The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-02-27, Page 19ESSAY WINNERS '
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the arena in Goderich where minor - hockqy teams from -
,A1/ had all thoroughly enjoyed thek olk
everyone was waiting. The boys Goderich paid a visit to St.
Lambert, Quebec. On their
- return team members,were asked.
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to write an account of the trip
My Trip To St. Lambert with prizes being awarded to the
By Dave Nephew ° ' three witufers. E:ssays for
The. rest of the town was Bantam and Squirt teams have
-. 'asleep, when we boarded our bus been published already. The
on, the first lap of our journey. following are accounts of the
We had looked forward to trip written by Pee Wee .A1.1
- this trip for a long time.arid at.
Stars. The stories are published
last we were on the bus headed .
in order of fipiish. ,
for Stratford, where we would . •
catch a train for Toronto, and
"St. Lambed" here we come! ..
Women
We could not. hold our Local
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excitement arid sang songs. This
it was no time before we were OW, . Meeting.
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elivery Wee
ost Office
weekend of fun in St. Lambert!
• made the trip seem shorter and 11
. speeding towards Toronto on
our train.
We arrived at Union Station In Mitchell
in Toronto and wasted notime•
gk'ts
boarding the train, for Montreal. Huron regional preen
As the train pulled away an were among the officers named
picked speed, we all settled by the Huron -Perth Presbyterial
• ourselves for this longest part of United Church women at their
our
annual meeting in Mitchell
trip.
Our group consisted of . 30 United Church this month..
boys and 23 adults. The. adults Mrs Harold Doig of
• were mostly parents, plus our Fordwich was chosen as north
coaches. Before long everyone president; Mrs. Orval Harrison,
RR 1, Monkton, centre; • .
was doing something, playing Mrs
cards, eating or just sleeping. Lloyd Bond, RR 3, Clinton,'
Most of us had butterflies
west and Mrs. Edwin Miller, RR
in
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our stornach, and we wondered 3Exetersouth.
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how we would be received. But On the 1969 slate of
presbyterial. officers, is Mrs.
• we didn't need to worry because
there was a delegation waiting Stewart Miner, RR 3, Exeter,
for us at the tation. They first vice-president. Mrs. George
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whisked us to the St. Lambert Michie, RR 4, Brussels, is a past
Arena and before we knew it, we president.
were assigned our billets. Mrs. J. Axtman, RR 2,
Everything wasso well Wagon, was named chairman of
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organized. the Christian missionary
Our first game was oeducation committee. Mrs.
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Carson Watson, RR 4, Brussels,
Saturday morning. i,ve were
heads the finance committee and
quite nervous, and didn't play
Mrs. Gilbert Beecroft of RR 1,
too well. However, on Sunday
we put up a much better fightBelgrave is co-chairman of the
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even though we lost. Despite our nominating committee.
tMrs. Bert Alton of RR 7
,
-two losses, we enjoyed ourselves *Lucknow, was selected as
Very much, and the St. Lambert
community friendship portfolio
people wereoiery good hosts. In
secretary, with Mrs. George
ow free time -we went on a tour
Pater of Clinton in charge of
of•the Forum, had a ride on.the
Metro, did some shopping and of supply and welfare and Mrs.
course were in and out of the Clark Kennedy of Grand Bend
arena watching hockey. games at sharing programme
all hours during Saturday and responsibilities with Mrs. Roy
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Sunday: Galway of Listowel.
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Monday mOrning came, and . ,IVIrs_. A • .Mowatt of
too_soon it was time to say
Clinton s . . U.C.W.
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good-bye to our hosts, and 'our e morning devotions for the
new friends. As we shook hands 41
• 75 women who attended the
and - waved farewell, we knew meeting for which the theme
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that we would soon see each , was Deeper Commitment —
other again at Young 'Canada Wider Horizons."
Week.
The ReVerend Morley Clark,
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As our train pulled out of the
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Christian • Education secretary
for London onference, gave.the
station, already my head was fullof plans for that exciting week. morning address. Mrs. B.C.
Neice of Essex was afternoon
Editor's* Note: On December 27 speaker.
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- -The -shortened Post Office
delivery week and the new single
mail processing system which,
*erne effective February 17,
was reconfirmed this week by
the Honourable Eric - Kierans.
The Postmastereneral stated
these adjustments will result in
better use of , staff, alloy a
greater number Of eniployees to•
enjoy a Monday to Friday work
week and will Mean a saving of
some $13,000,000 to the
Canada Post Office,
. There will be no change in
postal service in smaller centres
generally served by post offices
operated in Conjunction with a
private business, or from a
private dwelling. Rural route
delivery service to boxes located
on or near the property lines of
farm homes and- of some
residences on the fringes of
suburban area, "will, also
continue as at present.
In communities not servecrby
letter carrierS and where service
is provided from self-contained
post office buildings, first class
mails and daily newspapers will
be • processed for delivery and
wicket service not exceeding
four hours willOe provided on
Saturdays. The wicket
transactions will include general
delivery, the . sale of postage
stamps and money orders and
the acceptance of items for
mailing. Lock box service will be
• maintained and mails will be
received and despatched.
In areas 'served by letter
carriers, sub post offices located
in drug stores and similar
" business establishments will
remain open to- provide a wicket
service for the sale- of stamps and
money orders and for the
mailing of items requiring
weighing and documentation. At
the post office, lock box
delivery "will be -available and
general delivery will be provided
for four hours. Those customers
who Must have Saturday mail,
will he-abie'-to-obtain= t by
arranging receipt through a lock
box at the post office. However,
they will have to take delivery
through the postal box at all
. times.
Special delivery will continue
as now, on both, Saturday and
Sunday. Weekend street lerter‘
• box collectiorig " wili Continue to
be made and mails will continue
to be received and despatched.
While Mails will- be processed
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on both Saturday -and Sund4y,
Mr. Kierans said staffing
arrangements are being made to
reducets" the number of 'staff
Members required to work on
weekends to a minimum.
Procedures for implementhig
the five-day delivery week haVe
been developed to allow the
greatest number of employees to
enjoy a constant Monday
through Friday work Schedule .
with minimum disruption 'ilas
postai service. As he stated
previously in the House Of
Commons, Mr. 'Kierans said this
major change will be completed
without employees being laid
ciff. Departmental officials have
made use of every possible
alternative, to protect the
'employment of full-time regular
employees. Most surplus
employees can be offered
,alternative employment within
their present post office because
there has been no hiring of
full-time employees since
,October - 1, 1968, to fill
vacancies and to take care of
,normal service expansion: In
some• cases where employees
.11\kve to, be moved from one
Imlay to another expenses will
Pe paid.
When post office planners
were working out the details of
the five-day delivery and a
,co'ncUrrent change to a single
.mail processing system for letter
carriers,— ,they consulted
frequently with the Council of
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