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tribune january 6 1988 c13 pageant seeks entrants claremont is searching for a high school student to repre sent the north pickering ham let during its sesquicentennial year miss sesquicentennial will be selected at a pageant set for claremont community centre on friday jan 15 the event is open to the public beginning at 830 pm contestants must be of high school age and live in claremont or on a surround ing rural route judging will be based on poise knowledge of local history and public speaking ability as well each girl is required to write a short story about family history in keeping with the pageants sesquicentennial 150th birth day theme the contest winner will re ceive about 500 in prizes and become claremonts official representative during the fifth annual winter carnival jan 27 to 31 and at birthday celebrations in june interested contestants should apply to lynn winter- stein 6492950 or andrea gra ham 6492604 by jan 9 more fourth line news from page c4 suddenly on christmas day the funeral was held at oneill funer al parlor on monday with inter ment in goodwood cemetery marvin maye has returned to orchard villa retirement home in pickering after a session in the ajaxpickering hospital he en joyed a visit earlier from the three staley brothers who were close neighbors in their younger years while eldon was visiting from victoria bc george and arthur live closer to their native goodwood visiting with her sister mabel of toronto for the holiday season miss olive shell will be returning shortly to her field of service with- the wycliffe bible translators she is living in dallas texas at the present time it was encouraging to hear the united church was packed or the christmas eve candlelight ser vice and cantata the inspiration al evening was most impressive in the soft lighting of early years a new years eve watch night service was held at the baptist church as children teenagers and oldsters met together in a family night to usher in the new year with games fellowship and worship although 1988 is now well be gun my new years resolution is not even started i resolved to write more letters how are you doing on yours maybe this little poem will help us one ship drives east ana another west with the selfsame winds that blow tis the set of the sails and not the gales which decides the way to go like the winds of the sea arc the ways of fate as we voyage along through life tis the will of the soul that de cides the goal and not he calm or the strife