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mew Two books about life as it was WHEN WAS BOY By DAVID TRUMBLE David Trumble was born in log house in the Trenton area in years behind him he has memory and vivacity that many ordinary people half his age might be glad to boast about He was one of 13 children was married four times and fathered 19 children himself But he never lost his zest for life despite its roughness and the fact that he could neither read nor write He says lot of peo ple give up earlyThey say they cant go on living and they in it wealth of information of Ontario History asseen at the laboring level of one of the breed who muscled the wilderness into yielding them living David remembers the days when he was glad to have job that paid 25 cents day and when the nearest store was 40 miles from the Trumble house David tells some great stories of those brave days of old His humour is rich and not we must knocked hime coldwith that hand Editor Ellis has wisely left the grammar and collo quialisms as they issued from David Trumbles active mind and ton gu Reviewedforthe Barrie Public Library by Thomas Smith OPAL By OPAL WHITELEY Adapted and arranged by Jane Boulton Macmillan 1976 most unusual and misunderstood child written when she was only six years old The editor has rearranged the entries for greater continui yOpal was born before 1900 and was orphaned at about four years She appears to have been the only child of highly literate parents who spoke only French but when she became the foster child of the Whiteleys she was given their camp She was severely punish ed for the slightest infraction of rules and no affection was shown by her foster mother Opals journal records her thoughts and observations about nature and her human and animal friends but there is unconscious humor too The cast of characters in her world included among others The man who wore grey neckties and was kind to mice Lars Porsena her pet crow Brave comfort Virgil her pet toad Thomas Chatterton Zeus her beloved woodrat and William Shakespeare the hardworking farm horse who came to sad end as did some of her other friends This is not book for the disenchanted but for those who still retain sense of wonder and can enjoy The Wind In the Willows The only difference is this story is true It is real tragedy that the rest of the the year of Confederation His are onlysoand 90 suppose without touch of When was Boy is the oral name Her foster mother Horatio her dog Felix diary taking her up to her 12th book is the result 0f talks he had When Was Boy is book of creativeness fought that reminiscences of 109year old demanded of her hard phySical Mendelsson her favourite year has been lost with his editor Glen Ellis in but 165 smallish pages yet one bearDrove him so hard Canadian Opal by contrast is work bothinSide and outSide mouse Michael Raphael the Reviewed by 1976 and reveals that with 109 needs little imagination to read made his toenails jingle just the quietly enchanting diary 0f their homein an Oregon lumber 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Robbie Nishman and the Queen of Hearts by Jen nifer Flanagan Examiner Photo Stephenson asked to release report The public health nurses of Ontario have forwarded telegram to Labor Minister Bette Stephenson urging her to release the Industrial Commis Delegates chosen North Simcoe 4H delegates to the Provincial 4H Leader ship Conference to be held June 19 to 25 are Dori Robertson RR Phelpston and Neil Craig RR 1Barrie The conference will be held at Camp Coughiching Longford Mills Ontario More than 90 members from all over Ontario will be participating Sports day The North Simcoe 4H Sports Day sponsored by the Junior Farmers Association will be held Sunday afternoon June 26 at the Huronia Centennial Elementary School in Elmvale Track and field events for both boys and girls as well as mixed softball tournament bet veen the Hrl clubs are plann led New looks from Levi Authentic woshed Levis scientifically wo shed by the manufacturer to make them soft and fade iust the way you like them Not the type that is un washed and has been sent out to local laundry We have your size Barries most complete Levi selection Washed or on washed take your choice Never before seen in Barrie at these un believable low pricesl $135 Downtown Dunlap St sioneis Report on the status of public health nurses contract negotiations in the province Representatives of the 35 public health units and two Vic torian Order of Nurses districts covered by the Ontario Nurses Association met in Toronto this weekend Among them were nurses with the Simcoe County District Health Unit At the meeting the nurses had expected that the report of the Industrial Inquiry Commis sion appointed by Dr Stephen son would be available for study It was delivered to the minister by commissioner John Sheriff on May 30 the nurses state in news release The nurses present express ed great dissatisfacation with the minister for her delay in releasing the report the release continues It reminds the minister that in March 1976 you indicated to us that you would expedite matters between the ONA and the employees within two months Your colleague Premier William Davis on May 26 stated that the dispute between public health nurses and local boards of health would be settled by June 30 1977 7185353 at the Points Brass and Glenn