Ontario Community Newspapers

South Marysburgh Mirror (Milford, On), 1 Aug 2000, p. 4

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DAVID DEXTER McKIBBON ~~ MILFORD, ONT. ANTIQUES => COLLECTABLES ©» TOOLS ICE CREAM PARLOUR HOT & COLD DRINKS = LIGHT LUNCH. The Emporium will be open on a daily basis from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday to Friday. 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Coffee, Tea, Danish, Muffins, Bagels, Sandwiches, Cold Drinks and ice Cream will be available. There will be a good selection of Antiques, Collectables, ) Tools, ete. If anyone is interested in selling their items, consignments can be arranged or rental space is also available. We will also buy items you wish to sell. Call 813-476-8072 'Things that are harder to do in the County than (almost) anywhere else in the world. Finding your way to anywhere, if you make one Driving twenty klicks without passing two art gal- wrong turn on a country road - or even if you don't make a leries, four bed and breakfasts, to antique outlets and three wrong turn. arts and crafts shops. Making a garden that doesn't look pitiful compared Eating a county-grown tomato or ear of corn that to ten thousand other gardens. isn't the best you ever tasted. Travelling west through the crazy traffic lights, and Finding one case of road rage. trying to decide when it's legal to make a right-hand turn. Keeping all your family secrets, secret. Attending fewer than three pot-luck events in any Getting to the bus, train, or place, when you start month. out on a trip to anywhere. Driving from the Beer store to the Liquor store in Meeting a first-time visitor who doesn't think he, less than half an hour. or she, has found a corner of heaven. : Finding a driver who won't stop to let you cross Spending one whole week without seeing a spec- Main Street. tacular sun-rise or a mind-boggling sunset, or a soul- Convincing a born-here native you really belong if stirring moon-rise over water. you've only lived here for ten or twenty years. Exiting the 401 and entering the County without a Managing to get through life without ever learning feeling of peace and contentment seep into your soul. to play bridge or euchre And well-nigh impossible - living your life friend- Trying to make a left-hand turn on to Main Street. less, homeless or hungry. Finding a clerk in any store who isn't helpful. - Olive Horton

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