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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-10-13, Page 15seek a seat on council: Green said he would look in- to a problem at Sunshine Village IGA with regards to flooding; in the basement because of a faulty storm sewer on the north side of the store. PHOTO PRIZE — Winning photograph of a person with a sandcastle in Grand Bend was won by Jean Gibson of the village. Ellwood lerpon of the Chamber of Com- merce is seen presenting her with o prize during the farmers' market day held Saturday. Her photo was a shot of the back of John Campbell of Exeter working on a sandcastle on the beach at Grand Bend. It wos entitled "Getting a little behind iri his work". AWARD WiNNER Dave Sheppard was awarded first prize for a picture of a sand castle taken on the beach at Grand Bend during Sandcastle day in August. Prizes were awarded in the village Saturday. Seen awarding the prize is Beverly Harwood of the Grand Bend and area Chamber. of Commerce. Now is the time to plant your Dutch bulbs and evergreens: We have a good selection. Greenwood Nursery 3 kilometres north of Thedford on Hwy. 79 (Formerly Hwy. 82) Open Mon. to Sat. 9 to 7 Sunday 11 to 4 296-4665 eta Exercise and socialize! Thedford Curling Club invites you to join mixed curling every Wednesday evening. Opening Night November 3 7:00 p.m. Thedford - Bosanquet Community Centre Beginners welcome - instruction available. For more information call: Thedford 296-5523 Forest 786-5972 Grand Bend 243-2741 Parkhill 294-6284, 294-0141 Acting clerk Is appointed Ken Muir, former Clerk - Treasurer of Parkhill has taken over the post in Grand Bend on a temporary basis until the position is filled in the village. Louise Clipperton resigned the post in September. Councillors. Keith Crawford and Harold Green, on the search committee, report that there have been over 20 ap- plicants for the job. Prosper and Sarilla Van Bruaene returned last Tues- day from a 16 day holiday in Wingene, Belgium with her father, 82 -year-old Lucian Couwelier, also with several other relatives in Ardooie and Brugge. Their son Jerry Van Bruaene accompanied them . over for a 10 day holiday. It was Jerry's first trip and he met many aunts and uncles and cousins for the first time. Eleven United Church Women attended the fall regional at Thames Road United Church Tuesday even- ing. Rev. Ann Langford spoke on the theme, "Living bet- ween memory and hope", the memory of starting U.C.W. and the hope to keep it going. The 20th anniversary of the U.C.W. was celebrated with a special cake for lunch. Paul Moore, Sudbury, was home for the holiday weekend with his parents Rev. and Mrs. H. Moore. Golden Age members who attended the Zone 8 rally field at. McKay Hall in Goderich last Friday were Alex and Clara Hamilton, Jim Prance, Marjorie Mason and Olive Webb. Saturday and Sunday visitors with Mrs. Rosie Grigg were a grandson and family, Rick and Doreen Gaiser, Mark and Steven, of Kit- chener, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Salisbury and Steven, of London. Visitors during the weekend with Lorne and Loreen Devine were Harold and Edit Widrick, of Zurich, also Shelley Meecham and friend, from North Bay, who were home for the holiday weekend. Mrs. Lillian Brown, has returned home after being in University Hospital, London and convalescingat the home of her son Eric and family in London. Rev. and Mrs. John Camp- bell, Laura and Douglas, visited Saturday in Pontiac, MichigaIrtvith the chttdten's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Walker. Brad, Rita and Allen Hamilton' were Monday din- ner guests with Allen's grand- parents, Alex and Clara Hamilton. Mrs. Susie Devine, Elgin and Elda Adams, of town, Don, Pauline and Paul Hen- drick, Wyoming, Pam Hen- drick, Hamilton, Lanny and Pat Scrimegour, Angela and Jeff of London, all celebrated Thanksgiving Sunday with a supper meal at the "Garage" in London. At this time they were celebrating five family birthdays, Elgin and Elda Adams, Pat and Jeff Scrimegour and Pam Hen- drick, also the Adams wed - ling anniversary. Mrs. Devine, Elgin and Elda stayed overnight with the Scrimegours and enjoyed a turkey dinner with them on Monday. DOLLS ON DISPLAY — Brenda and Matthew DeJong dolls of Ruth Acheson on Saturday's farmer's market at display of miniature Grand Bend. Seniors elect new slate, Institute host district rally The Golden Age club met Wednesday afternoon at St. John's Parish hall with 34 at- tending. President Alex Hamilton opened with a welcome to all. Members en- joyed a • sing song of favourites, the Sr. Citizens song, and Happy Birthday to ones celebrating in October. Mrs. Jean Page accompanied with piano. Thank you notes were read for entering a float in Sand- castle Days parade and from Huronview for attendance in Sr. Citizen week. The nominating committee brought in the new slate of of- ficers for 1983: .Past • president. Alex Hamilton: president Mrs. Irene Ward; 1st vice pres. Mrs. Hilda Ewener; 2nd vice pres. Mrs. Ila Kayes; treasurer Mrs. Olive Webb; asst. treasurer Mrs: Dorothy Cutting; secretary Mrs. Mar- jorie Mason; asst. secretary Mrs. Annie Morenz: trustees Bill Love. Alex Hamilton and Lawrence Curts; pianist Mfrs. Jean Page: asst. pianist Mrs. Vera Kuntz. Co-op housing was discuss- ed. A bus trip for a one day "Mystery Tour". is being planned for October 28. The program was opened with a humorous story by president Alex. Lawrence Curls gave two readings. Clara Hamilton conducted a magic numbers game, and in keeping with Thanksgiving read a poem, "Thank you God for everything." Mr. and Mrs. Percy Smith, former members. who now ANTIQUE BRASS BOX -- Ruth Freele odmires on an- tique brass box at Corol Vincent's stand at Saturday's farmer's market held along Grand Bend's main street. Open Daily Mon. -Sot.. 10-5:30 Sunday 12.5:30 Men's and Ladies - all sizes (sweaters not exactly as illustrated) C tE, —:—Sfi C .-' ' FACTORY OUTLET 16 ',lain St. GRAND BEND 23E-8007 live in Strathroy, showed slides of a trip they had taken to Austria a few years ago. The views showed mountains and valleys, castles, monasteries, flowers, marketplace, a palace, cattle and farmers dwellings. Mrs. Smith told how many farmers keep their cattle under the house and that provides warmth to the floor. Other pictures were taken in Alabama of beautiful homes, gardens, flowers, tea houses and colorful flamingo birds. After a few games of cards, lunch was served, bringing to a close a pleasant afternoon. Beaconaires club Thirty four Beaconaires met last Monday night, Oc- tober 4th. for a hot turkey Thanksgiving dinner..catered, to by a committee of their members, at the Church of God. Rev. John Campbell spoke to the group after supper on a Thanksgiving meditation "Why we give thanks". A hymn sing was enjoyed. with Leila Finkbeiner accom- panying on piano. President Mrs. A. Brown chaired the business. Discus- sion centred on a bus trip this fall, and about getting a song book printed. One of the Beaconaires members has composed a theme song "This is the Beaconaires". Legion dart game Winners of the weekly dart game of Branch 498 Grand Bend Legion for last week were Bud Durdin and Vilda Clark. Runners-up were Mike Tar- tarir.andLou Ham 1ton. Anyone interested in friend- ly, social games of darts are welcome to attend. The games are held at the Grand Bend Legion Hall, each Tues- day night at 8:30. Women's institute rally Grand Bend Women's in- stitute hosted the :31st Huron County rally. Monday at St. John's Parish hall. with members and delegates from Huron South. East and West. Leith more than 100 in attendance. Mrs. Douglas Matheson. of Perth brought greetings from the London area. Mrs. Ada I)inney and Mrs. Dr. Ecker of Exeter, demonstrated bread dough artistry. • The W.I. scholarship was awarded to Mary Lynn Van- ness, of Ethel W.I. branch. An invitation was received from IRluevale for the 19&3 rally. t -1l club news (.rand Bend 4-11 club, number three the Nature Nuts, met at Julia Brown's home to complete meeting six. Monday. At this time they finished their kites, by adding plastic and tails to their kite frames. Press reported by Kim Boogemans. United Church news A very good attendance was out for the Thanksgiving service Sunday morning at the ,United Church. The. church was beautifully decorated with autumn flowers, fruits and vegetables. Rev. H. Moore's sermon topic was "The thankful heart". The scripture was read by Fred Desjardine. Children baptized were • Carolyn Jeannine, daughter of Michael and Jane Eagleson; . and Ainslie Katharine, daughter of John and Patricia Murdock. Joining Grand Bend United Church by transfer was Mrs. Jane Eagleson. Choir anthems were the Baptismal hymn and Song of Thanksgiving, Flowers placed in the church were in loving memory of Bruce Morrice, by his wife and family. The service at Grand Bend United will be suspended next Sunday, October 17 and everyone is cordially invited to worship at Greenway United whowill be celebrating their 107th an- niversary. Morning service at 11 a.m. and evening service at 7:30 p.m. Grand Bend U.C.W. will hold their regular meeting on Thursday, Oct. 14, at 1:30 at the church. Roll call: A childhood memory. Several young people met Sunday night October 3 at the church, with Rev. Moore. Topic . discussed - was "friends". Anglican Church Sunday morning, Pentecost 19, Rev. J. Sutton chose as his text the 25th verse of Chapter 10 of St. Mark's gospel, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God." Rather than the usual inter- n First phase tenders called Times -Advocate, October 13,1982 Page 15 Pr�ceeding on community centre A delegation from Grand Bend Lions Club met with the village council last week to work out the future of the pro- posed community centre and playing fields. The site is in the area behind the fire hall and surrounded by the Walker drain. Paul Johnson and Steve Kadlecik informed the group. that the area proposed for soccer and baseball would not hold two playing fields. They asked that hydro lines and telephone lines be relocated and that the old soccer field be drained and filled prior to fencing. There was a discus- sion on how to pay the extra charge above the estimate for levelling the ground which was not covered by a previous grant. Council will issue tenders under phase one of the project for fencing of the area and the Lions' Club will make recom- mendations. Phase two of the project is a community cen- tre. It was -pointed out that $160,000 had been approved to be spent on the project under the Community Centres Act by 1984. Rick Sawyers, another delegate said that the. amount included cost of a building. Lions were requested to return to council with pro- gress reports. It was learned that there will be information at the next pretation of this verse Rev. Sutton suggested that Jesus was making a reply to a man who, while actually following the commandments of God was doing nothing positive. Jesus was suggesting that although wemusl selpriorities such as making money for our needs we must not let them be more important than our love and praise of God, and our love of family and sharing of what we have with others. To show our love of God, we, while obeying the com- mandments, must take positive action, not passive action. Rev. Sutton stressed that although we cannot com- pletely fulfill the above re- quirements with God, everything is possible, so that as we struggle in life we know that, as we make .God, our God, He can and will bring us to His bosom. Flowers at the altar were in loving memory of Richard Taylor and Bruce Morrice. The congregation•welcom- ed Rev. and Mrs: Sutton. Coffee hostesses were Mrs. Reta Martin and Mrs. Mar- jorie Richardson. Church of God "The grace of gratitude" was the sermon topic by Rev. Sohn Campbell at the Thanksgiving service Sunday morning. Specials were a solo by Dr. A. Brown, "Great is Thy Faithfulness" and an original poem was read by Mrs. Laura MacNab. Wednesday evening the Bi- ble Mountaineers of Church of God held a family night when eight children qualified for Arm Bands, in the categories of Glacial grabbers, one, Summit Scalers two, and Peak pedestrians, five. Church of God youths held their Bible study, Wednesday evening: Final Fall Clearance Sale meeting about the senior citizens' housing study from the ministry of housing. Councillor Keith Crawford suggested that a site plan be prepared for the old post of- fice in the new location and costs should be obtained. Reeve Bob Sharen suggested that a bid be prepared which includes moving the building, a foundation and re -wiring. Council complemented Jean Gibson, chairlady of the Recreation Committee on her thorough work in obtaining in- formation about grants. Ap- plications for grants fdr the Harbour Committee were signed by Sharen and coun- cillor Harold Green. Councillor Dennis Snider said he felt that fees to Grant Bend Yacht clubshoulcbe in- , creased as he felt the club should have more of the finan- cial responsibility. He pointed out that the club's lease ex- pires in 1983. In the correspondence was a letter from Murray DesJar- dins, resigning from the Pro- perty Standards Committee. He has stated his intention to Name harbour slate Grand Bend Harbour Com- mittee held a formal election of officers and organized a directorate and and advisory group at their meeting, Wednesday. Chairman is Tom Lawson, Vice -Chairman Joe Green and Secretary -Treasurer is Ellwood Lemon. Represen- ting various interests in the area as directors are Lawson, Green, Len Hume, Dennis Snider, Shirley Mitchell, Lorne Luney and Lemon. On advisory growl() report to the chairman will be Jack Gray, Van Laughton, Russ Lingard, Dick Manore, Peter Warner, John Bowman, Wayne Moody and the Presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce. The group accepted with regret the resignation of Art Read as secretary of the original ad-hoc committee. It was noted that a meeting requested with Lambton- Middlesex MP. Ralph Ferguson by the South Beach Association would be held Saturday, October 16. Ferguson had requested that it be an open meeting and that Grand Bend council- and the Harbour Committee be represented. The meeting is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in the village council chambers. Award photo prizes First prize for a photograph of a Sand Castle went to Dave Sheppard'for his picture of a sandcastle reflecting one of Grand Bend's famous sunsets. Jean Gibson had the winning photograph of a sand- castle with a person. She pic- tured John Campbell of Ex- eter working on the structure. Mary Freihart of Gadshill and Jim Weiker of Tavistock won second and third prizes for the Sandcastle category. For the second category (with people) second ana third prizes went to Wayne Minick, Kitchener and Bob Mannell, Burlington. Judges of the contest were Grand Bend artist Gordon Lambert, naturalist Terry Crabe and museum curator Bob Tremain. • Prizes were donated by Harwood Drugs and the Book Store, Grand Bend, Kodak Canada Inc., and Western Film Service. Desiardins will run Murray Des Jardins a former clerk -treasurer and councillor in the Village of Grand Bend has announced that he intends to seek a seat on council hi the coming municipalelection. "I've lived here all my life- --everybody knows me ---my intent is serious. In the four years I was on council I didn't miss a single meeting. In the 13 years as clerk -treasurer I missed only four meetings," he said. Des Jardins noted that he was opposed to "grandious schemes" and that he felt it was a time to be very careful with taxpayers' money in the village. "I have no intention of curtailing necessary ser- vices but I do feel that there's a time every'once in a while for a good look at the dollar." 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