The Times Advocate, 2008-12-03, Page 5Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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I 0 YEARS AGO
November 27, 1998 - Twelve
new members have joined the
Hensall Legion. They are Wil-
ma Caldwell, Gary Koehler,
Don Reid, Marg Upshall, Dave
Ingram, Dave Reichert, Gladys
McGregor, Bonnie Rowcliffe,
Betty Grenier, Gary Kyle, Kathy
Neilands and Paul Ritchie.
Steve Potts is the new execu-
tive chef at the Oakwood Inn at
Grand Bend.
Imagine combining from
early morning until midnight seven days a week.
That s how Jeremy Finkbeiner, 26, of Crediton
spent the past two summers and autumns in
Western Canada and the United States.
At least 260 deer were killed last week in the
Pinery Provincial Park s efforts to decrease the
exploding deer population. The Pinery s oak -sa-
vannah ecosystem is at risk of deer overpopula-
tion which until last week s cull exceeded 900.
30 YEARS AGO
November 30, 1978 - The 24 area residents who
served on the various committees involved with
the erection of the South Huron Rec Centre were
honoured at a municipal banquet, Monday night.
Dashwood Industries, the top donor for the fund,
donated special plaques to the volunteers.
At Friday s annual banquet of the Huron-Pertb
baseball league, five members of the Dashwood
Tigers were honoured as most valuable players
to their team. They were John Hayter, Jim Guen-
ther, Bob Hoffman, Barry Baynham and Glenn
Thurman.
45 YEARS AGO
November 29, 1963 - The SDHS board agreed
Tuesday to seek tentative approval from the De-
partment of Education to erect an addition of
seven rooms.
Mrs. Hugh Patterson was elected president of
the Gordon Evening Auxiliary of Caven Presby-
terian Church at a recent meeting.
50 YEARS AGO
November 30, 1958 - Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Smith who published the Zurich Herald for 44
years before retiring at the beginning of this year
were presented with a silver tray in recognition
of their contribution to the community by fellow
newspaper editors at the annual meeting of the
group in Zurich. J.M. Southcott made the presen-
tation.
The newly completed Bice bridge over the
Ausable river at Concession 2 in McGillivray
township was officially opened Wednesday. The
bridge is the largest built in the township in 30
years and is 80 feet long and cost $49,000.
60 YEARS AGO.
November 30, 1948 - Miss Velma Ferguson of
Usborne Township who won the oratorical con-
test for Huron County in the Junior Farmers
public speaking also won first place in competi-
tion with Perth County at Mitchell, Monday.
The fourth class of pilots trained at the Flying
Training School at Centralia will receive its wings
on Friday.
Joanne McCurdy was Daisy Mae and Uel
Schroeder was L it Abner at the Sadie Hawkins
dance on Friday evening.
70 YEARS AGO
November 29, 1938 - An advertisement from
E.R. Hopper s furniture store boasted of a sale
price of $76 for a three -pieced x-rayed ches-
terfield suite and the local Ford dealer listed a
brand new Ford automobile with power of 85
horsepower for a low $915.
85 YEARS AGO
November 30, 1923 - Remarkably mild weather
has prevailed for some weeks and some new re-
cords have been set.
Mr. Thomas Coates left last Thursday for De-
troit where he will take a course in the Michigan
Auto and Electric School.
Mr. Roy Webber has purchased a half interest
in the creamery business operated by Mr. Robert
Higgins of Hensall.
Mr. Garnet Miners of Usborne Township made
a very excellent showing at the Royal Winter Fair
in Toronto with his Yorkshire hogs carrying off a
large number of prizes.
ROSS
HAUGH
Back in Time
Seniors' Perspective
By Jim Bearss
SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like
stripping your gears.
Out and about
Riverview Estates Club House; Come join us for a
time of fellowship and music. Dessert and Christmas
music will be enjoyed and everyone is welcome (get
in the holiday spirit). Turn east at the Beer Store and
follow the signs on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. Cost $3.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Huron asks you to
Adopt a Family this holiday season. With the chang-
es in the economy and with the struggles that a lot of
families face, Christmas can be a stressful time of the
year. Let s help to make this a bit easier and it will put
smiles on our children s faces.
Ornaments have been placed on the Christmas tree in the Ex-
eter branch library. Please find the time to visit the tree and find
a family to help. On the ornament, you will find the gender and
ages of the children in the family. Do this by yourself, as a fam-
ily or as co-workers. Any gift, no matter how big or small, will
bring joy to a child on Christmas morning.
For further information, please contact our office at (226)
268-3871, e-mail us at cw@shbbbs.on.ca, or stop by our office at
146 Main St. Dashwood (inside the Community Living South
Huron building). Let s all get into the holiday spirit and share
a little magic!
South Huron Hospital Auxiliary Christmas
meeting
Please enter the hospital through the front door for the South
Huron Hospital Auxiliary Christmas meeting on Tues., Dec. 9
at 2 p.m. Entertainment and lunch will be provided. Everyone
is welcome.
Centralia Huron Park Lions Club Bingo
On Sunday, December 7th at the South Huron Rec. Centre.
Doors open at noon. Bingo 1 p.m. Progressive jackpot $500 in 50
numbers. Donations to the food bank accepted at Bingo.
The Price of Children
This is just too good not to pass on to all and is something ab-
solutely positive for a change. I have repeatedly seen the break-
down of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I
have seen the rewards listed this way. It s nice.
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child
from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income
family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn t even touch col-
lege tuition.
But $160,140 isn t so bad if you break it down. It translates
into:
• $8,896.66 a year,
• $741.38 a month, or
• $171.08 a week.
• That's a mere $24.24 a day!
• Just over a dollar an hour.
Still, you might think the best financial advice is not having
children if you want to be rich.
Actually, it is just the opposite.
What do you get for your $160,140?
• Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
• Glimpses of God every day.
• Giggles under the covers every night.
• More love than your heart can hold.
• Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
• Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm
cookies.
• A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
• A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites.
• Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what
the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.
For $160,140, you never have to grow up. You get to:
• finger-paint,
• carve pumpkins,
• play hide-and-seek,
• catch lightning bugs, and
• never stop believing in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to:
• keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
• watch Saturday morning cartoons,
• go to Disney movies, and
• wish on stars.
• You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under re-
frigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for
Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother s Day, and cards
with backward letters for Father s Day.
For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck. You get
to be a hero just for:
• retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
• taking the training wheels off a bike,
• removing a splinter,
• filling a wading pool,
• coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball
team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream or
pizza regardless.
You get a front row seat to history, to witness the:
• first step,
• first word,
• first bra,
• first date, and
• first time behind the wheel.
You get to be immortal. You get another branch add-
ed to your family tree, and if you re lucky, a long list
of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and
great grandchildren. You get an education in psychol-
ogy, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and
human sexuality that no college can match.
In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under
God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare
away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken
heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever,
and love them without limits. So, one day they will,
like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for
the price!
Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren! Contributed by
Frank Palen
True OR false??
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn t have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately two teeth ev-
ery 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it s from being
indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your
heart!
6. Only seven per cent of the population is lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every
minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don t appear until
they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 years old will have spent al-
most five years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time
of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The real reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to
search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves with-
out turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in An Officer
and a Gentleman and Tootsie.
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina
State Anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture
of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the
same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle, built in 1903, used
a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They
were seventh cousins.
25. If coloring weren t added to Coca-Cola, it would be
green.
Note! Alfred Hitchcock was born with a belly button, but after
numerous abdominal surgeries, his was just sewn over.
The answers: They are all true... Now go back and think about
No. 16 Gwen Baker
JIM
BEAR
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Free skate
Five-year-old
Hallee Schilbe of
Exeter is shown
here during
an afternoon
free -skate at the
South Huron Rec-
reation Centre.
The skate took
place Nov. 29, af-
ter the South Hu-
ron Christmas
Parade. Santa was
nearby in an off-
ice room, taking
gift requests from
interested parties.
(photo/Ben Forrest)
skate