3 fetta lee Sheet ptr tia Naty atte te Sate i : with the greatest of ease ... It’s all up Inthe alr an ‘‘the Yoyo.’ Hot dogs, cotton candy, dizzying rides and games of chance lured residents to the Lions’ Club carnival held Friday to Sunday in Terrace. A long- mourned. son returns from the dead TORONTO (CP) — Forty-four years ago, Aline Deacon waa told her baby son had died. On Sunday, the long- mourned son wrapped his arms around his mother's neck and cried. “Tt took me 44 years but I finally found my mother," says Leonard Parent. “Teh 's Ike ‘a miracle.” | The miracle is still a shock for Aline, always grieved that she never even had a chance to _hame her first-born child. volt -atilt—atundied® that ~ ~ he's alive," she said. “When they told me first, I just couldn’t believe it. They'd always told me he’d | died. Equally amazing is that for several years, mother ,and son had lived on the same street, just blocks apart. “We probably passed each other on the Street all the time,” said “Leonard And without knowing it, Leonard worked ‘for four years at the same Toronto plant as his youngest. brother, Patrick. “Before that, Patrick used to work as a walter in ahotel where I always used ‘ to go and drink,” says Leonard. “He probably served me my meals.” FATHER INTERVENES The strange story began in 1940 when Aline Parent, an unmarried, 16-year-old gir], gave birth to a baby boy in Ottawa Civic Hospital, The second-oldest surviving child in a family * of 26, -Aline had been . persuaded by her father to ' give the child ‘up for adoption. “T didn’t want to put him up for adoption," she said Sunday as she sat in the living room of Leonard's home in nearby Mississauga. “I didn't feel very good about it, hut who. ‘ phe paid. everyone told me it was the | thing to do.” -- child because he was in the Aline said’ she went to visit her son in dn Ottawa foundling home two.weeks after his birth. There, she was told he had died. She returned home brokenhearted. “Twas so sad. I'd never even been able to give him & name,” Two years later, she married the baby's father and the couplemoved to Toronto. Aline had two more sons — Patrick Leonard - and Joseph William: - Those names - provide ““ittther — coin- cldence since her first-born was named Leonard Joseph Parent at the foundling home. Leonard was handed over to a foster family in Ottawa, where he spent the first 19 years of his life. As ‘a young boy, he said, he ‘used to fantasize about his real mother. — At 19, Leonard moved to Torento and soon after married his childhood sweetheart, Diane. Last. year, Leonard decided to make inquiries at the Children's Aid Society in Ottawa. An official in Ottawa contacted her ‘Toronto counterpart, who put a small notice in a newspaper here for in- formation on Aline Parent. The ad was spotted by the sister-in-law of one af Aline’s other sons. “- At the tlme, Aline waa in hospital recuperating from a stroke. In late February, she was. told about Leonard. “TI couldn't believe it,” “T still can’t believe it.’” Aline said she has spent the most of the last month getting. to know her son and her three new grand- She said her husband never knew about the first All About PEOPLE _ Wayne, Ind. May 0: journalism continues. Fashion designer Bill Biss is likely tobe the best- ' dressed man at the commencement ceremonies for Indiana University-Purdue University | at Fort The designer, a Fort Wayne native who never finished college, will receive an honorary doctorate . Blase left Fort Wayne during the Second World War, then began designing women’s clothing in New York City. He now owns Bill Blass Lid. which designs everything from men's suits to color schemes for the interior of luxury automobiles, Waltér Cronkite, long-time anchorman for CBS News, is retired, but his influence in the world of Arizona State University’s journalism depart- ment is being renamed the Walter Cronkite Schoo! of Journalism and Telecommunications. - Cronkite is scheduled this fall to present the first Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Jour- nalism and Telecommunication to William Paley, founder and chairman of CBS, and to Frank Stanton, a CBS president emeritus. army and living in. Belleville, Ont., when the baby was born. . “Because they told me the baby had dled, I thought it was better not to tell my husband that he’d hadason. My husband died in 1965, neyer knowing about Leonard, " Sor ge wen woe — The Herald, Monday, April-30, 1984, Page 7 Second Section ~ Hurly- burly. days in Winnipeg — WINNIPEG (CP) ‘— Picture this: Opera: every night, three New York stage productions’ 4. week and a steady parade of top Vaudeville acts. . . Theatrical fare... in London or Paris? No — Winnipeg, 1011. J In’ those hurly-burly days, this young city.was a cultural. oasis, plopped down on a vast and thinly populated flatlarid -amack in the geographical centre of Canada. : Countless arts groups drifted"in and out cf town along with new settlers and construction workers heading weat, Some say the good days are long gone, but others contend that Winnipeg’s cultural life in the 1980s is thriving. ON CIRCUITS Reg Skene, a cultural historian, says that during the early 1900a: Winnipeg | was inevitably on the circuits of American theatre com- panies and vaudeville groups as they swung weat from Chicago and St. Louis, Winnipeg stages saw the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Sarah Hernhardt, and some historians say the yoing city had unlikely benefactors to thank: . the burgeoning railways. Skene says it was, in part, a simple matter of Joglatics. Winnipeg was the neck of the railways’ funnel to the Prairies . and British Columbia, and in those pre- jet days just about everything and everybody heading west — including travelling shows —— came first-rate | ‘through town on trains, ‘Winnipeg was the only city between Windsor, Ont., and Vancouver that served 8 a@ northern ter-. minus for the booming American railways. WAS GATEWAY i “Winnipég was the. gateway to what the Americans called the Great Northwest,”’ sald Skene. “Winnipeg con- bldered itself at that point of being very much part of the American Midwest.” To strengthen that tie, C. P, Walker, a North Dakota theatre entrepreneur, established a Red River ‘Valley theatrical circuit with its head office in Winnipeg. The old Walker Theatre, which stands today as the Odeon Theatre a few blocks from the main railway station, housed an. opera every night, would have three: New York produc- tlons a week through most of the season and visiting stock companies through the whole summer as well as vaudeville,” said Skene, As Winnipeg grew as a transportation and service centre, people began comparing it economically with Chicago and its fan- work of rail lines at the foot of Lake Michigan. “And not only was Winnipeg certain it was going to become another Chicago but- in fact, This year 22 Thornhill Junior Secondary. School students are on the honor roli, meaning they are in the top nine per cent of the student population at their school. ; Also at Thornhill, 11 students were awarded honorable mention. roll students are: Connie Hansen, David Weismiller,. Amber Ogden, Colin Brehaut, Mark Bentley, Robert Mercereau, Anita Ziegler, Trina Radford. Those who received honorable mention are: Menno Jongsma, Tracy Lefebvre, Karen Mac- donald. | In grade nine, the honor The grade eight honor- Top students at Thornhill students are: Strumecki, Diana Erika roll Michelle Helen Hamel, Pendlebury, Tycho, Colin Dow, Christa Kulkas, Kurt McCarron, Steven Keiver, Arlene Wand. Honorable mention was awarded to Wanda Chay, Debbie Gyger, Marianna Haits. . The grade 10 honor roll Students are: Hester Flewin, Kelly Jackson, 4 Krista Tycho, Denise Therrien, Todd Young. Those who. received honorable mention are: Eddie Faber, Ann Price, Steven Basaraba, Barry Kilgren, Nicole Mer- cereau. Vancouver became the main port of entry for the West, syphoning off a lot of Winnipeg's traffle and sending many of its economic hopes into a culturally, people wees were seeing what people in . Chicago were DREAM DIED But the dream of a new Chicago on the Canadian Prairies was short-lived, Killed in part by the completion in 1914 of the Panama Canal the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. were also changing in the theatre, as vaudeville and theatrical Sroupa Amalgamated and put their money into motion pictures. Jump Rope for Heart Is an educational and fund salaing program aponsored by the B.C. Medical Association to benefit the Gritish Cotumbia Heart Foundation. lt involves: a * Introducing precision ropa skipping as & co- educational litnass training technique. * Teaching haart and circulatary health educa tion and information. * Voluntary participation in a fund raising avent to support research and Informational programs. atte, te, ONE NIGHT ONLY > SAT. 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