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S Sword, Dagger, Spear Head Acquired at Local Museum The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. August 17,1983 19 Some Enchanted Evening, Flying Her Own Balloon • J A sword, a dagger, and the Ihead of a spear are among some of the recent acquisitions acquisitions at the Bowmanville Museum. Museum Curator Marion Veinot said this week that they are among many artifacts artifacts which have been added to the collection as a result of donations. The primitive weapons Museum Sponsors Fall Antique Lecture Series ' The Bowmanville Museum will once again Sponsor its popular fall lecture lecture series on antiques Marion Veinot, museum curator, said this week that the series will begin September September 14 and run until October October 5. The lectures will be on the topics of porcelain, quilts in Canada, and Chinese artifacts. In addition, addition, there will be a treasure treasure identification by D & J Ritchie Auction House. Lectures will be conducted by staff of the Royal Ontario Museum.. The programs will take place Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m., at the Bowmanville Bowmanville Police and Fire Building. Building. Mrs. Veinot noted that enrolment enrolment will be limited and anyone wishing to attend the series should contact the museum as early as possible. possible. The cost of the four evening evening lectures is $15. The program is sponsored by the Bowmanville Museum Board of Directors. Directors. were from a collection of curios contained in the Jury home before the building became the Bowmanville Museum. Other items which formerly were in the home and have been returned through recent donations include brassware such as an incense burner and a candle-holder. A number of papers and writings of historical interest interest have been given to the museum, along with artifacts artifacts such as china, quilts, and photos. Many of the new acquisitions acquisitions are already on display and others are being prepared prepared for exhibit soon. Mrs. Veinot suggests that the museum donations may be due, in part, to the fact that the museum is becoming becoming better known to the public public at large. Attendance has been high this year, the curator said. She added that a record may be set this season for the number of tourists who paid a visit to the museum. Ill Real Estate Feel at home with King and Temperance Streets Bowmanville Telephone 623-6622 SUPER STARTER $54,900 Renovated home on large 66 x 165' lot, new kitchen, large dining room, new carpeting, separate income apartment, north end, Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Isabel Veldhuis 623-6622. Susan Marten BRICK BUNGALOW $66,900 Custom built, 3 bedroom home, close to schools and 401. Susan Marten 623-6622 or 623-5097. HORSES -- GARDENING Executive home, 2000 sq. (t. on 10 acres for $99,900. Minutes from Bowmanville. Willy Wicha. 623-6622 or 987-5004. 'm, $ MUST BE SOLD -- $69,500 Cozy 3 bedroom, backsplit in prime north end location with cedar hedged lot. Mike Nelson 623-6622 or 623-1647. SPACIOUS 5 LEVEL Open concept with separate dining room and main floor den or 4th bedroom. $59,900. Mike Nelson 623-6622 or 623-1647. WANT TO BUILD? Extra proposed building lot, included with this 3 bedroom older home, needs work. ' $59,000. Renate Schmahl 623-6622. COUNTRY SECLUSION Over 3 Vs acres, wooded with cedar, fronts on paved road, excellent location in Newcas-. tie area. Asking $24,900. Isabel Veldhuis 623-6622 or 786-2307. BUILDING LOT 67 x 107' building lot in village. Water and sewer right on property. $28,500. Renate Schmahl 623-6622. By Marguerite J. Fraser It's an early evening in late July. The hills and houses and farms east of Enniskillen lie drowsy in the heat, for the sun is still an hour above the horizon. It is very still and quiet for the haying is done, and families are mostly away on vacation. There's little to do - it's too hot to work in the garden, and there's nothing but re-runs on TV. 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Asking $93,000.00. rise TREES & TERMS come with this 4 bedroom, raised bungalow, located in north Bowmanville. Home near park and school. Good 1st mortgage. Asking $65,900.00. SMALL, SWEET & TO THE POINT You don't have much money, and your tired of paying rent, so you start small and move up. Charming bungalow tastefully decorated, assumable 1st mortgage, asking $49,900.00. HOMES ARE LIKE SHOES . . . Better if they fit. Three bedroom bungalow, large lot. Newly renovated and In excellent neighborhood. Asking $57,900.00. -Photo by Blanche Jones hurry anyway. And for one split second my mind shrieks, "U.F.O.I" It's an unbelievable flying object, here in the silent breathless countryside, where even the birds are hushed and still. An enormous, grossly fat creature. Bigger than the horse in the pasture beneath it. Bigger than the old pear tree. Almost as big as the barn beyond which it is sinking slowly and silently to the earth. Not a sound. Just this gigantic gigantic apparition from Outer Space, black-skinned and pear-shaped; clutching something something like a basket in its claws. I blink ... and reality returns. returns. It's a hot air balloon, of course. Lost? Disabled? Or just dropping in for a swim in the pool next door? Shoes, camera, and a quick dash through backyards and gardens... Too late. He's rising again. Gliding gracefully in and out among the scattered trees in the pasture. Swaying weight- lessly over the bay horse Thunder's back, down by the creek. Thunder stares, puzzled puzzled -- but not frightened, for the creature is totally silent. And besides, he's not stupid; he knows there's no such animal so he ignores it, and continues nibbling his patch of clover. Magically people have gathered, on foot and in cars. We pause, waiting. Where is he going? "There's the chase car," the Young Man-with-Guitar points a knowing finger at a vehicle with a trailer, and some strange-Iooking rigging. "He'll bring it down close to the road so they can pick him up." Pick him up? How in the name of common sense... Heat and humidity forgotten, forgotten, we hurry half-running down the hill, to the field beside the road on the far side of the creek. He's down! Someone's climbing out of the basket, and someone else is climbing in. I slither down the bank, through the waist-high dead grass in the dried-up ditch, over the page-wire fence, clutching camera and a hastily scrounged scrounged pen and scrap of paper from one of the cars. Too late again, damn it. He floats effortlessly upwards, just as I reach the small cluster of people watching him. "Hey!" I gasp, "What's happening? Whose is that »" "It's mine!" an amused DURHAM REAL ESTATE LTD. Broker 99 KING STREET EAST BOWMANVILLE - 623-3911 HAMPTON -- custom-built with 3 bedrooms, broadloom, fireplace, rec room, double attached garage and 16' x 32' 'Inground heated pool on quiet street. 'x&srsiif. 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Uarrol Dovolln 903-5817 Claudo Dykstrn 623-2423 Bonnlo Fabor 433-9170 Pat Marjorrison 023-2478 Liz Moado 576-5582 Judy Numis 903-9703 Bob Slovens 623-3090 45-ACRE FARM Orono area • 4-bodroom homo, family room with llroplaco, walkout lo sundock, 2 barns. Ideal horse (arm. $174,900,00. Madololno Williams 987-4235 Mart) Bain 623-2661 Jack I Heard 433-0036 Ken Hockin 623-5055 voice chuckles. Hers? Whose, this laughing little blond girl's? "You're kidding! What, where, when --" She's Kathy Dixon. And that Flying Object is her hot air balloon, Fantasy l. She's an X-rav technician at Oshawa General Hospital, Lives in Whitby. Arid she's been "ballooning" for about five years. Why? "Because it's fun!", she's still laughing as she and her friend grab the ends of a large heavy cylinder and head for the waiting chase car. I follow them up the steep bank. Where are they going? What happens next? "Over to the next road. Better place for loading. Oh, sure - we just deflate it, then pack it into that case on the trailer and away we go. Takes about 15 minutes. We have to be down before sunset -- that's at 8:45, tonight. Follow us and watch, if you like." They're gone. Neighbours . and strangers, enjoying the novelty, are calling back and forth. One waves to me from a car across the road, "Hop in, and we'll follow them." It's 8:25. Fantasy 1 is two farms away, to the north-east. With only its top half showing over a roll in the hills, it looks like a vastly enlarged negative negative of the rising moon. We follow the vehicles one road east... Not far enough. We speed on to the next one, and turn north. Wrong again. He's drifting south-west now, back toward Haydon. And we've lost the. chase car; too busy watching the balloon. Turn around in a driveway ; back to the concession road; west again, then north - and there's the chase car ahead of us. I tumble out as soon as I see this is where she's going to park, and corner Kathy again. What an unusual thing for a girl ... and where on earth does she keep it? "In my brother-in-law's garage. And no, there aren't many lady balloonists. In fact, there are only about 150 balloon balloon owners in Canada, and as far as I know only three are girls." And she does know -- she's the president of the Ontario Balloon Association. She attends balloon festivals - the one in Newmarket, in June, was the subject of an article in Canadian Living magazine. Even more exciting was the one held in Michigan, on the 1st of July weekend. The top- ranking 15 balloonists from each country (Canada and the U.S.A.) competed for the North American Challenge Cup, "and Canada won!" Kathy boasts. Her friend Karen Rosenthal piloted Fantasy 1, with Kathy acting as navigator. And each member member of the team received a trophy. Kathy paid about half price Item of Interest Why not visit the provincial park in this area? At Darlington Darlington Provincial Park the past and present have merged into one with the pioneer cabin becoming a Visitor Information Information Centre, Spinning wheels, quilts and brassbound trunks form part of the pioneer display display while wildlife displays and mystery boxes allow children of all ages to discover the wide world of nature. Colorful maps and posters and extensive brochures inform the visitors of provincial park happenings and local area events. The Centre is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for her balloon, because it wasn't new. But a new one now costs about $15 thousand. She gets a maximum of two hours on a tank of fuel, depending depending on the speed of the wind. This evening she has come from the Enniskillen Conservation Conservation Area, on a slow meandering meandering course, to this field in just over an hour. "Regulations? Well, first you have to have a private pilot's license. Then you take 16 hours training in the balloon, balloon, followed by two Ministry of Transport examinations, before you get your balloonist's balloonist's license. And there are zones - 'circled control zones' -- where we don't fly; for instance, nowhere near airports." airports." And they never disturb cattle, nor land in a farmer's field of grain or other crops; only in a harvested hayfield or similar empty space. How do they get it across the fence, to the waiting car? "Lift it over!" Kathy's still bubbling with laughter and the joy of the flight. "It's like a parachute - you just fold it up and walk away with it." And there's a warm lilt of her native Scotland in her voice, as her eyes follow Fantasy 1 drifting down, down, and she repeats softly, "It's such fun..." We feel it with her. Floating loose and free and weightless, above and separate from the earth. Drifting alone and in perfect stillness over these pretty hills and farms and creeks; these country roads and grazing herds. Settling, finally, at the end of a farmer's lane just beyond the barn. We watch from the roadside then, as the pumpkin-plump balloon slowly seems to sink into the earth, shrinking and shrivelling into an overgrown dehydrated apple -- until it disappears behind the shrubbery, shrubbery, and we can see it no more. The car drops me off at my own drivewày. The sun is gone, leaving just a splash of red cloud fading away behind the row of maples on the far side of the highway. The sky above, and to the north and south, is already mauve, deepening to dark blue, ready for its evening show of stars. The air is cooler now, with just a whisper of rustling leaves. The Young Man-with-Guitar is back again on the shadowed lawn, playing quietly. Some enchanted evening... Don Irvine 1108 Waverley Rdj^ Bowmanville 623-4482 "See me for car home, life, boat and business insurance." 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