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Page 2 â€" Walden Reporter â€" October 13, 1994 Well Known Longtime Local a g T Resident, Benny Grant, Turns 80 Wilfred A. (Benny) Grant and his new bride, Helen, moved to Sudbury almost 50 years ago in 1946. In 1948 they moved again, to Whitefish where Benny became manager of the local general store then owned by Welland Gemmell, the area‘s local MP. Seven years later, in 1955, Benny and Helen purchased the business and it became Grant‘s Genâ€" eral Store, catering to the needs of the locals with hardware, clothâ€" ing, gasoline, animal feed and groceries, as well as the post office of _ which Benny was postmaster and Helen operated it. The store was indeed a general store of a bygone era and as Benny used to say, "If I don‘t have it, you don‘t need it". §§ ~l Benny‘s community involveâ€" ;@ . ment started in the late 40‘s afâ€" Â¥ uow § t ter the Barbershop Quartet he M 3.3 * belonged to. with Lorne [ %, Scoville, Vie Parent and Jim \\i j Scott, won a major music festiâ€" e j&»&w hoi val. They were then instrumenâ€" > N&; > s zs tal in supplying their singing talâ€" Ԥ%§ %“M\ ents and helping organize the }‘w@:% #L i _ W first Radioâ€"Thon in Sudbury in o $3 s 1947. Television didn‘t arrive C 9 on until the early 50‘s. Benny still Benny Grant lpves to sing around the CamPi ‘Church in Whitefish. It was also fire 3 the camp on Fenage: is during these years that Benny favorite place in the world to b?. and Helen helped many families and they have been on the lake in the area make it through for over 40 years. As a matter â€" ci;pes and hard times by carryâ€" of faF“ Bennydw}:is on‘? fOf tll:e ing their grocery charges in their gew;f;}t}tblaze the trall fOT C . _store until better times came elishets Road‘anq he ©aM~ _ along. Their caring, understandâ€" pos tharithey didn‘ t ha;e 5 ing and assistance was always drink until they were done i open to all, even though they In 1956 he was the first â€" sometimes found themselves elected to the local school bOard _ goine without : 4 & & . ‘ on which hehser\ed for.lhre&; In 1963 Benny‘s business inâ€" § tfigfli?fefigtfigffimfifgfic terests expanded with the purâ€" ! Stamâ€"Baan t y 4 chase of a second store in : lc & }lirlg:L't?ls: fa;iug Dowling. Even running two ; ;sobc'(?lac e ;) sull cag businesses, Benny found the ‘ f assball a game nc SH" SOIOYS Sorme to join a group which Or ‘ to watch very much, and 1aSt â€" ganized and started the area‘s Liâ€" | year Benny finally got to his ons Club, At 80 he remains an i first game in the Skydome, _ active member and one of the } where his favorite Jays beat the â€" few Charter and Life members f Minnesota Twins. still around. As if his business, the post ofâ€" Benny and Helen retired in fice, school board and coaching _ 1979 and started to do some of wasn‘t enough, he also joined _ the travelling they had wanted f the committee which carried to do until Helen, his wife of through the establishment and _ over 40 years, passed away on construction of St. Johns United _ her birthday, May 31, 1988.