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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), July 22, 1971, p. 11

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Ads That Pay Yon can place an ad la The Herald ClaiiJlied by phoning Buying or The Herald la where yon will find the you want GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District Printing Publishing The Georgetown Herald has served Georgetown and district an Printers and Pnbtltben for over a century offering Id fine printing and nam erase Sacond Clan Mall Registered Number Till- THUHSDA JULY Return Guaranteed 50 per year Slnflla Copy Pries Canta These 16 Students Qualified for Ontario Scholarships Tonight Mill J HI DUD to a Bucket or Barrel of the besttasting chicken in town Colonel Sanders It fried STREET Girls Pipe Band Is Much in Demand Busy Buss Hint the way it has been for members Georgetown Girls Pipe Band since end Alter attending the Lions convention in Kingston at which Ihey won third marched for I ions Jamboree in on June The next Saturday Georgetown look them a decoration parade in rctk June 1G found Hum marching lor another Lions Club this time Port for i successful jamboree June 19 played fir the Park Royal Community association in i next back in Georgetown iltematlng with low i festiv parade in This as a piper pi drum same tuning sever Hit girls donated their time to or evening at this respite then made four appear in weekend July they from Moore Park phza down Street to in Western Days Next bright and played or the Waterloo Wellington Orange lodgL in Guelph after boarded their bus ind journeyed to St Citharmes for in ad ditionil mareh or the same group hire won a first prize Colleen Cummins led them this JuK 11 the group it Hit Museum at Kelso On 17 attended the wedding and Mrs William it St Georges Anglican Mrs the former Arthurs plus snare in the band On each on smtc June summer dress is the order of the day as it been too hot for or full dress CHATTING By Mary Blehn People as Interesting As Horses at the Races Tut ill- CI- NT running the Queen Plate reminded me of an experience I had- last year- I attended a horse race for tht first time in living technltolour It was in fact the 1970 Queen Plate I it too But it left mt with a mixed big of MUST Or all I was absolutely amazed by thousands upon thousands of cars already NOTICE RATEPAYERS TOWNSHIP OF ESQUESING PU MEETI STEWARTTOWN SCHOOL JULY 29th 1971 at 730 TO PRESENT DISCUSS AND EXPLAIN THE OFFICIAL PLAN FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF ESQUESING Draft or The Official Plan Mas lie Inspected the Township Office Within The Hours Of To Prior To The Meeting Written Submission The Content The Official Plan ill fie The I ndersigned Dp To 1871 lHMll Sccrelurv Treasurer I- Still- SING PI Township of For the Lowest Prices on Quality Carpeting WAIL TO WALL SPECIALISTS WITH GUARANTEED INSTALLATION Rugs Remnants and Short Rolls always competively priced FREE ESTIMATES AND DECORATING ADVICE BY SPECIALISTS Criterion street Next CARPET WAREHOUSE 8777797 In one place Well thought I to myself its sure thing well never ict sea With a hope is mini bus from the lid parking IfOW I getting off the which tootles patro far flung reaches of lots to the front entrance of huge grand stand good management other wise you be too exhausted from your mile or more walk to bet for the first fewraccs up we trotted to what we hoped would be a choice vintage point Tor viewing Standing at the entrance of what I must an ex good section of scats were in for mother surprise There were all klndi of empty ones could practically have our pick So we chose some pretty good ones Well answer to that question was not long in or We hod been silting there basking in a glow of self IT JU5T DOWN THE HILL FOR ALL YOUR GIFT FLORAL NEED3 J Jutt Paw Slipi East of Main St sitisfaclion for all of five minutes when we noticed people starting come In obviously looking for specific scats A suspicion flickered Then from behind tame friendly tap the shoulder Do you havi reservations my asked Ml astonished innocence I replied No whereupon hi voluntctred furthtr information to the effect that not only were all the seals in that particular settion reserved but they had been spoken and paid for much as six months ago yd II sure had nice there What a view of the track lit hasty real it appeared a race was about to Want to bet on if Sure said I To win asked he Of course said I thinking there no point lo the wholi thing If you don want horse to win Which horse asked he Thai one said I after not a whit of thought blithely picked one with I that appealed to me So off he went with my dollars lo the betting wicket And just In the nick of time too The rice was all over before I begun And my horse had won I was seventeen richer than when 1 came 1- irmly tucking away the small capital Investment I had come prepared to squander I deter mined to use only these winnings for my iflernoon action I am not really a gambler by least think I NOW I had become aware of the betting boards placed for the edification of crowd on the Inside of the Names of tht horses in each race to id the betting odds were posted on whit looked like big black The odds kepi changing ill the time right up and Ihcrunningof race Mid I also out that yo don I ilwavs have bet on horse to win There are quite few other lessrisky alternative Halton County Board of Education CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICE Juh id the iddrcss of Central Ad Off let of the Hilton Board of Education at 166 South Seriee Road bast will Line Box 5005 Burlington Ontario ton area telephone number will be telephone remain As the afternoon wore on the more l le the more Ibecimc when came time to mike a chain formylwo dollar net Never did I bet on horse to win And never again did I win seventeen dollars As a miller of barely minaged keep within my losng limit the I had originally won I by the the afternoon I t even mind losing too much either and that s really saying something fir the fascination of the whale atmosphere THI BUM ousted from the stands wc gridually worked ourselves down into Ihe grassy enclosure in fronl and got comfortably jammed up against the railings past which the horses and trotted out to the track Those horses were beautiful whtn 1 I trying to figure my next bet or looking at the horses I w is watching and to the around me This t require much In fact it would have been hard not to because we were standing so together wc were either into someone ear or down their was easy for some of our companions in ihe enclosure spot a rcol greenhorn so was recipient of many hot tips from seasoned of the track I thought it odd how few of them would hive worked out I those to disregard advice preferring to lose m money on my very own choices Which I did thing I nollted People don like telling you on And also little if anything is said about losses And if you re wise you don t ask Till final moments of a race tht tension Is in final of the race inly try tangible indeed A real deal of It was generated i young min standing nor us who confided that he had been given a sub slantial sum by to bet on certain specific horses in specific races He used his own Judgment in stead had lost and now was depending on the nee to recoup The horses wertnt the only ones in i that IIOIISI- ItUlV is whole world of its own magnitude of the Woodbine operation staggertd mc as did the lineups of to wager at the Ml belting IS wr Thais i hard question to if want lo use laws of as Common sense tells me business to get hooked though felt pull gimble can imagine irresistible it could be for people who don t hate lost as much as I For A PHONE The Georgetown Herald

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