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Whitby Free Press, 19 Jul 1995, p. 7

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Whltby Fme Pree, WodnosdatyJuIy 19, 1995.Page 7 * .::. . . * *.: .: .::::. . * . **.** . * * . .*. **. .* - . -- -- -- . . . . E: EE EE EE EE EEE:: : : ::EE:E E ::E EE:: :. : .E:E.E:E.E:E E.E E.E:.E::E.E:E.E E. COUM Corny romance This week, wve take you te a niovie theatre for a condensed version of a first-run movie. Enjoy your popcorn.. Opeîngscene: a woman wearing a cowboy hat, *azlng smile and little else pulls up te a corn- country farmhouse. She has twenty cameras hanging, around her neck. "It appears Irn lost" she says. HE has been sitting on the farmhouse porch, shelling peas for dinner.HMe is alone for the week. His wife and kids have left to enter the farnily's pet rat in the ONE livestock competition. "CYupI, he replies. They don't say much in corn- farin country. "I'm heie te photograph afternoon bridge parties in tbis part of the country," she says, sipping the iced, tea he has slipped ber. erre sucb a rarity. Nobody in the city bas time for a~ in the afternoon. I've been te a lot of places. me ayvl'i tell you about those places. Make you restless, that sort of thing.» ýM "That'd be fine. Want me te show you the way te Redfernà's? "That'd be helpful. But won't the neighbors ta]k" He shrugs. "OnIy after dark. Even here ini corn country, nobody has tume for much in the afternoon.» She smiles ber -slippery smile. "My editors at Geographic Enquirer want me to photograph ail the afternoon bridge parties I can flnd,» she says. "Itfs te î na special edition called Bridges of Mammay "Thatfs fie, he says, accepting the home-rolled cigarette she offers. They drive in silence, spitting tebacco ends at the windshield. They don't say much in corn-farrn country. They don't stay long* at the Redfern's afternoon bridge party. The light isn't right. Besides she had parked her pick-up truck in the middle cf tle county road. "Corne in for a beer, pickled eggs?» be asks. "Why net?» She knows pickled eggs wiI4 give her gas, doesn't care. Pickled eggs and beer lead te dinner. Dinner leads te brandy and coffee.«She had parked the pickup truck behind the lilac bush beside the outhouse where h neighbors couldn't see it. lia! That night, in spite cf tbe sweltering, ninety- a ro.rig fre.It gvesofferoi ickierihng f.' iamest "Corne away with me. Pack your cardboard suit-35BR cases. Corne live with me in a sweltering walk-upfiat 3 EI in Wasliington. You'll have the wbole place te yourselfFrnth wbile I'rn fltting about the world taking photegraphs, * h is cengigcrsiteu corrupting the morals ofjobless house-hïusbands." Thonith. engigcrg hpt n Hie brushes away tears. "Naw. We'd just end up* The contract bas been awarded to build t] fighting about the chequing account, what movies te A Canadian Tire store will be built on Brc rent. Besides, I've got children coxing home with a* Life memberships in the Whitby Lawn1 blue-ribbon rat." McBride, Jim SleighthcX"-i, Mns. Frank Rx Làater tbat day ini the village, be is in the van with 8OY> R his wife, two kids, a pony and a wet goat. It is Frorn the ThursdayJul3 pouring rain. Abead cf tbem, 511E makes a left turn WHTBY GAZETTE in hber pickup truck out of bis life forever. (This issue 1 The next day he mails bis lifetime subscription to the Geographic Enquirer. His wife neyer does figure that out. MUNICIPAL BUILIG JULY 19, 1960 efor the Municipal Building that is now the >ers of Parliament. rom left to right are: 1Rev. David Marshall, William Davidson, ond MPP, and Mayor Stan Martin. In the architect. Photo by BOl Stannett .8S AGO & 17 1985 edition of the Bst downtown business. ntsin Whitby last week. Lion of a soccer- park at Rossfland Road and irham, Board of Education in the November I8 AGO 6 14, 1960 edition of the KLY NEWS iload at Whitby Harbour may arrive this ;he Blair Park Public School for $184,000. >ck Street North this summer. Bowli*ng Club were awarded to Mrs. W.E. ýberts, Mr. AX Edwards and J.M. Hicks. L8 AGO y15 1915 editionof the ANb CHRONICLE is missing) *1~ .:.:: :. :.:. :.:, : . : E: : : E :E:E:E:E: E E :E:E :: : : : : : :: : :: E E: E : E m

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