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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1993-09-22, Page 9Deliver your H DITRICTs'` Soybean C001'MTh'E 0Corn To your Farmer -Owned Elevator and get guaranteed fast, efficient service backed by over 50 years experience 4. * Locally owned by farmers * Friendly Fast Efficient Service * Now Total Receiving Capacity of 25,000 Bushels per hour * Fair Grades * Honest Weights WE NEED AND APPRECIATE YOUR.a,$ pmmitted To Serving Rural Communities .r HEM�IILL 015 7RICT O -OPERATIVE Hensall 262-3002 144090,0-51109 Londesboro Office 5234606 Elevator 523-4470 Exeter Elevator 235-11 send Elevator 522-1.0 Ilderton 666-1300 Times -Advocate, September 22,1993 Page 9 pts nv.g. Thanes Road UC Women meet The :tree and its byproducts have long been the cornerstone of our everyday living so it seemed appropriate to make "Wood" the focus of an event that has been a part of our community for one hundred and thirty -nine years. The Exeter Fall Fair is upon us again and we hope to see you there. We are pleased to have the Thames Valley Woodcarvers sharing their talents as well as other displays, demonstrations and competitions in- volving wood. Friday evening the program includes the magic talents of Doug the Great and the crowning of our new fair ambassador. Come cheer for your favorite organization as they participate in our 'Mystery' event. Saturday is busy with the parade, livestock, horse and pet shows, a stepdancing competition, a chainsaw .competition, and in the evening, bingo. Sunday, we have the talents of the local b ndllosidvely Stompin'. It should be a busy weekend. We hope you take time to be a part of the community spirit - have some fun and come to the fair. Fair president Wayne Shapton Homecraft Division Come in to the Home Craft Division and see all the innovative ways our "Focus on Wood" has been incorporated into the prize list. Junior and Youth exhibitors can enter a wooden birdhouse special, a table centrepiece from twigs or your best article of woodworking. Floral arrangements incorporate the theme with "The Woody Wood- pecker Song" arrangement or "A Walk in the Woods." The woodworking division expect great things from all the talented exhibitors this year in order to really show case the theme. Photography buffs can expect to see pictures with our rural heritage incorporating wooden bdildings/fences. I expect to see lots of entries in the "Christmas Tree print" special as well.Iow.about a quilt depicting any aspect of wood or a "family tree" wall#mging. Exhibitors with culinary talents bemire -Ito take note :of:allithe ,new . specials loaner in this year! We do hope you will participate by enter- ing.all your -talents throughouttheprizelist. Our tea rnonrthis year will .be.the "Woodiest". It offers a•place to sit • and relax acrd enjoy a cookie, muffin ora sliccco Teee-iwit" pie! Your courteoustresses are none other than the local -brownies. Thank you to them. And .thanks to all the volunteers and local sponsors without whom thefair could not survive as it does. Come on.out to.theiair - your friends are sure to bethere because its the only place to:beSeptember 24-26. Enjoy! Karen Etherington Homecraft President .School Division Here it is nearly Exeter FaIFFair.timetTice seasons roll around fast. Our foeus:this year is on,wood. Come to the fair and check out our WoodwaaitingSpecial. You•Will-no doubt be surprised at the talent of youth in•grades 7 and 8. At the Friday night -program we will again be announcing the "School Champs". Encourage your children to enter as many categories as pos- sible. This is what makes the -school division successful. If your children are -unable:to:de iverentries on Friday, they can bring them Thursday evening between 7 - .8 -p.m. All entries must be at the Recreation Centre .by 11:30 am. on friday,September 24 for judging after hunch. Please help your children fillout and attach the entry tags: •If you wish to help us out please contact me at 235-0368. We will al- ways need our many volunteers. Many thanks to them. Gloria McFalls School division president. Centralia Y m, Kooy CENTRALIA - A .large raowd gathered at the United Church on Sunday to honour Sam and Aldan Skinner on their 40th wedding an- niversary. The entire wedding party with the exception of one were present. They were Leona Morley (Pym), sister of the bride; Muriel Parsons (Coward) and Lenora Par- sons (Cooper), friends of the bride and groom. Malcolm Kirkland, Bev Parsons, Bev Skinner (absent), Cheryl Meyero (Denham), flower - girl, niece of the groom and Dale McAllister, ringbearer (nephew of the groom). In the evening a dinner was nerved by the U.C.W. members at the church. We wish them many more years of happiness. Congratu- lations from all your friends. At the service at the United `Church on Sunday Rev. Geddes spoke on "Who Wants to Live For- - ever". Zion United Church Anniversary will be held next Sunday, Septem- ber 26 at 11 a.m. Rev. Cordell Par- sons will be gucst speaker. There will be no service at Centralia Unit- ed but Sunday School members will meet on that day at 11:30 a.m. Friday dinner guests with Mary Kooy were Linda Holcombe and daughter Wendi Horton of St. Thomas and callers on that day were Labelle Dixon of Alberta and Marian Thompson of McGillivray. Several other friends and relatives visited me on Saturday and Sunday evening. • F•u • r•� q 1�. ii • awn, • ir` ��/i COM `•. oti � rir •�'=���� :' I la sot' Iy Go 305-1678 R. R . 2 Hensall, Ontario LANOMt!1>Rl1G Your key to year round bilaury Take advantage of our complete professional landscape design service. j• Phone and our landscape designer will make an appointment to cal on you and produce a detaiied drawing. • interlocking Brick • Seeding • Ground Work • Railway Ties • Sodding • Design Service • Cedar Lawn Furniture • Nursery stock planting liOrdor your nursery stock now ... or the work *in be done by our abindacap1ng titpeclalists 1 tt All nUtriary. stock guaranteed hone 235-1678 236-445 y is first In our business • e 4 By Rhoda Rohde THAMES ROAD - The Septem- ber meeting of the U.C:W. com- menced with a pot lucksupper. Af- ter the dishes were finished the meeting started with Helen Hodgen welcoming everyone. The theme was compassion and the Call to Worship on Forgiveness. -The women sang "1 Love to Tell the Story". Helen Hodgen gave a reading "As Christians, Women of the Bible" and also read from Deu- teronomy 24. Marilyn Pym, who was portraying Jezebel, read from Judges 16:4-6. Judith Parker por- trayed Delilah reading from Luke 8:1-3, and Virginia Warwick por- trayed Mary Magdelene and read from 1 Kings 21:1-9. Judith Parker, UCW president opened the business part of the meeting with a poem "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day". The roll call was answered with a flower beginning with the first let- . ter of your name. The U.C.W. has received an invi- tation from Centralia U.C.W. .to meet with them on October 7 rat 8 The visiting committee for the next fourmonths are Group U Mar- garet Stewart, Group C Karen Etherington, Group W Marion Cann. The group decided to order Heritage Books for 1994. The hymn `Walls that Divide" was sung and Parker pronounced the Bene- diction. • Church service - Rev. Charles Henderson was in charge of the regular church service on Sunday morning. The Call to Worship was taken from Luke 6:12 and 13. The -choir sang "No Man Is An 1 .land" accompanied by the or- ganist Erin Kraftcheck. Rev. Henderson's sermon was en- titled "Lord Teach Us to Pray'. Church news Once again this year the Manse Committee will be selling pies at the Exeter Fall Fair this coming weekend. Each member is asked to donate two pies or 510.00. Pies may be dropped off at the follow- ing manse committee members homes, Kay Grubb, -Cindy Elford, Sharon Passmore, Liz Taylor or Marilyn Rohde (after 4 p.m.). On Wednesday, September 29 at Elimville the Session meeting at 7 p.m. followed by the Official Board -meeting at 8:00 p.m. On November 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Thames Road church the Commu- nity of United Churches is planning a special evening filled with music and worship. Everyone is welcome. The first choir pnsctice for all those who would like to sing in this joint choir will be held October 31st Thames Road at 7:30 p.m. The Thames Road church is in need of a tmaittrer by the beginning of 1994. ihah+and Anne Bray who have held the position for 25 years are resigning the end of the year. Personals The ladies of the Manse Commit- tee and U.C.W. catered to the Ducks Unlimited banquet on Wednesday evening at K.W. Com- munity Centre. Clif and Leona Jaques of Zion visited on Thursday evening with Bill and Rhoda Rohde. Notice to Exeter Public Utilities Commission Water Consumers Please'be advissldihat restrictions for watering of lawns and gardens have been cancelled. The Commission wishes to thank the customers for their co-operation. EXETER PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION H.L. Davis, Manager