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A generous serving Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 19,1981-7 And now its auctioneering - the hat went too! Walter Stapleton, (left) event was again a success be- barbecued beef, baked serves up a bountiful helping ing held in the Orono Park potatoes, cole slaw, beans, of beans at the annual Orono with a good attendance. Beef Barbecue to Mr. and -As usual the menu of ting and delicious. Mrs. Ted Woodyard. The Birch firewood a prize Stirling Mather, the chief It all makes .for some fun chef at the annual barbecue, and at one point Mather lost put on another hat and turns his caster bonnet in the bid- auctioneer selling cabbages ding for a cabbage going at and donuts, above he is ' ten dollars, assisted by John Carr (right). In all ' the Orono Fund Two of a kind enjoy outing Raising Committee cleared $1005.60 with the barbecue which goes towards «paying off a portion of the remaining remaining debt on the new arena and community centre. No we don't think they cut the firewood, but Charles Gray and Pat Irwin were selling selling draw tickets at the annual barbecue for this cord of white birch firewood and as well for two lawn chairs. The winner of the firewood was Ellen Graham with the lawn chairs going to Vel Watson Watson and Peggy Sawyer. ' 'Jhe lawn chairs were donated by Rolph Hardware and the cord of wood donated by Catherine and Emelia Smith, 10 month old twins of ' Mr. and Mrs. Dave Smith, Port Perry and grand- . daughters of Sid and Mary Rutherford attendêd the Orono Beef Barbecue last Wednesday evening. Although they'were not in the least interested in the . , t* ■%.! Yi ■■ menu for the evening the; were interested in the activit; * about them and able to ex press thë serious side and th< jovial side of the event. My wife and I are just back from China after one of those trips that is going to be almost as interesting in retrospect as it was at the time. The Chinese are so anxious to show you everything that they set a murderous schedule. People who knt>w more about China than I do say that the pace is also designed to deposit you exhausted in your hotel room at night, so that you are not anxious to stray or, think of more awkward questions. Be that as it may, this one was an enormous success. And so full that it will provide food for thought - and perhaps comments - for a long time. I suppose what surprised me most about the trip was the number of times we strayed off the beaten path. Every thing I had read lead me to believe that we would stay only in hotels reserved for "foreign friends" and that we would be steered carefully to model communes, model factories, model situations wherever we went . By and Marge that expectation was borne out, but a number of times we found ourselves in places which westerners had not'visited in living memory, or doing things which they assured us* westerners had not done before. Gncç, north west >of Chungking, our minibus was cut off by floods, and we were stranded for a time in a little town called Ytiting. We were such objects of curiosity there that they crowded around our minibus, staring, 10 or twenty deep. When we got out for a strcjll, one or two hundred frankly avid observers observers took a stroll with us. The, manager of the local inn ■ knocked himself odt for his first and totally unexpectee western guests, and prepared a 15-cpursë country feast Eventually, We got out by train, on a milk run to Chung king. They'd never had westerners on the Jrain before ant they apologized «profusely for our third class, hard seats The train trip was at once an adventure, breaking nev gYound in an alien world, and an exercise in nostalgia The train was powered b.y a steam-engine and the sounds of getting' up steam and the wheels, clattering over the points took a Canadian back to his, childhood. Except o: course that it was China, vast, tèamiûg with people, ancient, impenetrable. I'm afraid you haven't heard the end of it. That's not news, but that too.is reality.'