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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-05-22, Page 311 • M N A CHILD OF THE WORLD Targelia's family is waiting for you (NC) — In the Third World, life is often unfair, and al- ways harsh. Targelia lives in that world, in a tumble- down barrio where unem- ployment causes constant pain. But life doesn't have to be so harsh. Targelia's family could have the chance to work,, to progress — as could the others in their community. The problems they cannot solve alone, can be splved together — with Foster Parents Plan's help. For a free booklet on Fos- ter Parents Plan, write Box 900, Dept. PS, Station Q, Toronto, Ont. M4T 2P1, or call toll-free 1-800-268-7174, (in B.C. 112-800-268-7174). INSULATING??? NOW C' , 1S THE TIME Homes built prior to Sept. 1, 1977 are now eligible for a C.H.I.P. Grant up to a maximum of '500.00 Ott your ,insulating costs. C.H.I.P. GRANTS END MARCH 31,1986, FREE ESTIMATES CGSO Cert. 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Betty is a charter member of the Kitchener -Waterloo Sweet Adelines which cele- brates its 25th year of music- al harmony in 1985. In honor of the anniversary, a special evening is planned to which Sweet Adeline chapters in other towns and cities are in- vited. Also invited as' special guests are past directors and past Sweet Adelines. It will be a gathering of people who, although of dif- ferent ° race and background, share a love of singing. And many may also have in com- mon a secret dream of Cueing a star on stage. Sweet Ade - lines is "one way you can ful- Communication Systems THAT WILL CHANGE THE, WAY YOU THINK ABOUT TELEPHONES ul � Ceiftistuitigatituo Ltd. 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Today's sequinned cos- tumes, the competition and the professional sound have all come a long way since Betty First joined a small group of women, ' some of whom ,wanted Ito sing Bar- bershop like their husbands. A year after they first met there were enough to charter membership with Sweet Adelines, an international organization for women with the motto, "To Harmonize the World". Sweet Adelines' goals .in- clude teaching and training members in musical har- mony and appreciation, teaching and training four- part harmony, barbershop style and giving, -public and private, performances. The organization's headquarters are in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today, Sweet Adelines boasts 31,448 members in 749 chapters all over the world — Canada, United ,States, Australia,' Saudi Arabia, England and Sweden. After more than 35 years, efforts to start Sweet Adelines chap- ters around the world con-' tinue, in Japan for example. Betty, is the only Kitch- ener -Waterloo charter mem- ber who still sings with the group, now numbering 50 women. It's a. ,"time consuming" commitment, explains Bet- ty. Prtice is once a week or more often before competi- tion. Members must learn the words to new songs and now choreography is a part of their presentation. Competition becomes stiffer as all groups improve their sound and stage perform- ance with practice and ex- perience. The opportunity to travel is another bonus to being a Sweet Adeline. Competition begins at the regional level which includes 29,chapters.' Last year Kitchener. -Water- loo hosted the regional com- petition; this year they travel to London. Several years ago Betty and several other members decided to attend interna- tional competitions in New York City at Carnegie Hall. "I can say I sang in Carnegie Hall," laughs Betty. "I didn't perform, but I did sing!" The six women travelled in H. GORDON GREEN In , my study there is a Edison gramophone whos voice is still as sure and a lovely as it was in 1915, when Tom Edison and company put it together. It has a spring motor and crank and , the 'diamond needle in the playing arm has never been replaced. The needle, like the machine and the cylinder record it plays, was made to last a lifetime. But our Edison gramo- phone is something more than a rebuke ,to the "plan- ned obsolescence" .of our time, and it is more than a curiosity. It is still good fun. Th -lose old blue cylinder records take you back to the days of jigs and reels, of ban- jos and ukeleles, of Harry Lauder and Uncle Josh. They take us back to the days when a song had some- thing about it that would keep' it bubbling around in your head for months. They remind us bf how easy we were to pleat;e before sophis- tication and too muchness began to harden our arteries. But among the three hun- dred odd records I have col- lected over the years for this old machine, there is at least one which was never intend- ed to entertain. This is a scripture reading followed by a hymn. The scripture is read by one of the most dis- . tinguished clergymen of the day, the Reverend S. Parkes Cadman, and -is-taken- from the twenty-first chapter of Revelation - .-"and the street of that city was pure gold and the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it .. and there shall be no night there..." And by the time the unc- tuous voice of the clergyman gives way to a hymn about the gates of pearl that never shut, it suddenly dawns on you that this sounds like a funeral service. Which in- deed it is. This record, so I am , told, was designed ex- pressly for an occasion when some mortal would have to be returned to the dust from which he came without bene- fit of clergy. A home may have been struck with the deadly terror of diphtheria perhaps, or ty- phoid or small pox, and since there was no defence against contagion then there could be no formal funeral. Or the deceased may have departed this life some place too re- mote for even a preacher - man to -follow — in -the lum- ber woods, in a mining camp or perhaps in a little sod shanty out on the far rim of the west, I cannot listen to that venerable record without shuddering a little at how utterly lonely life must have vbeen for many of our fore- bears in the frontier,days, in the days before cars and 60 - mile -an -hour highways and inoculations and doctors who could snip out an appendix. And now that the wonders of science have reached the farthest outpost and put an end to isolation, it would be comforting if we could say that they have put an end to loneliness as well. The tragedy of our time'is that, thanks to this monster called Progress, ".we have more lonely people than ever -before.._only-they'r'e-no long- e pining away on the edge of civilization, they're in the heart of the city now. OFT BLANK 0 LAW CAST l HOUSE FIELD one car and because of low funds, all stayed in one room and took their food with them, which included a roast turkey. Luckily the hotel supplied a small refrigerator in the washroom. Betty still wishes she had gone for a walk in Central Park with the .one group who came across Cary Grant in a han- som cab with his young daughter! Kitchener -Waterloo has never reached international competition but in the re- gionals has placed second, fourth and fifth. The women sing as one chorus and there is also a quartet called the Dial Tones which competes on its own. Judges can be particular- ily tough. One year the cos- tume was black slacks with a glittering stripe down the legs. In the judges' remarks was the . comment that you could "see all the bulges". Another comment pointed out a band-aid one woman had on her hand. Being a Sweet Adeline has helped .Betty's self-confi- dence. "It makes you feel more comfortable talking to some people. I do quite a bit of the emceeing now. Years ago I could never have done that." Becoming a Sweet Adeline requires an ability to carry a tune, and "a love to sing." In Kitchener -Waterloo there is al voice test for prospective members. . Other chapters have different requirements. There is no age limit and the Kitchener -Waterloo group includes women' in their early 20's to 60 and 70. To celebrate the' chapter's 25th anniversary', a dinner is planned at the Waterloo Motor Inn on May 27. Past members or directors are in- vited to call Dorothy Wright at 742-6219 or Hazel Owen at 653-6906 if they have moved and their address was un- known for an invitation. BOOK REVIEW 1 Crossroads—May 22, 1985—Page 9B Mainstream Canada 4 Odds 'n' ends spring to mind By Tony Carlson Perhaps the only nice thingbout spring cleaning apart from the finished product — is stumbling across some long forgotten tidbit tucked away in a dusty corner. - These enticing items can launch the cleaner on a flight of fancy for which the longer, warmer days seem tailor- made. Such is the nature of this column: a compendium of odds and ends which were gathering dust in the files. Societies should encourage deviant behavior if they want to be blessed with a healthy dose of entrepre- neurship. That's the word from Boston banker James Howell. And before you dismiss Mr. Howell, societies would do well to show a willingness to nurture nonconformists, people brave and creative enough to strike out on their own despite the criticism of more conventional types. "It's no coincidence," he says, "that 85 per cent of the U.S. venture capital firms started in the 1970s were in California, Texas and Massachusetts, states with a tolerance for mavericks and oddballs." One might question his choice of words, but his logic is impeccable. Often it takes someone with a slightly dif- ferent perspective on things to spot a market opening and „ have the intestinal fortitude to try to fill it. The bureaucratic mindset continues to 'boggle: Take the case of the family of an elderly Manitoba woman which was asked to pay an extra month's rent for her provincially -subsidized apartment because she had died without giving notice. They were lucky she didn't die on the first of the month or they would have owed two months' rent because notice must be given before the first. While the province's housing minister promised to review the situation, the fact remains that the very existence of such an insensi- tive and inflexible policy is an insult. Have we lost the art of helping? That's what one observer of the Canadian scene wonders, contem- plating the aid people used to give unfailingly to neighbors in need. He was lamenting the decline of "small-town caring" - the kind of soup for shut-ins gesture, made without asking — the infor- mal support system that has been supplanted by more in- stitutional aid programs. His musings may be worth a second think. The quarrel is not with charities and social aid agencies which perform vital functions. The real question is more personal: How often does our generosity not have a tax write-off attached? The poor World Bank has jumbo -sized headaches trying to protect its invest- ment in agricultural and for- estry projects in Africa and Asia. Why? Elephants. They were blamed; for one-third of a $45 -million cost overrun at a land settlement project in Malaysia. It seems the pachyderms simply refused to leave their traditional stamping grounds. 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