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A short comentary was given on cach by Marian Couperthwaite. "Mrs. A. McMillan read the minutes ~ of the last Annual Meeting also was acting Sec'y for the installation of officers for the year 1967-68. The Officers were installed by Mrs. P. Diamond and each re- mained the same for another year. The annual reports were given by the different conveners. Four the District Convention being held in Brooklin on May 30th. They were: Mrs. A. Phoenix, Mrs. P. Diamond, Mrs. E. Tait, Mrs. Mero. Mrs. M. Beaton gave her re- port of the Fruit and Flower Committee. Mrs. Norine Blair was named to succeed Mrs. M. Cookman on this committee. Mrs. Mero took the Topic, and covered a great deal of ground in the life and work of our fourteen Prime Ministers of the first hundred years of Con- federation in Canada. It was 'most interesting and informa- tive. Mrs. M. Beaton gave a humor- ous reading, but pretty true, on the prices and living conditions of fifty or more years ago. This was followed by a contest by Mrs. R. Baird. The meeting closed with the Queen and the WI. Grace. Lunch was served by the group in charge, Mrs. Baird, Mrs. Mero, Mrs. M. Beaton. GREENBANK NEWS A severe electrical storm went through this area Friday night with lightning striking the Church and doing slight damage to the chimney. . Miss Dorothy Real of Toronto spent the week-end with Mr. & Mrs. Bob Brandon. There will be a special ser- vice next Sunday -sponsored by the U.C.W. when Rev. Jay Story, a missionary from India will be the guest speaker. Visitors for the week-end at Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baud's ----.--were-Mr.-and-Mrs.- Elmore -Grey| of Toronto. Sorry to report little David Truax was bitten by their dog, recently. A few stiches was re- quired to close the wound. The Centennial Committee met in the hall Monday night to make further plans for the celebrations in June for the re- opening of the hall on June 16, sport's day and dance in the 17, -and the Centennial Church'ser- vice on the "18th. - Please keep Ee Taylor Anniversary (Continued from Front Page) on the happy event, and spent a few moments reminiscing over the past 50 yrs. They spent their entire married life on the farm on 7A highway north of the village, until building their new home in Blackstock and retiring in 1951. The tea table with lovely lace cloth, was beautifully arranged with the wedding cake centre, yellow mums, golden candles in candelabra, and two silver tea services, one at each end of the table. Presiding at the table were Mrs. Edgar Horn, Mrs. Harry McLaughlin, Mrs. Herb Taylor and Mrs. Harold Wright. A lovely basket of golden mums were given by the grand- these dates open, and plan to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Don Stainton of Tyrone, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim McLaughlin visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rahm on Sunday. Those who attended the Cen- tennial Capers in Seagrave Church Saturday evening enjoy- ed a real treat. Word has been received here of the death of Mr. B. J. Love of Edmonton. Briton was a former Greenbank boy, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. -Chas:-- Love. Sympathy is ex] tended to the family. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Howsam, Mrs. Lucille Weldon, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mec- Millan recently. * Mrs. Wally Parr of Toronto spent a day with her mother Mrs. Cliff Ward last week. Don't forget the card party in the - Hall on Friday evening, April 28th. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. C. Pearson and family in the death of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Wes Clyde of Keswick, who died in Newmarket on Saturday. Mr. Edwin McKaig home from University on Sunday. Bray Anniversary (Continued from Front Page) have 26 grandchildren and 10 great. grandchildren. During the afternoon and ev- ening many friends, relatives & neighbours gathered at their home extending their best wish- es and at this time were pre- sented with a money tree, gifts, flowers and a gold chair from neighbours. Telegrams and letters were received from the following: Prime Minister John Robarts, Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Honourable Michael Starr, Matthew B. Dymond, (approx. 7.30 p.m.. Approximately 160 well fed fathers and sons of Cartwright Boy Scouts enjoyed the banquet arranged by the Group Com- mittee and implemented by the interested and hard working mothers of the members of the Boy Scout & Cub Association. Chairman George Wolfe call- ed the gathering together at Rev. Rose said Grace, the Queen was toast- ed and dinner begun. After this most satisfying event, the head table guests were intro- duced. Scout Brian Lee proposed the toast to the fathers and Wm. Mahaffy responded to same. Robert Wheeler, former Cub leader proposed the toast to the sons, and Brian Tomchishin, Cub, replied. Cub Akelas Dave Hudson of pack "A" and Harold Crawford of pack "B" gave short reports of cub activities and in- troduced the present leaders-- More leaders are needed in both Cubs and Scouts, and this re: frain was sung several times. Presentation of "The Best Camper" award was made by Scouter Doug Metcalf to Bill Thompson as a result of 1966 camping activities. Scoutmaster Harold Hamilton reported on Scout activities and told - of camping plans and projects for this Centennial Year 1967. Ross Duff, Ex-chairman of 'the Group Committee introduc- ed speaker for the evening, John Krantz, of Oshawa, Rover Scout who had taken part in a Scout exchange visitation with an Eskimo Scout of Cam- bridge Bay, N.W.T. Pictures were shown of Cambridge Bay, its 'inhabitants and the journey there and return as well as other items of interest. Cam- bridge Bay is located on the "Dew Line" approx. 1200 miles north of Regina, and John spent two weeks there, all in day light. Although he arrived in July, the ice had not receded enough to permit his visit. John also showed samples of Eskimo workmanship, a Parka, mitts, footwear, etc. John also told the boys that formerly the only way one could tell girls from boys was by the trim on their "Blonde or Bru: nette wolverine fur, fair for girls and dark for boys parkas. He showed some pictures of girls, and how they are trying to become modern like "other Canadians. « Genuine appreciation i by the gathering and voiced by Chairman Wolfe. After having the girls responsible for putting on the fine meal reluctantly line up, Ernest Swain. voiced the gatherings appreciation of their most successfull efforts. Scout Barry Malcolm accom: panied those present in "Oh Canada' to terminate the pro- gram. Minor Softball Association has plans ready for the-1967 season and another big softball season appears ahead. Registration will be complet: ed by May 1st with over 300 boys and girls signing up. House leagues in Tyke; Squirt; Pee Wee and Bantam should be ready to roll by June 1st. Minor Softball Booster Night will be held on June 24 with a giant parade planned. "An Umpires School is sche- duled for Sunday, June 11 at the Legion Hall and all softball umpires, coaches, managers and fans should mark this date down as they will find this school very interesting. The school is put on by the Local Little Britain Even Series Little Britain Aces tied their Intermediate "C" Ontario Fin- al series. with Port Elgin Suno- co's, to force a seventh and de- ciding game. After dropping a 3-2 decision in Port Elgin on Saturday night Little Britain came up with a 7-4 win on their home ice on Sunday afternoon to tie the series at three games apiece. "children, Many other beautiful gifts and flowers were received. Congratulatory messages were received from Prime Minister L. B. Pearson, Hon. John Dief- enbaker, Premier Robarts of Ont., Mr. Alex Carruthers, M.P., Dr. M. B. Dymond, M.P. and Mr. Russel Honey, M.P. Prior to the reception, the family honoured their parents and grandmother (Mrs. Jos. Forder) nineteen in all to a smorgasbord dinner at Rock Haven Restaurant, Peterbor- ough, on March 23rd. It being Mrs. Forder's 94th birthday. Mrs. Forder is Mrs. Taylor's mother. She also attended the reception, John Diefenbaker, and Albert Walker. Serving tea in the afternoon were: Mrs. Gary Nottingham, Mrs. Ken Nottingham and Mrs. Bayne Gimblett; in the evening were Mrs. Jack Nottingham, Mrs. Leo Gordon and Mrs. Ro: bert Gatchel all being grand- daughters of the couple assisted by Miss Dianne Brown. For receiving the guests, Mrs. Bray chose a teal.blue crepe dress with a corsage of yellow roses. Guests were present from: Oshawa, Port Perry, Columbus, Brooklin, Blackstock, Bowman- ville, and Myrtle, Whitby, En- | field, Toronto. Will Lamonte's goal at 10.07 of a sudden-death overtime per- iod gave Port Elgin their win on Saturday night. Don Dodten & Bev. Neil were Port Elgin's other marksmen. Tommy Thom: son and Ron Huel scored for Little Britain. John Nichols and Ray McCabe each scored two goals for Little Britain in Sunday's game while Alvin Drinkwater, Ron Jenkins and Tom Thomson scored sin- gles. Port Elgin scores went to Ray Dudgeon, Robert Woods, Les Kingston and Neil Miller. The seventh and deciding game will be played this Satur: day in Port Elgin. The Port Perry and District | Miner Softball Program Ready Association through the O.A. S.A. and the Department of Education for the province of 'Ontario. Any persons interested in coaching or umpiring should contact any member of the exe- cutive as much help will be needed. The travelling teams will be: Squirt--Port_Perry Legion Pee Wee--Port Perry 1.G.A. Bantam--Port Perry Lions Club Midget--Ballard Lumber The Ballard Lumber team will be playing in the newly formed Lakeshore Midget League with teams , from Oshawa, Cobourg, Trenton, Picton and Belleville. This league will play a home & home series with a playoff to pe wound up Wy 0.AS.A. play- off time. Beare Motors Bonspiel The 8th Annual Beare Bon spiel was recently held at the Port Perry Curling Club. Trophy winner was the Jerry Hunter rink with Bud, Sonley, Vice; Art Panabaker, 2nd and Gord Prentice, lead. . The Consolation winner was Dieter Pohl's rink from A: of John's presentation - was shown | | Appointe ppointed Ontario County Council at the last meeting enacted a bylaw appointing a secondary school consultative committee. The committee will consist of the Public School Inspector, a per- son appointed by the minister of education and three council appointments, = Archibald New- man, Harvey Westcott, reeve of the Township of Thorah and Francis Hockley, a former coun- cil. member, were appointed by council as members of the com: mittee. 4 Council approved a bylaw au- thorizing it to purchase approxi- mately - 200 acres of land in Mara Township for forestry pur- poses. Purchase price of the property is $5,000. Th following organizations re- ceived grants from council: Brooklin Spring Fair Associa- tion, $350; Ontario County Soil and Crop Improvement Associa- tion Yon Ontario department By County of agriculture (Junior farmers and 4-H club extension), $600.; Ontario Department of Agricul- ture (Statutory Grant), $500.; North Ontario Plowmen's Asso- ciation, $300; South Ontario Plowmen's -Association, $300; Beaverton Agricultural Society, $500; South Ontario Agricultur- al Society, $500; North Ontario Women's Institute, $100; South Ontario Women's Institute $100; Port Perry Agticultural Society, $500; Rama Agricultural Society $250; Scott Agricultural Society, $350; Sunderland Agricultural Society, $350; Winner of United Nations Tour, $75; Mara Town- siph School Fair Board, $175.50 and Ontario County 4-H Champ- ionship Show, $187.25. No action was taken ona re- quest from the Ontario County Junior Farmers for a grant of $350 towards their cetennnial project. 550 Gather At High School For Religious Rally On Monday evening, April 24, approximately- 550 people gath- ered at the Port Perry High School to enjoy the 12th annual presentation of Rev. C. R. Nel- son's Religious Education Rally. This year's special Centennial -| edition was organized by the Rev. Nelson, and the three Religious Education teachers of "Reach Township $¢hools," Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Bradley and Miss Weimer. During the program, several songs and speeches were offered by pupils from the three consolidated schools of Reach, and by the Crusaders Male Quartette. Under the topic of "Changes" Brian Parrish of Epsom school noted various changes that have occurred in transportation over the past century. Irwin Smith of Prince Albert told of changes in communication, and Barbara Timms of Greenbank informed the audience of changes in edu- cation. : As a contrast to the topic of "Changes", students of the three schools then undertook to show and to tell the audience that some things have not '| changed. From Prince Albert, Joe Johnson, Ross MacCulloch, Debbie Kennedy 'and Denise Franks showed there has been no change in God. Judy Rodd of Greenbank told of the lack of change in the Bible, and Bonnie Regler told of the lack of change in the Love of God. Expects - 200 Gals. | Per Minute The Sword Drills, long a po- pular contest among the schools were won by Sandra Cochrane of Prince Albert (Junior Divi- sion) and Dan McCartney of Epsom (Senior Division). As Epsom has won this trophy three times consecutively, the school now retains the trophy 'permanently. ""Phé Crusaders Male 'Quartette presented two hymns, Faith of Our Fathers, and Great Is Thy Faithfulness. The evening was brought to a close by the presentation of a song by the Epsom school choir, with lyrics written by Bonnie Pegler and Jill Doble. VOTING POWER CHANGE SOUGHT BY COUNTY Ontario County 'Council has authorized its solicitor to pre- pare a private bill for presenta- tion to the Ontario Legislature to change the voting power of the council of the County of Ontario. - Under the terms of the bill, where a municipality has more than 5,000 municipal electors, the reeve will have two votes and the deputy reeve two votes. Where a municipality has more than 5,000 but not more than 8,000 municipal electors, the reeve shall have three votes and the Deputy-Reeve two votes. Where a municipality has more than 8,000 municipal elec- tors, the reeve will have three votes & the deputy reeve e three votes: This Sofi of voting power runs hand in hand with the re. --*-------- Lea, Toronto. Other prize winners were: Friday--Roy Turner, Port Perry. Neil Weir, Bradford. Ross Mur- ray, Uxbridge: Ralph Fairman, Port Perry. Saturday -- Ted Griffen, Port Perry. John Wahl, 'Peterboro. Joe Warner, Dixie. Ivan Parkinson, Port Perry. Bill Jack's Rink from Oshawa Golf Club won the Sportsman Consolation prize. Teams _ participating jn this popular 2-day event were from Peterboro, Toronto, Brampton, Haliburton, Bradford, Scarboro, Cannington, Oshawa, Uxbridge, Sutton, Bowmanville, Dixie and Port Perry. From New Well A representative from .Inter- national Water Supply Ltd., Mr. Turnbull made a report to Port Perry council recently in regard to the results of a test drilling. He stated that the best forma: tion appeared to be about 100 feet north of Well No. 2, where at a.depth of about 148 feet a new bed of gravel 'was discover- ed, and that at least 200 gallons of water per minute should be produced. When given the approval by the O.W.R.C. and the Village council, Mr. Turnbull said his firm would be able to rush the project through, due to the water shortage in Port Perry. viewing, every five years, of the representation on county council. The question of ambulance service for the County of Ont- ario, referred to council at its last sitting, was referred to the Ontario County Health Unit for study, as the grant structure of the provincial government works through the health de- partment. Estimated expenditures of the Ontario County and City of Osh- awa Children's Aid Society for 1967 is $534,809; of which the county will pay $87,289.61, an increase over 1966 of $20,210.61. The province will pay $366,160. 32 and the City of Oshawa, $81, 359. 07.