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The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, December 15,1993 Section Two Happenings in Hampton VM11 Balson -- 697- The lights have dimmed and the curtain has fallen for the last time. On Tuesday, December 7th, the Hampton Women's Institute gave their final performance of their "Fowl Fashion Show". The residents of the Slrathavcn Life Care Centre thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed the show. Afterwards, Afterwards, everyone joined in singing Christmas Carols accompanied by our pianist Clara Nesbitt. Thank you to our manager, Joe Jackson. He always had words for us. I won't tell you which ones, though. For those of you with stars in your eyes, you might want to call Joe soon, while his contacts arc still fresh. No, that tour bus never did hit that open highway nor did our names appear on a marquee. But, just the same, the program.made a room full of people genuinely laugh. These ladies ladies earned more than their share of 15 minutes of fame. Barb Cochrane, Betty Kuycr, Eleanor Jackson, Eva Nacf, Grace Chant, Jane Smith, Lovclinc Cathcart, Marg Hall, Verna Bryant, Vema Robinson, Wilma Kantor and myself all bid adieu to the limelight. As they say in the show biz world, it is better to retire while on top. On Thursday, December 2nd, the Hampton Guides made chocolate houses at the Hampton church. We used the chocolate molds to make the house then added the doors and chimney. chimney. They were all decorated in different different ways. Most roofs were covered in snow and Smartics and Skittles. Around the houses there were sleighs, fences, and trees all made with lots of candy and icing. We all enjoyed making these houses and thanks to the parents and leaders who helped us. Merry Christmas. (This article article was written by second year, Hampton Girl Guide Mandy Macgrc- gor). Also on Thursday, the students of Elizabethville Area By E. Thickson On Saturday I got a call from Suzanne Suzanne saying the June Moore was coming to sec me. Pat her daughter brought her. She is wonderfully well considering what she has been through. She said she feels better, anyway. She won't have anymore treatment until well after Christmas. Then, on Sunday while they were still here, we had John Sevenhuesyen from Frobisher Bay call to sec us. He was here closing up their house for the winter as it hasn't sold yet. Other callers were Betty Mercer, Marie and Glenda, Inez Mercer, Vivian Vivian Quanlrill and Suzanne Wcstheus- cr. Church services were conducted as usual. After the openings Reverend Reverend Sedgwick took us his first lesson Mark 1: 1-8 about the preaching of John the Baptist. Our expression of Worship was the Sunday School children children decorating a tree separating different different men of the Bible. Children's minute was more on the Advent Candle. Candle. Second lesson was from Isaiah 40: 1-11 Words of hope and talk on change of direction before the people of Jerusalem was moved into the wilderness. M. Bull and J. Embury took up the offering and we had coffee coffee at the close. Clarence and Betty Mercer called on Elizabeth Minnis, Betty's sister, in Whitby on Sunday. I had a phone call from Florence (Lockwood) Smith in Biggar Sask. telling me that Flossie, her mother, is fine, lives in a rest home now. The Women's Institute met at the home of Vivian and Howard Quan- trill with 14 members attending. President President Irene Beatty opened the meeting meeting in the usual manner. The roll call was name a way to be energy conscious conscious at Christmas. There were several several answers such as don't keep your Christmas lights on all the time, change bulbs so that you save energy. Some took the questions as saving energy for Christmas and some answered answered that your should prepare well ahead if you plan a dinner. Get letter writing done early also. The minutes and financial reports were given by Leta McAllister, Bertha Bertha Trcw and Irene read some of the letters received. The program was turned over to Vivian Quantrill. She read from a book on happenings of 1993 which was interesting; Margaret Walker had a paper on Christmas trees and she started in Jesus time and told about Christmas decorations for trees and told the story of how Christmas customs customs have changed - an interesting reading. We sang God Save Our Queen and the ladies served lunch. Tickets were drawn for a gift and everyone received a gift. Next meeting January 4. Hydro Inspection Office To Close December 17 As a cost-cutting measure, the Ontario Ontario Hydro Electrical Inspection Office Office in Whitby will be closed to the public effective December 17,1993. All inspection applications after that date should be sent to the Peterborough Peterborough Inspection office. 749 The Kingsway, Peterborough, K9V 6W7, or call collect 705-745-3236, fax 705-745-2046. Local inspectors for the Durham area can still be contacted contacted for advice between 8 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. at the current Durham telephone telephone numbers (905) 668-5668, (905) 404-2028, (905) 686-6413 and (905) 372-1295. Ontario Hydro will not raise rates in 1994, and is committed to keeping future rate increases at or below the rate of inflation for the balance of the decade. Ontario Farm Grown CHRISTMAS TREES CUT YOUR OWN' ,aV Enjoy a real tradition KOL TREE FARMS 905-987-2263 905-342-3252 (Farm) County Rd. 9 east to West Rd., turn right (south) 2 km. or Hwy. 2 or 401 East to Hwy. 28 north to 6th Line East Follow our signs. Just 30 minutes from 115/35. Choose from thousands of Scotch Pine and Spruce. Free baling. Open Daily Dec. 3 - 24, 1 - 5; Sat. and Sun. 8 - 5 O )• Kirby q . Kendo' . Gatden 5 km. *D CC V) rd / Orono / . Nowcast' 8 Ritt ■ b S o • 6th Une À fh KOL TREE FARM Highway 401 East Port Hopo A kV Enjoy a real tradition HENDERSON TREE FARM NEWCASTLE - 987-4867 Take Mill St. In Newcastle one km. south of 401 to Metcalf then 2 km. east. Large parking lot. Good roads to trees. Scotch Pine and Spruce. Free Baling OPEN DEC. 1 TO 24,9-5 NEWCASTLE J-IWY.//2 "\ 401 HWY. I V - -MEIOAULSI. 2 km, Hampton Junior enjoyed watching a movie on their lunch hour. It's a nice way to break up the pace of things. For a nominal fee, the boys and girls saw the movie "Song of the South". A wonderful Sunday Service was held. The Hampton United Church had its White Gift Service. The children children of the Sunday School put on a musical entitled "Simple Gift". The non-perishable items collected as well as the Turkey Free donations will be sent to the Men's Hostel in Oshawa. For those of you interested, the numbers are in. Last Sunday's Mitten Tree Service collected 14 pairs of mittens, 27 pairs of gloves, 10 hats, four scarves, a pair of socks and one head band. These new articles articles of clothing will be sent to an Indian Indian reserve near Sioux Lookout. The Christmas Eve church services will be held in Hampton at 7:30 p.m. El- dad will be in charge of the program. On Monday, December 13th, the Hampton United Church Women held, their monthly meeting. A pot-' luck supper began at 6:30 p.m. with ladies with initials from A to M bringing dessert and N to Z bringing the main course. Afterwards, cookies for the shut-ins were packed. Jumping around on the dates here, how about some Wednesday Euchre Card Party results? There were nine tables of players. The low attendance was due to the many Christmas events happening. Ada Richards had the Highest score of 91. In second place was Dave Hall with 84. Next was Carl Ferguson with 80. This was closely followed by Art Compton with 79 and Vema Robinson with 77. The evening's Most Honest player was Marion Artym. Vema Robinson had the Most Lone Hands of four. The Special was won by Marie Moses. Moses. The Draw winners were Ace Richards, Carl Ferguson, Daisy Bell, John Kuycr and Steve Artym. For those of you still shopping for "just the right gift" why not try some herbs? Les Kantor spent his summer growing herbs in his garden. A fine crop of basil, oregano, rosemary, sage, savory, marjoram, garlic and horseradish was produced. He then experimented with herbs and vinegar until he got just the right flavours. He is now offering gift packages to the public at a great price; These ideal gift baskets contain your choice of any three herbs, hotness of horseradish horseradish and herbed vinegar. To place an order, please call Les Kantor at 263- 2645. I'm sure many of you read the recent recent advertisement of an Open House at the controversial St. Francis Endangered Endangered Animal Sanctuary. This past weekend I accepted the invitation invitation and took a pleasant Sunday drive out there. I did happen to run into some Hampton residents while I was there. Speaking for myself, I found the facilities very clean and the animals animals well looked after. The sanctuary currently provides for 10 large cats, two monkeys, two baby squirrels, an iguana, a snake, a very large potbellied potbellied pig and numerous birds that I could see. While there, we enjoyed watching a care-giver playing with and feeding his kittys. Many of the animals have obviously been previously abused. One monkey was a little skittish at the many new faces. His scars were from being a laboratory test animal, so it was understandable why a crowd standing around him would make this monkey nervous. One beautiful four-year old Siberian tiger has been with the sanctuary since he was 10 days old. His owner didn't want him. Contrary to public belief, zoos do not want these cats that have been defanged and dcclawcd. They would be unable to survive in there without their defence qualities. Every animal there has a story to tell. These animals were condemned to die. "The sanctuary's mission is to help these animals live the rest of their lives in comfort, unafraid and with a full belly". I felt safe standing only inches from these beautiful animals. animals. Of course, they were restrained in heavily constructed steel cages. There is no fear of these animals escaping. escaping. In fact, the only fear I felt was crossing the double train tracks because there were no proper crossing crossing signals! This is of course, not the fault of the sanctuaiy. My only suggestion suggestion was to maybe hold an Open House on a regular basis, so concerned concerned residents could monitor the sanctuary's progress. All in all, it will be interesting to follow this saga. Until next week, folks, stay safe and enjoy life. Blackstock and Area Happenings By Joyce Kelly Sorry to report that Mrs. Florence Larmer is a patient in Port Penry Hospital. Hospital. All of your many friends hope that you will be feeling much better by Christmas time. Mrs. Lloyd Wright and her daughter daughter Leslie Wright of Toronto attended the funeral of her uncle Reverend Clarence Ferguson in Ennisfail, Alberta. Alberta. It was great that they were able to represent the Ferguson family at this time, A special guest was present at St. John's Anglican Church on Sunday morning when the Right Reverend Bishop Douglas Blackwell of Whitby took the service. Mrs. Blackwell also attended. Several from this area attended the special Christmas service held at the Scugog Shores Museum Church; Scugog Island on Sunday evening. Following the traditional Christmas service which featured much singing, a social time was enjoyed. The Pathfinders have been busy! They were in two craft shows and did very well - one at Caesarea and the other at the Recreation Centre. They are planning a trip to Ottawa. The group would like to thank the Green- bank Pathfinders for coming to their meeting on November 22. Some of the Pathfinders helped to serve at the Lioness Dinner recently. For a Christmas party they are planning to go to the movies and dinner. There were 11 tables at the weekly weekly card party with the following win- Break and Entries At Local Schools Crime Stoppers and the Durham Regional Police arc asking for the PUBLIC'S help in solving several Break Enter and Thefts into schools which have occurred in the Municipality Municipality of Clarington. On Tuesday, September 28th, at 3:14 a.m. police responded to an alarm at Vincent Massey School at 10 Church Street in Bowmanville. Suspects had broken a door window on the north side of the school to gain entry. Once inside, the suspects made their way towards the audio visual room but were detected by. a motion alarm. The suspects then fled the school prior to the police arriving. Two weeks prior to this, the school was entered and a television was stolen. stolen. During the October 15th - 17th weekend, St. Joseph's School at 90 Parkway Crescent in Bowmanville, was broken into. Suspects broke a south east lower door window to gain entry. The school's secretary's office was entered and an empty cash box containing no money was taken from a file cabinet. Several computers were turned on, but no theft occurred on this occàsion. Damage was $150.00. On Friday, October 22nd, during the early morning hours, Central School at 120 Wellington Street, Bowmanville, was victimized. Suspects Suspects entered the school by breaking the south east front door window, Once inside, they broke two other windows to gain entrance to the office office area. At one of the windows, the suspects cut themselves. Once in the office, they looked through file cabinets cabinets and cupboards, searching for money. A cashbox with $10.00 was located and the petty cash removed. Damage was estimated at $750.00 Several other forced entries at these three schools, plus other schools in the Municipality of Clarington, Clarington, have Crime Stoppers and the Durham Regional Police very concerned. concerned. CRIME STOPPERS is asking anyone with information on school break and enters or any other serious offence to call. As a caller you will not be asked to identify yourself or have to go to court. A Cash Reward of up to $1000 is being offered if your information leads to an arrest. The CRIME STOPPERS phone number is: 436-8477 that's 436-TIPS ners: Ross McRobcrts, Richard Manns, Vera Fawns, Pat Porrill, Ncr- ta Masters, Teresa Bcrkcrs, Vema Robinson. Draws were won by Charlie Charlie Stapleton, Betsy Staniland, Norman Norman Rohrcr, Carl Gimblctt, Edna Manns and Dorothy Archer. Blackstock Women's Institute Meeting on December 1 took the form of a pot luck dinner held at the United Church. President May Shortridgc welcomed welcomed 13 members and five guests, 4-H leaders Gail Johns, Janice Bccchcy, Helen Coates, Barb Byers and Rio Hoogcvcen, Cenotaph gardener. gardener. W.I. Grace was sung and then we were seated to enjoy our delicious Christmas meal. Jean Adams won the candy jar prize. which was passed around during the meal. The Ode and Mary Stewart Collect Collect were repeated. Pat Sleep thanked the 4-H leaders and Ric Hoogcvcen for all their help during the year. Gifts were given to them, Mrs. J. Adams Adams and Mrs, P. Sleep acted as Santa Claus. The members then found out who their mystery sister was and showed the gift that each received. Collection went to the Salvation Army. Two 4-H girls will receive mugs for the completion of six projects - congratulations Kim and Katie Coates. The minutes of last meeting and correspondence were read. A thank you letter from Heather Goulding whom the W.I. nominated as the Young women Distinction was read. Stacey Swain and Dawn Cliff received received the W.I. prizes for the most improved students at Blackstock High School. Dates of the Lions' Club dinners for 1994 were received. Several donations were made. Merry Christmas wishes to all. Meeting closed with singing of O'Canada. Lois Luke P.R.O. Guests fro the weekend of Harold and Lois Luke were Catherine Morris, Morris, Luke and Jackie of Ottawa. They enjoyed visiting Catherine's parents. Sunday evening dinner guests were Bruce and Marion Luke from Solina. News from Yelverton By Harvey Malcolm With Christmas scarcely a "fortnight "fortnight away" (that's for the benefit of any Englishmen who might stumble across our column) we arc obliged to wish all and sundry a Merry Christmas Christmas and a Happy New Year. This includes includes any steady as well as random readers, Ye Editors and anyone who has had the misfortune within his or her line of duty to be associated in any way with the translation of our scribbling into English. One lcams something every day if one has an open mind. I said open not blank. Yesterday, I found out that ("The") is pronounced differently if followed by a vowel than if followed by consonant. Similarly only differently differently to "a" which adds an "N" if preceding preceding a word starting with a vowel. Guess one is never two cold a canine to leant or relearn old tricks. With the advent of the Festive Season our lone Christmas Cactus is a sight to behold. A thing of beauty but certainly only in a transient man ner. Its colourful double pink blooms defies description of its beauty - especially especially by us. So, we'll just sit and enjoy. The Grim Reaper has again extended extended the swing of his sythc to conclude conclude a number of acquaintances of now and bygone days. Our community community was particularly sorry to learn of the demise of a former pastor of this area. (Bethany, Yelverton and Fleet- wood Charges) some 40 years plus ago. Reverend Clarence Ferguson and his first wife Phyllis were popular popular in our dommunily and were particularly particularly active with our young peoples peoples groups, encouraging them to get into mixed softball leagues with neighbouring charges. Sympathy is extended to the Bird Man, not of Alcatraz, but of Nestlc- ton Mr. Ken Carmichael in the death last week of his nonogenarian father. Linda and Ralph Pfoh motored to Picton to spend a few days with Linda's Linda's brother Pat on the occasion of the residents annual Christmas party. MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT COMING EVENTS DECEMBER 6 AQUATIC REGISTRATION (YOUTH/GROUP) Bowmanville Recreation Complex 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. DECEMBER 9 AQUATIC REGISTRATION (ADULT/LEADERSHIP/SEMI-PRIVATE) Fitness Centre - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. DECEMBER 11-12 NEWAC SWIM MEET Fitness Centre DECEMBER 19 CHRISTMAS PUBLIC SKATE Darlington Sports Centre -1:00 - 2:30 p.m. DECEMBER 20 CHRISTMAS PUBLIC SKATE Bowmanville Recreation Complex 1:00-2:30 p.m. DECEMBER 26 - 30 B.M.H.A. CHRISTMAS CLASSIC TOURNAMENT Bowmanville Recreation Complex and Darlington Sports Centre DECEMBER 31 2ND ANNUAL FAMILY NEW YEAR'S EVE SKATE Bowmanville Recreation Complex 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Admission - $1.00/person or 1 non- perishable food item per person FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THESE EVENTS, PLEASE CONTACT: COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT - 623-3379 CS-Ind. - 4769 MUNICIPALITY OF la ring ton Fcnclon Falls LEATHER FASHIONS | A huge selection of quality, classic leather apparel in a rainbow of colours for IADIES and MEN VISIT FENELON "It's Worth It" Open year round including Sundays. DIXT'.MBKR SA1.F.U Now on all routs. Extra Specials oil Suede & NulmK FREE Spray with ad X purchase Also Antiques & Gifts 12 Fronda St. W. Fonolon Foils • 705-887-1700 Locally owned and operated by Glen Morris