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BILL SMILEY Between Bites the Apple was Sweet Looking back on 1 find It contains the year usual melange of the good and evil the sweet bitter the tally worm within the luscious apple An old friend Don McCualg of Renfrew won the Best Newspaper award among Canada weeklies 1 ve thought for several that he had the best weekly in the country sorry about that all you other chaps Mho turn out first class weeklies but never got around to telling him On the other side of the fence I read an editorial In the Bowmanvillc Statesman an old established many times winner of prizes written from his hospital bed by another old friend John James This shook me a bit Haven seen Don for some years but we have an old pact He was In the army undone day was being slightly harassed by Hun a fearsome gun if ever there was A flight of Typh came over and silenced the Jerry guns We met at a newspaper convention and he me hed buy the Iggest and best dinner I could eat every time we got together because I been a Typhoon pilot And he still sends an annual invitation tocome trout fishing the Ottawa Valley the natal place of many great men like us Last lime saw John James he and two gigantic sons were whaling golf balls at a weeklies tournament while I puddled my usual slices hooks and various blunders of the links Get well John and hit them a mile Here a clipping and note from Tommy Lee former weekly editor and now PR man with Royal Trust He loo was a pilot The clipping Is about the big aircrew reunion in Winnipeg ana the note chides me for not hob nobbing with the mob I wonted to go Tommy but my wife let me She i want me shipped home In a casket And here a note from Walter of the Times giving mc hell for using the term Japs in a column He claims that the word Jap is derogatory and objectionable To me It Just an abbreviation He also doubts If I would call a German or Italian other than such in public print See above Walter 1 wouldn t give a diddle if somebody called Canadians Cans In fact It might be suitable Many of us have the figure and the mental resilience of a can Here a huge newspaper from In which I learn hit a dear old friend George Cadogan who actually got this column going cant resist the smell of printers Ink and has got back into the scramble of run a after a letter swearing that he was going to take it easy spend the winter In Spain Take it easy George Oromocto is a long from Majorca But good luck Lord Thomson of the And the News a close if wires a dedicated Catholic nun and one of he most vibrant cheery personalities one could meet Is seriously ill Young in age and spirit she resists my firm con that God does not see the little sparrow fall Bless her a buoyant letter from who has suffered the tropic loss of a brilliant son the death of his stupid car incident is TO and is off and thinks hell drive this And Just before Christmas friends of ours lost a little six yearold angel of a girl who was pitilessly smashed to rags In a stupid unnecessary car on way home from school And so it goes the bitter and the sweet the good and bad the joyous and the tragic Life and it the only one wl have don to spoil a mood or appear frivolous but we had the whole thing distilled in our Christmas with two He a fat neutered lad called Pip to by Kim when she left home Well Pip has established the fait that she is queen of her own domain She everything from squirrels to butterflies to spiders out of her backyard in and deigns to spend the winter eating and sleeping Home from college conies Kim sneak in a box with air holes he rauchiest randiest young tomcat ever laid eyes on tor the first few days Pip tried to lay down the law as lo whom the house belonged to The re Christmas air was rent with owls and screams as they clashed put one in he cellar the other in the Johnnie fat old Pip got too pooped to participate After a few diys they decided to exist and now spend their time chasing each other up the drapes and the upholstery Maybe there a message here somewhere The good the bad the bitter and the sweet are part of life and we can either accept It or run way from It Teachers Hosts for School Staff Parties Miss Linda a teacher at Glen Williams public school was hostess for the Christmas dinner for fellow staff members at her home last Wednesday Mrs was hostess for the Limehouso public school staff party at her 6th Line home a week before Christmas We enjoyed a call by Rhonda and Lon Clow and Anna Marie and Adrian who were out carolling on behalf of the Georgetown District Memorial hospital on Thursday evening The pleasant Christmas Eve service at Presbyterian Church was quite well attended Ted Brown Jr and William Kom conducted the service with Mr Robert Hyde as speaker The choir led in carols and sang three anthems Linda read What is Christ mas Mrs Jack Rough ley and Mrs Bert Benton presided at he organ and J C Hay professor at Knox College preached on Sunday at Limehouse Presbyterian Church The next three services will be at 30 a m with ministers preaching for calls Visitors at Christmas in eluded Mrs Smith Mrs Les Hut and Jack Hutchinson Weston Mrs Hutchinson of Toronto and Mr and Mrs William Henry and Tanya of Midland with the A C Pat tenons Mrs Henry daughter remaining for the Mlu Pearl Scott of George town with Mrs Mitchell and the Mr A Marshall and Miss Eileen Marshall of Toronto and Mrs on Christmas day and Mr and Mrs Russell Ross and Mr and Mrs Wayne Ross and family of New Toronto with the 4th Line Lawsons Mr and Mrs Gordon Booth entertained all their family excepting one daughter in who with her husband and Infant daughter flew to Holland to be with his parents Mr and Mrs Vas of Amsterdam Holland are pending a month with son Frank Tils wife and family Line Mill Anthony of Shakespeare with the Pox and Brook famines Mr and R Mitchell with the John Michles Those away at Christmas The family with relative at Fergus The Benton families with the Greenlecs at Campbell Mr and Mrs Banish with their parents in Toronto and Union The with the Reverend in Acton Mr and Mrs Bert Benton John with her parents at Meaford on Sunday Mr and Mrs William Kam with his parents at London on Sunday Mr and Mrs John and family with the George at Weinberg on Sunday Mr Mrs Jack Crichton and Jackie with Mr and Mrs Thomas Haines at Glen The Walter I at a family gathering at the Frank near Or ton The George Morrisons with relatives at Richmond Quebec for the holidays The Fred with her sister Miss Noble In Hamilton New Year visitors The Thomas Haines and Wayne Haines with the Mr Noble and Mr Jim of with the Fred Mr and Mrs Wilfrid the Hill Elliots and the Woods all of Cam with the Ben tons Those away included The Walter Linhams at the Sandersons on Sunday Mr and Mrs A Patterson with Mr and Mrs Henry In Mrs Mitchell and the Sanfords With Mr and Mrs Kenny Acton Mrs Ktrkpatrick with the Calvin over the holidays Mrs A Benton Rain and slushy roads bring many additional hazards to drivers One of the city hazards out by he Ontario Safety ague is the fact that at he very time when driver vision Is most limited by blurred wind shields pedestrians are liable to make hasty mistakes to avoid getting wet or spattered while crossing streets FOR A PHONE 877 2201 The Georgetown Herald Page HERALD THURSDAY JAN 3 DAY SPECIALS JANUARY 678 SHOP EARLY QUANTITIES LIMITED STORE HOURS To Wed am to pm Thurs a m to Sat a m to pm BEAMISH DISCOUNTS MARKET PHONE BOYS THERMAL UNDERWEAR TOPS s Our Price BOYS THERMAL UNDERWEAR DRAWERS J17 Sizes Price MENS THERMAL UNDERWEAR TOPS L 117 Our Price Our 49 For Brunettes Only Hair Coloring Our 49 Price MENS THERMAL UNDERWEAR DRAWERS Our Price PLASTIC BATH ROOM ENSEMBLE Our Price In Gold Blue Avocado Striped 9xl2 RUGS FOAM BACKED Our Price 27 00 PLASTIC LINED DRAPES 58 Sue wide Long Our Price WABASSO SHEETS MARVEL PRESS Flat Sheet 54x75 Double Fitted Sheet Our Price 44 WABASSO SHEETS MARVEL PRESS Flat Sheet Twin Fitted Sheet Our Price V SNOW SHOVEL Silicone Coating prevents snow sticking Our 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