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The Middlesex County Board of Education
KINDERGARTEN
PRE-REGISTRATION
Pre-registration for children eligible to commence
kindergarten in September 1972 will be carried out in
Middlesex County Public Schools prior to March 3, 1972.
Children who will be five years old by December 31, 1972
are eligible to attend.
Please obtain a pre4egistration form from your Principal,
complete it, arid return it to the school before March 3,
1972. You will be notified later of the actual date of
registration when you will be asked to bring your child to
the school, All questions concerning registration should be
directed to your school Principal,
Mrs. M, A. Temple J,A. Gummow
Chairman Director of education
,Pap, 14 Tim*s.-Advocate, February 17, 1971. Basketball at Medway
Moiway Cowboys defeated
Glencoe .$1 - 38 in Middlesex
County Conference- in senior
basketball, Wednesday, while the
juniors beat Glen.eoe 7$ 5.
sill Wilson scored 2.4 points and
Mika Walsh 11 pints. tQ
Medway..
Jeff Culbert led Medway
Juniors with 18 points and Dave
McConnel, Don coatswerth had
1$ points and Jeff Park 10.
Families back from Florida
enjoy Disney World trip
WIN JUNIOR SPEAKING HONORS — Winners in two divisions of the Lucan Legion public speaking
contest were named Friday night. Getting their certificates from Legion publicity chairman Sid Daley
and president Emmerson DeGraw are Debbie Hodgins, Marty VanPret and Gerrard Mitchell. T-A photo
DALEY'S WEEKLY COMMENTS
Good calibre speeches
Mr. & Mrs. Wally Fischer spent
Thursday with Mrs. Catherine
Fischer.
Mr. & Mrs. T. Emery attended
the euchre at Elmville Monday
night with Mr. Emery winning
the high score.
Mrs. Margaret Hastings and
Johnnie visited with her mother
Mrs. T. Emey Sunday,
A reminder to all those who
have kindergarten age children
please register at, soon as
possible.
Mrs. Tommie Thompson,
Tommie and Mrs. R. Chisholm
Sweetheart
at Sunshine
Mr, & Mrs. Gary Revington
are home from their vacation in
Florida of two weeks. While there
they visited Disney World, Cape
Kennedy and other places of
.interest,
Mrs. Earle Younge, Lucan,
Mrs. Edna Burnett, Toronto, and
Mr, & Mrs. Bob Caughlin have
returned home after three weeks
in Florida. They report the
weather was beautiful with
temperature in high 70 degrees
and low 80 degrees. They also
enjoyed Disney World very
much.
Mrs, George Garton,
Tillsonburg and Glenn Johnson,
Belmont were guests of Mr. &
Mrs. Ernest Kennedy, Tuesday.
Mr. & Mrs. Gary McFalls and
Mr, & Mrs, Glen Nevin are
vacationing in Florida for two
weeks.
Doug Scott, Kim and Barb,
Thornhill, spent Saturday with
Alan Scott. They also visited his
mother, Mrs. Alice Scott, Strath-
mere Lodge.
visited with Mrs. C. Fischer the
beginning of the week.
Mr. & Mrs. Ray Fischer spent
Sunday with Mrs. C. Fischer.
Mr. & Mrs, Lawrence Grace of
Tillsonburg visited Miss Line
Abbott Saturday night.
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Cranston
and the latter's mother are all
down with the flu and now have a
nurse in attendance.
Mr. & Mrs. John Park left
Friday for a month's vacation in
Florida.
Mr. & Mrs. Archie Sinclair
were Wednesday guests of Mr, &
Mrs. Cliff Abbott, the latter
visited with Mrs. Clair Abbott,
Centralia, Sunday,
Janice Hindmarsh, visited
with her uncle and aunt, Mr. &
Mrs. Dan Hotson, Windsor,
Friday night. Miss Hindmarsh,
groom for Roy Campbell's horses
. was attending Windsor races.
Get damages
from crash
By SID DALEY
Branch 540 takes this op-
portunity to thank all those who
took the time to attend 'public
speaking' on Friday night, your
response was terrific' and I feel
you will agree with me when I say
it was an evening well spent,
The calibre of the speeches and
the speakers were the best I have
heard and seen in a good many
years, Thanks for participating
kids, to the winners our
congratualtions — while to the
losers we say don't give up,
remember there will be another
competition next year and who
knows . . .
The winners were Grades 1 to 6
— first Debbie Hodgins, second
Marty VanPraet, third Gerrard
Mitchell. Grades 7 to 8 — First -
Denise O'Brien, second - Johanna
Engel, third - Mat Toonders.
Our annual St. Valentine dance
is now past and we must say it
was most successful, the ladies
certainly took advantage of their
prerogative, leap year and all
competition with Ross Haugh's
column as I find quite a variety of
sports will be taking place in the
immediate future.
The District 'A' Shuffle Board
Competitions will be, hosted by
Branch 367, Thamesville on
Saturday, February 19 with the
three top teams representing
District A in the provincial play-
downs in Toronto on Saturday
March 18.
Our comrades of Exeter will be
holding their 9th annual mixed
darts on Saturday March 18,
commencing at 11.00 a.m. sharp
— We trust a goodly number of
540's experts will participate and
show our good Comrades ' of
Exeter the finer points of the
game,
The 1972 District 'A' sports
spring meeting will be held at
Branch 28, Chatham Sunday,
March 5th, 1972 at 1.30 p.m. All
interested Sports Minded
— Please turn to page 17
that you know, why, even I was
asked to dance.
Tim McFarlane and his Car-
dinals were very well received
and did a tremendous job. You
might like to know the winner of
the door prize was Mr. Slim
Garrison while Mrs. Joan Walker
won the draw for the Valentine
chocolates.
Tim McFarlane and the Car-
dinals were so well received folks
that he was booked on the spot to
play for our 1972 version of St.
Pa tricks Dance to be held at
Branch 540 Saturday, March 18,
For this dance there will be an
absolute limit on the number of
tickets sold and no one,
remember no one, will be ad-
mitted without one.
By this we mean no ticket sales
at the door, advance sales only —
If you are interested — see the
branch stewards — and the wind-
up of the evening will be a
generous serving of Irish Stew,
what else.
I fear this comment will run in
Edward Pudney, RR 2,
Granton, and his wife, Jacqueline
Pudney, injured in a car crash,
May 26 at the Ilderton Road, were
awarded damages totalling more
than $12,500 by Justice W. A.
Donahue of Ontario Supreme
Court.
They were passengers in a car
driven by Paul Uchiyama who
was awarded $200 general
damages and $775 special
damages.
The second car involved was
owned by both F. Robson,
Ilderton and J. Powell, Granton.
They were found liable for the
damages and A, Bradshaw, RR 3,
Thorndale liable as driver,
Orangemen stage
another euchre
The Orangemans euchre party
was held in the orangeman's hall,
Lucan Tuesday night.
Millie Mathers won the ladies
high; Joe Carter, the men's high;
Mrs. R. Pepper won the lone
hands for the ladies and Mr. T,
Emery for the men,
Mrs. Evan Hodgins playing a
mans card was low score for the
men and Mrs. Joe Carter for the
ladies.
The box of groceries was won
by Fred Culbert.
Seven tables of cards were
played and the next party will be
in two weeks.
The Sunshine Club met
Thursday afternoon in the Lucan
Masonic Hall with 21 members
present and Mrs. H. Bond Sr.
presiding,
Mrs. T. Emery Sr. social
convener, planned a Valentine
party. Ben Kelly was elected
King of Hearts; Mrs. Laura
Toohey, Queen of Hearts;
Prince, Fred Mcllhargey;
Princess, Mrs. Lillian King.
Valentine sweetheart for the
day was Margaret Kelly and she
was presented with a bouquet of
red roses.
Euchre was played after which
a social hour with games was
enjoyed with scrambled word
winners being Mrs. F. Joliffe,
Mrs. H. Bond Sr. and Margaret
Kelly. Margaret Kelly was also
winner of the hot potato game.
A jar of candy hearts was won
by Clarence Rogers for guessing
the number of hearts in the jar.
Meeting was adjourned with a
vote of thanks to Mrs. Emery for
the gala Valentine party,
Lunch was given by Mrs. T.
Lamphere and Mrs. Blanche
Haskett.
Health conference
Childs Health Conference
sponsored by the Middlesex
District Health Dept. will be held
February 17 at Lucan United
Church. Have you got
the information
you need?
SENIOR SPEAKING WINNERS — The annual public speaking competitions sponsored by Lucan Legion
branch 540 were held Friday night. Chairman Bill Smith presents certificates to the senior winners Denis
O'Brien, Johanna Engel and Matt Toonders. T-A photo
Explorers
study Africa
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Twenty-one explorers of the
Lucan Clandeboye girls attended
the regular meeting,
Film strip, "Africa Today,"
was shown, discussion on modern
cities, buildings, airports, TV and
broadcasting etc, followed,Also
discussed were the schools and
medical services started by
Missionaries and the problems of
unemployment, housing, poverty
and food.
Mrs. Kraul showed difference
in map of old Africa and Modern
one of 50 states.
A record telling of African
musical instruments, rhythms,
sculpture, the figurene masks
and decoration of useful objects
was heard.
Homemade Valentines will be
sent to rest homes, Next ex-
pedition is February 14 in the
fOrm of a Valentine African
night.
4.H GIIILS MEET
The third meeting for the
Luean 441 girls, was held
Saturday at Karen flodgson's
house, Lynn Stanley volunteered
to be secretary for that meeting,
They distussed their
arrangement for Achievirient
Day in April,