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Clinton News-Record, 1984-01-04, Page 11it o a�U pa r grew wweleighed thati_ `ew •Year at the Het I1 A1'efla afld e . Iie7 nglof Hence ilereal eebrations , • Lucky winnera of one'Troy ounce.o Gold *ere Mervin *riser of R.R.3, Zurich and Ken 'dno, of'Seaforth. Spot, dances winners were Keith and Dorothy ` Volland; George Dowson and 444111* Love; Jack Upshall and Dianne q e tikoral:. Mae Haney of Seaforth won the disk lamp donated for a special draw. Good fun,. good aaausic and good food bighted the -evening and promise a year of old tithe fun:and remembrances in 1984. Mei don't forget to register for the Beard Growing Contest. Any man not intending to sport a beard will be required to pay a $2 ex emptionfee. Please note the change of night and- place of, the next general meeting to be held at the meeting wont at the Hensall Arena Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. �e A%public meeting will be held at the Public School on Jan. 24 regarding a study into the possible closure of the school.- All resident§. of the area are welcome at both:these impor tant meetings. Keep theates in mind and plan to attend. Unite d.neves .. _ Irene Davis, Ambassador of the Hensall Centennial, read the scripture at the open- ing Sunday of the Centennial' Year for Hen- ` salt, at the United Church on Sunday morn- ing. Rev. Stan McDonald spoke on the sub- ject entering this New Year, Robert Gackstetter was soloist for the service. The ushers were Steven and Jeff Corbett and • t e greeted the �ga Pe' IID Ronald Mae neon, tvia, w, a d Mr A. Mrs, ;pi P. WO: - e Janet' as ° triba l (� ye . Tracey Qiv B.fr''!�..., n visit el w � WJI. Mr. Herb Meriden who was a patient in South Huron Hospital returned to his home last week. Mr. and Mrs nTIM Mock and son returned t4. their home ''n Vancouver after spending Christmas with the former's parents and family Mr. awl s. Ron Mock. Sgt. Doug Wein, R.C.M.P: Mrs. Wein and David returned to their home in Ottawa after holidaying with the former's mother Mrs. - L. Wein, Exeter and the latter's parents and family e Mr-, and Mrs. Harold Parker of Hensall. Rev. Kenneth Knight conducted worship in Carmel Presbyterian Church on Sunday. His sermon topic was Confidence in God. The annual congregational meeting will be held Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m. The P.C.W. will meet in the schoolroom of the Church, Jan. 9 at.2 p.m. Three Links Seniors will meet on Jan. 10 -at~ -p;m --in-the-local-ha1L Please -note -the change of time to afternoon. Centennial school events On Jan. 6, at 1:15 p.m. the Hensall Public School will begin the first of. a series of Centennial ; activities. This past summer Mrs. Irene Davis Ambassador of the Hen- sall Centennial visited Hensall, England, and while there she nrenared clhiaa of the ,�9 . de ed last eekkd and ' ee Mrs. 0 Brien s mother Mrs, yn lynn • hel Sth11451A ha ida'!s. life armed th+eQ *FAO has prdve.Qrto be quit exci.. g. One.af rnoon ver'al days , ..ore, �h� the United Church Messengers were in the home with Christmas or: decorations; that they had made for each of the residents. We were also privileged tQ have the Heti- salt Public choir give the residents a short program. F" Ladies' (roan - the Zurich Mennonite Church were also in one afternoon to play bingo with the residents. „On Dec. 23 the, residents had their own Christmas Party and Santa Claus arrived with treats for all the residents. Also that - evening some young people from Lakeview Conservative Church were in to sing Christmas Carols. • All the excitement didn't end after Christmas Day. On Dec. 27 Rev. Stan McDonald was in charge of the Church ser- vice and he brought along members of the United church Junior Choir to provide music for us. New Year's Eve was also an occasion to celebrate and an early evening patty took place for those residents waiting to welcome the incoming year. Thanks to each and every one of you, who made our Christmas Season a little more speciai� R SP:ci,.: • Recently Clinton Legion Auxiliary President Rose LaCroix ( seated left) presented a $3,000 cheque on behalf of the Auxiliary, to Clinton Legion President Steve Maguire. The money will go toward a new HEINZ TOMATO OR CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP 10 OZ. TINS FOR CONCENTRATED WELCWS-f-ROZEN CRAPE JUICE 341 mL TIN 99` VALUABLE LIPTON COUPON' WITH THIS COUPON , LIPTON TEA BAGS 110 g PKG. OF 50' OFF ONE COUPON.PER PACKAGE COUPON VALID JAN. 4,JJAN®10, 1984 THESE SPECIALS AVAILABLE ONLY IN: LI61t ' ' YELY_fWOJ1RS SEALTES IYOGURT COUNTRY HOP SP BECELSOFT STYLE - MARGARINE 90 iTUBib. COUNTRY OVEN PLAIN OI SEEDED KAISER ROLLS 9tA. 991z. oz. COUNTRY OVEN 60% OR 100% W. WHEAT OR CRACKED WHEAT BREAD , 24 oz. 69' COUNTRY OVEN - ALL FLAVOURS TEA BISCUITS PKG. OF 6 99° HIGHWAY NO. a GODERIC-H MON., TUTS. - 9 TO O P.M. WED., THURS., FRI. - 9 TO 4 P.M. SAT. R:30 TO 0 P.M. WESTONS RASP. OR LEMON BIJTTERHORNS PKG. OF 6 133 WALNUT OR ALMOND 415 g 199 OLD BAVARIA RING FOR DISHWASHERS, 1.8 kg 4.99 LANCIA NOODLES LASAGNA 8119 BRAVO BRAND TOMATO PASTE 13 Oz. 99¢ WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT PURCHASES TO REASONASLE WEEKLY FAMILY REOUIREMENTS JOSEPHINE ST. (HWY. NO. 4) WI-N'GHAM MON., TUES., WED. & SAT. • 1:30 TO 0 P.M. THURS. AND FRI. -1:30 TO 9 P.M. WESTONS ENRICHED _..._ _ _ WHiTE-B'READ; 1► 675 g LOAF parking lot at the Legion. Pictured in the back row, from left to right are, Auxiliary Treasurer Diane Maguire, Secretary Karen... Tait,, Second Vice Dorothy Flagg, Legion Second Vice Gord Taft; Auxiliary -:Feirs t VJce:loseniary Arrnstroaa .and LLegion. First -Vice-.._ George Lauzon.(Rod Hilts photo,) alton news... • from page 8 ter's mother, Mrs. N. King of Gorrie. Boxing Day guests .with Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Murray were Susan Murray of Brussels and Charlie Murray RR 3 Walton. New Year's Day Mr. and Mrs. Clint Emmrich and -family; Mrs. Ruth Thamer, Miss Ruth Thamer, Walton; Miss Ruth Thamer, Woodstock; -Mr. and Mrs. Alex ,Gulutzen and family of Clinton had dinner with. Mr.. and Mrs. Volker Hertlein and family in London. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pennington and Jason of Goderich - spenr a few days of_`U -- Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Searle. At the Sunday morning service at Duff's United the Godkin girls quartette Diane, Donna, Nancy and -Sharon sang ac- companied by their mother at the piano and brother Brace Godkin with the electric guitar. In .the announcements: . the U.C.W. meeting Jan. 4 at 2 p.m:; Regular board Meeting Jan. 8 at Graeme and Helen 'Craig's; All reports to be in by Jan. 7 for the Annual..Meeting Jen. 22with a_Roca lun:, Varna service cancelled By Mary Chessell VARNA - Happy New, Year! And T hope your Christmas was filled, with joy. Many people celebrated with neighbors when family gatherings had to be postponed. ° Mervyn and Margaret Hayter entertained __.___� Bonnie-Barfira-Clovg'h,--daughter°_Karri,t"Bon- '" nie's mother and the Chessels on Christmas Day.. On - Friday they held their family Christmas, when .20 of them were together, coming Toronto, "Exeter, Zurich and area. On New Year's Day, Mervyn and Margaretwere and. Ardys Glenn's in Exeter. • " Harvey and- Maureen Hayter- s fortieth .wedding anniversary was on Dec. 28. A planned celebration at the hall was cancell-. , ed because of the uncertain weather, but their family 'and relatives treated them to dinner at the China Place, ,Clinton,' then . returned to their home for a party. Present were their daughter's family,, Joyce and Doug McBeath, Kelli and Glenn; Elmer and Noreen Hayter, Mervyn and Marg `Hayter, Eileen and Ken McLean, Ross and Barbara Lovett; Maureen's aunt, Mabel Harvey, and Harvey's aunts, Esther Moffat and. Florence Routzon..Several nieces and nephews joined:, them for the house party. We're happy to have Florence Elliott back with us. She has been with her son Bruce's family in Aurora since having hip surgery in Toronto the end of July: Her 'son Ross's family lost their home near Wiarton recent= ly in' a fire. They were all away at the time. • __,.,There iaa_ee for donations p_ assist them et the post office. T V • About 40 people were at Jesus' Birthday • Party in Varna church on the Friday even- ing preceding Christmas; although the big storm was beginning to blow. The children painted Christmas scenes during the carol singing and placed the baby in the manger, and the other figures in the manger scene. Harold Peck made and donated a small manger, which Rev. Brown's little baby doll fits beautifully.. Eighty-one dollars was donated for .the Temanggung Christian School in Indonesia. Margaret Robinson thanked the donors and reported that she now has about $3500, which will be matched by CIDA Seven thou- sand of our dollars is a substantial amount INTERSECTION HWY. NO. 4 AND No. 83 EXETER MON., TUES., WED. • 9 TO 6 P.M. THURS., FRI. - 4 TO 9 P.M. SAT. • t:30 TOS P.M. • of money in Indonesia. The children served birthday.cake, which was made by Eleanor McAsh and Bernice Reid. . On Christmas Sunday, the church service. was cancelled, and the Christmas celebra- tion was held last Sunday. Mary Ellen• • -Webster: played.�a-carot_on-the piano; alTd� "�-"" Julie Webster played in duet with the organ. Commwiion w4t'be observed next Sunday. TheJanuar% meeting of Varna UCW is at -the'-hoine-of--Margaret T-Iayter-on"Thursday- -- ,at 8 p.m. Rev. Wilena Brown, Walter. and Norman . .:. Smith and. Bob and Elva Petit were guests . of Jim and Dianne Kirkton on Christmas Sunday. On Boxing Day, the Peck families • were guests of Brian and Mary Peck in, Strathroy, with all present. The Allan Hayter family" were with Bill and Joyce Dowson and family, on Boxing Day, when Joyce was unable to. have . the Jewitt family. On New ' Year's Day, 42 members of the Jewitt family celebrated at Bill and Joyce's, with the relatives from Toronto .unable to join them. Tom and Barb Consitt had to postpone the Evans gathering, and joined the Dowson family at Margaret Dowson's home for Christmas. • . George and Linda .Smith. arrived at Gor- don and Ruby Hill's on the Friday evening before Christmas to spend the week with her parents. They celebrated Christmas on Saturday, with Mrs. Lyle Hill, Bev and Shirley and boys there. Carol's family was unable to make it. Not even Bev and Shirley were able to get home that -night -- The Bob Taylor family had Christmas din- ner at noon on Saturday at Carol.and Lloyd Moore's in Exeter, but came home early, because of the bad weather. Bob and June Webster and girls were with Karen and Bill Harmon's family in Bayfield on Dec: 27 for the Webster Christmas. All the neighbors on.the north road, the • Websters, Reids and Smiths, got together at the Chessells on Boxing Day for supper. The Chessell families arrived from Stratford on Tuesday for their Christmas get-together. Bill, Mary and Brian joined the Jefferson families at Don and Olive Riehl's on New Year's Day. • Christmas Eve fire destroys barn "-'-n- UCKERKMI.Til.--J"X tafg Barn was destiroyeil, 500'laying hens and -600 ge were killed when fire,, ravaged the Nico Peters' farm on Christmas Eve. Th Seaforth ,fire department answered the coil at the lot 31, concession 7 farm in Tuckersmith Township. They were on the scene for more than six hours and blizzard - conditions -hampered' their -attempts to save the barn. Fire chief Harry Hak reported, "We got stuck with the pumper truck and had to pull it out with the water tanker. The township snowplow was called in to keep the road open so we could get back to town to get water." He 'added, "The barn was pretty well gone by the time we got there." The Peters' family were celebrating Christmas when they spotted the fire from their kitchen window. A ,neighbor saw the flames 10 minutes earlier and alerted the fire department. Noticing the fire ,truck at the end of his lane, Mr. Peters proceeded to clear rus driveway with a tractor and blower. He recalled, "I got about 20 feet from the truck when the shaft snapped on the blower. But the truck managed to make ltthrough;'' Cause of the fire, with damages exceeding $100,000 has not been determined, Mr. Peters said that it could have been, caused "Gy=�lt�ate�s,:-.i�the.-ehickexj::�e'eti�utr_=or-bec`---- - .: T wiring-. - _- - For the Seaforth .fire department, the Peters' barn fire was the second call they answered on Dec. 24. Earlier in the day they spent more than two hours at the Village Auto Body in Harpurhey. Damage in that fire was estimated between $25,000 and $30,000, In both fires, the firemen were hampered by blowing wind and Mr. Hak said, "Because of snow banks the closest we could get to the barn was about 250 feet. I can only remember one other time about seven years ago when we had to follow a sn vplow.-We never did get to that fire." Baby born • . in -ambulance EXETER - The first baby ' of 1984 wasn't, bornat South Huron Hospital in Exeter. She was en route and entered the world in the back of an ambulance. Vicky Wilder of Zurich gavebirth to the girl at 4:38 a.m. assisted by ambulance attendant Hoffman,. Mother and, baby 'were transferred to Vitoria Hospital in London where the baby was in an intensive cage unit andthe mother was in good condition.