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PURE COUNTY BOTTLED WATER Our purification system includes: Filtration process Sediment filter Softened Carbon charcoal filter Reverse osmosis Ultra-violet light Charcoal buffer filter For information on home delivery phone 476-1376 3020 County Road 10 in Milford Hicks' General Store Milford 476-5258 Groceries Gasoline - Diesel fuel - Ice Video Rentals etc., etc., etc. FALL/WINTER HOURS Mon. - Sat. - 7:30 am to 7:00 pm Sunday - 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Interac, Visa, MasterCard accepted Even Better with Age - Continued from page 1 tuckered out. I had not bargained for Rob's talents. Time rolled by and wonderful things began to happen in that garage. The floor became littered with dozens of parts in various stages of repair...and months slipped by for this was not a job which could be rushed. New parts were made from old; visits made to farm shows for other parts. Then one day, about 2 years later, I was called in to see the result, escorted proudly by young Thomas. There, standing in Rob and Lisa's garage, was a gleaming "new" '57 Model 20 Cockshutt tractor ready to take on a new lease on life. I began with the words "It all started..." well this folks is where it all started, because as my memory goes, Rob stirred up among his farming friends and neighbours a desire to go back to the barn and the back forty and see what remained of pop's old Case or Massey or Farmall. Well let's just say that months later, on a winter's night around Mt Zion you could see two or three barns with lights burning long after milking was finished for the day........ and I don't have to tell you what was happening. Yes! new life was being breathed into old. Carefully, lovingly, bent parts were being straightened, rusted pistons freed, valves ground, paintwork sanded as these workhorses of the past were inched out of retirement and prepared for a new life. You might ask me why I am telling you this story about my Mt Zion congregation and neighbours in our last home. Well two couples, the Jamiesons and the Jones came to visit us this past week. Don and Shirley Jamieson worked a dairy herd up until a few years ago but none of the family wanted to continue in farming. The herd was sold and they turned their attention to a little bit of cash- * cropping, yet more church work, travel and .....with a few spare hours in his hands, after seeing the Phoenix rising from the rust in Rob & Lisa's garage, the restoration of a '52 Case Model D . Don was one of these people whose barn lights were burning later than usual. His first triumph was featured in their Christmas card this year. It also contained the enclosed poem which tells the rest of the story for Don and a few others who have also caught the restoration bug. It is called: Continued on page 18