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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-03-06, Page 6• es, Thursday, March 6, 1976 Elections at Turnberry Central came to a close recently with Neil Warwick coming out victorious. Neil will take over the office of Prime Minister from Shelley Alden very soon. The candidates, while running for Prime Minis- ter, learned a lot and had a lot of fun. 0--0-0 A few weeks ago, the Grade 8 class successfully staged a carni- val. It involved many interesting, contests, a spooky, haunted house, a dart -throw and much more. There was also a draw for a box of valentine chocolates. Tickets for this4raw sold quickly and Valerie Peel of Grade 8 was the lucky winner. All throughout the event, the pennies rolled in. Altogether, we made $63.65. The proceeds will be used for the Grade 8 spring ex- cursion. On February 18, Grades 3, 4 and 8 went snowshoeing under the instructions of Vince Elliott and his assistant Kevin. First, they went from the school through a small swamp and then played fox and goose in an open field. After that they followed the railroad tracks back to the school. Everyone had an enjoy- able time. 0--0--0 The students- of the boys' and girls' volleyball teams chal- lenged the teachers to a volley- ball game. The boys and girls played two separate games of 11 points or a ten-minute time period. Mr. Hooftman passed out 'pep pills' (sugar cubes) to the teachers and they must have worked because the teachers de- feated the girls' team 11-3. But the 'pep pills' wore off and the boys won the second game 11-7. All the pupils in the school gathered to see the games and everyone had fun. o --a--0 On February 28, Grades 6, 7 and 8 went skating at the Wing - ham Arena. Grade 6 played hockey with Mr. Hooftman; Grade 7 played bordenball with Mr. Harrison and Grade 8 was doing skills with Mr. Sinnamon. Everyone got to play all three events at 15 -minute changes. 0--0--0, The Grade. 4 students had the best attendance of any other class at Turnberry during the month of February. Trevor, a little safety statue, was presented to them. Every month Trevor is passed to the room with the best attendance. Fordwich Personals Mrs. Jack Brown of Hanover, formerly of Fordwich, is confined to Hanover Hospital where she underwentjor surgery this week. ' Mr. a d Mrs. Walter Demer- ling and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart spent the weekend in the Sundridge area. Terry Tudan of Guelph spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ttidan. Ken Ashton of Brussels visited Saturday ' with . Mr. and Mrs. George Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Ron McClement and Sandra and Mr. and Mrsp,,Jim Douglas spentthe weekend with Mr, and Mrs. Dennis Johnston in . Sarnia -.;n Mrs. Glenn Johnston, Mrs. Harold Doig, Mrs.1Parker Eurig, Mrs. Scott Clarkson, Mrs. Austin Stinson, Mrs. Elmer Harding, Mrs. Lorne Siefert, Mrs. Bruce Agla, Mrs. William Wilson, Mrs. Stan Bride, Mrs. Ken Graham, Misses Minnie McElwain and Violet Beswetherick attended the Huron Perth Presbyterial of the United Church of Canada held last week in Trinity United Church, Listowel. Miss Pat King of St. Jacobs was a weekend guest with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don King. Mr. and Mrs. George Lillie of Lockport, N.Y., were weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Martin. Bill Walker of Drayton was a guest at the same home. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Lepping- ton and Vicki Lee of Gorrie were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Andy Miller. In Recreational Hockey 'on Sunday evening at the Howick Centre, Fordwich Rockets were. defeated by Wroxeter, 7-3: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnston and family of Toronto visited Satur- day with Mr. and Mrs. James Warrell. Prayer Day • World Day of Prayer will be held in the Fordwich United Church Friday, March 7th, at 2:$0 • p.m. All ladies of the community are cordially invited to attend. Corrie child bitten by dog A yoGorrie y was rushed to r;e Wingham and District Hospital on -Saturday, February 22, at approximately three o'clock, after he was bitten on the face by a dog. Ross Linton was being given candy when the dog apparently grabbed for the candy. Ross was treated in the emergency ward of the hospital where they tended facial lacerations. He was re- leased to the care of his parents. The incident was investigated by Prov. Const. Jamieson of the Wingham detachment off the Ontario Prov :i.cial Police. Damage heavy in two mishaps The Wingham Police Depart- ment reported two car accidents last Friday with heavy damages estimated in both. A car driven by Bernard Sterenberg, Minnie St., lost control on an icy section of Josephine St. at the south edge of town and struck the highway guide posts. Damage was esti- mated at $800. A hit-and-run accident oc- curred near the intersection of Patrick and Josephine Streets, when a car driven by John Krohn of RR 3, Wingham, shuck a car driven by Ivan Metcalfe of RR 2, Wingham, resulting in an esti- mated damage of $1,200. Charges are pending in this case. The Wingham police also re- ported two crinkinal investiga- tions completed last week, re- sulting in charges, and 26 traffic summons issued. Euchre winners BLUEVALE — Eleven tables of progressive euchre , were playedin the community hall on Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnston and Mr. and Mrs-: Jim Johnston were in charge. High ladies' prize was won by Jim Wilson; low lady, Bruce Campbell; high man, Carl Frie- burger; low man, Jerry Frie- burger ; lucky draw, Lloyd Tay- lor. The next euchre will be March 13 with Doris Adams and Alba Mundell in charge. Belgrave Mrs. Ross Anderson, Mrs. William . Coultes, Mrs. Norman Coultes, Mrs. Roy Dawson and Mrs. Donald Dow attended the annual meeting of the UCW of the Huron -Perth Presbytery at Listo- wel Trinity United Church Fri- day. Mrs. William Coultes was named North Huron regional resident for the coming year. GIRL GUIDES Jane Phillips, Caryn Mann and Sandra Schistad listen to the presentations during "international Night" Tuesday and wait hungrily for the feast. Each group pre - 3 pared a presentation of customs in Japan, Australia, Spain and Switzerland and served 1 foods of that country. 4 1 1 $ h 1� d b s fi G Speaker denies charge that United Church is anti -farmer {ev. Robert Lindsay, Whq is responsible for Anti -poverty pro- grams in the United Church of Ca + ada, w. s the guest of Huron - Perth Presbytery at its bi- monthly meeting held in Hensel!! United Church, on Tuesday, Feb. 25. He had been ivited to come and answer questions and criti- cisms concerning the position of the United Church on the. Cali- fornia Grape and Lettuce Boy- cott. The issue had been raised at an earlier meeting, when Charles Walkom of Fullarton presented a paper charging that the United Churg ' - giving the i;npres- sioi. • as anti -farmer, and also . he felt boycotts of perishable foodstuffs were morally wrong. Mr. Lindsay, who was born and raised on a farm, and still has relatives in farming, began by outlining sotne off the background on the boycott that began in 1965. He noted that up to the end of the '60's the American churches had been divided. Eventually how- ever, they took the side of the UFW (United Farm Workers of America) . The overflow of the boycott into Canada came in 1973. Mr. Lindsay affirmed that since Canada represents about one- third of the California grape market, we have no choice in being involved. He then presented the reasons for the involvement of the United Church in the problem. It takes the same attitude as the courts and churches in the United States; that is, that the contracts in question are not simply a local jurisdictional dispute. Thus, he said that the United Church will stay with the boycott until there is legislation) that will permit a supervised andfree settlement by a secret ballot, of what the farm workers want. The whole question, Mr. Lindsay cautioned, isy ty touchy and there is much at slakeon all sides: the growers, the Teamsters, and the UFW. • He concluded that at present the Church must sit and wait on this war of Nerves. Mr. Lindsay felt that this was one of the most significant social issues of the 20th century. . Charles Walkom, who had pre- sented the original paper that ini- tiated Mr. Lindsay's visit, re- sponded by quoting extensively PIanson board for recreation The recreation department headed by Jim Ward is starting plans for the coming months' activities in Wingham. Mr. Ward reports that a major concrr at this time is the Midget Tourna- ment. "All committees are work- ing hard to make it more success- ful than before," he explained, and "more activities are being arranged for the boys between games." The department hopes to offer a varied summer program this year, with special interest pro- grams taking the priority. Mr. Ward said that it. is the responsi- bility of the department to ascer- tain the amount of interest in sug- gested programs and called the department "the catalyst in starting the programs." He in- vites any interested hobbyists to contact the department for .new programming proposals. Mr. Ward also reported that application forms for prospective employees at the swimmingpool would be - available this week at the recreation office. You can be prepared for any emergency with St. John Am- bulance training that increases your awareness of the causes of accidents and makes you more safety conscious. A certified First Aid course is available at your local branch of St. John.... •..T THE GIRL GUIDES line up for the opening ceremonies of their Tuesday evening meeting. The theme for the meeting was "International Scouting" and presented the uniforms, foods and customs of Japanese, • Swiss, Australian and Spanish Scouting groups. • from . a, speech that the Hon. William Stewart had recently delivered in Essex County. In that address, w ; 'oh was also picked up by "The Farm and Country" magazine, Mr. Stewart criticized his United Church on the boycott issue. "Pastures of Plenty", a two part T.V. program featured on the CBC's Man Alive program and partially funded by the United Church, also was criti- cized. `4is the United Church against farmers and the faMily farm?" asked Mr. Stewart, and so did M. W lkO n. In answe ' g these charges, Mr. Lin y was first hotly critical of the "Farm and Country" for being overly emo- tional and sensational in its "pot shots at a distance" type of editorializing. He would like to meet these writers face to face. "At least you, Mr. Walkom, have the grace to sign your name to your letter, and come here to dis- cuss the matter openly," Mr. Lindsay replied. Regarding the T.V. program, Mr. Lindsay assured that for the segment of time with !Which the film dealt, it was true and a worthy statement of social com- ment. Its purpose was to raise the issue. (He later reported that the family featured in the program is still being looked after by the United Church, and that it was his call to William Stewart that initiated government action to provide the schoolhouse.) However, Mr. Lindsay promised, the Church is con- cerned with farmers and the family farm, and is , not anti - farmer. In fact, the United Church has set up a Committee on Agriculture with membership representing a wide variety of people in agriculture. It is moving to help keep the family farm in existence. During an open question period, other members expressed the concern that the United Church, in its opposition to the growers of California, is thus against farmers in Ontario who are also producers. Mr. Undsay replied that the growers of grapes and lettuce in California are in no way like the farmer in Ontario. He said they are more like huge corporations with from 500 to 18,000 acres under produc- tion year round. His parting remark was that the Church will continue to be concerned with the seasonal worker and it does not intend this to be anti -farmer. Later in the meeting a resolu- tion asking the Huron -Perth Presbytery not to support the Grape Boycott was presented. However, due to the lateness of the hour, it was referred to the next meeting for action. In other business of the day, Rev. Norman Gibson of Central United Church, Stratford, and chairman of the International Youth Exchange Committee, an- nounced that they had selected Miss Marilyn Hester Day of Stratford as their representative for this Exchange which will take place in July and August of this year. She is a medical student at McMaster University, Hamilton, and will join over 100 other youths from the United Church who will be participating in this project. It is one of the many planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Church of Canada. The 13 other applicants will form a support and follow up group. Rev. John Roberts of Belgrave, chairman of the Division of Ministry, announced a number of changes in Pastoral Relations. Rev. Dr. Harold G. Lester, for- merly of Kingston area, is the new retired assistant for Central United Church, Stratford. Rev. Wes Siebert of Centennial United wily be retiring from that church in July, at which time he will be- come assistant at St. Marys United Church. Rev. Ray Lind- say of Monkton has accepted a call to the Brights Grove Church, near Sarnia. The Monkton charge has issued a call to the Rev. Michael Bolger of Barons River, Manitoba. The Walton Charge will be losing its minister, Rev. MORE POWER To you OPINION with DAN FISHER 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. • a Remo k . 0 ' eepted a to, the Dorchester, .critmilin Charge so ot`.Juy 4, T Rev. Giant :Mils will be retiring from .the Th nrieaview Charge in ," llartopp and, also retiring is Rev. Harald Dobson, who leaves the Grand lend Church, and Rev Charles Forrest from Fer4wlebl .e* of Jell/ 3,310. New ?Misters voming Oure>rf-Perth ire ..Rev,e Plante of Abb o .,'w 1 the new tester for Com* as July it, and. Rev. ` S. 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