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The Guild Church of St Margaret of Pattens: The dedication is to Margaret of Antioch
Situated in Rood Lane, Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1HS. St Margaret’s is Church of England and was first recorded in 1067, a year after ‘The Battle of Hastings’. Originally built in wood, it was rebuilt in stone at some undetermined date. It was neglected and fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1530 but by 1538 it was rebuilt.
Unfortunately it was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666 and it wasn’t until 1687 that it was rebuilt but it was worth the wait as Sir Christopher Wren was the architect. The exterior is notable for the spire which is 200ft tall. It was Wren’s third highest and the only one that he designed in the ‘Medieval Style’. The interior of the church is a basic rectangle but it does have some very unusual furnishings. It possesses the only canopied pews in London, they are at the back of the church close to the entrance. These were intended for the churchwardens. There is also a punishment box carved with a head of the devil, this is where wrongdoers would sit during the mass.
It was one of the few churches that escaped damage in ‘The Blitz’. In 1954 it ceased to be a parish church and became one of the Guild church. There is no Sunday service but there are regular week-day services.
The name ‘patten’ derives from wooden-soled overshoes that were worn to prevent people from ruining their own footware because of the poor state of the roads (mud, horse manure and other excrement tipped from the building, there was no sewerage facilities as we have today). There is a small museum inside the church, with display cases showing the history and products of the Pattenmakers and the Basketmakers. Since the 15th century the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers have been associated with St. Margaret’s and there are panels on the south wall that show past masters. The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers also have close links to St. Margaret’s and there are similar panels to commemorate their past masters.
Finally, in one corner of the church is a closed cabinet where there is written ‘For God, King & Country’ and there is also a dedication on the bottom of the cabinet. Open the doors and inside are memorial plaques to the submariners of a ‘K4’ class submarine that went down in a tragic accident of the coast of Fife in September 1918 with the loss of 105 men. There are also 12 other WWI casualties not connected to the sinking that also appear on the memorial. One of my photographs shows the whole story.
This is the second of three postings.
Free concerts every evening at the Alameda County Fair. Thursday 7/1 was free day for seniors (yes it's true!) and I guess it was not a coincidence that Crystal Gayle was the headliner. She will be 60, herself, next year and her hair is now literally down to the floor!
Sure made this girl's brown eyes a bit blue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWQI_8jMGA
Pictured here with her band leader and cool saxophonist, Jay Patten.
One of the highlights of the WPT stop in South Florida is the Beach Volleyball match with the Royal Flush Girls, Tony Dunst, Vince Van Patten, Marianela and various pro volunteers. I know it's asking a lot, but take a look at the bikini clad fun!
One of the highlights of the WPT stop in South Florida is the Beach Volleyball game with the Royal Flush Girls, Tony Dunst, Marianella, Vince Van Patten and various pro 'Volunteers' -- I know it is a lot to ask of you but take a look at the bikini inspired photos of with winners and losers.
Van Patten Mountain Camp, Organ Mountains, Southern New Mexico.
Night, full moon, red-gelled strobe, blue-gelled flashlight. 3 minute exposure.
This shot of Chris Patten was taken yesterday at Encaenia in Oxford, it's something of a rarity as usually I don't upload anything until it's at least six months old due to my ever-growing backlog of shots.
President Patten (right) reads resolution, "We, representing the ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA ... on the 150th Anniversary of the whitemen's seizure of our contry, HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people ... AND WE APPEAL to the Australian Nation of to-day ... for FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY".
This image is part of the collections of the State Library of NSW and has been used with permission. The State Library’s Flickr Commons channel can be accessed via the following link: www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw
Tai Cheong Bakery • 泰昌餅家
The bakery's most popular "Fat Patten's Egg Tart" （酥皮蛋撻）comes from former HK governor Chris Patten who used to be the bakery’s most regular customer and he particularly liked their egg tarts. Hence people began to call the egg tarts at this bakery “Fat Patten’s egg tarts”. They’re really delicious! Come and taste it and you will see why Chris Patten liked them that much.
Hong Kong • 香港 '12
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Michael Crichton present in 1973 "Mondwest" with Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Dick Van Patten, Majel Barrett,...
Van Patten Road sunset in Shiocton, Wisconsin while enjoying the sounds of spring migration. iPhone panorama taken March 29, 2019.
I’ve found a small dragon in the woodshed.
Think it must have come from deep inside a forest
because it’s damp and green and leaves
are still reflecting in its eyes.
I fed it on many things, tried grass,
the roots of stars, hazel-nut and dandelion,
but it stared up at me as if to say, I need
foods you can’t provide.
It made a nest among the coal,
not unlike a bird’s but larger,
it is out of place here,
and is quite silent.
If you believed in it I would come
hurrying to your house to let you share my wonder,
but I want instead to see
if you yourself will pass this way.
112 pictures in 2012 #66: Religion (in the middle is the spire of St Margaret Pattens church built by Christopher Wren in 1687)
Thank you Mr Tom Patten!
Buckland in Gloucester is first mentioned in a charter dated 709 which recorded that the Manor of Bokland was given by Kynred, King of the Mercians to St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester. The Abbey continued to hold it until the Dissolution of the Monasteries some 800 years later.
A church was built here in the 13th century at a time when the Early English style of building was changing to the Decorated style of Gothic architecture. The church, like many others in the Cotswolds is dedicated to St Michael.
In the church's long history, there have been three major restorations. Firstly, at the end of the 15th century when the clerestory was added and the original steep nave roof was replaced by a higher, flatter roof. The second was from 1877 to 1885 and the third from 1982 to 1985. Happily the church was spared the alterations which so many other churches suffered during the 19th century, although sadly the highly coloured medieval frescoes were removed in 1877 at the instruction of the consulting architect, Mr F.S. Waller.
ninth-plate ambrotype, circa 1857
unidentified photographer
In 1855/1856, Mary Ann Brown Patten became the first woman to successfully sail a clipper chip around Cape Horn through the notoriously treacherous waters at the tip of South America. Schooled in navigation by her husband, Joshua Patten, the captain of “Neptune’s Car”, she took charge of that San Francisco-bound vessel after her husband was incapacitated by tuberculosis and the ship’s first mate was imprisoned for insubordination. Only nineteen years old and pregnant at the time, Patten brought the ship safely to its destination, earning international renown for her heroism under extraordinary circumstances. This portrait was made following that voyage. The ship's insurers, recognizing that Mary Patten had saved them thousands of dollars, rewarded her with $1000 in February of 1857. In her letter responding to the gift, she said that she performed "only the plain duty of a wife." Captain Patten died in July of 1857, less than two years after his last voyage. Mary Ann Brown Patten was given $1399 from a fund for her relief set up by the Boston Courier. She apparently died a only few years later on March 18, 1861. Check here for a short video clip telling of her sailing around The Horn.
The Guild Church of St Margaret of Pattens: The dedication is to Margaret of Antioch
Situated in Rood Lane, Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1HS. St Margaret’s is Church of England and was first recorded in 1067, a year after ‘The Battle of Hastings’. Originally built in wood, it was rebuilt in stone at some undetermined date. It was neglected and fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1530 but by 1538 it was rebuilt.
Unfortunately it was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666 and it wasn’t until 1687 that it was rebuilt but it was worth the wait as Sir Christopher Wren was the architect. The exterior is notable for the spire which is 200ft tall. It was Wren’s third highest and the only one that he designed in the ‘Medieval Style’. The interior of the church is a basic rectangle but it does have some very unusual furnishings. It possesses the only canopied pews in London, they are at the back of the church close to the entrance. These were intended for the churchwardens. There is also a punishment box carved with a head of the devil, this is where wrongdoers would sit during the mass.
It was one of the few churches that escaped damage in ‘The Blitz’. In 1954 it ceased to be a parish church and became one of the Guild church. There is no Sunday service but there are regular week-day services.
The name ‘patten’ derives from wooden-soled overshoes that were worn to prevent people from ruining their own footware because of the poor state of the roads (mud, horse manure and other excrement tipped from the building, there was no sewerage facilities as we have today). There is a small museum inside the church, with display cases showing the history and products of the Pattenmakers and the Basketmakers. Since the 15th century the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers have been associated with St. Margaret’s and there are panels on the south wall that show past masters. The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers also have close links to St. Margaret’s and there are similar panels to commemorate their past masters.
Finally, in one corner of the church is a closed cabinet where there is written ‘For God, King & Country’ and there is also a dedication on the bottom of the cabinet. Open the doors and inside are memorial plaques to the submariners of a ‘K4’ class submarine that went down in a tragic accident of the coast of Fife in September 1918 with the loss of 105 men. There are also 12 other WWI casualties not connected to the sinking that also appear on the memorial. One of my photographs shows the whole story.
This is the second of three postings.
Sophia Patten's Greek family & friends
For an editorial profile story in the Winter 2007 issue of AZ Teen Magazine
Phoenix Arizona AZ editorial Photographer
Strobist info:
(2) Nikon SB800s in shoot through umbrellas to light the foreground (white ripstop nylon to reduce the light hitting the table area)
(1) Nikon SB-26 in the doorway
(1) Nikon SB800 lighting the kitchen area
(1) Nikon SB-26 on the floor, lighting the right corner
(1) Vivitar 285 lighting the left corner of the room
(1) Dyna-lite 2000 ws pack outside the room to create the pattern of window light on the back wall (ok that part is not strobist, cause it's a big pack, but the rest of the shot is lit with batter powered strobes). The house faces North, so there no chance that light will pour into this room like this. Translucent disc in front of window to soften the light on Mom.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
The semester started today (my last semester evveeeeerrrr!) and I was in class and on campus from 9am-8pm. This is how every Monday/Wednesday are going to be for me until May. ughh.
LOST also started tonight - a sweet, extra long, double feature. So due to lack of time, and lack of any better idea, I pulled my camera out in the middle of the episode.
Scott kind of hates all the pictures I take of him, but I think he knows how happy it makes me...so he allows it anyway.
I've gotta come up with a game plan on these days, a better way of keeping up with this 365 project while juggling with school and work. Something.
Dominic Patten, Kirsten Beyer, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, Evan Evagora, Brent Spiner and Jeri Ryan speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Trek: Picard", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
To lady and gay Flickrites: Hot guys in the locker room, but fully clothed, sorry for your disappointment. Ouch! John Yang's tail bone hurts.
I do not understand why this pictures got over 145 views. My photo of Hillary Clinton got only 80 views.
May 2, 1985
The provincial election was held. PC candidates Bob Mitchell and Norm Sterling were both reelected. Kanata Standard, May 9, 1985:2.
May 2, 1985
It was reported in the Standard that Kanata’s earnings per capita was the third highest in Canada. Kanata Standard, May 2, 1985:1.
May 2, 1985
It was reported in the Standard that the Kanata Arts Council would to become a registered charitable society. Kanata Standard, May 2, 1985:16.
May 2, 1985
Mitel Corporation posted its second year of big losses; in fiscal 1984 it was $32.4 million. Kanata Standard, May 2, 1985:24.
May 3, 1985
Two Kanata residents, Robert Dunne and Juliette Geroux, were killed in a motorcycle crash on the Queensway.
May 5, 1985
Susan Mostyn, Marie Patten, and Kim Patten won first place in the tandem women’s division of the Upper Jock River Canoe Race. It took them three hours and thirty-one minutes to finish. Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985:22.
May 6, 1985
A public meeting was held by OC Transpo. About 45 residents turned out to oppose the elimination of Route 162, which linked Glen Cairn to Bayshore Shopping Centre. Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:1-2.
May 7, 1985
Campeau Corporation unveiled plans to Kanata City Council and residents for developing Town Centre lands. The proposal was for 929 houses in the southwest quadrant of Town Centre development lands, bordered by Katimavik Drive, the Queensway, Castlefrank Drive, and Terry Fox Drive. The plans called for a density of 15-18 units per acre. Jo-Anne Trounce wrote that the major concern about the plan for the residents was the “complete lack of facilities” within the proposed area. Kanata Standard, May 9, 1985:1; Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:8.
May 7, 1985
Kanata City Council named City Clerk Brian Switzer as the new City Administrator. This move was part of many recommendations of an Accountability Study conducted by consultant Ward Mallette. The controversial position of Coordinator was renamed and expanded in the announcement. Alderman Des Adam, who had been arguing for the creation of a Chief Administrator position for the past two years, seemed satisfied with the appointment. Kanata Standard, May 9, 1985:1,2.
May 8, 1985
The Kanata Theatre opened its presentation of Living Together. Leslie Jones wrote in her review of the production that it “came and went too quickly to have any real impact on the audience.” Martin Haynes starred. Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:9.
May 9, 1985
Kanata-based Lumonics Inc. announced that they were on track towards making record profits for 1985. The firm was the third-largest laser manufacturer in the world. Kanata Standard, May 9, 1985:20.
May 14, 1985
Kanata City Council rejected a plea for tighter gun control in rural March from the March Rural Association. Alderman Adam, who represented the rural Ward, was the only member to vote in favour of the proposal, stating that “somebody will be shot, then they’ll fix it.” Mayor Wilkinson later stated, in her Commentary, that the City’s current By-Law was the most restrictive in the region. Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:1-2; Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985:3.
May 16, 1985
Dunrobin resident Michele LeBoldus was appointed a TV Ontario eastern regional councillor. Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:23.
May 16, 1985
Artec Canada Ltd. pooled resources under a new umbrella organization called the Artec Group. Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:24.
May 16, 1985
The Glen Cairn Community Association held its Annual Meeting and elected a new Executive, including Yolande Adams, Doug Parsons, Kim Sherwin, Larry Ferrari, Terry McKever and Carolyn McIntyre. Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985:11.
May 17, 1985
There was confusion over whether or not the new wards could be set up in time for the 1985 fall election. City Clerk Frank Wilson said that it was unlikely. Mayor Wilkinson said that she would pressure the Ontario Municipal Board to effect the changes before August 20, the last day for a change according to the Municipal Act. Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985:1.
May 17, 1985
The Earl of March girls’ track team and field team won the aggregate championship at the Carleton Board Track Meet. Elyse Chan was named top female senior athlete at the meet. Sherry Sparling was named top junior female athlete. Other competitors included Phillip Hughes, Trevor Payne, Barry Pudlow, and Jageir Sandu. Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985:25.
May 20, 1985
Amnesty Week began allowing library patrons to return overdue books and magazines without penalty. Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:9.
May 23, 1985
Four break-ins were reported over the long weekend. Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985:1.
May 23, 1985
The Ontario Municipal Board informed the City of Kanata that there would be new ward boundaries in time for the November elections. Kanata City Council had passed the boundary changes on March 12. A Standard editorial stated: “The change in the ward system seems small at the outset, but it represents a shift in power, however slight, which could swing important votes in the future. Congratulations to our present council for recognizing the subtleties and making this important decision.” Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:1,2.
May 23, 1985
Kanata OPP seized $1,500 worth of drugs from a Beaverbrook home. Clinton Blizzard was charged with possession of narcotics for the purposes of trafficking. Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:1.
May 25, 1985
Mayfair began, with a variety of events ranging from a Craft Fair, Dance, and a Beer Garden. The residents of Amundsen-Chimo won the prize for their float. The plant sale was a “big hit.” The Standard reported: “And a good time was had by all.” Kanata Standard, May 16, 1985:4; Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:4-7,10.
May 28, 1985
Alderman Niebergall announced in a Kanata City Council meeting that a referendum should be held to decide what type of indoor pool the citizens want. He had recently outlined in his Katimavik-Hazeldean Report the progress of the indoor pool issue and the Indoor Pool Project Management Committee. A Consultant had been hired to analyze their options in the Committees findings, and his report was due in July. Niebergall said that if the city can hold a referendum on something like nuclear disarmament, then residents could also decide on something more in their control, like what type of pool to build. Kanata Standard, May 23, 1985; Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:1.
May 28, 1985
Alderman Des Adam said that he was considering running for Mayor in the fall election. He intended to announce his decision three weeks later. Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:1.
May 28, 1985
Kanata City Council gave approval to the first high-rise apartment in Katimavik-Hazeldean for the summer of 1986. Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:1.
May 30, 1985
Siltronics Ltd. of Kanata reported an operating loss of the nine-month period ending March 30, 1985. Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:22.
May 30, 1985
Trillium Telephone Systems Inc. announced that it had won a contract with Edmonton Telephone. Orders were expected to reach $1 million by the end of the year. Kanata Standard, May 30, 1985:1.
May 30, 1985
Bell Northern Research opened its new $37.4 million Lab 3 facility. This brought the number of employees at the site to 2,300. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:22.
May 30, 1985
It was reported in the Standard that Medialand, the area’s first high-tech fuel company, opened in the Mallorn Centre. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:22.
June 1, 1985
The Kanata March Montessori School celebrated its 10th Birthday. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:7.
June 2, 1985
Greg Olson, for the second year in a row, won the Kanata Pro-Am Golf Tournament held at the Kanata Golf and Country Club. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:24.
June 3, 1985
The Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association held its Annual General Meeting. Newly elected Executives included Stuart Galbraith, Chuck Lapkoff, Joyce Farrell, and Joanne Trounce. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:13.
June 4, 1985
Kanata City Council turned down in a tied vote a proposal to swap its building lots in Belleview Heights for Campeau Corporation lots on Decarlo Gardens in Katimavik-Hazeldean. The deal would have cost the City $200,000. The plan was put forth by Alderman Niebergall, aimed to supplement gains already made to Hewitt Park, and he argued that the decision that was made would “reduce the spectrum of uses for the park.” In his Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, Niebergall explained that Campeau proposed a 20-lot subdivision on the four-acre parcel, which would result in the complete loss of the woods on the site “which is the best in Katimavik/Hazeldean.” A park consultant and City staff had been against placing these lots within the park, since they would reduce the street frontage of much of the park. Standard, June 6, 1985:1; Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:3,23.
June 4, 1985
Kanata City Council agreed to pay $50,000 for new lights in the Glen Cairn Arena. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:1.
June 4, 1985
Kanata City Council agreed that Mayor Wilkinson, as a representative on Regional Council, would vote against a motion to take the delivery of day care services away from the municipalities and give it to the regional government. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:1.
June 5, 1985
A man in his early 20s was seen committing an indecent act in the A.Y. Jackson schoolyard. A similar incident occurred recently. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:1.
June 5, 1985
The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association named Sharon Tate and Neil MacLeod as man and woman of the year. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:10.
June 6, 1984
Six more break-ins were reported over the previous weekend. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:1
June 6, 1985
Alderman Niebergall announced that he would not be seeking reelection in the fall. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:3.
June 6, 1985
Alderman Des Adam, in his March Notebook, entered into a discussion on how he felt that Campeau Corporation hindered commercial development as the major landowner in Kanata. He stated: “I would propose that since Campeau Corporation is the major landowner in the Kanata North Industrial Park, the only vacant landowner in the Kanata Town Centre, and the principal landowner in Marchwood-Lakeside, that Kanata Council use its very considerable powers of persuasion to request that a percentage of Campeau’s industrial and commercial lands be made available for sale at market value as a condition precedent to the development of any of their residential holdings.” He continued a week later, saying that this was to ensure that industrial development kept up with residential building, otherwise there would be an increased tax burden on homeowners. Kanata Standard, June 6, 1985:4; Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:3.
June 6, 1985
The first of two public meetings held on the indoor pool issue was held. More than 60 residents attended. Many possible designs were presented, ranging from a standard rectangular pool to an elaborate leisure/wave pool. J. Birch wrote on the meeting in the Standard, and stated that the meeting was very informative. Birch also indicated that City officials and the indoor committee seemed to be “strongly in favour of the leisure pool concept and appeared to have already written off the idea of a rectangular pool.” The next meeting was set for June 27. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985: 1,31; Kanata Standard, June 27, 1985:4.
June 7, 1985
Police seized $2,000 worth of narcotics from a Kanata home at 108 Barrow Crescent, two weeks after a similar incident on Salter Crescent. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:1.
June 9, 1985
The Annual General meeting of the Kanata Theatre was held. Members of the Executive included Brooke Keneford, Ron Maslin, Barrie Kirk, Ann Williams, Laurence Thornton, Dewi Williams, Betty Francis, Jenny Haynes, Margaret Jardine, Andrea Sajrajsl, and Joan Ritchie. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:16.
June 11, 1985
Kanata City Council gave tentative approval for a $50,000 loan to the Kanata Riding Club. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:1.
June 11, 1985
City administrator Brian Switzer said that construction on the proposed new City Hall could begin as early as 1989. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:2.
June 12, 1985
Ev Anderson of Kanata was the winner at the Kanata-Texaco Ladies’ Invitational Golf Tournament. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:22.
June 13, 1985
Digital Equipment of Canada announced that it was moving 115 marketing-related employees to Toronto from the Kanata head office over the next two years. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:25.
June 13, 1985
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited announced the signing of a new contract to the National Atomic Energy Agency of Indonesia. Kanata Standard, June 13, 1985:25.
June 14, 1985
Police arrested Denis Morin and Leo Lalonde for a break-in in Katimavik. Over $5,000 worth of merchandise was recovered. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:1.
June 15, 1985
The Parkview Art Gallery was opened. Over 450 people attended. It was the first art showplace in the west end of Ottawa. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:6.
June 16, 1985
An official sod-turning ceremony was held for the future Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:19.
June 18, 1985
Mayor Wilkinson announced that the Ontario government would contribute $785,000 towards establishing the Kanata Enterprise Centre. As Ron Boyd explained in the Standard, the Centre was to provide supportive facilities for entrepreneurs and newly formed small businesses to be nursed in an attempt to increase the success rate of small business in Canada. The first Board of Directors of the Kanata Enterprise Corporation was named shortly after. Andrew Nellestyn was named Chairmen of the economic committee. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:1; Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:20; Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:16.
June 18, 1985
Kanata City Council approved the Town Centre as the site for further evaluation of an indoor pool, based on a recommendation by the Indoor Pool Committee and the advice of the City’s consultants. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:1.
June 20, 1985
Leslie Jones wrote in a feature in the Standard about families on welfare in Kanata and a referral service that was set up to deal with the issue. In 1983 there were ten families in Kanata on welfare. By 1984, it increased by nearly 12 times. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:1.
June 20, 1985
Leslie Jones wrote a feature in the Standard on an increasing demand for rental housing in Kanata. The City’s vacancy rate at the time was less than 1 percent. Jones outlined various areas and discussed rental figures and some of the implications of them. Kanata Standard, June 20, 1985:4.
June 23, 1985
Five Kanata residents were killed in an Air India crash. All four members of the Jain family lost their lives in the disaster while traveling to visit family. They were Om Jain and his wife Indu, and their two children, Riki, 17 and Ruchi, 17. Don Lougheed, 49, traveling on a business trip, was also killed. They were among the 329 people who died when the Air India Boeing 747 jumbo jet exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland. It was to refuel in London and continue to Bombay. Kanata Standard, June 27, 1985:1.
June 23, 1985
Erskine Johnston Public School teacher, Gail Madelaine, 36, died after having a heart and lungs transplant operation in London, Ontario. She taught French at the school from 1978 until 1983. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:7.
June 25, 1985
Mastercraft Development Corporation’s request for an oversized sign on Teron Drive was turned down by Kanata City Council. It was to be 16 ft. high and 20 ft. wide, much larger than permitted in the City by-laws. Ron Andoff later wrote in the Standard: “A trip around the city reveals an abundance of signs advertising everything from city parks to hamburgers to homes. Most of the signs are legitimate efforts by local businesses to attract customers. Some, however, have no purpose and are slowly decaying by the roadsides.” Kanata Standard, June 27, 1985:1; Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:5.
June 25, 1985
Campeau Corporation received approval from Kanata City Council for a 48,000 square foot combination office and manufacturing building at the corner of Richardson Side Road and Carling Avenue. Kanata Standard, June 27, 1985:1.
June 25, 1985
Bill Berry, president of the Pinhey’s Point Foundation, announced his candidacy for Alderman in Rural March. Kanata Standard, June 27, 1985:2.
June 27, 1985
The City of Kanata Auditor’s Report for 1984 was published in the Standard. Kanata Standard, June 27, 1985:18-19.
June 27, 1985
The second public meeting on the indoor pool issue was held. Nearly 70 people attended. The design that seemed to be preferred was one that was essentially two pools in one building. It was also the most expensive, estimated at over $3 million. No final decision was made at this meeting. Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:1.
July 1, 1985
A brief ceremony was held to commemorate the official beginning of City policing by the OPP. The new service began on July 1 despite the fact that the contract between the City and the province had not yet been signed. Mayor Wilkinson said that the proposed contract phase-in period was not what was originally negotiated. The proposed contract had Kanata taking over 100 percent of the costs by July 1986. However, earlier agreements had said 1987. Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:6.
July 1, 1985
About 600 people took part in the Canada Day celebrations at Bluegrass Park in Bridlewood. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:8.
July 4, 1985
It was reported in the Standard that J. Scott Morris, treasurer for the City of Kanata, had recently resigned. There were indications that Council had asked him to resign following a unanimous vote. Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:1.
July 4, 1985
It was reported in a feature in the Standard by John Good that Kanata naturalist Martha Webber had formed a company to offer short nature tours in the Ottawa Valley. Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:14.
July 5, 1985
A fire broke out at the home of John and Maureen Rodney while they were out. There was about $10,000 damage. Kanata Standard, July 4, 1985:1.
July 9, 1985
Kanata City Council reversed a previous decision and agreed to give Campeau Corporation five lots in Belleview Heights rather than along Decarlo Gardens. This released the company’s obligation to develop Hewitt Park and Dorey Park. The deal cost the City approximately $350,000. There had been concern over building in a portion of Hewitt Park. As one resident stated: “It is a resource which can never be bought back at any price.” The issue was brought back to Council by Alderman Niebergall. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:1,5.
July 9, 1985
Kanata City Council decided that there would not be a referendum on the indoor pool issue. Alderman Niebergall had originally suggested that a referendum be held to decide on various indoor pool proposals. Aldermen Niebergall, Adam, and McKee voted for the referendum. Alderman Lund voted against the proposal because he found referenda divisive rather than conciliatory while growing up in western Canada where all money issues were put to the voters, and added: “If the public wants people on council who want the things they want, they should vote for them.” Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:1.
July 10, 1985
The Joint Board Hearing was held to deal with the Ontario Hydro’s proposed transmission line. The Board was expected to make a decision in September. The controversy had for some time been over the proposed route for new lines through Bridlewood. Kanata Standard, July 18, 1985:1.
July 10, 1985
Kanata resident Bob Slipp won the Summer 10K Road Race. His time was 31 minutes, 4 seconds. Kanata Standard, July 18, 1985:19.
July 11, 1985
Hank Docter announced his candidacy for Kanata’s first Alderman-at-Large position. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:2.
July 11, 1985
Trillium Telephone Systems of Kanata reported its best quarter since the company was founded in August 1983. They made a profit of $510,000 on revenues of $9.3 million in the three months ending May 24. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:16.
July 11, 1985
Mitel Corporation of Kanata announced a net loss of $15.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 1986. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:16.
July 11, 1985
A new competitive Kanata Bantam softball team of twelve girls was formed after a round of try-out sessions. They were Carolyn Hunter, Sylvie Brule, Cara Doxsee, Kristi Snider, Mandy Smith, Carey Mason, Kim Rubbra, Amy Lefrancois, Melissa Wheeler, Jodi Dixon, Jennifer Roundell, and Jodi Briese. Kanata Standard, July 11, 1985:18.
July 16, 1985
Kanata City Council decided that if a pool was to be built, the choice of designs would be a combination leisure and competition pool. The vote was unanimous. The decision was partially based on two previous public meetings on the issue. Kanata City Council preferred the lands owned by Campeau Corporation adjacent to the Town Centre as the site for the new pool. Kanata Standard, July 18, 1985:1,3.
July 23, 1985
Maureen Meikle was named the new deputy City Clerk by Kanata City Council. Kanata Standard, July 18, 1985:1.
July 23, 1985
Kanata City Council gave Canadian Marconi Company approval to expand in Phase III of its Kanata operation. Kanata Standard, July 18, 1985:17.
July 25, 1985
It was reported that construction had begun on the new Marchwood-Lakeside community, after many years of debate and planning. Kanata Standard, July 18, 1985:9.
July 27, 1985
Kanata resident Craig Penstone, 18, was seriously injured in a collision between his motorcycle and an automobile. Kanata Standard, August 1, 1985:1.
August 6, 1985
Kanata City Council heard tenders for the development of Walter Baker Park, which were all much higher than anticipated by Council. While $915,000 had been set aside for the work, the tenders placed the cost at $2.4 million. Council decided to rethink the entire concept of the Park. Kanata Standard, August 8, 1985:1.
August 6, 1985
Kanata City Council approved a townhouse development at the corner of Lombardo Drive and Pickford Drive as long as the proposed number of unites was reduced. The representative from MacDonald Homes objected to this type of stipulation and argued that Council had no right to “control density” in such a way when he was operating with the limits of what the site was zoned for. Kanata Standard, August 8, 1985:1.
August 6, 1985
Kanata City Council agreed to purchase 90.5 acres for $1.8 million in the Kanata South Industrial Park for a municipal industrial park. Much of the argument for the purchase centered on creating a better balance between residential and commercial sites as well as having more control over development. In his March Notebook, Des Adam stressed the need to reduce the tax burden for residents by developing a stronger commercial-industrial base. Adam also stated in a later Notebook: “It is a very large step forward for Kanata in enabling the City to attract new industry. But it is only the first step.” Kanata Standard, August 8, 1985:1,2-3; Kanata Standard, August 15, 1985:3,20.
August 8, 1985
It was reported that Kanata resident Phillip Hughes, 18,would compete in the Canada Summer Games. He was seen as one of the country’s top hurdlers. Kanata Standard, August 8, 1985:19-20.
August 13, 1985
Kanata resident and noted artist Bill Zuro died after a lengthy illness. Kanata Standard, August 22, 1985:2.
August 15, 1985
Leslie Jones wrote an article in the Standard: 628 bylaws control community standards. The City of Kanata had 628 by-laws that could result in fines of up to $2,000 if violated. They ranged from noise issues, commercial ground maintenance, aesthetic infractions, etc. The most recent issue was the proposed above-ground pool by-law, which would prohibit above-ground pools in Katimavik-Hazeldean and Beaverbrook. Jones pointed out that most of the enforcement was reactionary, often the result of a complaint. Kanata Standard, August 15, 1985:5.
August 15, 1985
The Atomic Energy of Canada Limited urged over half of its employees in the medical division to leave the company. A special bonus package was offered as compensation. Kanata Standard, August 15, 1985:20.
August 20, 1985
All members of Kanata City Council voted against the proposed above-ground swimming pool ban. On August 8, the Bridlewood Community Association at a Board of Directors Meeting decided not to support a ban on above-ground pools in Bridlewood. Alderman Niebergall had originally made the proposal, after hearing from residents that they felt these pools were unattractive. They felt that this could discriminate against residents financially. Kanata Standard, August 15, 1985:6; Kanata Standard, August 22, 1985:1.
August 20, 1985
Kanata City Council decided that the seven-year old Town Centre Secondary Plan would be reviewed and updated. Jim Stewart later commented: “What must be remembered in this, however, is that the plan was intended to create a city centre--a downtown for a city with a projected population over 80,000. The question is whether this remains a realistic objective. If it is, then me must ensure that the secondary plan incorporates the features and amenities of a downtown which we can all be proud of. If it is not, we must reduce the densities which were envisioned for its commercial viability.” Kanata Standard, August 22, 1985:1; Kanata Standard, August 29, 1985:5.
August 22, 1985
It was reported in the Standard that Aldermen Sheila McKee, Paul Niebergall and Charlie Rogers had announced that they would not seek reelection. At the time only Des Adam and Marianne Wilkinson had announced their intent to run for Mayor in the November 12 election. Kanata Standard, August 22, 1985:1.
August 22, 1985
Lumonics Inc. of Kanata reported a second quarter profit of $1.4 million. Kanata Standard, August 22, 1985:18.
August 22, 1985
It was reported in the Standard that Kanata resident Jennifer Kalnitsky won the 12-and-under consolation title at the Canadian Junior Tennis Championships in Toronto. Her older sister Alex, 15, was also a top-ranked tennis player. Kanata Standard, August 22, 1985:20; Kanata Standard, August 29, 1985:4.
August 28, 1985
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson was acclaimed president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. Kanata Standard, August 29, 1985:1.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, no. W. 781. Photo: R.K.O. Radio. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
American film actress Luana Patten (1938-1996) was one of the first two contract players for Walt Disney Studios. She made her film debut in the Disney musical Song of the South (1946) with Bobby Driscoll, and also appeared in such Disney films as Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Melody Time (1948). After several more films as a child star, she left film for 8 years. She returned as an ingénue in such films as Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956), The Restless Years (1958), and the Disney film Follow Me, Boys! (1966), but her adult career never took hold.
Luana J. Patten was born in 1938 in Long Beach, California. Her parents were Harvey T. Patten and Alma Miller. She attended Burbank High School and Hollywood Professional School. At the age of three, she was a young model and later was hired by Walt Disney. Patten made her first film appearance in the musical Song of the South (Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson, 1946). She played a poor white child fascinated by the stories told by Uncle Remus. She also appeared in the South's sister film So Dear to My Heart (Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske, 1947). She played with Bobby Driscoll in the Pecos Bill segment of Disney's Melody Time (Clyde Geronimi, a.o., 1948). In 1947, she appeared with Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd during the live-action scenes in Fun and Fancy Free (William Morgan, a.o., 1947). In 1948, she left film for 8 years to finish schooling. While a student at Wilson High in Long Beach California in 1956, she was working as a box office cashier at the Lakewood Center Theater when it was held up. The film playing was her debut, Song of the South (1946). She returned to the screen herself as an ingénue in Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956). She played the role of Jody Weaver in the Western Joe Dakota (Richard Bartlett, 1957) starring Jock Mahoney. For Walt Disney, she appeared as Priscilla Lapham in Disney's live-action adventure film Johnny Tremain (Robert Stevenson, 1957), starring Hal Stalmaster. In 1958, Patten played in the teen film The Restless Years (Helmut Käutner, 1958) with John Saxon and Sandra Dee, and she played the part of Elizabeth Buckley in the episode 'Twelve Guns' of the Western TV series Cimarron City (1958-1960), starring George Montgomery. It was in Cimarron City that she met her future second husband, actor John Smith, whom she married two years later. The couple divorced in 1964.
In 1959, Luana Patten played Abbie Fenton in the episode 'Call Your Shot' of the Western series Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958-1961), starring Steve McQueen. The same year, she played Ruth in 'The Ruth Marshall Story' (1959), episode 13, season 3, of the Western series Wagon Train (1957-1965). In 1960, she played Libby Halstead in the film Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), starring Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. Patten also played in episodes of such popular series as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1960) and Rawhide (1960). She starred in such films as the historical drama The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (Andrew V. MacLaglen, 1961). In 1966, she played Nora White, the new bride of the reformed "Whitey" (Kurt Russell) in the Disney film Follow Me, Boys! (Norman Tokar, 1966) with Fred MacMurray and Vera Miles. She also appeared in episodes of Bonanza (1966), Perry Mason (1966), Daniel Boone (1969), and Dragnet 1967 (1967-1970). She retired from the film industry in 1968 except for a brief cameo in the horror film Grotesque (Joe Tornatore, 1988), starring Linda Blair and Tab Hunter. She married and divorced three times. Her husband was Ronny D. Huntley (1955-1959), John Smith (1960-1964), and Jerry Don Mays (1970-1973). In 1996, Luana Patten died from respiratory failure at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, aged 57. She is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Long Beach, California.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Dominic Patten, Kirsten Beyer, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, Evan Evagora, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Del Arco speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Trek: Picard", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Look at all that front lawn I had to mow down there at Katahdin Lodge and Camps, in the summer of 1969.
Anytime Finley Clarke's Nephew, that'd be me, David Robert Crews, was living and working at Finley's Katahdin Lodge and Camps, David was the Lodge's sole grass cutter and weed whacker.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
And my Uncle Finley and his wife, my Aunt Martha, both completely agreed with me.
In November of 1968, I moved, from where I grew up in Dundalk, Maryland, a Baltimore County suburb of Baltimore City, to Katahdin Lodge of Patten, Maine, to begin living and working at the Lodge. In effect exchanging the crowded, industrialized sights, sounds and smells of suburban sprawl for the quiet, sometimes gentle/sometimes harsh, natural beauty and fresh air of the heavily forested, sparsely populated Katahdin Valley.
The very first time I had entered that wide, rolling, deep green, mountain and valley landscape, was during summer vacation of 1966. I was a 16 year old passenger in my father's car. Dad, my mother, younger sister, cousin Nelson and I were on our way, up from Maryland, to spend a week at the hunting lodge my Uncle Finley, my mother's younger brother and my father's best friend, had bought the year before. We were driving about 6 miles south of the Lodge, when I was blessed with my first full, sweeping look from the northern Appalachian Mountains to our left, then back across Rural Route 11 and out across the wide, rolling Katahdin Valley to our right.
I felt the very soul of me expand -- powerfully -- outwards in all directions around our moving car -- with such secure, natural warmth that I can not fully express. Something previously unknown to me, from deep inside of my living spirit, reached out and embraced the countryside. It instantly mingled all in amongst the multitudes of tall, healthy green trees. Then slid back inside of me.
For the first time in my life, it felt like I had finally arrived at home.
I had found my most comfortable place on earth. I was destined to love that sweet, rough section of God's Country more than anyplace else I have ever been.
Which is why, at the end of Thanksgiving Day Week of November 1968, after my father and I had spent that week at the Lodge, I accepted my Uncle Fin and Aunt Marty's request that I stay there at Katahdin Lodge to live with and work for them, instead of going back home to Baltimore to join the US Merchant Marines, as I had told everyone in my family that I was planning on doing.
I graduated from Dundalk High School on June 5, 1968, and had planned on joining the Merchant Marines before my official Army draft notice came. That way, I could not be drafted into the US Army, trained as an infantryman and sent to die in Vietnam. At that time in our nation's history, most young Americans thought that all military draftees were sent to Vietnam as infantrymen. And that few ever returned home fully alive.
In November of '68, I figured that I had about another year before my draft notice arrived in the mail. So I stayed at Katahdin Lodge, and my father drove back home to the Baltimore suburbs alone.
And I experienced my first wintertime in northern Maine.
Eventually, after a great winter spent at Katahdin Lodge, with my Uncle Fin and Aunt Marty, a few paying lodge guests, along with plenty enough of the finest kind of Mainers, especially the country girls, and after doing a whole lotta' snowmobile riding, but mostly doing a whole lotta' hard, often dangerous physical labor, I became a Registered Maine Guide--who specialized in guiding bear hunters.
I was the right man for the job.
Especially when it came time for keeping the Lodge's roofs, walkways, parking areas and large horseshoe shaped driveway shoveled or plowed free from the record snowfall of the winter of 1968-69 and for keeping the Lodge's substantial, rocky lawns mowed and looking good.
All through my teenage years, while still living in Dundalk, I had shoveled neighborhood sidewalks and driveways, and had mowed and trimmed neighborhood lawns for money.
My way of viewing doing that work was similar to how some other young men view being on an organized football team.
Participating whole heartedly in football practice and playing football games is a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding challenge. And in order to be, and feel, successful, and to win any games, football players must love 'tackling' those multiple layers of challenges. They must also learn to understand and respect their opponents.
You already know that mowing lawns or shoveling snow can also be a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding challenge. Many teens, especially today's computer dependent teens, do not want to mow any lawns or shovel anything at all around their house, or anybody else's. Other teens love working out in gyms and being on sports teams. The average kid thinks of lawn mowing and snow shoveling as being a serious, frustrating hassle. But I approached it from a different angle.
I thought of it all as, "How can I understand the varying challenges of each individual mowing or shoveling job, in order to do each job the easiest and most efficient way, while setting and maintaining a steady pace at working that neither drains my energy and strength too quickly, nor takes me too long? And I want to evenly exercise and strengthen my body as much as possible. But, I must respect my own abilities and limitations, and weigh them against the various degrees of difficulty that each job possesses."
When lawn mowing, I started each lawn by first looking the yard all over, and figuring out how to make the most of the terrain along with the layout of typical yard objects like a swimming pool and a birdbath. It was the challenge of creating a geometric mowing pattern that allowed me to git-'er-done right. A pattern to be used every time I mowed that lawn. I always wanted to make as many passes as possible with the mower facing in the same direction, with the cut grass blowing out from under the mower only one time--to avoid building up too much cut grass under the mower. That meant pulling the mower backwards almost as many times as pushing it forwards. Which also exercised my body more evenly. I have never seen any other old or young mowing pro doing this. I guarantee you that most power lawn mowers cut the same going in either direction. You can use that technique on the fussiest of folk's lawns, and it will look just fine.
But it also means having the common sense to realize that bagging cut grass and putting it out for the trash man to collect is asinine. Because you are taking natural fertilizer away and wasting it. I ask you, so what if a little bit of cut grass gets dragged into your house? It won't kill you or cause cancer in your offspring, but the chemical fertilizers you may use on your lawns can kill by causing cancerous type medical conditions.
For shoveling snow, first I see if the walk or driveway is lower at one end. I always start at the lower end, no matter how slight the angle of the grade is, because it allows for you to not have to reach as far as in reaching downhill with the shovel, and each shovelful will be lifted up a slightly shorter distance. Each snowfall is either dry and light, or wet and heavy, to varying degrees, so I find out how heavy each shovelful of snow feels. I scoop up the same basic amount of snow in each shovelful and set a pace and rhythm that is akin to the rhythm of old time field hand laborers' work songs.
Everything I did to mow or shovel like I have told you counts towards a better outcome, like shaving fractions of ounces off of football players', heavy, protective gear by using lighter, space age materials when making the helmets and padding. The lighter the gear, the faster and further the players can run. And by coming up with separate strategies, 'running different patterns', for each mowing or shoveling situation, it was even more like playing a football game against each and every shaggy lawn or snow covered sidewalk and driveway job that I 'tackled'.
Ya' see what I mean by comparing playing football to mowing and shoveling? It is similar. Unfortunately, mowing and shoveling don't earn ya' any cheers from a crowd of spectators, no scholarships are awarded, and there's no ego boosting or busting attention from the media. But mowing or shovelling still isn't the terrible and unpleasant chore that most kids think it is. It is all about how you view the challenges and overcome them.
After a good snow in Dundalk, when you walked down the street I grew up on, Dunmanway, you could usually tell which sidewalks I had shoveled. My shoveling jobs were almost always wider and straighter than any other sidewalks on the block. When I finished up mowing and trimming a lawn, it looked neat and tidy. I couldn't stand the sight of any blades of grass sticking up above the rest. It all had to be cut and trimmed to a reasonably even level.
It simply makes good sense to me to do the job right. And that personal maxim made me a good employee of my Uncle Finley's, because Fin fully personified that work ethic--every working day of his life.
While I was growing up, my parents had provided me with plenty enough clothing, other necessities of life, toys, model car kits, and then, as I passed age 14, Rock and Roll record albums became my preferred Christmas and birthday presents. My father worked in steel mills most of his life, and my mother usually had a good part time job. My entire extended family lived quite well enough, just about right in the middle of the American middle class.
But I wanted to purchase certain items that my parents could not afford. So I started my own little lawn care and snow shoveling business.
The Baltimore area does not receive a lot of snowfall each winter, but it was enough for me to earn maybe a hundred to a hundred and twenty bucks a winter. That snow shoveling business of mine allowed me to afford plenty of model car building kits (AMT Three In One Kits), record albums and some clothes.
Then all through the spring, summer and into the fall, the money from my lawn care work flowed into my bank account mighty darned good and steadily. Sometimes it garnered me better average hourly wages than those of the Bethlehem Steel Mill and Chevrolet Plant employees whose lawns I mowed.
Using a power mower is one of my all time favorite forms of exercise and outdoors activities. I kid you not.
After my body had matured enough to be nearly through the personal trials and tribulations of passing through puberty, and my brain had begun to achieve some solid degree of common sense and job site safety sensibilities, and I had grown strong enough to mow my family's large 100 x 60 foot yard, with a gas powered lawn mower, my father never had to tell me when to mow the yard. I did it because I was naturally compelled to pitch in and help take care of our home, it's good exercise and it paid well.
From the time that I was 12 or 13, until I moved away from my childhood home, our lawn there on Dunmanway never went for more than a week and a half without me cutting and trimming it to near perfection. It felt so good. And dad paid fair wages too.
After our lawn was done, I went on and mowed and trimmed other neighborhood family's yards for more money.
I can't stand self-propelled mowers. They don't actually make the work any easier. And my well honed, sculptor-style technique of mowing requires unapposing, fully dexterous control of the mowing machine at all times.
My all-time favorite lawn mower was a gas powered Lawn Boy, with a 15-inch blade. That little buddy and I could git'er done. We worked well together, through most of my teen years.
Now, when using a 15 incher, the smallest sized power mower blade I have ever known of, you have to make more passes on a lawn. But anything with a blade over 18 inches wide is too big and bulky for my personal, particular mowing technique. I'd rather zip right along with a lighter 15 or 18 inch mower, but do more zigs and zags, then to push a heavier, lunky darn 20 to 24 incher along for fewer, but slower and much sweatier zigs and zags. It seems that everybody else in America believes that the wider the mower blade, the quicker and easier they can mow a lawn, but that just ain't so. I know, because I'm an old pro.
Never had a power lawn trimmer either, and I've rarely ever used one. I do most of the trimming with the mower. That's why I prefer smaller bladed, lighter mowers that are not self propelled. They're easier to maneuver up against fences, above ground swimming pools and buildings. For me, them old timey scissor lookin' hand clippers were the right tool for doing any small amounts of trimming that I couldn't get done with a mower.
But I was younger and much more supple at the time.
Today, ten minutes work with a pair of those hand clippers, and I'd end up hobbling towards my medicine cabinet, with a screamin' sacroiliac steadily reminding me that those manual tool lawn care days of mine ended when my lower back was operated on.
Yeah, I know, I'm older, overweight and I get in the way sometimes, of those Spanish dudes who do the lawn care work for this rental townhouse and apartment complex I live in.
But I'm still gonna' tell you that my personal motto, concerning lawn mowing, has always been that the job isn't done until the sidewalks and driveways are swept clean.
I hate everything about them thar' new fangled, ear splitting, lung burning, back breaking, heavy darned gas powered leaf blowing machines. It is much easier and more peaceful to use a simple ol' broom to sweep the grass clippings off sidewalks and driveways--if you'll accept my opinion of it.
In my younger days, I mowed a lot of grass in Maryland and in Maine. I actually enjoyed it. But there was one humongous difference between mowing lawns in Maryland and mowing lawns in Maine:
THAT FRIGGIN FOUR FOOT THICK CLOUD OF MAINE BLACKFLIES, MOSQUITOES AND NO-SEE-UMS STEADILY SWARMING ALL AROUND MY BUG BATTERED HEAD!!!!
All I can say here is, "Praise the Lord and pass the Old Woodsman Bug Dope".
URSUSDAVE'S MUSIC PLAYLISTS
Great Songs That I'd Play If I Were A Disc Jockey
© David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}
email: ursusdave{at}yahoo{dot}com
Juba, 18 October 2022: Under-Secretry-General Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict pictured meeting with survivors’ networks at the UNMISS headquarters in Juba, South Sudan. Ms. Patten interacted separately with survivors, listening to their accounts. USG Patten will travel to Yambio, Western Equatoria, also where UNMISS is working with partners to implement a survivor-centered project to empower survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
Photos by Isaac Billy/UNMISS
Title
Scollay Square Court Street from Corner of Tremont Street, Patten's Restaurant
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: 3:00 P.M., March 12, 1957
Location
Creation location: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 65.49
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001445
DSpace_Handle
Juba, 18 October 2022: Under-Secretry-General Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict pictured meeting with survivors’ networks at the UNMISS headquarters in Juba, South Sudan. Ms. Patten interacted separately with survivors, listening to their accounts. USG Patten will travel to Yambio, Western Equatoria, also where UNMISS is working with partners to implement a survivor-centered project to empower survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
Photos by Isaac Billy/UNMISS
Zone : Westcliff
Installation
Le projet est la construction d'un tipi fait à partir de cigarettes artificielles géantes. Ce symbole iconique de la vie autochtone traditionnelle parle d'une culture qui part en fumée et aussi du business de type Las Vegas de vente de cigarettes sur les réserves.
One of the highlights of the WPT stop in South Florida is the Beach Volleyball match with the Royal Flush Girls, Tony Dunst, Vince Van Patten, Marianela and various pro volunteers. I know it's asking a lot, but take a look at the bikini clad fun!
One of the highlights of the WPT stop in South Florida is the Beach Volleyball game with the Royal Flush Girls, Tony Dunst, Marianella, Vince Van Patten and various pro 'Volunteers' -- I know it is a lot to ask of you but take a look at the bikini inspired photos of with winners and losers.
Look at all that front lawn I had to mow down there at Katahdin Lodge and Camps, in the summer of 1969.
Anytime Finley Clarke's Nephew, that'd be me, David Robert Crews, was living and working at Finley's Katahdin Lodge and Camps, David was the Lodge's sole grass cutter and weed whacker.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
And my Uncle Finley and his wife, my Aunt Martha, both completely agreed with me.
In November of 1968, I moved, from where I grew up in Dundalk, Maryland, a Baltimore County suburb of Baltimore City, to Katahdin Lodge of Patten, Maine, to begin living and working at the Lodge. In effect exchanging the crowded, industrialized sights, sounds and smells of suburban sprawl for the quiet, sometimes gentle/sometimes harsh, natural beauty and fresh air of the heavily forested, sparsely populated Katahdin Valley.
The very first time I had entered that wide, rolling, deep green, mountain and valley landscape, was during summer vacation of 1966. I was a 16 year old passenger in my father's car. Dad, my mother, younger sister, cousin Nelson and I were on our way, up from Maryland, to spend a week at the hunting lodge my Uncle Finley, my mother's younger brother and my father's best friend, had bought the year before. We were driving about 6 miles south of the Lodge, when I was blessed with my first full, sweeping look from the northern Appalachian Mountains to our left, then back across Rural Route 11 and out across the wide, rolling Katahdin Valley to our right.
I felt the very soul of me expand -- powerfully -- outwards in all directions around our moving car -- with such secure, natural warmth that I can not fully express. Something previously unknown to me, from deep inside of my living spirit, reached out and embraced the countryside. It instantly mingled all in amongst the multitudes of tall, healthy green trees. Then slid back inside of me.
For the first time in my life, it felt like I had finally arrived at home.
I had found my most comfortable place on earth. I was destined to love that sweet, rough section of God's Country more than anyplace else I have ever been.
Which is why, at the end of Thanksgiving Day Week of November 1968, after my father and I had spent that week at the Lodge, I accepted my Uncle Fin and Aunt Marty's request that I stay there at Katahdin Lodge to live with and work for them, instead of going back home to Baltimore to join the US Merchant Marines, as I had told everyone in my family that I was planning on doing.
I graduated from Dundalk High School on June 5, 1968, and had planned on joining the Merchant Marines before my official Army draft notice came. That way, I could not be drafted into the US Army, trained as an infantryman and sent to die in Vietnam. At that time in our nation's history, most young Americans thought that all military draftees were sent to Vietnam as infantrymen. And that few ever returned home fully alive.
In November of '68, I figured that I had about another year before my draft notice arrived in the mail. So I stayed at Katahdin Lodge, and my father drove back home to the Baltimore suburbs alone.
And I experienced my first wintertime in northern Maine.
Eventually, after a great winter spent at Katahdin Lodge, with my Uncle Fin and Aunt Marty, a few paying lodge guests, along with plenty enough of the finest kind of Mainers, especially the country girls, and after doing a whole lotta' snowmobile riding, but mostly doing a whole lotta' hard, often dangerous physical labor, I became a Registered Maine Guide--who specialized in guiding bear hunters.
I was the right man for the job.
Especially when it came time for keeping the Lodge's roofs, walkways, parking areas and large horseshoe shaped driveway shoveled or plowed free from the record snowfall of the winter of 1968-69 and for keeping the Lodge's substantial, rocky lawns mowed and looking good.
All through my teenage years, while still living in Dundalk, I had shoveled neighborhood sidewalks and driveways, and had mowed and trimmed neighborhood lawns for money.
My way of viewing doing that work was similar to how some other young men view being on an organized football team.
Participating whole heartedly in football practice and playing football games is a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding challenge. And in order to be, and feel, successful, and to win any games, football players must love 'tackling' those multiple layers of challenges. They must also learn to understand and respect their opponents.
You already know that mowing lawns or shoveling snow can also be a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding challenge. Many teens, especially today's computer dependent teens, do not want to mow any lawns or shovel anything at all around their house, or anybody else's. Other teens love working out in gyms and being on sports teams. The average kid thinks of lawn mowing and snow shoveling as being a serious, frustrating hassle. But I approached it from a different angle.
I thought of it all as, "How can I understand the varying challenges of each individual mowing or shoveling job, in order to do each job the easiest and most efficient way, while setting and maintaining a steady pace at working that neither drains my energy and strength too quickly, nor takes me too long? And I want to evenly exercise and strengthen my body as much as possible. But, I must respect my own abilities and limitations, and weigh them against the various degrees of difficulty that each job possesses."
When lawn mowing, I started each lawn by first looking the yard all over, and figuring out how to make the most of the terrain along with the layout of typical yard objects like a swimming pool and a birdbath. It was the challenge of creating a geometric mowing pattern that allowed me to git-'er-done right. A pattern to be used every time I mowed that lawn. I always wanted to make as many passes as possible with the mower facing in the same direction, with the cut grass blowing out from under the mower only one time--to avoid building up too much cut grass under the mower. That meant pulling the mower backwards almost as many times as pushing it forwards. Which also exercised my body more evenly. I have never seen any other old or young mowing pro doing this. I guarantee you that most power lawn mowers cut the same going in either direction. You can use that technique on the fussiest of folk's lawns, and it will look just fine.
But it also means having the common sense to realize that bagging cut grass and putting it out for the trash man to collect is asinine. Because you are taking natural fertilizer away and wasting it. I ask you, so what if a little bit of cut grass gets dragged into your house? It won't kill you or cause cancer in your offspring, but the chemical fertilizers you may use on your lawns can kill by causing cancerous type medical conditions.
For shoveling snow, first I see if the walk or driveway is lower at one end. I always start at the lower end, no matter how slight the angle of the grade is, because it allows for you to not have to reach as far as in reaching downhill with the shovel, and each shovelful will be lifted up a slightly shorter distance. Each snowfall is either dry and light, or wet and heavy, to varying degrees, so I find out how heavy each shovelful of snow feels. I scoop up the same basic amount of snow in each shovelful and set a pace and rhythm that is akin to the rhythm of old time field hand laborers' work songs.
Everything I did to mow or shovel like I have told you counts towards a better outcome, like shaving fractions of ounces off of football players', heavy, protective gear by using lighter, space age materials when making the helmets and padding. The lighter the gear, the faster and further the players can run. And by coming up with separate strategies, 'running different patterns', for each mowing or shoveling situation, it was even more like playing a football game against each and every shaggy lawn or snow covered sidewalk and driveway job that I 'tackled'.
Ya' see what I mean by comparing playing football to mowing and shoveling? It is similar. Unfortunately, mowing and shoveling don't earn ya' any cheers from a crowd of spectators, no scholarships are awarded, and there's no ego boosting or busting attention from the media. But mowing or shovelling still isn't the terrible and unpleasant chore that most kids think it is. It is all about how you view the challenges and overcome them.
After a good snow in Dundalk, when you walked down the street I grew up on, Dunmanway, you could usually tell which sidewalks I had shoveled. My shoveling jobs were almost always wider and straighter than any other sidewalks on the block. When I finished up mowing and trimming a lawn, it looked neat and tidy. I couldn't stand the sight of any blades of grass sticking up above the rest. It all had to be cut and trimmed to a reasonably even level.
It simply makes good sense to me to do the job right. And that personal maxim made me a good employee of my Uncle Finley's, because Fin fully personified that work ethic--every working day of his life.
While I was growing up, my parents had provided me with plenty enough clothing, other necessities of life, toys, model car kits, and then, as I passed age 14, Rock and Roll record albums became my preferred Christmas and birthday presents. My father worked in steel mills most of his life, and my mother usually had a good part time job. My entire extended family lived quite well enough, just about right in the middle of the American middle class.
But I wanted to purchase certain items that my parents could not afford. So I started my own little lawn care and snow shoveling business.
The Baltimore area does not receive a lot of snowfall each winter, but it was enough for me to earn maybe a hundred to a hundred and twenty bucks a winter. That snow shoveling business of mine allowed me to afford plenty of model car building kits (AMT Three In One Kits), record albums and some clothes.
Then all through the spring, summer and into the fall, the money from my lawn care work flowed into my bank account mighty darned good and steadily. Sometimes it garnered me better average hourly wages than those of the Bethlehem Steel Mill and Chevrolet Plant employees whose lawns I mowed.
Using a power mower is one of my all time favorite forms of exercise and outdoors activities. I kid you not.
After my body had matured enough to be nearly through the personal trials and tribulations of passing through puberty, and my brain had begun to achieve some solid degree of common sense and job site safety sensibilities, and I had grown strong enough to mow my family's large 100 x 60 foot yard, with a gas powered lawn mower, my father never had to tell me when to mow the yard. I did it because I was naturally compelled to pitch in and help take care of our home, it's good exercise and it paid well.
From the time that I was 12 or 13, until I moved away from my childhood home, our lawn there on Dunmanway never went for more than a week and a half without me cutting and trimming it to near perfection. It felt so good. And dad paid fair wages too.
After our lawn was done, I went on and mowed and trimmed other neighborhood family's yards for more money.
I can't stand self-propelled mowers. They don't actually make the work any easier. And my well honed, sculptor-style technique of mowing requires unapposing, fully dexterous control of the mowing machine at all times.
My all-time favorite lawn mower was a gas powered Lawn Boy, with a 15-inch blade. That little buddy and I could git'er done. We worked well together, through most of my teen years.
Now, when using a 15 incher, the smallest sized power mower blade I have ever known of, you have to make more passes on a lawn. But anything with a blade over 18 inches wide is too big and bulky for my personal, particular mowing technique. I'd rather zip right along with a lighter 15 or 18 inch mower, but do more zigs and zags, then to push a heavier, lunky darn 20 to 24 incher along for fewer, but slower and much sweatier zigs and zags. It seems that everybody else in America believes that the wider the mower blade, the quicker and easier they can mow a lawn, but that just ain't so. I know, because I'm an old pro.
Never had a power lawn trimmer either, and I've rarely ever used one. I do most of the trimming with the mower. That's why I prefer smaller bladed, lighter mowers that are not self propelled. They're easier to maneuver up against fences, above ground swimming pools and buildings. For me, them old timey scissor lookin' hand clippers were the right tool for doing any small amounts of trimming that I couldn't get done with a mower.
But I was younger and much more supple at the time.
Today, ten minutes work with a pair of those hand clippers, and I'd end up hobbling towards my medicine cabinet, with a screamin' sacroiliac steadily reminding me that those manual tool lawn care days of mine ended when my lower back was operated on.
Yeah, I know, I'm older, overweight and I get in the way sometimes, of those Spanish dudes who do the lawn care work for this rental townhouse and apartment complex I live in.
But I'm still gonna' tell you that my personal motto, concerning lawn mowing, has always been that the job isn't done until the sidewalks and driveways are swept clean.
I hate everything about them thar' new fangled, ear splitting, lung burning, back breaking, heavy darned gas powered leaf blowing machines. It is much easier and more peaceful to use a simple ol' broom to sweep the grass clippings off sidewalks and driveways--if you'll accept my opinion of it.
In my younger days, I mowed a lot of grass in Maryland and in Maine. I actually enjoyed it. But there was one humongous difference between mowing lawns in Maryland and mowing lawns in Maine:
THAT FRIGGIN FOUR FOOT THICK CLOUD OF MAINE BLACKFLIES, MOSQUITOES AND NO-SEE-UMS STEADILY SWARMING ALL AROUND MY BUG BATTERED HEAD!!!!
All I can say here is, "Praise the Lord and pass the Old Woodsman Bug Dope".
To enjoy unique, historic photographs of and entertaining stories about my 1969 era adventures as an 18-year-old Rock ‘n Roll kid from the Dundalk suburb of Baltimore, Maryland who moved up into the deep, wide woods of Northern Maine, fit right in, and became a bear hunting guide and country women’s delight -- head on over and peruse:
Northern Maine Adventures Photo Album
"If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right." Finley Kenneth Clarke
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In Maine, I worked at Katahdin Lodge and Camps, of Patten, Maine, for my Uncle Finley and Aunt Martha Clarke. To see what a lousy deal I got for being a loving, devoted nephew and an outstanding employee by working long, hard hours, whilst performing oft dangerous tasks, and how my aunt and uncle seriously misused and abused me this site has photographs and writings that prove all that I say here:
Northern Maine Adventures
"Stay in your own movie". Neal Cassady, the Merry Prankster who skillfully drove the bus—Further.
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