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CONGRATULATIONS to the
KINSMEN for providing our
community With 40 years
of good service!
BLUEWATER
CLEANERS
38 West Street, Goderich
524-6231
(PAST KINSMEN — PETE McCAULEY)
...When you want your clothes to look as good as the first
day you bought them...BRING THEM TO US!
our sincere
CONGRATULATIONS
to the Kinsmen Club on your
40th ANNI VERSAR Y
SHANAHAN'S
FOODLAND
104 Courthouse Sq., Goderich 524-9411
Deputy -Governor Ron Blue exchanges pins with
incoming Deputy -Governor Matt Pearson.
It all started here in 1947
on charter night May 15,
The British Exchange Hotel where the
Goderich Kinsmen Club was chartered in
1947 is long gone ... but the Kinsmen Club
lives on.
On charter night, more than 100 were
present at a sit-down dinner and an im-
pressive ceremony in which Mayor
D.D.Mooney extended an official welcome
to the new club.
Mayor Mooney pointed out that the club
stood for community service and had a
fine reputation across the country.
Jack Coates, president of the Goderich
Lions club, said there were many oppor-
tunities for service in the lakeport town.
Also present was J.K. Hunter, president of
the Goderich branch of the Canadian
Legion.
Jerry Knechtel of Hanover, a past na-
tional president of Kinsmen, presented
R.H. Cornish, president of the Goderich
Kinsmen Club, with the charter. Ed
Freeland of Fort Erie, governor of district
1 extended a welcome to the Goderich
club.
Installation of officers was conducted by
Banty Bantick of Toronto, general
secretary of Kinsmen, who, was also the
guest speaker.
Officers were: R.H.Cornish, president;
F.Skelton, vice-president; W. McGrath,
secretary; S.H.Shenton, treasurer;
D.J.Patterson, W.Ross and G. Bannister,
directors.
Charter members were S.Carter, R.
Bellamy, W. Larder, W.Westbrook, J.
Whaley, K. Pennington, J.B.Macdonald,
B.R.Rotiinson, K. Aitken, C. Bridgewater,
N. Easterbrook, J.L. Lee, E.W.MacLeod,
C. Larder, R. Nelson, J.A.Linfield,
R.Bentley and B.A.Sully.
Other special guests included H.W.Mc-
Clatchey, president of the sponsoring
Stratford Kinsmen Club who presented a
gavel to the new club and "Pop" Rogers,
father of founder Hal Rogers, who had a
summer home at Bayfield forears..
Visitors were present from don, Kit-
chener, Waterloo, Hanover, Chesley, Strat-
ford, Kincardine, Woodstock, St.
Catharines, Hamilton, Chatham and Fort
Erie.
Kinsmen purchased $10,000 ice -cleaning machine