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Welcome to ... To Our Valued Customers, THE Club HOGAN P•H•A•R•M•A•C•Y This last year has been one of challenges, fear, sadness and isolaon. For many, this virus has had devastang consequences. As vaccines start to roll out, there is at least light at the end of the tunnel. I wanted to take this opportunity to first thank my staff for all their support, compassion and unwavering dedicaon to servicing our customers. They truly are an incredible group of individuals. I also wanted to thank all the front line and essenal workers for going to work each day and connuing to provide those needed services for our community. And lastly, I want to say thank you to all of our customers who connued to support the Hogan family. There have been many challenges throught the year and your understanding, support and patronage will not be forgoen. We look forward to connuing to service you and hopefully, as vaccines start being distributed to pharmacies, we will be able to help bring back some normalcy to all our lives. Living life to the fullest (until about 9:00 p.m.) Everyone has one. The drawer you dread to open, but that gets opened more than any other. It’s a tangled eyesore. One day you will sort and purge, but it’s always the last thing on the to-do list. It’s the junk drawer. It’s the biggest drawer in the kitchen, and it’s a jungle in there. Elastic bands are wound around the potato masher. Paper clips are caught on the egg beater. There’s a broken icecream scoop and one beater for the mixer. What happened to the other one? There are old bottle openers with logos of companies long gone and fridge magnets that attach themselves to other items. There’s always a pack of matches from a wedding. Who the hell are Carrie and Don anyway? What is that little contraption? I think it peels an orange. There are several knives that are so dull they could not even peel an apple. Maybe the orange peeler thinga-ma-bob could peel the apple. There Spring Cleaning By Barb Day, Paris From Daytripping May-June 2014 are loads of old batteries. A, AA, AAA. Someday I’ll see if they work or not. What the heck is that thing? Better not throw it out; it’s a part for something or other. Maybe it is just a part for a longgone appliance, but better not take any chances. Wait! There’s the warranty to my kettle I was looking for last week. Never mind, it was the warranty for two or three kettles ago. They sure don’t make things to last anymore. Screws and nails have all navigated to the fridge magnets. There are important notes like a doctor appointment on June 22, 1993 and oil change reminders. Good thing cars these days remind you right on the dashboard. Is that a cassette tape? Holy cow, I’m old. A Happy Anniversary card…please! I left that guy ten years ago. I really need to put this junk drawer organizing higher up on the to-do list. Maybe I’ll get to it after I weed the rhubarb bed and clean the garage. But first I think I’ll pour myself a tall glass of lemonade and sit in the sun. I wouldn’t want to waste a perfect spring day messing around with a junk drawer. Welcome to ... SPRING 2021 WE MAKE Beautiful Smiles ~ Are you unhappy with the way your Dentures make you look or feel? ~ Are your Dentures loose? ~ Sore spots? ~ Not eating the foods you love? ~ Are they over five years old? WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU! Call to book your FREE CONSULTATION today. Since 1972, our family has made thousands of dentures for our patients. Ask your dentist to refer you to us or call yourself for your free consultation. We are adhering to strict Covid guidelines to keep you safe. 519-336-6580 1200 Lambton Mall Road, Sarnia www.feigedentureclinics.com P A G E 24 A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow. (unknown)
You’re welcome to send articles and help us buld this new magazine. Welcome to ... THE Club 1981 Billboard Hits TOP 10 1 Bette Davis Eyes Kim Carnes 2 Endless Love Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 3 Lady Kenny Rogers 4 (Just Like) Starting Over John Lennon 5 Jessie’s Girl Rick Springfield 6 Celebration Kool & the Gang 7 Kiss on My List Darryl Hall & John Oates 8 I Love a Rainy Night Eddie Rabbitt 9 9 to 5 Dolly Parton 10 Keep on Loving You REO Speedwagon Source: www.billboard.com Moving? Downsizing? Discover issues in advance! Home Inspections www.OvationHomeInspections.ca 226-343-2265 10% OFF O with mention of this ad GIFTWARE & UNIQUE HOME DÉCOR SHOWCASING MANY LOCAL ARTISANS TUESDAY-FRIDAY 10-5 • SATURDAY 10-3 Home of Just-A-Nuff Antiques 850 Colborne Street @ Exmouth Street Northgate Plaza, Sarnia • 519-336-3838 Country Songs Happiness Is Just A Flush Away Almost everyone has one special childhood memory. It might be when the stork delivered a red-faced baby sibling or that first shaky ride on a two-wheeler. For this writer, it was that momentous day when the flush toilet arrived. When our family moved into an old farmhouse on the St. Clair River in 1953, it was like the adage, “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” We were right across the street from some of the most brilliant blue waters in the world. You could swim, fish and even sail on the St. Clair – but a wise man would never swallow its waters. While residents of the larger town nearby enjoyed purified Lake Huron water piped right into their homes, our only supply of water was in an old cistern beside the house. It was fine for laundry, and even baths – but certainly not for drinking. Our drinking water, even in the 1950s, arrived in plastic containers. Many decades later, I still have flashbacks of taking a bath BF (before flush). A big laundry tub would be hauled up from the basement and placed in the middle of the kitchen floor, before the stove. Water was heated, dumped into the tub, and you did your utmost to be the first bather. When my parents bathed I have never discovered – it remains one of those unanswered family secrets. In warmer weather, the tub was Source: playback.fm 1 No Gettin’ Over Me Ronnie Milsap 2 I Don’t Need You Kenny Rogers 3 Love In The First Degree Alabama 4 Step By Step Eddie Rabbitt 5 The Sweetest Thing Juice Newton 6 Key Largo Bertie Higgins 7 Through the Years Kenny Rogers 8 Feels So Right Alabama 9 Blessed Are The Believers Anne Murray 10 Seven Year Ache Rosanne Cash Movies Raiders of the Lost Ark Superman II Nine to Five Stripes Arthur The Cannonball Run For Your Eyes Only The Fox and the Hound The Four Seasons Source: the-numbers.com moved outside where we were sheltered by an alcove near the back porch. But even as a five-year-old, I could never quite relax while enjoying my splash in the tub. What if some unsuspecting neighbour – or the kids from the back street – should suddenly appear when I was in my altogether? Now if bathing was inconvenient, using the outhouse was positively scary. The traditional two-seater was discreetly hidden behind the garage, close to our tiny orchard. A nighttime visit entailed braving quivering shadows, armed only with a flashlight. Bats would swoop down out of the orchard and I tried not to think what was crawling up the walls of the outhouse. In short order (well, likely on my mother’s order), a chemical toilet was installed under our basement stairs. Unfortunately, before his untimely demise, a river rat took up residence in the adjoining root cellar. That cellar was separated from the toilet by a collapsing brick wall, with old stuffing filling a former chimney vent. Each night as I reluctantly used the chemical toilet before bed, I convinced myself that an entire nest of rats was hovering just above my head. But the greatest BF By Alice Gibb, London from Daytripping July-Aug. 2006 (before flush) adventure belonged to my mother. One afternoon, our family set out on the river in my father’s homemade sailboat. An eerie calm settled over us, the sail went limp and the next thing we knew, a cousin was frantically towing us to shore with his powerboat. Ominous-looking clouds were collecting to the west. As we reached the house, my mother had to heed the call of nature and headed for the outhouse. The storm touched down just as she reached her destination. The outhouse door slammed shut with a bang – and jammed. While we huddled in our basement my mother rode out the storm in much more cramped and far less fragrant quarters. In the mid-1950s, the Lake Huron pipeline was extended to our little hamlet. I still remember that special day when I jumped off the school bus, rushed in our back door and headed upstairs. There sat the sparkling flush toilet – and a beautiful white enamel bathtub. No more fears of rats, or bats or bathing in public. My father still enjoyed the outhouse for many more years but now I was an AF (after flush) like all my friends. Sometimes keeping up with the Joneses isn’t such a bad thing. You’ve wanted one of these for 50 YEARS! Why Wait? 430 Exmouth Street, Sarnia 519-344-7740 pickersalley.com Taylor 714ce V-Class SPRING 2021 One father is more that a hundred schoolmasters. (George Herbert) P A G E 25
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