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Times-Advocate, 1988-11-02, Page 15Elimville speaker on Friendship House By SHIRLEY- COOPER ELI\1\ ILL•E - The Elimville Women's Institute recently held thcir'Cktober meeting at the church. Tile convener~. were Jean Lynn and Shirley Cooler.• - The roll call was "bring an article for 'Friendship House'" in Go dcrich. • Shirley introduced die guest speak-, er Julie Lee, the c' eCutive director of Suryitat through •Friendship House. This organization provides shelter and support • Ivor. battered women throughout Huron County. They also provide ser ices tb help chil- dren of these families. Jean thanked Julie -arid presented her with a dona- tion on behalf of the \Voniens' In- stitute.niemhrrs.• • president Marie Brock presided -for the business. A donation will be given to the Exeter Agriculture Society early next year. . - . Jean and Shirley gave a report from the Fall Rally. held in Ilensalf • Uiaited Church recently; -The No- vember meeting will be held at Ver - la Allen's at 8 o'clock unless nrti frediliffcrently. Mr. -and Mrs. /toward -Johns, Mr. ancj-Mrs. Philip. Johns, • Mr: and Mrs. Elson Lynn and \1r: and Mrs. Floyd' Cooper were among a bus load of people Who enjoyed a- tour • to the Smoky Mountains with and Mrs. Iry Armstrong as hoses. This included a tour of the Kune- land Race Track and the: city of Lex- ington on the way to Pigeon Forge and G,attlinhurg arra. There we en - Seniors meet at Ailsa Craig By DOUG McNAIR AILSA CRAIG - On October 26 the seniors gathered at the Legion Hall for their monthly Pot luck din- ner:- Following this- we had our meeting with president Harold•Gil- foyle presiding, assisted by Shirley Williams as secretary and Florence White as Treasurer. It was •reported Murray Collins arid -Earl Rees were in hospital. We decided not to have a pot luck dinner in Novcinher .its we plan to have a Christmas dinner early in December. !v.1orc details at our next' erecting. All the members who attended the Dessert Euchre at Lucan on October .13 reported having a lovely after- noon. - - A nominating committee will he named at the next meeting. to bring in a slate of officers for the conning year. There- were nine •tables playing euchre and the prizes went to: La- dies High - Beckie" Ross; Mens High - Sadie Graham (men's card); Ladies Lone Hands - Laura Axford; Mens Lone Hands - Fred Lewis; La- dies Low - Marjorie Steeper and Mcns Low - Betty Lockhart (men's , (sand). . joycd a day at "Dollywood" several country and western shows, and a craft show to name a few. The highlight of the trip was the tour around the Mountains by a . couple who ,live in Gattlinhurg. This took us up_ in the wilderness 'of the mountain. -and of the main road to sec things many 'a tourist • wouldn't see. The weather was per- feet and the colors out. of this - world. On the way back -to Lexington we toured "Shaker Village." Everyone enjoyed the trip. Elimville • t-.C.:W. - Thc Elimville United Church Women met • at the •church last week. President Sharon. Lynn . opened with a poem. The roll call was.answcred by turning in our cal- endars froin the previous month. it . was reported the first Bible Study had been held at the manse on Tues- day evening at 8 p.m. The study is on the life of Jesus. Everyone is welcome sand -may still join in with rhe group. -Grace Pym read a- letter from the Bible Society thanking: us for our used stamps azul we are allencour- aged . to continue saving . used stamps.- • *Joyce tamps.- Joyce Fulton reported on. the re- gional meeting held at=}tensall re- cently. Donations were made to seeds lar Africa and Medical Elec- tive. . The group will. cater to a town- ship banquet on November 3 and will also cater to the Gddfellows banquet on. March '25. They will serve lunch ata wedding reception on November 12. The theme at the- meeting was "Thanksgiving"_.. The conveners. wereEvelyn Horne and -Muriel Par=. sone • A9uriel•opened with a poem "f•Offer Thanks". Kaye Grubb read the scripture. Evelyn led in prayer and then introduced the guest speak- er.Elaine Pym. Elaine showed slides on Germa- - ny, Amsterdam, Paris and Switzer- land. She had visited Gcmtany as a • Junior Farmer delegate, staying - With several German farm families. The • members enjoyed hearing Elaine'bcomments and slides. Mu- riel thanked her on behalf of all present. Muriel read an anicic "Slow me down, Lord". Hallowe'en Party . The.Messengcr Hallowe'en part) was held at Elimville church -on Thursday evening- with 54 children .attending. Judges were' Ruth Skin- ner and Marjorie 1)ykeman. The winners were: ghosts and witches Star Jiiwius and Susan !Miner; ckiwris - T,lra Noyiti and Lori Ker- nick;:princesses and fairies - Natalie Kerslake and Vanessa Bray: animal: - Brenda Miner and tie<i for second \lathew Rowe and Meagan Parker; T: V..charactcrs - Paul Morgan and tied for second L. Sackdavone Oun- sonune and I:: Keirigkay Ounsa- tone; hobos, cowboys and indians- Iva Weston aria Ryan 'Fulton: Draculas and monsters-Andrecw -Weston and Justin Miner; couples • - Rcbccca Miller and Jodi Rowe: Others - Derek Etheringon and J.J. Miners. Alt receive(1•can(ls• treats .andiunch kitlowed. • The church celebrated their anni- versary- on Sunday. •Guest Aluriel Coulters' was_ introduced by Grace Pym. Muriel tot 1 of her cxperienc- cs when she vision Ethiopia with a groan- from the -London arca. She _said help such as grain is getting to the proper place and -the group felt there --is hope for this area.- Following the service Muriel an- swered many questions. A pot luck luncheon followed in the basement. Times -Advocate, November 2, 1988 Page 13 GHOST AT SCOTIA BANK - Students of kindergarten classes at Exeter Public School visited the .Exeter branch of the Bank of Nova. Scotia; Monday. From the left -are branch. manager Lloyd Robison with students Bri-. • anne Simpson, Jessy Johnson, Ashley Nixon,'Jeffrey Beaver and Kyle Farwell. Lucan St. LUCAN•- Plans are being mule for Remembrance Day celebrations. Classes throughout the whole school are participating through- ac- tivities such as coloring, posters, poems and essays. The climax.. of the -celebration will occur at 'the Lu= can -arena where the Legion is spon- soring the event. Exeter 4-H club Tiger TimeL.. from Stephen Central - - C'REDIT(t\ - The Fabulous Farming. Shod- - On Monday t went to sec the Fabulous Farming, - Show. h started when a hand sang a. song. A scientist carte. out. - 1. heard lightning. I thought it would_ rain. lie had a weed killing.potion. Ile drank half a bottle.- He fed the rest to some plants. The _weeds died. But the scientist did not die. - Shaun Dawe, Cir. 4. October •i a._scary feeling [or sire reason. (('s a Hall(iwc'en poem to ore. The birds disappear-- ing, isappear-ing, dark mists. Everything seems so real. Small creatures crawling around at night. Sounds like a real- ly Hallowe'en night..to Inc.. Stay- ing in the house sounds like a.good to mc! - Angie Pickering, Gr. King's Court - This past week the junior students have been play - "i switched from a bank to Standard Trust over 10 years ago, mainly because of the better RRSPs they offer, and the great personal service." t;urt Brandon f'I( TON Ontario A Sk Burt Brandon about Standard Trust, and hell - tell you. The people there call me by my first name. they•re very courteous.. and they explain. all the benefits of each account. RRSP or GIC. Most banks dont • •- 'In all the years Ive been comtrig to Standard Trust, I've • noticed that the girls are all local so they know you, and they do everything to help you get the most from your account. Fm -very. satisfied with Standard Trust. You will find a warm welcome at Standard Trust too. and ybu•ll enjoy all the many extra and free benefits that are yours now at Standard Trust. Come in today! 4ux STANDARD TRUST4 cr.1 Tot PV, YOUR HOMETOWN SAVINGS CENTRE 386 Main St. S., Exeter NOM 1S0 235-1060 ing King's -Court. You need two -teams and -a hall to•play. One team rn (.nite:r-fri»ri each leant is a King., Both King's play in .a circle in the .centre and switch sides from their team. The object of the game is to hit people on the other team bele: .the waist with the. hall to get peo- ple out.- it is a really fun -game. -. Melanie Neil. Gr. 5 Room 5's Animal Projects - Room- 5 is doing a project on their favorite animal. After ctoin<e the rescarch.they can choose doing a diorania,•mohilc, ho okcovcr or -pre- tending they are the animal by put- ting it on paper. , When they are due we have lo show them to the class and read the information. It is in- teresting to li:arn new facts about animals. - Danny Gielnrk, Cir. 6 Partner Reading - Every \Wednesday our school has partner reading. \ly partner is Dean. Brown. He is a very good reader. r The last time we had peer reacting; he read -six hooks and they were fairly King. too. Dean is a very smart boy. We read in Mrs. Ho- - garth's class all the time. We like partner reading. - Chad Benncwics; Gr. 6 Pig; Unit - Room 5 and 6 had a pig unit... It was for two weeks. • Ms. Thomson and Mrs. Dcelstra made up groups for everyone. Thcre were 6 people in most of the 8 groups. We were kept busy do- ing many activities and learning facts about pigs. On the last day of our pig unit we went on..a scaven- ger hunt with our group. Pretcnd- ing We're Templeton from Char lotto's Web we had to find about 10 things. The . group that got the most got :i pig sticker. We ended the unit with a pignic. -'Lisa Stc- wardson, Gr. 5 Meet your changing financial obli- gatipns with a Finoncial Security Planning Program from The Co-operators. Call today (or complete information. ob Lammie (.0 the 0 co-operator Insurance Se v'ces EXETER: 472 Main Street, . 235-1105 1 ill 110411 41 T1 (lMMIR(141 MRN 1144%f 1 EXETER We had our fourth meeting Thursday, October 27: We started our meeting off by saying the 4 -II pledge. Then- did roll call "Name a -cut of pork or pork prod- uct that you would have for break- fast". - •We read over our hooks and read about pork: Our leaders gave us sortie: pencils and we had to judge which potion would be the best 10 use. \\'c had to do that hecali c have to judge pork chops at Achievement Night. We went to the kitchen and made a Caesar Salad with bacon. After we were finished our president official= ly adjourned the meeting. . - -Press Reporter - Karen Rohde.,. Patrick School news .The Stodart• Council of Si. Pat- rick ScluxiI• are. holding an event for Hallowe'en. Ther are inviting class- es -to participate in the Haunted -House activities. Pupils \gill see, touch, smell :sink of the strangest things: A new program has been added this year to 'St. Patrick School. A• junior •cl-ioir has been formed under -the. direction o1 Mrs. Jane Earl. i am sure .we'll hear Iron them as the 1•car progresses. Many sports actix itics have already taken place •so far this year. Cross country was held on October 2f) after three rain day delays. Five-a-side •soccer for the junior grades terminated 0:7 -- !ober 26 and 27 with a tournament at Ahhousc College. The girls team placed second overall and the boys canto in 5th out of 15. A very good showing. The school soccer team has also -completed its year by attending a tournament in London. We played in the A division but lost in the de- ciding game before the champion- ship game. A special thanks to George Gait for coaching the team. Ile certainly had a team of boys and girls to he .proud of . As you can see many events have already taken place and only two months have passed! Gaiser Kneale Insurance :3ctl64- ts19) .8291 2622tt9 CALL TODAY FOR THE HIGHEST RATE AVAILABLE Rates subject to .verification G.1.C.'s may be registered as R.R.S:P.'s' WHAT DOES THE "TRADE DEAL" MEAN TO YOUR FAMILY Alison (7), Ken, Jamie (18 -mo.), Maggie (3), Janet, Andy (10) The Mulroney - Reagan Deal Does NOT Protect Canada's • Environment • Agricultural industry • Social Programmes • Regional Development • Sovereignty - PROTECT YOUR FAMILY'S FUTURE! IN HURON -BRUCE VOTE DUNLOP,Ken Liberal Authorized ny J Gerry Moes. OH.aa, Agent (O. Ken D nbo LIBERAL Eugene Whelan will be at Goderich Township Community Centre, Holmesville, Tues., Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m.