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The Oshawa Times, 27 Jul 1961, p. 4

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4 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, July 27, 1961 BOWMANVILLE -- The 8th Annual Penny Fair sponsored by the recreation department will be held next Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Lions Community Centre. Starting at 6 p.m. there will be the children's parade, with each playground competing for top honors. The theme for this year's parade will be "LEGENDS". The parade route will be from the Lions Centre to Division street, west along King street to Temper- ance, back to the Lions Centre. Each playground will be re- Plan Penny Fair At Bowmanville BUILDS OWN BLOCK MACHINE Edgar Latcham of Uxbridge displays a fully - automatic block machine which he built. The project was started in | December of 1958 and com- pleted in May of 1959, which time the first were produced. Mr, Latcham at | blocks | spent an additiona] 15 months ironing out the kinks. The ma- chine turns out 900 blocks hourly. The welding and labor, plus the hydraulic mechanism was done with outside labor-- all other work was done by | Mr. Latcham. sponsible for a number of events, including such things as house of horrors, rocket ride, fortune telling, fish pond, shoot- ing gallery and many others. There will also be a short concert by our Flutophone Band along with a presentation of a one-act play entitled "Lit tle Ki and the Serpent", by our Children's Theatre Group. TIN CAN CRICKET Last Friday morning at Cen- playground Tin Can Cricket Tournament was held. morial Park team of Nancy |Edmunston and Beverly Fer-{the final. jEuson defeated the Lions Centre| Donog-| team consisting of Jill Bowmanville Playgrounds Report Varied Activities ONTARIO STREET By Audrey Spicer BOWMANVILLE -- Wednes- day afternoon the children per- formed a funeral for a little bird which was found in the playground. The officiating min- ister was Dixie A. Gill who read Genesis, Chapter 1, verses 20 to 23.. All stood with heads bowed while Ruth Swan placed a cross in the ground on the bird's grave. All day Thursday was spent in preparation for the Ben Hur Chariot Race which was held July 20. The children were ex- cited about this event as this was the first year that any- thing like this has been done. Friday morning the children enjoyed an active game of base- pall and in the afternoon they went on a swimming party at Bruce's Creek. 1 would like to take this op- portunity to thank Mrs. Junkin for assisting Dixie at the swim- ming party Friday afternoon. MEMORIAL PARK By Sharon Lucas The week was spent in busy preparation for the big chariot race last week. Thoughts of this occupied everyone's mind for several days. : On Friday we held our special event of a Backward Day along with a Treasure Hunt in the afternoon. Everyone wore their clothes backwards and some even tried walking backwards. The children busied themselves for a while hunting for treas- ures around the playground. FLETT STREET By Margaret Cordon The .third week of the play- ground proved to be very active for Flett Street park. On Mon- day and Tuesday considerable time was spent preparing our chariot. Wednesday we had de- sign painting and such games as pass the ring and various relays. Wednesday evening we had a game of tin can. cricket and put the final touches to our chariot. Thursday was the big day of the week. We held our sports day and the following were the winners of the races: ou 4 and 5-year-olds -- Christine Jones, "Margot "MtTavish and Kathy Thighe. 6 and 7-year-olds -- Dianne Kilpatrick, Murray Ormiston, and Susan Jones. 8, 9, 10 and 11-year-olds -- Catherine Etcher and Mary Oke and Johnny Etcher. 12- 13, 14.year-olds --Gail Kil- were Allan Brown and Larry {Lee. | LIONS CENTRE | By June Bain July 17 to July 21 proved to be a very active week at the Lions Centre Playground. The highlight of the week, of course, was the building of our chariot and also the actual Chariot Race. The Chariot Race was held on Thursday, July 20, at 6.15 p.m. The Lions Centre won first prize for the best decorated chariot. This made everyone on the playground very happy and chariot 'worth while. The people participating -in the chariot race were: Barry Charboneau, Randy Dewell, Pete Buckler, Bill Morrison, a bean bag third. BOYS' SOFTBALL ball game. Bryan La Page was times at bat. Mike Oke was the winning pitcher allowing only two hits while striking out 11. Mike Cawker and Gregg Cordon Ontario giving up 22 hits and striking out five. The Central boys picked up a total of 10 home runs. Mark Steal, Jimmie Rogers, Donald Sylvester and Mitchell Donoghue. i The Chariot Ra ce was only| the start of an active week be- cause on July 21 all the play grounds took part in a tin can| cricket tournament held at Cen- tral School. The children from the Lions Centre who took part were Randy Donoghue, Mitchell Donoghue, Allan Crago, Michel {Oke, Alice Chettick, Jill Donog-| hue, Linda McFeeters and Di- anne McFeeters. Friday afternoon here was more fun in store for the chil- dren as we held our special event which was Hobo Day. The| first event was a Scavenger Hunt which was won by Linda Monday's game between On- tario and Lord Elgin was rain- ed out and will be played at a later date if necessary. Next week starts the first round of the playoffs. The first place team will play the third place team at the High School grounds Monday, July 31. The second and fourth place teams play on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Vincent Massey. LEAGUE STANDING Lord Elgin Ontario Vincent Central tral School Grounds the inter- In the junior girls event for |into the final round Memorial girls 10 and under the Me-|Park handed Lions Centre aj tournament Bill| Smale was first, Dan Newlan| second and Edyth Thompson| | Last Wednesday afternoon, at | Memorial Park, Central School] handed Ontario Street a 21 to 2| defeat in a scheduled boys' soft-| the big hitter for Central col-| lecting four home runs in four| | Mike Cawker and Ron Harper the time spent on making the|collected Ontario's only hits. shared the pitching duties for bal tournament has been scheduled for this coming Fri- day at 9.30 am. at Franklin Park. Each playground will be re- presented by a nine member COUNCIL BRIEFS team which must include at least three girls. Tie tourna- ment is open to children 14 years of age and under. SWIMMING The dates for the swimming test have been set and are as follows: Boys Learn to Swim -- Aug. Boys Training School. hue and Alice Chittrick 4 to 3 to win the championship. In the senior girls event for girls 14 and under the Memor- ial Park team of Bonnie Morris and Linda Morris defeated Ger- trude Cale and Cheryl Gill of Franklin Park 22 to 17 to win their section of the tournament.|' Franklin Park defeated Vin- cent Massey 25 to 1 to advance to the finals while Memorial Park defeated Ontario Street 12 to 9. The Ontario Street entry had previously defeated the Lions Centre 23 to 17. In the Junior Boys tourna-| ment Vincent Massey boys de-| feated Lions Centre by a close 25 to 24 score Vincent Massey defeated Ontario Street | in BTS and Memorial Park 36 to 27/case of rain BTS). to advance to the finals. Lions| Centre defeated Franklin 15 to|'° 7 to move into the finals. DAY CAMP In the Senior Boys event the Boys Training School. Aug. 14, Boys Training School. Aug. 16, Boys Training School. Boys and Girls Red Cross Barley (in case of rain BTS). Boys and Girls Red Cross {Intermediate and Don McMurter defeated the|tion department boy's win the Championship. | The Flett street entry defeat. |!0TS: {ed Vincent Massey 50 to 15 and | Franklin Park 29 to 21 to move| camp "Indian Days". 50 to 10 defeat to advance into|€Very afternoon. VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT |a wiener and An inter-playground volley-'roast. Girls Learn to Swim -- Aug. Boys Red Cross Beginners-- Girls Red Cross Beginners-- |Juniors -- Aug. 21, Cream of The Union of National Ser- vice Employes has advised Pick- ering Township that it will go to arbitration regarding a griev- ance expressed by Local 120, regarding job postings in the garbage department, to which road department employes wish- ed to apply, for higher wages. An Arbitrator on behalf of the Township will be selected by Council at a future meeting. SEEK NEW LOCATION South Ontario County Health Unit advised council that its matter further with the Health PICKERING TWP, Unit before a decision is made. BUSINESS INCREASING Claremont Businessmen's As- sociation protest the proposed removal by the CPR of is agent - operator at the Clare- mont Station, noting that busi- ness was increasing, and lack of an agent would create hard- ship to the community. Last and replace him with a care- taker, but pending the Busi- nessmen's request, the motion was rescinded. TO ERECT WARNING SIGN Children swimming in a pool near the Altona road and 9th Concession are causing concern to residents by using the road which narrows to a 12-foot week Council endorsed the CPR decision to remove the operator and Senior-- 59.15 Aug. 23, Cream of Barley (in RLSS Bronze final date yet be set. Possibly Aug. 24. On Wednesday night the boys {held their sleep-out along with marshmallow clinic held in the Church Hall at West Rouge was unsatisfac- tory, and wished to establish a clinic at Woodlands. Councillor Harry Boyes will discuss the bridge, Councillor Harvey Spang told council. He said that cars, unaware of the bridge, come from the north "at 90 miles per hour". A resolution was passed that a sign "Drive Slowly", WORKING BOOK warn the drivers. MONTREAL (CP)--The first TO CONSULT AUTHORITY |book printed at the new McGill Considerable discussion arose University press -- Recurent about a request that the road Dislocation of the Shoulder, by superintendent be authorized to|p, pF. Mosely--contains a commence negotiations for al °° "° ic. vi new bridge over the CPR on compact sterscopic viewer and Westney road. Reeve Scott felt|five reels, in a pocket in the that the bridge should overpass back cover. Greenwood road. He stated that he was opposed to the closing of roads, noting that the Green- wood road served the conserva- tion area, and that he would like to consult with the author- ity before the road is closed. The matter was left over for further discussion. TO ASSURE ROADS A resolution was passed that the township take over nine private roads. Dine At . . . OSHAWA'S NEWEST RESTAURANT Featuring Steaks & Beefburgers MAYFAIR RESTAURANT SIMCOE S. PLAZA (Simeoe S. ot Ritson Rd.) FREE PARKING SCOTS HISTORY St. Mungo"s Cathedral at Glasgow dates from the 12th century. Last Monday morning mark- Flett team of Wray Rendell|ed the opening of the iy ay Memorial Park entry 39 to 6 to camp with 30 boys in attend- |ance along with four counsel This year the theme of the i The {boys leave from the Lions Cen- {tre every morning and return "BIG DOUBLE ALL-COLOR SHOW! Thrills end Excitement THE LAWLESS "TO HELL BREED AND BACK" --vith-- old ROCK HUDSON COLOR JULIA ADAMS His Exciting True Life Story upi MURPHY iff | The story of a man, a land a love, from the pen of the great Pulitzer Prize ' Novelist! METRO-BOLDWYN-MAYER préssnrs EDNA FERESR'S CINEMASCOPE and METROCOLOR © vers #4 McFeeters team. Then the four| best dressed hohos were chosen | which were Jill Donoghue, Bar-| bara Slaught, Carol Bellman| and Carolyn Rigg. A variety of| games were enjoyed during the| remainder of the afternoon with| a Peanut. Scramble to close Hobo Day. VINCENT MASSEY By Ileane Rahme Our playground is happy to announce that we won third |prize in the chariot race last] | Thursday. We would like to take our hats off to the 'horses' -- Bill Smale, Brian Ogden, Tim-| {my Brooks and Lary Juszcyyn-| sis and our Ben Hur, Danny Cole. iF Rday 132 children from our playground |went to the Cream of Barley {Camp and swam all afternoon. {Also Friday morning at Central . v-soBDlal ous for our special svent, 1 CHILDREN 50: ADULTS 1.00 THE CANADIAN PUPPET THEATRE No. 7 Hwy, 3.2 Miles West of Brooklin Thurs. - Fri. - Sal. at 8 p.m. Sat. Matinee at 2:30 p.m. * FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Humor - Satire - Classical | "WITTY AND PROVOCATIVE! A MODERN AMERICAN CLASSIC!".... "WONDERFUL | warm, comprehension of people's humor, | strength and dignity. Brilliantly played!™ | «Bosley Crowther, N. Y. 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Friday was the Tin Can Crick- et Tournament at Central School and I am happy to say our sen- ior boys, Donnie McMurter and| Wray Randell, won. | FRANKLIN PARK By David Werry We had a very busy week at| Franklin Park preparing for the| Chariot Race which was held at| 8.15 p.m. Thursday, July 2. We proudly accepted the prize| awarded to the winner of the| Chariot Race on behalf of the | playground and Lary Lee,| Michael Myers, Obie Rypstra| and Doug Hayes, the horses and| Thommy Hayes, the charioteer. Last Tuesday evening we had| a swimming party at Jackson's| Creek. Around 8 p.m. everyone enjoyed hot dogs roasted over| an open fire. | Friday morning a Tin Can| Cricket Tournament between the parks was held at Central| School. Although none of our teams won championships, our senior girls, Gertrude Gale and} Chereyl Gill, made the finals. 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