Times Advocate, 1989-05-03, Page 3111
Granton
By Muriel Lewis
GRANTON A number of
Granton ladies enjoyed the mu-
sical melodrama "The Saloon
kecer's Daughter presented at
the town hall by the St. Marys
Community Players* on the
opening night Friday, April
28.
The Granton Women's Insti-
tute executive met at the home
of Florence McRobert on Mon-
day, April 24 to plan the pro-
gram for the coming year. • -
Muriel Lewis attended the
Huron Diocesan A.C.W. An-'
nual Conference held at Si.
Paul's Cathedral in London on
Saturday, April 29.
John Herbert of Milton and
Dani Roloson of Waterloo
both spent the weekend at their
respective homes.
Bridal Shower
Cathy Riddell was honored
with a miscellaneous bridal
shower' at the United Church
on Monday evening, April 24.
Anne Marie Nixon opened the
program with a reading atSout
husbands and Cindy Bilyca
ladies enjoy musical
sang a solo "Today" accompa-
nied by Becky Bryan.
_ Diane Hartwick gave a recipe
for Married Women's Cake.
,Kathy Cocquyt, Linda Scholl
and Christine Jones assisted
Cathy when she Has opening
her gifts. She conveyed her
thanks and appreciation to eve-
ryone present after which sever-
al of the ladies served lunch. .
• Court Valentine.
The ladies of Court Valen-
tine Forbsters Lodge met at the
park pavilion room on Tuesday
evening, April 25.
Special guest was Brother
Judd Milburbn who is a mem-
ber of -the Executive committee
of High Court from Brantford
an also a member of Court
Benmiller. -
Other visitors present were
District. Deputy Bob Johnson,
also members of Court Ame-
thyst and Court Banner, all of
London, Court Bluebell, near
Strathroy and Court Keyser.
A draw was held inaid of the
Cancer Society and a donation
made to Ester Seals. It was de-
cided to order balloons for Fun Day.
Edith Youngson and Vi Coward
were to be in charge of serving the
Lion's dinner on Wednesday evening,
April 26.
A social time with lunch concluded
the occasion.
There was no service at St. Thom-
as' Anglican. Church on Sunday,
April 30 but a number form the con-
gregation attended the parish com-
munion service at St. Paul's.church,
Kirkton. Rev. Beverley Wheeler
spoke in keeping with Rural Aware-
ness Sunday. Her message was in
sympathy for farm families who have
suffered financial stress. The lessons
were read by Alia Blackler and the
minister. • .
A breakfast brunch followed in the
church halt, served by the Kirkton
congregation.
At Granton United Church on Sun-
day April 30, Rev. Bruce Pierce's ser-
mon was entitled "Beginning to turn
it Around". The lesson was from
Matthew 21.
'Paula Wallis was the bulletin ste-
ward.
Exeter council briefs
Town administrator Rick Hundey
assumed his new duties Monday and
was officially welcomed by council
members the same night.
* * * * *
Joanne Bowen of the Exeter Heri-
tage Society will be invited to the
next executive committee meeting
to discuss the Old Town Hall as the
agreement with the town expired
Decemebr 31, 1988.
* * * * *
Five tenders were received for the
town's janitorial duties contract for
the municipal building, police sta-
tion and library for a period from
May 1, 1989 to April 30, 1992.
The tender of Mark S. Laye of Cre-
diton for S12,000 per annum was
accepted.
A presentation will be made by
the town to Harold Wolfe who held
this position for many years.
* * * * *
Summer hours for the works de-
partment will be from 7 a.m. to 4
p.m. andfor the winter months be-
ginning December 1 will be from 6
a.m. to 3 p.m.
* * * * *
The contract for town gardener for
1989 was let to Fred Mommcrstceg
for S3,328. Councillor Ben Hoo-
genboom commented, " He has
been doing an excellent job. for the
last three or four years that he has
had the job."
* * * * *
A rebate in the amount of
S5,442.79 will be made to the Ex-
eter Minor Hockey Association.
This money is to be used ,to de-
crease 1989-90 registration for the
129 residents of Exeter in the local
hockey group.
* * * * *
Deputy clerk treasurer Laurie
Dykstra recommended to council
that Teresa McCarter of Exeter be
hired to fill the position of munici-
pal administration student in the
town office from May 1 to Septem-
ber 1 ata salary of 5200 per week.
Dykstra said a 75 percent grant is
available on this project. She said
the quality of students who applied
was excellent and councillor Doro-
thy Chapman added, " This kind of
report coming to council is super.
It makes our decision easy."
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VARNA - The Orange Lodge
Card -Party held Friday, April 28
had 11 tables in play: Ladies high
was won by Bernice Brown and the
low prize went to Pearl Eyre. Mer-
vin Hayter won the men's high
prize and the low went to Ernie
Brown.
Lucky door prizes were Joan
Beierling, Marg Hayter, Joyce Wil-
lcrt, Doris Wilson and Al Hog-
garth. Next card party will be Fri-
day, May 12 at 8 p.m. Everyone
welcome!
Coming events
Varna Youth Group meets at the
manse on Friday May 5 at 6:30 to
go swimming in Vanastra.
Varna U.C.W. meeting is Thurs-
day May 4 at 8 p.m. Shelley Dice -
man will be the guest speaker. 'She
is working with Youth with a Mis-
sion and was on the Mercy Vessel
Anastasis.
- Personals
Congratulations to Gail and John
Dowson on the birth on their new
baby daughter, Alysha Laura Mar-
garet. Proud grandparents are Joyce
and Bill Dowson and proud great-
grandmother is Laura Keys.
Barry CLeave, Austin Lund and
Raymond Beierling spent Saturday
in Niagara Falls touring several
museums and viewing the Falls.
Wayne and Joan Beierling attend-
ed a surprise 25 wedding anniver-
sary dance on Saturday evening in
Parkhill in honor of Wayne's cou-
sins.
GB darts
GRAND BEND - Pressure! Pres-
sure! Pressure! There was lots of it
at the Grand Bend Dart League
playoffs last Thursday night.
The round-robin playoffs ended in
a four-way tie, with Tiedeman's
team, Terminators, Elbow Benders,
and Rollies. Captains Keith, Har-
old, Rick and Ron flipped coins to
determine partners in the best -two -
of -three. Rollies put out Tiede -
mans, then Elbow Benders upsct
the Terminators. -
The year-end banquet will be held
on Thursday, May 4, 1989 at the
Grand Bend Legion Branch 498, at
6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m.
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Ailsa Craig seniors meet
AILSA CRAIG - Ther Ailsa
Craig Happy Gang Seniors met on
April 26 at the Legion Hall at 12
noon for our monthly pot luck din-
ner.
With Evelyn Trevithick at the pi-
ano we sang grace and all enjoyed a
lovely dinner together.
The meeting followed with our
President Levi White presiding as-
sisted by Shirley Collens as Secre-
tary and Harold Gilfoyle as Treasur-
er. He reported several of the
members had paid their fee for the
bus trip to Niagara Falls on May
f1.
Several members- thanked the
group for the cards received .
The remainder of the afternoon
was spent playing euchre. Prizes
went to the following: High -
Ruth Shepherd, Charlie Rawlings;
Lone Hand - Gerrie Hodgins, Mar-
garet Dores; Low - Ellen Collens,
Harry Shepperd. The next meeting
will be May 10 at 2 p.m. All sen -
Cromarty by Ruth Laing
CROMARTY - The Marian
Ritchie W.M.S. met at the home of
Alice Gardiner on Tuesday after-
noon and viewed the film; Mandela,
on the V.C.R. It showed the life of
Mandela from when he was a small
boy to the present time, also that of
Start new
church group
LUCAN - Thursday evening,
April 27, there was a meeting held
at the United church to form a new
Christian Fellowship group to re-
place the former Couples Club.
Bob Patterson chaired the meet-
ing and plans were discussed on the
name for the club, the date to be
held -the fourth Thursday of each
month and an executive was
formed.
It is president - Bob Patterson,
vice-president - Gordon Froats, sec-
retary -treasurer - Olive Simpson.
Everyone is welcome. Plans
were finalized on the garage sale to
be held May 13 at Patterson's, 129.
Main Street, Lucan at 9 a.m.
Freda Melanson led the worship
service. Ed Melanson read the
scripture. Dorothy Dedels led in a
game of Bunko which proved to be
a lot of fun. The evening closed
with lunch.
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his wife, Winnie and their family.
Hazel Harburn presided the devo-
tions were in charge of Alice Gar-
diner. A Mighty Fortress was sung
followed by a meditation on Martin
Luther entitled Courageous Chris-
tians. Psalm 46 was read alternate-
ly.
During the business it was an-
nounced that Mrs. Alex Nichol of
Atwood would be the Presbyterial
visitor at the autumn thankoffering
meeting in October. Grace Ker-
slake, Edna Stoneman, Agnes La -
mond, and Doris Miller were named
to a committee to plan the bazaar to
be held October 28.
Since it is a joint effort of the
Marian Ritchie and Ladies Aid, it is
hoped that all the ladies of the con-
gregation will help by donating ar-
ticles for the sale. It was decided
that each member would donate
money equal to her age to a birth-
day box to be used to cheer "hospi-
talized or ill members.
The roll call was answered by
naming something grown in South
Africa. Following the film, a
lunch of angel food cake and straw-
berry or elderberry sauce was en-
joYed-
iors in the arca are invited to join
with us.
Mickle, Albert Wasson, and George
Cantelon.
The following people were elect-
ed to the Board by the membership:
Dorothy Coultes, Marian Dou-
cette, Tom Flynn, Murray Hord,
Roberta Kloss, Mary Moffatt, Mi-
chael Park, Susy Symes, Dr. Bruce
Thomasson, Norm Tait, Paul Zur-
bnMinutes of the last annual meet-
ing were approved. The financial
report was presented by auditor Eu-
gene Bender. Reports of the Execu-
tive Director and the President were
presented and -are available on re-
quest from the office at 524-7356 or
1-800-265-5198.
The Kids on the Block child
abuse prevention program was pre-
sented to those in attendance. The
program uses puppet skits to teach
elementary school children about
physical and sexual abuse. It tells
children how to protect themselves
when faced with an abusive situa-
tion.
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