Looking Ahead to Television these entertainers as they would be at Joey MacDonald's Sporting Club the night before and wouldn't get to bed until one o'clock but Wilf Carter would turn up in great good spirits at a quarter after seven in the morning. He'd be sitting there waiting for him. Ches couldn't get over this because Wilf Carter was a big star even at that time." Ches originated "Checkerboard Chatter" the program that led him into agricultural broadcasting. "I didn't have the voice of course— Lome Greene was our idol—but I just sort of developed my own style of broadcasting. I always had in mind that I wanted to be myself and not try to imitate anyone and I found that the audience reacted nicely to that". Ches explains his background this way: "I lived right in the village of Murray Harbor and my grandfather owned a farm at Gladstone and I spent a good amount of time there. I was exposed to fisheries and farming by living in a small village." That Checkerboard Chatter program led him eventually to the CBC in Halifax where he was host of "Country Calendar" and "Radio Noon". Helen Herring as hostess on "To-day at Home", CFCY-TV 1960's. On my desk are some early radio and television schedules of the 1940's and 50's and they bring back so many memories and remind me of interesting and varied programs. One of these was Helen Herring 's, arranged by the Prince Edward Island Women's Institutes. Helen has been honoured at several national conventions of the Associated Country Women of the World for originating these weekly programs, the first Womens Institute radio programs on a weekly basis in Canada . This 159