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NAL -STAN; THURSDAY. DECEMBER,9, 1516
Santa lead by community floats
Colborne Central School topped the
classification,for schools in- Saturday's
Santa Parade staged in Goderich with
the theme "Christmases of the World:
Colborne, a regular participant in the
Chris mas parade here entered, an
impressive float with the holiday season
in Holland as the theme. It featured
authentic costumes from Holland as well
as many students, either on the float or
on foot -G.
Second in this class was another -
regular participant, Victoria Public.
School with its float "Merry Christmas
in Different Languages". Third was
Goderich'Day Nursery with "Christmas
in Animal Land".
,In the section for..service clubs, the
Beta Theta Sigma Phi "Eve at the North
Pole" was the winner. Second was the
Women's Day Out with "Canadian
Christmas", and third was the IODE
Maple Leaf Chapter with "Ely
Canadian Christmas Eve".
On the IODE floatwas a Christmas,
tree complete with edible decorations.
This tree was later presented to
Goderich Municipal Day Nursery where
the children feasted on cookies, popcorn
and candy treats attached to the tree.
There were many groups of young
people, involved in the parade. In the
section for youth, the first prizewinner
was Goderich Brownie. Pack with their
float "Indian Christmas". , Second was
St. George's Youth Group with
"Christmas in Mexico" and third was
the Free Methodist Youth Group with
"Christmas in Other Lands".
Only one industrial float was entered
in the parade. It was Dearborn Steel
Tubing's "Holland" float complete with
windmills. -
In the general classification,; the
13luewater Centre for the Handicapped
won .first place with the float "Good
Tidings" which told the story of the first
Christmas. A large open Bible and
various Biblical characters set the float
apart from others in the class.
Second prize was awarded to Saltford
Valley Hall for its Sesame Street entry,
and third was Tom Penhale's wagon and
horse team.
Adding to the fun were the Kinsmen's
clowns, Goderich and Clinton
majorettes, the Goderich Laketown
Ba 1d and of course several horses and
their riders.
The main attraction of the day was
without a doubt Santa who arrived on a
flost of his own and later set up Santa's
Court in the Park Theatre •--on The
Square. -
Cold damp weather prevailed for the
parade, but there seemed to be an in-
terested, eager crowd lining the streets
despite the unfavorable climate.
Jack Graham, left, chief ranger of the Court Benmiller Canadian Foresters, looks over an
arena pldege with Pete McCauley. The -.pledgets a $2,000 commitment the Foresters made
to the Goderich Arena Building Fund to be paid over the next three years. (staff photo)
Local winners named
for Shoemaker award
The Huron County Library
recentlyannounced that
three winners from the
Dorothy Shoemaker Award
were from Huron County: The
awards were presented at
Kitchener Publictibrary, on
Friday, 3. -.Earle Birney
Presented the poetry awards.
Ann Marie Shanahan, of
Goderich, was honoured by
being the first ,recipient and
having her poem "A snake
has a little will" read to the
audience.
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•by five percentand no one in
town'even noticed. •
He added, however, that
the commission could not
leave' the power flow reduced
because customers located
any distance from the
generating - station in
Goderich would •be in-
convenienced by the cut.
Hydro feels that if they get
through ' the month of
December - without cutting
power consumption, they will
be able to'-meetcustomer
needs for the remainder of
the winter: •
Christmas, lights, •cold
temperatures and lack of
generating capacity caused
the current shortage potential
• but Hydro is confident they
cane ride out the. •winter
months by buying power from
United States .aiid curtailing
sale of surplus power . they
had when they were
producing at full capacity.
Other winners are Patti
Taski, RR2 Lucan in senior
prose category far her work,
"Migration of Ali Damon".
Darryl Fox of Clinton,
received first prize for Junior
prose entry "The Conscience
of the Computer".
At the recent Professional
Development Day at G.D.C.I.
several of the teachers asked
about the• request system in •
our County Libraries.
Specific titles that are not
presently in the Goderich
Branch can be requested and
sent from one of our other
branches or from the par-
ticipating libraries in Mid-
western. Have the Goderich
staff fill out a blue request
card to be sent :to
headquarters.
In preparation .for
Christmas, Huron .County
Library has purchased a
number . of Christmas
magazine. The titles include:
Good Housekeeping, Better
Homes and Gardens, House
Beautiful, Chatelaine.
A group of concerned*
library patrons have formed
a "Friends of the Library".
The first general meeting has
been planned for Monday,
January 10 at the Goderich
Branch. Fur#"h'er details to be
announced in he future.
Advertising.-
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Everybody's favorite. Hundreds of youngsters lined the , Claus -and his helpers. (staff photo)
Square Saturday and anxiously awaited the arrival of Santa
:Natural gas rates
up '2.50 per yr.
The Ontario Energy Board
has approved an increase. of
3.5 cents per 1,000 cubic feet.
in the rates Union Gas may
charge for residential ser-
vice. -
The increase applies to gas
used ori and after December 1
and is expected to cost the
average residential
customer about $2.50 per
year.
The increase was granted
on an interim basis, subject to
possible future adjustment
when the Energy Board
renders a decision on its
current full review of Union's
over-all rate schedules: '
At a hearing
and 25, Union
Energy. Board
was needed to.
November 24
advised the
the increase
offset recent
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wage and salary cost in _
creases approved by the Anti -
Inflation Board.
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