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r cedar grove was a busy community in 64 spots pat mccleonan 135 was not a spectacular year as w fit years into world history but it may have been a dangerous year skirmishes differences separations marked its passing any or ai of which might well become important or world consuming in ome other year china got the bomo but only a small one we are told nehru died and was quiet ly replaced by another peace ful man but when krushchev suddenly dropped from a mighty seat to oblivion his successors left us somewhat confused and uncertain world leaders kept one eye on africa while the other watched a sha ky united nations and a few- extra eyes were needed if all the worlds small hot were to be marked canada sot a ilax in 65 but it was pulled from a disjaceful parliament and presented to a country tired of the issue and ashamed of the democratic farce in ottawa in cedar grove hinss were more posi tive and more spectacular zion church really took the head lines by decidins building and paying for a new addition to the church in an incrediblv short five months we began the year with the forming of a new and lively schol area tsa no 4 with plans for a fine ru ral education system but be fore the year was out bill s4 had wiped out all that and our schools had become part of a second school area covering a major portion of the township and so ended the rural school boards as we have known them the town line wasnt quite as hazardous in 1b4 when the railroad finally put down steel and the activity slowed to gra vel trucks and weekend visit ors to woodland park we had a bobcat in the valley for a while last spring but he left for greener fields as summer came to cedar grove or he may have been hounded to leave by the groups of hound dogs who frequented the valley along ab out then farmers are hard to please when it comes to weather but weather during the past year pleased noone march was the only honest month on the cal endar it blew and changed and was a real march even to pre senting us with a dandy bliz zard mid month that really slo wed things down the rest of the year was crazy august be haved like november and nov ember behaved like summer we had fierce iogs in april and in may we roasted after glor iously coming into spring in the first week of the month june and july parched us and the land and then suddenly dren ched us with more rain than we could possibly drink in aug ust was so cold the park resi dents went back to town and the roads were terrible and still are we almost had a white christmas but our early snow vanished just before the holi day and was replaced by fog as far as the winter holidays were concerned the children had practically no winter acti vity in fact as far is lfb4 wea ther was concerned it was just plain hopeless but weather or not our cedar grove inhabitants did all kinds of interesting things chris chapman left early in the year for cocos island aboard the bluenose ii to make a film for the cbc whjch was duly shown on june ibtn the ritchies new house was completed and the family moved in the early spring gordon dimma turned 8fi in march and george free man 94 in december margaret and wayne heatwole left us to live in fort francis and pioneer a new area and most of us had a riotous time at markham ar ena in april when the old tim ers played a very funny hockey game west hill collegiate present ed guys and dolls and maureen hamill margaret beare and dorothy miller all took part the bowlers had their first ban quet at morgan hall and en joyed it thoroughly the an tique cars made their annual trek to woodland park and we had baseball baseball baseball all summer with more enthus iasm than anyone could explain the burns held a reunion for the first time in 27 years and the pettys stonchouses quinns and crichtons had their usual summer gettogethers the jun ior farmers celebrated their 50th anniversary with a huge barbque supper at markham arena archie little made headlines with a hay crop seeded without a nurse crop and which in this dry year gave an excellent yield bible school went on as usual in midsummer with a good enrolment the corner lot was the cen- tre of activity every fine even- ing all sumer and fall there j were community picnics dan- j ces and corn roasts throughout the season and baseball volley- ball horseshoes croquet were going strong every night the i new shuffleboard courts prov- jed to be very popular and bea petrie and bob dare won a shuffleboard tournament that 1 almost lasted til winter a new slide was purchased for the small fry this year and it never got dusty way back in febru- ary the community club choe the most perfect night of the j winter for a most successful skating party at cedarena this was the beatle year and some of our teenagers suffered more than others mr freeman was marie honorary president of the jersey cattle associa tion toward the end of the year the dawsons house was i completed and speaking of houses the gastons bought i jean millers house and mrs i kellers was sold there were some new arriv- ah in the village peter and lib mccowan welcomed a daughter as did murray and dorothy reesor gordon and lois lewis caroline and don hoshel and betty and ernie smith all add ed sons to the family but 1913 took its toll of our members too william hiltz levi drudge and jack often early in the year elgin walker margery little paul kellar gladys mrs earl risebor- ough alfred armstrong and donald macdonald mdhss respected head of the history department we had our share of wed dings and anniversaries of im portance mr and mrs john pearse celebrated 55 years of marriage and mr and mrs joe reesor 44 years this was the year bill virdiramo married carol hudson dick dare mar ried muriel beare and barry gaston married gloria lennox among the people in the news were elliott harrington because he sold his farm and then bought another one helen and maurice hamill because they told all about their trip to alaska les milroy because he turned down hogans invitation to join the mosport team mary j gaston because she began work in the police department in to ronto and moved into the city mr witherspoon because he came to both cedar grove and box grove churches and now lives in box grove lloyd smith because the township built him a bridge ida tapscott because she fell into an unused cistern and elsie reesor be cause she had a brush with a fast moving gravel truck aub rey lapp because he has two schools to care for now and wally and elsie reesor because they saw liz when she and ri chard burton were in toronto our apple butter festival was a gala affair this year with schnitzing and boiling for days before to keep up with the hea vy demand of the two big days one other very big project kept us out of mischief in ced ar grove last year cedarena was enlarged to olympic size and is now lfinx200 and all ready to go as soon as the wea therman complies congratulations were the or der of the day often in 64 lola reesor got a third and 85 singing in the kiwanis festival bob ramer won a first and me redith lapp a third all our college students completed their years successfully colin rees or john ionson and bruce pet rie doris lapp received her b sc degree and jin chrich- ton got honours in physics and chemistry on his final matric exams bobby dean won a week at tarn oshantcr training school for being the young hoc key player to show most im provement during the year al len hamill got 2nd class hon ours in his first year at guelph and colleen reesor completed her first year at teachers col lege susan ryan was the point winner for under 18 at mark ham fair travel in the younger sort is a part of education in the elder a part of experience well old or young or in be tween for education exper ience or pleasure travel wo do from cedar grove and back again to ottawa went the ar chie littles and the les beares to new york went ginny dare to italy and north africa went mr and mrs john virdiramo to kingston to tent with jimmy often and colin reesor to de troit went bobs tapscott and investors find out about this annually secured investment for details write continental leasing company suite 17 i2fi2 don mills rrl don mills ont rsrser over hot xeekend to montreal went cheryl walton with the ionsor family to lake superior went the mcciennans and then pat went to scotland to washington and then the ny worlds fair went marion mc cowan alice macintosh and myrtle hamill western canada was popular in 1964 stewart burkholder hitchhiked to western canada and ended up in chiliwak lit tle laura bielby went west with her aunt and uncle and j annie and adeline reesor mo- j tored to the coast but we went j east too lloyd clendennen motored to the eastern provin- ees as did murray sewell with eleanor and deborah north yes there too gwcn au- i church camped at sibbald s i point with the children the shoudys spent two cold weeks at potash lake doris and har old lapp toured the north and olive reesor and her family went north as did mabel and ruby reesor with ida tapscott and karen the tulip trip to ottawa was very much enjoyed bv frank and ella reesor and jean carr margaret tyler and ronnie dean there were a few highlights in our many club activities the explorers ran a first aid course and out of 55 who took it 44 passed the cgit had a nice program for the old people at shepperd lodge and their unicef boxes brought in 6716 at halloween the mo thers club stuffed animals and added these to their mitten con tribution to unicef this year they also had an irish night at mothers club and entertained mrs david milne while she vi sited in the village the hi cs young people and cgit joined for a sunrise service on easter sunday and the cgit had a fa ther and daughter bowling par ty at which cathy ionson beat everyone with a score of 262 the tyros had a paper drive and made more money than anyone expected the mennonite church in ce dar grove had an active year and continued monthly evening services with some very inter esting programmes the ucw must be the busiest group in cedar grove they had their annual christmas bazaar in the new church basement asked blodwen davies to be guest speaker on the subject of can adian indians and for their fa mily picnic they asked evelyn whittamore to join the cgit the explorers and the tyros in a chorus which proved to be most enjoyable 40 voices sing ing the happy wanderer the comunity club had a busy and interesting year it is this club which is responsible for the corner lot activities the pic nics the rink and the euchres and this year they became an incorporated club chartered un der the province of ontario the club enlarged the rink in creased the lighting at cedar ena eliminated the weeds on the corner lot bought the new slide and welcomed new mem bers cedar grove had more illness than we care to record john petrie began the year in hospi tal and grampa dare was in and out a couple of times fred beare had pneumonia in may and mrs carson armstrong spent some time in hospital mrs mackenzie had an opera tion and she spent considerable lime with her family recupera ting mrs crichton is getting along well after a heart attack sent her to the hospital and al- jean chapman had her turn there too don mcciennan had a nasty bout of scarlet fever there was more than the usual run of troubles for the child ren what with mumps chicken pox and flu hitting the village at the same time karen tap scott had her tonsils out and marion and brian reesor as well as the williams children were sick at christmas richard barkey broke his thigh and in our crazy summer weather there were more colds than we ever had 64 was the year jack shou- dys mother and brother with his family came to cedar grove for a real visit mrs clarence mortley popped out for a visit with ruby and mabel reesor gordon stonehouse and his daughter delores renewed ac quaintances in the village mr and mrs ted harvey stayed with the aubrey lapps and bill wright spent part of his holi days with the tapscotts and we sailed into december but not quietly at the polls we voted uncertainly in the town ship as we had at the federal level the last school board meeting took place sadly the churches put on their christ mas programmes and joan whittaker won high praise for her choral work with the mark ham school children fire at the little farm caused exten sive damage to the second house and there have been two bees since to help clean up the mess in cedar grove we leave the old year with a sense of ach ievement much has been ac complished in our village this year the new year begins for us with a truly new feeling to it it feels like a beginning and with high hopes we expect a splendid 65 as for the rest of the world there is a stirring uncertain quality in the whole globe there is fear among people of what is inevitable things like automation and world unity there is a clinging to old ways already crowded out by new this is not an easy year to en ter the petty errors of the year just past could easily become grievous sins in the year ahead we need men of purpose to guide us through 1965 men of vision to see farther than we can men of courage and in telligent ambition and we who do not lead must learn to pick our leaders more wisely than ever before and then we must not jo much as follow as sup port the men we choose good men make a rood year may 1955 be a happy ose for you receive certificates the stouffv1uj tribune vanity untutr 7 w63 tit 3 233b k7 ely on your friendly k pharmacist this group of electrical technicians from stouftville and markham were presented with elec trical heatinr association certificates by c k crease ontario hydros central region consumer service kngineer in the front row from the left a- iv i atkinson of stonrfville puc mr crease gordon brown stouffville imc and max snimtag of sonntag electric in the hack row from the left are rodney dohson and thomas lee of ontario hydro markham and robert beare of beare electric markham ontario hydro photo 2500 qualified electric heating consultants available in ontario just what is a bargain when it comes to health joorl health is priceless protect it with the finest quality medications compounded faithfully from your doctors prescriptions by your pharmacist ontario now has some 251 qualified electric heatins con sultants their ranks were swel led to that total when another 75 electrical contractors indus trial and utility electrical techni cians completed the complicated technical electric heating course and received their certificates the course was presented by ontario hydro central region staff members who gave a series of lectures course members at tended the threemonths course from wnodbridgp brampton port perry newmarket mark ham stouffville keswick and metropolitan toronto including scarborough weston and north york the graduates received their certificates from adam s smith ontario hydros central region manager 12000 all electrical homes the graduates were told that electric heating is growing at a remarktable pace in lflos there were virtually no allelectric homes in ontario bv the end of november 1964 there were more than 12000 electrically heated dwellings in the province over 2300 of these allelectric homes are located in central region the nttmner of total electric dwellings has more than doubled in ihe past two years r n lcadhpttcr secretary- treasurer of the electric heat ing association mentioned the electric heating goals that had been established and said that these targets had been more than mot to date adam s smith ontaito hy dros central region manager in congratulating the graduates said that the pioneer days of electric heating were behind and the present electric heating course graduates were entering the field on the gorund floor of an exciting new era of comfort living he stated that the new consultant in electric heating would be participating in the most effective and significant improvement in comfort living which 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