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and Thursday, was the greatest in the history of the horticultural society. The gold medal for the most artistic display was won by Charles Davis. Waterloo‘s 36th annual flower show, staged at the ma_rkei_builqmg Wednesday 40 YEARS AGO Employment will be proâ€" vided for about 80 men this fall in the construction of Waterloo‘s new outfall sewâ€" er. Waterloo labor will be used exclusively except for the foremen employed by gach contractor involved. * A considerable consumpâ€" tion reduction in all three departments of the public utilities commission was reported for July by comâ€" mission manager C.W. Schâ€" iedel. The date of Waterloo‘s blackout will be announced shortly by Mayor Brill and Police Chief E.C. Moreau. The police department has signed up about 70 men to act as civilian defence comâ€" mittee wardens during the event. Thirty eight dog owners have heeded the recent warning of Reuben Clarke, dog tax.collector, that sumâ€" monses will be issued to those who haven‘t paid the 1941 tax at the end of this month. A total of 185 owners have now purchased tags but there are 400 dogs in the town. Farmers attending Watâ€" terloo‘s Wednesday market 30 YEARS AGO Behind DOMINION STORE Westmount Place . Phone ! Files of Yesteryear |ollipop cumbers and beans as a reâ€" sult of a lack of moisture. reported a scarcity of cuâ€" 20 YEARS AGO Ornamental lights on loâ€" cal streets are seeing their last days. The local PUC will complete installation of modern lights on a secâ€" tion of King Street by the end of this week. Waterloo‘s newlyâ€"appointâ€" ed bandmaster F.D. Roy, conducted his first complete program at Waterloo Park Friday night. It included Mr. Roy‘s own arrangement of Gershwin melodies. A snowâ€"melting vault will not be installed in Waterâ€" loo Square‘s 700â€"car parkâ€" ing lot because it would cost $20,000 to melt 25 tons of snow an hour. Two Twin City men were injured Friday when they were pinned against a corâ€" ner by a runaway horse which slid into them. Euâ€" gene Helm, 338 King St. N., and William Hergott, 207 Countland Ave. E., were repairing a window, when the accident occurred. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 24 Joe Dorsch and Jack Muir beat Bill Deakin and Ross Walker 19â€"10 in an allâ€"Waâ€" terloo final at Seagram‘s first doubles finals in the provincial lawn bowl tournaâ€" ment. The proposed twiceâ€"weekâ€" ly garbage pickâ€"up between June 15 and Sept. 15 has been rejected by council. The reason: It would cost the city an extra $10,500. Phone 578â€"3210 For years I have been a tree â€" lover. Not that I knew anything about them, or evâ€" er planted any. But I did know the common varieties. And I did have a feeling that they were something specâ€" ial in a world steadily growâ€" ing more ugly. I had what you might call the ‘"‘only God can make a tree‘"‘ syndrome. There was something mystic about trees. I have written ecsâ€" tatic columns about the trees around our place: the matronly maples; the magâ€" nificent oaks; the towering spruce;, the virginly elms; the lilacs; the single butterâ€" nut. I have sat in my backyard and watched them by the hour, deeply moved by the human qualities I gave them. Even that dirty great cedar that drips mucus or something all over the clothesline. I have been fascinated by the clunking of acorns fallâ€" ing, by the sweet, longing whispers of my two elms, by the muttering of the dowager maples, by the soliâ€" tary arrogance of my spruce which I have to crawl under to get into my toolâ€"shed. But I‘m beginning to have doubts, like a priest who has been swept away by someâ€" thing he doesn‘t quite unâ€" derstand, and then discovâ€" ers that there‘s something rotten in Denmark. If not in his own backyard. That snarl you can‘t quite hear outside my window is a chain saw. The operator is hacking up one of those brooding oaks which came crashing down during yesâ€" terday‘s summer storm, cutting telephone, hydro, and indispensable of indisâ€" pensables, the TV cable wire, both for myself and my next door neighbour. All I‘ll get out of that is a bill for $100 and $12 worth of fireplace wood, too green to do anything but smouldâ€" er. . I‘d just got back from a long drive in 90â€"degree heat, lugged in all the junk from the car, and settled in the backyard with a cold drink and the evening paper when nature took one of â€" her whims. For a few minutes, it was enjoyable. The wind came up. The lawn chairs went flying. The acorns rattled, and leaves and twigs hurtled down on me. I even went in Bill Smiley and called the girls to come out and enjoy the storm. Then the trees started to twist and dance. Even the mighty oaks were writhing like tormented creatures. I love storms, but when the shelter . I‘d suddenly remembered a storm at the cottage, when I was a kid. Same thing. Purâ€" ple sky. Dead calm. Sudden wind of cyclone force that knocked over giant pines like toothpicks, and a torâ€" rent of rain. One 80â€"foot pine snapped about halfway up and smashed through the roof of the cottage. . It wasn‘t so bad this time, but one of my oaks, with a girth of about 40 inches, lay there like a stricken bull. It had destroyed a fence, several â€" smaller _ trees. Fortunately our neighbours had got the kids inside beâ€" fore the real fury of the wind broke, and no one was hurt. This morning I talked to the hydro man who was stringing new lines. He said he and his mates had worked all through the night in a driving rain, and lacâ€" onically remarked that it wasn‘t much fun. But to get back to trees. They provide shade and they‘re pretty to look at. What else? They shower you with unwanted leaves in the fall. They suck up all the juice and prevent you having a decent lawn. My two virginal elms have been raped by the Dutâ€" ch disease and look just like a couple of gentle old maids who have been raped. It will cost $200 to have them buried. My cedar (it must be from Lebanon; I‘ve never seen such a gawky thing in Canâ€" ada) is little but a rendezâ€" vous for mating squirrels. It would take wild horses to make me cut them all down, but I‘m beginning to think that perhaps trees are for the birds. My giant spruce is uprootâ€" ing my garage at a rate of about two inches each year. Waterloo Knights of Colâ€" umbus annual picnic was held at Wey‘s picnic grounds Sunday afternoon. Games, races, sports events and other activities were providâ€" ed for children, teens and adults. Knights‘ picnic for Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Candidate night The Federation of Stuâ€" dents at the University of Waterloo is sponsoring a Sept. 9. The three declared canâ€" didates in the next provinâ€" cial election, Edward Good, Liberal MPP; Brian Turnâ€" bull, Progressive Conservaâ€" at the Theatre of the Arts, tive; and Jo Surich NDP, have agreed to attend. for a good turnout at the meeting which is open to the community. It will get under way at 8 p.m. Neskent TAKE NOTICE that a Special General Meeting of the Members of the Waterloo Mutual Insurance Co. will be held at the Head Office of the Company, 14 Erb Street West, Waterloo, on the 30th day of September, 1971, at ten o‘clock a.m. to consider, and if deemed advisable, ratify and confirm Byâ€"law Numâ€" ber 10 passed by the Directors, amending Paragraph 17 of Byâ€"law Number 1 and Paragraph 1 of Byâ€"law Number 8, changing the date of the Annual Meeting of Members from the second Saturday of February in each year to the last Thursday in February at eleven o‘clock a.m. Waterioo Chronicle, Thursday, August 26, 1971 6 1971. e m __} Watch For Great entertainment for your whole family! Look for Weekend Magazine in The Record this Saturday and every Saturday. 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