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Drive-in Church
At The Starlite
Many ere enjeying the
drive-in services at
Shipkn this summer, as
excellent weather contin-
ues to smile upon out-
doors events.
Last Sunday the Crys-
tolaires quartet from
Crystal, Ulchigan, pro-
vided the service, to
families seated in their
cars at the Starlite
Drive-in theatre, %here
the services are held
each Sunday evening.
Every week et 7:15 a
massed choir of volun-
teers practices at the
theatre site, in readi-
ness for the service to
follow at 8 pm.
This coming Sunday,
Charles Hare of Gideon
International, London, is
the special speaker, and
there will be a gospel
singing quartet, es well
as the massed volunteer
choir.
Then on August 21, a
Rev. J.C.Thompson of the
Canadian Bible Society,
London, will be the spea-
ker. A quartet called the
Rockviny Four from St.
Jacob, willbe featured,
plus the massed choir.
August 28 - the last
service for the summer,
will have the Rev. Klass -
en, Cleveland, Ohio, as
special speaker. There
will be special music
and the massed choir will
sing.
These services are
inter -denominational.
"Come as you are, and it
in your car."
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'Play
Ball'
Play-offs in the Huron -
Perth baseball season
came to an end for the
Dashwood Tigers when
they took an 8-7 defeat
at the hands of the Welke
erton team.
The Wednesday previous.
Whlkerton had set the
scene in Dashwood, when
they took a 5-2 victory.
Both runs were by Whitey
Denomme, in the fourth
and sixth. Bill Schade
wns on the mound, PrO.
held. control until the
seventh, when the north-
ern team scored three ti
times in the seventh and
finP1 inning.
Zurich and Dashened
naw play-off to see which
enters OBA Intermediate
"D." playdawns. Ablkerton
is N "R" team.
A Visit To The Hometown
Spent a week in the old
hometown recently, and,
as usual, it was anything
but a rest. The weather
was perfect, but the hos-
pitality was exhausting.
It's not really my
hometown. I didn't grow
up there, physically. But
I spent a decade there
in the newspaper business,
and maybe I grew up there
in other ways. Anyway,
when you walk down the
main street, every second
person stops to shake
hands and ask about your
family, and tell you what
their kids are doing now,
it's your hometown.
A smalltown changes and
yet remains the same. A
few businesses have chang-
ed hands. Some of the
stores have new fronts..
The paint on the hotel
has been changed from
passionate purple to
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to ghastly green. The
shady, tree -lined street
on which you used to live
has been raped: the stat-
ely trees cut.to ugly
stumps, as the street is
to be widened.
But the biggest changes
are in the people. The
young men you used to
work and play with are
grizzled or a bald as
eggs. The young women
you used to look at with
some interest because of
their big eyes are sag-
ging and dentured. The
lovable .kids that your
kids used to play with
are hulking adolescents,
some of them delinquents
with police records. And
your old partner, onde
apparently indestructible,
is taking eight differ-
ent colors of pills.
Despite the changes,
there is continuity as
Re -discover om Worm chant:
SHOP for FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSEWARES, FURNITURE
at Leisurely Country Pace and at Country PRICES
comfortable as an old
fishing hat. The Cham-
ber of Commerce is still
fighting over store hours.
The Industrial Commis-
sion is on the verge of
announcing a huge new
industry. The fire brig -
age races periodically
to the town dump, where
the incinerating process
has got out of hand be-
cause the caretaker has
bogged off for a beer.
Got stuck in the sand
at the beach, to the ragE
of my wife. She went fly-
ing off to find a tow
truck, in a friend's car.
While she was away, I
was pulled out easily by
a man with no arms, who
had a chain in his truck,
an a gaggle of kids to
help push. Sounds like
fiction, but it's fact.
It could only happen
in or around the old
hometown.
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in DASHWOOD
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