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Welcome to... THE Club You must be 55 or over to read this magazine. I have a friend who writes music about sewing machines. He’s a singer/songwriter. Or sew it seams. Stop & Shop in DOWNTOWN FOREST Check out our downtown - browse our shops or take in a movie at the historic Kineto Theatre! Make a day of it in Forest! Keep up to date with event & shopping information on our website & socials. P A G E 4 Mother’s Day 2nd Sunday in May Lambton Film & Food Festival starts 4th Fri in May Farmers’ Market Fridays start 1st Friday in May Father’s Day 3rd Sunday in June Car Show 3rd Thursday in July WINE STORE WINE TASTINGS BUY OUR WINE ONLINE! FREE LOCAL DELIVERY (ORDERS OVER $75) GIFT BASKETS & GIFT CARDS 5547 Aberarder Line, Plympton-Wyoming 519-381-1112 • AFEW.wine A Shopping Experience by Jacoba Bos, Strathroy • from Daytripping Sept-Oct 2007 issue On the rare occasion that I find myself shopping in a big box store, I find myself wishing for the way we used to buy and sell. Although we can’t go back to the General Store days when farmers bought bindertwine and axle grease while their wives bartered eggs for oatmeal and sugar, we can take a personal interest in customers. This can do a lot more for good business than any advertising gimmick. Often we find interesting shopping experiences while daytripping or in our hometown. Several years ago I found one of those stores that sold everything from shovels to socks and pantyhose beside a full line of groceries in a small town in eastern Ontario. The service was exceptional and very personal. When I asked for a mosquito net to fit over a baby buggy, the store owner walked with me to the back of her shop to look for the netting. “Perhaps you could make a net from cheesecloth,” she suggested when our search through piles of baby supplies proved unsuccessful. “We keep that in the front aisle by the canning supplies,” she continued, as she led the way in the narrow aisle past shelves filled with boots, work socks and straw hats, to the front of the store where sunbeams peeked in the spaces not covered by posters announcing rummage sales, ball games and church suppers past and present. I stopped when I spotted work pants on special. “Can you find the right size?” the lady asked as she took a step back from her canning supplies. “What size does your husband wear?” she continued while her trained eye scanned the crumbled labels. “These pants have lost their tag but it looks to be about a size 40. Would these fit him?” When I didn’t reply quickly, she took action. Raising her eyes and her voice toward the back of the store where her husband (Family Feud Answers) A famous or fictional Willy. – Willy the Pooh sat, overlooking his business and his bookeeping, she called, “Floyd, would you come down here a minute?” Floyd obediently put down his pencil, ran his hand through his sparse gray hairs and descended down the creaky stairway past an assortment of pots and pans to where his wife was about to continue her sales pitch. “Now Floyd,” she said, “this lady isn’t sure about her husband’s size.” She turned to me while Floyd tucked in his stomach, straightened his tie and stood like a soldier awaiting orders. “Would your husband be about the same size as mine?” she asked as I nodded at her long-suffering spouse. “Very well,” she beamed, “then these should fit him.” She took the pants from the pile, stepped over to her husband and held them up in front of him. Smiling approvingly, she raised her eyes to me. “Now these pants are on sale, so normally they can not be returned, but...” she lowered her voice as if some secret transaction was about to take place, “in your case we’ll make an exception won’t we Floyd?” She draped the pants over her arm and headed for the cash register, giving Floyd a chance to escape to his lofty heights and me an opportunity to savour the sights and smells of a store where time seemingly had stood still. The General Store may have gone the way of the horse and buggy, but we still have merchants who care for their customers. They are the people who give. Not only in personal service but also to charities that feed the hungry, look after the sick and provide shelter for the homeless, not to mention the support they provide for the arts and sports. Like the General Store of long ago, these community builders are a great asset, not only for the community they live in, but for society as a whole. SPRING 2024
We’re all getting older, we may as well laugh about it! Rob’s FRESH CUT FRIES FAST FOOD DONE SLOW SO WORTH THE WAIT! OPENING MARCH 6TH OPEN WED-SUN 12-7 pm @RobsFries Try our homemade burgers, poutine famous pickerel and fries Home of the COMATOSE and RANCH FRIES. 9371 West Ipperwash Road, Kettle Point Welcome to... Don’t ruin a good apology with an excuse. THE Club CAROLYN R MOSIER BscP.T. MCPA Registered ered ed Physiotherapist ist Forest Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation 10 Watt Street, et Forest • 519-786-3336 36 • Collecbles • Giware • Kids Toys, Games & Books • Fudge • Maple Buer Tarts & Baking • Williamson Farms Beef & Pork • Local Honey • Cheese • Local Cider • Williamson Farms Maple Syrup Open Tues to Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5 • April 22 on... Mon to Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5 14 King Street West, FOREST • 226-520-0144 www.williamsonfarmscountrystore.ca williamsonfarmscountrystoreiamsonfa mscount to ca Promote your business or events in ... Welcome to ... THE CLUB Forest Basket Company Truck 1930 THANK YOU to all the wonderful, local businesses that have made this free magazine possible! Mark Moran 519-491-1676 Carla MacGregor 519-464-3230 info@welcometotheclub.ca carla@welcometotheclub.ca For Lambton Shores area advertising, contact Rhonda Long 519-657-1869 • rhonda@welcometotheclub.ca Not all agriculturally based manufacturers in the county were food processors. For instance, the Forest Basket Company Limited, established in 1913, produced a variety of baskets, crates, boxes, and hampers for the fruit, vegetable, and meat-packing industries in Lambton and across Southwestern Ontario. Employing a yearly staff of approximately 80 to 100 people, with an extra 50 or so hired for summertime peaks, the plant boasted a daily manufacturing capacity of 30,000 berry boxes, 10,000 eleven- or six-quart fruit baskets, or 7,200 bushel baskets. Naturally, with these production levels, the factory needed its own trucks for timely shipment. However, as a qualifying trailer on company letterhead noted during the 1930s: ‘’All orders and agreements contingent upon strikes, fires, accidents and other delays unavoidable beyond our control.” At any rate, the Forest Basket Company stayed in business until closing in the spring of 1968. Subsequently reopened, the factory shut down for good five and a half years later. LHM Courtesy of Glen C. Phillips - Lambton: An Illustrated History of the County © 1999 SPRING 2024 (Family Feud Answers) Something you squeeze. – Peanut Butter P A G E 5
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