Whitby Free Press, Wednesay Novernber 10. 1993."Page 7 No choice Mail displays like this you pass often, the trestle- and-board -ta bles disguiised by plain sheets. The 22O wooden crafts for sal: hall coat hangers, corner shelving units of honey pine, walnut-stained end tables with inlaid ceramie tops.LU The chess sets catch mj attention. Lift the lid, inside you find the handmnade Staunton pieces. "How much?» I ask, pointing to the chess table at the end of the stall. The pieces are hidden ini the drawer. "One hundred sixty-nine,» he says. "I pay the GST.» He says GST with a slight accent. "ýChee SYT." "T'he boards?" "Sixty-nine.» I finger thepic. Chess is a wonderful gaine, war for gentlemen. Sacifce pawns to checkmate a king. ___________________________________ "Al handmade,» he says. "Everything here» -- ho ----- gestures with his left arm -- "I make them aIl.» "I admire your work." Too seldom these days we talk face te face with craftspeople. Uftism hobby " he offers. "Sirice I retired four yearsag, work aà year in my workshop, 1 make al thesethgs To seil for Christmas.» "I will te go home and drop hints.» uçhust don't wait too long.» But it is a couple of weeks later when I happen te be in the same mail again. "You've sold a few chess sets," I say. "One table left," he replies. The display has thinned considerably. "I would like te point out some of your sets te someone." To explain, I add: "Christmas.» We stand for a moment in awkward silence while the mail drifts by around us. "Retired four years," he says. "Each year I work, build these things ail summer. Each falrI se Il chust before Christmas." "Sounds like a great hobby.» U[ tho ,ht of moving back te Germanyoc.Te, they ge te pension fo the government at sixty. Here, we wait until sixty-flve.» . I nod. BEMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE AT TIHE CENOTAFHI, NOV. il, 1939 "When I finish school, everybody must have a skill. Canadian Legion Branch 112 chaplain, Rev. E. Ralph Adye, at left, reads the lessen at the You drop out of sehool at fourteen, none of this doing annua:I Remembrance Day service the year the Second World War started. In the what you please.» background is the Whlitby Armories building, which was demohished in 1970 te niake way for A group of teenagers shufflies by, slowing in front of teTrnoDoiinBn.WhItby Am~hivis ph~oto the audio store. "When we finish school, we ail go te the labour camps." He makes a digging movement with an imaginary shovel. «We have a choice. We could go te concentration camp. We work, we dig ditches we 10 YEARS AGO sleep well at night. One year, we work in laÎbour from the Wednesday, November 9, 1983 edition of the camp.The dy I cm ou rt, I get eter saying 1I must WHITBY EEPRESS sere i ary. o coie."* Rssei Birdha reire afer hre yarsas iretorofte ouny Twn ingrs seventy. I make as many things as I can. Next year, from the Thursday, November 6, 1913 edition of the maybe net so many. Who knows?» WH1TBy GAzETFE AND CHRONICLE No one knows. But on Remembrance Day I wiil *}{ahloween was ceîebrated with a rnasquerade at the Ontario Ladies' College. wear a poppy, in honour of those sucked into a war John Dryden, son of William A. Dryden of Brooklin, was born on Oct. 31. they didn't choose. To remember those who neyer Miss inxue Viola Powell was host to a number of Women's Institute representatives who lived te make chess sets in their retirement years. To were on a trip to, New Brunswick- salute those whose lives were wounded by the black The Royal Theatre offers 1 high class moving picturei? every evening at 10 cents for aduits hale of insanity. and five cents for children under age 12. To remind me of choioes.