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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-11-13, Page 26Thinking of Starting Your Own Business? A seminar "How Td Start A Small Business" at The Olde Town Hall Wednesday, November 13, 1985 7:00 p.m. (No charge) Welcome to interested persons of Exeter and area. Sponsored by: Ontario Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology, Exeter Economic Development Committee Interested persons should contact the Clerk's Office at 235-0310. • a ! e 14A Times -Advocate, November 13, 1985 TURKEY DINNER — Over 400 people were served a delicious turkey dinner at the GB United Church Wednesday evening. UCW member Marlene Brenner serves a cup of tea to her mother Hazel Mitchell from London (on the left) and Eve Brenner, Grand Bend. Paula Taylor prepared 120 takeout dinners. Osborne school news Wednesday October 2, Osborne Central Sehool held their Open House. The parents came to look at their child's work and to meet the teachers. The parents had coffee and doughnuts in the gym after they looked in the classrooms. Darryl Hern Sports Volleyball has been going on since October. We made teams with Grade 8's as captains. Each daytwo dif- ferent teams would play. Now we have. started tryouts. On Monday's and Thursday's Mr. Beattie coaches the boys and on Tuesday's and Fri- day's Mrs. Tieman coaches the girls Wednesday'.s are left open for Houseleague. Susan Selves Bake Sale On October 24, we had a very suc- cessful bake sale. The goodies were donated by our grade seven class. Barbara Tieman Usborne's Hallowe'en contest On October 30, Usborne Central School had two contests involving Grades one to five. One contest was a pumpkin carving contest. This par- ticular contest involved Grade one and two. There were three categories scariest, funniest, and best over all. The second contest was an art contest for the grade 3/4 class and the Grade four and five class. All the entries were great and everybody had fun. Michael Strang Boo! October 31 we had a costume show in the gym. That is, we all dressed up in our costumes and paraded up to the stage and around again. In our class two people dressed up as Ninga's. One boy was dressed up as a woman. Man, had he changed since the last time I saw him! There were many home made costumes, including mine. There were prizes for every group. First prize was a bag of chips, second was a large chocolate bar, and third was a small chocolate bar. A spooky, scary day was enjoyed by all. Scott Finlayson Hallowe'en Dance October 31 the Student Council put on a dance for the grade 6, 7 and 8's. For the dance you could either dress up or not. There was lots of weird and exciting costumes. It was lots of fun. Peter McAllister Block Parent Week was October 20-26. Two block parents and two students put on a skit for kindergarten, Grades one, two, three and four students to demonstrate how block parents can help us. We would like to thank all the Block Parents in our area. Enrichment activities have been held for students in grades five and six during the month of October. Each teacher invol*ed did a different thing with their group as a followup to the film "The Winter of the Witch". These activities included making paper mache masks, writing adver- tisements, a witches fashion show, geography research, taping poems and stories with sound effects, writing gruesome recipes and making mobiles. Change condominium plans Will meter water Resort would end teacliers' strike riylN At the November 4th meeting of the Grand Bend council, it was agreed unanimously to support a resolution received from the Town of Durham. The Council of the Corporation of the Town of Durham passed a resolu- tion at its October 21st meeting pro- hibiting teachers from striking. They requested that the province of Ontario declare teachers to -provide essential services, prohibit striking and school boards from locking them out and to provide binding arbitration where contract disputes cannot be resolved. Deputy -reeve Harold Green moved that Council endorse this resolution, feeling that students could lose a whole year from their education if teachers were allowed to walk out. Councillor Dennis Snider seconded this motion. Copies of this endrose- ment from all municipalities of On- tario would be sent to the Premier of Ontario, the Minister of Education and local MPPs. Delegations of the proposed project 'Ausable Landing' met with council to further their plans for a 17 -unit con- dominium development to be located on River Road at Orchard Street. The original plans called for 18 units, but after considerable talks at this meeting, it was decided to drop one unit to provide more parking spaces. Each unit would have one covered and one surface parking space, which left only four additional parking spaces for guests. With the cut on one unit, Sundaze Development Inc. will be providing 35 parking places, nine more than is required. In the common area near the gazebo, there will be 17 boat slips located along the shore for each con- dominum owner to use. Marga Mur- dock and L. John Simmons from Sun - LIGHT MOMENT — Exeter BIA president Bob Swartman, left, was on hand Wednesday to present Standard Trust with the first white squirrel plaque made up for the BIA. Former owner of the building now housing the trust firm, Swartman noted that it now had the one thing he had always wanted: lots of money. Joining in the robust response to that comment are branch manager Don Thompson, cen- tre, and president Brian O'Malley. i 4 ST. BONIFACE BAZAAR -- Wilma Pennings, Marie Mat honia and Cecilia Farwell display some ar- ticles at Saturdciy's St. Boniface CWL bazaar. UCW see travel pictures T -A photo Remember at Varna By MARY CHESSELL Varna "Who are our heroes today?" was the title of the sermon at Varna United Church's observance of Remembrance Day. Rev. Wilena Brown decried the way in which old heroes who had contributed a great deal to society and their country are being discredited because of some personal weakness. She also express- ed grave concern about the violent types of people who seem to he the heroes of today. Many of the real heroes of our time are being ignored They are the people who are risking their freedom and their lives to im - prove living conditions for im- poverished and oppressed people in other parts of the world. Reeve Paul Steckle read a scripture from• the Psalms arftl spoke briefly. He urged his listeners to exercise their freedom and responsibility by voting on Tuesday. The final hymn was a lovely and stately Mennonite hymn, God of Our Fathers. Wreaths were carried from the church to the cenotaph, and laid there by Paul Steckle for the township, Walter Smith representing the veterans and Ivan McClymont as the Orange Lodge representative. Prayer was offered and 0 Canada was sung. Varna U('W Varna United Church Women held their November meeting in the church on Thursday evening. Eleanor McAsh showed many beautiful pic- tures she, Bob and Marjorie Stirling took in Europe and Britain last summer. • Bernice Reid and Eleanor led the worship service on stewardship needs, with scriptures from Deutoronomy 8. and the meditation on the quotation "to whom much is given, much will be required". 'The reading My Dear", Busy Friend was given by Bernice. Eleanor related the story of (vol. John McRae and his writing of in Flanders Field. • Donations were made to Family and Children's Services for their Christmas Fund, and to Alma ('ollege for student bursaries. A poinsettia for the church is being ordered from the Kinettes to support the Cystic Fibrosis research campaign. Margaret Hunt's quilt will be put in shortly aj Dorothy Ostrom's home. All quitters are welcome to come and help quilt it. All former members and friends in the community are invited to the Christmas meeting December which will begin with supper at 6:13 p m Personal Alex and Olive Murray celebrated 48 years of marriage on November 2 They went out to dinner, then Gary and Kathy and their girls brought them a lovely floral arrangement and a cake. and they had a nice celebra- tionit was also Alex's birthday. daze Dev., agreed to council's sugges- tions in order to increase parking areas. Architect, Carston Jensen, ex- plained to council how he would make the alteration by providing it on his sketch. Neighboring property owners met earlier in October expressing their concerns about the parking con- gestion along River Road during the boating season. It was decided that all commercial businesses be metered for their water consumption. Reeve Bob Sharen felt that all of them should be metered over the next five years. Clerk - treasurer Dianne Mollard stated that this metering would provide the village with a more accurate system for sewer rates as well. The Grand Bend PUC will be re- quested to install water meters first to the commercial, then to the residential users until all of the resort is metered. In correspondence, council dealt with a parking violation not paid, and application to apply for a Wintario grant for a beach cleaner, and a coun- cillor will be sent to the annual meeting of Huron Country Playhouse. SINGERS APPLAUDED — Special Remembrance Day music was performed by several children of the Grand Bend UC Sunday School Sunday morning. On the left are soloists Julie Weber and Karie Jennison with the trio Jill Russell, Judd Desjardine and Brian Lovie who learned their song at Stephen Central School last week. Candidates outline views at Grand Bend session Chamber of Commerce president Gene Grenier chaired the all - candidates' meeting held in the GB municipal building Thursday night. He introduced the newly acclaimed Reeve Harold Green and acclaimed Deputy -reeve Dennis Snider. Both Green and Snider outlined their past accomplishments while ser- ving on the village council for the past number of years. Green has served for 11 years total and has extensive experience in the municipal world. Snider told the group that even though he didn't have to campaign he would work hard to solve such things as pollution, parking problems and he felt that annexation was an important issue for the long-term growth of Grand Bend. Incumbent Bruce Woodley stated that he found his past term on coun- cil very enjoyable and if elected would continue to help with the two important problems of water quality and waste management. Feeling that annexation should hap- pen, incumbent Doreen Seguin said that she has eleven years of business experience in GB and has been on the planning committee and is a board member of the Non-profit Housing Committee. She asked that people please get involved and use their vote. There would have been no election in Grand Bend if newcomers Barb Southcott and Marsha Lemon had not come forward. Lemon would like to see Grand Bend prosper even more and felt that as a businesswoman and with her education she could serve the com- munity propperly. She thought that amalgamation was "a complex issue which has to be looked at", when ask - Play euchre at Centralia By Mrs. TOM KOOY Centralia A euchre party was held in the com- munity centre November 4 with 15 tables playing. Prize winners were high score Joyce Willert, Murray Carter. Lone hands Elizabeth Lam- port, Earl Morgan. Low score Janet Hicks, Lawrence Hirtzel. The next euchre on November 18 will be convened by Jean Millar, Charlotte Barker, Murray Carter and Earl Morgan. Personals Mrs. Rick Walker and family spent the weekend visiting with Mary's parents Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sim- mons, Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Cooper, Ex- eter were recent dinner guests with Tom and Mary Kooy. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bowden attend- ed the anniversary service in the Richards Memorial United Church, London Sunday and were guests for dinner with their family at the home of Mrs. Margaret Reid and girls in celebration of their 56th wedding anniversary. UCW meets Centralia UCW met on Thursday evening at the church with the men of the congregation being their guests. Etta Powe welcomed everyone and presided over the business portion of the meeting. it was decided to hold the Christmas meeting December 5. The Remembrance Day program was in charge of Etta Powe, Carol Sommerville and Adeline Elliot. The program opened with the poem "Thanksgiving" read by Etta. Adeline led in prayer and Carol read the scripture. A solo was sung by Lois Wilson ac- companied by Marian Deline. A mo- ment of meditation was given by Et- ta and Carol including the poem 'In Flanders Field" and a story called "The Old Soldier". Adeline introduced the guest speaker, Mary Peterson from Lobo. She showed her slides and gave an in- teresting commentary about her Junior Farmers Exchange trip to Ireland, Scotland and England. Lunch was served by the committee in charge. ed how she felt about moving the village's boundaries. Barb Southcott told the interested residents that she would like to see more young people involved in their community and would deal with the ecology issue. As a past reporter for an area newspaper, she said that she gained respect for the GB council in their having to deal with the incredi- ble problems of a tourist area. She is presently a member on the GB Plan- ning Advisory Committee. . Questions directed at the can- didates were asked about the age-old problems of parking, annexation, ideas on how to improve the recrea- tional facilities in GB, and how the village could become a year-round community. Grenier introduced•the new Lamb - ton Board of Education member George D. Harris from Port Franks. Harris will be taking over from Trustee Pauline Lingard, who represented the Grand Bend- Bosanquet-Thedford area on the board. He has met some of the area school principals already and said he will devote lots of his time to the board, as he is a retired medical disability person. He reminded everyone that it was not long distance to call him in Pt. Franks. Charlie Srokosz, GB, elected Separate School Board member, told of his previous political experience and that he would be serving nine communities from GB to Alvinston. Personals The Grand Bend Women's Institute will be holding their meeting on Thursday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the OPP station of the Pinery Park detachment. In what way would you change things to better the residents of Grand Bend? is the topic for this meeting. Hostesses are Donna Lovie, Millie Desjardine and Minnie Curts. Visitors are welcome. PE Would you or your group like to visit and see how Huron Hope Nursery School meets a need in our community? You can by calling Heather at 237-3637 PAlished h 'he Public E(WrC r'•''' South Huron and District Association . for the Mentally Handicapped Box 29, Dashwood, Ont. 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