HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-09-16, Page 3Michael Courtney finds it takes real effort to get the sled to move in the
children’s tractor pull part of the Thresher Reunion celebrations in
Bly th on Saturday. Despite threatening weather on Saturday it was
another successful year for the event.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1987. PAGE 3.
■*loses out on Pride
grant application for 1987
A change in the thinking behind
the awarding of PRIDE program
funding apparently helped kill
Blyth’s application for this year at
least.
Council learned that it had lost
its application for money because
too much of its proposal was
People
Registration for Blyth Beavers,
Cubs and Scouts will take place at
Blyth Public School on Thursday,
Sept. 17 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Again this year the groups are
short of leaders. If no leaders are
available for the Scout troupe there
won’t be one. Beavers and Cubs
will be on a “First come - first
serve’ ’ basis as both groups have a
limited number of leaders. Please
come and volunteer your time for
your kids.
Mrs. Zella Patterson and Ken
visited with her son Bill in
University Hospital on Sunday.
Mrs. Ella Carter visited with her
son Ken McGowan in University
Hospital on Sunday. We wish both
gentlemen a speedy recovery to
better health.
Mr. Gabriel Lauzon of Windsor
spentthe weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Laurie Scott. Gabriel was a
former school chum of Laurie when
they both attended public school at
No. 1 Morris Township.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daer and
Patricia and Mrs. Winnie Johnston
visited on Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Daer.
Blyth Euchre will start again for
the winter season on Monday,
Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Hall.
Anyone interested in taking 4-H,
“A Taste of Ontario Fruits &
Vegetables” should contact Deb
Craig 523-9318 or Heather McDon
ald 523-9404.
focussed in one area while the
decision was apparently to go with
smaller projects.
“I thought their whole intent
was to take one whole area and
finish it,” Councillor Bill Howson
said.
Reeve Albert Wasson replied
that all the information council had
The Blyth Theatre provides
delightful surprises for many who
come to the village to enjoy a
theatre play and sometimes espe
cially for those who once resided
here.
Such was the case last Thursday
evening at Mrs. Dalrymple’s
home, Gordon and Ena Jenkins,
after spending much of the day
with their friend Harvey McCal
lum, met up with two former Blyth
friends whom they had not seen in
50 or more years. They knew them
away back then as the Leslie
sisters, Hazel and Ernva, now Mrs.
Hunt of Ingersoll and Mrs. Hueth-
er of London. Their father was
Sydney Leslie, co-owner with
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been able to obtain indicated that
that was the intent of the program
but the process seemed to have
changed in midstream when the
government agency found its
money wouldn’t gosofarinbig
projects.
Council will apply again for next
year.
Leslie Hilborne of the Blyth flour
mill and they lived in what is now
the Bearss home on Victoria street.
Gordon Jenkins once called home
the older Vos farm house on the
Auburn road, and Ena Parson’s
family lived on the 13th of Hullett.
After Hazel and Ernva returned
from seeing the play “Another
Season’s Promise”, which they
enjoyed very much, little did they
realize what fun they would have
meeting and reminiscing with
people they had gone to school with
years ago in Blyth.
When one visits Blyth, its
theatre, and its guest homes, one
never knows what excitement lies
ahead.
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SZUSZ-DUCZMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Szusz of
Blyth, are pleased to an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Laurie Anne,
to John Gabriel Duczman,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Duczman of Windsor. The
wedding will take place on
Sept. 19,1987, at University
Gospel Temple, Windsor,
Ont.
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tomata sauce. Yours, Pickwick.”
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