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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-09-02, Page 9CUTIES PROGRAMS Madame Hilda of the California Cuties sells programs in Exeter Sunday while Brian Hodgins of the Exeter Royals looks on. T -A photo Construction in Ailsa Crai By DOUG McNAIR Ailso Craig - Plenty of construction in the village this year with Mrs. Mary Schwartz's home rolling in on wheels Thursday. One minute just the foundation and in seconds they place the house -on it. We welcome her to William St. A couple of other new homes are nearing completion on George St. plus many new car garages and siding of different places really has improved the looks of. the village. Nairn Variety has started construc- tion to expand to a variety plus lunch bar. A 15 to 20 seat lunch bar to be open late September and more park- ing. The Wright family took over operations in July after they purchas- ed the place from the Robinson fami- ly. Mr. Wright thought that a lunch bar and variety would go good together with the same hours of business 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. BalFgames came to a halt in Ailsa Craig this week as workmen were Kirkton Institute meets at Mitchell Villa By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS • Kirkton The Kirkton Women's. Institute held their August meeting at the Ritz Villa in Mitchell on August 26 at 2 p.m. President Doris Spence welcomed the residents of the Villa -to our meeting. Mrs. Dorothy McCurdy and Mrs. Dorothy Switzer were in charge of the meeting on "Resolutions". The pro- gram opened wih a song of introduc° tion, followed by a sing -song with Mrs. Orrie Hartwick at the piano. Mr. Laverne -Rodd with his harmonica and Mrs. Hartwick al the piano favoured us with several musical selections. The hull ('all was answered by "A • Laymen lead Crediton service By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR Crediton Howard llendrich and Larry Ratz led in worship at Zion United Church. Rev. Gordon F. Kurtz; a retired minister from Bayfield. read scrip - lures taken from Romans 11:33-36 Matthew 16:13-28 and 22:34-40. The sermon text was "The Age of Narcissism." Next Tuesday September 8 the children will be back to school. Where has the summer gone? Next we'll be shovelling snow. ;+. U.C.W. rneeting September Hitt 8:00 p.m. • Personals Alvin Sims. Sault Ste. Marie. spent last week with Mr. and Mr?;. Jim Ed- wards, Huron Park. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hintz. Mitchell. were Monday supper guests with Mr. and Mrs. Stan Preszcator. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hubley. Seaforth. were Sunday guests with Mr. and Mrs. Stan Preszcator. Nancy Dowson, Hamilton. Mrs. Margaret F'innin and Andrea. Kit- chener. visited on the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F'ahner. resolution one can use daily Mrs. Dorothy McCurdy introduced Mrs. Jacqueline Wojtowick of Pro- spect Hill, an artist. She had a series of paintings in oils and_watercolours. She gave an interesting talk on each one. also on how to take care and how to clean oil paintings. Mrs. Dorothy Switzer thanked her and presented her with a gift. She then called on Mrs. Rodd and- Mrs. Hartwick for more old favourite tunes. Mrs. Dorothy McCurdy gave a very interesting motto "When an idea comes into you head put it to work and not to bed". ending with a reading "Country Fair". President Mrs. Spence. Mrs. Helen Shute and Mrs. Dorothy Switzer at- tended the 90th anniversary of the F.LO.W. held at North Bay in July. Mrs. Spence gave a very interesting resume of the convention. Mrs. Doris Spence took a picture of Mrs. Albert Bickel), a 75 -year and Life member of theKirktonWomen's Institute and a picture of the other five Life members with her. Mrs. Ver - da Morrison. Mrs. Elsie Shute, Mrs. Verna McElrea, Mrs. 'Bessie Greenstreet and Mrs. Ruth Sheir. Lunch was served by the commit- tee in charge. Times -Advocate, September 2, 1987 Pogo 9 Rookies from Shipka win By MRS. HUGH MORENZ Shipko Shipka Rookies won the A Cham- pionship in the Crediton League Slo pitch this past weekend. They played off with the Cowboys winning by a score of 5 to 3. Congratulations Rookies! and good luck -in Winthrop this weekend. Anyone interested in going to the Geritol Follies, supper at a church in Simcoe and the Simcoe Christmas lights on December 9, phone 237-3554. Personals Mike and Donna Yarrow, left Sun- ' day for their home in Winnipeg after a 10 day holiday with Donna's parents, Ken and Ortha Baker and family. . ' Mike and Donna attended the Frieter-Sterzik wedding last Saturday. Mrs. Annie Zielman attended the wedding of her niece Erica Frieter, daughter of Erich and Katie Frieter, to Robert Sterzik, of Edmonton, Saturday August 29 at Erica's parents home in Dashwood.. Dinner and reception followed at Dashwood Com- munity Centre. Congratulations to Connie Desjar- dine on being crowned Bean Queen at the Zurich bean festival. Hugh and land our son Bill, of Lon- don, returned last Saturday evening from a week in Coquitlam B.C. visiting grandchildren Persephone and Christian and their mom and dad, Lynda and John Little. On side trips we spent a day at. th0 Pacific National Exhibition, had pic- nics in two of their lovely parks, Belcarra and Queens, where we en- joyed water and mountain views, gorgeous flowers and activities for children, saw movies, shopped and had a day at Chunky Cheese amuse- ment centre. A highlight this year was a trip to Vancouver Island where we crossed over from Horseshoe Bay to Depar- busy changing the entrance. Thurs- day, as Cyanamid of Canada held their Customer Appreciation Day under the pavillion in the park workmen already has started and the Cyanamid group had to use the west. end gates. With the section :38 of U:LC. the • government has granted Ailsa Craig with workmen of many trades and labourers, they're busy at the park with the moving of the pavillion, land- scaping, painting the fire hydrants and signs, clearing grass from the sidewalks and play ground equipment installation. The program runs until December. Monday backhoes and a tree spade removed and replanted trees, things are like a bee hive of action at that side of town. - County Road 19 is under construc- tion for awhile. New surface and wider shoulders from Ailsa Craig to Shady Pine Campground for this fall but the rest to the flashing stop sign is also slated for resurface. County Road 19 is a link road for truck traf- fic from the north to connect 402. Ladies league slo-pitch finished in style at Weldon Park in Arva. Each year the ladies have their playoff on the last Sunday in August. Teams from Parkhill, Tlderton, Ailsa Craig, Beechwood, East and West Williams, Cuddy's Fillies, Medicine Maids from Strathroy, Brinsley and McGillivray form this leage with a double loss playoff. Even with a double loss some teams were retired early. The B trohpy Was played between East and West Williams with West Williams winning. The A trophy again went to Cuddy's Fillies from Strathroy edging out I1- derton in close battle. it was the bottom of the seventh, II- derton leading 4-3, baserunners at third and second, two out, the batter hit the ball out of reach of the fielders to score two runs and winning the games. Everyone had a.great time and are looking ahead until next year's games. Christening planned Sunday at Saintsbury By MRS. HEBER DAVIS Saintsbury Rev. B. Wheeler was in charge of morning prayer at St. Patricks Church Sunday. Mrs. Wayne Carroll provided music. Miss Lisa and Miss Julie Carroll read the lessons. - Rev. Wheeler read the Gospel for the day and took her text from the reading. She asked if other people know by our actions that we attend church and try to live a Christian life. Next Sunday service is planned for 1 p.m. due to a christening. Reunion Tuesday of last week 36 descen- The readers write 250 Glenridge Drive. Apt 302. • Waterloo. Ontario. N2.1 -1118 August 24. 1987 • \Ir- Hdss (laugh. Exeter Times -Advocate Exeter. Ontario, • Dear (toss: Some friends sent me a clipping from .t recent edition of the Times - Advocate • pertaining to my ap- pearance in the Canadian National Seniors Tennis ('hanipionships. This will ennfirnr-your• speculation as to my identity. I did indeed react) the v'ener'able age of three score years and len earlier this year. We (ennis players. along-wilh.othcr sports figures, 'always bemoan the fact (hat I beat the nur:►ber Iwo seed in the semi-final and then proceeded to play below par and lost 10 the number three seed in the final. Another player in the lop half of the draw had already eliminated the mother one seed. That's the nature of sports! My wife Dorothy and I have many fond memories of our years in thc.Ex- eterand Grand Bend areas. in retire- ment we are fortunate to enjoy good health and lead active lives both physically and mentally. Dorothy is very active at the Y and 1 head for the tennis courts an average of four o five times a week year-round. i also curl and participate in bonspiels dur- ing the winter. Perhaps our example will en- courage other "seniors" to continue to lead active, rather than sedentary. • lives. Retirement need not he a bore. particularly if one is fortunate enough to enjoy good health. Is your wife still teaching? Give her our best wishes. Also. you may wish 10 pass along our greetings to all the many fine friends and acquaintances who were a part of the Exeter scene when we lived there. Sincerely. G. John Goman Dear Editor.: • Many citizens feel strongly that there should be a traffic light at the corner of Main and Wellington streets. •As you know. I have tried several times in the past to alert our council to the importance of the mal - ter. to no avail. '('here .are •four business establishments al that busy corner, all of whom pay taxes. That is the cor- ner where heavy transport trucks make (heir turn to go to lhr r < leading induslr-' "('pop- ti, 'liar bit slow : r, •t hr a ing Main toot (nen' n, •n. For a car driver. 0 441, ficufl to make the Furs on , ',la, 1 have waited as long as l0 mux,tr'4 10 make the turn. Let's hope we don't have to lose a valuable life to obtain •action. Yours truly. "Gihby" 1.1. M. Gibson, a dants of the late Richard and Ann (Armitage) Hodgins gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott McRoberts for a delicious. pot luck dinner. Mr. McRoberts called everyone to order and asked the blessing. There were six first cousins and their children and grandchildren and three great grandchildren. A short program of sports followed - guessing the contents of an unlabl- ed tin; winner Marguerite Greenlee - No. of beans in jar. Clarence Davis was nearest, lady with longest lace on slip - Margaret Jean Schendera. Guests were present from Atwood. Goderich, Listowel. London, Denfield. Lucan, Centralia. All enjoyed the day together. 'i was a guest with Mrs. Mabel Needham, Friday for a birthday din- ner for Mrs. Muria' Cobleigh, Mrs. Merna ONeil and Mrs. Gerta Gibson were also guests. Then on Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Davis and Miss Doris Weir were dinner guests with Mabel Needham. Mr. and Mrs. Bob MacGillivray and girls spent several days this weekend visiting Bob's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack MacGillivray, Stoke's Bay. • Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tindall and Robert were Saturday dinner guests with me. Robeli was observing his birthday. Mary Lou Tindall Mississauga spent a couple of days with her parents and visited the Walker family Grand Bend. Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Greenlee, Mr. and Mrs. Ilugh Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Davis were guests at the wedding celebration honouring Tracy Quinton and Randy r'I.0 ke .,I "Kilbyrne Farm" RI; t 'I'1 urndan• Tracy is the daughr•-r of Bob am' Carole Quinton cousin of the Davis's- and former member of St. Patrick's Saintsb3lry. "• Mr. and Mrs. Michael Davis and -stal held a noon time party Satur- day honotu'ing Master Harley Davis who was celebrating his first birth- day Those present were Gragd- mother Dorothy Dietrich and uncle Tom Dietrich of Dashwood and Pop - pa and Grandma Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson, Strat- ford accompanied by wee grandson Brandon JohnsXhr oaf Hamilton visited with Hugh and hazel Davis, Sunday. Decisions at Granton Church By MRS. E. SUMMERS tranton At St. Thomas Anglican Church. Rev. Beverly Wheeler was in charge of the Sunday morning worship. John Herbert was Crucifer and Mrs. Marlene French provided the music and the two lessons were read by Sylvia Beatson. Rev. Wheeler spoke to the children about making decisions and her ser- mon was taken from Matthew 16 where Jesus speaks about His suffer- ing and death, the Kingdom of Christ and the whole church including issues of the world that the church must fate. Coffee hour followed in the church hall after the service. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hodgins visited on Friday afternoon with Mrs. Myrtle Rodd at Queensway. Hensall. with Mr. and Mrs. Ross Langford at Turnbulls Grove and spent the even- ing with Mr. and Mrs. Hermon Foster in Exeter. The Granton Womens Institute members and friends enjoyed a bus trip to Wallaceburg on Monday Augatbt 24. Points of interest includ- ed The Hollandia Bakery at Mt. Brydges, Tender Tootsie factory outlet at Glencoe. Duffy's Bakery and Libby's Glass, the II and B hockey stick and golf club manufacturing centre, all of Wallaceburg. Dinner at Wallaceburg and a tour of Uncle Tom's cabin at Dresden, sup- per at Glencoe on the way home com- pleted the day's outing. At the Granton United Church, Rev. Bruce Pierce was in charge of the morning worship and took his sermon from the scripture lesson taken from John 14 Verses 15-26 and entitled his message "Under the holy Spirit". Loves Me" and in their time the minister talked to them about Jesus' love for them and .how they could repay that love. Sunday School begins at Wesley and Granton Churches September 6 after summer holidays. Peter's Point Continued from page -1 ly left. when the toilets were unplugged, the flowers replanted. the paint touched up and the Lepage glue supply replenished, the next set of visitors arrived. And s_ o forth and so forth, all sum- mer long. i know what we're going to do next summer if we get letters or phone calls announcing the hap- py arrival of yet another cousin or aunt or former neighbour or ex -colleague or friend of so and so who just happens to be in the pro- vince or the country or on the con- tinent and just wants to drop by to say hello. We'll tell them that we'd love to have t1,01r, ,iu' that unfor- tunately t, •,tr ii -hood has just boil] rleoIart c' a r, ' and mouth diseas, - ,, an - that travellers are not .►ll,r..cd within i :35 km radius. ur we'll tell them that we're go- ing to spend a month's vacation in Iceland, and isn't it a shame that we'll have to miss them. But since we are not accustom- ed to lying we'll probably end up playing the host again. Let's just hope that all of next year's visitors are as pleasant as the best of this year's crop, and that the toestructots find other vic- tims in some far -away country. Hospitality comes easy to us. But why isn't there a word like guestitality? ture Bay on the ferry, then travelled by van to Nanoose Bay to visit Ross and Isobel McDonald. Mrs. McDonald taught Persephone in kindergarten in 1980 and we met her then. Arriving in the morning at McDonalds, the men went out and gathered oysters and clams while the tide was out. Bill and Ross opened the oyster shells, and Ross cooked a pan full for our supper, (Hong Kong) style, and ° they were delicious. After lunch McDonalds took us out for a drive to Cameron Lake, and to Cathedral Grove in McMillan Park, where there are 800 year old Douglas fir trees-, largest in Canada, also a forest of cedars. The Littles hosted a birthday sup- per with cake and gifts for us three, who all celebrate summer birthdays. The weather was nice and sunny in B.C. We travelled out and hack on a Canadian Pacific flight. • Persephone and her B.C. family spent three weeks in July going to California and Disneyland. They also visited the Redwood Forest, San Francisco, Knott's Berry Farm. Universal Studios, San Deigo zoo, Mexico and the Grand Canyon. One of their highlights of the trip was tak- ing a walking,tour through Alcatraz, the famous prison ( now empty i' in San Francisco Bay. Sue Anne Schroeder, of Ottawa, was home on the weektnd of August 22, and attended a girlfriend's wed- ding, ht the Anglican Church, in Wyoming, ,where Sue Anne was soloist. Cousins Bill and Jeannie Maier, of Mio, Michigandropped in Sunday and had lunch with Hugh and I. Centralia By MRS TOM KOOY The United Church service will resume next Sunday September 6 at 11:15. Rev. Carter has been on holidays during the month of August. Steve McIntyre left Monday for Toronto.where he will attend Centen- nial College. • Clyde Kooy returned home Satur- day following a weeks vacation at Cir- cle C ranch near Kitchener. He' reports an enjoyable week of devo- tions, horse back riding, biking and hiking which ended with a banquet and awards. 1 notice in the Free Press today the death of Alex Bowe in St. Josephs Hospital. London. Alex lived at one time with his parents the late Mr. and Mrs. William Howe and brother Mur- ray in the houlse now owned by Tom 'Tomes at the railway tracks in town. ANNUAL SHOOT — Winners of the tenth annual Kyle -Cooper Memorial Shoot at the Kippen Gun Club were (back left) Gordon Glazier, Stratford, 'B' runner-up Frank Stranak, Dresden, 'B' class win- ner; Cal Christie, Fullerton, John Anderson, Veterans trophy: 'C' class runner-up Brad Mann, Kippen and (front) •A' runner-up David Van Allen, Kitchener and 'A' class winner Brian Johnston, Dresden. Perfect shoot score for Jamie Caldwell. By MARGARET HOGGARTH Kippen Thirty five shooters turned out for, the Tuesday August 25 meet. Con- gratulations to Jamie Caldwell on a perfect score of 50! ! Lloyd Venner, Bert Mahaffy, Jack Mills, and Glen Mogk all scored 25. Well done! Jody Mosurinjohn, Dan Crerar, Jim But- cher, Paul Middleton, Don Glazier. Brad Mann, and "Sailor" alt scored 24 points. Roy Lamport. Dwight Monk, Paul Lamb, Harrison Schock, Fred Brall and Gord Glazier marked up 23 points. Roger Haines, Jim Cocker. Ken Whetham, Brent Dawe, Grant McGregor, Ed Steegstra, Bob Baker and Uwe Wisch, scored 22. Al Kyle - 21, B. Mitchell - 19, Jim Drehmann and Neil Voskamp -18 points. D. Long and W. Dalrymple, both with 17 points and Bob Caldwell marked up 15. Kippen United Church Brucefield and Kippen congrega- tions met in Kippen on Sunday August 30. Chrystal Jones presided at the organ. Rev. Lorne Keay's sermon was entitled "Words. thoughts. and the art of living" b)sed on readings from Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Next Sunday September 6 Kippen congregation will meet at 10:00 a.m. Kippen United Church aVomen will meet September 8. Speaker will be a guest from Friendship house of Goderich Roll call will be a donation of food. clothing or money for Friend- ship House. Hostesses will be Helen McLean and Verda Sinclair. Personals - ,Congralulations to Lyle Kinsman on his marriage to Julie Ilabkirk on Saturday August 29 at First Presbyterian Church in Seaforth. Julie is the daughter of Jane and Leslie Haabkirk of Seaforth and Lyle of the son of Bob and Frances Kinsman who moved from the home farm to live in London. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Kinsman will live on the farm at RR 2 Kippen. A warm welcome is ex- tended to Julie as a newcomer to the Kippen community. Dashwood students off to further education By BERNICE BOYLE Dashwood The following students left Monday for London to further their education: to Fanshawe Todd Genttner, Dwayne Butler. Bill Vanderworp, Adrea Zim- mer and for second year at the University of Western Ontario, Lynn Gaiser. Faye Gaiser returned last week from Victoria B.C. where she spent the summer working as well as doing missionary work for the Crusade for Christ. She will return to McMaster University Hamilton. Ken and Linda Genttner attended the wedding of Linda's cousin Phil Vercouteren and Susan Ann Reitberger at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Blenheim. Ontario. A bus load of residents from Grand Bend and Dashwood toured the Six Nations Reserve and had dinner on the Grand River boat. ' The Dashwood and Seaforth Band intertained the Blue Water and Huronview residents on Sunday after- noon. After the concert the members' spouses joined them for a picnic supper. Vicar Larry and Jill Stojhovis entertained both of their families last .weekend. Thursday Vicar Larry's sister and husband will visit Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gatto and Anita and Joey. Geritol Follies Anyone interested in going to the Geritol Follies in Ilamilton Wednes- day December 9th and having a church supper in Simcoe as well as viewing the Simcoe Christmas lights please contact 237-3554. Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Penhale, Nancy and Susanne Smith were Mr. 'and Mrs. Robert Newton Sr.. .lane and Robert Newton Jr., London, Miss Elaine Carmichael, Owen Sound, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Smith. Mr. and Mrs: Randy Becker and family. London. Mr. and Mrs. Don Clarke and family Huron Park. The occasion was Susanne's birthday. We Do LAMINATING Times - dvocate