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TOE HERALD Wednesday March 29 1989 Pagell April is the crudest month but we get a taste of Summer Kells Korner Donna KeH Herald Staff Is April the cruelest month Everyone looks at the advent of spring with different emotions but it was poet and sometimes playwright Elliott who said is the cruelest month This particular month he said shocks all living creatures out of hibernation rousing them back to life after the blanket of snow disap pears While last weekends weather t seem to produce too many shock casualties Elliott may have a point There is evidence that the annual transformation from relative quiet to relative liveliness is taking place We now hang in the trans tion stage Everything looks brown Trees are barren and mud slides are everywhere Melting snow lingers and puddles get deeper The sun is out but no one knows for how long And people seem to have ty choosing an outfit to match the season Wool sweaters are worn with cotton pants Old sweatsuits are dragged out of the closet and worn whether or not they fit from last years indulging One person will walk past you wearing shorts while another sports a ski jacket And snow plow drivers arent sure when to pack it in swimming pool owners don know when to safely pour chemicals into their pools and cats and dogs just shed all over the place This is the confusion of a new season Plants will soon start to bud having been forced by sunshine water and soft soil to get back into the land of the living Deciduous trees green again carpets of manicured grass will reappear DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC TRENTON 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 on the lawns of the many and short lifespan tulips will burst into col orf glory very soon And time will come for lawn cut shrub trimming bulb plan ting and- car washing In this the season of change everyone seems to be in a rush to do something April is the time of transition new ambition and a return to each year routine of barbecues camp ing cottaging and fishing SAM WELDING NEW Motor Vehicle Inspection Station Steel and Aluminum Welding General Repair Work Frame and Box Repairs for Large Trucks and Trailers Saleties and Dump Slickers TICKER 225 MAIN ST S GEORGETOWN 8732476 a Maybe the cruelty lies in the fact that these things are not here yet But we re given a glimpse of what will come when the sun shines again 26 Guelph St Georgetown 877 9896 IN CANADA SPECIAL 89 EX i COUPE 88 CIVIC AUTO DEMO HEW GEORGETOWN 203 ST Hwy 7 8460913 SALESSERVICELEASING 8731818 Canada Post Corporation Rural Report Card In early 1988 Canada Post Corporation made several commitments to our rural customers We promised more convenience more outlets more business for local merchants and more efficient services Canada Post Corporation is Slivering these premises and more Since our program to improve service began Canada Post Corporation has Increased Convenience by more than doubling the hours of postal service in communities where these services are prouded through retail postal outlets operated by local businesses Increased the number of postal outlets bv opening more than new postal outlets in rural communities to complement the sen ices offered by a corporate post office and 10 new postal outlets in communities where no postal outlet existed Increased business for local merchants bv comemng retail postal services from a corporate to local businesses in more than 2tO communi ties giving merchants the benefits of increased customer traffic Increased the efficiency of our service by allowing local merchants to retail postal products and services This enables Canada Post Corporation td concentrate on efficient pickup processing and dehven of the mail ANummn Free lockbox Service Customers who depend on lockboxes as their primary means of delivery will no longer have to pay a lockbox service fee Local delivery and community postal identity have been maintained in every community where the mail system has been changed Meeting Customers delivery needs by installing additional lockboxes in retail postal outlets building community mill centres in convenient locations and expanding rural route delivery Canada Post is in rural Canada to stay Thats a promise MAILPOSTE Canada Post Corporation Sociele des posies Out commitment