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8 attend Kids’ Club
Last Friday, the Kids' Club was
attended by eight children from the
neighbourhood. Two murals were
constructed with much enthusiasm,
followed by a game of "darts".
It was decided that the club will
be free to all children from five to
14 years and that the community
would be encouraged to donate
supplies of craft items and money
to buy games and expand activities.
40 play euchre at Hall
Friday, April 4, 40 players
participated in euchre at Cranbrook
Hall.
Prize winners were: high lady,
Marie Stute; high man, Larry
Smith; low lady, Vera McDonald;
low man, Velma Sleightholm; lone
hands, lady, Beryl Smith; lone
Knox has baptism service
On Sunday, April 6, baptisms
took place at Knox Presbyterian
Church, Cranbrook for Stephanie
and Stacey, daughters of Steve and
Kim Smith. Also baptized was
Jackson Daniel, son of Jaret and
Anyone wanting to volunteer time
is welcome.
The program is held on the
second Friday of each month from
7 to 8 p.m. in the Cranbrook Hall.
The exercise program "Shape up
for Spring" is well underway with
15 participating. The video
exercises offer a work-at-your-
own-pace theme and appear to
meet the needs of all who attend.
hands, man, Ross Stephenson; tally
cards, June Jacklin, Allan Edgar,
Isabelle Gray, Viola Adams;
travelling, Kenneth Crawford and
Ruby Steiss.
The last euchre party for this
season will be held on Friday, April
18. Women are asked to bring
lunch.
Diane Willis, grandson of Gary and
Marion Morrison.
Lexandrea, daughter of Chris and
Shelley Smith was baptized at St.
Ambrose Catholic Church,
Brussels, on Sunday, April 6.
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Brussels woman hosts WMS
The WMS met on April 8 at the
Brussels home of Mrs. Mervin
Schneider.
The leader Mrs. Stuart Stevenson
opened the meeting with a poem
"April Foolishness" which
reminded all how changeable
April's weather can be.
An Easter dialogue was
presented by Mrs. Stuart Stevenson
and Mrs. Leslie Knight entitled
"The Easter Duet". It was taken
from the Glad Tidings booklet. The
story depicted the crucifixion of
Christ. One reader represented the
wife of Joseph of Arimathea and
the other one was Mary Magelene.
Hymn 195 Good Joseph had a
Garden was read, and scripture was
taken from Luke 23. Mrs.
Stevenson closed this portion with
prayer.
President Brenda Perrie asked for
the reading of the minutes. Mrs.
Jack Knight gave the treasurer’s
report. Roll call was answered by
eight members and one visitor. A
total of 20 visits to shut-ins and
three cards were reported.
An invitation was received from
Knox Presbyterian Church,
Monkton, to attend their
Thankoffering meeting on April 27.
Miss Erin Crisfield from London
will be speaker.
The study is the country of
China. This topic was ably handled
by Brenda Perrie.
China is a highly populated
country of 1.2 billion people. The
farmers live mostly along the river
valleys. Under communist rule
each farmer is given a small plot of
land. Here they may grow enough
to feed their family and may have
some left to sell. Poverty is to be
found in both country and city.
In the cities the main
thoroughfares are paved but not far
away can be found muddy roads
and lanes. Many city buildings are
left unheated. The movement of
much traffic is incredible with the
drivers laying on their horns.
With the cultural revolution of
1996-1976 the churches were
closed, expropriated or vandalized.
Communism created a dark side for
Eager Explorers
discuss field trip
By Sara Speiran
The fourth meeting for the
Cranbrook Eager Explorers was on
Tuesday, April 8. We opened the
meeting with 4-H pledge and
answered the roll call in our books.
Elizabeth DeWit and Cindy
VanNes discussed our field trip as
to where we are going and what
time to meet at the school. Jill
Speiran gave a presentation on her
dairy 4-H which was interesting.
We played one game called the
Christianity. This has eased and
churches are being rebuilt and
enthusiasm is growing. The level of
desire for Bibles has risen from a
trickle to a large flood. The five
faiths in China are Taoism,
Buddhism, Islma, Roman
Catholicism and Protestantism.
This part of the meeting closed
with the repetition of the Mizpah
Benediction. Lunch was served by
the hostess Lois and Mrs. Brenda
Perrie.
Information about China was
taken from an article in the Glad
Tidings written by Mrs. Rosemary
Doran who, with her husband,
visited China recently.
blindfold game. It is when you get
blindfolded and everyone makes
different animal sounds. You have
to find which person sounds the
same as you do.
We were then divided into
groups to fill out a sheet of
questions and answers.
We discussed our achievement
program and decided on a play that
would be written by us.
Our meeting closed with the 4-H
motto.
Grey passes zero increase
Grey Twp. council held its
regular meeting on April 7 and
adopted their 1997 budget with
projected expenditures of
$1,080,259. The 1997 budget
represents the sixth year in a row
that the municipal mill rate has
been frozen.
This year's budgeted expendi
tures are $75,000 less than 1996
expenditures.
Council accepted the tender of
George Radford Construction for
the supply, crushing and trucking
of 14,000 tonnes of "A" gravel at
$2.85/tonne and the tender of
Donegan's Haulage for the crushing
and trucking of 20,000 tonnes of
"A" gravel at $2.27/tonne. The
Radford tender was the lowest of
four received, while the Donegan
tender was the lowest of six
received. The roads in the south
half of the township will be
gravelled in 1997.
The road superintendent was
authorized to call tenders for a new
1997 pickup truck with tenders to
be submitted by May 5 at 4 p.m.
In other business council
approved for payment, accounts
totalling $94,468.74.