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Ballinafad Church services visits in area news by Winifred Smith Rev Tom con tinued tils on the Book of Amos on Sunday He spoke on The Day of the Cults and brought to mind the goings on today of all the quack religions which were so prevalent In Amos time The Interesting sermon pro vided much room for thought Several visitors from Georgetown were welcomed to the service Willa and Fred Shortill always a delight to hear sang a beautiful anthem together Mr Bob presided at the organ There will be no service in Church next Sun day Sept It being the noil day weekend On Sunday Sept 11th Mr Stiles will be in his usual place taking charge of the service The flowers placed in the church were Sfgns stolen Erin road signs are disappearing from their posts as fast as township road department employees can replace them and the depart is not amused Five hundred dollars worth of signs disappeared July The signs are valued at each Seven signs had to be replaced following one weekend Thieves ore brazen For example a Road Closed was stolen while a road crew worked not far from the post If wc don get some Tha Acton Free Press Wednes Aug 311977 operation from the motoring payers will just have to keep public we re not going to on paying roads employee catch these people The tax Ed Barden said FLEA Ponchos Place No by Rlvu 2 DAYS SUN SEPT Vendors Welcome Call Rick WDP making plans GETTING A HEAD START on picking those tasty red apples are Lynn Frost of Rockwood and Sandy of Milton They are workers at Chudleighs Pick Your Own Apple Farm south of Acton on Highway 25 Mcintosh and Wealthy varieties will be ready for picking Sept with Red Delicious opening Oct 1 and Northern Spy apples ready Oct Pickers are taken about the fields on tractors and trailers and roasted corn and pies are to pickers Mcintosh ready shortly at Chudleighs Apple Farm An air of optimism and enthusiasm pervaded a recent meeting of about members of the executive and campaign committee of the Wellington Duffenn Peel New Democratic Party The meeting was called to evaluate results of the June election and make plans for the future Despite their third place showing in the election party members were pleased that they had held and slightly increased their base of support in what Is his tor a tradition bound Pro gressive Conservative riding Members also expressed relief that the local Party had remained relatively scathed by what they inter as a concerted effort on the part of both the prov and local Conserva lives to gain votes by crediting the Election results showed a moderate shift in support from urban to rural portions of the riding ft was felt at the meeting that this might be because the rural community was less in by the Conservative onslaught than were their media oriented urban neigh hours The tabloid the Sun also came under discussion The Sun had been criticized at various times during the election by the Conservative incumbent and his supporters as being biased and socialist NDP members however agreed that the Sun was to continue the most efficient and least expensive means of bringing policy to the public in a comprehensive fashion Although members ex pressed regret that Stephen Lewis had decided to step down from the leadership they agreed that Lewis would be leaving a valuable legacy and that a leadership con vention would be invigorating to the Party as a whole The Wellington Duffenn Peel will kick off the fall season with a large outdoor beef barbecue for September 17 Special guest of the event will be fan Deans an who has already declared his intention to compete for the leadershop of 1 the provincial NDP Mrs Guy Cooke from Austin Texas was a recent visitor with her brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Lloyd Mr and Mrs Bates who have been residents in the community for several years have sold their home and have moved to Pennsylvania where Mr Bates was trans A new family are now occupying the Bates home Mrs Gore from England Is spending a holiday with her sister Mrs Archie and family Mr and Mir Paul and son Stewart have returned home after a plea holiday touring New York and Connecticut Recent visitors at the Smith farm were Mr and Mrs Bert Crowe from and Mr and Mrs Griffon Jones of The many friends of Mr Morgan Madill will be pleased to hear he is home from hospital recuperating from his recent surgery after spending four weeks in Hospital are pleased also to hear that Mr Don Brown is home and progressing favorably after his recent operation For Your Convenience CATERING THE ANNUAL MUNICIPAL ENUMERATION STARTS NEXT WEEK in II beg on Tuesday Sooumber 6 Dunnrj n carrying a Idem on card II colt a your res dunce lor a low chock basic information inquired in dotorm nmg on property linos the dali of provincial grants local governments help ro propamt on of jurors lists and population Information needed for programs to school on Tho visits please chock thai accompanying a Not l bo toll for For any add on If necessary pica a make them and bio In at f addressed postage prepaid I plea contact the local Regional Commissioner Regional Municipalities or ZENITH The management at Apple Farm on High way 25 is boasting thai the new cider mill is the mot efficient and expensive press in Canada The computerized press allows the operator to see the apples but after grading or sorting no one touches the apples until it becomes cider The Pick Your Own farm opens Sept 10 and pickers who visit the orchards are 1 treated to the availability of roasted com on the cob pie and apple products Last year went through pies and at six slices per pie 400 pieces of pic That says a lot about the taste of the home made pie Pickers arc transported to picking areas by tractor and trailer and the picking trees only nine feet high cover acres Mcintosh and Wealthy var will be available Sept 10 with lied Delicious coming Oct l Northern Spy will be ready for picking Oct officials report We re being driven out of the house by a great hairy beast hanging over the table No its not Mack it spider plant ft all started three or four years ago when the hinging planter craze got started I wouldn have any house plants says I Anything requiring that much attention and care had got to love me back says I And house plants in umpteen years as house mistress Itsn that a lovely Then some mad mad potter type friends brought mi glamorous ceramic hanging planter for Christmas With profuse thanks 1 figured I could put cookies in it after they gone and he subject would be closed But no My artistic J cousin and his wife were staying with us They have one of apartments in Atlanta where their family consists of things like rubber trees full sized palms and great boa constrictor vines draped round At least they don tfighthkckids I suppose One too man Anyway Andrew jumped on this planter and said about time and promptly went out to buy me a suitable plant for it any plastic plant would have been quite suitable Unfortunately the choice was so good he came home with thrccplanth only two of would go in the pot So had to buy another hanging planter However Zellers was hiving this lovely after Christmas sale on planters 1 up my mind between two of them and bought them both Now we needed another plant but there was a twoforone sale on Need 1 say more While trying toeven up the plants and planters we ended up with miniature jungles for people to their heads on Alltlcrofipldtn The aforementioned spider plant was placed in a very small pot so It would stay under control It then proceeded to try and get out of its pot With tentacles it reached the window and hurled itself over It proceeded to have so miny children our rabbits felt quite inferior Not only does it have little spiders but they have little ones too The original spider is a great great grandmother by now It bound and determined it will reach the table and the marc I cut it off the more persistant becomes I glad it In a small pot so It s under control Just think what might happen If it were In a larger planter Phew wo may all be carried off In the dead of night As all these plants we end up with more pots waste them you know My friends ore starting to avoid coming round because I press little green goodies in their hands on the way out Mack is talking about building a conservatory What do you bet if went to all the work and expense of a special plant pbee the whole lot would For classifieds that reach call 8532010