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Clandeboye ladies enjoy trip
Jean and Pat Hodgins returned on
Saturday front a 22 -day tour to
California with the Ilderton-
McNaughton Tours. With Peter
McNaughton as driver, we travelled
through fifteen states, enjoying many
unplanned side trips, of which Peter .
is noted for. Special places in the tour
included two days in Salt Lake City,
the capital of the Mormon Faith.
Two days in San Francisco where
we enjoyed dinner at Fisheman's
Wharf overlooking the Golden Gate
Bridge and Alcatraz,. a seven hour
tour of the city. which gave us a ride
on the famous cable car, the giant
redwoods in Muir Forest National
Park, Sea Lions in the Pacific Ocean,
up to the top of Twin Peaks -to view
the sights below and much much
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We stayed four nights in Hollywood,
our hotel being just two blocks from
th famous Chinese Theatre where all
the movie stars havetheir footprints
and names in the sidewalk in front of
the theatre. A tour of Los Angeles and
Universal Studios, a few hours at
DisneyLand, dinner at Kr ott's Berry
Farm, a tour of the Crystal Cathedral
and many other places of interest
kept us busy.
Hallowe'en night found us in Los
Vegas, -a drive down the strip to see
all the lights, with dinner at "The
Mint" and enjoyed the Roaring 20's
Revue at the Holiday Theatre. Once
again we had a bit of fun playing the
slot machines. We had played them
a few days before in Reno, Nevada
and Virginia City.
A tour of Hoover Dam on the
Nevada, Arizona border, then on to
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Open house for 40th
By MRS. HUGH MORENZ
Shipko
The family 01 Gerald and Joy
Mason held 'Open House' at Shipka
Community Centre, in honor of their
parents' 40th wedding anniversary,
on Sunday afternoon November 1 bet-
ween 2 and 5 p.m.
The family took their parents out
for noon brunch at Oakwood.
About 130 friends, neighbours and
relatives called to congratulate the
Masons.
After the open house, family and
dose friends went back to Gerald and
Joy's home in Dashwood to watch
video programs.
Get well wishes are sent to Doris
Sweitzer, a patient at Victoria
Hospital, London.
Friday night, a group from this
area visited with Les and Marjorie
Adams in Exeter. This included Ed
Turnbull, Zurich, Oscar and Laura
Miller and Melvin and Gertie Stade of
Dashwood and area and Hugh and I.
The occasion was to celebrate Les'
79th birthday.
In the social time we played games
of euchre, followed by lunch
refreshments and birthday cake.
The Millers and Stades visited
Thursday in Mitchell with Edna
Willert and took her out to a
restaurant for a birthday supper. Ed-
na is a one time resident of this area,
living her early life on the 14th
concession.
A number of folks from this area at-
tended the annual hot turkey supper
at Grand Bend United Church.
Crediton
By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR
The sermon topic at Zion United
Church was taken from I Samuel
26:1-8 and John 14:25-31 titled "World
Peace? God's Peace!"
A minute of silence was observed
for Remembrance Day, remember-
ing all those who fought in the wars,
and many who gave their lives for us.
May we ever remember them.
Choir practice is Wednesday even-
ing at 7:30 p.m. due to the Official
Board meeting at 8 p.m. Choir prac-
,tice is in the church sanctuary.
The ladies of the church will be
packing a bale again this fall. If you
have any clothing which you wish to
donate, please bring it to the church
and place it in the west entrance hall.
All members of the Official Board
are reminded that the Board will
meet Wednesday evening, November
11 at 8 p.m. We will try to begin pro-
mptly at 8 p.m. in order to complete
our business no later than 9:30 p.m.,
if possible.
The Stewards will meet following
the Official Board meeting, in order
to plan the church budget for 1988.
Patients at South, Huron Hospital,
Exeter are Mrs. Della Sims, Mr.
.James Mawhinney and Mrs. Ada Pin-
ner. At Victoria Hospital, London is
Mrs. Doris Sweitzer (South Street).
Crediton Club 4-11 holds party
On October 26 the Fertile Fannies
held their final meeting which was
our party. Three guests came.
We opened this meeting with the
'4-1-1 pledge. Our roll call was to give
our advertisements for an Ontario
fruit or vegetable. After we enjoyed
a few laughs, we completed an On-
tario Foodland crossword puzzle.
Once that was finishedwe ate our
chocolate fondue. We ate apples,
peaches, pears and banana chunks
dipped in the fondue. This concluded
our meeting.
A reminder to all members, our
achievement night will be held on
November 24 at the Stanley Township
W. Complex in Varna at 7 p.m.
U.C.W.
The November meeting of the
U.C.W. was held Thursday,
November 5. Nola Ratz and Leila
Finkbeiner led the devotion on the
theme Christian Stewardship, to I*e
our time, talents, love, money, etc.
caring for our world and its
resources, and to spread the gospel.
Mrs. Stan Desjardine spoke and
showed slides of their work as mis-
sionaries in Tanzania. Lunch commit-
tee served a delicious lunch.
Mrs. Mary Kenney presided for
business. Roll call was answered with
a verse of peace. It was, decided to
serve pot luck lunch for Sunday
School concert on December 13 and
for Explorers do December 8.
The Christmas m4ting will start
with a'pot luck dinner for members
and husbands or friends, when our
mystery sisters will be revealed.
Personal
Mr. and Mrs. Stan Preszcator were
Sunday supper guests with newly
weds Mr. and Mrs. Carl Farr, St.
Thomas.
Recent visitors with Hugh and I
have been cousins, Donnie and Louis
Gable of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
my sister and her husband, Mary and
Art Finlayson, Seaforth and our
friend, Mrs. Verna Hay, Exeter. Lon-
don cousins Albert and Anne Col-
eman, who recently celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary, also
cousins from Ripley, Harry and
Margaret Coleman.
the Grand Canyon for overnight. We
saw the mule trains saddle up and
receive their instruction before leav-
ing on their long, narrow, trails down
into the Canyon.
We stopped at several places along
the Canyon to view the beauty of it all.
We journeyed through the scenic
Petrified Forest and Painted Desert,
to overnight in Alburquerque, New
Mexico. The next couple of daysttook
us through the Texas pan handle and
Oklahoma. Stopped for a while at
Oral Roberts University of Oklahoma
and went up to the top of the Prayer
tower. The church is closed because
of lack of money.
It was nice to see some good farm
land for a change as we travelled
through that area, finally reaching St.
Louis, Missouri, "Gateway to the
South West" and had a trip up to the
top of the famous arch to view the sur-
rounding city and enjoyed a short
time in the museum below it.
We spent our last night away -from
home in Indianapolis, Indiana, retur-
ning home by Saturday evening. We
travelled 6100 miles and saw a lot of
wonderful sights but I still think
Canada is a great place to live.
Personals
Lucille Blake and Sally Lewis en-
joyed a tour to Los Vegas recently
with the Robert Q. Tours of London.
Edie Worthington is a patient in St.
Joseph's hospital.
The St. James Church euchre par-
ties are starting on November 17 at 8
p.m.
OBEDIENT ANIMALS - Taking part in the obedience and look-alike contest at Wednesday's Centralia
College Open House were Jackie Schotroff and her pet Max and Leslie Malloy with Chiclet.
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