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The Huron Expositor, 1982-07-21, Page 33E6dow ft@fig atc, 6n-bVw@Ging SDHS band gets a terrific Calga ..byc ROMItfuOT Maybe'you'll remember or maybe you won't but last week 1 wrote the first half of my Calgary Stampede story. Just to refresh your memory. the SDHS All Girls 'Trumpet Band went out to Calgary for the stampede for six days. Six 'very exciting and eventful days. Last week I talked about the trip and our arrival to the Hospitality Inn North. The first oighl was ours to eat. visit friends and retatives and get"caughtup in our sleep. The IleXT day was a .vers. big one:We were awake for many hours on Thursday. Most girls awoke at about 4 a.m. our time and went to bed at about 10 or II, Calgary 'time. (The difference is about two hours.) The food at our —Motel was fairly expensive for our budgets but very good as well, •Onee settled intoour rooms by the curfew, we decided whose turn it was to sleep in the steeping bag on the floor or several rooms put the two .beds together and slept with five people in two beds. That worked out 'well also. It wasn't hard to fall asleep on Thursday but it was.; very difficult to wake up on Friday morning at IS a.m. for the Stampede parade. After searching the room. trying 1101 10 get uniforms mixed up. we dressed, ate our breakfast and boarded the bus. Once at the beginning of the parade. we recognized one particular band with a groan. The Burlington Teen Band who placed first in the ('an -Ani Parade Competition a year ago March in Myrtle Beach was competing against us again. We knew that this meant trouble but kept our heads up anyway. The day GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE (Sole conducted by D&L Licluidation Services). TIME IS RUNNING OUT to buy brand new furniture and accessories Twin size spring filled Mattresses Walnut finish, 4 drawer. Chest of Drawers 5900 (9 drawers with a mirror) Triple Dresser 9900 living room suite consisting of sofa swivel rocker chair and footstool Many colours lo choose from All 4 pieces Living Room Suite 39 900 SURPLUS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE 550 Huron St. Stratford (across from the A & W) 2734570 TthRIVIS: All sales final Cash, Visa, Cheque . HOURS: Mon. Tues. Wed, Sat • , .10 - 6 p. m. Thum: 'Fri. 10 - 9 p.m. . No dealers please! was good for a parade and there were many people going towards the route. As we were standing in line waiting. we. sitw many faces go by. One of these faces belonged to none other than Steve PodVorsky. the famous skiier. Other celebrities in. eluded David Cassidy, The Midas Muffler Man. Ronald McDonald, and others. Once on the parade route. we couldnt help but smile. There were wall-to-wall people. all yelling and whistl- ing and clapping. Perfect strangers were smiling and waving as we passed. It was really unbe- lievable. Unlike any parade we had ever participated in before. We saw a few .familiar faces and even saw a sign with Huron Park written on it. The cameras and judges were just abother part of the scenery to me. 1 can't even remember seeing too many cameras. The most exciting thing I thought was when we were playing a song and I realized that the spectators were clapping in time to our musk. These were not just a couple of people scattered throughout the crowd clap- ping with our musk. there were hundreds and they liked us, they really did. SHOELACE The only problems that I noticed throughout the par- ade was the occasional bad note and once I noticed 'my. Untied shoelace. This can be a terrible problem because it would be a disaster to bend down 4nd tie it up. There would be people tripping all over the place. As it turned out. I waited until we stopped along the route. It wasn't a major .problem after all. We were very happy to see the end of the parade route and get on the bus back to the motel. Once back to Hospital- ity Inn. many girls went for a swim. shopping and out to cat. It was then that we A shoelace causes parade problems learned that we were given an 8.5 on our parade march. This was very good news to hear. Unfortunately we learned later that we didn't win any prizeS in the parade competi- tion, The Burlington Teen Tour Band won many prizes in this event. The prices in Calgary were different than, in Ontario we found. Some things were much cheaper. others more expensive and some just about the same. Cigarettes for example were only $8 a carton coni. pared to our SI 1 prices. Sonic clothes were much cheaper than here. particularly in larger stores. Howe. cr, it was ay.:hilly nice not to have to pay the tax on food. clothing and other items. Food was much more ex• pensive than I expected. Fach meahcost approximately S5 so many of us were budgeting our money. Souvenirs as in any other place were pretty expensive for what you got. One of the most popular souvenirs that girls bought were hats. Cowboy hats were more common than any other at the Stampede, which of coursi.: only makes sense, but there v. as another type of head gear that was popular. These were Bibbly Boppers I think. They' w ere like a hair hand with little halls, hearts and stars at thc end of springs. They realls looked neat. They were for sale at the paradc and in the Stampede grounds. CALF ROPING The Stampede itself w as very good. There SSS a lot •to see and we enjoyed it yery much. There was one event however. that shook some of the girls up. The calf riving seemed very cruel to us. The first cowboy in the event sw ung the calf in, such a way that he broke its neck and it was killed later. It wasn't a pleasant thing to see. How- ever. there was a naisical ride done by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the after- -Ill:Son that was very good. They did a formation that looked like the dome which is ,on the hack of $50 hills. Unfortunately none of us had S50 bills to compar: it with so we took (heir word for it. The midway seemed very much like the Toronto Exhibi- tion. There were many rides and games to play and it was an easy way to spend your money. One glass of pop there cost. $I and just a hotdog cost more. ft was hard to budget there. Saturday night at the grandstand show we saw the, chuck wagon races. This was a lot of fun since many girls had never seen this type of race before. During the races we were reading the Electronic Screen over the stands for the names of the chuckwagon teams. As we were watching the races suddenly.' heard a shriek and applause and all of the band members were standing up applauding and yelling. Con- fused. I looked around to find that we were the only ones in the whole balcony applauding and then 1 discovered 'why. On th'is .electronic screen were the words "Welcome to the Seaforth High School Band from Seaforth. Ontar- io." It was very exciting and they flashed it on several times, each time to get more applause than the time be- fore. This drew the attention of many people and we had .People coming over from throughout the stadium in-. forming .us that they once knew people from Seaford', or used to live there, or now: know people from Seaforth or area. It was really neat. WILD WEST After the chuckwagon races was the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. There was a lot of talent ranging from singing and dancing, to a dog act to an Indian dance. There were many elaborate cos- tumes and dancers. The final act included Jim Stafford, the country singer who sings "I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes... He was really good and the band girls clapped in time to his musk. After the show w as all over, there was a diSplay of fireworks which lit up the sky. After it Was all over, we wept back to our hotel, very tired and excited. We had to wake up in time to go to Banff the next morning. The moun- tains were very beatgiful. We couldn't takeenough pictures to show how beautiful they were. We spent the whole afternoon walking through Banff, shopping and. taking pictures. We had a few minutes to see Lake Louise as well. It was totally different than anything I had ever dreamed of seeing. If disappointing to go back to Calgary after that. The next three days. (Mon' day. Tuesday and Wednes• day) Is ere more days of work than pleasure, On Monday morning we did our routine at one of the malls in the parking, lot. We are our lunch that day at a secondary school not too far as ay. This was the high school ss here the Burlington Band, and five other bands w ere spending their holiday. The gymnasium of the school was full of sleeping bags. 4..lothes and everything else you could imagine. All of the hundreds of band members there had to share th,e shoyv- ers and mirrors of the school. Our motel rooms sure did look good after visiting there. • HERITAGE PARK • ' After lunch that day. 'ye went to Heritage Park where e did our routine, once more. Heritage Park was a very pretts old-fashioned typc of place. After we were finished there %se went back to motel %Hinge. The rest of the day w as to do as 130 pleased until band practice the next morn- ing. We practiced in a nearby field since e had to perform our routine later that das.. We w ere the first band to do our routine, which was nice. We did very well and have a lot to be proud of. The other bands were very good. The winning band in the routine competition was the Watsonville Band from Cali- fornia, with many older meni:\ bers than we did. In fact one had been with them over 40 years. They had dancing girls in front of their band who did SCRAM LONG FOR THE B LL—The senior recreation program speniis part of the day playing basketball in the gymnasium at Seaforth District High School. Here co-ordinator Marty Bedard waits for the ball While visitor Ian Burgess of Buffalo, Danny McNaughton of Seaforth, and Terry Gray (hidden) have a scramble. Erica DeWolfe waits for her chance in the background. (Photo by Rimmer) THE HURON EXPOSIT R, JULY 28, 1982 — A13 much of The routine to the music. This didn't please a lot since it was not a dancing competition. However, they were a good band. The Burlington Band placed second in this competition and the Beef Eaters from British Columbia placed third. READY TO LEAVE The next morning we were p'acked and ready to leave Calgary by noon hour. After a few delays and a long trip. much like the one made a few short days before, we arrived safely in Toronto. We were very glad to get home. Due to a couple of illnesses, two of our members and some chap- erones stayed in Toronto to,go to the hospital while the rest of us went on our way to Seaforth. We had a quick stop for supper on the way home and arrived at home some - 'where around 10 to 10:30 p„m. We were greeted by the flashing lights of fire trucks and the Shriners. 'Ibis was a gieat welcome and we an- nounced our return with whoops and singing aboard the two awaiting trucks as we toured around town. Once back at the high school, we found our families and went home. The luggage and, the two girls and chaperones were back in Seaforth by 1:30 Thursday morning. It was great to be back but we were very tired. The funny thing was that with the time change, we weren't tired until two hours after everyone else had gone to bed. We weren't hungry until two hours after meal time. We thought it was funny although our families did not. WAITING AROUND—Ricky Wall, Lisa Fentoso and Hiep Nguyen wait to Start the playground activities at St. Patrick's schobl in Dublin. The three were taking part in the summer school July session at the school. (Photo by-Rmmer) londesboro group says goodbye A get together of the Bible Study group was held .luly I hth at the home of Beth Knox when thcy presented a going awaY gift to Shirley Scott in apprecTItion for lead- ing Bible Study. Lunch was served. Frey. Stan McDonald Hensall, High Chaplain and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hulley. Lindesboro returned home Thurs. 22nd from spending 2 weeks at Fast Coast where Ken and Betty were dcle• gates from Canadian Forest. ers. Constance to attend High Court Convention of ('aa• dian Foresters held at Freder• icton N.B. Gail Lear attended a piano teachers workshop .luly 23-25 at Mt. St. .Ioseph. London, sponsored by Western Ontar- io Conservatory of Music. Mrs. June Gillispie. Mrs, Kathleen Staudt of Breton Alberta visited a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Les also called on Jim McEw ings, Jack McEw ings. Watson Rcids and Rena Watt, Blyth. Allison Chaniles. of Auburn spent 2 days last week .with Kell!. Bosnian. ' Afir rlidfierasse ANNUAL PROMOTION SALE FOR ALL OF AUGUST 20% DISCOUNT We have iswIde range of colours, so tielect your towels, bath mats, sheets and comforters at reduced prices, STORE HOURS 11099.Spm Closed Wednesdays 1;111.- 111 B f K,/ I,/ 1 Mrs. Margaret Tay lor ac• comp:lined by Mrs. -Jessie McGregor ot Seaforth flok to Europe on a Scandanavian tour for 3 weeks touring h northern Istiropcan countries. Mr. arid 'Ors. Lam. Carter tif Silletb• Spent hist o eck on Imliclays %%lib his parents Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carter and Colleen. Kathy Johnston of ondon also spent a couple of days, with her parents at the home.. welcome As you can see, we had a very good trip. There is a lot (hall did not have the room to write about. By now most members of the 'band will have their pictures back of the trip. I'm sure if you have any questions about our trip that have not been answered in this column, a band member will be glad to tell you all about it and maybe even show you her pictures. bOtrehdcq Happy belated birthday to Joan 'Stewart on July 26. Insura Liu al ce C e Lt Fire a y (Established in 1876) Prewfides Full I surtonce • verage for T,twrp wegilangs as w,Jll (15 F.rm ProNierties AGENTS Ross Hodgert John Moore Joseph CLOnoac Ws. Elaine Skinner Wally Burton Woodham Duhlin "Mi1cheil Exeter Exeter 229-6 3 345-2612 348-9012 235-1553 236-0350 MRECTORS & ADJUSTORS 227-4305 345-2739 229-8277 345-2543 229-6594 348-8293 Jack Harrigan Robert Gardiner Lloyd Morrison Lorne Feeney Ray McCurdy Robert Chaffe R.R.3, Lucan Staffa St. Marys R.R.2, Dublin R.R.1, korkton R.R.5, Mitchell JOHN ELLIGSEN ELECTRIC LTD. FormeResidential•Commercialtindustrial "FREE ESTIMATES" Ph. 345-2447 R.R. No. 4. 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