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IAT a PlASTINGS IF YOUR RD WAS HERE OVER 16.000 people could have read It this week! That's a lot of potential customers for your business. For Advertising Made Easy call the STAR - 985-7383 EERE HAE (X 'Councillor - Ward 4 "Don't Worry..Be Happy" Bt Si, =m ORT PERRY auto glass & trim WITH THIS COUPON - MOBILE SERVICE - GUARANTEED WORKMANSHIP PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, November 8, 1968 -- 43 Miss May Elizabeth Brown Remarkable lady 100 On Sunday, October 30, 1988 Miss May Elizabeth Brown, a long time resident of Greenwood, celebrated her 100th birthday. This remarkable person was warmly greeted by over 100 friends and relatives in a special birthday party at the Balleycliffe Lodge at Ajax where May now resides. Former neighbours of Mays, Pat & John Kingstone, Mr. and Mrs. Ginn now of Manchester at- tended the party. Frank Johnson's grandmother and May's mother were sisters and so his attendance at the party add- ed to the feeling of a family reu- nion atmosphere. Wesley Johnson of Manchester and Harley Johnson of St. Catharines also attended. The following is a condensed version of May's interesting story: May Elizabeth Brown is the on- ly daughter of John Brown and Emmeline Smith Brown. She was born on November 5th, 1888, at the Brown Homestead, Lot Eight, Concession Five, in the County of Ontario. May was a bright and in- quisitive child. She recalls temp- ting fate at the age of ten, by clim- bing to the pinnacle of the barn in order to view beautiful Lake On- tario, eight miles to the south. May fondly remembers atten- ding Greenwood School with a host of friends, one of her best chums being John Diefenbaker. She corresponded with John for several years after his move out west, and visited him in Ottawa during his term as Canada's Prime Minister. May remembers John as being a bright, intelligent boy, and most strikingly a leader. May herself has always enjoyed politics, and loves discussions and debates. 'In those days, people were just waking up and beginn- ing to question things," she muses. : May attended Whitby Model School, and received her Secon- dary School Diploma in 1906. She obtained her Teaching Certificate from the Toronto Normal School, and began her lengthy teaching career at Hayden, north of Bowmanville. She later taught at 139 WATER ST. 6 HIGH STREET PORT PERRY 7) Cedar Creek, Brougham, and the Spencer School in Whitby, at an annual salary of $400.00. She was also a supply teacher at Audley and Greenwood Schools. May was an active, young woman, a leader in the Epworth League, which was a youth organization of the Wesleyan Methodists, now the United Church. She attended several functions with them, and remembers particularly the Buf- falo Convention, which she travelled to by train in 1914. May was also president of the Ontario County Women's In- stitute. She recalls, 'The idea of community life was beginning to formulate, and I was helping carry it out." She was an active speaker in women's politics, and campaign- ed for the women's right to vote, following the vision of the British suffragettes. Miss Brown is a life member of the Women's Missionary Society, and is one of the original founders of the Audley Community Club. She helped with the C.G.I.T. and 4H clubs, and in her spare time, which wasn't very "spare," she was a beautiful skater. She humbly describes herself as a curious, cosmopolitan woman. In her retirement years, May was president of the Horizon Group for seniors, and organized the group at Balleycliffe Lodge in Ajax, where she celebrated her 100th birthday on October 30, 1988. Income stabilization A new income stabilization plan for Ontario's grain growers will be introduced, Agriculture and Food Minister Jack Riddell an- nounced Oct. 14. ' Riddell has asked the Ontario Farm Income Stabilization Com- mission to develop a plan for the 1988-90 crop years, in consultation with the affected commodity organizations. The commission has recom- mended that a simplified three- year grains plan be developed because discussions with the federal government on tripartite stabilization for grain crops have not proceeded as quickly as expected. The new grains plan will replace the plan for the 1985-87 (Turn to page 44) [Country Lane REALTY LIMITED Hwy. 7A & High Street. Port Perry, Ontario "The trouble with telling a good story is that it reminds the other fellow of a dull one." 0 +0 Se Pe ® DOO (RL NAPE PP XY ote 0% te Tt te Le FOAL . "For your voice on SCUGOG TOWNSHIP COUNCIL Elect The Peoples' Candidate Ro ott. *e SAR) BE PAD . E rd Fd 4 . / [AAD 7 A NL fette «tte? od f CA] SoS A KR ERS AR) ee. AA ER a RS SS od. . oe] AR) EAN 4 ws) tte ed ol LAS Ly . - RR N CR) LX KX So od ER) A . EX) Sette RNY Os "eh Sed & A el x) sete 'se AN RAS 8 en "de. Ad A "et ott. ete "ed ) [Ad] 4 .. 0% YEA PAR 0s, ae Coe o | Tad WM . LF) ; ND at's? o Toe Toe Toe Lr Ir Ir rs 0,2 0,0 0, 0, 0g tee," e RATATATATATAS CANORA) OUNCILLO