Volume 1 Number 18

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Volume 1, Number 18 – March 12, 2008

Inside: Tribute to Mary Walker-Thiel

• How will you be remembered?
  View from the StripBy Casey Lessard It’s easy to take life for granted as we rush through our daily routine. My week includes driving back and forth to Humber College in Toronto, and often to London to spend the day at school with Angela. I’ve done a lot of traveling over the years and often had ...
• Ontario’s budget woes won’t be helped by McGuinty budgeting
  To the Editor:Readers would not normally sift through the details of the provincial government budget. That’s a shame, because if they did, they’d discover why our province remains headed down a path of financial imprudence: our taxes are too high. They discourage investment at a time when we need all the investment we can get. ...
• If someone says “I love you,” what do you say back?
  To the Editor: We thoroughly enjoyed the article of Lloyd and Leona (Steinberg, January 23). Sending our congrats and God’s blessings on their 60 years together!We wish to know: after Lloyd shares his “I love you” for nearly 40 times a day, how does Leona reply?Signed, Michigan readers married 6 years! Janet and John OvcjakMichigan P.S. we truly look ...
• God and family were everything to Mary
  Hub Thiel reflects on Mary’s life, his luck, and their love Mary Simmons Walker-Thiel was born in Woodstock in 1954. The Zurich resident lost two children in infancy, and her first husband Rick Walker and their son Evan were killed in a car crash in 1989. Mary later married Hub Thiel, soon after his first wife ...
• Taking pride in the watershed
  ABCF Conservation Dinner featured artist David Bannister’s art shows love for the area’s water ABCF Conservation DinnerThursday, April 17 – 5:30 p.m.South Huron Recreation CentreTickets: $50 each Contact: 519-235-2610, 1-888-286-2610 Story and portrait by Casey LessardPaintings by David Bannister “I’ve noticed that water features in my work about 80 per cent of the time,” says David Bannister, “whether ...
• Livin’ la vida in Grand Bend
  Mexicans Anabel Salas, 18, of Torreón Coahuila and Carmen Rivera, 25, of Taxco both came to Canada in October to learn English. But it wasn’t until an email came through to Anabel’s adopted aunt Doris Becker that they realized the two were living only moments away in the same village. Now, they share a home ...
• You think this winter’s bad! Remember 1971?
  Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard For some reason, I had driven myself to work at Wolseley Barracks in London instead of travelling with my normal carpool (five of us from Huron Park usually rode together).It started to snow in the morning and by noon, reports coming from the radio indicated the weather was going to get ...
• Watch what comes out of (and goes into) your mouth
  Advice from MomBy Rita Lessard Brr! It’s been a long time since we’ve had a winter this cold. Perhaps that accounts for the bad mood many people have been in. It seems people have more to complain about when the weather is so nasty.My mother never appreciated our foul moods or our whining and complaining. I ...
• SHDHS bands heading to national MusicFest
  Three South Huron District High School bands have been invited to play at the national MusicFest in Ottawa in May. The senior band, wind ensemble and percussion ensemble qualified for the nationals with strong performances at the London MusicFest March 4.Music teacher Isaac Moore heads the new wind ensemble, which performed a challenging program and ...
• Curves food drive a win-win for all
  Curves for Women is offering area women a chance to get into shape while helping others. Its annual food drive runs until the end of March, and supports the Exeter and Zurich food banks.Curves waives the $199 start-up fee for new members who bring in a bag of groceries; current members earn Curves cash for ...
• Huron SPCA launches 2008 Animal House dinner auction
  The Huron SPCA is preparing for its 2008 dinner auction, which will be held Friday, May 30 at Exeter’s South Huron Recreation Centre. Donations and tickets sales for the annual fundraiser have brought in $166,000 for the animal shelter over the past three years.The SPCA’s new shelter location has helped adoptions triple and reports of ...
• Belles of the ball
  By Tyler KulaSpecial to the Grand Bend Strip Standing between pink-draped tables in the hotel ballroom, a woman chats with her daughter-in-law. She is wearing the same wedding dress as she wore almost 40 years ago, and she smiles and glances around the room while her daughter-in-law sips champagne. The younger woman is also wearing a ...
• April bridal shows in Exeter
  Getting married soon? There are many people in this area who can help you plan and prepare for your big day. Two bridal shows in April will show what wedding vendors in South Huron and Lambton Shores have to offer.Here are the details: The South Huron/Lambton Shores and Goderich branches of the Welcome Wagon are ...
• Tundra Swans expected soon
  It’s Tundra Swan time again! The birds are expected to arrive close to March 20, but it’s really up to them when they arrive. The Lambton Heritage Museum and Pinery Provincial Park host the Return of the Swans festival until March 30.Information from Friends of Pinery Park website: http://www.pinerypark.on.ca/birds.html:These beautiful snow white creatures make the ...
• The crimson majesty of the Northern cardinal
  Living in BalanceBy Jenipher Appleton Bird songs tell of springWe find ourselves in that lovely transition between late winter and early spring, when the sun feels strong yet the nights remain frigid. Stepping outside in the morning yields a diversity of bird songs, whose performers are more actively communicating in response to the imminent spring.A most ...
• Weather helped make PAWS Day a success
  Principal’s PageBy Jeff Reaburn, SHDHS Last week we held our second annual PAWS (Panther Active Winter Sports) Day, and we really couldn’t have asked for better weather. Although it was a little on the chilly side, we had bright sunshine and clear skies, giving us excellent conditions for some fun outdoors in the snow. Period Two ...
• March 2008
  Saturday, March 12 p.m. – Pinery Park visitor’s centreLife Under the Ice – Meet a park naturalist at the in the Visitor Centre and peer into the underwater winter realm of the ice covered Old Ausable River Channel discovering the channel’s history and find out what the creatures down there are up to during the ...