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By Dave Scott I was quite intimidated the first time I met Ken… you see he was the vice principal of Port Dover Composite School (PDCS)… it was 1979 and most kids knew he was a war vet… he was, in our eyes a big man… someone you didn’t mess with. That persona of the man stuck with me… that was until a few years ago when I had the opportunity to sit with Ken and talk about his experience in WWII. First off, I learned my perception could not have been further from the truth… he is an absolutely great guy… a big teddy bear. We sat and got comfortable in his office, talked a little about his time at PDCS and then our chat turned to his days in the service. Ken grew up in Brampton and signed up for the service after his brother and buddies had joined up… Ken says, “It seemed like the thing to do.” There was a history of military service in the family. Ken’s dad had a long military career in England… serving in India and then France during WWI. At twelve years old, Ken started out in the local Bugle Band and Signal Corps in Brampton. He took a trip with the local militia to Niagara on the Lake for three or four days of training… Ken remembers the hundreds and hundreds of tents. That was all Ken needed to convince him that he wanted no part of the Army (he chuckles) and decided on the Air Force. So with the war in full force and Ken turning eighteen he was off to the Air Force, with training taking place in Goderich and Hagersville. He earned his wings at Hagersville… a little over two hundred hours training. His first flight took place in Goderich; he had never been in a plane before… “I had about eights hours of instruction before I went solo. Flying a Tiger Moss… great plane for training… you could loop them… it was quite the experience that first time… you’re all by yourself… and you have to do this! You have no choice. I had good instructors.” From there it was off to England to train on three different aircrafts. His Bomber crew was stationed in Yorkshire, England with the 420 Squadron… the all Canadian Squadron had a crew of seven on each plane… Ken was just a young man, barely nineteen years old. A little chuckle comes to his voice… he wonders how he ever did it… and at such a young age, “Heck, we were all young and we thought we were invincible.” Thinking back, Ken remembers being an officer and being paid seven dollars a day… not an hour, a day. Picking a crew was his responsibility and looking back he thinks how crazy the process was… you just walked into a big room and picked the guys you thought would fit in… there was no time for interviews or anything like that… you just picked them. His plane was a Halifax; named the Dusty Duke… with a few girlfriends’ names proudly displayed on the plane beside the cockpit... she was built for bombing, with

a narrow but deep belly to carry bombs. There was a crew of seven and they flew thirty-six successful missions between 1943 and 1944. The squadron consisted of fifteen to twenty planes… more often it seemed fifteen… Ken remembers, “We flew a couple of day missions… there was a lot of flak. The majority were night missions. At night their vapour trail made it easy for the enemy to see. At times, we were over a target and one of our own would open fire on us… or you would look up and see guys above you dropping bombs... you always had to be alert.” What did it feel like, being shot at? “Every time you went out, you would be shot at. You try and avoid everything you can... one night, coming home from a trip there was fantastic amount of anti-aircraft fire… spent shells just ringing off our aircraft... just like hail you know. There were a few holes.” It always felt like they were going to make it back. One night, a crew member said to Ken that he didn’t feel good about the flight. Ken lit in to him, “Never think like that!” The squadron Ken was in would lose eighteen aircrafts in six months. One night they lost three pilots in one flight. The losses were heavy at the tail end of the Berlin raids… Ken says, “They were buggers.” Ken reflects back to that very first mission. He and twelve other pilots were dispersed among the various squadron in Yorkshire… the idea was that the new pilots flew a mission with a seasoned veteran… sort of a training session… that was the eye opener for Ken... three planes were lost that day… it sunk in. A typical day would start out in the morning with Ken being told that OPS were on. Then in the afternoon a major briefing would take place… things like, the bomb load, how much fuel you would be carrying... the big map at the front of the room showed the routes… navigators would then meet and plot the courses... then when night fell, it was time to go. His longest trip was eight hours and twenty minutes. It was to Nurenburg near the end of the war, “You can get sleepy... sitting in one spot, you’re tightly in there… you sure as hell didn’t drink coffee before you got in there.”

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of England and stay the night. Ken and his crew didn’t really enjoy it. So one night, low on fuel, Ken asked the crew, “Should we go for it and make it home, or stay south and refuel?” The crew said, “Go home.” Well they made it, but just as Ken landed the plane was pretty much out of fuel… Ken said, “Never again.” Another time a German fighter plane followed the squadron home and shot up their camp, “You always had to be aware at night.” You could tell some memories are tough to talk about. Ken says that he himself had to report over thirty planes going down on the Nurenburg trip alone “You never really knew if the men got out. You hoped they did.” One mission that hit Ken hard, was a flight one night to Essen… flying easterly past Essen to create a diversion for the German fighters… turning the plane around Ken noticed one of the bombers two or three hundred yards away, “It was blazing like hell… and two men jumping out.” Another time, flying at a low level across the English channel to avoid German radar… then climbing to 10,00 feet and heading to Cologne, Germany… doing the diversion thing again and then bombing an oil plant… after they dropped their bombs they were to lower their planes altitude to confuse the enemy fighters… Ken’s plane started to lower its altitude… the tail gunner reported to Ken that there was a plane on fire going down on their port side… Ken was watching the other intensely, forgetting his own plane was almost below the 1,000 feet mark… the other plane was really blazing... it hit the ground… skidded… and blew up into a million pieces not sixty yards from a farmhouse... Ken quickly pulled his plane up… the memory has never left him… another time the

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and gas on a full plane… Ken finished his tour in 1944 and then instructed for a year on Halifax and Lancaster planes in England. He says there were some pretty scary times being in the air instructing… the war was ending and he just wanted to return home… but there was still one more job to do…

With the war ending it was Ken’s job to fly ground crews around Europe… he remembers flying over the monument at Vimy Ridge. Then he saw the devastation first hand… he remembers flying over Aachen… you can hear the emotion in Ken’s voice when he says, “There was nothing left standing… no town, it was terrible.” Shortly after, he looks down and sees a farmer out ploughing his field… next up there is a flat area beside the Rhine River where he spots two hundred captured German soldiers waiting

to be moved… It was finally over for Ken. It was time to come home… there were good memories with his crew... lots of stories… he laughs and says, “I can’t tell you those!” As for the war… it makes you grow up quickly… it puts years on you... you are nineteen years old, being the pilot of a Halifax, with a crew of seven under him… everyday making decisions that may cost your life and those of the crew… Ken tells me that after the war it was important to keep busy… get on with his education… marry his sweetheart… and a few years later start a family which would grow to four kids. He never flew again as a pilot… he simply said that he had no desire after all those hours in the air. Over the years he returned to England several times… it was very emotional at a Reunion ten to fifteen years ago, which was organized by one of the farmers in the Yorkshire area of England. Ken said that parts of the old runway were still there… the old control tower had been converted to a house and was still in use… plus two or three buildings were still there… flags flew proudly and the community had a luncheon for the men… Ken fights back the tears thinking of the event… our talk has reached that point… I thank Ken for his time …. His memory is as sharp as a tack… war is hell… perhaps the memory never fades… his life was perhaps shaped by the events of the war… he is a good man… a great man… he is one of the many who gave up much more then any of us can ever imagine… It was a different time… a different generation… the world was at conflict. Every generation should learn from the one before it… I hope for our sake… we have learned…

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By MARG WERDEN Bird diner opens for the season Last week I finally got around to thoroughly washing all my bird feeders and putting food out for our feathered visitors. It always amazes me how quickly the birds figure out that the diner is once again open for the winter season. One year, just after I had hung the feeder up and walked back into the house, I looked out the window and saw a Redpoll sitting down for a meal. Just how do the birds find the food so quickly? And how do other birds find out about the feeders? The answer is probably quite simple. Birds, being small and warm-blooded, need a lot of food every day and thus need to be efficient in finding it. As a result, they have become quite good at locating plentiful sources of food and cruise their territories on a regular basis looking for the best sources. Most birds do not have a good sense of smell, so it is unlikely that they smell the food. From past experience, they have probably learned that bird feeders are highly concentrated sources of food and recognize them as such when they see the feeders. If the food source is too big for just one bird, the “discoverer” of the food may call to its mate or its flock mates to come and join in the bounty. However, fights over access to the food may result in threat calls, which, in turn, lets other birds

Birds, such as these Eastern Bluebirds, appreciate finding a source of water in the winter and will often visit a feeding station that provides it. in the area know that something worth fighting for has turned up and brings them on the fly as well. Before long, there are dozens of birds enjoying the bounty. Most birds that are found in this area in the winter eat seeds since insects are a bit difficult to find during the cold weather. To maximize the number of species that come to your feeder you need to offer a variety of food in a number of different types of feeders and at various heights above the ground. The type of seed that is most popular with birds is black oil sunflower seeds, which attract Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Goldfinches, House Finches, Chickadees and Nuthatches. The black sunflower seeds have a higher oil content than the larger grey-and-white-striped seeds that people eat and are softer shelled, making it easier for the birds to get into them. Nyger seed is very popular with Goldfinches. This tiny black seed, unfortunately, is very expensive, so special nyger feeders have been designed with tiny holes that allow the Goldfinches access to the seeds without a lot of waste. Hang the feeder close to your best viewing window and the Finches will become quite tame and won’t mind if you stand just a couple of feet away on the other side of the window while they eat. Safflower seeds are white and slightly smaller than the black sunflower seed. The bitter taste keeps the squirrels, Grackles,

Blue Jays and Starlings away from them, but Chickadees, Titmice, and Downy Woodpeckers love them. White millet is relatively inexpensive and is good for scattering on the ground for Tree Sparrows, Juncos and Mourning Doves. Birdseed is available at various places and although I have always bought bags of mixed seeds, after doing some research on this, I think I’ll change to buying the different types of seeds individually and mixing it myself. The mixed bags contain a lot of filler, such as red millet. Most birds won't eat it and it gets kicked onto the ground, where it stays until it rots or you have to clean it up in the spring. Suet is the solid fat rendered from beef and venison and provides concentrated energy that helps birds make it through the freezing temperatures of the winter. It is important to hang your suet to keep it away from marauding mammals. A source of water is also very important for birds in the winter. We provide a bird bath with a heater in it to keep the water from freezing and some birds, such as the Eastern Bluebird and the Northern Mockingbird, only come

to our feeding station to drink. I’ve often heard that once you start to feed the birds, you have to keep feeding them all winter. However, birds are used to foraging and, if you are going away for a time in the winter, they won’t starve. Birds don’t just eat at one place; they make a circuit of feeders and wild food patches each day and eat where the food is plentiful. When considering where to hang your feeder keep a number of things in mind. Birds like to have cover and shelter so they feel safe from predators such as cats and squirrels. Don’t hang the feeders too close to anything that squirrels can jump from or too low where they are within a cat’s reach. If the birds don’t feel safe at your feeder, they will move on to a new location where they can eat in peace. Although birds don’t always find the feeders within minutes of them being filled, be patient. They will eventually find them, especially after the first snow storm hits, and provide you with hours of entertainment.

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K ids Care

By Dave Scott

The Simcoe Caring Cupboard was the recipient of canned food, courtesy of Simcoe Composite School (SCS) students. The Free the Children Club at SCS got busy asking the student body to bring in canned goods leading up to Halloween.

Sara Allemang and Amanda Valoppi of the club told me that there was very little food coming in the first few days of the food drive… but a few days later the SCS students stepped up and the canned goods grew to over six hundred and seventy cans!

Left to right: Kim Scoyne of the Simcoe Caring Cupboard with Amanda Valoppi and Sara Allemang of the Free the Children Club at SCS. Kim Scoyne of the Cupboard said it was awesome… that the canned goods will help. The cupboard is a busy place, with the numbers of folks still in need as high as last year. Kim wants to encourage everyone who can, to help… watch for food drives in

the area and help out. The Simcoe Caring Cupboard is located at 19 Kent Street South, Simcoe. With winter coming, now more then ever, the Caring Cupboard needs donations!

NOTICE OF DELEGATION MEETING NORFOLK SECONDARY SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION REVIEW Grand Erie District School Board approved a Pupil Accommodation Review for secondary schools in Norfolk County. Schools included in the review are: Delhi District Secondary School Doverwood Public School Port Dover Composite School Simcoe Composite School Valley Heights Secondary School Waterford District High School Interested parents and community members are invited to attend the next Accommodation Review Committee (ARC) meeting, which is dedicated to hear delegations from the public. Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Location: Port Dover Composite School Public consultation is at the heart of this accommodation review process. We value your input and look forward to hearing from you. Visit the ARC – Norfolk Secondary button at www.granderie.ca for information and agenda.

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By Dave Scott When someone gets involved to help someone else… it is because they want to… compassion… friendship… resolve to do the right thing… no one tells them to do it… it is their own sense of the right thing to do… it selfless. Recently, the local libraries received a donation… I don’t know how much… but I know the monies helped with the purchase of DAISY Readers. What is a Daisy Audiobook? DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is an international format standard developed by libraries for the blind. DAISY audiobooks have superior sound quality and functionality compared to other audio formats. Special features include chapter, paragraph, phrase and word navigation, bookmarking, skimming, sleep modes and reading speed control. DAISY titles fit on a single compact disc. These discs are meant to be played in special DAISY-compatible machines such as Victor Readers. Because of their special formatting, DAISY discs cannot be played on standard CD players unless those players are MP3-compatible. If your CD player

was manufactured in the last five years, there's a good chance it is MP3-compatible and will also play DAISY CD. Feel free to listen to an audio introduction to DAISY players prepared by the CNIB or view a DAISY training and support video! So where is the back story to the donation the gentlemen made? Why this generosity? Turns out, the donation was made for a number of reasons… as a young man this individual had grown up in Brantford and had attended Sunday School with children from the blind school… at an early age, he realized that it was important to help. That everyone should have the opportunity to read… or hear a book… or perhaps it had something to do with his grandfather being principal of the Blind School in Brantford when it opened, way back when… maybe it was later on in life when with his own mother’s sight failing… he helped the Brantford library get larger print books… who knows the reason… I should throw in a photo now with a name, but you know… I think some things are best left unsaid… it is about the good deed done… not who did it!

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