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• The Creemore Echo •
Friday, May 7, 2010
Creemore Big Heart Seniors Seniors
There were 64 of us out for cards today, and we were glad to have Lois and Robert Walker and Jim Rigney back with us. We were also happy to learn that Bob Veale passed his driving test with Sylvia flying colours. Then we were GALE sorry to learn that Hazel Bellamy had to have some surgery recently. Hope you are well on the mend, Hazel. Then Sharon Harrison, a born emcee, told us a cute joke that we all enjoyed. The 50/50 draws went to “Oh-Me!” Barb Cudmore, Audrey Fines, Carol Faulkner, Bob Veale, Audrey Tidd, Alma Seifert, Ruby Klinck, Ray Bartlett and Marg Hope. Moon shots were played by Alinda Bishop (2), Dave Smith, Ted Underhill, Betty Bartlett, Thelma Lightheart, Roy Veinot, Warren Gale, Peter Gubbels and Dave Smith again. Dave won both the Sidewinders loot and the travelling prize today, piling up his Rama “squandering” money. Well done, Dave. High scorers were Art Bishop 319, Robert Walker 315, Roy Veinot 295 and Barb Pilon 287. Low was poor Joan Monaghan with 56. Absolutely nothing was going right for Joan today, even to the point that she and Wilma Zeggil moved with a score of minus 13. Their opponents, Ruby Klinck and Jim Rigney, also had minus 13, but they lost the card cut to determine who moved. And, in one game Joan and her partner Mercedes Veinot ended up 73 in the hole! I don’t think that is a record, but it is coming close. The hidden score was 181 and, as it was not matched, it will be worth $10 next week. We had a belated Happy Birthday card and a song for Jim Rigney, whose birthday was actually April
13, and we would like to thank Alinda Bishop for donating some playing cards to the club. We can always use them. Last Friday night there was a very well-attended and hugely enjoyed Murder Mystery dinner at the Legion. This was a good meal, put on by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary, and the “murder mystery” was a fun time, with lots of audience participation. A great way to spend an evening. In talking to Wilma Zeggil, it seems that a lot of the Singhampton population were working hard last Thursday night, with half the people digging leeks (ramps), and the other half cleaning them. This was in preparation for their annual “Ramp Romp” dinner, which was held on Saturday night. It is a lot of work to produce this meal, but they do get a great crowd, which makes it all worthwhile. At the dinner you meet up with friends you haven’t seen for a while, such as Florence Bremner and Meg and Bob Stainton. Meg taught school at New Lowell, and Bob is an electrician. They lived in Avening, and built two big houses on what is now Fisher Street. This was, at the time, 100 per cent of the housing boom in Avening! Nevertheless, the houses have been looked after, and have worn well, and they are an asset to our little hamlet. At one time when the Staintons lived here, they had a two-year-old son and a baby boy. The baby kept Meg and Bob up all night, and when Bob went to work, the two-year-old kept Meg up all day. Finally, the lack of sleep became critical, so they took the baby to the doctor, and explained to him that something had to be done. The doctor checked the wee guy out from stem to gudgeon, and he told them that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the baby. He advised them that when bedtime came around, they should feed the baby, change him and put him to bed. They would then have to learn to harden their hearts, and just let him cry.
He would soon learn that crying was not going to get someone to walk the floor with him all night. Well, Meg and Bob went home, and come bedtime they fed and changed the little guy, and put him to bed. Then they went to bed. They laid there, wide awake, steeling themselves for that first cry. According to Meg, who told us about this years ago (So I hope I have remembered it correctly), she and Bob lay awake most of the night, expecting the baby to cry at any minute – and, for the first time ever, that baby slept soundly all night! The group of us that were talking had all spent many nights walking the floor with a fretful baby, so it was easy to sympathize with their plight. It was also easy to get a good laugh out of the outcome. We had a nice bus trip to Rama this week with some of us up and some of us down, but it was a good day for most of us. On the way home, Marjorie Rolfe interjected a “bon mot” that was just a perfect answer to some silly thing we were saying. That gal has quite a good, sharp sense of humour, which we all got a kick out of. Allan Thompson heard some chainsaw noises from the park in Avening recently. When he went to check it out he found the Nottawasaga Junior Farmers group cleaning up the park. Allan was talking to some of them, and he thinks it is great that they have taken on this task. He wondered if I could give them a “Thank You” in the Echo for him. Well, I sure can. First I need to thank Allan for checking out the “chainsaw noises”, and then for letting me know about it. And I think all of us down here would like to thank you young folks for seeing something that needed done, and then going ahead and doing it. Well done! Also I would like to thank Ted Underhill for digging (and delivering) a few nice leeks down to Avening. I haven’t been able to dig for years, so this was a nice treat for me. Thanks again, Ted.
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