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20- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 24, 1995 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Rt PORT PERRY STAR < URAL RoorTs KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR CELEBRATING 50TH: Don and Norma Frew, long-time residents of Cartwright, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends at Blackstock Recreation Centre Saturday night. Their anniversary is Oct. 27. Call now for your tickets Beef supper this Friday This Friday in Utica Hall will be the beef supper put on by Ep- Dhoom Utica United Church start- ing at 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Ad- vance tickets are $10 ($12 at door) for adults, $5 ($6 at door) for children under 12, under five are free. For tickets call 985- 9701, 985-8094 or 852-9339. On Saturday, a choir work- shop with Roy Menagh an expe- rienced choir leader, will be held in Utica Church from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Anyone interested in music or developing their choir skills i1sinvited to attend. Church and Sunday School this week will be held in Epsom Church starting at 9:30 a.m. There's always room for more children in S.S. Coming up on Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. will be the United Church Anniversary service in Utica Church. This will be 119 years for Epsom and 124 years for Utica. Heather Burton will be the speaker and there will be special music. Anyone who enjoys singing, if you want to learn some of the new music being composed by United Church hymn writers, if you want to be part of a chorus Cee Utica & Epsom for all ages, come out to Utica United Church on Sunday, Oct. 29 at7 p.m. There were 11 tables of eu- chre on Friday night in Utica Hall with winners as follows: la- dies first - Isobel McCully, sec- ond - Irene Elson, third - Marie Geer. Men's first - Clifford Rodd, second - Larry Doble and third - Ed Skinner. Most lone hands was Isobel McCully with seven. Freeze-out winners were Milt Anderson and Grant Bright, Norma and Larry Doble were second. Draws were won by Irene Elson, Berniece Wells and Milt Anderson. 50/50 draw was won by Lloyd Smith. There will be another euchre on Nov. 3, two weeks from now. : Anyone who would like to or- der from the Regal Catalogue for Christmas, please get In touch with Elva Kerry for a cat- alogue, orders should be placed by Nov. 12. Profits go to the United Church Women. Beth and Ken Catherwood were Sunday luncheon guests with Ruth Ashton. Martha Schissler and children visited with Ruth recently. Best wishes to former Epsom neighbor Marion Snoddon whe 1s a patient in Lindsay Hospital recovering from abroken hip. Sympathy to the Anderson family, who are former Epsom neighbors, in the passing of their Aunt Sadie Robinson on Friday. If my memory serves me cor- rectly, this is the weekend com- ing up that we revert back to Standard Time. So before going to bed on Saturday night re- member to set your clocks back one hour. I welcome the extra daylight in the morning but it sure will be dark really early in the evening. Shirley WI celebrates its 85th anniversary On Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 18, the Shirley Women's Institute celebrated its' 85th anniversary at the Purple Hill Orange Lodge. Over fifty mem- bers from other branches as well as friends and former members attended the happy event. President Muriel Wotten extended a warm welcome after which greetings were extended from the Ontario South District by President Mary Cannon, the Central Ontario Area by President Agnes Foster and the Scugog Township by Ward Councillor Joyce Kelly. President Muriel Wotten delighted the group with sev- eral accordian selections, Pauline Carter read a poem, "The Old Days" and Joyce Kelly gave a history of the Shirley W.I. since the original meeting in October, 1910. [rene Moore, longtime mem- ber and daughter-in-law of the original president cut the beau- tiful cake. A social time was enjoyed over cake, ice cream, tea and coffee. When all the coats were picked up, Helen Dorrell ended up with the wrong grey all weather coat. [f you also have the incorrect one, please call Helen at 986- 0990 or some member of the Shirley W.I. On Saturday evening, a large crowd of family and friends gathered at the Blackstock Recreation Centre to wish Don and Norma Frew best wishes on the occasion of their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Music was pro- vided for dancing by Warren Sutcliffe as well, much visiting was enjoyed. Warmest wishes for continued health and hap- piness On Sunday evening, many from the Blackstock-Nestleton charge attended the convenant- ing service for Rev. Norman Seli at Tyrone United Church. Norm had been a student on this charge several years ago. Guest speaker was Rev. Dale Davis now of Bobcaygeon and previously the supesvising minister for Norm here at Blackstock. His many friends wish Norm well in his new min- istry with Enniskillen-Tyrone Churches. Next Sunday there will be no church or Sunday School at the Blackstock United Church as it as Anniversary at Nestleton at 11:15 a.m. Guest speaker will be Rev. Charles Buchanan of Brighton. The School Advisory Committee for CHS 1s sohciting funds from parents of this year's students for a new par- ents - supported scholarship fund. The committee feels this 1s a way of parents showing [EEE Blackstock support to their children's edu- cation. Contributions can be sent to CHS by Nov. 1. Commencement is Friday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. at Cartwright Central Public School. The principal and staff cordially invite the public to attend. Tuesday for lunch Nancy Bryans and her sisters Barb Hanc of Bowmanville and Virginia Piper of Rochester Hills, Michigan joined their Mom, Babe Brown of Oshawa with her sisters Mary Meldrum of Port Hope and Ethel (Tess) Balsom as hostess at her home in Hampton. A pleasant visit was enjoyed by all. Next Sunday evening is the Harvest Celebration, a pork' dinner at the United Church sponsored by the Choir. This will be a pork dinner accompa nied by music provided by "Celebration". Tickets must be obtained ahead from any choir member. The following Saturday, Nov. 4 will be the St. John's Fall supper followed by the Fiddle Contest at the Recreation Centre. Of course, anyone can attend one event by itself, but timing is arranged, so you can be at both. A nutritional consultant will be giving a free seminar on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 at the Blackstock United Church C.E. Room on the topic "heart and circulation system". It stresses natural means through diet and herbs. For further information contact Marlene Bray-Trewin. Curling Registration is Tuesday, Oct. 24 at the arena. Another reminder about the afternoon curling on November 7 at 1 p.m. At the beginning, registration is not required for that as itis an attempt to re- establish afternoon cui ling. Do pass this information along to anyone either experienced or novice, who might be interest- ed. There were 11 tables at the weekly card party with the fol- lowing winners - Betty Kuyer, Jean Porrill, Earla Stanfield, Kaye Biggs, M: irgaret Finney, Pearl Moore, and Charlie Campbell. Lucky draws were won by Bernice Loudfoot, [Karla Stanfield, Merv Storrie, Grant Bright, Charlie Stapleton and Sarah Brunton. Blackstock WI by Lois Luke, P.R.O. The October meeting of the Blackstock W.I. was held at the Blackstock United Church Blue Room with 15 members and three visitors. Mrs. S. Dorrell, convenor of Family and Consumers Affairs and her group were in charge. President Mrs. Pat Sleep welcomed everyone. After lunch, Carol Thornton intro- duced' Mrs. Barbara Evans of Bethesda-Reach W.I. who spoke on the ACWW Conference she had attended in New Zealand last February. The Triannual Conference had been held in Christchurch, N.Z. Everyone enjoyed her very interesting talk. During business it was announced that 67 have regs- tered for the Aerobics classes. Several announcements were made. Helen Dorrell read a poem, Sorry to Hear, that created many laughs. A letter was enjoyed from Mrs. I.. McArthur telling us about her life at the Peterborough Nursing Home where she hives. The meeting closed with the singing of O Canada.