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Times -Advocate, February 15, 1989
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ire - Grafics, of Sarnia, won the best snow sculpture in the Grand Bend Winter Car
nival and the first -place prize of $1,000. The winning entry was of the Winter Carnival Mascot. Ben-
ny the Penguin. There were only seven entries. Due - to a lack of the white stuff, snow had to be
trucked in from Exeter to hold the event. Presenting the cheque to the winners is Winter Carnival
Queen Kathy Merner, right.
Thousands attend Carnival
II% Roberta Walker $30 and a trophy.
. GRAM) REND - Almost 8,000 In the A Flight versus B flight
people paid a visit to Grand Bend to playoffs on Sunday afternoon, the
attend events at the Winter Carnival champions forthe third straight
over the last 10 days, from Fcbru- year were thc Hamisco Huggers of
ary 3 -.12, according to Carnival London, winning $70, trophy and
Chairman Dave Sheppard. gifts. Second place went to B
"Three years ago it was about Flight Champs Grand Bend Grizz-
3000, last year around 5000, and lies, getting $50 and gifts.
this year nearly 8000." Twenty four teams participated
Local, businessmen arc also smil- in the games over both weekends,
ing, as pcoplc crowded into restau- organized by Susan Finnegan.
rants, bars and stores, keeping cash There was also a draw at the Le -
registers busy. •gion for the winner of "A trip for
The highlight of the Carnival was
the 'snow sculpture competition,
with the team from GRAFIKS De-
sign Studio, Sarnia, capturing First
Prize plus the -People's Choice The Winter Carnival Parade was
Award. They won . S1000, plus a held Saturday morning, to the de -
trophy, plaque and medals, for a light of crowds lining the Main
charming sculpture of the Carnival Street for a good look.
Mascot, Benguinthe Penguin riding In the business class, Finnegan's
the waves on a surf board. Jim Ver- Restaurant was an easy winner,
gunst, Diane Robb and Rob Green- with Harry Finnegan as "Darby
less were pleasantly surprised to O'Gill and. the Little People" an
.win against such stiff competition. ' old Disney Movie.
Ted Hayes of London won second The float had a unicorn astride a
prize, S500, for his Vfelike version rainbow, as Darby lay beneath
of Mickey Mouse krantasia. This with a jug of poteen, and lepre-
is his third year in the Grand Bend chauns scampered about (children in
cornpetition. green costumes).
Carnival Queen Kathy Merner Second prize for a business and
presented the prizes at the Legion for "Best Dressed Child' went to
Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Thornton's Patio Stones/Grand
All of the snow sculptures were Bend Auto Body with lots of Dis-
impressive, particularly "Birth of a ney-costumed children and large
Fairy" by local 1988 prize winner . Disney cutouts on a huge float.
Jackie Schouroff. She created a First prize in a Scnior Club or
beautifully detailed unicorn, dipping Organization went td the 1989
its magical horn into a stream with Parkhill Atom Hockey. Champions,
. bubbles forming into a fairy, sit- the Panthers, all sporting uniforms
ting on a leaf. Her work is always
enchanting. She competed in the
world-class competition for the
Pine Dale Hotel. She -and her sister
Barbara Schottroff sculptured a.
wicked witch, stirring a caldron of
green witches' brcw, getting "Best
Detail."
George Shaw of Hensall sculpted
a leering, wicked -looking Snow
Devil. Phi Delta Thcta Fraternity
from University of Western came
two to Las Vegas," won by Lori
Lovas of Bothwell. Mark McCul-
lough of London won a "fun
tube".
topped with Mickey Mouse ears!
Second prize went to Order of the
Alhambra/People First with a six -
passenger cutter atop a float featur-
ing costumed Alhambras and lovely
Disney animal figures. -
Bcst horses went to Joanne Lewl-
Iye and.June Mennen, and the Best •
Dressed Child went to Colonial
Gables for their Volkswagen "Bug"
convertible with costumed riders.
The 'Pillsbury Dough Boy clown
up with a huge grinning Eskimo :was voted Most Comical", fol -
and his husky dog. Captain Chuck lowed by the Grand Bend Fire Dept.
Culp led his team from Double 0 - in their jeep.
Printing, London, in the creation of Carnival Queen Kathy Mcrner
a charming "Pinocchio" complete graced the parade in a convertible
with detail of peaked hat, bowtic - driven by Chairman Dave Shep-
and buttons, - • . ` pard, and most people recognized
Cam Haist Grand Bend, was an- Bruce Williams and. Jennifer Reid --
othcr busy local artist with two en- of "First Edition".
tries. He designed the head of a _ The Beavers and Cubs marched
howling wolf for the team compcti- the length of thc parade route, ban- •
tion, but had better luck in the local . ners flying, and a clown hand, Mar -
business sculptures with a prize for di Gras Productions, London,
impact-tmoilwA al"..in.a•tciv -helped tj e.MS use nn.,vide wth1 -
appealing "Winnie the Pooh" and music for the event.
his spilled honey pot. The Blue- • The Blue Water Motel entry
Water Motel won "Best Use of pulled a tiny Sleeping Beauty in
Color" for Scrooge McDuck. her four-poster bed on wheels, thc
An absolutely gorgeous Lions draped a convertible in purple
', "Pinocchio' strings and all, sat in and gold, and most local businesses
• front of Family Heirlooms and had entered their vah or pick up. It was
his picture taken often by apprccia- a grand parade and not too cold this
Tire crowds. An impressive snow year! .
. 'cattle sat on .tbc turn . " .
Ionial. Hotel, all in yellow an hungry crowds 'at the United
blue. An elf graced the front lawn Church basement ,and at the Public'
of Young Classics - he sported a School, served by Church of God.
.beard, umbrella, and an empty The Nursery School warm up
bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. booth did a brisk business too.
Finnegan's -Restaurant boast4,: The std -barbecue and sweetheart
own snowy leprechaun, drinking a
pint of Guiness, of course. An
enormous chipmunk guarded the
parking lot at Buddy's Restaurant.
The judges for the Snow Sculp-
ture teams were Bard Schnurr from
Labatt's Reeve Bob Sharcn, Katy -
lin Boylan from VCR, Sarnia and.
Jim Davison, general manager of
' • the Huron Country Playhouse: lo-
cal Snow Sculpture judges were
Herb Turkhcim, of the Zurich Ad-
vance, Gene Creces of Genes'
Signs, and Marje Crowe.
The snow was trucked in from
Exeter and the boxes filled, all for
free, courte iy of Jack Norris and
Doug Jennison.
There were trophies awarded in
the Sno-Pitch too, as the Clinchers
Louts, Grand Bend, worr$30 and a
trophy for the B Division. A Divi-
sion was won by the Hamisco
Huggers of London, also -getting
Breakfast and didn't let up until after.
11 a.m .when they ran out of food.
There was more food at a buffet at
the Legion, with the band "Trac II"
providing more music.
Sunday afternoon there was a
Skating Party down on the Old Riv-
er Bed, where adults and kids could
fool around on the ice andwarm up
with free food; 17 cases of pop and
66 dozen hot dogs disappeared in
short order.
People could take advantage of
free wagon rides around town to var-
ious events, tractor and wagon pro-
vided by Oakwood Inn. At the. Me-
dia - Sno-Pitch Exhibition game,
CKTY, FOX FM Sarnia beat
CKSL/CIQM FM London for the
media trophy.
If you felt too chilly and wanted
to be indoors, people stopped in at
the Art Show and Sale, sponsored -
by the Huron Playhouse Guild, on
Saturday and Sunday. Over 20 Local
'artists, shops and students contrib-
uted a wide selection of oil paint-
ings, water colors, acrylics, most of
them framed. Puck Merkies' beauti-
ful watercolours, Dave Bannister's
local landscapes done in oils, acrylic
and water colour and Gord Opfcr's
striking animal portraits were all.
very well done.
Manning Jamieson exhibited Es-
kimo -type soapstone sculptures and
Mark Stafford of Guelph/Grand.
Bend has a new line of tiny pewter
figures set on amethyst rocks called
"Fantascenes". Tiny perfect dragons,
castles, knights, owls, princesses,
fairics or wizards perch atop spark-
ling amethyst crystals to capture
your imagination in a touch of
magic.
Dee Ovcrdon of Grand Bend had a
large collection of paper tole pic-
tures inshadow box frames that
were just lovely.
The Tole Booth, Zurich, showed
examples of tole painted wood,
needlepoint pictures and stained
glass. Grey Otter Gallary provided a
wide assortment of local artists
paintings, and Suzanne Maple, Lon-
don, showed•some delicate waterco-
lours. Bill George featured acrylics
on wood, with anative mysticiasm
in Eagles and Indians. Lori Harburn,
a SHDHS student from Hensall,
shows great promise in her pen and
ink sketches of birds and landscapes
in complex details.
It was a truly impressive example
of local talent.
Wasn't that a party! Come back
next year for another Great Winter
-Ca wan-whers. " _
the Bend."
Grand Bend Church news
Berta W
By Ro Walker Thee'. George Winegarden led the
Catholic News
GRAND BEND - It was the First
Sunday of Lent at Immaculate Heart
of Mary Church. The season of
Lent began on Ash Wednesday,
when many parishioners took ad-
vantage of the -opportunity to attend
Mass and receive ashes. There was a
visitor on Saturday evening at.7:15
p.m. mass, when Father Kavanaugh
from St.. Peter's Seminary, London,
celebrated Mass with his old friends
here.
The reader at 11 a.m. Sunday
Mass was Walt Costello, joined by
his wife Madge to act as Eucharistic
Ministers during Communion. Ro-
berta Walker was the cantor, and
she sang a solo at Communion,
"City of God" accompanied by or-
ganist Paul Dietrich.
Father Beck's sermon was taken
from the gospel story of Christ's
40 -day fast and temptation by the
Devil. Stations of the Cross and
Benediction will be held on Wed-
nesday evening at 7:15 p.m. for all
parishioners.
United Church Women -
Rev. Ted Smits and 14 ladies at-
tended the' UCW meeting last
Thursday in the Sunday School
rooms at church. Jean Cassidy gave •
the opening worship reading from
Ephesians 6:10-17. Rev. Smits ac-
companied them at piano for a
hymn sing, and Mrs. Cassidy
closed with prayer and a reading on
"February Snow',
The program by Loreen Gill was
about church society, opening with
scripture verses from Matthew
25:31-44. She said the church
reaches out in many ways to shut-
ins.
hutins. -
Guest speaker was Rev. Smits,
on a subject dear to his heart
"Visiting and Communicating with
Prisoners". He shared with them
some very touching and personal
experiences. God loves us all, even
those in prison.
President Elizabeth Norris con-
ducted the .business. Roll call was
answered with "Little Things that
make Life Beautiful". Letters were
read from the Leprosy Mission and
Camp Menasetung. The United
Church Women Conference will- be
held April 3-4 at : the Leamington
United Church.
The -22nd Annual -Westminster
College Weekend will be held June
9 to 11 in London. A catering pro-•
ject was discussed for August and fi-
nal plans were laid for Winter Car-
nival lunches to be served.
.Elizabeth Norris and Elda Adams at-
tended the Huron Perth Presbytery
meting held at the Victoria St.
United Church in Goderich on Janu-
ary 23. Norris closed with a Valen-
tine reading.
Gloria Mousscau and Norma Car-
ey were lunch hostesses. During
lunch hour the ladies listened to
taped music of "The Lighthouse
Ministry"
Church of Cod
The Church of God morning wor-
ship -began with the singing of the
chorus "Come; Holy. Spirit, I Need
service. Phyllis Desjardine and Joy
. Mason sang duet titled "k is Glory.
Just to Walk with Him".
. Two sttiptural passages were used
as the basis for Pastor Stan Desjar-
dine's sermon, Jeremiah 33:1-3 and
Matthew 7:7-11. God wants us to
pray to Him and we are encouraged
to find a "secret" place to come to
Him. In. Psalm 91:15 to says
"When He calls to me, I will.an-
swer HIm." God does answer our
prayers.
Bethany Desjardine led in the
singing of hymns for the evening
worship. Several 'favorite hymns
were chosen by the congregation.
Pastor Desjardine spoke on the im-
portance of daily Bible reading and
private meditation, centering one's
thoughts totally on God and what
He wants to say to us through His
Word •
Four of the church's youth will -be
taking part in the World Vision 30 -
hour famine this weekend. They
have been seeking sponsors so that
funds can be raised for World- Vi-
sion's hunger and self-help projects
in various parts of the world.:
Young
orld. -
Young pcoplc in Canada, the.
U.S.A., Great Britain and Australia
will be feeling what it is like to go
without food for 30 hours 'while
learning about world hunger, its
causes and possible solutions.
Bible Study
There were 13 ladies out for the -
Bible coffee hour last. Tuesday
morning in the Sauble Court
Lounge: Eleanor Duric gave the
opening remarks, followed by - a
hymn sing led by Millie Desjar= -
(line.
They reached the last chapter. "Te
Best Hospitality" in "A Woman's
Workshop on Hospitality", with
• discussion leader Puck Merkies.
• Studying from different passages of
scripture in Matthew, they learned
that a right relationship with Jesus
• is an ongoing hospitality - an open-
• ing of the door to a welcome guest
.-and having a meal together. .
Anyone can be polite to a a king.
. It -takes a gentleman to be polite to
• a beggar.
Pat Desjardine closed with prayer,
remembering the sick and shut-ins.
United Church
The First Sunday of Lent was ob-
served at the Grand Bend United .
Church- last Sunday. Rev. Ted
Smits' sermon text was taken from
John 4:15, "Sir, give me this water,'
that I may not thirst nor come here
to draw." He told the congregation
that water is one of mankind's great-. -
est needs. .
Scripture readings were from Exo-
dus.17:1-7 and John 4:1-7 and 39-
42. The choral anthem was "Bring
Back the Springtime".
The children's st, •• y was an object
lesson about light and dark, using a
flashlight. Just as a flashlight needs -
new batteries for power, so do peo-
ple need Jesus, the light of the -
World. Doorgreeters were Bertie
Keyesand.Elizabeth,Norris. -
Upcoming events for this week:
Grand Bend Sessions and Stewards
meeting on Wednesday, February 15
at 8 p.m. Membership classes on
Thursday, February 16 at 4:30 p.m.
Bible Study on Thursday, February
15 at 8 p.m., Grand Bend United
Young People's meeting on Satur-
day, February 18-
•
GB. council briefs
GRAND BEND - Former coun-
cillor Barb Southcott was choscn
as council's nominee for the
ABCA's A:n_ nual Conservation
Awards. In proposing her name,
Councillor Bruce Woodley said
"Barb is very concerned about all
flora and fauna. She will spend
hours researching something re-
garding conservation.. She really
cares."
* * *
A request from Stephen town-
ship to extend water service to.
property in the township was
turned down. The policy esta-
blished in thc Green Forest Estate
matter whereby a decision was
made not to extend water service
beyond the village's boundaries rc-
mains unchanged. '
* * * *
Reeve Bob Sharon declared a con-
flict of .interest when Councillor
Bruce Woodley broached thc topic
of returning to the owners land that
had been given up for the widening
of Oak Street. Clerk Diane Mol -
lard was asked to set in motion re-
ports from the village's engineer,
the county planner and the munici-
pal ofice on the impact and cost of
such a move.
* * * *
Two bylaws were riven third and
final reading.. One authorizes the
site plan -agreement for the com-
mercial sector of four retail stores
• and: three second -floor apartments.
being developed by Ed Blumas on
the former Christmas Place site.
The building inspector will issue a
building permit when he is satis-
fied that a couple of items he re-
viewed have been corrected.
The _second seals a development
agreement between council and
Vadnet Development-- Jcnco Man-
agement. David.Tennant's Harbour
Gate complex will consist of 26
condominiums with full amenities
behind and to the south of the Btu-
mas condominiums.
* * *.*
Wendy Jennison will be em-
ploycd for a maximum of two day's
a wcck to assist in the municipal
office. during thc period the tax
bills arc being prepared and sent
out.
* * * *
Councillors agreed to pay an ex-
pert a maximum of S150 to prepare
a report on what type of computer
and software best serve the require-
ments of thc municipal office.
May 1 to7 was declared Pitch -in
Week.
Valentine's Day. assembly - The kindergarten, grades one and two put an a Valentine's Day assem-
bly for the rest of the school at the Grand Bend Public School gymnasium last Wednesday, Giving
their' rendition of "Let the Sunshine In". is, from left, Deanna Turnbull, Scot Musser, Kristi McIntyre,
can Maguire, Sarah -Rae tovie on the keyboard. -- -
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dance were sold out at the Legion
on Saturday night,,as people crowd-
ed•'the dance floor to the music of
"Nice 'n Easy" hand. -
Over 200 dinners were doled out
at the Children's Party in the Grande
Bend School gym, and Pepsi donat-
ed allee.- . -,.- .
Organizer Cindy Maxfield eSti'-
mated that 225 children of all ages
enjoyed the free dinners and enter-
tainment. A real favorite was jug-
gler Craig Douglas, magician Peter
Meaning, from London, Storybook
Gardens, and Ventriloquist Yvette
Campbell. This 15 -year-old young
lady won a prize in the London Tal-
ent Search.
They finished off the evening
with a Disney -movie, and everyone
was back home by 10 p.m. after a
great party.
• Sunday morning crowds lined up
at 8 a.m. for thc Firemen% Pancake.
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