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The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, May 4,1994 Section Two News from Elizabethville Quote - "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace" - Amelia Amelia Earhart. Congratulations to the staff and pupils of Orono Public School, for again sponsoring a successful "Fun Fair." Last Thursday, April 28, a very large crowd of parents and little folks attended and all reported a real fun time. Proceeds were for the new playground. playground. Mrs. Dolly Harris and daughter Norma Ford, Brantford, spent several days last week at the home of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pigott. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pigott were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Adams, along with Mr. and Mrs. Don Adams and family, Port Perry. All celebrating Hazel's birthday. Mrs. Denise Warren, Amanda and Cory, Glenn Downer and daughter Mandy, all from Peterborough, were Saturday guests of the O. Challicès. A very appreciative audience enjoyed enjoyed the "Musical Evening", in Orono Orono United Sunday evening. Music supplied by Bowmanville Salvation Army band and "Sweet Charity Singers". Singers". Reverend Mervyn Russell welcomed welcomed everyone and also led in some extra singing. Evening sponsored by Orono Christian Concerns. Mr. and Mrs. Alf Piggott attended the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Porter, in Maple Grove Saturday, April 30. We are now into May and weather is still so cold at night. We were promised an early "spring". So much for all our "sophisticated" weather equipment! Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Staples - Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arthur Rowan, Yelverton, were last Friday Friday dinner guests. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Russell Skuce, Reaboro, were last Wednesday supper guests. Town Hall Card Party Again a large crowd of seventeen tables of euchre at the weekly card party, held in Orono Town Hall and the following winners - High Scores - Tom Wilson 89, Hilda Caswell 86, Edgar Millson 85, Marion Sears 83, Walter Murphy 81. Low score - Dora MacDonald. Lucky draws - Olive Little, Rob Robinson, Shirley Gordon, Dora MacDonald, Lena Graham, Dolly Harris 2,'Nerda Masters, Minnie Taylor. Taylor. Cards every Wednesday night - 8 p.m. in Town hall and lunch supplied. supplied. Agriculture Fair Board Banquet Held April 27 Wednesday, in Newcastle United Church with a fair attendance. Tom Moffat, 1994 President, President, welcomed everyone and Bill Tomlinson gave blessing before dinner. dinner. Everyone enjoyed the delicious turkey dinner and fixins. A special award and a brand new one for our fair "The Agricultural Volunteer Award" 1st award to District District #4 and Tom Moffat made the presentation to George Carson a long time member of the fair board. Other awards to Gerald Rainey, as chairman of the LightHorse Committee Committee for 25 years. Crop Committee Award-to Stan Found. The Agricultural Service Diploma for 1993 to Francis Jose and also Holstein Breeders Award. Enjoyable slides from Convention. and 4H Club work were shown by Ron Locke. Some of the lucky draw winners were Joyce Cowan, Betty Chatterton, Joyce Gray and Joyce Boudreau, fair Secretary. Orono United Church Active Parenting: A six weeks course with a Christian prospective on communicating and disciplining children. Continues on Thursday, May 5, 7:30 p.m. Lower C.E. Hall, Orono United Church. For further information information contact the office- at 983- 5502. Sunday, May 8, Family Day, Sacrament Sacrament of Baptism. Sunday, May 22 - Mission and Service Sunday. Guest Speaker: Dr. Susan Finlay. Confirmation. Sunday, May 29 - U.C.W. Sunday, Sunday, Guest Speaker; Mrs. Shirley Coyle. Time and Talent Auction: Saturday, Saturday, May 14th, 10 a.m., Orono Church. This is a fund raising project ofOrono's. Regal: The new summer catalogues catalogues are now in. They are at the front doors and downstairs. Orders may be placed with Heather Johnston (983-9891) or call Marlene (mornings) (mornings) 983-5502. The next order will be placed May 30th. This is a fund raising project of Kirby's. Hot on the heels of the success of the First Three Spring Lectures at Crystal Pages, The Book Store in Orono, on May 10 the featured speaker will be Dr. Eleanor Vincent M.D. who will enlighten us on Hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy. This is a process by which self-controlled relaxation and concentration concentration allow a person to achieve goals such as: phobia control, smoking smoking cessation, and resolution of psychological psychological problems. On May 17, Rilla Clarke, M.S., Registered Marriage Marriage and Family Therapist will present 'Dancing with the Shadow'. Archetypal stories, guided meditation, meditation, living with tensions and paradoxes, paradoxes, in ourselves and in our communities. communities. All lectures at 7:30 p.m. 5500 Main St., Orono, 983-9475. $8.00. Refreshments served. Horticulture Meeting Monthly meeting of Orono Horticultural Horticultural Society held Thursday night, April 28, in Main Hall of Orono United Church with excellent attendance. attendance. President Shelly Etmanskie welcomed everyone and meeting opened with "O Canada, sung. Doreen Doreen Lowery at piano. Secretary Flo Sharpe read minutes of previous meeting and gave announcements, of upcoming events. Shelley introduced our guest speaker Mrs. Cheri Eikens of J. C. Evergreen Farms, who brought a very informative talk and demonstration demonstration on "Annuals". Following her presentation, she kindly donated beautiful plants for lucky draws. Lor- na Atkins thanked our speaker and she received a hearty round of applause applause from an appreciative audience. Cheri also presented her new spring edition of "Gardener" and is very in-, formative for all gardeners. Front page item from Dave Hinton on what else? Rhododendrons his favorite topic! Lots of lucky draw winners and then Doreen led everyone in a real fun sing along of old favorites, sung of course to new words! Delicious lunch served by committee, committee, Carol Mostert, Minnie Zeg- ers, Jennie Bowins and Isabelle Chal- lice. Isabelle Challice judged the very pretty houseplant show, of over 50 entries, and following winners - Best African Violet - Doreen Lowery, Best Houseplant - Inez Harris, Judges Choice - Shelley Etmanskie, Best Easter Bonnet - Minnie Zegers, Most Points in entire show - Shelley Etmanskie. Etmanskie. Congratulations to all winners. An added feature of evening were several tables of beautiful-crafts and hobbies of members. Quilts, books, ducks, and other hand-crafts. On Tuesday, the UCW Unit H met at Quantrills' to plan a dinner for the Cobourg Presbytery who are holding their annual meeting at Garden Hill Church on May 3rd, and our unit is supplying the dinner for them. On Thursday the seniors met with about 20 attending. Final plans for our bus trip on Saturday were made. Also, our April dinner on the 28th was discussed. discussed. Church on Sunday had an average crowd. It was a very nice day, but a little little windy some places. Rev. Sedgwick conducted the opening services and Final Meeting for Acting Academy The Maple Grove Acting Academy Academy held their final meeting on Wednesday April 6. Our youth leader Mike Metcalf lead the club into the fun activity of making masks. Our faces were covered with vaseline then a partner plastered our faces. Most masks came off, but there were a few exceptions. Our roll, "Pretend this is Hallowe'en if you could be anybody or anything what or who would you be?" was answered with a variety of responses including Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Isabelle Brassure, monster, and Roberto Alomar. We discussed our achievement night. It will be held on Monday May 9 at Maple Grove Hall. We will be doing a play and a makeup demonstration for the ladies of the Women's Institute who sponsor sponsor us. Our families and friends are invited. Our books, masks and other projects will be on display. And that ended the final meeting of the Maple Grove Acting Academy. We must thank our leaders Maryann and Brenda. Brenda. We should also thank our youth leader Mike for the two meetings he took over and many thanks to all who came out. Hope to see you again at the next Maple Grove 4-H club. Katharine Found chose the first lesson from John about Jesus the good shepherd. The choir sang an anthem. Expression of Worship Worship was singing a hymn from the green book. For the children, he told them about the sheep and lambs and how the wolves would eat the little lambs if they caught them away from the shepherd Second lesson was from John about God's love for the world. R. Smith and D. Watson accepted the offering. offering. A brief meeting was held after church by the session. On May 1st there will be no service at Garden Hill. It will be held at Welcome Welcome at 10:15 a.m. This past week Mrs. Lewko had her grandson Darryl Lewko from Calgary visiting her one day while he was attending attending a conference in Toronto. The previous week, Anne Long, Rochester, spent a few days with her mother Mrs, Lewko, celebrating Mrs. Lewko's birthday. Jackson and Susan Peacock entertained entertained Jack and Barb Lee, Joe and Jean Kowall on Thursday. Steven and Christy Peacock, North Gower, spent the week-end with his parents, Jackson and Susan. Beryl DeKoker, along with a university university student, took 18 students to the United National Seminar in Toronto last week-end She teaches at O'Neill Collegiate, Oshawa. June hasn't been quite so well, she has had trouble with a shortage of breath. Darlene visited her last week and Suzanne spent the week-end with her as June's girls had to go other places. places. Donna lives in Sudbury, Pat is with June at present but is the dietician at Orillia hospital. Pat is getting married in June and they are busy with plans. On Sunday aftemon, Vivian and Howard Howard Quantrill, Gloria and Fred Schri- mancher, Jackson and Susan, Alan and Helen Peacock attended the wake in Dundas for Mary Quantrill, wife of Ray, brother of Howard Quantrill. The funeral is to-day. We expect Lesley home from university university on Wednesday. Rob and Suz plan to drive to Lennoxville on Tuesday Tuesday and stay overnight. 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