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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1984-11-07, Page 28PAf (,r *o SI A T � Doltphotos ti to be b TID SITS . - Nernomesow By Joanna Buchanan 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. +++ 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. +-+-+ 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. Ben . te, latjk:W moved 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. ow Display in the a listed above, hut ADDRESS MAILING -IN ENTRIES TO NT CLEARLY 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.