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Section Three The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, December 23,1985 15 and Bis tant Bast DIM AND DISTANT 50 Years Ago Thursday, December 12th, 1035 Combining the popular annual events in one, the Rotary Club on Friday evening staged its Ladies' Night, and also entertained those who helped the club at its annual Rotary Carnival last July. Over one hundred and thirty sat down in the two dining rooms at the Balmoral Hotel to a delicious chicken dinner. In the Rotary room Rev. E.F. Armstrong, President, President, presided, while in the main dining room, Past President President Fred Cryderman was in charge. On Thursday next, citizens will have an opportunity to help provide for the needy at Christmas at the annual Canned Goods Matinee at the Royal Theatre. C.T. Ross, Manager of the Theatre, has kindly offered once again to come forward with this practical gesture to aid in the distribution of baskets. Next Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. a special show will be staged, and the price of admission will be a tin of canned goods, or some other packaged goods. Home and School Clubs of the County ■ of Durham were organized on a county-wide basis, with Mrs. Fred W. Bowen as the first County President, at a meeting held in Shaw's School on Dec. 2. Miss Ruby Bragg acted as secretary. secretary. Mrs. R.S. McLaughlin, Oshawa, President of the Ontario Federation of Home and School Clubs, Mrs. H. Maltby, Provincial Secretary, and Mrs. Reese of Toronto, past president of the York County Council, were all present to assist and advise in the formation of the council in Durham. Entertain Teachers: Members of the Public School Board played host Friday night to the teaching staff of the Public Schools at Central School. An informal and jolly evening was thoroughly enjoyed. A period was given over to games conducted by Rev. and Mrs. George Mason, while Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Dudley had charge of a musical program which included violin numbers by Mr. Francis Sutton. Mrs. W.A. Shane gave a reading and a number of musical stunts were enjoyed. Refreshments were served at the close of the party. The December session of the Northumberland and Durham Counties Council opened on Wednesday, with Warden Percy Stinson presiding. Among the communications received was a little Christmas Christmas greeting from the Department Department of Highways demanding to know when the counties intended to pay the $72,000 account due last August in connection with special highway work done before the provincial election. DIM AND DISTANT 25 Years Ago, Thursday, December 8th 1960 Repairing Bridges - The Dept, of Highways is now in Patrick G. Deegan DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC 5 GEORGE STREET BOWMANVILLE 623-4473 or 263-2026 * * » >./ ? from Lloyd • Lynaa Todd • Lance and Jamie McROBBIE PHOTO 69 Waverley Road 623-2635 Viewpoint - My Christmas Gift to You New GRCA Manager the process of making extensive repairs to Vanstone's Bridge in the hollow at the west énd to town. Further west, maintenance crews have been replacing timbers on part of the bridge over the CPR, and also the one on Elgin Street. Plan Cruise - Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Rickaby, Toronto, are leaving the end of the month for a four-month cruise to New Zealand. They have been widely entertained by their friends. The Rickabys were formerly of Orono. He is a brother of R.P. Rickaby of the "Big 20", Bowmanville, who at the moment is not contemplating much entertainment entertainment in the next few weeks with the Christmas rush in anticipation. Harold Rickaby is also Ontario Deputy Minister of Mines, a position from which he is retiring. One of the most attractive windows along Bowmanville's Shopping section features the Christmas display of Higgon Electric. This year, the window window is filled with a crab apple tree, painted white. Colourful glass balls and other decorations decorations hang from the branches which hold many suggested gifts. Tuesday was a big day in Bowmanville...the day when the new Christmas street lighting was turned on for the first time. Up and down King Street, merchants and shoppers could be seen looking up at the bright and beautiful brackets of green, yellow and red bulbs hanging from the hydro poles. Three By-Laws were enacted by council. One was to establish establish Cemetery Com. to take over control and management of the cemetery. It will have five members. Two members of the council will be on the board. They are to be appointed annually. The three others will be appointed for three years, two years, and one year respectively. At the request of the Durham County District High School Board L.A. (Bert) Parker was re-appointed one of the town's representatives on the board , by Town Council. The appoint- met was made at the meeting held in the Council Chamber on Monday evening. DIM AND DISTANT Wednesday, December 31st 1975 #1 ' The former Bus Terminal on King Street, Bowmanville, next to the Castle Hotel, suffered damages in the neighbourhood of $10,000 in a fire reported at 4:11 a.m. Saturday morning. Councillor Ken Lyall blasted Newcastle Town Council recently for overspending its 1975 planning budget by an estimated $60,000. Don Masters marked a double event this year when he reached' his 25th year with Goodyear, and also won the Goodyear Spirit Award for Canada. The Legion Ladies Euchre Team of Flo Knight, Jessie Lightfoot, Ann Piper and Nyhl Sheehan won second place in the Regional Toùrnament held at Havelock, By Rosella Carew Religiously, Culturally and Traditionally what does Christmas mean to you? Many - more qualified than me - have written on this subject so often that I couldn't come close to expressing a feeling that hasn't been expressed before. But I do want to give you my "Christmas Gift." Here then are a few happenings - some tragic some not - that have become part of our family memories. I think of times when my Mother and Father were both in hospital and not able to be part of our Christmas. But Dad loved a joke. My sister and I could always expect something like a "turnip-doU" in our stocking. They were works of art I might say. And the year he wrapped one of the horse's halters as a joke to my cousin Bill was a topper. It turned out to be Bill's favorite gift; he kept it and Dad had to buy a new halter. Bill is no longer with us having died of cancer at 42. My memory of beautifully wrapped gifts are those of my sister. She was in nurses training training and had something like twenty-five cents for each parcel spending. What she lacked in cash she made up with imagination. We still talk of them. In tne early years Christmas Christmas morning at our house was around the old Quebec heater; after Edgar had announced it warm enough and after he had probably worked most of the night building something for the boys. Christmas dinner was at Grandma's house with goose all the trimmings and leaving loaded down with gifts. Coming home was sitting around with the young children crying'-howling would be more like it - while the house warmed enough to take off coats and boots. Then there was the year Brenda came down with the chicken-pox and plans changed in a hurry. There was some high-howling that time - big mamma too. The hay-mow was a favorite hiding place for gifts. But too late we learned the kids knew of it almost as soon as we. That year the boys had quite a few turns with their hockev game before Santa brought it. Books had been read and rewrapped rewrapped also ahead of Santa and a sweater had been tried on re-wrapped and of course someone gave that away by pronouncing it the wrong size. Talk about man having a bit of the boy in him, I remember the year there was a train under the tree for our grandsons. grandsons. By the time the men had done their playing there was no battery-power left for the boys - a few tears here to be sure. One tradition we had for years was a family gathering at our house on Christmas Eve and an exchange of "joke- gifts." The year we had bookings for Barbados I received a bikini size five. A favorite joke-gift would be an enlarged framed Grade One school picture - tongue hanging out and buster brown hair-cut. The current boy friend, girl friend of our son or daughter would be the receiver of this precious gift. The year someone produced a blown-up poster size of such a picture was the end - no where to go from there. We've created kings and queens too. Our western daughter-in-law is the Queen of the yo-yo flingers, Edgar is the King of the puppeteers and I'm Queen of the paper and bow re-cyclers. Last year Auntie received a cabbage- patch doll from my Kingston daughter made from a savoy cabbage dressed and bejewelled. bejewelled. Auntie asked recently recently when she was going to get her adoption papers. Merry Christmasell. Thirty year old Heather Rutherford has been appein ted general manager and secretary-treasurer of the Ganaraska Region Conservation Conservation Authority replacing Mr. Doug Palmer who previously held the position. I Heather Rutherford was the 'unanimous choice of a six- member panel" of the Ganaraska and will commence commence with the Authority at the end of the month. The new general manager has held the same position with the Prince Edward Regional Conservation . Authority. j Heather Rutherford was 1 chosen from 53 applicants for the position and was one of six on a short list presented to the Authority panel. The new appointee is a resident of Belleville and holds an honors bachelor degree in science from the University of Guelph. She is also a graduate of the ministry of natural resources Ontario Trapper's education course and has completed two accredited courses of the Registered Industrial Accountant's Accountant's program. As chief administrative officer she will report directly to the chairman of the Authority Authority and the full authority and is responsible for direction of all employees. She is also responsible for formulating, directing and coordinating coordinating the total administrative, administrative, technical and field programs of the Ganaraska as directed by the authority. 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