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Speakers Request Aid from Rotarians Plans Begin for Heritage Week The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 16,1991 5 by Lorna Miller "It was in Cuba, 12 to 13 years ago, where I first saw severe poverty, and it really makes you think," said Tom Sorrly. Mr. Sorrly, a professional optician and Elizabeth Campbell, Chairperson of the Outreach Program of the Canadian Jamaican Club, were at the Bowmanville Rotary Rotary Club meeting last week to drum up aid for the Canadian Canadian Jamaican Club. The club works hand in glove with the Foundation for International International Self-help Devel- . opment (FISH) headquar- tered in Papine, Jamaica. '*'r-"The FISH Clinic, quietly, quietly, but firmly, brings a message message of brotherly love. It gives patients a promise of good health at a cost they can afford," states a bro- THERE IS A i WIDENESS IN GOD'S , MERCY "Arise, O LORD: 0^ God, lift up thine hand: forget not . the hùmble...the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." PSALM 10:12-14, THE HOLY chure on the clinic which was started by Dr. Louis Grant in January of 1985. At the clinic, the poor receive receive medical, dental and optical optical care from a staff of 15 or 20 specialists supported by volunteers. Mr. Sorrly is asking for used eyeglasses as well as funds to upgrade equipment in the clinic. "The used glasses are classed and catalogued and then handed out to patients who need the approximate prescription provided by the old glasses," he explained. "However, if we can upgrade the equipment to make custom, custom, prescription glasses, it would mean so much to the poor in Jamaica who cannot afford to buy glasses from the optical companies." Mr. Sorrly attended a clinic in Guyana in 1988 sponsored by the Canadian Foundation for World Development. Development. Here, the same sort of "blitz" optical help was given to over 3,000 people in two weeks and 8,000 pairs of used eyeglasses were distributed. distributed. ^We had to turn people away," he said. "The experience has given me a different focus for the direction direction I personally want to go in and I am planning a second second trip to Guyana in the near future." Mr. Sorrly will be taking a trip to Jamaica in April and is looking for donations of old glasses and, of course, monetary help, to start the optical lab at the FISH Clinic. Clinic. "Thirty-year-old glasses can be gold to someone who Jktoca«tl« Rev. Geo. D. Mahan - 987-3569 10:30 A.M. SUNDAY Service held at the Village of Newcastle Community Hall King St. West, Newcastle We welcome you to worship with us, in spirit and truth. TRINITY UNITED CHURCH tfEÿ'A Church and Division Streets : KnfJSn Bowmanville, Ontario IlyAJfj Church Phone Office Phone 623-3912 623-3136 Rev. Frank Lockhart M.A., M.Div., M.Th. Michelle Hofman, B.A., M.R.E. SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1991 ? ftV';:; ' ■ 1030 a.m. | .Sermon:. "Christian Unity" - Church School: Ages 3 to Grade 6 -10:30 turn, i y Grades f and 8 - 9:15 a.m. I ! ! Nursery Care Available * rw $t. Sttfrrtfo's Temperance and Church St., Bowmanville SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1991 11:00 a.m. Church Service ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY 27TH after morning service All Welcome Sunday School and Nursery The Salvation Army Bowmanville Citadel 75 Liberty St. S. CHURCH SERVICE TIMES 9:30 a.m. -- Family Christian Education (Sunday School) 11:00 a.m. -- Holiness Worship 6:30 p.m. -- Praise Service Come and join us at a Community Church where Christ makes the difference. For more information call 623-3761 Corps Officers/Pastors: Captain and Mrs. G. Cooper 159 Years of Community Service teJicati C&urtfi Temperance St., Bowmanville, Ontario SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1991 EPIPHANY II 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion Guest Speakers: Mel and Verna Hill Each Wednesday 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion COURTICE - SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1991 10 a.m. Family Worship Service Rector -- The Reverend Canon Byron Yates, B.A., S.T.B. Amoc. -- The Honorary Asst. The Rev. A.D. Langley &t. Patti's Sttitttr Minister: Rev, N.E, Schamorhorn, B.A., M.Div. Organist: Mr. Douglas Dowell Church Secretary: Helen Mclnnos 623-7346 SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1991 11:00 a.m. "Morning Worship" day School - Kindergarten through High School Nursery care for pre-school children every Sunday If you're new to Bowmanville, we Invite you to makeSLPauTsyour church home can read with them. The style doesn't matter. It's the lenses that count. We can take the lenses from two different different pairs of glasses and grind them to fit a readymade readymade frame. This is referred to as Blitz care. We are close, but not right on." Local support for the clinic clinic is strong, and there is no lack of volunteers. There is only a shortage of funding and equipment. Dr. Louis Grant is still active in the clinic at the age of 70. He goes in nearly every every day to support the staff of the clinic which he envisioned envisioned while working with regional health units in Niagara Niagara and Haldimand- Norfolk in Canada in 1974. Dr. Grant received the Order Order of Merit of Germany for his integral part in restoring closer cultural relations between between the peoples of Jamaica Jamaica and Germany soon after World War Two. He also received received an award for distinguished distinguished public health service service from the Ontario Boards of Health. In 1985, the year he opened his clinic's clinic's doors, he was presented with the Pelican Award of the University of West Indies Indies for his outstanding and lasting contribution made to the University and to the wider society in the field of medicine. "I have had no other option option since my first trip to Cuba," Mr. Sorrly summed up, "but to become personally personally involved with helping the poor to see clearly the beautiful beautiful world we live in." Jack Locke, chairman of the Rotary Club International International Services, World Community Community Branch, will be working with Mr. Sorrly to arrange the financing of specialized lab equipment for the clinic. Mr. Locke introduced Mr. Sorrly to the club and George Moore thanked him on behalf of the Rotarians. Lloyd Chapman, of Whitby, Whitby, was on hand to pick up his $2,000 travel voucher and the $750 in expense money which he collected as last month's winner of the Trip of the Month draw. "I have no idea where we will go or when, but I'm sure my wife will tell me," he quipped, as he accepted his winnings from Rotary Club President Bill Whyte. Earl Wolff was given birthday congratulations. Harvey Partner received his 12-year attendance pin. President Bill Whyte closed the meeting with the observation that, "if you give a kid an inch - he becomes a ruler." That's all from Rotary for this week. By Laura J. Richards A kick-off parade, two dances, lots of good food, a corporate raft race, a coloring coloring contest, an essay competition competition and a drama festival for high school students, are all on the agenda for Heritage Heritage Week ' 91. In addition, lots of added surprises will be in store during Heritage Week. The event runs from May 25 to June 6 throughout the Town of Newcastle. "Each year the week has become bigger as organizers try to lay the ground work for future events," said Heritage Heritage Week Committee Chairman Sher Leetooze. Every age group will be represented in activities involving involving persons ranging in age from children, to teenagers teenagers to adults. Even business people will have the chance to become involved and have some fun, Mrs. Leetooze said. No one will be know ingly left out. She and the Heritage Week Committee are looking looking for everyone, including the various community service service and ethnic groups, to become involved with the week-long celebration. The Women's Institute has signed up to produce a fashion show entitled "Fashion "Fashion Through the Ages." Mrs. Leetooze said the seven WI chapters in the Town of Newcastle will probably be involved with this project. There will also be a soapbox soapbox derby, but details are sketchy right now. For those interested in soap boxes but prefer them- not to move, the Toastmasters Toastmasters will have one erected near the Town Hall for those wishing to tell the community community how they feel about a particular particular issue in five minutes or less. The Bowmanville Museum Museum will be hosting a photography photography competition with a theme of "Our Heritage in Architecture." The museum will also be hosting The Canada Packer's Quilt Display Display in association with St. Paul's Church. An nntinne fair and classic classic automobile show will be taking place at the Orono Fair Grounds. There also will be a 'Christmas in June' craft show and sale at the Brownsdale Community Centre. Celebrates Mrs. Leetooze is hoping to bring the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Areas into the week under the subheading subheading of Natural Heritage. Heritage. "Conservation areas are our very own special areas. Perhaps we could arrange a walking tour in the conservation conservation areas," she said. "We want to present as many aspects of our heritage as possible. Even modern man is creating a heritage." 1st Birthday Real Estate Board Releases '90 Stats Jack Locke (left) poses with Tom Sorrly, a Whitby optician who is going to Jamaica Jamaica to work with the Foundation for International Self-Help and Elizabeth Campbell, Chairperson of the Outreach Program of the Canadian Jamaican Club. Mr. Sorrly spoke to the Bowmanville Rotary Club last week about the need for funding to equip the clinic to provide custom glasses for the needy in Jamaica. Lucky Winner to Go Travelling Durham Region realtors sold 3,837 homes in 1990, and the average price was $165,380.00; reports the Oshawa & District Real Estate Estate Board. Year-end statistics show that the total number of sales is down 26% from 1989. The average price of a home in the Durham Region in 1989 was $186,000.00. In December of this year, 239 residential units were sold, compared to 259 sales lastyear; a decrease of 8%. "The recession has led to uncertainty in consumers, and this effect is largely felt in real estate. Such a large investment intimidates purchasers purchasers in this economic cli mate," says 1990 Board President John Coulter. "Although times are tough, the price decrease opened the market to many first time buyers." As interest rates drop, the Oshawa & District Real Estate Board looks to the future future with hope. The Oshawa & District Real Estate Board is an industry industry association which represents over 1,200 realtors realtors throughout the Durham Region. Hello, my name is Cory John Paul Forrest. My first birthday was on January 11, 1991. Happy birthday from Mom and Dad and Grandparents, Mary Skinner, Dianne and Brian Collins. Doug Park (left) chats with the Bowmanville Rotary Rotary Club's latest Trip of the Month draw winner. He's Lloyd Chapman, of Whitby. Mr. Chapman visited the fille Rotarv Club recently to nick un his oice Bowmanville Rotary Club recently to pick up hi $2,000 travel voucher for a destination of his choie, and $750 in expense money. Lloyd Chapman and his wife will decide on where they will be near future. i travelling in the OBITUARY Happy 90th Birthday Bowmanville resident Wesley Fice turned 90 years young on January 3. Wesley spent 39 years as an employee employee of Goodyear, 10 years as a Town Councillor for Bowmanville, and two as the town's deputy reeve. A family birthday party was held to celebrate the occasion. occasion. CHILDCARE CENTRE IS NOW OFFERING SERVICE 24 HOURS PER DAY - 7 DAYS A WEEK* for children 6 weeks to 12 years old. 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Oshawa * According to demand/advance notice may be requested •* Maximum of $100.00 per child/proof of payment required. Reva of Irish and Fred of Huguenot extractions are pictured above at their home on their 50th wedding anniversary in June 1989. Reva McGill Billett Born in Bethany. At a tender age moved to the Sylvester Sylvester farm east of Enniskillen, Enniskillen, purchased by her father. father. Attended Enniskillen Public School, Bowmanvilile High School and Peterborough Peterborough Normal; taught first year in a log school near Plevna, North Hastings, boarded in a log house and snow-shoed between in winter; winter; the second year including including 5th class at the Long Sault school; the following two years at Enniskillen ana until June 1939 at Silver- thorn school in York. She took training at the Conservatory and sang in the Eaton Memorial choir and later at St. Paul's United, United, Scarborough. Married Fred Billett on July 1, 1939. (married lady teachers could not teach during the depression). depression). They had two sons Doug and Jim. Later, due to scarcity of teachers, she was asked to supply followed by full time at John A. Leslie school for 18 years, near their homo nt 77 Cliffcrest Dr., Scarborough. Predeceased Predeceased by brother Roy. Celebrated Celebrated with Fred their 50th wedding anniversary in June 1989, At time of her passing, no " Jan. 1, 1991, they tad resided exactly 51 1/2 years at the same address, z Reva played the piano and was interested in hockey hockey and baseball, being catcher catcher for the Enniskillen girls' softball team. She also played the organ in the Enniskillen Enniskillen Presbyterian Church prior to amalgamation amalgamation with the United; taught Sunday School in the latter and later in St. Paul's. Always Always maintained a keen interest interest in Enniskillen, especially especially the church. When up street from her home, former former students and their parents parents continually sought her out. A special person, she loved flowers nnd was a (lower herself, so fragrant, so buoyant and so gay. A loving wife nnd mother, and to her grandchildren, The void will not bo filled, but there is comfort she rests in the arms of Jesus in God's House, not built with lmnds. The service from Nortlicutt Elliott Funeral Chapel, in Bowmanville was conducted by the Rev. Hod-Wyn Williams, Williams, formerly of St. Paul's, assisted by Dr. Stanley Osborne. Osborne. avo aarances After Christmas Special Alyssa Ashley Musk, Chantilly or Lutèce Hand and Body Lotion $Q95 each 10% OFF ALL COSMETICS McGregor Drugs Your local l.D.A. Drug Store ^ King St. West Bowmanville 623-5792