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Times Advocate, 1997-12-03, Page 14Page 14 Times -Advocate, December 3, 1997 COMMUNITY Gone but not forgotten • Thanks for time served. Bidaulph Township honored its retiring council members at its Christmas party on Friday at Lucan Community Memorial Centre's Leprechaun Hall. Pictured are 15 year council veteran Jim Barker and his wife Janette,. Marietta and Jim Shipley (25 ,. years on council) and Joanne and Herman Steffens (nine years on council). Barker, Shipley and Steffens all received gifts and theirwives were 'given flowers. Biddulph Reeve Earl French served as M.C. for the night and he -and administrator Larry Hotson had :some fun with Shipley who is a well known criticizer of everything French. and non -Conservative. Hot - son had a. fake letter drafted from Prime Minister Jean Chretien written in French. They also gave Shipley a French -English dictionary. The three retiring councillors' families were also in- vited to the -party, a surprise for Barker, Shipley and Steffens. Handcrafted items up for grabs in library draw EXETER - The Friends of the Exeter Library is sponsoring a draw for hand- crafted articles with the draw laking place Dec. 20 at the library. The Friends of the Exeter Library_ was formed 10 years ago and is a group of volunteers who believe in supporting the library. The Iihrary _hook sale, fund raising, open houses and special functions are all projects of the group: The purchase of various pieces of equipment for the Iihrary, most recently three sections of junior picture book -shelving for the children's department were made possible through the Friends. . - Anyone is' welcome to join and. should contact the -library in person or through email at exelibC�huroncap.org. —Libiary.users can-nertmiy centact:the library by email. The Exeter Library has a Website at www.huroncap.orR/ exelib with some interesting Iihrary in- formation. Dorothy Moffatt, president of the Friends of the Exeter Libary visited the library on Friday to take a look at the articles in the fund raising draw. THE LIONS ill EXETER - November was a busy month for the Exeter Lions Club. The club made the following donations: • S6000 to Canine Vision Canada - • 52000 to Huron County Christmas Bureau • $1000 Hensall Public School playground equipment • $500take Joseph Camp for the Blind • S300 Exeter Elites Baton Fwiling for Santa Claus Parade Winners . Jim Pinder was the_ first prize winner in the annual Grey Cup Draw. Other winners were Dawn Murray. $150. Pat Koehlc. $ I0O and Wayne Ratz. $50. The Trip of the Month Winner was Jeff Loosley who gets a trip to Las Vegas. . Highlights Two major club activities were held Iasi weekend; the lighting of MacNaughton Park on Friday. sponsored by both the Lions and Lioness and the annual Lions Santa Claus•Parade in Eceter Saturday. Tree decorated with angels GRAND BEND - The 'grand Bend Golden•Agers held another euchre on November 26. Winners' were: High lady Aileen Ravelle; Low lady - Marg Love; Ladies most lone hands - Berrie Keyes; high man won by Lou Hamilton playing a man's card; Low man - Jim Love; Mens most lone hands - Emil Becker. There were six tables in play. The next euchre will he held December 10 at the Legion' at 7:30 p.m. The theme for November 23 was the Reign of Christ Sunday. a! Grand Bend•United`Church. The Angel Tree was up and dec- orated with angels, each one identi- fying the -gender and age of a child in' the care of the Huron County Children's Aid. Rev. R. Putman spoke to the. children on The Alpha and the Omega - The Jessie Tree. The` choir's anthem was "Immortal, invisible". Scriptures were read by Bertie,' Keyes: The offering was collected by the. children. •Cameron • Eddy. . Karie Jennison. Judd and Ben Morgan. Prayers. of Thanksgiving and ler others were given by Judd Desjardine. Flowers were placed in the sanc- tuary by Shirley McIntyre id- mem- ory of her husband. Ken. Christmas theme for WI HURONDALE - The Christmas meeting of the Hurondale W.I. was held at the home of Margaret Strang on November 26. Fifteen members and -three visitors sat down to dessert at 1:15 p.m. President Manan Dougall conduct- ed the opening exercises and roll call -was - answered with "A Christmas Concert Memory". After the business and correspondence. June Stewart and her group were in charge of the program. She gave a Christmas reading and the motto "A Holiday Theme" was given by Fern Dougall. Marilyn Pym conducted some STAR CHOICE -1 The Best of Canadian & US Programming Your authorized -Sales, Installation & Service Depot . - Allen S • _Fiat i I. 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