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It may be only dancegroup Father makes presentation of its kind in the country WATERLOO Ont CP This may be the only commu nity in the country which has resident company of Renais sance dancers performing on regular basis As far as know its the only ongoing group in Can ada says Jillian Officer lecturer in the University of Waterloo department of dance who founded the local company about three years ago There has been interest in court dance at York University and there have been some per formances there but not on regular basis Mrs Officer said the group which performs dances from the 13th to 17th centuries came into being in roundabout way happened to know someone in the geography department who had sung lot of old music when he was in England and mentioned that was teaching court dance in my labs and wouldnt it be fun thing it someday he was singing on campus and Icould provide some of the dancing About 18 months later got call from him that he had been talking to some musicians on campus who had starrted an earlymusic group and he had told them about my teaching the dances of the period PUT ON REVELS The group was called Music Four and they played in struments of the type that was used during those centuries So we put on production with them called Elizabethan Revels When asked for dancers for this concert got all kinds of people interested in doing it and the thing has never looked back since We did another one or two performances that term and then we were invited to Mc Master University to be part of Renaissance Festival Last July we gave 11 performances travelling as far as Scar borough and Stcatharines and this term were doing another 10 performances locally in Cambridge and Guelph and in Hamilton again In fact we get so many re quests now that at the begin ning of each term we decide on particular program rehearse it and then wherever were in vited during that term thats the program we take RECONSTRUCTS DANCES She said it takes lot of time and effort to reconstruct the dances have to research the steps and the tempo and the style There are certain key books which give pretty good descrip tions of steps and examples of the music but lot from the 15th and 16th centuries for in stance are written in old Italian and are not easy to read The dances which have names like pavane galliard cascarda branle and lavolta come mainly from France Italy Spain and England of the 15th and 16th centuries Until this year the group which has included up to 13 dan cers had no source for funding Bingo continues to enjoy steady growth in popularity TRURO NS CP The cry of bingo is being heard more often now than ever before in hundreds of church halls county fairs and local meeting places throughout Nova Scotia Every night Sunday ex cepted thousands of Nova Sco tians pay up to $10 to purchase their way into numbers game Regular players can Spend between $7 and $120 night at bingo halls licensed by the pro vincial government It used to be womans game Now men are quickly be coming patrons attracted by prizes that have grown from small change to healthy supple ments Years ago you rarely saw man playing bingo says Mrs Ifiank Borden of Truro and when you did you stared She figures that perhaps quarter Retired assessor is honored ELMVALE wellknown and highly respected member of this community was recently honored at retirement party Milton Trace recently retired from the Simcoe County assess ment Office after 36 years as an assessor He started in 1941 with the Flos assessment office then moved to the county building in 1966 and finally when the pro vince took over he moved to the assessment office on Ferris Lane in Barrie in 1970 The retirement party was held at the Continental Inn in Barrie with over 175 friends at tending Family members and friends travelled from Ottawa London Toronto and northern parts of Ontario to be with him on this memorable occasion He was presented with golf cart and travel suit case The gift to be most cherised was har monica This was joint retirement party for Lloyd Partridge from Barrie who was retiring after 32 years of service He was gifted with har monica too and it seems the two might have ideas of star ting their own entertaining duo think if you hurry you might just be able to book them for your next function This of course was fun gift to give them chuckle or two as they look back on this very meaningful evening Both these fine gentlemen will be sadly missed but never forgotten because they have left such feeling of deep regard and respect in everyone who came in contact with them over the many years There is no doubt that but for long time their phone will be ringing with ques tions such asSay Milt or sav Lloyd how do you do such thin etc CONGRATULATIONS Terry ONeill son of Leo ONeill of Phelpston recently was awarded his third cer tificate of achievement in land surveyor in the last two years This third certificate was received at the recent Good Roads Convention DEMOCRACY OLDEST Iceland has the oldest living democracy founded in 930 Al Centre provides help for battered wives MONTREAL CP The new Womens Centre has laun ched special service for bat tered wives providing aid through counselling and helping women take legal proceedings against husbands who beat them The centre was recently awarded threeyear grant of $180000 year from the federal health and welfare department and mandate to counsel pro vide legal help and refer Mon treal women to services avail able to them The idea for Refuge the counselling and referral service for battered wives came to workers at the centre after pre liminary research in the field They found substantial num AUCTION SALES CENTURY FARM AUCTION SALE Saturday March 27 at 1030 am sharp for NEIL MCDOUGALL of lot 29 Concession Not tawasaga Twp miles straight west of Stayner on Hwy No 9I and miles north on the 4th Con Sale of 45 head of beef cattle cows calves and stockers mostly Hereford hogs inc sows chunks and weaners Farm machinery inc tractors one David Brown 880 haying equipment inc New Holland No 273 Baler and new Agratic Bale Stooker Int 16 run seed and fertilizer drill etc etc baled hay etc all contents from the pioneer home inc all antiques oil lamps wash stan ds dressers beds china dishes wicker bells choirs blanket boxes trunks and pine cupboards and furniture and real old glassware and china etc etc Terms cash No reserve farm sold GEORGE PIFHER Auctioneer Phone 7264841 Ml2l92426 ber of beatings taking place and lack of help for affected women coordinator Sally Mit tag said Police statistics for January 1975 showed 66 battered women swore out charges against their husbands Although no formal statistics are kept police told the centre they receive an aver age of 600 calls month and only 10 per cent of those get to court II 600 women call each mon th thats still only small frac tion of the number of women af fected Mrs Mittag said RELUCTANT TO REPORT Police reluctance to interfere in domestic quarrels social conditioning and womens lack of economic power combine to keep women from reporting in cidents of beating Mrs Mittag said The centre which has staff of 14 fulland parttime workers has demanded public inquiry into the condition of battered wives and plans to press for changes in the at titudes of police doctors and social workers It also hopes to establish transition housea state supported home where battered women and their children can find temporary shelter and sort out their problems There are currently only three such homes in Montreal By venturing into the field of battered wives the centre said it will be able to gather statis tics and help change existing laws which it calls dis criminatory As the law stands Woman who leaves her husband and takes her children away without first filing for restraint order against her husband is considered to be deserting her husband Desertion can weigh against her in divorce suit and court custody case Mrs Mittag said of regular bingo players now are men One Truro man who joins his wife at bingo five nights week estimates he has won as much as $5500 in the last two years He has probably broken even on game that helps keep some people sober and out of trouble It hasnt always been recog nized recreation Not long ago the authorities frowned on bingo as gambling In the early part of the century it was illegal But after the Second World War it became more accept able and moved from outof theway locations into church halls It became so acceptableal though its advertisers for rear sons of legality had to refer to it as entertainment or the weekly card game or social eventthat governments looked away rather than chal lenge the considerable power of religious organizations that used it as revenue source In 1967 changes in the Crimi nal Code allowed the provinces to license lotteries It was seven years before the Nova Scotia government authorized the pro vincial secretary to issue li cences to fairs exhibitions and charitable and religious organ izati ns There now are about 400 such licences of which only 12 are operated as commercial con cerns The commercial bingo oper ator pays fee of 10 per cent of anticipated prize money while others pay only two per cent It means hundreds of thou sands of dollars to the provin cial treasury John Henderson who oper ates commercial bingo game in Truro estimates it cost him between $30000 and $40000 in licence fees last year Commercial operators are permitted to offer no more than $100 as top prize in any one game unlike religious con cern which can make the pot as large as it wishes Still Mr Henderson says his operation can draw more than 400 persons night How high 90 viwrivi iv iri+ 5tt rititml Itl mtlt lll ylitltrtltil twrillttll itltrlumlttirirmtinv ill uiiwr nil pm that 115 in rl litt loin lll yrili tll in lft1llltlllll llti rltlllllill iiitlli ll iflllIllllll 1mm ltl wni mill llf invintlril GET rgt INVOLVED 3173 WITH THE ma CANADIAN at ARMED FORCES do you want to new police graduate ByJEAN HAND ALLISTONWayne Plaxtoh Owen Sound grandson of Mr and Mrs Ernest Cumberland Alliston and Mrand Mrs Plaxton Angus were among the recent OPP graduates at Fort York Armories Toronto reception followed at the Ontario Police College Waynes father Cpl Plaxton had the honor of presenting the award to his son Waynes parents OPP Jack Plax ton and Mrs Plaxton his Sister Brenda and Waynes friend Heather Donaldson and Allan Armstrong all from Owen Sound attended the ceremony Following the yaduation they were dinner guests at Mrs Plaxtons sister MISS Gail Cumberland Bramp ton Ontario Wayne is now With the OPP in Niagara Falls flute recital by the students of Mrs Carol Gierak was held Sunday afternoon March 7th in the ladies parlor St Johns United Church Students taking part were Mary Anne Phipps Bonnie Johnson Pamela Boles Valarie Balcomb and Kelly Mo Cague Mr Tom Sherpard was the accompanist social hour followed Mr and Mrs Thomas Dunn and Mrs Merrett were at the Swackhomer and Hilts funeral home Guelph last Monday to be with the family of the late Edward Lee Mr Lee passed away at the weekend and leaves his wife and family of three Edward Jr Cold Lake Alberta Susan nurse at Guelph hospital and Bill at home Ted as he was nicknamed came to Alliston as young lad His parents the late Rev and Mrs Walter Lee moved to Alliston in the early forties Rev Lee was the minister at Knox United Chur ch for about eight years CRAFT FESTIVAL Mrs Katherine Murphy at tended Canadas largest craft festival at the Four Sheraton Hotel in Toronto March and This craft show was arranged by the Toronto Womens Organization for Rehabilition through Trade assisted by the Canadian Cancer Society Mrs Murphy specializes in making Raggedy Annes Andy Cinderella Snow White and Red Riding Hood Dolls MrM urphy draws the faces and her eight year old daughter Karen stuffs the toys bus load of the Alliston Hor ticulture society members at tended the Flower Show at the Automative Building CNE grounds last Thursday There was beautiful display of flowers and large crowd was in attendance Mr and Mrs Garnet Ferrier are the new custodians at the Sr Citizen Home replacing Mr and Mrs Roy Haddock who have been in the home since it was built three years ago PERSONALS Mr and Mrs Herman Cole have returned from two week LIBRARY FILM DEPARTMENT of the BARRIE PUBLIC LIBRARY closed for reorganization for the week of Monday March 29 to Satur day April inclusive will be All other library departments will be open as usual The film department will reopen Mon day April CANADIAN FORCES RECRUITING CENTRE 25 St Clair Ave East Toronto Ontario 4i 9666564 NOTICE The Mobile Recruiting Team will be in BARRIE on THURSDAY 25 MARCH I976 at the Canada Manpower Centre between to am and pm holiday in Florida They saw quite number of their friends from Alliston and district on their tour Mr and Mrs Fergus Kerr Alliston Mr and Mrs Ernest Gilmore Rosernont and Mr and Mrs Charles Marshal Bax ter 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