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1 y § by ge Fed Axed PR VIN As TE Ia eg NE RAS HEPRE FRIRLERERE PY I TILE SLE ERC A by Mrs. Bethany Schryburt The Blackstock -commun- ity wishes to extend the hope of a speedy and com- plete recovery to Mr. Wilbur Toms presently at the Oshawa Hospital recup- erating from a stroke taken on Tuesday evening. Wednesday afternoon session of the Blackstock Nursery School enjoyed skating at the Blackstock arena during class time on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lawrence entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Williams of Nestleton and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nicholls of Caesarea on the evening of the 18th of February. The Lawrence home then hosted an even- ing meal for their son Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lawrence of Newmarket and Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Gallant and Danny of Oshawa and Mr. Hollie also of Oshawa on Sunday. Sunday evening guests of Mrs. Lawrence were Mrs. Swan and Mrs. Holder. Frances Grove celebrated her 7th birthday on Satur- day by ice skating in Black- stock and a luncheon at her home with her friends Julie Byers, Linda Parsons" and Esther Kelly. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Grove and family helped Joan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gay- man of Unionville to cele- brate their 42nd annivers- ary on Sunday, February 19 with a dinner party of 17 at the Red Deer Park Inn in Stouffville. Sunday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kelly were Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace of Mark- ham and Mrs. Willmot Phair of Greenbank. Mr. and Mrs. Tennyson Samells entertained several guests on Sunday for dinner: Mr. and Mrs. Vin- cent Archer of Bowman- ville, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Samells of Peterborough, and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Gunter of Newmarket. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dob- son of Greenbank and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nesbitt from Glenarm were Sunday callers to Mr. and Mrs. Percy VanCamp. The Senior Citizens had 15 tables at their weekly card party in Blackstock, the winners were: 1st - Ed Harris 83, 2nd - Shirley Nicholls 79, 3rd - Maxine Brock 79, 4th - Clarence Masters 77, 5th Adam Sharp 76, 6th - A. Timms 76 and low Rosetta Stone: Mixed curling is.a new adventure this year for Blackstock. Curling on Tuesday evening with 2 draws and 12 rinks (teams). Rink 10-earned the most points in the 1st draw: V. and C. Vogel and D. and J. Danter. The 2nd draw was rink 6 as highest points: T. and B:-Malcolm and V: and R. Parsons. Men's curling on Monday nignts;- 1st draw, top point was rink 12: K. Crawford, N. Werry, K. Goble, and F. Hoskin. The 2nd draw top point rink was 5: D. Barr, F. Asselstine, N. McLaugh- lin, and J. Goss. Ladies Monday curling top point rink on February 13th was rink 3: L. Edger- ton, B. Bryant, and J. Ma- haffy. Tuesday ladies top rink was 3: P. Fletcher, J. Graham, B. Byers and M. Jordan. Rink 3 shares the top point rink because of a tie: C. Vogel, D. Kyte, M. Carnochan and N. McCon- nell. Tuesday, February 14th after school the Hamburger Helpers again met at the C.E. room-in the Church. They opened with the 4-H pledge and Eleanor Kelly read the minutes of the previous week. The leaders discussed pork preparation and prepared party pork which was promptly enjoy- ed by all and the meeting was brought to a close with the 4-H motto. Anglican Church Women Anglican Church Women held- their meeting at the home of Elaine Bailey on Wednesday, February 15th at 8:30. There was a good attendance and after a short devotional given by Elaine, President Sharon Umphrey directed the discussion of many business items. Linda McLaughlin and Elaine Bailey are in charge of the upcoming banquet for the Federation of Agricul ture to be catered to on March 28th by the Anglican . Church Women. It - was announced that World Day of Prayer will be held on March 3rd at the North Nestleton United Church. Before the close of the meeting ' cards were passed for all to sign for Mr. Norman Green in the hospital in Oshawa and Mr. Tom Hodge still in hospital in Bowmanville. The Larry - Schryburt family spent Saturday and Sunday in Ottawa having a family get-together at his mother's place. St.John's Anglican Church in Blackstock conducted installation of new wardens on Sunday, February 19ih, during the church service. Ken Hudson is the new People's Warden replacing Lawrence McLaughlin and the new Rector"s Warden is Bob Mason to replace George Wolf. Nursery School Meeting Cheryl Vogel called the meeting of the Blackstock Nursery School Inc. to order on Monday evening, Febru- ary 13. The minutes of the January meeting were read and the treasurers report given. Joanne Lee presented-the report of the Valentine $ave Fuel "H' Heat Exchanger for Fireplaces SS Ontario. LOB ICO Fuel Savings will pay the cost in one year. For information write: Box 254, Brooklin, 416-655-4492 613-962-9717 £LERE St % g Blackstock an Dance held on the 11th. Dave Andrews thanked for the music and also -extra door prizes donated to the dance. Because of the tremendous success of the dance, another is being planned and any suggest- ions will. be welcomed. Joanne stated that the tickets have been ordered for the play, 'Arsenic and Old Lace", starring Tom Kneebone, Barbara Hamil- ton and Amelea Hall to be presented at the Bayview Playhouse in Toronto. Beth Schryburt was called upon for a Cookbook Com- mittee Report. The cook- book layout has been mailed to Chicago and should be available for sale by the first of April. A list of advertisement patrons from ~Blackstock and Port Perry was read. The cookbook committee was thanked for their help: Carol Andrews, Bonnie Hudson, Chris Rollo, Renee Sleep and Cheryl Vogel. The meeting was brought to a close with a surprise raffle which was won by Cheryl Vogel. VARDRII SNES NE. HTS 78th Annual Convention of The Ont. Assoc. of Agricul- tural Societies The Agricultural Convent- ion took place on Wednes- day and Thursday, Febru- ary 15 and 16 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The Convention was well repre- sented by The Blackstock Society: Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kelly, Lawrence McLaughlin, Jim Byers, - and Beth Schryburt. Wed- nesday morning, following registration, the business meeting took place in the main concert hall. Ed Starr brought into discussion many topics of business. It was voted, yes by the dele- gates to start incorpora- tion of the association. Mr. Starr then closed the busi- ness portion of the meeting with the statement that this organization represents more people in the province of Ontario, than any other association. Roy Jewell, Western Ontario Farmer, reporter, and radio commentator was the guest speaker. He dis- cussed the changes that have taken place in "the PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1978 -- 11 area news country fairs since they began in the first part of the last-century. Even though the farmer only represents 5 percent of the population, another 45 percent of the people rely on the farmer directly or indirectly for their livelihood. As Mr. Jewell ended his speech, he urged that the farm and nonfarm segments of the community should use the fair as a merry-go-round to blend together. Certainly a highlight for Blackstock at the morning meeting was the presentat- ion of winners in the slide competitions. The slides were judged 50 percent on content and 50 percent on quality. There were 350 slides entered in the com- petition, 2 classes with 8 categories each. Black- stock won 2nd. place in the class C fair under the "Opening Ceremonies" category. The prize winn- ing slide was of Mayor Mal- colm and his wife in front of the grandstand. Mrs. Mal- colm is pictured sitting in a carriage while the Mayor gallantly holds 'the horse during the opening parade. There was a break for lunch and a chance to browse in the Handicrafts room at the convention. The Handicrafts room was a display of the very best found at Ontario Fairs and the Canada Packers collec- tion of quilts. - A pencil sketch + of the Blackstock United Church done by Janet Parsons, hung in this room as an excellent exam- ple of the talent at the Blackstock fair. The women were kept busy in the afternoon at the convention listening to speeches by the candidates for "Miss C.N.E." and then into study groups. The men bartered for concessions at the 1978 fair. The evening entertain- ment was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kelly. The convention should enlighten the minds of those who attended helping to maint- ain the high standard of excellence found at the Blackstock Fair. Manv a glib politician's train of thought turns out to be an unlimited express. 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