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I The Acton Free Press Wed June 16 1976 Flowers live forever in sealed containers TALENTED Bray shows some of her new arrangements of preserved flowers Painstakingly with tweezers she inserts driftwood bases greenery preserved blossoms in clear glass containers The de creations are beautiful from all sides They are now for sale in several stores Summer beauty lasts all year long In delightful preserved flower arrangements made by Bray Elizabeth Dr This talented artist has recently developed a new aspect of her career and is already selling of her creations Largo arrangements such as hers are sold in Blrks and Simpsons but they are parted from England Many other local craftspeople have lately enjoyed ing flowers but their end products have been on a smaller scale miniature and plaques for instance Bray s arrangements range from ones of small still life perfection to large displays in clear jars a foot high They are unique and already several stores have placed orders for them The Pine Chair In Acton has a display Other outlets are Paul in and the Ted Swift gallery in Hamilton ladings The flowers and findings are all located by the Bray family and it really a family affair The children all help Peter specializes butterflies Mclanle Is good at pressing wild flowers Husband Joe Paul and Mark 10 are also collectors Their garden Is large and has plenty of room for flowers which go Into the displays But it not a garden where you can sit and enjoy the flowers Once the flowers bloom they are picked and placed carefully in silica tel The garden itself Is mostly green with the promise of buds soon ready to be plucked On holidays on Georgian Bay more material is eagerly located including drift wood wild plants and mosses Cure lime used trial and error as she worked out her arrangements She first used borax for drying flowers but now buys silica band It is reusable in the oven Each blossom must be packed very carefully In the sand the inner parts of the petals banked with It so they will retain their shape The blooms remain in the sand Indefinitely she is still using last year roses and they are dewy fresh in color It actually takes only a week to 10 days to dry the flowers She sifts through her containers regularly to test their doneness Often flowers come out broken or flat They are useless then Each one must be perfect In the arrangements they are usually visible from all sides Construction She plans build and changes as she goes j along Installing each component in its j place with tweezers Some arrangements take six hours to complete Often has to tear one apart and begin again until its line and color combination suits her critical eye Once inside the glass mushroom egg or oval the preserved flowers are sealed permanently insldt Artist A yoga instructor Melanija is full of vitality and enjoys the challenge of a new craft She is a talented painter the wails of their home are hung with her vivid oils borne of them adapted from slides taken by husband Joe when he studied in the Arctic Over their chesterfield hangs a large on vas of a lion and Us kill inspired 1 a slide taken in Africa by former Alf Long I She was la the live ly mural on wall inside tht doors of library and lamp shades in their art all m ick by permit record 6 million in May half school Obituary May building permits hit a for the town of Hills But over half of the total is the cost of the new Acton High School Boosting the institutional total are the following Tor an addition to the Georgetown District Christ tan School a service building at Terra Cotla Con Authority and for the building at the water control plant addition in Georgetown A warehouse addition at La bil masters 144 Armstrong is listed at the only industrial permit issued in May Commercial permits totalled 000 with the new Square at and Georgetown accounting for J0O000 and a self serve gas at the Station 1HJ uclph St Georgetown for the remaining permit valued at 000 was issued for the mod trite income to be built on Maple Avenue 1 Georgetown residential permits totalled more swimming pool permits wort issued last month at total value of J making average tost per pool Si So far this tar pool permits have been In the last two a hilt since r tstihlishmeul of the m iltd town of Hilton Hills pool permits havt been The remainder of the per mils represented fences signs alterations and agricultural buildings Only a few more days of eft Soon the young wm ldIe throughout live times that of April and he town CARPET CORNER 11 MAIN ST NORTH ACTON 8533620 Your in Halton Hills For CARPETING CUSHION FLOORING DRAPERIES CERAMIC TILES Dorothy Allain I was musician MELANIJA BEGINS one of her complicated creations planning and visualizing the finished product as she goes along Sometimes she picks everything out starts all over CONTAINER OP silica sand is filled with tiny treasures here a perfectly preserved fuchsia bloom wired with a tiny stem Holiday Time Sale SAVE HONDA CIVIC STATION WAGONS These cars come equipped with standard or automatic trans Body side moulding THE PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED for immediate sale so BUY NOW Daly a few For Immediate Dalivary BAZ MOTORS LTD Funeral services were held in Acton on June for Mrs Dorothy Anne Allain of Miss issauga Mrs daughter of Mrs Dorothy 0 and the late James of Acton died suddenly in Miss issauga on June G as the result of an accident She was born in Nossagawcya years ago She Is survived by her mother her husband Rhea daughter Anne son Steven Joseph sister Karen in Quebec and brother James Edward She is predeceased by her father Mrs attended Brookville public school and Acton high school before going into nursing at Peel Manor She was a talented musician and played in the String Orchestra She also entered many compel lions where she achieved exceptionally high marks The Rev Andrew Mc Kenne officiated at the funeral in ltumiey Shoemaker funeral home Interment was at tinview Cemetery Acton were mostly her Doughty Gordon Henry Hugh Itourkt Doug Frank Rourkc Sims FOR ALL OF CANADAS BUILDING ill NEEDS MACKENZIE GEORGETOWN ACTON PUTTING A POOL DECK PUT IN THE ONE Interlocking Paving Stone IHTRODUCTOM OFFER 10 8787608 PHONE CEDAR GROVE GARDEN CENTRE No Spring Pink or White Lemonade Milton milton mall RIDES BY CONKLIN SHOWS DISPLAYS EXHIBITS DRAW FOR SC3 DOOR RUNABOUT BOB CAT SATURDAY FUN FOR ALL Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ml I ton Proceed for Crippled Children and Community Service Project Crystals Bathroom Tittue Pal Dog Food Mushroom Soup Apple Sauce a Remember When the butcher cut the meat a special way At IGA he still does it Today STILUS it IGA Liquid Detergent i Green or Wax Beans CANADA NO I GRADE Corn on the Cob PRODUCE USA SUNK Jill AA Valencia Oranges 89 ONTARIO GROWN Leaf Lettuce 39 USA Honey Dew Melons PRODUCE RIPDBUCOJ SOUTH CANADA GRADE Granny Smith Apples Farmhouse Cream Pies Pillsbury Biscuits Quality Service and Value all at IGA BONELESS ROUND Steaks or Roasts Hill Sirloin 1 Porterhouses Steaks Hams V Wieners Hams Old World Dinner Hams Sausage Corned Bee 64 VEGETABLE OIL Monarch Soft Margarine PRICES EFFECTIVE WED THRU SAT JUNE THE RIGHT TO WHIT Jelly Powders