Hil I IM ili I il I ; : il TMH itl (ff Hm il Ui Tm hil i | il Phat Hi : ne O.P.P. Constable Jennifer Tompkins Local Community Service Officer of the O.P.P. will be available in the former Township Hall in - Milford at the following times: Oct. 13 - 10:00 am to 12:00 noon Oct. 20 - 6:00 to 8:00 pm Oct. 28 - 6:00 to 8:00 pm If you have any problems or concerns regarding police protection in the community Constable Tompkins will be pleased to discuss them with you. Milford Fair Board Pot Luck Dinner Friday, Oct. 23rd 6:30 pm Milford Town Hall Please bring your own dishes & cutlery For information call Dick White at 476-2357 Grandpa - Continued from page 5 It's not easy to be a grandfather, I guess, but I figure Grandpa had the right approach. He was a lot smarter than me, and he wasn't afraid to prove it. I know that in today's society one is supposed to avoid making children aware of their stupidity, and I wonder why. Kids are aware they're dumb. They just don't care. Society frowns on duplicity in children, though it's OK for adults ( particularly politicians though by no means limited to them). I found it was a moderately successful survival mechanism for a child, but being a novice was not very good at it. Grandpa read me very well, and I think that he allowed me to get away with lying only to show me how difficult it was to pull off successfully. Gee, once you lie, you have to maintain the structure surrounding the lie forever. It's not like you can lie and then forget it. The subject keeps coming up, and the lie has to be remembered. Or did he keep bringing the subject up? I now realize Grandpa allowed me to get away only with relatively harmless stunts like hiding the cookies Mom made me take to my fifth grade teacher, writing on the schoolhouse pavement in third grade, riding my bike through fresh paint on the neighbours driveway, putting my new found cursing vocabulary to use...Grandpa knew about these things, made sure I knew that he disapproved, and above all he set me straight in ways that left no room for misunderstanding. As I recall now, he wouldn't tell my parents unless discovery was more or less a sure thing, or unless in his judgment I had not been attentive enough to his warnings. I'm going to be a grandfather for the first time this November. His approach to grandfathering may be the one I will follow. Besides, I need someone to get bait. - George Underhill "SINCE 1925 MINAKER'S AUTO PARTS (MILFORD) LTD. Phone (613) 476-4547 _ Fax (613) 476-1565 Milford, Ont. KOK 2P0 Specializing in Hard-to-Get Parts New and used, for cars and trucks 1920 models and up Paul Minaker Randy York Closed Thursday Afternoons and All Day Sunday 13 DesCem JF Ji DotCom Computer Services E-Mail: gary.pearsonl:@sympatico.ca Gary Pearson 22 Rogers Street. P. O. Box 991 Picton, Ont. KOK 2T0 613-476-1097 Phone 613-476-1380 FAX