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PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March 17, 1987 -- 17 % - i Sl res Be + ER * Na A This week's photograph comes to us courtesy of Orvis Jamieson and is a great action shot of thé Brooklin Redman lacrosse squad during a game in 1952. In front of the opposition goaltender, have just made a shot, is Don Craggs, who at age 20 was playing his first year with Brooklin after having played minor lacrosse in Oshawa's C.R.A. loop The photo, in his usual position of tying up the Take a Look Back ; i a + _"" 4 hi" Fee prs o Ciao Clie t p v Sp N oy pie Wd aS 3 . 0 J ad Ae LSA 5 iL player 'seen furthest to the left in the ~, opposition, is the late Luther Vipond in his st FEY £ last playing year with the club. Vipond started his lacrosse career with the Brooklin Intermediates in 1930, played with the club until it folded in 1942, played two years of senior lacrosse after the war with Toronto Lakeshores, then played with Oshawa for two seasons. He was back with Brooklin when it reformed in 1949 and in 1951 took the position of playing coach. He retired from the field after the 1952 season and was back with the team the following year as the assistant coach. iewpoint - by ROXANNE REVELER I never stop marvelling over the stuff peo- ple believe: the nonsense they accept without questioning. Not a day goes by without my 'hearing or reading flummery so fallacious but | so familiar that it has been transformed, by time and repetition, into truth 'everyone knows." : Well, what everyone knows is often what fresh eye on some sacred words of wisdom. "TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE" Not if they are both stupid they aren't. The only place where I can think of where two 'heads are better than one is in a Ringling Brothers sideshow. In other places, personnel interviewers are shamelessly prejudiced against a job applicant who sports two heads. "HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY" Definitely not when your husband asks, "What are you thinking about dear?' when what you are acutally thinking about is Tom Selleck...au naturel. J "EASY COME, EASY GO" Although this might pertain to some things, it certainly doesn't apply to uninvited house guests. Take it from one of experience in the matter. "GIVE A MAN ENOUGH ROPE AND HE'LL HANG HIMSELF" Don't be absurd... If you give a man enough rope, he is more than likely to hang you with it. "A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS" Then why do you need words to make a point? And why don't I draw you a picture in this section next week"? Better yet, draw me a picture of the Canadian Constitution. "DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY'RE HATCHED" Anyone who counts chickens before they are hatched is counting eggs, not chickens Pay no attention to a dummy like that. "HE'S ASHONEST AS THE DAY IS LONG" That's not much of a character reference. no one has examined. So suppose we cast a. What does he do at night"? Rob delicatessen stores?" : "HASTE. MAKES WASTE" | In putting out a fire? In slamming on the brakes? The slow and dopey wastes more than the swift and able. Reveler's Almanac reminds you: "Haste reduces waists." : "SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE" Not if you're racing faster runners. I don't 'care how steady you are. "GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES" God may help those who help themselves, but the courts are rough as hell on shoplifters. "ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER". Not necessarily. Absence can liberate the brain from the heart's maudlin seductions. And if absence makes the heart grow fonder, what shall we do about *'Out of sight, out of mind?" "EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE I MAKES A MAN HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE" The truth, which is often painful to hyper- thyroids, lies in Reveler's revised edition: "Early to bed and early to rise takes most of the zing out of living." "IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS" Sometimes it rains, sometimes it pours and sometimes it does neither. Transform the ancient maxim: 'Never pontificate about the weather; you may be all wet." "TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION" Of course it is.._you're reading this aren't vou? Besides, fiction has to make sense. "THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS It is also full of succulent gratifications. "A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED" And a penny spent is a penny enjoyed. Anyway, the government will only figure out some new fangled way to take your penny away from you during the next budget Turn to page 18 Reflections of a golden age / by Mabel M. McCabe "Don't Neglect Us The snow 1s laying in a thick blanket all over the ground that just a few short months ago was green and flourishing. Is this death? | wonder. We look at the seasons as the normal progression of the year and yet when the time of winter comes to our own lives we dread and think everything is over. | prefer to think that it is another beginning. | We have all lost someone we love and we have mourned. That is right and proper but we should remember that as life is born in pain so maybe death is a birth into a new and more fulfilling life. | am really waxing philosophical today and | have no good reason for it except to say that some of these things occasionally hop into my mind. When that happens | throw them out for others to think about and maybe send some feedback. None of us likes to believe that we will one day be gone and forgotten. It is nice to dwell on the idea that there is another place for us where things are not so confusing or crime-ridden. I just said goodbye to my son and his wife after a brief visit and they are off to their farm near Orillia. | miss having them close by, sO maybe that is the cause of this bit of sentimental drivel. Remember when the house was filled with the extended family? There was always a grandmother or father, and the parents and children. Even the children's children were absorbed into the whole. Now the homes are so much smaller that having one extra, even for Sunday dinner, is a real effort. Also the time factor is a problem. Everyone.is so busy with their own interests that the old fogies are } just in the way most of the time. They have hockey games and bowl- ing leagues and theatre parties ad infinitum. Sure they know we are just around the corner or a phone call awdy but getting to that phone or around that corner is an effort so impossible that is seems as if months go by. . / Why do we allow this to happen in loving families? | don't know but | do know that when one of those beautiful faces appears at my Spor my life is suddenly so much brighter | feel the sun on a cloudy day. a I felt my son's arms around me today and | feel set up for the next few months. Sure it was a short visit but it was all | needed to |, assure me that I'm loved and cherished. Isn't it a great feeling? | suppose we should not grouse for we know that even as we have our troubles, our children have their's and they are struggling in a very different world than we ever imagined. The costs of just rais- ing their wee ones is enormous and the efforts of getting and keep- ing a job are as bad as they were back in the depression years. I'm proud of every one of them and give them an "A" for effort in this day and age. LE We are lucky too for in those long ago years there was no social security as such. | remember my folks talking about the House of Pro- vidence, That was the name of the local 'Poor House" and if you were old and poor you wound up there.' Many times | recall going past the grim looking building. It was surrounded by a high brick wall - and the unfortunates sat on benchs outside. | felt so sorry for those old men and women. They looked like they had no hope left in life. Now | will sit back and count all my blessings and thank God that | had a visit from nly son and his wife. | have a home that is comfor- table and they do not have me as an added worry in the large load all children of ours must carry these days. : Isn't it nice to know that even at our age we can be independant and give our youngsters peace of mind. All | have to declare is a little pot."