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Have your Cabbage Patch kids or favorite
doll's photo taken Saturday,,,pyember 17 at
North Street United Church. Sittings are at
9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and the cost is
$2.50 in advance. The photos will betaken by
Colleen Maguire and the event is being
sponsored by the Explorersgroup of North
Street United Church.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO
SHOW US YOUR CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
AND WIN TWO WAYS
One
Way...Dress up your Window/Storefront for the Christmas
Season. If it's judged a winner ... you•will be awarded a
trophy by the Goderich Signal -Star. One trophy
will be awarded for each of 3 Categories (see
below). Plus, one Annual "Grand Prize"
trophy will be awarded for the best Christmas
Window/Storefront in the Town of Goderich.
This trophy may move to another window
(new winner) next year ... but your name will
always stay on it. So get with it!
Spiff it up!
The Other
Way...We don't have to tell you that a good
Window/Storefront display increases prospect
interest, product awareness/acceptance
and walk-in traffic. You already know
A good store front sells! and that
puts money in the bank for you!
With Christmas ... the most import-
ant merchandising season of the
year ... here NOW, why not join the
fun! Spiff up your window, your
sales and maybe win a trophy
ta' boot.
JUDGING WILL BE
BASED ON:
NEATNESS/ORGANIZATION
IMPACT
IMAGINATION
SPECIAL EFFECTS
USF. OF COLOUR, MATERIALS, LIGHTS, ETC.
GENERAL APPEAL
LJCATEGORIES:
HARD GOODS MERCHANTS
SOFT GOODS MERCHANTS
SERVICE ORIENTED
L1THEME
Any one you wish to choose.
Hard sell, Spiritual, Aesthetic, etc.
WENDY McASTOCKER
Terry McAstocker Browning is proud to
announce that his mother, Wendy
McAstocker just recently completed with
honors, a Commercial Refresher course at
Fanshawe College. She has accepted a
position as executive secretary at D&L
Industries in London.
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A newsletter from the Blyth Centre for the
Arts reports that 1984 was artistically one of
the most successful seasons in recent years.
Total paid attendance at plays for the
season was up a little—from 30,211 people in
1983 to 31,147 in 1984. Overall average
attendance was 75 per cent with Cake -Walk
having the highest average attendance at 91
per cent, followed closely by Garrison's
Garage at 85 per cent.
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LOOKING BACK
ATT[NT1I N READERS!
WE INVITE YOU TO BE
"THE JUDGE"
g> YOU COULD WIN ONE OF THREE PRIZES
OR $2 S .00 CASH!
HERE'S HOW TO ENTER AND WIN
Print the namelst of the Business(eU you think have the Best ( hristmas Storefront and/or Wind
entire Town of (,oder( h. List them in order of your preference. Base your judging on the (riled
remember...it's whether you find it appealing or not that reylly counts!
THE N...Bting or Mail your entry (entries) to the Coded(h Signal -Star no later than
friday. November 10, 1984. If your entry is drawn from those rec eived...YOU WIN!
There will he three winners in all.
LIMIT ()NE ENTRY PER PERSON. On your mark fudges. Get set. WIN!
CLIP OUT AND ENTER TODAY.
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ADDRESS
MAILING -IN
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MY CHOICES FOR BEST STOREFRONT
WINDOW CHRISTMAS DISPLAYS ARE:
BEST
2ND
3RD
4TH
(YOUR NAME)
(ADDRESS)
(PHONE)
80 YEARS AGO
The Goderich Planning MIll Company has
finished the Methodist parsonage at
Dungannon and Lane's a one -and -a -half
story brick at Lanesville.
The past' week five of our private
residences were visited by daring
hou§breakers or burglars and in each in-
stance, robberies were committed.
There are a few cases of scarlet fever in
town at present, but our people are not
alarmed as it is an annual visitor.
The town employees moved the seats
from Court House Square on Wednesday
and placed them in the Town Hall. The move
saves them from the weather and saved
them from being burned on election night.
50 YEARS AGO
Roy Errington, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Errington, of Colbourne Twp., was the win-
ner of the first Carter scholarship for Huron
County. A cash prize of $100 went with the
award.
A paid-up membership of 65, with more
members in prospect, was reported by F. E.
Bingham, membership chairman, at the
regualr meeting of the Goderich Board of
Trade.
Freighters headed for shelter when a 40 -
mile per hour gale, the first real gale of the
season, lashed Lake Huron. The Depart-
ment of Marine was considering installation
of a new kind of storm signal at Goderich
Harbor.
25 YEARS AGO
Heralding "a new era of industrial expan-
sion for Goderich," The $8 million rock salt
mine of Sifto Salt Ltd. was officially opened
here, Wednesday. At a signal from Ontario
Highways Minister Fred M. Cass, at 3 p.m.,
a ceremonial load of salt was hoisted to the
surface, from the mine's underground work-
ings 1,760 feet,below.
The honor of making the first phone call
over Goderich's new dial system went to
Gavin Green, a patient at Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital. Mr. Green, well-
known Goderich resident will be 98 -years -
old on April 8. In bygone days he was for a
time, an employee of the Bell Telephone
Company.
5 YEARS AGO
Construction will be starting soon on the
new headquarters of the Huron County
Library, after county council accepted
tenders for the renovations of the former
Bethel Pentecostal Church, Goderich. Coun-
cil purchased the building last spring, as the
future Huron County Library headquarters.
The Goderich Sailors earned thea first
point of the 1979-80 Intermediate C cam-
paign, in Mildmay Friday, scoring three
goals in the final three minutes of the game,
to earn a 5.5 tie with the Monarchs.
Goderich Recreation Director Jim Moore
will persue the prospect of Hosting Sport-
sfest 1980, in Goderich next August.