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Whitby Free Press, 18 Feb 1976, p. 16

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PAGE 16, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1976. WHITBY F~REE PRESS Grace Cathedral celebrates first anniversary This Sunday a si-all but dedicated ehurch congrega- tion will be celebrating its rirst anniversary in Whitby. The Church is Grace Cathedrat, Which is iocated in the former St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church building at Byron and St. John Streets. The chutrchi is owned and operated by Rev. A. R. McNalley and his wife Ruthi, whio etirchased il and started a congregation in ianuary 1975. - Grace Cathedral is an inter-denomninational church on the same basis as the Peoples' Church or Rex Humbard's Cathedral of Toinorrow at Akroti, Ohio, says Rev. McNalley. It is an evangelical type of chiurch, which believes in faithi healing and healing prayer. Rev. McNalley believes that churches suîch as his are be- coming more popular because of tremendous changes in the past i15 years, and the ton- dency of people not to be as Sidewalk snow removal to be eut bac*k next winter Remnoval, by the Town, of snow on sidewalks will be restricted in the future, Whitby Coundil decided last week. Council decided that, be- ginning with the winter of 1976-77, the public works departinent wili only remove show from certain sidewalks on main streets, in front of ail Town owned properties and in front of senior citizens' homes. In a recent report to council's operations commit- tee, Dick Kuwahara, Director of the Public Works Depart- ment, pointed out that this year's near-record amount of snow combined wîth the ever-increasing number of sidewalks made it almost impossible for the one snow remnoval machine owned by the Town to cover the entire community including Brook- lin, Myrtle and Myrtie Station. "At one tine, it mighit have been feasible to consider doing ail of these sidewalks but, at the present time, it is not a reasonable program", Mr. Kuwahara reported. "This year, the operator has not been able to cover al of the sidewalkà before another snowfall has occurred and the machine has to start ail over again to get at the most important routes", he said. &"4The actual cleaning oper- ation also presents rnany problerns", Mr. Kuwahara reported. denoniinational as thcy useci to be. Thie MeNalys were born anai raiscu III tor'onto, with a background in the Pentecostal moveilents. Rev. McNalley was a pastor in Port Arthur Texas, Mlemphis Tenn., and Canton Ohio during the past 20 years before coming back to Canada to start a church of his own in the Toronto area. The old Presbyterîian Church at Whitby was for sale at the tinie, and provided hirn with the opportunity he needed. Grace Catliedral's congre- gation amounts to about 35 to 40 people from Whitby, Oshawa, Brooklin, West Hill and Scarborough, but as many as 50 have attended at one time. Since hist fail, theMcNalleys have spent considerable tume and inoney renovating the Agreat nmew faste sensatioe o H.SALT FISH&CHIPS Fishkabob. an excôting new taste sensation f rom H. Sait, the whoie famiiy wii love FISHKABOB two skewers ioaded with tender chunks of fish, tangy onion, juicy pineappie and crisp green pepper. Alil deep f ried n our own crisp golden batter. Two fishkabobs and a generous order of chips, A great new meal you'ii want to have otten. Try old church, painting, iL inside and out, carpcting the floor, and instalfling anorgan. They have carcfully tried to preserve sorne of the original appearance. of the i 17-year-oid building by repalnting m~e stencils on the wall and keeping some of the old furnishings. A lot of the old dark pannelling has been painted to give the church a brighit, cheery appearance. L. Two services will be held. Sunday to commemor -ate the first anniversary of Grace Cathedral and the completiOn of the renovations. Rev. Lynton Fairhurst, an international Bible teacher and evangelist fromn England will be the speaker, at both the il a.m. and 7 p.m. service s. Great Charismatic Revival Services Sunday February 22, 11i A.M. and 7 P.M. The church where you are always very welcome! Graco Cathedral 508 Byron St. S. Whitby Special guest Evangelist and singers Rev. Lynton Fairhurst & Family lnternationally known Bible Teacher PUT ITTOGETHER.... FA SIONS 126 does if for you !!! 126 Broek St. Se Whitby 668-1266 MON-SAT 9 - 6 FR1 9 - $T EEN j jJUNIOR i&{ MISSES j } IZE S ZS5OF, I ~ -m -m -m-. - --m- m-- - -- - WITH WINTARIO - WE ALL WIN TIMOTHY J. O'NEILL CHARIERED ACCOUNTANT 214 Dundas St. E. P.O. Box 28 Whitby, Ontario- L1N5R7 668-3346 .A N EVV IVE/\L ALTOJGETHER. Offer good ai part icipating stores. February l9th t 9h 315 DUNDAS STREET EAST

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