HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-08-29, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1974
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
A party was held in the craft
room on Sunday afternoon to
honour Mrs. Isabella Hamilton
on her 100th birthday. Seventy-
five relations and friends att-
ended the party with messages
of congratulations being
received from Robert McKin-
ley M.P. and Jack Riddell,
M.P.P.
Molly Cox, Norman Speir
and Jerry Collins provided the
old tyme music for Monday's
activities. The residents had
an opportunity to congratulate
and sing "Happy Birthday"
to Mrs. Hamilton, who was
able to make several requests
for favourite tunes for the sing -
a -long.
Forty-four residents travell- .
ing by bus and van had a picnic
at Harbour Park, Goderich on
Tuesday afternoon. The first
stop on the tour was a visit to
the Pioneer Museum and after
lunch toured the harbour area,
Sifto Salt Mine, the Fall's
Conservation Area Benmiller
and the Jezvic Sanctuary at
Holmesville.
The Crediton Women's Inst-
itute were hosts on Wednesday
afternorsn for the August
birthdayparty. Mrs. Shapton
was emcee for the following
program; violin and piano sel-
ections by Lois Hodgins and
Mr. Sawyer, step dancing
Mona Hodgins, a vocal trio
Kathy Davey, Bevan and Janet
Shapton; readings by Jean Neil
and piano recital Anne Dearing.
Gifts were presented to the
celebrants by the ladies and
after singing of happy birthday,
lemonade and cup cakes were
served, Mrs. Foster, who was
celebrating her 91st birthday on
Wednesday, thanked the ladies
on behalf of the residents.
The weather was ideal for the
band concert on the lawn on
"Family Night" played by the
Mitchell Legion Band. All of
the residents were able to take
advantage of the fine band mus-
ic, as the windows were all
ntario
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There's a lady in Hamilton
who has been married to a
bigamist for 24 years. Now she
wants an annulment. She is 81
years old.
A suburban homeowner is in
imminent danger of being
inundated by his neighbor's
three-foot higher property, now
inadequately contained by a
bulging, oozing, flimsy wood
fence.
A landed immigrant, await-
ing the arrival of his 8 -year
old daughter from the old
country, wonders if there is a
summer school where she will
be able to learn English.
A young Lady from Portugal
needs her High School Diploma
translated so she can get a job.
A yugoslav-born inunigrant
wants to know if his Ontario
driver's licence will be valid
when he goes home to Yugosl-
avia on vacation (Answer:
No. Yugoslavia recognizes
only an international licence.)
What have ail these people
opened on the west side of the
Home. It was a real treat to
hear the marches and familiar
tunes.
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in common? (1) They are all
immigrants to Ontario; (2)
they all have problems; (3)
they have all written to Ontar-
io 20 for help.
And in virtually every case,
Ontario 20, through Ontario
Welcome House, an agency of
the Ministry of Community and
Social Services, has been able
to come to their rescue.
One lady, a World War Two
refugee, reports that after her
husband was taken prisoner
behind the Iron Curtain
she carne to Ontario where she
met a compatriot and fellow -
refugee. The couple lived
together as than and wife for
25 years. Together they saved
up to buy a home, became
Canadian citizens, and gradual-
ly built a good life. But when
the man died suddenly of a
heart attack, the lady, ' who had
looked forward to a comfortable
old age in her own home,
suddenly discovered that her
lifetime partner had died withou
a will, and now she was in Bang'
er of losing everything she had
worked for.
Ontario 20, symbolizing the
20 Ontario Government Min-
istries which serve all the
people of Ontario, was conceiv-
ed and is coordinated by the
Ontario Ministry of Industry
and Tourism on behalf of all
the Ontario Ministries, Industry
and Tourism Minister Claude
Bennett said: "The Communic-
ation Program was designed to
inform principally the ethnic
peoples of our province of the
various types of government
services freely and readily
available to them in the
management of their day-to-
day lives."
For the newcomers to our
province, many of them lonely
confused, unable to commun-
icate properly in English, the.
Government's Ontario 2r... Com-
munication Program has pro. fd-
ed a real boost in helping 0h. I'1
settle in to a whole new life-
style.
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Conversation is like a boat --
if everybody crowds on one
side, it sinks. It needs balance
to keep it afloat.
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