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e Council Members Honour Retired Clerk, Alex Johns for the Chronic Convalescent and Aged 1 im a spacious and congenial | country home The Manor is open for your inspection at any time. GREEN GABLES MANOR wicensed by Ont. Dept. of Health. Stouffville 640-3061 Approved by Associated Nursing Homes Inc., Ont. On Saturday evening, Nov- ember 14th, members of Reach Township Council and staff gathered together at the Werratal Restaurant, south of Greenbank, to honor the re- tiring Clerk of the Township, Mr. Alex Johns. After a delicious beef din- ner, the party returned to the home of councillor and Mrs. Fred Christie of Manchester, where they were joined by Mr. Grant Christie, former reeve and clerk of the Township, for an evening of cards and conversation. Reeve "Sam" Oyler ex- pressed, on behalf of the Townsb'p | is appreciatior of Mr. dc.an"s service to the municipality for the past jeleven ) ears. ' | Mr bus was then pre sented . a gift from che Townsh , of Reach. Mr. Johns | thanked all present for their |help in the past and wished | the council and staff success im the coming years. He also expressed appreciation to the \Township for the gift, a recliner chair. Lunch was served by Mrs. Christie to end a wonderful } evening enjoyed by all pre- } sent. THANKS RATEPAYERS A thank you to the ratepayers of Cartwright and Manvers for the trust you have placed in me, by elect- ing me by acclamation, as your representative on the Northumberitand and Durham Counties Board of Ed- ucation for the next 2 years. 'Howard s Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Taylor, Enniskillen, Mrs. Garnet Mur, ray, Manilla were Saturday afternoon and dinner guests of Mrs. Roy Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kell- am, British Columbia visited for a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. George Skeld ing. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Ar cher, Bowmanville, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Archer, Whitby, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Filem- ing, Oshawa and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Archer Toronto were Sufiday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Archer. This dinner was in honour of Mrs. Fleming's birthday. The November O.N.O. meet- ing was held at the home of Barbara Russell on Nov. 12 Paisley volunteered to be the representative, at the Novy. Recreational Board meeting Seyeral items pertaining to the New Year's Eve Dance were dealt with. Each mem- der is to bring a coat hanger along with her Christmas par- cel to the next meeting which will be held at the home of Kathleen Dorrell. A dona- tion was made to the Port Perry Hospital Doll Draw. Volunteers were again asked to work in the Port Perry Hospital Tuck Shop. As t*e Hospital employees are hold- ing their Christmas party in the Recreation Centre on December 5th, four girls of fered to set out the lunch. Commencement Prizes went to Leslie Wright and David with 26 members and several | Larmer with the prize to be visitors present. The min- utes were read and approved and Barb Byers presented the Treasurer's report. Joan their choice of a pen or dic- tionary. The Roll Call taken was "The Last Thing you said before you went to sleep last Seagrave News We'll try not to hog the space this time. Most people Stayed at home last week and we couldn't blame them. On Wed. evening friends and relatives of Mr. Geo. Bright and Miss Linda Tripp gathered in the church base- ment with shower gifts for those "soon-to-be - marrieds". Mr. Lawrence Nicholls acted SUNDAY, NOV. 29th-- Services will be at Port Perry at 10 a.m. & at Prince Albert at 11:15 a.m. with Church School at the sa hours. The Minister's sermou theme will be "A Question With No Answer." ANGLICAN Rev. R. C. Rose, Minister SUNDAY, NOV. 29th-- Advent I 10:00 a.m.--Holy Communion Church School This corporate communion for the A.O.W. ST. JOHN'S BLACKSTOCK SUNDAY, NOV. 29th-- Advent I 11:15 a.m.--Morning prayer Church School PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. William Bleck, F.R.G.S. SUNDAY, NOV. 29th-- 10:00 a.m.--Speaker Mr. C Knight. Subject-- "All Leaves anf No Fruit". 11:00 a.m.--Siifday School PORT PERRY BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor A. Hern SUNDAY, NOV. 29th-- 19:00 a.m. --Bible School 2 Adult Classes 11:00 a.m.--Morning Worship 7:00 p.m.--Evening Service. United Church of Canada SCUGOG Pastoral CHARGE SUNDAY, NOV. 29th-- 9.45 a.m.--SCUGOG 11.15 a.m.--MANCHESTER PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Rev. R. Batten, Rev. |. MacLean 10 a.m--Family Bible Hour 11 a.m.--Morning Worship 700 p.m. Evang Service as M.C. and conducted a short program. Instead of the usual sing-song Mrs. Abraham and Mrs. Tobin had a musical contest. There were also piano solos by Calvin Nich- olls. Joyee Bruce and Mre Tobin, readings by Mrs. Boe and Mrs. Abraham and a contest by Mrs. Belair. The M.C. finished off the pro- gram with some jokes and then read an address *o the young couple. After the gifts had been opened and thank-you's said, there was lunch for all. Another event was the con- cert on Friday evening by the Barber Shoppers from Oshawa. Attendance was a little disappointing but those present had a splendid even- ing. Our own young enter- tainers, Robbie Abraham, Bob and Earle Barr with an assist from sister Diane Barr gave some good numbers with guitar accompaniment. We were quite proud of them. Mrs. Cliff Harper and Mrs. Susan Hammond are both home from Port Perry Hos- pital but Neil McMillan is still there with little change in his condition. Little Ro- bert Wanamaker had to be taken to Oshawa Hospital several days ago and will probably be there for a while. Mrs. Fleeta Sleep of Lind. say spent last week with her sister-in-law Mrs. Boe. The regulars were here for the week-end too -- Mr. and Mrs. Skelton and daughter at the Durwards, Mr. & Mrs. Coxworth at the Tobins, Mr and Mrs. Twiner at the Shorts, and Mrs. Westlake at the Hunters. We have heard of chang- ing horses in midstream but not of changing S.S. superin- tendents in mid-session. It happened on Sunday with Bruce Carr stepping avide when Bill Wanamaker arriv- ed. The Sr. mixed class had a group of readings about the bible for a program num ber and Mrs. Belair had a birthday This week's church bulle tin says that the every-fam- ily visitation will be conduct- ed by the Committee of Stewards next week. Trans late that. Save Thurs. nieht. Choir practice 7:15. Confirmation cians 6:00 and a shower later All at the church -- a giblackstock News | night." Barbara had a houre- ful of East Indian crafts which were admired by all present. Lunch and a social time brought the evening to a close. Mr. John Payne, Oshawa was a Sunday supper guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kelly and family. Mrs. P. Philp, West Hill, Mrs, R. J. Fennell, Kempt- ville, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ab- bott, Ottawa were week-end guests of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Smith and Oliver. Mr. and Mrs, Bill Fergus- on, Allan and Kevin were Sunday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Fer- guson and family, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van Keefe Centre and many oth is places during the two most enjoyable days. Continued on page 11 Stock Yards Man Speaker At Co-op Meeting Guest speaker at the December Ist annual meeting of the Uxbridge branch of United Co-operatives of Ontario will be Don Slinger. He is manager of UCO's livestock de- partment at the Ontario Public Stock Yards in Toronto, says branch manager Clayton Brander. Mr. Slinger has been with UCO some 20 years, the last year and a half as livestock ma: At the Stock Yards, UCO is the largest of the five commission egents Their sales account for about one-third of the totel Yards' volume of $120 million yearly. Mr Agricultural College in 1950 Slinger, 48, graduated from Guelph's Ontario He joined UCO shortly after- werds as 6 grain assistant. A move to the feed depert- ment--he started as @ feed specialist--resulted in hit be- coming the department's sales manager He then switched to research, and for several years was research and development manager for UCO, respons- ible for research in all departments He later moved to the sales side of the big, province- wide co-operative and for three yeers was general mer- chandising manager The Slinger family is well-known in Ontario's agricul- tural community. A brother is heed of the animal science department at Guelph University (formerly OAC). Mr. Slinger lives in Mississauga He and his wife have four children -- two at university and two still in high school. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO UMITED CO - OPERATIVES OF ONTARIO, UXBRIDGE ANNUAL | MEETING Masonic Hall, Uxbridge Tuesday, Decmeber 1, 70 12:30 p.m. ADMISSION $1.00 TICKETS AVAMABLE AT UXBRIDGE CO-OP