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The Daytripper Spare Moments Craft Supplies Mon to Fri 9-5:30, Sat 9-5 530 Talbot St. East, AYLMER • 519-765-3550 There are a lot of great shops in and around AYLMER v At Copenhagen's Biggest Store, Where Your Project is our Specialty! • Wood Crafts & Supplies • Kempston Router Bits • Lang Calendars • Country Home Candles • Tole Painting Supplies The “White Pass” Train replica runs in the store! OPEN Mon., Wed. to Sat. 9-6 & Sun. 10-5 • CLOSED Tues. For over Open Daily - Hours & Take-Out Menu on Website London 78 74 NEW SARUM 3 X St. Thomas Sparta 78 years Lake Erie years 401 Belmont Aylmer JUST OFF HIGHWAY HWAY 3, 46230 NEW SARUM LINE PORT BRUCE AYLMER Hwy. 3 John Wise COPENHAGEN 5048 Imperial Rd. Just 11 km South of Aylmer 519-773-9049 What Does a Turkey Say? A jewellery’ lovin turkey... “Bauble, Bauble, Bauble.” An argumentave turkey... “Squabble, Squabble, Squabble.” A turkey with a sore throat... “Gargle, Gargle, Gargle.” A shoe-repairin’ turkey... “Cobble, Cobble, Cobble.” A dieng turkey... “Nibble, Nibble, Nibble.” A dizzy turkey... “Wobble, Wobble, Wobble.” Step Back in Time to Elgin County’s Oldest Diner! Famous Chicken & Old Time Diner Favourites! 46230 NEW SARUM LINE 519-773-3101 7 3101 www.newsarum.comw • Ribbons • Wool • Delta Paints • Florals • Christmas All Year • Supplies for Your Favourite Craft 2400 SQUARE FEET OF CRAFTING HEAVEN! Porch & Patio Furniture, Accents & Art SHOP LOCAL w Delta Paints in 2 oz. size Come Explore... for Great Gifts, To Express Your Taste, or the Necessities. 26 Beech St., Aylmer • 226-289-2403 • Fresh, Local Food Favourites • Metal Art • Rustic Touches • Nautical • Wooden Accents • Garden Accessories, Bird Houses to Benches ~ Full Range of Lawn Care Essentials ~ Elgin Feeds 8th Annual Ladies Night Wednesday, November 3 Our focus this year is Gratitude - Warm From the Inside Out... evident in cozy throw blankets. 100's are on offer at our evening of fun, games, spin-to-win, prizes and Christmas preview. For more info, call Teresa at the store or email tpressey@elginfeeds.com. We have a “Plan B” if we need to be virtual. Updates on our website and Facebook. Your purchase supports Family Central Apartments - a Community Food Program elginfeeds.com Mon-Fri 8-5 Sat 8-3 Page 48 Phobias… The fear of reptiles is called batrachophobia Sept-Oct <strong>2021</strong>
Lake Huron MI ONTARIO NY Remember that you can stay overnight, and daytrip on the way home too! ANAGRAMS PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER THE EYES: When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY ELECTION RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: I'M A DOT IN PLACE THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE: MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER The serenity of Pinecroft under the towering pines... An Elgin li County Tradition... ion Our unique Stoneware Pottery made on site since 1948. Did you ever wonder at the oddities in place names on maps? Some are so strange that one wonders at what the explorer/geographist was thinking at the time. Nowhere is this state more evident than on a map of Newfoundland. Certainly the island is one of the best sources of unusual monikers in Canada and these invite all kinds of speculation as to why, how, when the naming took place. The following were plucked from a Rand/McNally atlas at random. Random, as a matter of fact, is an actual place on the rock. It was picked at (you guessed it) random as the first example. There is no shortage of colourful names but some are better than others and can lead one to wild speculation as to reasons why this name was not only chosen but fought to retain its quaintness over the decades. Joe Batt’s Arm is a small dot on the map. The name clearly is connected to human anatomy, but why? Does the area have biceps, bony elbows, a wrist? Did an early explorer suddenly realize that the area resembled the arm of a deadly enemy, a close friend or even a relative? It is flattering to Joe that he is immortalized and is on every map of Canada? How much recognition does one man deserve? Joe Batt, your name and arm will live forever. Gift Shop Open Daily 10 am to 4 pm WASHROOMS AVAILABLE www.pinecroft.ca 8122 Rogers Road South AYLMER • 519-773-3435 Just 1 mile West of Aylmer, 1.5 miles South of Hwy. #3 Names By Glynn Leyshon, London Further perusal of the map reveals Conception Bay. One can only speculate as to what was happening in the area when some early mapper strolled from the forest to see the panorama laid out before him. (It as extremely rare for a woman to have an input into geographic naming but this is one of the few.) It is apropos that close by is a hamlet called Placentia. I don’t think this juxtaposition was accidental. Some of the Newfie names just sound, well, Newfie. Parson’s Pond being a good example. The name has Fall on the Patio is Magical Indoor & Outdoor Seating Available Serving Daily 11 am to 3 pm LICENSED UNDER AGCO Menu Online www.pinecroft.ca/menu RESERVATIONS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 519-773-3435 alliteration as well as mystery (why did the Parson have a pond named after him?) As well, there is a Funk Island, a place called Fogo and a harbour labelled Hooping (could there have been a basketball team there?) Colourful and memorable, too. A town called Mosquito would hardly attract too many tourists and is a tribute to the towns people that they have not changed the name, spraying and scratching as they must. Proud of their heritage and praying for cold weather all the time jealous perhaps of the folks in Heart’s Content just a few windy, bugless miles away where the folk from Mosquito go to escape. One also wonders about events that might have inspired the names. Witless Bay invites a guess as does Push Through. Are they related? Perhaps an explorer was fighting his way through thick brush and decided not to quit but to push through until he could see the ocean and thereupon decided it was not worth the effort and was a witless venture. He might have seen Mouse Island and decided it wasn’t worth his time and he would not have stopped at all except his shoes were too tight in Shoe Cove and they were pinching (Nipper’s Bay). HANDCRAFTED SOLID WOOD FURNITURE RE A New Style in Rustic... Settler's style Bedroom Suite HANDCRAFTED EXCELLENCE ~ Customized to your style! LOCALLY MADE! 9600 Walker Rd., RR#4 • AYLMER 519-765-4771 to leave message GPS address for directions: 9600 Walker Road, Malahide, ON N5H 2R3 3 to St. Thomas Highway #73 North to London AYLMER Hacienda Rd. Glencolin Line Highway #3 Springfield Rd. Walker Rd. Carter Side Rd. to Tillsonburg Traditional, Contemporary to Urban Chic... . for every room. Night Tables 5 & 6 Drawer Dressers sers Queen or King size i - head & footboard otbo Dalton style Wall Unit with h Barn Door or style Sliders *Beginning Sept. 1st, we will be closed Wednesdays ~ NEW HOURS: April to Oct: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday 9 to 6 (Closed Wed.) • Nov. to March: 9 to 5 Phobias… The fear of speed is called tachophobia Sept-Oct <strong>2021</strong> Page 49
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