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ee ------ By Mrs. Jack Crosier Service will be held in Utica United Church on Sunday, January 9, at 11:30 a.m. with the Rev. Archie Scott officiating. A most important Church Meeting will be held following the service when a Pastoral Relations Committee will be nominated and elected. There will be an Open House at the manse in Goodwood, the home of Mike and Cathy Ward, next Sunday, January 9 from 2:30 -5:00 p.m., and from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. Rev. and Mrs. Scott have cancelled their "At Home" this year, so that all may be able to attend the Open House of Mike and Cathy, as this will be their last New Year with us. Sincere sympathy is extended to the MacCannell, Holley and MacDonald families in their bereave- ment of Mr. A. MacDonald; to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Field- ing and family in their bereavement of her sister, 'Miss Katherine Foreman of Oshawa; and to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Parrinder and family in their recent. bereavement of a grand- daughter, baby Christine Dorothy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Tipton, -formerly of Utica and now living at Fort McMurray, Alberta. Mrs. Wilbur Parrinder recently returned from a visit with her daughter and family at Fort McMurray. Holiday visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Bill Diamond and children of Yonkers, New York, and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Diamond and Kevin of Toronto with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Diamond for a few days; Mr. Paul Diamond with the Jack Diamonds on New Year's Day. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bailey and Allan and Mrs. Chet Geer with Mr. and Mrs. Doug McKinley of Willow- dale for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sutcliffe with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Bray on Christmas Day, and with Mrs. Linda Elford of Stouffville on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sut- cliffe and children with Mr. and Mrs. Terry Crawford of Greenbank on New Year's Day. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Bray with the Sutcliffes on Thursday evening. Mrs. Chet Geer with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geer on New Year's day. : Mr. Hugh Strong and Mr. Ross Strong with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Geer for Christ- mas supper and Mrs. Chet Geer and Mr. and Mrs. Don Geer and family with the Bruce Geers on Sunday. a ut & RN EAA RI JETHN Mrs. Jack Crosier with 'Mr. and Mrs. W, W. Scott and family at Mrs. G. Scott's home in Toronto for a few days at Christmas, and with the Scotts, visited Mr. and Mrs. Eric Wallace of Bolton on Monday. Christmas Day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown were Mrs. Katherine Brown and Fred, Mrs. Jean Butler, John and Bonnie and Mr. Al Tessier. Mrs. Francis Day and Anita of Brougham, Mr. and Mrs. David Day of Brooklin, Mr. Walt Steer, Mr. Ed Mitchell, Mr. Barry Philip and Mr, and Mrs. Reg Philip and children were New Year's guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Philip. Brad Haymaker of Ayr and Wayne Robinson of Purple Hill visited Charlie Brown during the holidays. We are sorry that Charlie had the misfortune to break his thumb during the Bantam Hockey tournament at Uxbridge. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Beare and children, Mrs.\\Anne Gallant and Miss Karen Wilson, all of Oshawa spent New Year's Day with Jack Crosier. Christmas Day guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Croxall were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Holmes, and - Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Holmes of Toronto, and Mr. and ad Ee oe ' a / ! Ls TA AIRDRIE INI Hae AOR EE PRIA LASERS HAMLIN VIR SCI SIA REPS EINE 4 Mrs. Ken Chatham. On Boxing Day, the Crox- alls and Mr. and Mrs. Terry Mancini of Barrie visited Mr. and Mrs. Murray Croxall of Mississauga. Best birthday wishes to Miss Julia Croxall who cele- brated her fourth birthday on Thursday when Mr. and Mrs. Branham, Melissa and Joshua of Oshawa, and Mrs. May Swash of Port Perry were dinner guests. Mrs. John Croxall and Sarah visited her parents in Toronto on Wednesday, and as a birthday treat John took Julia to see "Snow- white" in Oshawa Eastdale Collegiate. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Holmes of Toronto spent the weekend with the John Croxalls. Mr. and Mrs. Hillis Wilbur and boys were guests at a family Christmas dinner on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Beare at Greenbank. Congratulations to the Port Perry Bantams hockey team who was successful in winning the championship in both the Uxbridge and Port Perry tournaments last week. Charlie Brown and Todd Wilbur are the local boys playing on that team. Holiday callers on Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lowe were Mrs. Lloyd Taylor, Mr. Doug fies of 1 ae Py ORC, lr ' fa 7A LDA SOREENS BOSS, SENT A CL 3A y { Sy EE E------ PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1977 -- § Taylor and Andy, Mrs. Rey- nolds and girls, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Allen and James of Kingsville, and Mrs. S. Lowe of Mississauga. Christmas Day guests of Mrs. Lloyd Taylor were Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Bielby of Cedar Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Evans of Scarborough, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Evans of Scarborough, Mr. and Mrs. Ron Dean of Stouffville and Mr. and Mrs. Doug "Taylor and children. We hope that Mrs. Cecil - Harper who is a patient in Uxbridge Cottage Hospital will soon be well and able to come home again. Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Storie and family spent Christmas Day with Mr. and Mrs. James Toogood of Toronto as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Don Vale of Claremont. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Thompson spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Murray Kirton of Mount Albert. Mrs. James E. Mitchell spent Christmas Eve with Mr. and Mrs. Walt Mitchell of Oshawa, and Christmas Day with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mitchell. Mrs. Milt Parkin of Brook- lin visited Mrs. Mitchell on Monday. Mrs. Chet Geer, Mrs. J. Mitchell, Mrs. C. Bell and Mrs. Jack Crosier enjoyed the Senior Citizens New Year's Eve party in Port News of interest from Utica and area Perry on Friday evening. Mrs. C. Bell and Pat spent Christmas Day with Mr. and Mrs. Ken Appleton of Bald- win. Mr. and Mrs. Terry Bell and sons of Alberta spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. C. Bell. Come to the euchre in the hall on Friday evening at 8 p.m. Up and Down The Street Mr. R. Jeffrey of Oshawa, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Coons, Geoffrey and Leslie, Rev. and Mrs. R.W. McLauchlin all of Grimsby, Mr. David McLauchlin of Montreal were visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Ireland and Mrs. F.D. Slemmon during. the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Casson of Willowdale were New Years guests of Mrs. Dorothea Koch. Hospital Report Week Ending December 30 Admissions ...................... 33 Births.......ccccceevviiininnnen, 5 Deaths ..........ccceeeereennnnne. 1 Emergencies .................. 163, Operations........................ 5 Discharges...................... 32 Remaining....................... 33 Bill Smiley The spirit of a new year a Could you write a pungent, telling essay on The Human Spirit in the new year? No? Well, that's what my senior student tell me, too. But I know they are wrong, and I think you are wrong also. I'll bet you could write a dandy, especially if you have lived a lot. I gave my students instructions for an essay, and most of them went into a state of mild shock. They shouldn't have. They are dealing with the human spirit, their own and others, every minute of their can you spell out the human spirit? You can't touch it, taste it, smell it, weigh or measure it. You can't peer through some one's navel and shout "Tally- -ho! There it is! Your spirit!" From the beginnings of thought, our great writers and thinkers have explored the human creature in an effort to pin down this elusive thing. Some philosophers have believed they had .put their finger on the slippery little devil "only to find that it was squirted away. young lives. However, students, prefer things to be spelled out. like most of use, Clerics are more apt to call it the soul. But how Psychologists pin nasty names like id and ego and libido on various aspects of it. 60 YEARS AGO Wed., January 3, 1917 The new Parish House in connection with the English Church was for- mally dedicated on Fri- day evening last by Bishop Sweeney. The religious service followed by an address from the Bishop and Rev. Mr. Muirhead. On New Year's eve the Township held their elections, results were Reeve - Mr. John Stone, Deputy Reeve - Mr. Allan Goode, Councillors - Messrs. Wm. McDonald, John Johnson and W.J. Cook. 35 YEARS AGO Thurs., January 1, 1942 Dr. C.P. and Mrs. Peterson and family have moved to Toronto. Mr. Norman McCrea, Prince Albert, who re- cently returned from a cruise on a Greek ship (as Wireless Operator) has ceremony consisted of a... Remember When..? taken a position with the Civil Service in Ottawa. Mr. Bruce Beare, who has joined the R.C.A.F. was presented with a gold ring at a recent meeting of the United Church Young People's Society. Mrs. M. Munro of Pros- pect, motored to Geneva, N.Y. to spend the holidays with her sister Mrs. Fisher. 20 YEARS AGO Thurs., January 3, 1957 The Teen Town New Year's dance held in the Port Perry Public School was well attended. 65 teenagers and six adults enjoyed a very delightful evening. During the past seven or eight months the village of Port Perry has been making test drillings to locate a new and suffi- cient water supply. The best sights found were on the Oshawa road, south of Port Perry. A 72 hour test was made which showed there would be ample supply for the village. 10YEARS AGO Thurs., January 5, 1967 The first baby born at Port Perry community Hospital in Canada's Cen- tennial year was a baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil K. Berry of Cresswell, Ontario. Local firemen collected $116.38 for the Canadian Muscular Dystrophy Association. Two armed men are still at large following a robbery of $240.00 at the Blackwater General Store between Christmas and New Years. Mr. Ray Litt was one of 500 delegates attending the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federa- tion Convention held at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Mr. Richard Carnegie left on Tuesday by plane for Lethridge, Alberta, where he will attend a course on store manage- ment for Wood Alex- ander. CARE pe Bei F Writers give examples of it. Artists try to depict its highest aspirations. The human spirit exists in all of us. It, along with the power to reason, is what raises us above the level of the beasts. Its presence is allied to all that is good and great in human kind: loyalty, integrity, compassion, honor, courage, dignity. Its absence represents all that is bad in the human race: greed, cruelty, prejudice, indifference, treachery. Given the right fertilizer, the human spirit reaches out to other human spirits, and mankind moves another inch toward the stars. Without proper nourishment, the human spirit shrivels or warps, turns in on itself, - rots, and spreads like a cancer. In certain periods, the undernourished spirit produces the great psychopaths like Attila the Hun, Napoleon, Hitler and we are led into darkness. But after each of these sombre intervals, the resurgent human spirit roars back, fanning the embers into a blaze of glory, and once more man is on the march. This is all very inspiring, I'm sure, but it's pretty abstract, and I prefer the concrete. Let's see if we can find some examples of the human spirit in action. When a two-year-old child, normally good and obedient sticks out his lip and flatly refushes to do something reasonable, and defies threats of spankings, he is not just being stubborn. He is exhibiting, to the world, his sense of self, of independence. That is the human spjrit. When an 80 year old man, or woman, prefers to pig it alone in poverty and discomfort, rather than be shuttled off to a cosy senior citizen's home, he or she is doing the same. When a man or woman has enough guts to say "No!'" at a time when all about are saying "Yes!" that's the human spirit at work. But let's get down to an example we can all understand. When a man gets up after his old lady has knocked him down five times, and advances on her, arms out- stretched, and says: 'Darling, let me explain just once more," that is the human spirit at its best. Don't get this human spirit thing all mixed up with sentimentality: the cooing of a baby, which might be just a gas pain, the radiant smile of a bride, which might be just vanity. Or gloating. No, let's keep it on a high plain. Here are the instructions I gave my students. See how they grab you. '"This essay is to be an examination of the human spirit (soul, self) as it acts and reacts under stress, in inter-play with other human spirits, in conflict with society. "The essay should reveal something of what the student has learned this year from exposure to the ideas of first-class writers concerning the human spirit. "Ideas expressed should not be merely emotional claptrap or mystic foofawraw. Nor should they be a mere recording of examples of the human spirit in action, taken from the books read. They should rather represent the student's own human spirit reacting to the stimulus of what has been read and pondered. 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