Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 28 Oct 1976, p. 8

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79 1o We Examiner Thursday Oct 28 1976 Adventure starts rather shakin FIRST PM Kaiser Matanzima Tran skeis first prime minister delivers his inaugural ad lress in Lmtata Tuesday lranskei an African nation horn only hours before is home for 33 million Blacks who formerly were citizens ol South Africa Matanzima til has headed the territorial government for decade He is regarded by some as puppet of the South African government tAP Photot Music changes his life UITAWA CPI Music changed Fred Harpers life ln 1971 the Brockville nt man worked in factory and couldnt play note on guitar Today he has written 600 songs recorded mildly successful country album is host ofa com munity TV show and is plan ning concert tour If youd told me five years ago that Id be country singer Id have thought you were just plain crazy he said But here am Lifes really strange The father of three says his wife Frances was mostly re sponsible for his transforma tion used to listen to songs on the radio and Id add my own verses says Harper Then my wife said ought to write some songs of my own didnt think too much about it but then she went out and bought me tape recorder picked up secondhand uitar for $54 and before new it was writing songs like wildfire ADMIRIIIBYNNRS Ilarpcr says he has written twice as many songs Stom pin Torn Connors who says he is one of Harpers admirers Harper also writes poetry in his spare time He now has four guitars and about sow worth of equip ment guess Im hooked But for me its different Im 37 and Ive got about five or ltiycars to go somewhere so Ive got to do it lot faster than these younger guys But Im not shooting for the moon It can write my songs and play music for audiences then that would make me hap pierthananything Harpers first album Free dom and Daydreams has sold well The record company he said thinks four singles could come from it He runs cable TV show called Friends and Neighbors in lirockville like helping people and through the TV program can introduce new people Pet cemetery idea not new SAN FRANCISCO AP The National Association of Pet Cemeteries recently held its fif th annual convention here at tended by about 135 pet ceme tery oWners from United States The idea of pet cemeteries isnt new said Patricia Blos ser executive director of the association It goes all the way back to the Egyptian pharaohs But our association right now is one of the fastestgrowing trade groups in the country Mrs Blosser and her husband ltobert operate boarding ken nel and grooming parlor for dogs in Elgin Ill They also op erate pet cemetery there one of4ltilistedintheUS or pets receiving cemetery burials or cremations 75 per cent are dogs 24 per cent cats and one per cent miscellaneous with horses the most common in the latte category Mrs Blosser said CHICOUTIMI Que CP For one day in London Ont spoke only French to ex perience the reactions of an Englishspeaking community to FrenchCanadian visitor To be fair then posed as an Englishspeaking Familysize Frostless with porcelainonsteel interior 48998 visitor in this French bastion of about 33000 inhabitants 120 miles north of Quebec City My Chicoutimi adventure started shakily with my arrival at Bagotville airport where discovered my suitcase hinges had been broken IWt rw was the work 01 anadian separatist gnu was the victim of baggage brutality After deciding the latter got into an airport limousine for the 10mile trip to Chicoutimi on the Saguenay Rivers south bank The other passengers were speaking French and ignored me until offered cigarettes All three refused politely but with definite coolness After checking into the Au berge des Gouverneurs went to the nearest public meeting place up uultltlllllllfltlfllulgg The cocktail lounge was spirited mix of laughter chat ter and music supplied by the bar pianists singing of French ballads and his fractured ver sion of English pop songs PARTICIPATE 0R ELSE felt out of place in this Fren chCanadian gathering where conversation is an art and the only sin is nonparticipation group of Quebecois joined me Some of them spoke halting English Those who didnt asked through Claude fluen tly bilingual university student about my occupation my views of Quebec etc Reg $54998 as shown in FallWinter 76 catalogue StmpsonsSears Ltd Sears Barrie Georgian Mall 509 Boyfield St Store hours Mon Tues Sat 930 530 Wed Thurs Fri 930 930 On one of the party was un frien ly to me JeanLouis He kept making cuttin remarks about les Anglais ut always in French and never directly at me Claude said JeanLouis was disturbed about the at tention was getting from his gir1f riend Pierrette Claude gave me quick cour se in Chicoutimi facts Chi coutimi started as Jesuit In dian mission in the 17th cen tury The name was derived from shkoutimeou Mon tagnais word meaning the limit of deep water or as far as it is deep since it marked the end of the Saguenays navi gable portion city since 1930 it is an educational cultural and judi cial centre of SaguenayLac St Jean The city specializes in pulp paper furniture and tex tile industries and is part of the Saguenay hydroelectric development EXPLAINED PROBLEM We ended the evening in Chinese restaurant called Mo cambo where Claude ex plained the language problem his friends face Most of us want to work in Quebec City or Montreal but for the good jobs you need both lan guages he said Only one per cent of Chicout imi is English and less than 15 per cent speak English For youngsters bilingualism is the only route to prospering in cities he said Another first for captain HALIFAX CP Ca tain Paul Fournier of Musqu oboit Harbour has added an other first to his record while on needs defrosting Freezer packages stay trostless too Cantilever shelves adjust to all your storage needs 3temperature butter conditioner for consistency you want Twin porcelain vegetable crispers and meat keeper Fullwidth freezer shelf Slideout ice bucket Juice can holder on freezer door Separate temperature control In White 467 456 950 111cu ft Frostless 467 476 950 $52998 Reg $58998 as shown in Fall Winter 76 catalogue In Avocado Harvest Gold or Coppertone $10 more 1239 5519 Ill IOOIII IIIIII Enjoy it now Use your All Purpose Account trip to the Arctic aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Louis St Laurent The St Laurent escorted Ex plorer II Texas drill ship through Victoria Strait the Northwest Passage Although icebreakers have one through the passage be ore and Captain Foumier was the first to accomplish this feat when he sailed the CCGS John Macdonald through in 1967 Explorer 11 was the first ship to be escorted through by an icebreaker value features 151cu ft completely Frostless refrigerator never Guarantee Satisfaction or money refunded

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