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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1984-02-29, Page 8an need of it ►fe was held af'the cDonald with 14 lad .es.- altons were led by Dianne. l c- lanc Hoeg- . Itt a bates, itwas decided to change the date of the ham.supper to the first Tues dayJune. toper; contestleaders were chosen, money to be collected quarterly. People were designated„ to. the devotions and lunch for `the meetings., and' the cleaning of the churCh4The March meeting is to be heldat the Manse. • 4-111 Meets Meeting A' of the Walton 4-H club was at the home of Pat Nolan on Feb. 13. The Presi- dent eonyened the meeting; proceeded with minutes by'Joyanne Van Vliet. Roll call asked members to describe one quilt or one quilted item in their family or at home. Members will bring an item to the next meeting to show to other members and tell when it was made. 'Filey were shown, how to put a quilted i$ a mple t0, eu. reai ;r over the home'; aast l ee in 3was held onFeb. t the a le leader's keine."., ^ , • Roll calx was answered by Mernwrs to. "Show Mtge *hirefrom a book Y ere . using as a quilting ting design from a children's story book or coloring book. United Gireeters on Sunday morning were Viola Kirkby and Elsie Carter. Organist was Margery Huether who accompanied Graeme and Helen Craig who sang a duet. Rev. Swan was In Toronto last week for a few days not Bermuda as read in last weeks paper, sorry for the mistake. Serving communion were Anne Reid, Ray Huether, Bruce Park, Emerson Mitchell, Neil McGavin, Graeme Craig and Barry Hoegy. World Day of Prayer service will be held on March 2, at 1:30 p.m. at Duff's United. with other churches invited. There will be a slide presentation of the World Council of Churches. By Dora Shobbrook Londesboro • The United Church Women 1 UCW) held a dessert luncheon meeting on Feb. 20. It was organized by Hattie Wood, Marion Snelland Jane Swan., - President Brenda adfprd welcomed all 21 members. The minutes were read by secretary Bernice Norman and • the treasurer's report was given by Margaret Good. Gail Lear introduced Lois Elliott of Clin- ton lipton a member for five years on the Presbyterial. She spoke on women in church the communities concern, child abuse, woman beaters, alcoholics, pornography and prostitution. The World Day of Prayer will be held on March 2 at 8 p.m. Laura Scott will be the guest speaker. Correspondence included an invitation to North Side Street - UCW in Seaforth on March 26 at 8 p.m., the Walton UCW on April 1 at 8 p.m. and a donation from Mary Robin- son of Hanover. Thank you notes were received from Vi and Bob Burns, Helen Lawson, Alice Davidson, Grace Fairey, Col in and Jane Swan for a quilt. On April 6 two UCW members will serve at the Daffodil tea at St. Joseph's. Church in Clinton. It was decided to have Daffodils in church on April 8. The work day at church will be held on March 20. Worship was prepared by Mary Peel and conducted by Brenda Radford. Hattie Wood played the piano and Addie flunking gave 'a reading. Shuffle board February 22 winners were: ladies' high, Yietta._. Hoggart;__ low,_. Genevieve. men's high, Tom Allen; low Reg Lawson;. playoff winners, Genevieve and Tom Allen; low Vietta Hoggart and Reg Lawson. The next card party -will be heldon March 7. World Day of Prayer the World Day of Prayer service will be . held at Londesboro United Church on March. 2 at 8 p.m. The service is being conducted by the UCW and everyone is welcome to attend. 4-H news The' Londesboro III 4-H club's first meeting was election of officers. They are: president, Lisa Duizer; secretary, Darlene Hulley; treasurer, Jennifer Sottiaux; press reporter, Theresa Overboe. This project is on quilting and meetings are held on Monday nights at 7 p.m. The leaders are Margorie Duizer and Helen Kolkman. At the second meeting members started their first quilting project, a zodiac sign, a snail, apple or 4-H crest. Members chose their club name the "Crazy Quilters". Lori Bromley is making the title page. At the -third meeting members showed their quilting samples and then started str- ing quilting. They used different kinds of patterns on the material. United news Welcoming the congregation on Sunday morning were Jack Tamblyn and Tom Duizer. Ushers were Fred Peal, Julie Merner, Crystal and Bryan Whyte. Colin Swan conducted the service and an- nounced the World Day of Prayer on March 2 at 8 p.m. and the family crokinole night on March 9. Junior teachers were Cheryl Lyon and Diana Shobbrook. The old testament lesson was read by Bert Lyon. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Jack. Lee spent the weekend with his sister. Hazel, Mr. and Mrs: Maurice . Rivers at Tweed. The WI card party has been cancelled this week,' as members will be attending the World Day of Prayer. There will be cards again on March 9 at 8 p.m. Mrs. Bill Sottiaux spent. the. weekend in Kiirchener with -daughter Linda Constantine and Kathryn. Norman and Helen Alexander visited with Helen's brother-in-law, and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Donald Irish of Waterloo last Friday and Saturday, and attended a slide presen- tation by their son Leon at their church on Friday evening.; Leon Irish is a medical stu- dent who spent last summer with Crossroads International in Belize, Central America. cA'Iuni�cipalities to .pay more by Stephanie Levesque . Municipalities in the Maitland Valley watershed will be paying 5.7 per cent more this year to the conservation authority. At its annual ' meeting on Feb. 16, the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority ( MVCA) approved a 1984 budget' of $1,985,919 up from $1,058,777 last year. The 32 -member municipalities of MVCA will share the general levy of $177,830. This general levy is up from $168,230 in 1983. • Construction and engineering costs of $495,000 for the Listowel conduit and $643,977, for special employment programs" account for the large overall budget increase. The special employment programs .in- clude Summer Experience and other unemployment projects such as work at the Brussels dam. MVCA secretary -treasurer Marlene Shiell noted that while .these programs are included in the budget,. there is no guarantee that either the provincial or federal governments will approve the projects. A breakdown of the budgets shows the municipal levy makes up nine per cent of the budget.• Special levies make up 4.6 per cent of the overall budget. Special levies are applied against the benefitting in municipality, si ch as Litowel, for the conduit project there. The total special levy expected in 1984 is $91,405. Provincial grants are budgeted at $1,107,148 or 55.7 'per cent of the entire budget. Federal 'grants, under special employment programs, are budgeted -at $525,530 or 26:5 percent of the .1984 budget. - The remaining revenue of $83,200 is ex- pected from conservation areas operated by MVCA. These funds make up the remaining 4.2 per cent of the . revenue side of tine budget. Water and related land management is the area where the 'authority expects to spend most of the money in 1984. A total of $909,986 or 45.8 per cent of the entire budget is earmarked for this category. This section's capital budget is $607,500 and includes the Listowel conduit project and $31,500 for a coastal engineering study for the Lake Huron shoreline within the boundaries of the Maitland watershed. The administration portion of the water andrelated land management program totals $302,486. This includes technical staff salaries of $90,300, the operations of dams at $40,200 and conservation, services such as forest management at $65,286. General administration has been budgeted at $251,300 for the year. This in- cludes personnel costs of $148,600 and authority members' expenses of $28,000. The total conservation and recreation budget for the year is $54,450 or 2.7 per cent of the entire money expected to be spent this year. Of this amount, $27,450 has • been marked for' improvements to the various conservation areas. The expenses uneligible for grants total $125,400. These include maintenance costs at the conservation areas. Also included in the budget is $17,700 for vehicle and equipment purchase. The most, expensive item is the replacement of. a dump truck which is budgeted at $15,000. . Final rehearsals were held this week in preparation for two Sunday concerts by the Blyth Festival Singers. The choir will present an afternoon and evening performance, Faith Of Our Fathers at the Blyth Memorial Hall on. March 4. (Shelley McPhee photo) aaPta, Mildred McAda of ort was named president of the Board' of iirectors of The Theatre Orate, a new professional theatre based at . Mernorial. Hall, Blyth designed to. bring professional theatre to Huron County and other .regions of. southwestern Ontario during the fall, winter and spriing months. • Mrs. McAdam comes to the position with plenty of experience having been a past president of the board of the Blyth Centre for the Arts which sponsors the Blyth sum- mer Festival. She was appointed to the new tit*lt at the, first meeting pf The Illeatre Circle board which is made up of directors from each of the citiesserved by the theatre. •• Douglas Whitmore of Blxth was named treasurer of the organization, Jill, It0111 t.QA, of RR3, Blyth was named secretary of the board, Bill Norton of Owen Sound was named the vice-president of the organization, Rehearsals for the first play, The Shortest. Distance Between Two Points are now underway with opening tight set for•Mareh 15 at Blyth Memorial Fall. Program is developed to relieve burden of waste disposal Ontario municipalities are receiving $500,000 in current grants from the Environ- ment Ontario Waste Improvement pro- gram, Environment Minister Andy Brandt, announced. Since the start of the program in 1977, grants totalling $3.2 million have been given to municipalities for studies on land- fill sites and for improving and upgrading or closing'ofsuch situ - "'Th'e-ob jective -of-the-program 4s -to-pro- vide te pro -.aide financial :assistance-_io_municipalities,.. especially smaller\ ones, to relieve the burden imposed on them in meeting the standards required for the safe disposal of municipal waste," Mr. Brandt said. "Today municipal landfill sites are a far cry from the traditional dumps used for the uncontrolled disposal of waste up to 15 years ago. The selection and operation of a modernlandfill site must conform to many strict specifications designed to protect the environment and the health of the people of Ontario." The work done on closed sites, with the support.-u£the. Ontario Management_Waste. ...... Improvement Grants, includes activities - succi as grading,°:fencing, seedu►g and thein ' stallation of-gasvent pipes. ~-- An operating landfill site the funds are used to improve access roads, fences and surface run-off drainage systems and for • hydrogeological, gas migration and other related studies. WHITE, CHAMPAGNE OR YELLOW VIVA TOWELS 2 ROLL PKG. GREEN GIANT VEGETABLES 7 oz. NIBLETS CORN OR 10 oz. CREAM CORN, SUMMER SWEET PEAS, SWEETLET PEAS OR KITCHEN SLICED GREEN OR WAX BEANS ALL VARIETIES TAB, SPRITE or COCA-COLA CASE OF 24 - 280 mL TINS REGULAR, BUTTER FLAVOUR OR LITE AUNT JEMIMA SYRUP 750 mL BOTTLE SAVE 80' SAVE UP TO 33' TIN SAVE 2.00 Public speaking is held Volleyball On Feb. 11 Hullett Central School's girls and boys volleyball teams went to the tour- nament which was held at Clinton iughcchool. The girls team placed second overall and even though the boys tried their very best, they 'placed last. Speeches On Feb. 23, the school had the annual public speaking contest. The top speakers from Grades 4-6 competed against each other in the Junior Division. Grades land 8• were in the Senior Division. The winners from the Junior Division were: 3rd, Anita Gross; 2nd, Lana Lawrence; 1st, Raymond Wilts. The winners of the senor division were: 3rd, Lori Livermore; 2nd, Kerrie Shepherd; 1st Brad Millson, • Congratulations to all of the people who tried out and' especially the winners. Also, • special thanks to Mrs. Scott, Mr. Jewitt, Mrs. Tolle, and Mr. Swan, who served as 'udges for the contest. - P.D. Day On Feb. 24, the school had P.D. Day. On this day the children did notgo to school. The teachers took part in the computer program at the board office and others went to Lon- don to take part in the Professional Develop- ment programs. • Constable Marshall During the last few weeks Constable Mar- shall has been going around to different classes, showing slides to the children and• discussing bus safety. He told them what to do in case of a bus accident or if the driver gets hurt. Thechildren really enjoyed hav- ing him around. White Cane Week On Feb. 6, the school had an assembly about blindness and white canes. Students Saw two films. The first one was called "You -and your eyes" and the last one was "What Do You Do When You Meet a Blind Person". The guest speaker was Rev. A Scott who came from Lucknow. Rev. Scott himself is blind. Students asked him many questions, and he answered a great deal about the life of a blind person. PURE CHOICE ALLENS APPLE JUICE WITH PORK, BROWN SUGAR OR VEGETARIAN STYLE VAN CAMP BEANS 14 FL. OZ. TIN TRY OUR OWN BRAND COLBY, BRICK, HAVARTI, MOZZARELLA OR MARBLE CHEESE 44. WESTON WAGON WHEELS 5002.19 TRADITION - 3 VAR. PEPPERIDGE FARM NABOB FROZEN. 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