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Page 2-Clareshoim Local Press, Wednesday, September 3, 1986 Editorial Farming government style It used to be that farming, Way back in grandpa s day, - Was a backbreaking task Farm rates are going up To help the poor old C.N. They haven t-had a freight in- But you could: sometimes make crease it pay. , Since way back, God knows when. He knew his wheat and barley, Had some chickens, pigs and a cow, He never made a fortune But he still got by somehow. Then, there s the price of gas That is something we can t freeze, What would the politicians do Grandma had a garden, too Without the oil companies? Weeded and watered it well, Always had some eggs and cream : Some chickens, too, to sell. The price of grain has to drop To help others in their grief So, Mulroney said; Tighten up your belts You're too well belief. Things sometimes were tough fed is my Theirs wasn t an casy lot, But grandma always seemed to : a 7 1 must give my staff a raise They all work so hard, you know, So, you must pay more income tax It won't be too hard a blow. fin A check in the old teapot. They got to town once a week There wasn t much to spend No money for shoes or clothes So, it was always patch and mend The son, by now, was breathing hard He had even begun to sweat, Turner said, The government is behind you The farmers need not fret. No money for car license So, a Bennett buggy it became It wasn t quite so speedy But it got there just the same. What of the poor politicians Who depend upon their pay? You can t cut their paycheck any more That sure would spoil day. : Well, grandpa retired at last It was long overdue, The son was now a full-grown man So, he stepped into grandpa Ss shoes. their Local Press Editorials Thrilled There may have been many tears shed on the first morning of school, but Roby Butt's expression seemed to be more of boredom than trepi- dation, as he began his first day in Grade One. The dealers took the hin back The banker sold the land, Politicians stood all around Laughing to beat the band. Old Ned and Molly had to go The pigs and milk cow, too, This modern farmer couldn't have No manure upon his shoe. For another poor young farmer Had lost all he own d to debt, But Mulroney smiled and said, **There are more we have to get. A new tractor im the yard, All shiny bright and blue, Like the writing on the note That soon was coming due. Nidickeewith aiceedibox We can t let the farmers get A brand new Chevy truck x90 niche : In five years, it will be ours , . Sons will grind them into the If we have any luck. is . - penenyine Before they elect some wiser men The garden was forgotten, No chickens round the yard, , By the middle of the summer Times were getting hard. And, brother, that will hurt. Sure, we have fooled them all along Farm advisors Said, Don t With promises of wealth un-, worry told, Bout the fertilizer and the The time isn t right for the spray, plucking, yet Just farm the way we tell you, It s almost bound to pay. Wait till they are all inside the fold. And the winning number is... These numbers are sponsored by the New Totem Confectionery and the Claresholm Local Press. SUPERLOTO, August 31, 1986: The winning numbers are; 1 mil- lion 3510678 and 1434406. WESTERN EXPRESS, August 27, 1986: The winning numbers are: 10,000 2085431, 1346521, 2988978, and 2515818. 100,000 2894642. LOTTO WEST, August 27, 1986: The winning numbers are: 12, 14, 21, 43, 49, 50, 51, and 52. The bonus number is 45. LOTTO 6/49, August 27, 1986: The winning numbers are: 07, 11, 18, 33, 38, and 40. The bonus number is 32. August 30, 1986: The winning numbers are: 04, 11, 25, 82, 45, and 46. The bonus number is 10. The New Totem Confectionery had a 1,000 winner on a Zodiac ticket. Roy A. Pachal Production Manager Paul W. Rockley Publisher and Managing Editor Printed:and Published by each Wednesday at (403) 625-4474 Subsenption Prices Per Year i 2 Single Copy 30 Advertising rates on request not (unless a Fhe Vile LOCAL PRESS Second Class Malling Registration No. 0274 No portion of this newspaper may be repnnted. photographed or reproduced in any way without giving credit for such reproduction -ESTABLISHED IN 1926- Paul s Corner We welcome all the teachers-and. students back to their respective schools for another year of fun. May we remind the - motorists, once again, that the police will be watch- ing the school zones, so make sure we slow right down and get into the habit once again. Don't forget the Terry Fox Run com- -ing up September 14. For more in- formation on the local run, contact Jean Sorochan at 625-3078 or 625- 3256. The Stampeders were brought back to reality after having so many ex- cellent games - they were thrashed by Edmonton this weekend. Don't be too upset, this team has proven its come-back ability and I m wil- ling to bet Calgary will be around when this year s playoffs begin. . ee An inept golfer once drove his tee shot onto an anthill. After many swings he demolished the anthill, but still had not hit the ball. At this point, one of the two ants still alive Letters to the turried to the other and said, If we're going to survive, we'd better get on the ball + + we Talking about golf, during the Labour Day tournament this past weekend, I was asked to put the-fol- lowing classified ad in this week's edition, but since I missed the dead- line, let me throw it in my corner just this once. . . A local golfer has his motorized golf cart, two golf . bags, one set of clubs, many unused balls and tees, as well as many years of knowledge for sale - cheap Inter- ested? Contact Oscar Markle 625- 3258. eels ee Congratulations to Jackie end Lenny Wright of Claresholm, who have won a two-week all-expense paid trip to Hawaii and 1000 cash. They won a draw through the McFayden Seed Co., which they en- tered when a seed catalogue was put in their mail box. Goes to show, you em smoke and bad news for those who do - the Claresholm Elementary School has been posted as a smoke- free area and the building is now poe of bounds for. those smoki: ing: On this seal in 1926, Calgary re- ceived a record downpour of rain. Also, 80 years ago, Alberta and Sas- katchewan became provinces on September 1, i ele wm Our local Volunteer Fire Depart- ment will be hosting a hose-laying competition in Westover Green on Saturday, September 13. Many teams from the outlaying districts. will be here. - /* + * We have pledge sheets at our office should never give up, doesn't it? for the Terry Fox Run. ee et ee oe Good news for teachers who don't Editor Greater than being great is being grateful DEAR EDITOR: Recently, a col- umnist for a leading daily newspa- per rated the Mulroney cabinet. The Honorable George Hees, Minister of Veterans Affairs, received C. Later, the columnist (I thought beg- rudgingly) gave Mr. Hees an A, after complaints, mostly from vet- erans. Given the record of some of his col- leqaqgues, even an A would hardly do justice. Comparisons are odious, but so long as they are being made, by Ted Stone I ve been out of school for so long, now, that whenever I stop to count the years since graduation I'm shocked by the amount of time that has passed. I don t think a summer goes by, though, when sometime towards the first part of September I don t remember, again, the dread I felt as a child each summer when I realized it was nearly time to start back to school. Some kids, I understand, look forward to the first day of classes, but I was never one of them. For me, Labour Day could never be a holiday because, most years, school started the following morning. I didn t hate school; I was even a good student. But after a summer of freedom the thought of returning to the regimentation of the classroom always brought with it a feeling of sadness. It was like coming to the end of anything pleasant. I hated to see it over, but there was nothing I could do about it. The four school-age children who live down the road from me, now, show no sign of the kind of dread I once had for the first day of school. They don't have to. Like a growing number of Canadian children, they don t go to school. Last year, for a variety of educational, Wayne Roberts Associate Editor An independent weekly newspaper whose principal interests are those Which best serve the Clareshoim area The Ciareshoim Local Press (1979) Ltd. Box 520 (4913 Second Street West) Clareshoim, Alberta TOL 0TO Within 40 miles of Clareshoim 9.00 : Elsewhere in Canada . 10.00 t U.S. and other Countries 40.00 + are by Wayne Roberts L BRS philosophical, and practical reasons their parents decided to teach the children at home. It was an experiment, one year to see how the family would adjust to life away from a traditional classroom. This year the experimenting is over, and parents and -children (ages 5, 8, 11, and 13) consider it a success. None of them, in fact, has any desire to go back to the, provincial school system. They'll be taking their lessons at home again this year. Some people, of course, equate learning to diplomas and certificates of graduation from educational institutions. For them, the thought of home schooling must be disconcerting, even though my neighbor's children, according to studies, are likely to learn more at home than they would in a typical year at public school. In addition, my neighbors have discoved a number of other benefits to home schooling that they hadn t counted on. According to the parents, the kids get along better together now than they did when they went to school in town. They do more things as a family, Even routine household chores have become less troublesome since they can be done communally, and at convenient time during the day instead of only after school in the evening. One of the reasons my neighbor's children like learning at home instead of at school is that they have more free time now. They used to spend two hours a day on the bus going to and coming from school. Now, they can go directly from the breakfast table to their books; and working on their own, instead of with a classroom full of other students, means that they can get their lessons done faster than before. School is also more spontaneous at home. When the children look . out their window and see an unfamiliar bird they can get their field guide and binoculars and attempt to discover what it s called. If, on an occasional morning, a student is particularly tired, he or she can lie down for an hour and make up the school work after lunch. The children aren't tied to someone else's schedule. Homeschooling isn t for everybody, of course, but it s an option being looked at by an increasing number of Canadians concerned with issues that range from the quality of education in public schools to the strength of family life in modern society. In Alberta, a recent minister of education has spoken of the benefits of teaching young children at home, and in Manitoba the department of education has recently implemented guidelines for families who decide not to send their children to school. Roland McCurdy, the home schooling coordinator with the Manitoba Department of Education, says that many parents begin teaching their children at home only after becoming disgruntled with their children s progress in traditional schools. Still others keep their children home because of philisophical differences with the public school s approach to, learning. McCurdy says that, for the most part, parents who are interested enough in their children s education to teach them at home do a wonderful job. Many home school parents, in fact, are former public-school teachers. For my neighbors, at least for now, home schooling is proving to be a success. Academically, the children are doing well, family ties have been strengthened, and none of the children begin September, and another school year, with the kind of dread I did as a child. Of course, they miss what for me was the happiest time of my childhood---that day at the beginning of every summer when another school y ar ended. Letters Polic The Claresholm Local Press welec OVE and reserves the right to edit them in relation to brev ity. clarity. legality. or personal abuse Pen names may not be used, although the writer's name may be withheld in exceptional cir cumstances, Address and telephone ni must be supplied with the letters, but will published. Questions concerning public letters should be addressed to * Bax 20, Claresholm. Alberta. TOL OTO Telephone 625-4474 HOW DO WE KNOW WHERE TODIG lt; FOR THAT BUSTEC WATER MAIN? ation with every Veterans Affairs evaluation in historical perspective. Minister going back to that redoubt- The writere has had aclose associ- LETTERS - Page 6 Flashbacks 50 Years Ago - September 5, 1936 - At a town council meeting, Alf McAlister gave a report on the water situation. He gave the cost of the two wells drilled and their pumping equipment as being approximately 1,000. These were providing about 25,000 gallons daily. The well on the hill was being equipped with an electric motor. - Nothing would clear the mental, physical, and political atmosphere like a good snow storm. - Robert S. Winters, for 19 years district superintendant of the Canadian Western Natural Gas, Light, Heat, and Power Company, resigned and with his family. left for the west coast. He was succeeded by James Morri- son. we should perhaps put George Hees BARDS SSG So-Sonhio8. 3S 40 Years Ago - September 5, 1946 - Fred J. Haynes had sold his grocery business to Dave Rempel and Wal- ter Wiig, Lethbridge. - Inclement weather held up building of the new bowling alley and Wayne Motors garage The rain was beneficial to cover crops, more having been sown that year than the previous one. There had been no evidence of frost, but harvesting operations were at a standstill. Mrs, E. L. Pitt was hired as the new librarian. Ses ah Se Fein Sree Seg 30 Years Ago - September 6, 1956 - A wild cat oil strike, on the Dahl farm six-and-a-half miles northwest of Claresholm, had residents hoping that the oil boom would fill this area. - Freezing temperatures and frost cooked the goose for the local crop, much of which was still standing and most of it green. - Big enrollments were once again causing problems for the School Divi- sion. Officials were trying to find space for approximately 80 children be- ginning school. - Restauranteur Sven Erickson told the Rotary Cub that recent changes to the Alberta Liquor laws had him predicting that wine and liquor would be served in Alberta restaurants by the following autumn. Seka Peer ese Sve eo eg 20 Years Ago - September 8, 1966 - The long awaited pavement repairs and oiling of unpaved streets nally got the go-ahead from town council - Council abandoned plans to turn the old CPR Station into a public li- pee and decided to use it as the location for our museum. - The latest Bureau of Statistics figures showed that Claresholm s popu- lation had grown from 2,444 to 2,523, an increase of 59 people. - Several citizens reported seeing a number of objects moving through the sky in a west - northwest direction for two nights. Reports indicated the objects were five to ten times the size of a star and were predominately white in color, with shifts through amber, green, and red. Seats Sr ba 8 8 Se 8 10 Years Ago - September 2, 1976 - The town s consulting engineers reported to council that a new cham- pionship golf course would cost on the order of 372,300. A standard course development would cost 275,280. - An electrical storm, which passed through the area the previous Wednes- day afternoon, resulted in four head of cattle being killed when a lightning bolt struck at the farm of Owen Amundsen, at the east edge of town - Branch No. 41 of the Royal Canadian Legion sold its downtown building to Chell s Flowers, The Legion had been actively exploring the pos- sibilities of new quarters for some months, but to this date, no firm plans had been made. ACCORDING TO MURPHY S LAW, WELL FIND IT
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