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Brok1lin Bylines By Roxanne Revel Hi there: Why is it the only time your nose itches is when your hands are otherwise occupied? LIBRARY NEWS The Children's Book Festival contest is well un- derway. The final entry date has been extended un- til November 25, and winners will be announced November 28, so there is still plenty of time. All children from kindergarten to grade three "color across Canada", and grades four to eight answer a "book quiz across Canada". The library would like to remind all those patrons with "overdues" to please return them as soon as possible, and while you're there, have a peek at the "lost and found". A great number of treasures have been collecting over the past few months. BE SOCIABLE The "Sociables" of Brooklin United Church are holding their Candlelight Buffet on November 27, at 8:30 p.m. The music for this Christmas celebration is by Lloyd Morden, and food will be provided by the good cooks of the church. Come and enjoy this fellow- ship. Tickets are $12 per couple and are available from Marg Wilson, Maxine Vallance, Marj McCoy and Joanne Hannam. BURNS KIRK GUILD Burns Kirk Guild presents a morning coffee party featuring "Flavours" and "The Kitchen Cup- board," from Whitby. Spices, teas, coffees, cheeses, fun gifts, and kit- chen gadgets will be demonstrated. The get-together will be held at Burns Presby- terian Church, Ashburn, on November 25 at 10 a.m. and all proceeds will go towards purchasing kitchen equipment for the church. For tickets, please call Barbara Porter 655-4652, or Margaret Matthews 655-3083. DEAR SANTA Don't forget kids .... better get your letters off to Santa good and early because you all know what a busy man he is. Make sure you put your name and address on the letter and mail it to Santa, North Pole, Canada. Put a stamp on it and drop it in the post office box, or. else put it in the box at the library (you won't need a stamp) and Mrs. Lintjens and her ladies will make sure Santa gets it. If you want to be sure of getting an answer from Santa get your letter in earlyor it may get held up in the mail. CHRISTMAS TREE BAZAAR The Brooklin United Church Women invite you to their Christmas Tree Bazaar on Saturday, Novem- ber 21from 1:30 to 4 p.m. There will be a silent auction, lots of baked goods, ideas for Christmas gifts and decorations, a country store, craft tables and a youth booth. Come and enjoy a cup of tea with a friend. TIP OF THE WEEK It is sometimes near impossible to get small kids (and some of us big ones too) to sit still while you poke and pry around for a sliver. But to save the risk of infection it has to come out. Next time try this. Place a small piece of adhesive tape, the sticky part of a bandaid will do, over the sliver. Leave it in place for at least 12 hours (putting it on at bedtime is perfect). The next day the sliver will pop out as easy as pie, if it hasn't already done so on its own. PROVINCIAL CUP VOLLEYBALL The sport of volleyball is the largest in the world with over 140 million registered players in 146 coun- tries. The Provincial Cup Voleyball Tournament is the largest of its type in Canada. Sponsored by the Barrie Saints Teachers' Asso- ciation, The Merchants of Simcoe County and the Ontario Public School Men Teachers' Federation, Simcoe District, the tournament is open to al elementary school boys. Although this is only the second year for the "Cup", judging from the enthusiastic response by teams as far away as Thunder Bay wanting to parti- cipate, it will fast become a long term, annual com- Classified Ads Seli Cali 668-6111 e ds WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981, PAGE 7 MORE WhIltby Free ProsS 101h Annivorsary Celebrationsl mm er petition. Over 100 teams applied for admission. From these 60 were chosen and involved 900 players and coaches from all over Ontario. Referees were qualified by the Ontario Volleyball Association. Teams from public and separate schools travelled from Toronto, Woodstock, Niagara Falls, Kit- chener, Ottawa, Wheatley, and, of course, Brooklin. A team of 12 boys left our fair town on Friday, November 13, returning exhausted but happy on Saturday night. They played 10 games during their stay. Those participating from Meadowcrest were coaches Bob Cardinal and Enzo Romano, Steve Owens, Mike Jansma, Robbie Mason, Robert - Lightle, Grant Reveler, Dale Johnson, Dale Rober- ts, Rich Neely, Steve Dormer, Graham MacDonald, Stephen Bursey, and Brent Duff. Our boys didn't win the "Cup" - this year, but they shared a marvellous experience. They met boys their own age from ail over the province, competed against them, spoke with them, and generally enriched their outlooks. Congratulations to our boys, and thanks to the people of Barrie for being such great hosts. ARE YOU KEEPING YOUR END UP? What is this pre-occupation with labels? Unless you have the "in" patch blazened on the ap- propriate spot you are nowhere - or so it appears. "People are funny". Art Linkletter coined that phrase some 30 years ago, and it is still quite true today. I have seen ladies spend 10 minutes with a calcu- lator trying to figure out the best buy between various brands of tomato juice, and men drive 10 miles to save $2 on a can on paint. Kids too will spend, it seems, forever in front of a candy counter pondering which candies when purchased properly will give them the best value for their 30 cents. Now, what do all these people have in common? Easy - these same bargain hunters think nothing at all about paying an absorbadent price for inferior merchandise and why ... because it has a designer label onn it. I have actually known people buy jeans that don't fit, and then pay extra to have them altered because they had "the" label, rather than purchase a pair that fit them perfectly but were not properly tagged. Why is this? Your guess is as good as mine, but it seems there is no such tihing as individualism any- more. Everyone has to play "follow the leader". Are we all so insecure we have to give up our iden- tities? What would this world be like today if people such as Columbus, Florence Nightingale, Newton, Ford, the Wright brothers and Martin Luther King had just gone along with the crowd? Sometimes it pays to be different. Oh well, Bot- toms Up! See you next week.....Roxanne Reveler Brooklin Bakery drop off Friday, before noon please 655-4951. BROOKLIN HOME BAKERY & DELICATESSAN 61 BALDWIN ST. BROOKLIN 655-4951 FOR YOUR NEXT PARTY TRYOUR MEAT AND CHEESE PLATTER FANCY SANDWICHES AND SWEET TRAYS SEE ALICE COOPER, 0E ESIS, BARRY MANILOW, OR AC/DC (ail centre floor seat excot Manilow - Reds) Ail you have to do to enter is think up and submit an original slogan for the Whitby Free Press (i.e. Toronto Sun - "the little paper that grew"). Entries must be received by 3 p.m. Friday, Novem- ber 20, 1981, at our office: 131 Brock St. N., Whitby, or if mailed: P.O. Box 206, Whitby, L1 N 5S1. Four winners will be chosen by M.B.M. Publishing and notified by telephone. Four pairs of tickets will be awarded. The first place winner will be given a pair of tickets to any TWO of the above concerts of his choice. The second place winner will be given a pair of tickets to one of the remaining two concerts of his choice, and the third place winner will receive the remaining pair of tickets. Ail entries become the property of M.B.M. Publishing with the right to publish and use same. The decision of the judges is final. Only one prize will be awarded to an individual or family. Winners may be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility and release, and in ail cases will be required to an- swer a time limited, skill testing question. Prizes are not transferable or exchangeable for cash. Em- ployees of M.B.M. Publishing and their families are not allowed to enter. ENTER THE FREE PRESS * CONCERT CONTEST OWIll WIN WINII1 W N!! WINII A PAIR OF TICKETS TO JA%ý