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7A visit to Warsaw Once there was industry, but the businesses now serve commuters The O'Tooles lived in Toronto "you'll never get mi, in a 5m“ (01' awhile, then moved to Peter- tewn because everybody's watching borough where Gerry opened a hose you. " lness. then out to Warsaw when they 50 reads a small Sign at the en- also purchued the store. ‘ trance to Sherman Nelson's Warsaw Gerry 0‘1‘9018 said most Female i home. Mr Nelsen owns Warsaw have lreezers and buy Sides of meat, Eus Lures and .5 deputy new a, which saves them the prohlern or pummer Townehlp. HA5 sign is ap_ hreplng large quantities oi meat in preprlzte: everybody I met asked Wld “wage m We store- ]; 1 were v-the guy mmg pictures.“ Wul'suw‘s fond trade is mainly Warsaw's cammerctal base has uith those local people who prerer been on the decline tor several years. “‘3 WWWMGE 0‘ “Ewing 910“ 9° The saw mills. grist mill, bank. “amp, “1' hem” i" suppufimg 3 and baksry are an gone MW. Where lnoul store. Mr O'Toole admitted the” were two page“ stores and that some people "treat it like a mo garages, the hamlet now sup_ Becknr's" chvenlence store and do parts only one of each, must oi [hmr shopping in Peterbor- 0n the main street, a handful of ough. businesses » Warsaw Bus Lines, QH‘I'K'S Garage 1”“ 935° 0‘ Che Warsaw Food Market, Quirk's Gar- Sm” “'5 3“ me “51“955 TE“? age. Warsaw Lunch â€" are still alive Quirk Wants to handle- He 396ml- and doing reasonabe well‘ izns in tires and tries to carry lines roam“, Food Market, purchased uf parts that places like Canadian PM" last year by the O'Tnoles. has Tire don" handle- ran changed hands [our times since 1970. "A guy came in Just the other day will] a tire he bought at Canadian and the present owners are just now us. it wouldn't hold air, and it's bringing luck the business that drmed away mm ma msmnagy nn wonunr heoause when ltried to ment of the second owners. O‘Toole “0W it "Pi "we “'35 a We 1“ l‘ n ow operates the store. but on Thurs» almost the size of my Full?“ day she escaped to Peteroorough "Thr'guy was Worried that he and left her husband Gerry to mind couldn't return it heoause he didn't _ the store, have the hill. Well he‘d never have it's a general grocery store in had to Wnrry about that it he bought the style that prevailed from the it here. " earns! the century until the early Mr Culrk hue doubled the size of sixties when the supermarket craze the garage sinus he bought it six years caught hold. Wooden ~sh elves hold ago and has since purehased the {orâ€" boxed and canned goods; perishable noer general store on the corner goods are kept to a minimum so where he new stores garage supplies. they won ‘t spoil before purchase: the He may eventually use the uld store ceiling is ornater designed with himself or somebody else may get sculptured gray tin sheets; 2 Est lur- an idea for a business and buy it ry cat sleeps on the bare wood floor. from him, When l first stopped at Warsaw Bus Lines. the door was unluclied hut nobody was in e an indication of the trust generated in a small town. 1 found Sherman Nehon wiring a stove in his IlDuSe across the street, Warsaw Bus Lines operates 11 buses. mostly taking Bummer Tuwuâ€" ship‘s children to Warsaw Public Scliuol. l-oul‘ school hEea provldt‘ all lhc transportation to the public school. built in 1961 when the red brick schools were Closed antl ud- ucatiou was consolidated in central 90110015. Nelson's drivers take two llusloads a day to Lakefield High Sulmul and one mixed bus Innil riI Roman Cathâ€" olic, PubllL‘ and high suhtlul chlldren to Nurwond. Two small \Ens take kindergarten children from \Vsl rsa“ Public School home at [men and two other buses handle the charter husinrss and a twice (lolly commuter sorolce from Warsaw to Pelerbornugll. Thu commuter sen’lne mime upâ€" erated on Saturday, not the only a, {dim GENENAL REPAIRS