Hiýstori4 Whi*tby cal je W. BENGOUGH (Part Two> Last week in this column we began the story 0f J.W. Bengougb, Canada's most famous l9th ccritury cartoonist, who spent his boyhood years in Whitby before founding the highly successful political satire magazine "Grip." In 1874, one yçar after he founded "Grip" as a weekly magazine, Mr. Bengough developed his famous "chalk talks,'" public lectures, which he illustrated with brilliantly executed sketches, drawn on a large pad with coloured chalk. His first illustrated talk was in the Old Music Hall in Toronto, ini 1974. and it was sucb a SUrreegs that he was in dernand for bis Hello Again! The Brooklin Area Block Parents are busy again, now that the school year bas begun. The week of October 1 to 7 is Block Parent Week and the Block Parents will be speaking to the Kindergarten classes at Meadowcrest and St. Leo's on October 18. The Block Parents urge anyone who bas been issued a sign (o try and put it in their window whenever possible, so (bat the children will know wbere the Block Parent homes are, on their way to and from scbool. SNew Block Parents are always needed, s0 if you are interested or would like more information please cal Area Chairman Bey Stanley at 655-3770 or pick up an application form at the Brooklin Library. Speaking of the library, tbey are having a jelly bean counting contest. It started Monday Oct. 2. Each time you boirow books from the library you get a u:s You must show your library card eacb ime you enter. The Winner will be announced on Monday October 30. The prize! Why the jelly beans, 0f course!! A reminder that the pre-school story hour and afternoon discussion group will begin on Tuesday October 10 at 1 p.m. Caîl 655-3191. , Again (bis year Carl Sedore is holding bis Hunter Safety Instruction course. It is for two nights, Monday October 16 and Tuesday October 17. Tbe course starts at 7 p.m. sharp. This year's course will be beld at the Union Road and Gun Property in Newvcastle. The fee will he $1500 for both nights. Vou must pay and register prior (o the night of tbe course. For more information and (o register please caîl Carl Sedore at 655-3250. A man of many trades begs bis bread on Sundays. Marie 655-3061 Brown's drop off (Before 2 Sat.) PC's p lan strategy The *campaign committee for the Ontario Riding PC candidate Scott Fennell and Federal Progressive Conservative (PC) Ontario Riding Association executive beld back to back meetings in tbe Whitby Municipal Offices on September 7. The initial meeting was chaired by Lorne Almack, president of the Federal PC Riding Association ad the Campaign Committee meeting was cbaired by Roy Fitzgerald, campaign manager for Scott Fennell. Tlhe fifteen committee mcIlI1ers present were joined by Mr. Fennell wbo had been attending meetings with Joe Clark, PC Party Leader, earier in the day. Various matters were discussed încluding the recent Business Luncheon for Scott Fennell held at the Annandale Golf Club and PC barbeque. Details regarding the Campaign Office were discussed and Dannie Gallant, Ajax Riding Association president. indicated (bat arrangements will be finalized in the very near future. Details regarding the Campaigp Office officiai opening will be availalle shortly. Subsequent moitthly comntittee meetings were planned for throughout the Riding, (o which ocal residents wiIl be invited for coffee and to' meet Scott Fennell and the committee members. by the sprngof Bulldozers. and teart1i Theres a1 novers are c1ear'ing out the on a t \1r$* site for a ligbtedsoccer field, mnontb to1 wbich will begraded, sodded with additioi and ready for play next year, facilities nex says Recreation Director Wayne DeVeau. E i Earlier this year, Lake r Ontario Steel Company provided $20,000Oto assist in major soccer facility. Construe 'Work has also begun onl recently on cu tting out two softball control proje. diamonds, and proper fill Down Consez will be provided before the the nortbern winter. Bank stalc Mr. DeVea is boping that a have commt local service-club will corne major sectior forward to assist in this Creek. Roc project by providing the baskets (gabi backstops for these Stones (rip-ra diamonds, s0 that they too, place along t] will be in operation by next creek, foll spring. realignment, .A1l these improvements remedy the are taking place in the field erosion occi west of the lighted basebaîl area. diamonds which went into A gabion opera tion this year. cons truc ted Work is also proceeding strea mbed i. this faîl on rebuilding a reduce streax portion 0f the north end of reduce furthe the Iroquois Park parking lot erosion dowrý. to solve a drainage problem m that bas been evident since Lue WL was nuut. There will also be better staff and emergency parking provided at the back of the arena, said Mr. DeVeau. The total cost of these projects at Iroquois Park is $93,000 paid out of the town's capital funds, he said. 1979 lot of work going uois Park this provide Whitby nal recreational -xt spring. 0 >slon etion began m an erosion ect in the Heber arvation area in ipart of Whitby. bilization works ienced on two ns of the Lynde ok-filled, wire Mjons) and large mp) will be set in the banks of the Iowing creek in an -effort to severe bank urring in the weir will be 1within the in an effort to n velocities and ir stream bank istream. I Prop. G.A. White - RR1 Broolin 6544 PASSPO RT Pl CTU R ES WHI1 LE VOL> WAIT. 'Your Travel is Our Business" AI& Linda Russell I RUSSELL TRAVEL. I116 BROCK S T. 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The writer of this column remembers his father teling him of how he witnessed this being done by J.W. Bengough in the_ éarly part of this century. J.W. Bengough often visited his old home town of Whitby and gave his "chalk talks"ý in the old town hall which stood where the fire ahîl is now located at Brock and Coîborne Streets. Bengough was a man of very marked loyalties and antipathies, much like his father. He was'an advocate of the single tax, women's suffrage,, and free trade, and an implacable enemy of tobacco, alcohol vivisection, slang and tariffs. Mr. Bengough published numerous books of his cartoons, the most noted being "A Caricature History of Canadian Poli tics," published'in 1886. He was also an accomplished poet, who published books of witty little rhymes, usually with a political or moral content. Many of these books he illustrated with his own cartoons. In 1922, Mr. Bengough published his autobiography, "Chalk Talk s," in which he told of the many famous people he met, and included some of his most popular lectures. Soccer field & softbal dîamonds to be readya A very versatile writer, Mr. Bengough once saved a stranded opera company by writing a comhic opera in the Gilbert and Sullivan style, which ran for one week in a Toronto theatre. He wrote a number of dramatie pieces, and numerous tributes for special occasions, such as the unveiling of Toronto's monument to, Robert Burns in 1902. In 1898 Mr. Bengough wrote a memorial poem in honor of Thomas Kirkland, who had'been his Head Master at the Whitby Grammer School in the 1860s. His cartoons in the Toronto Globe during the federal election campaign of 1896 had a considerable impact on the outcome of the contest, and his election song, "Ontario, Ontario," became a popular feature of the campaign. Mr. Bengough also contributed a number of cartoons to the papers of London, England, during Joseph Champberlain~s campaign of 1903. J.W. Bengough~s achievemnents in other areas are consider- able indeed. He was appointed by the Governor-General as an Associate of the Royal Canadian Acadamy in 1880; be was professor of elocution at Knox College, Toronto from 1899 to, 1901; he was a Toronto City alderman in 1907; a director of the Canadian National Exhibition, and member of a bost of social and political clubs. On Oct. 2, 1923, at the age of 72, J.W. Bengough died at Toron to, suffering from overwork on a lecture tour of the Western provinces. Witby citizens today should be proud of the fact that this interna tionaly-known Canadian was brought up in their town and had his family roots here. 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