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PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1977, WHITBY FREE PRESS New clubs formed at senior citizens' activity centre The fall season is bringing lots of activity to the Whitby Seniors centre at Brock and Pitt Streets. The centre has formed a fitness .club under the direction of Pauline Luff, which started meeting Mondays at 10 a.m. this week. Mrs. Luff comes from England, has has been involv- ed in the Olympics and physical fitness in general. She is also a member of the County Town Singers. A moderate fitness pro- gram with some exciting ideas has been planed. Gentle exercises and games will be played. The centre is also formine a group in the Games Roorn. on the newlyopened lower floor for the fall season. Billiards, snooker, darts and snuffleboard will be offered. Both men and women are encouraged to join, and may contact Bruce Browning in the evenings or the office during the daytime. His number is 668-1746. Competition teams will be organized when enough men- bers have joined. A program 'of monthly movies made by MGM in the 1950s started in September. The films are on Friday nights, and "Kiss Me Kate" is the feature at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Drawing and painting courses begin on September 9 at 2 p.m. Individual instruc- tion is offered in charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, water- colors, oils and art app'recia- tion. Trips to local galleries and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto are being planned. The Whitby Seniors' Jubilee Choir will start holding meet- ings Mondays and Fridays at 10 a.m. at the centre. Anyone interested in joining may call Mrs. Gladys Williams at 668-5514 or the office at 668-1424. Instructionincoppertooling will be given by Gilbert Jones, on Mondays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the centre's creative workshop. On September 16, represen- tatives from the Activity Haven Senior Citizens Centre inPeterboroughwere theguests of the Whitby Seniors Activity Centre. These included members of the centre's board of directors, and a representative of the Peterborough Recrea- tion Department. They were received by the Whitby centre's directors, Program co-ordinator, Mrs. Kay Byk, and Bob Caspell of the Whitby Recreation Department, who gave thern a tour of the centre. Coming events at the seniors' centre include the monthly birthday party from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 27, and a Hallowe'en Dance Party Bird's will be held the evening of Oct. 29. Eye lView bylJim QuIl Looking out the window at the quagmire that used to be a perfectly good community I wonder who really knows. If we were growing rice I could be a little understanding but we're not, and my tomatoes are dropping off their vines like flies. One big difference between the weathermen and the experts - the weathermen tell us why we're being delunged but the experts tend to predict a month hence. The ones I class as "experts" are those who predict by their corns, the old Indian wise men, the beaver watchers and so on. The only recent theory I've heard from any of the lst mentioned as to why we're getting so much rain is because we're smoking pot. Well I don't and l'm still getting rained on. The weatherman, on the other hand can tell us exactly why we're getting so much rain. They usually attribute it to a large, overhanging cloud filled with precipitation. You can't imagine how relieved I am to have the weatherman tell me the reason we're being flooded out is because of a silly old cloud as opposed to being caused by my pot smoking neighbours and friends. At this point all the theories don't matter because of summer has corne to an abrupt and soggy end. No picnics, no corn roasts, it's too -cold for swimming but more inportantly to me it's too cold for boating and every day I see another big boat on a trailer, obviously by the algae on the huli, having been just hauled out of the water for the season. For me the summer is officially over when theboat is on the trailer and it's kind of a sad time of the year. Two years ago it was not only sad it was absolutely terrifying. t was reminded of it twice in one week recently and I broke into a cold sweat at the reminiscence. White out on the 401 one recent day I happend on an accident and while passing noticed a rather disgruntled looking man standing, uninjured except for his pride, beside. a truck facing the wrong way in theditçh, still upright. Behind the truck, still upright also was a boat trailer but spread across part of the highway and laying on it's side was a large cabin cruiser. But for fate that could have been me standing there. I tried to dismiss it from my mind and after a couple of days succeeded until, on the same highway just two days after the first sighting, I came across another accident with the same general layout only this time the cruiser was upside down on its roof. I got so distracted I amost cracked up my own vehicle. Two years later when I hauled iy boat out of the water I was faced with trying to get a 23 foot boat onto a 15 foot trailer and getting both all the way from Georgian Bay to Whitby without an accident. Getting the boat onto the trailer wasn't too bad a job and eventually I had it all chained down with most of the weight reasonably center, Ten miles down the road when I hit a bump and the rear wheels of the car lifted off the ground I realized the wasn't in the center of the trailer. And the trailer tended to sway even though it was a four wheeler. When it swayed rny heart went into irregular beats. I could only do 20-25 m.p.h. and honebound cars kept lining up behind me. Now and then I would ease off onto the shoulder to let them by and imany tines nearly lost control in the soft sand of the shoulder. I broke into a dead sweat every time a police cruiser went by. There were manv times when the boat and trailer were steering the car instead of vice-versa and what shouid have been an hour and a half trip took over four terrible and nerve wracking hours. It seerned like weeks and the recur- ring nightnares lasted for rnonths. It all came back recently on the 401 when I saw those two accidents because, knowing 1 would have to tow the boat home, I had had nightmares for a week before towing the boat home last year. Every nightnare was the same - the trailer ranýamuck and trailer and tow car wound up in ditch with the boat on it's side blocking the lighway. My boat is steel and I dreamed that just to move it the highway was blocked until a big crane could be found and cranes are $150 an hour! My boat or car insurance doesn't cover such situations although OHIP should pay for a rest in the hospital to relax collapsed nerves. Well none of it happened to me but twice this month it did to somebody else and if either or both of them are reading this let me say you have my deepest sympathy but, better you than me! CRAFT WORKSHOP 1626 Charles St. Whitby 668-9511 668-1202 Poftery Classes Gift shop Suppies Noiw uking Regisroftion For 0ur Next Beginer Course Aa6d Ope Worksaop