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An afternoon tea was held at the Royal Victoria Hospital Wednesday for two retiring nurses From left are Audrey Strang who is retir The ladies curling section of the Barrie Golf and Country Club held its annual opening dinner recently at the club The executive is showu here FRONT ROW from left Joan Garrick bonspeil co convener Chris Garner pu blicity Helen Morden rating converer BACK ROW Marg Thompson house director Shirley Lockhart schedule con vener Glad Janssen social Middleaged and great MONTREAL CPLily Nagy is traffic sto per Bar bara Perodeau lips the yellowing pages of her modelling scrapbook and makes face at her old photos And Dione Dodis cant start her day without 15 minutes doing bends and pushups The three women have at least one thing in common It is middle age Mrs Nagy is 39 and weighs 123 pounds Mrs Perodeau 49 weighs only 100 pounds and is also 52 Mrs Dodis who is in her late 40$ wears Size dress Fineboned redheaded Mrs Nagy mother of an 18yearold daughter and 12yearold son cycles to her job as hair styl ist each day To keep her figure in shape she relies on such daily dis ciplines as 12 minutes of plan ned exercise every morning She does not smoke cuts out sweets follows balanced fruitve etablefishmeatmilk diet an gets plenty of sleep The result is flawless skin perfect teeth clear eyes beau iful hair and trim wellpro portioned figure Mrs Perodeau an excover girl for Weekend and Chatelaine magazines still has the trim Size figure and gamine good looks considered the essence of fragile femininity 25 years ago She maintains her attractive appearance with simple in expensive beauty routme that includes cutting and styling her own blonde hair modest ex ercise eating lightly but well avoiding junk food and cleans ing her face thoroughly every night These are are her only beauty secrets she says Dione Dodis got into the habit of exercising as child in Greece Her father used to brin in gymnast before brea fast to do calisthenics with thefamily She plays various sports three hours day as matter of course and does it because it makes her feel good Mornings she plays tw0 or three hours of tennis after noons she swims or sails on nearby lake During the winter she skis swims and plays in door tennis OPEN SUNDAY FREDS FLOWERS Highwoy ll at Stroud 9Iom to 700 pm FLOWERS For Att OCCASIONS ing former head nurse of ward 5A Pat Wainwright Mrs Strangs daughter and an RVH nurse Alice Torpey retired Ward 5A nurse Mary Ann Skrypnychuk as sistant head nurse of Ward 5A Pat Buckland nursing supervisor Kathleen Kirk who is retiring former su convener Helen Needham president and Irene Emery past president Also on the executive are Sharon Bow den secretary Gloria Graham first vicepre ERMA Typical families not always funny By ERMA BOMBECK was watching situation comedy series the other night of typical American family This family laughed until they got sick Every time Daddy opened his mouth he was scream The mother was stitch And the kids were absolute geniuses at spewing out hilarious retorts looked around at our group My husband was deeply depressed over the paper Hes looked like that since he let his G1 in surance lapse One child was on the phone insisting dont believe it every minute and half Another was locked in his room with the stereo on and the other was staring morosely into the refrigerator waiting for something to embrace him You know the trouble with this family Were not funny All the other families in the world are sitting around throw ing away oneliners and having barrel of laughs Hawaii Five gets more laughs than we The next night as heard my husbands car in the garage shouted Hey gang heeeereeeees Daddy Well said our son if it isnt our father whose wallet is full of big billsall unpaid Whats the matter with you asked my husband Youre on your feet Has your car been repossessed Dyyyynoooomitel said our youngest almost fell off the chair liey Momsaid son What do you get if you take lender from Chevvy the chrome from Ford and the hubcaps from Pontiac shook my head Six months rubber hose up your nose said amid laughter So said my husband thought you were going to strai hten up thehouse asked Is it til ted Group doubling over Incidentally did you hear Mel just got poodle for his wife wish could make trade like that he said Hey dad said our daugh ter the dog just ate Moms meat loaf Dont cry he said Ill buy you another dog Mother poked her head in the pervisor of inservice educa tion and Olive Robertson director of inservice educa tion Examiner Photo sident Lois Sullivan door Golany coffee treasurer and Jeanette Hum We Slumped OUT Chairs phrys exhausted Thank God for com mercials Your Intervac holiday in Acapulco includes Roundtrip airfare nonstop from Toronto via roomy Wardair 747 with firstclass meals and hotel accommodation based on double occupancy 7night holidays from $289 to $339 l4night holidays from $359 to $459 welcoming gettoge ground transportation to and from your hotc free bar service services of Holidays by Wardair destination representative Departures every Friday October 29 to December 10 ther at your hotel in Acapulco Wardair flight bag and passport folder Wedding trick saves feelings Dear Ann Landerszl was elated when read the letter in your column for the bridetobe who wanted to know if they should in vite her mothers brother and his wife to the wedding Your an swer was beautiful The reason it made me feel so ood was because five years ago my best friend invited my wi and me to wedding and asked my advice on the same kind of problem It involved close friend to both of us the nicest man youd ever want to meetwhen he was sober that is The advice gave was the same as yours So they went ahead anclll invited Mr and alerted three male guests to keep an eye on im After four double martinis on the rocks Mr was smashed out of his mind He started to use dirty la age and became of fensive The three men on the alert wa ed over to him and asked Billy will you ride down to the liquor store with us Were runnin out of vodka Instead they took him straight home and put im to bed No one was aware of what had happened and it was beautiful wedding Thanks again for giving me such lift Now feel as smart as you HRH Dear IL Some days Im smarter than others But arent we all Thanks for sharing Dear Ann Landera RelativesOUCH And the closer they are the more trouble they seem to cause Please tell us NOW what to do because Christmas will be here before we know it My sister who has always run the whole family insists on giving us all very expensive gifts To be perfectly honest she can afford it less than the rest of us She and her family are struggling to make ends meet Every year for the last five weve been saying This is the last year we are exchanging gifts Christmas is for the kids Lets give modest presents to nieces and nephews and skip everyone else Then on Dec 15 this load of expensive gifts arrives 0f cour se we all have to go out and match hers and were sick of it Whats the solution Vicious Circle Dear CirczThlS year tell her TODAY Oct 29 that if she sends gifts for anyone exce the kids they will be returned Keep your word and the prob em will be solved Dear Ann Landers How does one tell an inteUigent but sen sitive man that his interminable detailed stories are boring to the point where soon no one will want to be around him He speaks slowly pauses so often people become tired of his dron ing and start another conversation The storyteller continues undaunted Perhaps if you print this letter he will recognize himself and improve his delivery or at least cut it shortWeary Listenin Dear Weary Never Those egocentric ty are convinced the whole world hangs on their every wor Even TELLING them does no good They are utterly hopeless 2324 45 teams Removable log routs alumlnlum casters cushioned upholstery $199 Removable armrest $234 Lakemotlc Dowarchairs 15 HARIERS LTD or call lntervac nights from The Borrle Examiner Saturday Oct 30 19767 Mt WEBBMILLER Mr and Mrs Lloyd Webb of RR Barrie The wedding Stroud announce the forth will take place Nov at coming marriage of their pm in St James United daughter JoAnne Kim to Church Stroud Steingard Craig Stephen Miller son of photo Mr and Mrs Donald Miller WORK AREA SMALL FOUND BEST FRIEND Bonsai is the Japanese art of By 6000 BC European man cultivating dwarfed trees in was simple food atherer and had domesticatedt edog flower pots One phone call and you could be well on the way to Intervacs Acapulco and the summer we didnt get here Right now the suns shining bright the swimmings great and your dollar goes further The peso has been devalued and this is the offseason So just for fun give it whirl including hotel with full American Breakfast daily and return airfare via Wardair 747 1ICIU various in nunun colonruse uucnuunu Johnson Travel 14 Dunlop 72673971 Barrie 728470 41 Maple Ave 7266525 HAYS TRAVEL SERVICE 45 Dunlop St Ln ¥MALE