EXTRA Friday August Gardiner family reunion draws members By Herald Sport Editor Families almost always draw strength from one when tragedy strikes and the case of the Gardiner clan is no different The first annual Gardiner family reunion held in George town last weekend was plan ned last year after the accident to one of It family members Peter Gardiner of George town said his nephew from Ontario was killed In a plane crash last Nov Chris Gardiner was travelling to Kenora from Rainy River to represent his region In a school He was the top grade 11 student at his high school and four others were killed when the small bush plane crashed somewhere bet ween the two towns After the incident the father or the boy Alex approached his brother Peter about hold a family reunion as quickly as possible He expressed the desire to see the rest his relations after the unfortunate tragedy had struck Peter began making the arrangements Tor a reunion to be held in Georgetown With relatives spread out nil across Canada mid the United States Georgetown was considered a central location Peter Gardiner said the relatives attending came from Califom la and Goose Bay Labrador But the family roots began in New Brunswick where Peter father was born All of those at he Civic Holiday reunion were descendants or and Fern Gardiner who were born of English Irish parents Gardiner worked as a chief clerk in a railway firm for 42 years After tho demise years ago at the age of over the duties of keeping of rail travel some of the years Peter Gardiner then family members informed of family members realized their began a family newsletter to each other whereabouts be more stable in moke sure the family kept in other parts of the country such touch with one another Finley as Ontario had I Gardiner died three catalyst but Peter soon took cd for all the town guests to stay at the George town Motor Inn during their visit He also planned a brunch Peter Gardiner a Hawks been the unifying Georgetown resident Is dinner and a picnic at Terra a Science teacher at Ccnten conservation area Mon- public Ho joy morning Cindy and Gardiner of Georgetown hosted their families reunion gathering last In which there were many happy moments for the Gardiner clan Gardiner who Is a Science teacher at Centennial Public School mid tome of the GO family attending came to Georgetown tar the from as far away Labrador and California Hie Gardiner heritage In Canada began with Peter Gardiner who were born In New Brunswick Peter s Irish Par en Is established their roots In New Brunswick where Peler father worked as Chief Clerk In he railroad for years Since hen the sons and daughters have drifted away to all parts of Canada and the United Statu The Gardiner clan seen here In he picture above enjoying Sunday brunch at the Rib Cage The family reunion continued he next day as the relation met at Terra Cotta park for a picnic and games Herald photo by Dave Ginger Coffey author releases another success Moores new book a classical romance By Robert Nielsen Herald Special The Temptation of Eileen Hughes McClelland and Stewart 111 page has a lovetriangle plot that would be implausible If the principal wcrcn Irish and if its creator Brian Moore whose characters and situations always ring true Eileen a beautiful and innocent virgin of on a luxurious theatregoing art viewing visit to London as an allexpenses paid her rich friends and employers Bernard and Mona McAuley Our heroine is so naive she assumes it was Mrs McAuley who wanted her along She becomes uneasy when Bernard spends nearly all his time witlf her as a guide and tutor on cuisine architecture and history while goes her own way But she t realize what up until Bernard blurts out his half formed plan to buy a Regency mansion for her In the Irish countryside Mona would live there too maintain her facade of marriage FOR THREE Eileen Is appalled and the rest of the action of the book consists largely of her to get out of he clutches For she is part of a dismal deal between them In ex change for tolerating Ber nard s obsession with Eileen is free to amuse herself with other men including strangers picked up in bars during lo London and the Continent But never In the lr home town of Lismore Northern Ireland where the appearance of a normally married couple must be kept up no breath or scandal The first printed cook book came off the just years after Gutenbergs first Bible Eileen temptation is not o whom she finds physically repel la nor is it to accept the life of privileged ease he offers to which still clings with savage determination What Eileen must fight against is the inclination of her complaisant conventional to defer to rich powerful benefactors MYSTIC LOVE Indeed the question of be coming mistress kind of passion he brings to her He not only separates sex from love but insists they are He says that real love far from resembling physical de sire is like the love of a mystic feels for God It worship Some years earlier Bernard had in fact unsuccessfully offered his love to God by joining a monastic order in an idealized Eileen as perfect as God In his eyes he has created a substitute whom he worships with a devotion that fills up his Inner life Few women could bus tain such an ideal outside the medieval tradition of courtly love which kept the lady and her adoring knight safely apart and Eileen is not one of the few When we meet her she Is beauty aside ordinary to point of banality So Bert rand love Is doomed even before he declares it After his declaration he story moves swiftly and tense ly to a tragic climax for Bertram and a moral victory for Eileen In that she wins her Independence from the while gaining strength and insight from the struggle Mona gets to keep he McAu ley wealth which was all she ever wanted of after he slopped have sexual relat Ions with her The writing as always with Brian Moore is clear and lean too lean perhaps for read who enjoy the rich texture of classic novels wherein the cultural selling of a story is Illuminated not Just Indicated or implied A country where religion still interferes with lust perhaps the last such in the Western world is worth more exploration lhat Moore gives it Moore fans will miss Ihe humorous and heart warming touches lhat graced some of his earlier books notably the Luck of Ginger Coffey and The Emperor of Ice Cream There also a lack of symp athetic characters in this book Eileen barely qualifies Mona Is detestable and Ber nard Is pi liable but not likable We are left with the grim story ably told of a man seeking on impossible rescue from the wreck of his private life would make an absorbing play as a novel it isn l up to Moore a beat Which amounts tosayinglhal compared to Ihe ordinary run of current fiction It is merely excellent ralhor than superb EDITOR NOTE Robert Kllbara B Is a freelance writer HEM OVER 2ND WEEK ONI Of I III if HI NCI THAI PG ha i jOI I I i ia- ami Arm DAILY MAT SAT El SUN 200 LEARN TO DRIVE THIS SUMMER 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