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The Barrie Examiner Tuesday March 22 I977 Keeping fit the yoga way Youre never too old to keep fit thats the philosophy at the Oddfellows Home Every Thursday morning Tessie Evenuis of Barrie member of the Yoga Teachers Federation of Ontario leads exercises at the home It teaches them to relax and they can sleep better she said Above the group moves in unison At right Mrs Mary iibbens holds relaxing pose Yoga has been taught at the home for five years Mrs Evenhuis said inactivity is major problem for senior citizens Examiner Photos Garden Notes Spend lots of time planning before planting shrubbeiy around the house BylEvNiABLE great deal of money goes into the planting of shrubs It is important to know what to buy and where and how to plant them Lawrence Sherk chief Horticulturist for Sheridan By ERMA BOMB EK My typewriter developed case of hiccups the other week that nearly drove me up the wall Every time hit the it would ratatattat to the end of the line and hiccup in place didnt think it was too serious until got the bill Of course you have policy on the typewriter dont you asked the repairman his pencil poised in midair Oh sure giggled My husband and took out an endowment on it the day it was born That way we dont have to worry about its education lam quite serious he said typewriter is not unusual Or for that mat ter neither is policy on your washing machine lawn mower dishwasher furnace picture window septic tank or the picture tube on your television set You mean people buy insurance policies on all those inanimate objects Theyre the most unpredictable kind We can pretty much determine the life span of pie but these little turkeys can go just ike that How much money are wetalkina about Well to insure this machine with minimum of three serVice calls in Nurseries Ltd has this to say The plantings at the en trance doorway and along the streetside of your house often called foundation plantings should provide natural setting for you home and pleasant ap ERMA BOMBEQQ Typewr1ter makes sex newest twoletter word roach for visitors Before you xgin to plant make sure there is adequate room for people to descend from their cars and that the sidewalk is in the best location Be sure to consider winter conditions when plann cluding the yearly scrvne and cleaning and guarantee on the key against hiccuping would run somewhere in this neighlmrhorxl IIe slipped me piece of paper with figure onit Thats some neighborhood For few bucks more could have the column carved on stone tablets on Mt Sinai lhat typewriter fly policy on DearSir vice for year would be worth more to me dead than alive Others have considered that he said stif Are you saying that some people do their appliances in just to collect the insurance He smiled Let me just say that there are lot of little old ladies touring Europe every summer on the insurance money left by their dead dishwashers told him Id think about it but when he left sat down at my typewriter and got let ter off to his company peakinga writerofatire mut protet Without an municationi impoihle ak you how can be cintilating with my ak for an inurance policy in exce of the er on my typewriter com miing lhc price you omehow will tumble along without it Jut remember thank to you ex now twoletter word Let that be on youronciou ing the plant beds as salt and piles of heavy snow can cause serious damage to stimth and everngns IIvcrgrcens are the most popular plants for front plan ting as they provide year round color and texture addition their growth habits range from low spreadcrs to globes to vase shaped to columns to pyramids and they come in shades of grey blue green and gold The possibilitiesareendless The overall effect of front planting should achieve the following Pleasant pcarance Tie the house to the stir roimdings Create focal point at the entrance Io achieve this effect extend the plant beds beyond the cor ners of the house and balance it with an accent bed on the far side of the driveway Use tall evergreens to accentuate the doorway and to lower the cor ners of the house Various spreading ever greens should be plantcd under windows along the walks and around tall plants at the cor ners Keep the planting simple using mainly four or five varieties with an accent plant such as iaicty Iluonymus Mugho linc or Yucca placed in strategic locations Homeowners who have nor thern exposure can use Japanese Yew Euonymus and lloxwuod Varieties as these will thrive in shady location Remember to fert ilizc your plantings every year be sure to water well before wmtei natural ap frceze up and prime evergreens every June to retain their fullness Deciduous Shrubs are available for multitude of situations Deciduous shrubs vary in ultimate height and spread growth habit flower and fruit prtxluced foliagecol or slimmer and fall foliage size and texture and also in light and soil requirements Deciduous shrubs are most often used as specimens for display of bloom berry foliage Windscreen and boundary enclosures Iledgcs Soil retainers ground covers When selecting deciduous shrubs you must know the par ticular purpose for which they are to be used in considering each individual shrub three variables should be kept in mind The shrubs ultimate height Effectiveness of bloom berry and foliage col or and duration Full sun or partial shade tolerance Next week Ill list some of the shrubs recommended SOCIETY NEWS The local Horticultural Socie tysalutcs its president George Pearsall and his wife llarriei who on March 19 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary The energy interest in so many community things and some of the humor of our President made it hard to believe he was 50 years married but adds triilli to an old saying If you want to add years to your life and life to your years he gardener 30 youngsters try their hand at animation More than 30 local children got chance to try their hand at making animated films at the childrens library Saturday afternoon The children first saw series of films made by local animators and then led by librarian Margaret Worth and her daughters Theresa and Polly made their own films The films were made by drawing series of dots on eight millimetre and 16 millimetre movie film The novice animators created their films by making small dots and increasing the size on each successive frame The films were then spliced together and shown on projec tor The younger children made flip books which are made by drawing characters on the ends of separate pages and then stapling the pages together Each character is in slightly different positionon each suc cessive page so that when the pages are flipped the characters seem to move Mrs Worth described Satur days animation festival as very successful and said she plans to have moe animation workshops and festivals in the near future However she added that she has not set any dates for future sessions because she is busy planning the summer program at the childrens library For the moment she said children who want to learn more about animation can call the childrens library and leave their names and they will be notified of the dates of future sessions Five new members join Barrie Sharamazda Club Five new members of the Sharamazda Club of Barrie were welcomed recently at the clubs March meeting held at the Eastern Star rooms of the Masonic Temple The five were installed at ceremonial in Toronto with 28 Barrie members attending The regular March meeting featured the reading of various club reports and presentation of the names of the 197778 slate of officers Dorothy Banting is president of the new executive with Bar tiara Tupling serving as past president Muriel Stephens is vice president while Daisey Edey is secretary and Erica Giles is treasurer It was also announced the Sharamazda Club is donating croupette to the Royal Victoria llospitals pediatric ward There are also donations go ing to theBurns Institute and Shrine Crippled Childrens Hospital in Montreal Enid Coupland of Barrie was the guest speaker introduced by Phyllis Johnston Mrs Coupland showed slides on an aroundthewrold cruise she took last year starting in Florida and touching such countries as Hawaii Japan South Africa and England She was thanked by Inez Stephenson and luncheon was served before the meeting came to close RECORDED TAPE On Nov 19 1936 Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Phil harmonic Orchestra became the first serious musical group to record on magnetic tape during concert at Lud wigshafen Germany decorating our home the answerDominated hope you feel better dear myself and shape up My Thoughts In Corvallis husband can also be deaf and dumb ANN LAN DERS Whats question Jwriter is asked Dear Ann Landers Your opinion please Here is the situ ation am the wife referred to by some periodicals as the homemaker but have never had anything to say about My husbands rules are as follows No holes in the walls for hanging mirrors or pictures They depreciate the property No draperies Doesnt like them No car pet ingarea rugs only Doesnt want holes in the floor The latest is The couch must go He wants only chairs in the living roomone wing chair recliner and two rock ers Until now couldnt have cocktail table We use the piano bench from the cellar if we need it feel that life is too short to argue but after 32 years of taking orders confess feel like the cleaning lady Whats Dear Dom Whats the question So far as can figure you just wanted to express your resentment And you did it Dear Ann Landers am haunted by memories of for mer love Just when think have things under control start to daydream and Im gone again This isnt the letdown that occurs after the honeymoon Its been going on for 10 yearsand it gets worse as time goes on Maybe if see it in print Ill get disgusted with Since Im crying on your shoulder it isnt fair to withhold information No Im not in love with my husband Hes very decent loyal steady guy fine father and kind per son but hes not much of lover and Im tired of trying to fake excitement at bed time keep putting on an act hoping someday Ill feel something real realize we are blessed in so many ways and keep remin ding myself of all the things we have to be thankful for but the dreams keep haunting me What can doAshamed Dear Friend Its easy to build fantasies around for mer sweetheart You dont have to wash his socks cure his hangovers put up with his relatives or listen to him snore That one that got away always looks better If youd mar ried him youd probably be having daydreams about your You say you are blessed and have much to be thankful for Dont jeopardize what you have for fantasy that im proves with age Dream castles can be run for an occasional visit but dont try to live in them Dear Ann Landers would like to comment on the slob who enjoyed introducing his wife the only one hed ever had as my FIRST wife He said it helped keep her in line is signature was In Charge In California My father is the same kind of bully but my mother knows how to handle him Whenever he uses that tired old line she responds instantly withAnd this is my LAST husband They have been married 30 years and guess one of the reasons is that they both overlook lot Especially my motherLove overs Multitude Sins Dear Love It sure does In addition to being blind love Unique groupcounselling sessions for condominium dwellers MIAMI AP The young psychologist smoothed his ard glanced around the con dominiums recreation room and asked the 16 middleaged people The greatest fear in the world is the fear of what Being rejected said one greyhaired woman Being helpless said another Being left in the world after everyone else has been killed by the bomb third woman said It was the beginning of seemingly ordinary group coun selling session But it was un usual for several reasons The cost was extremely low the participants all were middle aged residents of con dominium development and all were relatively healthymnone appeared to be psychotic or ex tremely neurotic But like many of their neigh bors some were not satisfied with how their lives had ended up Somehow something had gone wrong They had ended successful careers and had raised good or at least not very bad children They had saved couple of dol lars Now they were ready to enjoy the retirement that society had seemed to promise Americas middle class DEEIEN MALAISE And yet again something was wrong And something about living in condominiums those highrise slabs of con crete that line both coasts of Florida seemed to deepen the malaise Many years ago doctors preached that people who plan to retire should plan it 10 to 15 years in advance said Nathan Lerner the director of con dominium residents governing group association and former vicepresident of the Con dominium Cooperative Execu tive Council of Florida lobby ing group for condo associ ations Lerner 62 retired six years and moved to Hollywood from Flushing NY He has given lot of thought to what makes so many condo residents unhappy Now he continued they think theyre home free Debbie French heads sorority Debbie French was elected president of the Theta Epsilon Sorority at the bimonthly meeting at the home of Bev Shick on March The new executive for 197778 is vice president Donna Anderson recording secretary Chris Garner corresponding secretary Jane Nixon treasurer Ginny Swain and chapter rep Marion Beatty Out oing president is Carole Poo The program for this month was presented by Erin Mc Mahon Mrs McMahons guest speaker was Connie Hodges an actress with Littles Hill Player Theatre Ms Hodges talked about the fundamentals of be ing an actress The group took part in the different exercises performed by an actor before gonig on stage The next meeting of the Theta Epsilon will be at the home ngis June Nixon Theyve saved their nickels and dimes and come to Florida But there are two big prob lems First their healths bro ken Theyre 65 and theyre sick They think this is the Car den of Eden or the Fountain of Youth but its not Second for the first six months theyre here they think God its beautiful glorious They go to race tracks jai alai maybe the beach BOREDOM SETS IN Then they get bored They start climbing the walls They have no real interests Theyre not prepared for retirement so the get parttime work at $225 an our just to keep away from the house Dr Andrew Katz 35 is the psychologist who conducts grou counselling sessions with mid leaged residents of con dominiums Begun three years ago under the auspices of Nova University but now run by Katz and an as sociate the course called Phi losophy of Every Day Living How to Be Happy reaches about 750 people in dozen South Florida condominiums The cost is $10 person for six sessions The basic difficulty is that ouve got people who have active all their lives suddenly feeling useless Katz said Theres also abandon ment and rejection on the part of their children Much of this is exaggerated by the closeness of condo liv ing Even if say one person is happy but his neighbor isnt he thinks its his responsibility to make his neighbor happy That leaves two people unhappy Formerly active people who now have nothing special to do many condo dwellers spend enormous amounts of time around the discussing their problems eir childrens prob lems their neighbors prob lems MANY COMPLAINERS Youre confined with the people youre living with said Lerner You see them every day Its always the same old thing All you hear are com plaints Richard Booth director of the state division of Florida land sales and condominiums said about one million Floridians one out of every ninelives in condominium apartment Most of these peo 1e come from up north where ey lived in singlefamily dwellings Booth said They cOme to condominiumand yes there is no maintenance that they have to performbut they find there are lots of rules theyve got to live by The majority rules If the majority votes to heat the pool well everyones got to pay for it Many of the boards of di rectors act like ants Ler ner said They on dictato rial powers Some of these resi dents need an outlet for their energies so they get on boards and take out lot of their frus trations Of course there are many satisfied condo residents And many developments mainly the moreexpensive complexes are relative free of the strife that is experienced by some residents Truman Paddisons celebrate golden wedding anniversary Reita and Truman Paddison of RR Barrie celebrated half century of marriage Sunday at the Barrie home of their daughter and soninlaw Mr and Mrs Gordon Dawson of Barrie The actual date of the golden anniversary was Saturday hand Sunday to celebrate were the couples three children Mrs Dawson Mrs Dave Miller of Waverley and Russell Paddison of Orillia seven of their eight grand children the eighth is in Calgary and their only great grandchild 212yearold Yvonne Muzzeral of Barrie The couple received con gratulatory letter and plaque from Ontario Premier William Davis certificate from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and letters from federal opposition leader Joe Clark Simcoe North MP Dr Rynard and Simcoe Centre MPP Arthur Evans Truman Paddison former cabinet maker for the Canadian National Railway was born in Stayner while Mrs Paddison hails from Midhurst They have lived at their present address since1941 The couple belon to St Georges Anglican urch in Allandale and Mrs Paddison is past president of the Painswick Womens Institute past mis tress of the LOBA Orange Lodge and member of the Sunshine Coub Little Yvonne Muuerall age doesnt go to golden an niversary parties every day but she was there Sunday to enjoy the 50th anniversary of her greatgrandparents Reita and Truman Paddison of RR Barrie She wasnt quite sure about that Ex aminer camera but great grandpa finally managed to get her attention off the photographer Examiner photo