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in cancer contest
both of
By Joy Scheifele
Throughout April “Cancer
month,” students in the Ailsa
Craig-Parkhill area public
schools took up the challenge
to “help fight cancer” and
put pen and pencils as well
as paint brushes and
markers to work.
Children in the Parkhill
West Williams, Sacred
Heart, McGillivray Central
and East Williams
elementary schools were
invited by the local cancer
unit to participate in prize
winning contests. Grade
seven and eight students
wrote poems, and the lower
grades prepared posters on
the subject of cancer. Over
155 posters and more than 40
poems were submitted.
In the Poster contest
primary division 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd place winners in
cluded Meyvonee Godwin
Heather Waters,
Parkhill West Williams
School and Dennis Craven of
McGillivray Central. Win
ners in the Junior division
were Christine Cornish, East
Williams, Lisa Wilenese,
Sacred Heart, Maria Pilolli,
McGillivray Central and Lisa
Gibbs, Parkhill West
Williams. Liz Thuss, Barb
DeGouw, Dave Saetemans,
and Debbie Ansems won in
the intermediate division.
All attend Sacred Heart
School. Judges for the poster
contest were Mrs.
McLean and Mrs.
Rothwell.
Winners of
contest were
wood, Susan
Dixon and Laurie Loft
placing 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th.
All attend Parkhill West
Williams School. Judges for
the poems included Mrs.
Irene Tietz, Mrs. Bev.
Greenwood and William
Waters.
Each of the winners in both
contests were awarded a
small monetary prize. The
winning, posters’ will' be
displayed this week in the
.windows of the Parkhill
stores.
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Cathy
Marion
the
Lori
Smith
poetry
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Flower shop opens
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COUNTRY MEATS
By Joy Scheifele
“Val-D-Lyn Flowers and
Gifts” opened their doors for
the first time Thursday in
Ailsa Craig. Located on Main
Street in the former Thieves
Market, Mrs. Diane
Crawford filled the store
with lovely flower
arrangements and indoor
plants. The community was
invited to Open House and
many responded and were on
hand to view the attractive
setting.
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in North America were that
fanatics. I knew guys who wouldn’t go
to the funeral parlor where their wife
was laid out, if they were going to miss
a playoff game.
Nowadays, when everybody makes
the playoffs except Aunt Mabie and the
Peewee team she coaches Saturday
morning, ennui sets in early in April
and continues until almost June.
Baseball is in full swing, football is
gearing for summer training, and the
golf tour is half over before the greedy
owners will let their sweaty slaves
hang up their skates.
When those sweaty slaves, most of
them Grade 12 dropouts, are driving
Cadillacs and the like, and play is held
up for TV commercials, and fourth
rate teams make the playoffs, the
game has about as much integrity as a
poker game with twos, eights and all
red cards wild.
I’d just as soon watch reruns of I
Love Lucy as waste my time watching
the NHL playoffs. At least Lucy is fun-
’ ny.
COUNTRY MEATS
ON THE
GRAND OPENING
OF YOUR NEW BUSINESS
We are pleased to have been selected
to install the sewage system.
ALLISON EXCAVATING
RR 3, AILSA CRAIG 293-3072
GOOD LUCK
on your
LES'S
COUNTRY MEATS
We're pleased to have
supplied the building
material.
LANGFORD LUMBER
195 William St. LUCAN
227-4416
GRAND OPENING
We're pleased to have been
’selected to supply the refrigera
tion equipment.
L.O. WALLACE
Refrigeration
RR 1, Strathroy
245-2070
MEAT STORE OPENS — Les Drury cuts and wraps freshly
butchered meat for customers at Les' Country Meats recently
opened on Hwy. 7 west of Ailsa Craig. A local boy, Les and
his wife Joanne, will sell both wholesale and retail beef and
pork. Photo by Scheifele
Meat process plant
open for business
By Joy Scheifele
Last fall as a new building
was being erected two miles
west of Ailsa Craig on High
way 7 many were heard to
question, “What are they
building there?”
Last weekend Les and
Joanne Drury held “open
house” for Les’s Country
Meats and many were on
hand to wish the couple well
in their new enterprise.
Les himself has a history
of meat processing in his
family. His grandfather and
father before him butchered
cattle for local farmers.
Born and raised in the area,
Les also gained experience
while working at Alvinston
for 3>/2 years, at Corbett for a
year and for Janzen’s Meat
Market at Ilderton,
Custom killing, cutting,
wrapping, country style
sausage and smoked meats
will be among the services
provided by Les, six days a
week.
In addition to building the
store himself, Les also farms
cash crop. His wife, Joanne,
nurses at Strathroy.
A long time area resident,
Mrs. Crawford developed an
interest in flowers which she
pursued and took a course at
Fanshawa College on the
subject. She then worked
part time for a florist in
London to gain further
background experience
before opening her own shop
in Ailsa Craig.
Working part time with
Mrs. Crawford is Mrs.
Carrie McAlpine, also
Ailsa Craig.
Change in trend of care for elderly
By Joy Scheifele
“Smaller homes and more
working wives has caused a
change in society’s trend of
caring for the elderly,”
explained Mrs. Gordon A.
Stewart, Administrator of
McCormick Home in Lon
don.
Speaking to the members
of the Riverview W.I. at their
May meeting at the Masonic
Hall in Ailsa Craig last
Wednesday, Mrs. Stewart
recalled how some years ago
the grandparents frequently
shared the home of their
married children, and it was
not uncommon for threee
generations to live together.
“With the average person
living twenty years beyond
retirement age today, homes
for the aged are very much
the trend of our times,” she
explained. “Persons living
at McCormick Home in
London are free to come and
go as they wish. Many go to
the theatre or entertainment
up to four evenings a week,”
she stated.
The atmosphere at
McCormick Home is very
much similar to apartment
WISHES
It was our pleasure to do
the electrical work.
R & J ENTERPRISES
Electrical Contractors
R.R. 1 Lucan 227-4863
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dwelling with the residents
free to pass the time as they
choose. A program of hand
work ar.d crafts is provided
for any of the 152 residents
who are interested. An
auxiliary has been formed
which helps drive the elderly
whenever there is a need
and assists wherever they
can. Rates at the home are
$17.25 per day, with lunch
being served at noon and the
dinner meal in the evening.
Mrs. Stewart was in-
LES'S COUNTRY MEATS
FOR BUSINESS
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Riverview Wl hears speaker
troduced by Mrs. F. Dickens
as the former Marion Nickol
of Ailsa Craig. Before her
involvement at McCormick
Home, she was employed at
the Parkwood Hospital for
sometime where she gained
experience working with the
elderly. She was thanked for
her talk - by Mrs. S.
McCallum.
Kiwanian Festival winners
and grade seven students,
Cindy Hooper and Dean
Bender of Ailsa Craig, en
tertained the members with
two duets, “I Know a Bank”
and “Sing A Rainbow.” They
were accompanied on the
piano by their school music
teacher, Mrs. Schram.
Roll call was answered
with a response about
“Something I have done for
an older person.” Mrs. S.
McCallum gave the motto,
“Be good to the aged. If
you’re not there now, you
soon will be.”
President Mrs. R. Adams
presided over the meeting.
After the Mary Stewart
Collect and Institute Grace,
Mrs. D. Hughes and her
committee served dessert
and tea. Mrs. G. Stewart had
the lucky cup while Mrs.
Adams the lucky chair; both
received a small gift. Mrs. F.
Dickens,
Education and Cultural
Activities
program. Mrs. C. Garrod
reported on the cancer
canvass.
convener of
chaired the
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