record and the Goderich Signal -Star.( staff photo)
.Round and About........
Have you noticed the We actually need to take
beautiful flags flying high as advantage' of the work some
you come into Goderich from folks -have put into their
Bayfield way? A short while greefhot1�'eS and` tie planting;
✓ :.,• ,�,�' ...a,_was`t.vr7ling'irfTrcr�e:"-`"t"hF;Sc;Ii:an �`c,�c�•r•�l�tom�oi-
south and the flags suddenly . I have
showed up like a great big plants that I put in when they
welcome sign. It crossed my were not too small: I thought
mind at the time - "What a - and they are still struggling
nice Welcome to Goderich" to hear a few ripe tomatoes.
.they seemed to be saying, There aro lots of green ones -
There is something solid and hut.too late, I'm sure they will
never mature before the
frost. Next year I'll put them
in when they are on the verge Martha Rathburn appears
of blooming and See if that weekly, in The Signal -Star.
will help.
I'm not'muchof a gardener. enough, they educate YOU.
anyway. s, I really don't Mr. Cat says very plainly
blame the slow plants or bad whether he wants to go out or
weather. I think if I really wants to eat or sleep. He
wanted a great garden 1 leads you right to the 'frig or
would study the Seasons, the the door, He knows your
weather, the earth and the every mood. When he gets in
"Go
plants a tot more than most your, way and you say
people do now. and have and lie down" - as you would'
something to show for my to a dog -he scoots for the foot
work. But I'm real proud to stool and stays there. Oh, he
know some folk who are is frowning - and the tail is
siedicated gardeners. switching, but he stays there
comforting about flags flying
in the town or city. I always
get the feeling that somebody
cares and that is a nice
feeling. -
Thank you, Dearborn Steel
Tubing people and thanks to
the powers that be for leaving
the many flags flying
throughout our nice Town.
Another thing very
noticeable these fall days is
the BIG Beech tree at the
corner of South street and
Elgin Avenue. This .lovely
tree has gone. thru nearly all
its colorful cycles from spring
to fall. It has left behind its
green -black. purple-blacle, INFLATION LATION - have you until he knows the air has
and black -blackness and has heard the talk -talk on in- cleared.
started all over until it will Elation lately? One man said fc'Henitkp teto and I url petth my
become a light shade of "I'd hack him a thousand
brown, That is the color it percent." What happened to They say cats have E.S.P.
started with in the spring and that good old hundred per -and I'm sure they have. If I
like so many other trees. it cent? want to get up in the morning
starts and ends with the same Well, thiit s enough of that. at a certain time. Mr. Cat is
coloring. hut the 93 cent dollar really nudging or meowing, right on
The Prettiest Town just has me worried. I wish all time, to waken me. After 1
drive around and be con- those thinkers and doers went all through the second
vinced. The flowers and would get to thinking and world war worrying about not
shrubs are at their hest right doing something about it. getting up on time someone
now - it seems to take months Meat and other foods are a said, "You have to set your.
to bring them on - and one crazy price. It is too had our mental alarm the last thing
mean frost will cut them all - tastes change so over the before you go to sleep and you
or mast of them - down. years. When 1 was very little will always wake up at that
Too bad we have no control we had liver quite often - and time. I tried it and it DOES
over climate. The next hest I Irked it and it was cheap. work! BUT you have to think
thing is to suit the plantings'to Now 1 h.uv it for 'vIr. :tilenw of it until you fall asleep. So
climate and that is. why Cat and (,,n barely stand to Mr. Cat has helped me out
should go to the Garden cut it up for hall quite often.
Club tneetjngs regularly. e We Peefple are always Before the season closes, I
know now' our summers are bragging ritiout their smart think someone should' thank
people the folks at "Craigies -
short and 'hot. We need tet dogs. Why don't mere �e„ ale
have plants ready • half 'brag <ibr,ut a few smart cats? Montreal street at The
grown - I think, for thaf short think 0 is because tete people Square, for all the lovely big
burst of Spring and the have• a cat"'Tong enough for ice cream cones they have
summer flowers well on their him or her to educate• them • served this ' summer.
way for that hit of .nice and that. is exactly what they Nowhere could you get an ice
summer we look forward to. do if you have them long cream cone half that size for
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BY JOANNE WALTERS
eo le telephone book, She says she another for her about
pa0 .forars.
the
and
has receive
and doing for ethers," she
comments on her column first times was just
stshike
Blanche Deeves of R.R. 3 ly'' from people who have moved meeting
d
Clinton, will have only lived 'i first she was a hit from the' community known all of her life, ac -
in Huron County for four hesitant about writing a away ow live in places like cording to Mrs. Deeves.
years y December t as well e,' ''1 o" Florida or Northern Ontario -Aare While in Golden, she also
she says, "I'm just "I only went to Grade 9. I'm rhe, Holmesville an visited the two weekly
known up here as I was back not as well educated as Middleton news columns are newspapers there. She
�"rile not the only writing Mrs. brought greetings from the
home finfitted Tighe"C in with
I How ,w ever• she decided to ,
just boey right with des She is also an Goderich Signal -Star andthe
everybody. It's un -
believable. e. cl mall people began to
It's not so unbelievable Ilene her with other news
though if you know Mrs, 1
Deeves and her enthusiasm ite•nis and the column ex -
't ended
Ci\e' it a try. She started Deeves o
church news only but avid letter writer. She has Clinton News Record and
writinf two pen pals in New Zealand, they in turn sent greetings
one in Australia, one in South _ back. One paper published
Africa, one in the United her picture on the front'page.
States and one closer to home , The DeevesTurn also
tpage 1 went
to•
in British Columbia. She also
for life in general. She enlpys 1 Although gathering and
meeting people and "doing
for others''. writing the news takes her
Mrs. Deeves was married, from Monday morning until
for over 30 years when her Tuesday night. Mrs, Deeves
first husband died. He had doesn't think of it as work
because she enjoys doing it.
been a rural route mail man { he people in her area, she
and she had helped him haul are co-operative. Some
mail out of Lambeth for about say,,t them phone her with news
18 years.
In 1973 she married Ed items, and she has one or two
Deeves and moved to the toe; people on each road that
Deeves farm at RR3 Clinton.
and t m to
The Deeves family has been d
on the property since 1861. In
fact they 'even found the
original crown land deed,
Mrs. Deeves has written
the Middleton news far the
Clinton News Record for
about three years and she has
been the Holmesville news �1'rs. Deeves feels that she
correspondent for both the Mr learned a los. Foraone Golden, British Columbia to
Clinton h S Recordn-and the thing she says, she has meet hor pen pal who lives
Goderich Signal Star for improved her, spelling with there. They have been
about r year• the help of a dictionary and a corresponding with. one
"1 really enjoy doing it .
keeps up correspondence
with her 83 -year-old uncle in
New York State who she says
writes the most beautiful
letters, •still dri', s•s his own
car, swims and fishes.
CANADA IS GREAT
From August 24 to Step -
,tie° can call coon r timber 12, Mrs. Deeves and
know what is happening on her husband visited the
each of their roads. She can Canadian West. Mrs. Deeves
always count on the loves. to travel and she has
Holmesville 4-H girls to call always wanted to see the
her with their news and the Rockies.
secretary of the Holmesville "Canada is gorgeous. 1
school to phone her with don't care about going to
Florida and all those other
school news:
By writing the column, places•+�
Mrs- Deeves visited
35 cents - and they served
thousands and thousands, It
was fun lining up with such a
,„jovial _crowd - hap,pee they
were getting"a favorite treat.
for such an unheard of price
this day and age. I think all
those girls that worked there
must now have one arm big
and muscular. Never mind,
girls, a great many people
enjoyed your struggles and
appreciated your Service
with a Smile.
Watch your Bulletin Board
closely and read also the big
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Award Contest
For Prose and Poetry
is
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