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VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 3 SUMMER 2021


THE Club 

Welcome to the Summer issue! 


Summer 2021 

Are you 55+ in Lambton County? 

Share your voice - we want to hear from you! 

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How to participate: 

We want to hear 

about your 

experiences with 

local social and 

community services. 

• Online Survey: ShareYourVoice.ca 

• Phone Survey: 1-519-542-7751 ext. 3022 

• Questions: ashley.hutchinson@lambtoncollege.ca 

Garden of Giving 

Each year LEO’s staff plants, grows, and harvests a variety of vegetables. Fresh garden boxes 

are prepared and donated to residents throughout Sarnia Lambton. Donations to LEO of salad 

dressing and salad toppings are always welcome additions to our garden box deliveries! 

Lambton Elderly Outreach 

As a partnering agency of the Age-Friendly Sarnia-Lambton 

initiative, Lambton Elderly Outreach continues to work 

with community partners to increase access and 

awareness of social and health supports that ensure our 

population is connected to programming, health care, and 

opportunities to contribute to our great community! 

Age-Friendly Sarnia-Lambton is all about making community navigation and participation 

easier, and that is why a one-stop access point to over 600 services in Lambton County 

was developed! Navigating social and health supports is convenient and easy at 

agefriendlysarnialambton.ca. For those that prefer to speak with someone about local 

supports, please call The Older Adult Care Pathway at 1-888-347-8737. 

Together, Lambton Elderly Outreach and Age-Friendly Sarnia-Lambton, work to empower 

our community to stay involved and give back through volunteerism, no matter your age! 

Thinking about becoming a volunteer? Please reach out to volunteer@leohelps.ca for 

more information and to get started! 

Volunteer Opportunities 

Transportation • Home Maintenance 

Meals on Wheels • The Peer Program 

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Due to COVID-19, volunteer 

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You must be 55 or over to read this magazine. 

The 

“The Dentist” 

Frankie was tired of being 

bothered with a painful 

toothache, so he visited 

the dentist and asked, 

“How much do you charge 

to extract a tooth?”. 

The dentist replied, 

“Thirty-five dollars!” 

Frankie exclaimed, 

“Isn’t that a little high for 

only five minutes work?” 

“Well,” replied the dentist, 

a little annoyed, 

“I could work a little 

slower if you’d like.” 

Many years ago I was baby 

sitting my nephew while his 

mother was in the hospital. 

He could get into more 

mischief than I could 

imagine any child 

getting into, so when I 

put my two year old down for her nap, I 

checked on Alan again. He was playing 

quietly on the veranda. 

“This is Herkimer,” he said, pointing 

to a large and furry caterpillar. “Watch 

him walk down the ramp. Want to see 

him ride in my jeep? Oh, he’s tired, 

he’s curling up for a sleep.” Alan gently 

picked up his furry friend and put it in 

a small box. He might knock over my 

favourite plant, or break a plate a day, 

but he handled living things with the 

care of a brain surgeon at work. 

I walked down the steps and started 

to weed the flower bed. Funny how fast 

weeds grow. From there I could hear 

Sandee when she woke up, and I could 

also keep an eye on my small charge. 

While I was weeding, Alan built a 

higher ramp with some of Sandee’s 

blocks, and a road with sand borrowed 

from the sand box. 

I’ll show Sandee how fast Herkie can 

go, when she wakes up,” he promised. 

A short time later I heard her call 

and went in to lift her out of the crib. 

“Alan has something to show you,” I 

whispered as I buckled her shoes. 

She slid from my lap and ran to the 

front door. 

“Look Sandee. He’s going right 

down the ra...mp.” Alan’s face was full 

of shock and disbelief. Sandee had 

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gone barrelling out 

the door, jumped 

over the blocks 

and landed right on 

Herkimer. 

“He never got the chance to be a 

butterfly.” Alan hiccuped. 

Sandee had not only squashed 

Herkimer, she had squashed Alan’s 

hopes of ever seeing his very own 

caterpillar spin a cocoon and emerge 

as a beautiful butterfly. His dreams had 

been shattered. 

“Don’t step on my caterpillar,” were 

familiar words in our family as the 

children were growing up. They often 

made our children stop and think 

before flattening someone’s dreams, 

ambitions or hopes, with a thoughtless 

remark. We would never have bought 

the house we now live in if my children 

hadn’t used those familiar words. 

My husband had seen the house 

and talked about it incessantly. “We 

can’t afford it. Wait awhile.” I said, and 

watched the excitement fade out of his 

face and the hope depart from his eyes. 

“You’re stepping on Dad’s caterpillar.” 

the children reminded me. 

It took only a minute to think it over. 

The struggle we had with payments 

for the first few years was worth it, as 

together we watched a dream become 

a reality. 

I often wonder if I would have become 

a violinist, always my dream, if my 

uncle hadn’t told me I had no talent, 

and should stick to sensible things like 

dressmaking and typewriting. 

It’s so easy to step on caterpillars. 



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(Rarely Heard Any More) “Be sure to fill the ice trays, we’re having company!”

This FREE magazine is distributed in most of Sarnia-Lambton 

HANDSHAKES & HUGS! 

By Mark Moran, Publisher 

After 15 years of thinking about it, three 

years of planning for it, and six months 

of actually doing it, we are happy and 

proud to present you with the third issue 

of Welcome to The Club. It’s a magazine 

for people 55+ in Sarnia Lambton and 

is filled with good news, a few jokes, 

and lighthearted memories from people 

like yourself. As much 

as we’re tempted to 

speak out about local 

shenanigans, there 

are no politics in these 

pages. You won’t find 

any bad news, or at least 

I hope not, but you will 

find an invitation to help 

build this magazine now 

and in the future. It is 

written by our readers 

and many of the articles 

are from our other 

magazine, Daytripping 

in Southwestern Ontario, 

which covers a much 

larger area but has had the same feel 

good style since 1995. When you see an 

article that says it has been published in 

Daytripping, the author has given us their 

blessing to reprint their work. We donate 

$25 to charity for doing so and, though 

some of them passed away years ago, 

their words live on in these pages. 

An interesting addition this time is 

a list of discounts for seniors that you’ll 

find on page 18. We’re keeping our eyes 

open in search of more discounts to tell 

you about, so please let us know if we 

are missing some. We also hope that this 

list may encourage some businesses to 

offer a discount to those of us who have 

reached a certain age. I’m only a pup 

compared to some of my readers, but I 

am told that “senior” is an okay word to 

use whenever it comes before the word 

discount! 

As I write this in mid June, it seems 

like the light at the end of the COVID-19 

tunnel is getting steadily brighter. I hope 

and pray that this is 

not an illusion. The few 

breaths of fresh air in 

the company of friends, 

that we have finally 

been able to experience, 

have an overwhelming 

healing power for minds 

and souls that have been 

so stressed for the past 

year and a half. A simple 

handshake is so much 

more meaningful than it 

was before all this began, 

and a hug, well that’s just 

the most heartwarming 

thing there is. 

So enjoy the stories, summer new 

and summer old, the recipes, the jokes, 

the typos, and please make a note of the 

businesses that are advertising in this 

magazine. It’s free for you, but does cost 

money to produce, and you have them to 

thank for making it possible. I have my 

staff to thank and want to send a special 

shout out to Carrie Ann Timm this time, 

for taking all the various puzzle pieces 

and creating this issue. 

Take care, stay safe and bask in the 

simple pleasures of life, like handshakes 

and hugs. 

Thanks for reading. 

Mark Moran, Publisher 

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THE 


CLUB 

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3 • SUMMER 2021 

You’ll find 

current and 

nostalgic 

articles 

throughout 

The Club. 

Discount List 18 

Milestones & Memories 32 

Postcards from the Past 25 

Trivia 11 

Word Search 7 

Crossword 24 

Recipes 27,37 

Other Stuff 1-40 

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Angela Lyon - Graphics & Article Formatting 

Carla Mejia - Graphic Design 

Ben Moran - Graphic Design 

From the publishers 

of Daytripping Magazine 

The Club Features 

On the COVER of the CLUB 

YOUR CONTRIBUTORS 

CLUB STAFF 

P.O. Box 430 • Brights Grove, ON •N0N 1C0 

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like no other! 

Summer 2021 (Rarely Heard Any More) “Take those bottles back to the store for the deposit.” P A G E 5



Move Better, Feel Better, Live Better 

By Kelly-Lynn Musico, Brights Grove • Registered Physiotherapist, Registered Yoga Teacher 

Is it inevitable that the human body 

will age? I remember being in my 20’s 

and taking one of my Physiotherapy 

courses titled “The Physiology of Aging.” 

I remember thinking to myself, “Oh, 

come on, they (the older population) 

must have never exercised,” and “they 

are being wimpy”. This was in reference 

to learning about the common effects of 

aging within each of our bodily systems: 

Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and 

Neuroanatomy. Wow, how naive was I? 

As someone now in my 50’s, with close 

friends in their 60’s & 70’s, and parents 

close to their 80’s, I now understand 

what my professors were talking about. 

So, what is aging anyway? According 

to one of the basic definitions I found, 

“Aging is the process of becoming 

older. In humans, aging represents the 

accumulation of changes in a human being 

over time and can encompass physical, 

psychological, and social changes.” So, 

the good news is, we are supposed to be 

aging, not ‘anti-aging.’ Phew! 

It’s true, our physical body changes 

as we age. Think about how quickly we 

might have recovered from injury in our 

20’s compared to today. We may not 

recover from injury as quickly as we used 

to and that is okay. Let us think back to 

how many consecutive days we could 

play golf, tennis, or workout without the 

aches and pains we may feel today. What 

about the external, physical changes to 

our bodies? The elasticity in our skin is 

expected to change, as it, too, is a natural 

part of aging. Those fine lines let people 

know we are “experienced people.” 

Now, the psychological changes? I 

personally feel as we age, we have the 

opportunity to grow into a deeper kind 

of beauty, one which works its way from 

the inside out. It can be a more authentic 

and less superficial beauty. It may show 

through our eyes and the confident way 

we move through life. 

The ‘anti-aging campaigns’ turn the 

entire natural development of aging into 

enemies, rather than embracing aging 

as normal and positive; this needs to 

change. Often, older people are more 

mature, confident, and powerful than 

when they were younger. 

We cannot stop the aging process, and 

nor should we. We can, however, make 

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choices to help us feel better from the 

inside out. Yoga is a great form of activity 

that can help us embrace aging and all 

the positive things that it brings. 

Although I dabbled in Yoga in my 

30’s, it wasn’t until my 40’s that I truly 

discovered the physical and emotional 

benefits. Yoga is a fantastic mind-body 

practice that incorporates strengthening, 

balance, stretches, breathing techniques 

and meditation. These can all help to 

contribute to healthier and happier aging. 

For me, it is the connection of 

the breath to movement that makes 

Yoga such a wonderful activity. If you 

can breathe, you can do Yoga! As a 

Physiotherapist and Yoga teacher, I 

often incorporate breathing exercises 

into my client’s exercise program. 

Connecting with our breath can help to 

reduce stress, anxiety, and ultimately 

pain. By bringing our awareness to our 

breath, we may be able to connect with 

what our body and mind are feeling. 

This can be a step in the right direction 

towards preparing our body to relax and 

to quiet the chatter in our mind. 

So how do we do that? Let’s give it a try! 

Complete Breath: 

• This simple breath can be done 

in a comfortable seated or lying 

position. 

• Relax…Maybe close your eyes. 

• Exhale completely. Inhale slowly 

and deeply through your nose. 

Allow your stomach to expand like 

a balloon. Filling your chest and 

lungs with air. 

• Pause your breath… 

• Exhale slowly through the nose, 

squeezing out all the air from within. 

• Repeat 5 times or more if you like. 

• Enjoy the sensations associated with 

observing and feeling your breath. 

There are so many different types of 

Yoga and each teacher will bring their 

own style into practice. Take time to 

explore and find the one that connects 

best for you. Be patient and enjoy the 

journey. 

We cannot stop the aging process; 

however, we can make choices that aim 

to improve our physical and mental wellbeing. 

Thus maintaining an active life, 

doing the things we enjoy and spending 

time with our loved ones. As we increase 

our physical and mental health, we may 

begin to feel more positive about our 

aging and all the beauty it brings. Each 

new day is an opportunity to embrace our 

age and all its glory! 

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Summer 2021 (Rarely Heard Any More) “Sit still! I can’t cut your hair straight if you move!” P A G E 7



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As a child growing up in rural 

Ontario, a nightly chorus of frog song 

was my bedtime lullaby. Outside my 

open bedroom window the night was 

filled with the sound of thousands 

of frog voices joined as one. Even 

if you covered your ears, the sound 

penetrated. But after a while, you 

became accustomed to the rhythmic 

melody and drifted off to sleep. 

Many of the frogs that lulled me 

to slumber each night also became fish 

bait. 

A cousin’s uncle used to own a bait 

shop in a small community near our 

farm. He’d pay his nephews a couple 

of cents for each frog brought to him. 

The boys would show up at our farm 

with their empty Silverwood’s Dairy 

milk cartons in hand and off we’d go 

to scout the many swales, ponds and 

wetland areas that dotted our farm 

property. 

As much as I would like to say 

that I too was an adept frog-catcher, 

admittedly I was not. I was a klutz 

for one thing. I never did have the 

coordination it would have taken 

to outwit a frog. Secondly, I wasn’t 

thrilled with touching their slimy, little 

squirming bodies. 

But that is not to say that my 

role in my cousin’s entrepreneurial 

partnership wasn’t an important one. 

I was in charge of the milk carton! The 

boys were experts at pouncing and it 

was difficult to keep up with the number 

of times a fist with outstretched frog’s 

legs poking out between the fingers, 

was flung before my face. 

It was my job to open the top of 

the (soon-to-become very muddy) 

carton so they could make a deposit. 

Of course, opening the waxy spout to 

put one frog in also meant that those 

already caught and piled up on top of 

one another in the carton were fighting 

to get out! 

Years later, when we moved 

to Norfolk County, one of the first 

welcoming spring sounds was the 

chorus of frog song. We dug a big 

pond in the backyard and waited while 

Mother Nature started to put in place 

her fine-tuned ecosystem. 

We were delighted to spot tadpoles 

in the pond and were later entertained 

when the common green leopard frogs 

teased our city-bred Bull Terrier. While 

trotting along in the shallow water 

around the shoreline, he’d disturb the 

frogs and they in turn would startle 

him. We came to expect a sequence 

of sounds as the dog made his way 

around the entire circumference of the 

pond – the gribbit of a frog, followed 

by a splash as they hit the water, and 

then the dog’s bark. Gribbit, splash, 

bark. Gribbit, splash, bark. 

And then one year, we were 

puzzled that there were no frogs. Part 

of that mystery might be explained by 

the fact that we had also stocked the 

pond with bass. Duh! Bass eat frogs! 

A few years ago, an unusually dry 

summer meant that the pond level 

lowered to the point where it reduced 

the bass population. Fortunately, 

Mother Nature has a way of taking 

care of such things and in recent years 

we’ve been able to spot huge tadpoles 

in the springtime, some performing 

like dolphins as they actually jump out 

of the water! 

While we don’t seem to have the 

numbers needed for the full-fledged 

symphony recalled from my childhood, 

those who call our pond home are 

welcome because, as we’ve been told, 

when we can no longer hear their song 

it is a signal that there is something 

very wrong with our sensitive world. 

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THE 

CLUB 

Gallery 

Remember jumping into the St. Clair River 

when you were younger? These brave 

boys did it in April this year! 

Sent in by 

Nadine Wark, 

Sarnia 

Send us your great photos 

showcasing Sarnia-Lambton! 

(PAST OR PRESENT) 

(C through D) 

Canada: 51 weeks of winter, one week hockeyless summer. 

Cauterize: Made eye contact with a woman. 

Charm: Getting a "yes", without having asked any clear question. 

Cheap: Much less expensive than ones selling for up to twice as much. 

Chirpes: A canarial disease, no tweetment. 

Choconiverous: Biting off the head of the chocolate Easter bunny first. 

Cinemuck: Popcorn and candy that covers the floors of movie theatres. 

Conservative: A liberal who has just been mugged. 

Constipation: Teeth marks on the toilet seat. Diplomacy: 

Counterfeiter: Kitchen cabinet installer. 

The art of 

Deliberation: Examining one's bread to determine letting someone 

which side it is buttered on. 

else have 

Drug: A substance that, when injected into a rat, your way. 

produces a scientific paper. 

Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. 

SWEDISH 

No one has so big a 

house that he does not need 

a good neighbour. 

He is a friend to none 

who is a friend to all. 

A peacock has too 

little in its head and 

too much in its tail. 

Guests should not forget to go home. 

He who has nothing but virtues is not much 

better than he who has nothing but faults. 

He who buys what he doesn't 

need steals from himself. 

Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard. 

Don't throw away the old bucket until you 

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Being young is a fault which improves daily. 

A life without love, a year without summer. 

Better to suffer for the truth 

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Keep It Simple 

from Daytripping Nov-Dec 2007 

Politicians, generally, are 

masters of obfuscation; 

the subtle art of couching 

whatever they say in words 

so complex that later, 

when they are taken to 

task for their comments 

they can say, “That’s not 

what I meant” and no one can prove 

them wrong. It is little wonder then, 

that the people who work for them 

have brought the art of obfuscation to 

its current level. Witness the reams 

of paper that are produced whenever 

a government committee is asked to 

write a report. 

And yet, it is the simple writing that 

is understood and remembered. For 

example, if you had read the following 

sentence, would you have remembered 

it? “A single unit of pre-decimal 

currency, parsimoniously hoarded, is 

the equivalent of a similar pecuniary 

token received as wages.” Not likely. 

However, when James Thomson 

wrote “A penny saved is a penny got,” 

he created an adage that has endured 

for more than two hundred years (albeit 

in slightly modified form.) With that 

in mind, how many of the following 

“familiar quotations” would you 

recognize if they had been written by a 

bureaucrat? 

1. A quantity of useless material is 

invariably created whenever a project is 

performed with undue alacrity. 

2. A joyful feeling of contentment 

is not a commodity which can be 

purchased through the normal channels 

of currency exchange. 

3. If the extremities of a person are 


of a low temperature, it 

is an indication that he 

or she possesses a loving 

nature. 

4. It is generally unwise to 

awaken a slumbering member 

of the canine family. 

5. If your initial efforts are 

unsuccessful, perseverance will 

eventually lead to a satisfactory 

conclusion. 

6. Given advance knowledge of 

impending actions, one may take 

whatever course is necessary to ensure 

a suitable outcome. 

7. A basic writing implement, used 

judiciously, has the potential for greater 

impact than an ancient, double edged 

weapon. 

8. The introduction of a large number 

of assistants to a task force reduces 

the individual effort required for the 

completion of a particular assignment. 

9. Those members of the avian family 

having similar plumage are often 

predisposed to seek common domicile. 

10. The subtle essence of humor is 

dependent upon the constrained use of 

verbiage. 

Answers: 

l. Haste makes waste. 

2. Money can’t buy happiness. 

3. Cold hands, warm heart. 

4. Let sleeping dogs lie. 

5. If at first you don’t succeed, 

try, try again. 

6. Forewarned is forearmed. 

7. The pen is mightier than the sword. 

8. Many hands make light work. 

9. Birds of a feather flock together. 

10. Brevity is the soul of wit. 

Garden of Wisdom 

Submitted by: 

Eve Stickland 

“ 

Most people are about as 

happy as they make up their 

” 

minds to be 

Abraham Lincoln 

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1. How many judges are there on the 

Supreme Court of Canada? 

2. What is the oldest national 

park in Canada? 

3. How many regular season points did 

Wayne Gretzky end his career with? 

4. Which ruling British Monarch was the 

first to visit Canada (or any Commonwealth 

country) - on May 17, 1939? 

5. Wood Buffalo National Park is home to 

the world’s largest ______? 

6. What mountain range can you see from 

Vancouver? 

7. What Canadian skater was the first to 

ever perform a “quad” in competition? 

8. Astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded a song 

in space. What was it called? 

9. What is Canada’s tallest mountain? 

10. Fresh water or salt water? What are 

icebergs made up of? 

11. What baseball position did Ferguson 

(Fergie) Jenkins play? 

12. Name the six members of the Six Nations 

confederacy. 

13. About 35% of Canada is made up of 

lakes. True or false? 

14. What is Canada’s longest river? 

Quiz 

15. Is it the longest river in North America? 

16. What was the population of Canada at 

Confederation in 1867, to the nearest 

million? 

17. What happened in Niagara Falls on 

March 29th, 1948? 

18. What is the Easternmost point in 

Canada? 

19. Josiah Henson is believed to have been 

the inspiration for the title character of 

this famous book. 

20. Which town is home to the world’s 

longest covered bridge? 

21. Justin Trudeau is Canada’s _____ 

Prime Minister. (We need a number!) 

22. The Ambassador bridge connects 

Canada to which major US city? 

23. Who’s band played “Auld Lang Syne” in 

New York City every year from 1924 to 

1962? 

24. Where is Flin Flon? 

25. What are the two governing bodies of 

Parliament? 

26. If it’s 10:00 in Ontario, what time is it in 

Newfoundland? 

27. Who is the only Canadian to medal in 

both summer and winter Olympics? 

28. What was first performed in Quebec 

City on July 24th, 1880? 

29. When and where did the first Tim 

Hortons open? 

30. Anne of Green Gables was written by? 

31. How many provinces were there at the 

time of Confederation? Name them. 

32. In what decade was the St. Lawrence 

Seaway built? 

33. Is Nunavut in the Eastern, Central or 

Mountain time zone? 

34. The longest name of a place in Canada 

is is Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik 

Lake. Is this true? 

35. What Canadian city was the world’s first 

to use the 911 emergency number? 

Answers: 

1. Nine 2. Banff 3. 2,857 4. George VI 5. Beaver 

Dam 6. The Coastal Mountains 7. Kurt 

Browning 8. Jewel in the Night 9. Mount 

Logan 5,959 m 10. Fresh water 11. Pitcher 

12. Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca, Tuscarora, 

Mohawk and Onondaga 13. False, it’s closer 

to 8% 14. The Mackenzie River 1,738 kms. 

15. No, the Mississippi is 3,734 kms. long 

16. Three million 17. It ran dry due to an ice 

jam 18. Cape Spear , Newfoundland 19. Uncle 

Tom’s Cabin 20. Hartland, New Brunswick 391 

m 21. 23rd 22. Detroit MI 23. Guy Lombardo 

24. In Manitoba 25. The House of Commons 

and the Senate 26. 11:30 27. Clara Hughes, in 

cycling and speed skating 28. O Canada 29. 

Hamilton in 1964 30. Lucy Maud Montgomery 

31. Four, Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia & 

New Brunswick 32. The 1950’s 33. It’s in all 

three 34. It’s true 35. Winnipeg 

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5 Billy Bayou Jim Reeves 

6 Waterloo Stonewall Jackson 

7 Don’t Take Your Guns to Town Johnny Cash 

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Child of the 50’s 

By Therese Lecuyer, Essex • from Daytripping Magazine, May-June 2013 

I was never alone. There were seven 

of us in the family. My being the fourth 

of five daughters, there was always 

someone talking, if not all of us, at the 

same time (my poor dad!) 

We owned a transistor radio with 

AM/FM—that is what we would listen to 

music by, until one Christmas all five of 

us girls were given a record player from 

Santa Claus. 

TV came into my life when I was 

about eight years old. I still have fond 

memories of taking our Saturday night 

baths in a metal tub filled with water 

that was heated on the stove (we had 

no running water in the bathroom 

and no bathroom) and then all of us 

gathering around the television to 

watch Lawrence Welk, freshly bathed. 

I still love re-runs! On Sunday nights it 

was Ed Sullivan and Bonanza, eating 

our allotted hand full of chips and 

bottle of pop, our treat for the week, if 

it even lasted until then. 

The summers seemed endless. We 

lived outside and I loved tending to 

the pigs. They were never fed so well, 

as during the summer when there was 

no school. Our “playhouse” was the 

outhouse or chicken coupe. Yes, the 

outhouse; the smell never bothered me 

back then! 

We all helped around the farm, 

feeding the chickens, gathering eggs 

and hoeing weeds in the fields, and of 

course, feeding the pigs. 

I remember one summer, Dad 

promised us girls a new “playhouse” for 

all our hard work hoeing milk weeds, 

etc. It was our playhouse for the better 

part of a day, before the hens and chicks 

moved in. 

We didn’t have any fancy electronic 

games back then. My sisters and I 

would play a lot of Old Maid. If you 

ended up the Old Maid, Dad would 

tease us mercilessly. We’d play statue, 

tag, hop scotch and hide and seek. 

When it rained, we’d put on our 

bathing suits and run around in the rain 

and under the eavestroughs —that was 

so cool! 

I can remember a milk man, bread 

man, a Fuller Brush man, and even an 

ice cream man. The ice cream man 

even came to our house in the country. 

It was always exciting when the ice 

cream man would pull into our 

yard and stop and pull out a box of 

ice cream treats. They wouldn’t go far 

when there were seven of us. 

Peanut butter and jelly, bologna 

and ground up sweet pickles were a 

staple to feed us in our lunches. In the 

summer months we ate a lot of toasted 

tomato sandwiches and sweet corn. 

Playing with the many farm animals 

was always fun, until you sat down to 

dinner and had shepherd’s pie, which 

included many of the animals I fondly 

tended to. It was all part of growing up 

on a farm, but very difficult at times. 

We walked to school (no, not 20 

miles there and back) about a mile each 

way, no matter the weather. My first 

time ever on a school bus was in grade 

six—that was so exciting! I can recall 

walking to school in snowstorms and 

being told the buses weren’t running, 

so there would be no school, and to go 

back home. It wasn’t a one room school 

house but two buildings; one housing 

grades 1-3 and 7-8, the other grades 4 

and 5. What I wouldn’t give to go back 

to those days again. 

During the summer, I often played 

teacher with my younger sister and 

taught the boys across the road. 

We never had a phone until I was 12 

and a bathroom until I was 13. I can 

still remember my first tub bath—I felt 

like I was in heaven! 

Being one of five girls, I got a lot 

of hand-me-downs, but was always 

excited and grateful for Christmas and 

Easter, when we’d all get a new dress, 

shoes and bonnet. I still have the picture 

of all us five girls and dad on the tractor 

on Easter Sunday that Mom took. 

Growing up on the farm, in the 50’s 

and 60’s came with a great many firsts. 

We may not have had a lot of money 

but we were rich in family and love. 


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Do you remember being 19? Neither do we! 

My Ordinary Life 

by John Gardiner 



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The Leafs, The Lake & Other Adventures 

I remember sitting with my Dad 

in the little lake house and watching 

hockey on the tiny, blurry TV that had 

been purchased. It was, of course, not 

just hockey we were watching.....it was 

the Toronto Maple Leafs and they were 

somewhat sacred back in those days. I 

learned watching hockey with my Dad 

on that tiny TV, and I learned to love the 

Leafs, and that was something that stayed 

with me through much of my adult life. 

Even when I was a teenager and was out 

partying all night, my Dad would leave me 

a synopsis of the game and the score on 

the kitchen table before he went to bed on 

Saturday night. I regret now that I didn’t 

stay in and watch more Leafs’ games with 

my Dad in those days. I guess I took it 

for granted and didn’t really understand 

how important it was. Now that I’ve had 

my own kids and had them find their 

own lives, I know how disappointed my 

father must have been not to have me stay 

home to watch the games with him. It’s a 

grim reality in life that most people don’t 

recognize the important stuff until it’s 

too late. And another grim reality of life 

is that there’s no going back and there’s 

no turning back. Life is linear – you go 

from one end to the other and there are 

no places to get off along the way – and 

there’s no way you can slow it down. Life 

runs by its own clock – you’re just along 

for the ride. 

I started school when I lived at the 

lake.....I started when I was four years old 

because my birthday was in December. 

And while many people joke about having 

to walk a mile to school through snow 

drifts waist high back in the old days..... 

that’s pretty much what I did on some 

winter mornings those first couple of 

years. In fact, because we lived down a 

road with no winter service, which meant 

that the snow plow didn’t come down, 

my Dad and the few other men who lived 

along our road would sometimes get up 

really early in the morning after a snow 

storm and shovel out the road up to the 

bigger road. 

We had a bunch of adventures at the 

lake. I learned to swim and skate really 

well because our front yard was filled 

with a swimming pool in summer and a 

skating rink in winter... by the time I was 

six or seven, I could both swim and skate 

really well. My parents got to know a guy 

who had a cottage at the lake, who was 

only there in summer. He had a pretty 

big motor boat and he and his family 

and friends were big water skiers – there 

was even a ski jump out in the middle of 

the lake. Now Mr. Sternel – that was his 

name – had a small, black dog and in due 

course he built a special water ski with a 

small wire basket on the front. He would 

ski around the lake and the dog would sit 

in the wire basket and have a ride. This 

was a great delight to the other cottagers 

who would sit out on their boathouses 

and cheer on the man and his little dog. 

But Mr. Sternel wasn’t done performing 

circus tricks for the cottagers yet. And, as 

it turned out, my circus career was just 

about to begin. And, so, Mr. Sternel would 

get me up his shoulders and the little dog 

on the front of his special ski and away 

we would go – around the lake, the three 

of us would go while everybody cheered 

and clapped. It was the start of a long life 

in performance. I didn’t know that then, 

but it was the way it was going to be and 

it was the way it was..... 

There were some other kids whose 

parents had decided to rough it on the 

lake all year long in those days. So, there 

were playmates for me and we hung out 

around the lake and in the lake and on 

the lake and we had no end to good times 

from what I remember. One remarkable 

thing that happened while I lived at the 

lake involved my friend, George.....We 

were out horsing around in the farmer’s 

fields one day and George had a sudden 

urge to poop. So, rather than go home, 

he just went over behind a tree, dropped 

his drawers and let her go.....After he’d 

finished, he called me over to admire his 

pile of poop – that’s the kind of thing kids 

used to do. And the remarkable things 

about his poop is that it had ended up 

looking exactly like a Dairy Queen soft ice 

cream cone, all swirly and such. We stood 

and admired it for a couple of minutes 

amazed that something like that could 

happen. It’s a strange but true reality that 

I’ve never seen anything like this again 

in my life. And George is dead now. And 

that’s that. 

One of my sisters was born in 1956 

– while we lived at the lake. She was 

my first sibling and I don’t have many 

memories of her from those early days. 

My first real memory was when she was 

three or four and thought it would be fun 

to lick the big oil tank that stood on the 

back porch. Now, one of the early lessons 

you learn in life is you keep your tongue 

away from cold metal things in the winter. 

Unfortunately, my sister found that out the 

hard way. Mom really didn’t know how 

to solve the problem so my sister stayed 

with her tongue stuck to the oil tank until 

my Dad got home from work. He knew 

the old hot water trick, so he boiled the 

kettle and poured that water down over 

my sister’s tongue and the oil tank finally 

released its relentless hold on her. 

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Pick’n 

It was the long hot summer of 1958 and 

there, perched on the Ross’ picnic table, 

was my friend Mary and myself. It was the 

middle of the summer, needless to say, by 

now, we were bored. We had put a lot of 

effort into the morning tormenting her kid 

sister, and were debating what to do next. 

After great consideration, we decided to go 

down to the bay. Both of our mothers have 

warned us not to go down to the bay, this is 

one of the reasons we picked it. We were 

rebels, troublemakers, girls gone bad, we 

just hoped we didn’t get caught! 

To make the journey a little more 

interesting, we decide to travel a different 

route. Today we were going by way of 

Simcoe Street. We pass Palamero Bakery, 

boy it smelled good, we were hungry, but 

we didn’t want to go home. This is a long 

steep hill; we get a big stone taking turns 

kicking it down towards the bottom of the 

hill. We are almost at the bottom when we 

spot an absolute treasure. We can’t believe 

what we’re looking at, and no one else has 

laid claim to the great find. 

Behind the old grey shack at the bottom 

of the hill is the biggest, fullest, fruitiest 

cherry tree - and we found it, it was ours! We 

realize we had to be quiet, we didn’t want to 

share, we were so excited! We ran back to 

Mary’s house, she snuck into her kitchen and 

grabbed us a big brown paper bag. Our feet 

were barely touching the ground, we had to 

hurry to lay claim, we would not relinquish, 

not at this stage. 

Again, down to the end. We climbed 

over the two feet of wild growing grass, it 

looked like no one had mowed the lawn for 

a long time. As we approach the tree we 

realize it is much taller than we thought, 

but this wasn’t going to stop us. We open 

by Pat Taylor, Hamilton 

from Daytripping Magazine, 

Sept-Oct 2005 

our paper bag, and with great maturity we 

decide to take turns climbing the tree to get 

the big luscious red cherries. Like a pair of 

monkeys we worked all afternoon. At the 

end, our knees were scraped, our hands 

were bloody, and we darn near filled that 

ten pound bag! We had trouble bringing it 

up the hill, it was so heavy. Now we begin 

to eat them. Mmmmm. 

The only logical place to go is back to 

Mary’s backyard. Placing our treasure in 

between us, this gives us easy access. We 

are stuffing ourselves when, sure enough, 

out walks her sister again, whiney thing! 

We decide, why not throw at couple at 

Joan. We had her crying in no time. 

She wanted some cherries and said she 

wouldn’t tell on us. So the blackmail 

works, we give her a handful and tell 

her go to the other end of the yard to eat 

them. Mary and myself are slowing down 

eating, we really did stuff ourselves. Mary 

opens a cherry and says, “hey look, there’s 

a worm in this cherry.” I open one, and 

sure enough, another worm. We were in 

a panic now, we kept opening them, and 

they all had worms in them. We started 

spitting, trying to upchuck, we knew there 

were things swimming in our sweet little 

tummies! Nothing was working. Mary says 

it’s worms for us, worm medicine that is. 

Her family must have got worms a lot, they 

had the syrup in their medicine cabinet. 

We took a swig each, and let nature take 

it’s course. We, being extremely smart 

kids realize why no one else wanted those 

darn cherries! 

We decided to go to the park, no use crying 

over spilled cherries. Mary was a good big 

sister, she told Joan she could have the rest 

of the cherries. Wasn’t that nice! 

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A ‘bugbear,’ says the dictionary, is 

anything that causes an imaginary fear or 

anxiety. Imaginary? Methinks not. In my 

vocabulary, a bug is a bug is a bug. 

A psychiatrist might blame a childhood 

trauma, when I plopped on a bearskin rug, 

jumped up with a wasp (literally as snug 

as a bug in a rug) stinging my hand for 

invading its private space. The start of it all. 

Decades later, in cottage country, 

I earned the name ‘Broom Lady’ for 

swishing a broom to ward off things with 

wings. Thankfully, in my hearing at least, 

nobody suggested I ride it. 

‘June bug’ is a blatant misnomer. It’s 

always May when we open up the cottage, 

but these critters’ hard shells hit doors and 

windows on determined dive-bombing 

missions. June indeed! 

My produce patch beside the cottage 

netted summery salad stuff until one 

lunchtime when I was picking some 

greens for lunch. Nibbling on a young 

leaf, I inadvertently chomped a 

fat caterpillar in half before it 

had time to squiggle out of 

the way. Too late, it was 

decapitated between my 

teeth and the eyes in the 

head section gave me a look never to 

forget. Needless to say, the garden went to 

seed and I shopped in town every summer. 

‘Heartburn’ with Jack Nicholson and 

Meryl Streep was the unfortunate video 

choice one rainy night when neighbouring 

cottagers came over. When Streep’s 

fingers mimed a spider’s trip up the water 

spout, the ditty ‘Inky Dinky Spider’ in the 

background, I shivered, grabbed a sweater, 

but soon had to escape, feigning a sudden 

chill. No, don’t turn it off. No, I don’t need 

the village doctor. I’ll just go to bed. I lay 

watching a horror movie instead, to clear 

my mind of spiders. 

Next morning I tried to ward off 

questions: I’m fine, thanks, must have 

been something quick that hit me. No 

way would I reveal the well-kept secret of 

my shame. 

As a pre-teen at summer camp, I’d 

climbed into my bunk that first night, 

then instantly screamed and raced into 

the woods, followed by counsellors and 

kids who fortunately caught up to me at 

the lake edge. Hysterically I blurted out 

that a huge spider was on my pillow. 

End of summer camp forever. 

Unfortunately, Meryl Streep, 


A Case of Bugmania 

by 

Jean Leedale Hobson, West Vancouver, BC 

From Daytripping Magazine, May-June 2007 

your Inky Dinky Spider interpretation 

resurrected an experience this fan thought 

she’d outgrown. 

Is it any wonder, with my painful past, 

that I freaked out recently when I spied 

tiny brown ‘somethings’ on the rug? 

Jumping up, I flung away the handmade 

heating bag from my aching shoulder and 

stared, petrified, at the invaders. They 

stayed still, not a skitter across the 

floor, not a flap of a wing. Probably, 

I reasoned, they were as 

frozen with fear of me as 

I was of them. Panic took 

over as I also spotted a few on 

the chair arm. BUGS in my living 

room? Oh no! Oh yes! 

I dashed to the hardware store, discreetly 

picked up a can of insect spray, paid and 

got out of there fast. For an hour I sprayed 

everything in sight, wishing I’d bought 

a gas mask too. Can emptied, I treated 

myself to two aspirins and a pot of tea 

as a chaser. 

All that zeal had made my shoulder 

worse, so I reheated the bag in the 

microwave. Two, four, six shiny brown 

specks lay on the counter. Curbing an urge 

to phone 911, I looked closer. Not bugs, 

FLAXSEED! A bit of the stitching had split, 

letting the seeds escape. No local charity 

would have wanted the chair, saturated 

with strong-smelling spray, so it went to 

the dump. But did I explain my new velvet 

rocker to the family on their next visit? Not 

on a bug’s life I didn’t! 

In my loathing of creepers, crawlers, 

wrigglers or flutterers, there is one 

exception however. I am a 

pushover for those red-andblack, 

polka-dotted, gardenfriendly, 

aphid-guzzling beetles 

we call ladybugs. 

My son was asthmatic as a 

child. If I could find a ladybug, I’d 

gently transfer her to his bed tray, asking 

her to babysit, the child watching in delight 

as she crawled back and forth for his 

amusement. When her nanny stint was 

over I’d tell her to fly away home, hoping 

her house wasn’t on fire, her children all 

gone, as the nursery rhyme predicted. I 

wouldn’t want that fate to happen to her. 

Come to think of it, I wouldn’t want it to 

happen to a wasp, a June bug or even an 

inky dinky spider. 

Now that, for this Broom Lady, is saying 

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Summer Garden Checklist 

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Summer in the garden is, for many, 

the most wonderful season. It is a season 

of enjoying our spring efforts grow and 

bloom. Those new plants we purchased 

to provide food to pollinators are coming 

into their glory, and luring wildlife to our 

gardens for our entertainment. 

Everyone has a different vision when 

planning their individual oasis, and the 

summer is when we realize the successes 

of our choices of what to plant. We also 

notice at this time those items that are 

not best situated. Not enough sunlight 

to bloom, too closely planted over there, 

these colours don’t work together the 

best. Resist the urge to move items 

around in the heat of summer. Make 

note of these changes you wish to make 

in July and August, and plan to move 

them as we cool in late September. 

Keep vigilant for damaging pests in 

your garden that seek to steal your show 

and produce. At the same time, take 

notice of the beneficial insects starting to 

arrive in late June and July. Lacewings, 

Ladybeetles, Praying Mantis are all helpful 

garden assistants for keeping those pests 

at bay. Consider creating a toad abode 

to encourage these voracious critters in 

your garden. They love to hide under cool 

stones and leaves to escape the summer 

day heat and emerge at night for their 

evening buffet of insects and more. Also 

make use of diatomaceous earth (silicon 

dioxide) to reduce the population of 

earwigs and other plant eaters where the 

beneficial insects aren’t keeping up. 

In the vegetable garden, produce is 

becoming a greater and greater harvest 

each week. Nothing is better than eating 

the effort of your own hands right from 

the garden. Brush off the soil and the 

occasional insect and mmm… tomatoes 

cucumbers peas carrots. And if you 

have too much to enjoy, share with 

neighbours or strangers, you never know 

who becomes a new friend. 

Checklist: 

JULY 

❏ Water deeply all the new plantings 

from this year and the veggie garden. 

❏ Trim spent blossoms to encourage 

more blooms (or just let the seeds 

develop to feed the birds). 

❏ Keep weeds at bay so plants have 

space to develop. 

❏ Monitor insect and bird populations 

and marvel at their beauty and design. 

❏ Harvest and share produce from 

your yard. 

AUGUST 

❏ start thinking about adding new 

seasonal colour where there are no 

showy flowers. 

❏ If plants are out of place make note 

to relocate these in late September. 

❏ Keep the hummingbird feeder clean 

and stocked. 

SEPTEMBER 

❏ Move the plants that need a new 

home and divide perennial plants. 

❏ Add Fall blooming mums, Tall 

grasses and ornamental kale to container 

gardens to welcome the next season. 

❏ Plant trees for shade and other 

larger plants you should have many 

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4) Soda pop machines that 

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5) Coffee shops with tableside 

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6) Home milk delivery in glass 

Bulk Barn 10% OFF Wednesdays 65+ 519-542-6668 

bottles with cardboard 

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(Rarely Heard Any More) “You didn’t lick the stamp good enough.”

Many of the articles are from the archives of Daytripping Magazine. 



I Always Wanted to 

Play Baseball 

Sienna Senior Living • https://blog.siennaliving.ca/i-always-wanted-to-play-baseball 

Eric Mackenzie always knew he 

wanted to play baseball. 

“I always wanted to play baseball,” 

Eric Mackenzie said. He was born in 

Glendon, Alberta in 1932 and grew 

up on the farm. From a young age, he 

knew that the farming life was not for 

him, but it was all Glendon really had to 

offer. So he set his eyes on a seemingly 

impossible dream: Baseball. 

His father encouraged him to play. 

When Eric came of age in 1949, life 

in Glendon was tough. WWII had 

just ended, and jobs were few and far 

between. He bought a one-way ticket 

to Leamington, ON to tryout for the big 

leagues. 

Eric had quit school in Grade 10 to 

work on the farm and focus 

on baseball. He played as a 

catcher. From Leamington, 

Eric was signed to the 

Philadelphia Athletics, a 

U.S.-based team. He set 

off for spring training in 

Georgia. 

“I travelled a lot of miles 

and saw most of the United 

States from a bus,” Eric said. 

“Those eight years were the 

best times of my life… it was 

my lifetime dream to play 

baseball.” 

Eric can still remember his 

first day of spring training. 

“I was a catcher… when 

you sit all day on your haunches, in a 

crouch, your legs almost seize-up on 

you,” Eric said. Near the end of the day, 

one of the coaches told him to practice 

at bat. He took three swings before 

another player sent him back to the 

bullpen. “They didn’t like to see new 

people. They were always worried you’d 

be the one to take their spot.” 

Eric started as a player in the D-club, 

but he didn’t stay there long. He made 

his way up through the ranks, playing 

the majority of his games at the A and 

Eric Mackenzie in uniform 

for the Athletics during his 

baseball career. 

B rank. In 1954 Philadelphia Athletics 

changed hands, becoming Kansas City 

Athletics. In 1955, Eric played in his first 

Major League game for the Kansas City 

Athletics. 

Although the team changed hands 

during Eric’s eight-year career, he was 

never signed to another team. 

In 1956, Eric was married. He and his 

wife, who was from Leamington, had a 

son and a daughter. 

In 1958, Eric retired as a player and 

went on to coach baseball. At first, he 

coached local Canadian baseball teams. 

“And then I got a call from Baseball 

Canada to coach the Canadian baseball 

teams,” Eric said. He was one of several 

coaches for the team, and he travelled 

around the world, from Italy 

to Japan. He also coached 

at the Pan American Games 

and the 1984 Olympics, 

which were held in Los 

Angeles. He served as a 

coach with team Canada for 

nine years. 

After his coaching career, 

Eric worked in Parks and 

Recreation as the recreation 

director. He enjoyed the job 

for many years, and retired 

in 1990. He continued to 

volunteer as a ballpark 

groundskeeper. He saw 

almost every park in Ontario 

and the southern States. He 

retired from his volunteer work in 2018, 

at the age of 86. 

Today, Eric continues to enjoy life at 

Fairwinds Lodge Retirement Residence 

in Sarnia. To this day, he says The 

Athletics, which are now Oakland based, 

are his favourite team. 

“Baseball is a big item around the 

world,” Eric said. “It’s a sport where you 

need a lot of background, and there’s 

lots of competition… [but] there’s a 

lot of comradery and a lot of laughs in 

baseball.” 

Cover of the CLUB 

Our local cover photographer is Robert Walicki 

...slightly less cool than the 

Cover of the Rolling Stone, 

but we’re working on that!. 

In these mes of digital over-saturaon, how do we grab people’s aenon and direct 

them to what we want them to see? Over the past 35 years, I’ve learned that collaborang 

with creaves, clients and students who share the same end goal is key to a successful 

commission or a project and will produce results that are honest, innovave and with a 

quality value everyone can feel proud of. 

Since before high school growing up in Poland, 

Robert Walicki had a camera in his hand. In grade 9, 

he had his first darkroom (and sll has that first 

enlarger). Since then, photography was always an 

integral part of his career and a tool he ulized in his 

work as an archaeologist, urban designer, graphic 

designer, media designer, commercial photographer 

and a New Media Teacher at St. Chris/St. Pat’s in 

Sarnia for the last 22 years. Robert has completed 

countless commissions and won some awards along 

the road; however, what he finds most rewarding is the passion he passed on to his 

students. The measure of his success are the awards and successes accumulated by his 

students. Robert is open to creave and challenging commercial commissions. 

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We’re living life to the fullest (until about 9 pm). 

A Waft of Summer 

The gentleness of an early summer 

morning on my back porch swing 

floods over me. The smell of fresh cut 

grass tickles my nostrils as I relish in 

the wonderful joys of retirement. Oh 

yes, the howling winds of winter, the 

blowing snow, the dangling icicles all 

have their beauty as we stay snuggly, 

tucked inside, piecing a jigsaw puzzle, 

but the best time of all the seasons is 

when the sun shines, the birds dutifully 

build their nests and tug on worms, the 

tractors pass by in a caravan of busyness 

and the daffodils sway in the ditch. This 

is truly a touch of heaven. 

And with it comes the 

smells of summer. The 

cherry blossoms send out 

their v1.1 delicate LEO spray, lilacs 

scent v1.2 the Forest air with Kineto their Theatre 

distinctive v1.3 Heritage perfume St. Clair 

as we drive past a 

plethora of bushes in the 

neighbouring ditches. I 

always cut a few to put 

in my bedroom so I can 

fall asleep to that familiar 

scent. As I rock in my 

By Marion Urquhart Charkow, Flesherton 

swing, the pungent odour of freshly 

spread manure wafts on the breeze. 

My mother, often remarked how this 

reminded her of her childhood days 

on her grandfather’s farm in the Back 

Canishers of Guernsey. I don’t suppose 

I ever realized as a child how much she 

missed her island home. However, it did 

leave her with a great love of nature, 

the different seasons and how each one 

has its own special joys. I believe I’ve 

inherited that love. I could not imagine 

ever again living in a big city although 

that is certainly where the de 

Beaucamp family settled 

when they immigrated. 

But I, many generations 

later, enjoy the sweet 

smells of the barnyard, 

the sweetness of fresh 

cut hay, the damp odour 

after a summer rain, the 

crispness as Lake Huron 

splashes on the sandy 

beach, the hungry smell 

of french fries. Ah, the 

smell of summer, I love it. 

Enjoy! 


P A G E 

20 

(Rarely Heard Any More) The sound of baseball cards in bicycle spokes

You’re welcome to send in articles to help build this new magazine. 

Easy 

If baseball were easy every hop would be great, 

Every pitch would be served on a silver home plate, 

I'd have perfect mechanics, not practice at all, 

Always get my way when I dislike a call, 

I'd only paint corners, hit homers with ease, 

Pitch perfect games and steal home when I please, 

I'd play every inning at the position I want, 

Remove fans from the stands when they issue a taunt, 

If baseball were easy I'd play it without strife 

But baseball's not easy..... 

Baseball's like life. 

Author Unknown 


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time I am not 20 is when I am trying to 

do something I could do so easily when I 

was 20. 

I have also discovered I have a lot more 

memories than I could possibly have at 20. 

I just can’t remember them all as well as I 

could then. If I try really hard to remember 

them, they just run away somewhere and I 

can’t find them. 

In my mind, I could climb Everest, hike 

non-stop over Australia, hop a plane to 

anywhere and have enough energy left 

to take on the world again. Now I look at 

Everest and say why would I want to climb 

it? I think I could hike a conservation area 

in Australia. I need a night’s sleep before I 

hop a plane to anywhere and when I land 

they assist me off the aircraft and I am 

exhausted by the time I get to my car. 

The other day, I noticed that most of 

my friends have gained a few years, and 

are looking old. At least I have managed 

to keep looking young, until I really look in 

the mirror and wonder how my mother’s 

face looks out at me. How did she get in 

there? 

I have also lost a lot of friends lately and 

some of them are younger than me even. 

They must be doing something to age so 

much. Me, I just keep looking forward to 

the year 2043, that will be the greatest 

year of my life. 

I notice the nights are getting longer 

and the days are shorter. I get up at 9 on a 

good day and work until lunch time. Then 

I load up the dishwasher and go for a rest 

until 3. Then I work for an hour and then 

get supper ready. Then I clear up and go 

on the computer for an hour or so. Then 

hubby and I play a game or two and head 

for bed. I read for a while and then have a 

great night, usually. I actually look forward 

The Trouble With Getting Older 

By Lucy Landry, Appin • from Daytripping Magazine, May-June 2013 

to reading in bed. 

I used to be good at making quick 

decisions. Now I have to write down the 

questions, remember where I put the 

paper, remember to read it and remember 

to think about it long enough to come up 

with an opinion. By then my hubby has 

a better idea so I really don’t have to do 

much thinking. 

One of the most difficult things when 

you get older is remembering who all 

your relatives are and whose they are. 

Grandchildren all sound the same and 

so do your kids and they all start off “Hi 

grandma, do you know who this is?” Let 

me see, did I call you? No. You called me. 

And you called to see if I know who you 

are? I didn’t enter this contest. Oh wait a 

moment, I have call display. “Sure, I know 

who this is.” 

While I am on the subject of age, when 

you retire you expect a certain level of lazy 

life… wrong! Everyone thinks you can do 

more for them now that you have all this 

extra time. Even the cats think you are 

there to meet their every need and to feed 

them eight times a day. 

Your telephone list gets updated as 

well. Leading the list is 911, your doctor, 

your drugstore, your masseuse, your foot 

specialist, your hair dresser… no wonder 

your family are at the end of the list! 

Did you notice they put pet foods in 

easy open containers but put people food 

in impossible to get open containers. Have 

you tried to open a pudding cup or even 

a package of crackers? They have banned 

knives from schools, airports, etc. but you 

can never open the snack packs that air 

lines give you or those sealed containers of 

juice. It is really sad when you have to have 

a pair of scissors to open the toilet paper 

package. They make things easy to close 

but I want easy to open! 

Then there are the pills the doctor wants 

you to take. You can have them packaged 

in the toughest bubble wrap press out that 

you still need your knife to open, or in a 

child proof bottle that your grandchildren 

can open easier than you can. Then they 

give you prescriptions to take once a day in 

the morning, once a day at night, twice a 

day but not with food or other medication, 

three times a day but not with food or 

other medication, and one before you go 

to bed. If you work out a schedule for the 

above you need a timer to remind you to 

take your pills at the proper time. 

Speaking of time, I am supposed to 

have lots of it. My theory is that if I have 

lots of time I don’t need to live my life by 

the clock. I can do what I want except for 

medications and appointments. Wait, let 

me check that timer again. 

The other thing you really need is the 

calendar. I love the last day of each month 

when you turn to a new and blank page. 

Funny thing is, the calendar is quickly 

jammed full of things to do and places 

to go and birthdays and anniversaries to 

remember. I try to phone everyone on 

their birthday and anniversary but there 

are so many I run out of voice! 

A real annoyance of getting older is 

the print in everything gets smaller. No 

wonder seniors don’t get newspapers 

any more, they can’t see to read the obits 

without a magnifying glass. The telephone 

book is hopeless because you can either 

remember the number and not the person 

or you remember the first name but not 

the last and you can’t see the number 

anyway. 

Now I have been smart about this. Years 

ago, I memorized everyone’s number in 

my family. I just didn’t know they would 

all get cell phones and change numbers. 

They bought me a cell phone and I can text 

them, but I have to learn a new language 

to be able to understand what they are 

telling me. It is like getting a crossword 

puzzle with no clues. My grandson texted 

me: cu 7X12 which means see you in 7-12 

days. Who would have thought? 

I am computer savvy now, only 

everyone else has blackberries (we used 

to eat those), iPods, iPads and e-readers 

where you can download books so you 

don’t have to go to the library. Each book 

you download is stored for life so you can 

read it again. Oh the e-reader lets you 

enlarge the print so you can see it and 

you turn pages just like in a real book! The 

trouble is, you are unsure which one is 

simple enough for you to operate without 

calling a grandchild for instructions. 

I can’t wait to see what else will be 

available when I get old. I mean things 

change every minute. You can preplan 

everything so when it happens you are 

looked after. It means you can let your 

mind wander away because you have 

already decided what to do. What if I 

change my mind? Maybe what I decide 

now is not what I would want later. Can 

I really trust those I put in charge? I like 

being in charge of myself… after all, I have 

lived with me all my life. 

So where does all this leave me? I am 

20 at heart, my mirror tells me different. 

My body wants replacement parts so I can 

move like a 20 year old. Really though, I 

love being me. I’ve been there, done that 

and look forward to doing more. I have 

wonderful memories of things I’ve seen 

and people I’ve met and the beauties God 

has created for us. I’d even climb Everest 

if one of my grandkids could push me up 

there in a wheel chair. Wouldn’t that just 

be the adventure to top off getting older! 

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There are ways, and like everything I have 

written about it takes some planning. 

Some folks in this situation rely on family. 

Lots of lasagnas and casseroles. This will 

work for a time, and after a while the 

refrigerator gets stuffed, and Mom and 

Dad are back to where they started. 

The Freezer Section of the Grocery 

Store - Not 

Prepared food from the freezer 

section of the grocery store gets called 

on sometimes. While the “TV-Dinner” 

looks like a good option, in fact, it is not. 

It is not because it is not healthy at all, 

for anyone! 

This nutrition label is of a popular 

frozen dinner. Salisbury Steak in fact. 

Yummy, I guess and while the calories 

may be in line some of the other 

information should shock you. I draw 

your attention to the sodium. At 71%, 

or 1630mg you might as well eat the 

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this Salisbury Steak at 1630 mg blows 

the budget. I will not even get into the 

negative effects of that much salt. These 

are cheap and convenient, but horrible 

for your health and well-being. 

In Home Meal Preparation 

Another option is to bring meal 

preparation into your home. Home Care 

providers offer this as an option for 

their clients. The benefit of this choice 

is that the client gets the types and 

options of food they enjoy. The cost is 

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the potatoes and cutting the carrots. 

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food is another win for in-home meal 

preparation. With this choice, budget 

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the cost of groceries. 

Home Meal Replacement - HMR 

This is becoming a big business, and 

it’s not just for seniors. Many busy people 

are taking advantage of the convenience 

and copious options on the internet and in 

this magazine. They are organized in three 

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Ready to Cook refers to the companies 

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complete. Think of a modern grocery 

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Ready to Heat are prepared, small 

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Whether you use In Home Meal 

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A new magazine for people who aren’t (new that is!) 

What’s in a Name? 

By C.W. Tiffin, Chatham • from Daytripping Magazine, Summer 2013 

When I was born, I was given a name 

just like everyone else. That part is done 

for you. My parents chose my name 

from one of my uncles, which was quite 

common way back when I was born. 

It was not a name that I would have 

chosen for myself for several reasons, 

mostly because at that time it was not a 

common name. 

As I grew older, I soon realized this. 

There was of course my uncle... Claude. 

Then there was this other kid at school 

with the name of Claude. He was quiet 

and grinned a lot, but being older than 

me, we didn’t talk much to each other, 

although I once called him Claude. It 

just seemed odd to call someone with 

the same name, especially that name as 

he grinned and said, “Hello... Claude.” 

Then there was Claude Rains, the actor 

who starred with Humphrey Bogart and 

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca... and 

me! 

As I continued through life, whenever 

someone asked my name, whether for 

filling out a form or some other reason, 

I would invariably be asked the same 

questions. “Is it Bob?” 

“No, it’s Claude.” 

Then I would get a quizzical look and 

another try... “Clyde?” And so on until 

I would finally get my name through to 

them and their face would light up as 

they would finally say. 

“Oh... it’s Claude.” 

Some years ago 

when the movie 

actor Jean Claude 

VanDamme got to be 

fairly well known, the 

name Claude became 

more popular, at least enough so that I 

didn’t have to keep repeating myself. 

Of course then, there were those who 

thought that I was French, which I am 

not. I am of Irish decent, and I couldn’t 

answer them in French when they 

began to speak the language to me, 

even though Canadians are supposed to 

be bilingual. Which all brings me up to 

the present day in time. 

Recently I had to go to Windsor to see 

a doctor. My wife and I got a hotel room 

and decided to take a cab over to the 

Hospital. Like many seniors, my body 

seems to be losing the full function 

of some of the main parts, like my 

memory, my hearing, to name only a 

couple. 

Surprisingly, we weren’t long at the 

hospital. He just looked at some x-rays 

and then gave me another appointment. 

We were out in half an hour. I stopped 

at the main desk and asked the lady if 

she would call a cab for the wife and I. 

She smiled as she asked, “What is your 

name, the cab driver will have to know 

who it is that he is supposed to pick up.” 

“Claude Tiffin,” I answered. 

Her eyes grew large as she stared at 

me and asked, “Is that REALLY your 

name?!” 

Thinking that she might have read 

one of my self-published books, I 

proudly answered, “YES.” 

She got the most amazed look on 

her face I had ever seen. “Your name 

is GOD?!!” 

“No, no!!” I said, not really certain 

that I had heard her right, but I looked 

over and saw my wife laughing really 

hard and it all began to dawn on me. 

My blame name 

again. My face 

probably reddened as 

I answered. “No it’s 

not GOD. It’s Claude!! 

C.L.A.U.D.E.! 

Once again, I had 

to spell it out for 

someone. So now you know why I 

often sign my name C.W. Tiffin. An odd 

name is a heavy thing to carry through 

life. That is why I named my sons Sam 

and Dan. Oh yes, my daughter’s name 

is Debbie and my wife’s name is Jean. 

They are all nice simple names. 

Signed... C.W. Tiffin. 


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Ranch Potato Casserole 

8 medium red potatoes 

1/2 cup sour cream 

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1/4 cup cooked crumbled bacon 

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Quarter and boil potatoes with skin on, just unl tender. Combine 

dressing, sour cream, bacon, parsley and 1 cup of cheese. Pour over 

cooked potatoes and toss lightly then put in a 9x13 inch casserole. 

Top with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. This can be made the night before. 

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2/3 cup chopped onion 

1 Tbsp. oil 

3/4 cup water 

3/4 cup ketchup 

1/3 cup lemon juice 

3 Tbsp. sugar 

1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 

2 Tbsp. prepared mustard 

1/2 tsp. salt 

1/2 tsp. pepper 

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Place ribs in a roasng pan coated with nonsck cooking spray. Sprinkle 

with salt. Add water. Cover and bake at 350˚F for 1 hour. Meanwhile in 

a saucepan, sauté onion in oil unl tender. Add remaining ingredients; 

bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes or 

unl slightly thickened. Drain the ribs; top with half the Barbecue Sauce. 

Cover and bake 1 hour longer or unl the meat is tender, basng every 

20 minutes. Serve with the remaining sauce. 

3 eggs 

2 cups white sugar 

1 cup oil 

3 tsp. vanilla 

2 cups zucchini 

1 tsp. salt 

3/4 tsp. cinnamon 

3/4 tsp. nutmeg 

(oponal) 

1 tsp. baking soda 

By: Diane Cadieux 

(from “Millennium Menus” 

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1 tsp. dried parsley 

1 1/2 cups cheddar 

cheese, shredded 

(Be generous with ingredients) 

1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup water 

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Lioness Club 30th Anniversary Cookbook) 

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 

3 cups all purpose flour 

1 cup raisins 

1/2 cup walnuts (oponal) 


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His Unique Legacy 

By Cathy Dobson, Point Edward • Photos by Leonard Segall, Sarnia (except where noted) 

Tucked along a picturesque stretch of 

Hillsboro Road in northwest Lambton 

County, is a private nature preserve that 

has given Sarnia’s Walter Petryschuk 

great solace over the years. 

He has spent 43 years escaping to 

the trails that wind through his bush 

and meander beside Hickory Creek. 

“I was a plant manager for 15 years 

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to enjoy the birds and 

see the odd bobcat or 

wolf. But about five 

acres was cleared 

and converted by 

the Petryschuks for 

a large garden, a 

690-tree orchard, and finally a tall grass 

prairie. 

It’s Petryschuk’s sanctuary in many 

ways. During his working life, he spent 

12 hours at a time working and walking 

the land. Now, at age 84, he’s there 

two to three times a week, tending 

his garden, building bird houses and 

enjoying the natural environment. 

“If you want to live a long time, you 

have to have something to look forward 

to,” he said. “I love the peace and 

solace here.” 

The preserve is his legacy project and 

will eventually be passed to one of his 

four sons. 

Petryschuk left his childhood 

farm to study chemical 

engineering. But he never forgot 

his roots. 

One fortuitous day in 1978, 

he was having lunch at Polysar 

with a colleague named D’Arcy 

Hunt who said he had some land 

for sale in Plympton Wyoming. 

“I wanted to plant something 

and had been looking for some 

land,” said Petryschuk. 

“If you want to live a 

long time, you have to 

have something to look 

forward to.” 

He immediately asked to see Hunt’s 

acreage where he was astonished to 

find Hickory Creek running 130 feet 

below the property’s high ground. In 

a part of Ontario where the terrain is 

generally flat, the gully is rare. 

“I was absolutely flabbergasted,” 

Petryschuk said. “I turned to D’Arcy 

and said, ‘It’s spectacular. It’s just a 

matter of how much you want for it.’” 

He dubbed the land “Conservation 

@ Hickory Creek,” and set about 

clearing the almost impenetrable bush 

above the ravine for an apple orchard. 

Nearly 700 trees were eventually 

planted on five acres, with Mary and 

their sons pitching in along with a hired 

construction crew. 

In the early 80s, an equipment 

building was 

constructed, a tractor 

was purchased, and 

trails were created. 

The first apple harvest 

took place in 1983 and 

a vegetable garden 

went in nearby. 

Hickory Creek has 

always been a big draw to Petryschuk 

and his family. Trout are plentiful and 

the creek provides water for the 

garden. 

Throughout the 1990s and 

into the 2000s, the Petryschuks 

sold their apples roadside and 

then began to wholesale them as 

far away as Collingwood. It was 

a going concern for two decades 

that abruptly stopped in 2005 

when he contracted larynx 

cancer and had to dedicate all 

his energy to recovery. 

“We got rid of the orchard 

and planted a tall grass prairie in 2018,” 

said Petryschuk. 

Over the years, Mac Kechnie from 

Sarnia built about two dozen birdhouses 

and strategically erected them 

throughout the property. Petryschuk 

was determined to attract a diversity of 

birds and built about 100 more. To this 

day, he continues making them from 

recycled materials. 

About 35 acres have been left to 

develop naturally. When a tree falls — 

and many have—it is left alone unless 

it’s blocking a path. The property 

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Petryschuk left Polysar to become 

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in Sarnia. Later he worked as director 

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London. Today he is an associate with 

the Bowman Centre for Sustainable 

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Since his recovery from cancer, 

Conservation @ Hickory Creek has 

offered a great place to keep busy and 

enjoy the outdoors. 

Earlier this year, the Petryschuks 

won an award from the St. Clair Region 

Conservation Authority for improving 

and protecting their land on Hillsboro 

Road. 

And this summer, the property will 

be featured in an exhibition in Bright’s 

Grove by photographer Leonard Segall. 

The show runs Aug. 5-Sept. 4 at the 

Gallery in the Grove. 

“Walter allowed me to take 

photos at his property for two 

years,” said Segall. “It’s rare to 

find a vertical drop that big in 

this area. I found I could get 

immersed in the forest. 

“That and the wildflowers 

were the main attraction for me.” 

While the Petryschuk’s 

property is private, Segall’s 25 

colour photographs will give the 

public a unique opportunity to 

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“I think it’s just a fabulous place,” 

said Segall. “From the tall grass prairie, 

to the overgrown bush you can hardly 

get through, it’s great to know it will be 

protected for years to come.” 

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Building A Better Sarnia-Lambton 

Welcome to the summer edition of The Club! For the second year 

in a row, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended most people’s 

summer plans, but there is real hope on the horizon that July and 

August will bring back some sense of normalcy to everyone’s 

lives. 

Discussing mental health issues 

with Bluewater Health President 

& CEO Mike Lapaine (right), 

alongside the Associate Minister 

of Health & Addictions. 

Congratulating Pathways Health 

Centre on reaching their 

$1.6 million Therapeutic Pool 

fundraising goal, which included 

$148,500 in support from the 

Ontario Trillium Foundation. 

Presenting virtually to the 

Michigan Senate in March 

about the importance of Line 5 

to Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario, and 

the entire Great Lakes Region. 

Touring Creative Education 

of Canada in Point Edward, 

which has transitioned from 

a costume designer to an 

Ontario-based provider of face 

masks and surgical gowns. 

June is Seniors Month. Now more than ever, it is important that 

we come together to support each other. We all recognize and 

honour the knowledge, experience, and contributions those of us 

who are 55+ have made to build the province that we enjoy today 

- and continue to make every day in communities across Ontario. 

I’d like to also recognize the challenges being faced by our local 

businesses. These past 14 months have been incredibly difficult 

for all businesses, but it’s been especially hard on Ontario’s once 

vibrant tourism industry. Prior to the pandemic, Ontario’s tourism 

sector was a robust $36 billion industry making vital 

contributions to our province. In addition to the 400,000 jobs in 

the tourism industry, it also plays a critical role in enhancing 

Ontario’s cultural fabric and spirit. Please do your part by 

supporting these valued Sarnia-Lambton community members 

as we continue to recover from the pandemic. 

I want to wish everyone in Sarnia-Lambton a wonderful summer. 

With the warm weather finally arriving and many outdoor 

activities reopening again, it’s important that we all get outside 

and rediscover the beauty of our community as much as 

possible. If we all do that safely and responsibly, I am confident 

the summer ahead will be a truly memorable one. Enjoy! 

Announcing $1.3 million in 

joint provincial/federal funding 

to create 24 new affordable 

rental housing units for 

seniors in Sarnia. 

Supporting arts and culture 

at the Judith & Norman Alix 

Art Gallery with the Minister of 

Heritage, Sport, Tourism and 

Culture Industries. 

Announcing $2,843,400 in 

provincial funding to expand 

the Community Paramedicine 

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looking back on the days of your youth Another happening place was the 

and, if you still have your memory, it’s a A&W Drive-in on Christina at Maxwell 

blast from the past. I was a teen in the 60’s streets. There was nothing like an ice-cold 

and recall the summers and the musical rootbeer served in a frosty mug on a hot 

soundtrack of that time, with the Top 40 summer’s eve. The carhops would come 

blaring from a car radio or transistor. “Hot right up to your window to serve. The guys 

town, summer in the city, back of my neck would have their hair slicked back with 

gettin’ dirt and gritty,” the Lovin’ Spoonful Brylcreem (“a little dab will do ya”) and try 

sang the summer of 1966. 

to look as cool as possible, hanging out of 

Growing up in Corunna, until I had their cars trying to make eye contact with 

my own car and license, it wasn’t easy the girls. 

getting a ride to Sarnia where all the How about the bands around town 

action seemed to be. “Get your motor in the 60’s? Groups such as The Grimm 

runnin’, head out on the highway, lookin’ Reaper, the Grass Company, Unit 4, 

for adventure and whatever comes our Quotations and Gladiators played regularly 

way,” growled Steppenwolf. Hitchhiking at high school and teen town dances. Back 

was popular, although more prevalent in those days, a girl had to wait for a boy to 

with the boys than the girls. I thought if I ask for a dance, unless it was ladies’ choice. 

could just get to Tab’s Drive-in on Colborne That resulted in plenty of walking around 

Road I would have it made. That’s where in a circle. Those were definitely ‘dizzy’ 

you would show up in a hot car (if at all times! Sarnia, Corunna and Courtright 

possible), cruise around checking out the all ran their own teen-towns and Mary’s 

other cars and, of course, its’ occupants Record Mart was the place to buy all the 

(did you see that cute guy who just pulled latest 45’s. 

in?) Something to eat was another reason Another hot spot to be was Kenwickon-the-Lake 

in Bright’s Grove to see Grant 

to be at Tab’s and the Canadaburger and 

Tartan Surprise were always favourites. Smith & the Power all the way from T.O. 

Colborne Road was no Jan & Dean’s Rumour had it that the lead singer split his 

“Dead Man’s Curve” but a bit of a drag strip. pants on a regular basis and the girls hung 

(Watch out for the cops!) ”She’s real fine, around the stage in great anticipation. 

my 409,” bragged the Beach Boys. Well for Freddie ‘Boom-boom’ Cannon also 

me, not quite, as I was driving, firstly, an performed there. There were no mosh 

old car from the mid 50’s and then a ’66 pits or crowd surfing in those days, but 

Vauxhall. Although not conducive to drag I remember a lot of jumping 

racing, my little green car did get my sister around and screaming in front 

and I where we had to be (or wanted to of the stage. And the strobe 

be). Things did improve later when my lights and go-go girls added to 

boyfriend drove into my driveway with a the excitement. 

’66 SS-396 Chevelle and I rode in style. Rose Gardens was the destination for 

“Round round get around, I get around,” the both record hops and roller-skating. Close 

By Nadine Wark, Sarnia 

from Daytripping Magazine, 

Summer 2013 

by, in Point Edward, was the Bluewater 

Bridge for the ‘submarine races’ and a 

plate of Albert’s famous chips. There was 

none of the technology we have today, 

so seeing a movie meant going to either 

the Capital or Odeon theatres downtown 

Sarnia. The lineups were several blocks 

long and you would always see friends 

from school. Who can forget the Startop 

Drive-in (later the Mustang) on Plank Road 

where the family would be loaded up in 

the station wagon, kids in pajamas, as well 

as the family dog, to watch movies under 

the stars. Of course, after the popcorn was 

gone, the kids would be asleep and the 

dog would be throwing up. 

Looking back, it seemed like a time 

of simple pleasures. We didn’t have all 

the choices that teens have today, yet we 

still managed to keep entertained in a 

great town called Sarnia. Time for a little 

reminiscing…“Summertime and the livin’ 

is easy.” No, the song from my transistor 

is Steppenwolf singing “Born To Be Wild.” 

Think my sister and I will go cruisin’ in the 

Vauxhall…(if only in my dreams!) 

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The other day, someone asked me, "Why didn't we have a drug problem when we 

were growing up?" I replied, "I DID have a drug problem when I was young ..." 

I was drug to church on Sunday morning, as well as many weddings & funerals. 

I was drug to family reunions and community socials no maer the weather. 

I was drug by my ears when I was disrespecul to adults, when I disobeyed my 

parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, spoke ill of the teacher or the 

preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me. 

I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I swore. 

I was drug out to pull weeds in mom's garden and flower beds and cockleburs out 

of dad's fields. 

I was drug to the homes of family, friends, 

and neighbors to help out someone who had 

no one to mow the yard, repair 

things, or chop some firewood; 

and, if my mother had ever known 

that I took a single dime as a p for 

this kindness, she would have 

drug me back to return it. 

Those drugs sll affect my 

behavior in everything I do, say, 

and think. They are stronger 

than cocaine, crack, or heroin; 

and, if today's children had this 

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Toys That Almost Killed Us 

Part I 

By Lee Michaels, 

Sarnia 

I honestly don’t know how many of 

us are still around considering what we 

played with when we were kids. 

I grew up a tomboy in the prairies. 

Girl’s toys bored me to tears. My aunt, 

who wanted me to be more “girlie” gave 

me a Barbie for my birthday. I promptly 

cut off all her hair and stuck little gold 

safety pins through her ears. Later, 

when one of my buddies showed me 

the pink rabbit’s foot he had hanging 

from his banana bicycle handlebars 

for “good luck,” I ripped off my shorn 

Barbie doll head, painted it pink with 

my Mom’s nail polish, and hung it from 

my handlebars. No dolls for me. 

I’d rather be playing “knivesies” with 

the boys. Yes, most of us carried 

around a jack knife in our 

pockets, most with blades 

about three inches long. 

They weren’t fancy 

Swiss Army Knives or 

those 20-tools-in-one variety, 

just a regular old jack knife. My 

Uncle Archie gave me mine, 

a beauty with an ivory 

handle. (He also gave me 

an ivory cigarette holder. He told me 

he got both in India as a Scottish soldier 

but all the grown-ups said he liked to tell 

stories and cheated at cribbage). I liked 

to think he was telling the truth because 

it made my knife special and once in a 

while I would pretend I was a Scottish 

soldier, puffing on my slightly smokey 

smelling cigarette holder, and battling 

enemies with the knife. Anyway, we’d 

draw a circle in the dirt and put a stone 

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in the middle and the idea was to throw 

your knife from outside the circle, 

seeing who could get their knife to stick 

into the ground, closest to the rock. 

We’d practise for hours, trying different 

grips, blades towards us, blades away, 

trying to get that knife to stick. We’d do 

the same with a chalk circle on a tree 

or wooden shed. I never remember any 

mishaps playing “knivesies,” although I 

did draw blood on a couple of occasions, 

whittling down sticks to use as swords 

to poke each other with. Amazingly, 

we never poked each other’s eyes out. 

Could you imagine walking by a group of 

ten-year-olds nowadays, all 

grouped in a circle, knives 

in hand? Unthinkable. 

The unthinkable 

did happen once with 

firecrackers. We played 

with those short, stubby “red 

devils” that were tied together 

with string. You could either 

light them off all at once: Bang! 

Bang! Bang! Bang! Or you could untie 

them and light them one by one. They 

were great to stuff in a big anthill and 

then light it and watch the ants fly to 

Kingdom Come. Sometimes the bigger 

kids would throw them at each other, 

but I wasn’t that stupid….yet. I wasn’t 

allowed to play with them, but I’d save 

up my money and sneak off to the 

variety store and buy them anyway, then 

hide them somewhere outside where 

Mom wouldn’t find them. Sometimes, 

you’d get a dud that wouldn’t explode 

or wouldn’t have a fuse. My best friend 

Dale decided to light off 

a string of them. One 

didn’t explode so he 

decided to take it 

home, take out the 

gunpowder and do 

something with 

it. He put the 

unused firecracker 

in his front pocket 

and a few seconds 

later. BAM! The 

darn thing exploded 

in his pocket, 

burning a big hole in 

his old blue nylon shorts 

which in turn melted and adhered 

to his nether regions. He ran home 

screaming and I ran to my home to 

avoid guilt by association. (Yeah, I 

know, some friend.) Poor Dale had to be 

treated for burns to his privates and the 

older boys called him “onenut” from 

thereon in, something I didn’t really 

understand other than to think it was 

strangely dirty. 

We really didn’t have a lot of fancy 

stuff to play with and that led to another 

explosive situation that, in hindsight, 

could have robbed me of my sight. Some 

of the neighbours, including Dale’s dad, 

had big old 85-gallon oil drums next to 

the garbage cans in the back lane that 

divided houses on either side. They’d 

burn rubbish and yard refuse in them. 

My folks told me to never, ever, throw 

spray cans into them. Never explained 

why. You guessed it. The next time 

my Mom ran out of hairspray, I fished 

(Rarely Heard Any More) “It’s time for a castor oil cleanse.” 

the Adorn can out of 

the trash, hid it, and 

waited for the next 

smouldering fire. 

I was scared, but 

Dale egged me 

on. “Come on 

you sissy girl, 

throw it in!” So I 

did. We waited. 

Waited some 

more. After what 

seemed like forever, 

I hesitantly crept forward 

and peered inside the can. 

Sure enough, KABOOM! 

The can exploded, burning my bangs 

off to half their length and singeing off 

both eyebrows. By the grace of God, 

I was not blinded. We snuck down to 

Dale’s older sister’s basement bedroom 

and he cut my stinking burnt bangs off 

almost to the top of my forehead. Then 

I used her eyebrow pencil to draw on 

eyebrows. My Mom went ballistic when 

I went home, screaming, “wait until 

your Father gets home.” I was banished 

to my bedroom, sick with dread. When 

I was called for supper, I crept to the 

table, head hanging. I sat down, we said 

grace, and all Dad said was, “what did 

we tell you about playing near the fire 

barrel?.” No further punishment was 

needed and I still get queasy thinking 

about how close I came to being blinded. 

After that incident, I decided to try to 

play with the girls because it seemed a 

lot safer. It wasn’t. 

Look for Part II in the next issue.

Hopefully we can enjoy some great yard sales this summer! 

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I guessed the pepper…the soup was too hot; 

I guessed the water…it dried in the pot; 

I guessed the salt, and what do you think… 

We did nothing the rest of the day but drink! 

I guessed the sugar…the sauce was too sweet; 

And so, by guessing, I spoiled our treat. 

So now I guess at nothing, for cooking by guess 

Is sure to result in a terrible mess. 

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At garages, lawns and driveways, each weekend can be found. 

My 'Missus' used to get upset, and said, "It's a lotta bunk! 

Spending from the family funds, for someone else's junk." 

A bad mistake, one Saturday morn, I took her with me, 

All my loonies, toonies went, blown, on her shopping spree. 

Picture frames and dishes, and coffee mugs galore, 

Who would want to buy the rug, from someone's bedroom floor? 

So many fishing rods and skis, and rusty steamer trunk, 

They might be someone's treasures, but to me, a lotta junk. 

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A radio that didn't work, the camera had no lens, 

A jacket (just one sleeve was torn), among the odds and ends. 

A convoy of baby buggies, and a doggie, on a rope, 

Got our legs all tangled up, by some obnoxious dope. 

Sometimes I waste my money, and I could blow a fuse, 

I buy this junk because it's cheap, that I will never use. 

The bedroom dresser out for sale, no bargain - I could see, 

There was no charge for crawlers, the spiders all were free. 

The stuff we buy, we like to think, the profit it will bring, 

We'll have a lawn of our own, that's early in the spring. 

So many times we trod this path, it makes me want to holler, 

The junk we sell, we only get, 'bout two cents on the dollar. 

When we have a lawn sale, what really upsets me, 

Leaving cartons on the sidewalk, and a sign says, "All is free!" 

We all get satisfaction, wasting bucks and time, 

But the money hungry taxman, doesn't get to grab a dime! 

I'll meet you every weekend, my wallet, it shall bleed, 

Buying other people's trash, that I don't really need. 

If I should croak, with all this junk, my heirs will be quite sad. 

"This must be our inheritance, from Dear Old Loving Dad!" 

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what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate 

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hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our 

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One day a teacher asked her students to 

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room on two sheets of paper, leaving a 

space between each name. 

Then she told them to think of the nicest 

thing they could say about each of their 

classmates and write it down. It took the 

remainder of the class period to finish their 

assignment and, as the students left the 

room, each one handed in the papers. 

That Saturday, the teacher wrote 

down the name of each student 

on a separate sheet of paper, 

and listed what everyone 

else had said about that 

individual. On Monday, 

she gave each student 

his or her list. Before 

long, the entire class 

was smiling. “Really?” she 

heard whispered. “I never 

knew that I meant anything to 

anyone!” and, “I didn’t know 

others liked me so much” were some of 

the comments. 

No one ever mentioned those papers 

in class again. She never knew if they 

discussed them after class or with their 

parents, but it didn’t matter. The exercise 

had accomplished its purpose. The students 

were happy with themselves and one 

another. That group of students moved on. 

Several years later, one of the students was 

killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended 

the funeral of that special student. She 

had never seen a serviceman in a military 

coffin before. He looked so handsome, so 

mature. The church was packed with his 

friends. One by one, those who loved him 

took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher 

was the last one to bless the coffin. As she 

stood there, one of the soldiers, who acted 

as pallbearer, came up to her. 

“Were you Mark’s math teacher?” he 

asked. 

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She nodded: “Yes.” 

Then he said: “Mark talked about you 

a lot.” 

After the funeral, most of Mark’s former 

classmates went together to a luncheon. 

Mark’s mother and father were there and 

wanted to speak with his teacher. “We want 

to show you something,” his father said, 

taking a wallet out of his pocket. “They 

found this on Mark when he was killed. 

We thought you might recognize it.” 

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed 

two worn pieces of note paper that had 

obviously been taped, folded and refolded 

many times. The teacher knew, without 

looking, that the papers were the ones 

on which she had listed all the good 

things each of Mark’s classmates had 

said about him. 

“Thank you so much for doing that,” 

Mark’s mother said. “As you can see, 

Mark treasured it.” 

All of Mark’s former classmates 

started to gather around. Charlie smiled 

rather sheepishly and said, “I still have my 

list. It’s in the top drawer of my desk at 

home.” 

Chuck’s wife said, “Chuck asked me to 

put his in our wedding album.” 

“I have mine too,” Marilyn said. “It’s in 

my diary.” 

Then Vickie, another classmate, took 

out her wallet and showed her worn and 

frazzled list to the group. “I carry this 

with me at all times,” Vicki said, and she 

continued: “I think we all saved our lists.” 

That’s when the teacher finally sat down 

and cried. She cried for Mark and for all 

his friends who would never see him again. 

The density of people in society is so thick 

that we forget that life will end one day, and 

we don’t know when that one day will be. 

So please, tell the people you love and care 

for, that they are special and important. 

Tell them, before it is too late. 

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1 medium bulb of fennel 

1 can mandarins 

1 pint Blueberries 

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over medium low heat, tossing frequently unl 

fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add the fennel, mandarin, 

blueberries, cheese and slightly cooled pepitas to the 

kale. Drizzle dressing over the salad. You may not have 

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desired. Let the salad sit for at least 15 minutes before 

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2 tbsp humus (any flavour you wish!) 

1 freshly squeezed lemon 

2 tsp maple syrup 

1 tsp Dijon mustard 

½ tsp minced garlic 

¼ tsp each of freshly ground pepper and sea salt 

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(Rarely Heard Any More) “If you get a spanking at school, you’ll get one at home too.”

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QUESTION: What’s a retiree’s bedtime? 

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I didn’t notice the gentleman on the 

other side of our car when I, loudly and 

happily, started humming a little ditty. 

I glanced up only after I had opened 

the door. He smiled at me. Immediately, I 

stopped my senseless tune and sheepishly 

smiled back. My husband Frank, who had 

already slid into the driver’s seat, laughed. 

I ducked into the passenger side holding 

the source of my pleasure. A new book. 

Our son Dan had given me a gift certificate 

for my birthday and now I was the proud 

owner of, “The Chronicles of Narnia” by 

C.S. Lewis. 

As we drove home, I chatted non-stop 

about the joys of reading. I happened 

to glance over at Frank and saw he was 

wearing a ridiculous grin. 

“What’s so funny,” I asked. 

“You!” he replied, “you get so excited 

over a new book.” 

When compared to all the small 

pleasures of this world, I 

believe reading ranks 

closely, if not, 


It’s Summer - Grab a Book! 

by Gail Northgrave Adams, London • from Daytripping Magazine, Summer 2007 

at the top. The pleasure is heightened on 

a summer’s day if one is able to relax in 

a lounge chair with a cool drink. Likewise, 

a blazing fire, a mug of hot chocolate and 

a good novel makes any winter’s day 

delightful. 

The inscription over the door on 

the great library at Thebes which was 

established in the third millennium BC 

reads, “Medicine for the Soul.” Indeed, 

there is a book for any and every need 

or desire. Whatever your fancy, be it 

history, gardening, cooking, novels, 

autobiographies or… there is a volume 

waiting to befriend you. 

Many people, myself included, 

have cherished memories of parents, 

grandparents or teachers who took the 

time to read to a child. Strickland Gillian 

sums it up with these lines. “You may 

have tangible wealth untold; caskets of 

jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I 

you can never be – I had a mother who 

read to me.” 

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imagination and provides lasting 

treasures. It’s summer. How about joining 

me with a cool drink outdoors. I’ll 

grab my book, you grab yours. 

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