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The Acton Free Press Wednesday July Columnist finds snow in July on trail ride in Rockies CAMP BOSS Ron Warner splits firewood at The trail riders sleep In colorful teepees thebasecampatShadowLakeintheRockies Photo by Wendy Thomson By Wendy I wish I could have taken pictures of our ride into camp Who would believe a saga of horses trekking eleven miles in a snowstorm over Gibbon pass altitude through snow up to in spots And me without my It was a fascinating experience especially for July I was on one of the 10 horses acting as for the rest of the train This year my horse is Nicky apart Arab which 1 admired in ridden by one of the guides He a marvellous and does everything asked of him Nicky not the guide and we get along marvellously Base camp is by Shadow Lake a very picturesque spot but by the time 1 reached my tepee was more interested in warm dry clothes than scenery Brief pause while I throw another log on the fire And this morn Ins viewing had the added attraction of small drifts of snow around each tent Read articles About people are here because of my articles on the Trail Riders Including Jean and Rita of Fergus was wondering if they felt a let down due to the weather but everybody Is quite Intrigued with this real experience of roughing it Today thcIOth we rode 7 miles to Haiduk Lake stopping to lend our doctor aid to a park ranger who had been kicked in the knee by his horse Teacher sa The lake still frozen partly over and of course the snow around It was enjoyed by all the girls who made snowballs to throw at the guides and the guides who picked up the girls and dumped them in the snow banks Me behaved myself made only one snowball and gave it to someone else to throw This afternoon the sun finally tame out and stayed and we all had a huge supper homemade chicken noodle soup salad biscuits beef stew carrots potatoes Jelly and apricots and cookies while basking in ft Hungry friend men there was an uproar from the cookcabin The guides were sitting on the steps eating and a marten came out from under grabbed a biscuit and made off with it I ioing to try and get a picture of it now and fold this up for the pony express Hunches related to witchcraft New post for Alan Rimmer The board of directors of the Student Christian Movement of Canada has appointed Alan lothe position of general secretary of the M of Canada Mr will suc ceed the Rev Vince Goring who has held that position for the past year Mr years of age comes to the Student Christian Movement from the College of Applied Arts and Tech Kitchener where he has been a teacher for the past three years Prior to his work at College Mr helped to found and operate the Place one of Canada first Free Schools Mr Is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Zoology and Geology After graduation from He studied theology for two years at Union College of BC during which time he was active in SCM activities at UBC Prior to his work in education in Ontario Mr travelled extensively throughout In connection with his work in mineral exploration He left that wort to order to teach high school in Newfoundland He left Newfoundland to work In an interim capacity as Study Secretary for the SCM of Canada He candidate for riding In the last two provincial elections COME a long way to shop at Actons farmers market left and her niece Gceske right are from Holland and are visiting here with the family They re admiring a soft blue shawl made by Jean Denny at her booth en Saturday morning PhotobyK Dills Father Bennett Rev Michael Bennett took the I a at St Josephs on the weekend while Rex Glllen was Psychic experiences even hunches are closely related to witchcraft explains Mrs Brandon witchcraft teacher at Sheridan College Almost everyone has had some experience she thinks magic that from old witches is really psychic energy she explains Man knew he possessed this energy for years but few wanted to believe it Little Known little Is known about this psychic energy except that It operates within our brains and forms our sixth sense Mrs Brandon This psychic force is at work when we have a hunch or feeling about something which can be logically explained she adds Spirit One phenomena now attributed to psychic energy is doppclgangtr when you think you are jour lifelike just before death It a terrifying thing when it happens to you she says It used to be taken as a death sign that this spirit hud taken your appearance and when you met it meant were going to die Almost died Sometimes they re out of the body clothing in the air and they look down and there Is the bleeding body and they say to themselves things like I must be dead And then they 11 be back inside the body hurting every ng else tan also occur when you arc extremely tired or suffering a high fever she says I saw myself once and I almost died Gullible Si course will be renamed a short form for psychic phenomena because too many students think that a RIDERS guide Don Heather fishes in ride which Wendy Thomson describes in her Lake There were people on the page Puppet show at Terra Cotta witchcraft course would teach them how to be witches and warlocks she says rhe kids ore so gullible 11 swallow anything she says What I started out to do was say let look at this and see what real and what nonsense 1 want to get away from the witchcraft label because they think teaching them how to be witches This is just what I don t want With elaborate church rituals disappear i nj people are now turning to witchcraft and Sin tan ism as suitable alternative says Vicki Brandon used by old witches in their rites was real she says but their modern counterparts just use the ceremonies as a gimmick for sensationalism and notoriety Y closes for summer Irogram Gloria Browne s visions of day camp ind bustling summer program in the have come to nothing At a Monday evening members of the board decided thit to lack of attendance the V will be closed till the end of Just a handful of younj wire taking advantage of the summer programs offered I Mrs Browne ex pi BlueGreen AlLnc that foul villain I Clarence Clam Rush Rush live the business tycoon who recovered sense of smell during will all be ch irnciers in the puppet show at Conservation Area on July it It a and I I colore is a tounnf puppet show The aim of the project is to impart to children a simple a pollution message through the enter medium col ogee is staffed by six Humber College students from the Creative and Communication Arts division students art responsible for writing the scripts construction of the puppets and sets well as performing The show is sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment under a SWEEP grant The Informal on Services Branch of the Ministry is directly res ponsible for Ihc puppet show Children always love to get If they are involved in a bit of painless education on the problems of the environment then so much better JOHN SALMONS Country TV Centre Kwy 24 Line Ph Zellers GEORGETOWN MARKET MAntnONTti mi 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