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v I I ' EPO TRL AR FATAL PLU) PT AT Dy Lal A ns EA Nar LAA EALY _l ' by Jean Jeffery God keep you well and safe, God grant that every day May bring its gift of Happy Hours And sunny skies your way. God give you strength for all your needs. u Contentment all life - through. God Bless you and with this Perfect love and grant his. peace to you. This is my Christmas prayer to one and all. There was a lovely dedi- cation Service at Church on Sunday when Mr. Donald Asling presented a Baptis- 'mal Font in memory of his father, the late Wm. Asling, This was. dedicated to the use of the Church by Mr. M. Ward, our minister. The Epsom-Utica U.C.W. will meet at Utica Church on Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. Group 3 in charge. Several of the Epsom congregation enjoyed the ANBAR ET (Tn 0 AACA RL Utica Sunday School enter- tainment at Utica Church Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Asling also attended the Sunday School entertain- ment at Sandford church on Thurs. evening. There will be regular church and Sunday School service at Utica next Sun. Remembers original Pinafore at Town Hall 160 Government St., Victoria B.C. Dear Sir: I was greatly interested in reading the account in the Star of the presentation by the local choral group of - H.M.S. Pinafore. For it brought back fond Congrads for Drew ...from England! To the People of Port Perry Thanks for electing Richard Drew as a council- lor. "You won't regret it. He is a very likable man who has the welfare of others at heart. A family man with his wife, Bobbie and 3 lovely children, also a sister and family in Scarborough. A mother and father in Bir- mingham, England, who visit him yearly and who he tends to spoil, especially his mother. Richard is a busi- ness man. A great credit to the U.K. and Canada, but perhaps I am biased, I am his father. R. H. Drew, Birmingham, England. memories of when it was performed sixty three years ago as at that time my two sisters (Mrs. Carnegie and Mrs. Emmerson) and 1 were in the cast also Mr. H. Nasmith, who later become my husband. If it is poss- ible to send me a copy of the review printed at that time, it would be greatly appreci- ated. = I should love to have seen this recent production but I send congratulations to all who took part and best wishes for continued success - for no doubt they will plan to give another Gilbert and Sullivan delight- ful opera. Yours sincerely, Florence Nasmith P.S. I enjoy getting the paper, which arrives every Monday morning except on holidays. Changes are tak- ing place in the Town since I left four years ago and there are fewer and fewer familiar names. Never-the- less, there will always be a very warm spot in my heart for the town where I spent many happy years. Canine grads Turmberg Kennels Reg'd of Brooklin held their Obed- ience School graduation on Tuesday, December 14th. Zoe Rohrer of Nestleton (continued on page 6) ht Ve REA FNM ANP LAS BPN " 7 put rf . NAR ent ray Nati TL Ur ; 8 vy : LEN TOF Bat Al A Veta aR NLA FLW VRP RINNALNENIE RY. WERE YON AANA IINE 3 ENC ENTN TATA RIAT EVCIARR BN FAN ARS . News of interest from Dec. 26. Our choir will be there to offer their service of song. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Catherwood, Brian and Barry of Oshawa had lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Ashton and children of Sonya had supper with their parents Mr. and Mrs. H. Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Evans attended the annual meet- ing, banquet and entertain- ment for the United co- operatives of Ontario at the Royal York Hotel last Tues. Gordon Tapp was the speaker. Mrs. Evans also attended the ladies noon luncheon and fashion show. The Bushell family held a pre-Christmas party on Sat. evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bushell, Uxbridge. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ashton and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baster were also guests. Mrs. H. Ashton was visit- ing Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Catherwood of Oshawa for 2 days last week. She attend- ed the C.N.ILB. Christmas Dinner and entertainment at the Genosha Hotel in Oshawa. Mrs. Catherwood and Mrs. Ashton also visited Mrs. Alma Asling in Fair- i : ' 0 Met idbil dad onal small afghans). "member of the U.C.W. be vier S1%AM NA ANP oh [] ri J 2 4 4 Li ad nod cram stdin PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1976 -- 5 Epsom area view Lodge and Mrs. Agnes Linton who is a Patient in Oshawa hospital. On Sun. evening Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wilson of Ux- bridge and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hortop of Scugog 'were after church guests for coffee with Mr. and Mrs. Ross Evans. Kenneth Jeffery of Parry Sound was visiting Mr. G. Jeffery .on Friday. There will be Christmas Eve Service and comm- union at Epsom church on Dec. 24 with our choir in attendance.After the service we hope everyone will accept the kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ashton to meet at their home for coffee and a social hour. We have found that our local nursing homes need our knitted lap robes (or Will each responsibility for seeing that at least one block is at the meeting Jan. 4th. Knit, plain, stocking stitch , ribb- ed or fancy stitch or even crochet as long as the block is 8 inches square. Belive it or not tomorrow (Tues) will be the first day of winter - or is it? Bill Smiley Christmas time There is no time of the year that passes more quickly than the few weeks before Christmas. One day it's only about the first week in November. The Christmas gift catalogues are just out, and Bing Crosby has barely commenced singing "I'm Dreaming etc,," and the Santa Claus parade is a few weeks off the town's Christmas lights have just gone up, so you know that the actual holiday is weeks, if not months, in the future. =~ = Then, suddenly, you have about six dicey days to go, and you haven't bought either tree or turkey, let alone gifts and cards, and you know you're going to be flying like a bat out of hell to get ready for the annual bacchanalia with which we celebrate the birth of Christ. And I guess maybe that's part of the fun - going slightly ape for a few days each year, running around like a cat on a hot tin roof, and spending money like a drunken sailor, to coin a few brilliant, original similes and metaphors. Some people, and the rest of us detest them go around smugly in December telling anyone who will listen that they have all their gifts bought and wrapped, their cards dispatched, their plum pudding made, and even their rotten tree up and decorated. They're like the people in Alden Nowlan's poem, who set the breakfast table before going to bed, make the bed before going down to breakfast, have their names and birthdates inscribed on their tombstones before they die, with nothing to add but the date of death. Perhaps they are admirable people, in a way, but I hate them. They are so busy getting ready for tomorrow that they 50 YEARS AO Thurs. December 23, 1926 The follewing students are home in Port Perry for the Christmas holi- days: Miss Isabel Lucas, Mr. Grant Rundle, Mr. Lewis McLean, Mr. John Brock and Mr. Alex Wood. ' Miss Valde Hortop was awarded at the Annual High School Commence- ment for passing into Port Perry High School with- out examinations, having the highest record on her year's work in the class. Special Farm Offer of 53 acres, 8 room house and large barn with sheds. $1,500 cash will buy it all. A. W. Morley Campbell, Real Estate. 25 YEARS AGO Thurs. December 20, 1951 Mr, and Mrs. Chas. Taylor of Ethelton, Sask., are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor and other relat- ives in the Epsom area. Congratulations. to Remember "-> When. ma Miss Florence McLaugh- lin, Toronto, on being second in the Freelance Club, short story contest. The subject of her story was Madame LeChance. Miss McLaughlin attend- ed Port Perry High School. A special thanks to Miss Ruby Wilson who gave a talk on the Great White Gift of the first Xmas morning at Epsom Sunday School's White Gift, Sunday. Miss Wil- son also showed pictures taken in Africa while she was there as a mission- ary. 15 YEARS'AGO Thurs. December 21, 1961 Through the co-oper- ation of the local Hydro system and the Port Perry Chamber of Com- merce, a contest for the best electrically decor- ated home is underway, Port Perry upset Ux- bridge 'Black Hawks" 8-6 in overtime in an O0.H.A. Lakeshore Inter- mediate game at the Community Memorial Arena this week. Gerry Robinson scored the eventual winning goal in overtime and Dean West counted an insurance marker into an open net. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. December 22, 1966 The need for a bigger hospital is intensified by the increase in popul- ation. The population in Scugog in 1953 (when the hospital was built) was only 1300 while now it is 3000. The population of Reach Township during the same time has risen from 2809 in 1953 to 3404 in ; 1966. Osmond Wright was elected to the one vacant seat on Cartwright Town- ship Council in Monday's election. All other mem- bers of council were pre- viously elected by ac- clamation. - Helping Mr. H. Eagle- son, Seagrave, to cele- brate his 91st birthday on Sunday, were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tristram, their three sons and girl- friends of two of the sons, Toronto; also Mrs. W. R. Tristram of Port Perry. haven't time to enjoy today. Like most slobs, I comfort myself by constantly reasuring myself that truly creative people are tardy, procrastinating and slovenly, that it takes a narrow mind to have a tidy desk, that life is only a preparation for death, which is anything but neat, and that I wouldn't want to be like those people for all the oil in Arabia. Remember when it used to be all the tea in China? It's partly true, though. Every year, the Old Battleaxe and I plan to have a gracious Christmas. We plan it in June, and then forget all about it until Dec. 17th. The plan goes something like this. The cards will be purchased about September, and with care. None of this, "Give me three dozen of those and three ddzen of those red ones and about twenty green ones." Our tree will be large, stately and gorgeous, and will be erected without confusion or blasphemy at least a week before Christmas. Every gift will be chosen with care, about October, wrapped exquisitely, and stored in the front hall closet. Christmas dinner will be planned care- fully, so that there will be a minimum of fuss. Turkey will be ordered and delivered at precisely the right moment. Plum pudding will be baked and frozen, prob- ably in November, ready to be popped in the oven. Records will be sorted and all set to go on hi-fi. There'll be carol singing, a fire in the fireplace, peace and goodwill in all our hearts, and joy to the world. House will be full of lovable children, and gentle Grandad, who will play with each other, while the old lady and I sit around benignly and smile and smile, with our hearts overflowing. And we'll all go to church on Christmas Day to get away from the commercialism, and revel in the True Meaning of Christmas. Somewhere between the planning and the execution, something goes awry. Maybe it's because life is to complicated to spend six months getting ready for a three-day orgy. Somehow, we're too busy -with Thanks- giving and Remembrance Day and the Grey Cup and sewing Kim's pants, and marking essays and bickering and making up, to make any preparations at all. Cards are last year's left-overs, plus a few cheap extras, sent out on Dec. 23rd. I go out on the 24th and beat the snow and ice off the third-last skeleton in the . Christmas tree lot, and it is erected to the RT SYNE ic ering LY TR A 2 : bids LS Ai accompaniment of oaths when I try to nail my finger to the floor, and screams of rage and disgust when the dam' thing falls over for the fourth time. Gifts are purchased with all the careful selection of passengers on the Titanic grabbing for lifebelts. Only one string of the Christmas tree lights works and the stores are sold out of replacements. Somebody forgot to order the fresh-killed turkey, and we wind up with a beast that was frozen during the last Ice Age. We have to chop the guts out with a! chisel. Plum pudding? Forget it. We're all on a diet. Nobody got around to sorting out the records, and on Christmas Eve, instead of We Three Kings of Orient, we get There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, with pornographic verses by Jakaloo Shuffler and His Shifflers. Somebody has lost the book of carols. There is no kindling and the firewood is wet. It smokes. The. only peace in the house is when you lock yourself in the bathroom, and the lock doesn't work, and the infants wander in and say, "What are you doing, Grandad?" Grandchildren are incorrigible, pulling over firescreen, floor lamp and Great-' Grandad in a muddle of breaking and bawling, filling their diapers during dinner, and demanding to stay up until midnight to see S. Claus. We never make it to church because we're too busy celebrating the birth of Christ. Maybe next year. The Argyle Syndicate PORT PERRY STAR Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright! Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher Advertising Manager John Gast, Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Associa! on and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associa'ion Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. LM, Por! Perry, Ontaro Authorized as second class mail by fhe Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 074% Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 29¢ AS ne ~ a a TN N mE Sw a vy = < SIAN -- TE PON ee SR a CNTR ALR SW a --~ oe ~ SCS 2 - de St % ~~ pe - eA -- es . ATS or) os Rt-- . Te a ey I Te ort EEE - Fy -r -l > AY ol - > og Lar ¢