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As an alternative to higher taxes the O.N.O. have graciously offered to donate a part of the proceeds from the dance on April 29th help to pay for the new flooring. Let's get out in support of lower taxes and more dances. After making several long distant calls on Saturday to 0.P.P. and Durham Region- al Police your correspond- ent has determined there is no truth to the influx of rumors about a possible snowmobile and dead driver being found in the Blackstock area in recent weeks. - : : Senior Citizen's weekly card party with twenty tables participating took place on Tuesday evening at the Community Hall. The winners were: 1 - Russell Larmer 92; 2nd - Elva Van- Camp 83, 3rd - Efie Plough- man 83, 4th - Myrtle Alsop 81, 5th - Harold McDiarmid 80, 6th - Lionel Byam 79, and Low - Bessie Spencer. Mr. Alden Hubbard of Bowmanville enjoyed dinner and supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs.. Thomas Hodge also visiting several neighbours in the afternoon. Don Wright and Dianne Vanderheul after tying the knot on Saturday are now happy to be Mr. and Mrs. Don Wright. Madame Justice Van- Camp and her neice, Nancy Drinkwater of Ottawa, were in Blackstock for the week- end. Diana Fletcher cglebrated her 11th birthday enjoy- ing the company of Janet Dean for the weekend, which included birthday cake at Mother's Pizza on Saturday. A grand family gathering was held at the Frank Hoskin home on Sunday in celebration of the following birthdays: Mrs. Courtney Graham, Mrs. Frank Hos- kin, Pat and Diana Fletch- er. Mr. and Mts. . Russell Larmer enjoyed a good visit with their son and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Larmer on Sunday. Mrs. Ted Kemp hosted a bridal shower in honor of Norma Calich, Bill Van- ..Camp's..bridge-to-be,. on. Sunday. Twenty-five, most- ly of the VanCamp clan, attended. Doug Larmer recently attended a 'Youth' Parlia- ment" in Oakville, where youth attending put into action their knowledge of the government. 'Wednesday evening, April 12th, the Annual Shorthorn Banquet took place at the 7 Blackstock Recreational Centre. Close to 140 enjoy- ed the dinner served by the Blackstock U.C.W. Enter- tas nt was provided by Gla Brown of Orono, who sang several selections while accompanying herself on the piano. Dick Lovekin, a judge from Brampton, ori- ginally from Newcastle, was the guest speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mec- Laughlin, Debbie and Ron, enjoyed Sunday Dinner at the home of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. David Kyte. Laster that evening Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin were treated to supper at her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Murphy's home in Newcastle. Both dinners were in honor of Edith's birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Schryburt and children were delighted to have the company of Beth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Stim- son of Michigan, April 15-19. Alice Stimson has been busy at the Schryburt home mak- ing items for the Blackstock Fair in August. Doug Russell and his friend Gail Lickman of Windsor were weekend guests at the home of his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Don ussell. BN Danny Russell celebrated his 12th birthday on Satur- day evening with cake at Mother's Pizza, also enjoy- ed by his friend Sean Elliot and the Russell family. Sunday family gathering was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Russell in- cluding Mr. and Mrs. Joe Russell of Cobourg, Doug Russell and Gail of Windsor and Mr. and Mrs. Don Russell and family. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Petch, Kent, and Catherine of Aurora spent the entire Sun- day with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kelly and family. Mr. and Mrs. Les Waters had a houseful of guests on Sunday to welcome home new baby, David James. 4-H Achievement Day was held in the Grandview Public School near Bethany on Saturday for the group 1 homemaking clubs. Maple Grove, Bethany, Black- stock, Newcastle, and -Gar- by Bethany Schryburt On Monday evening, April 10th, the Blackstock Nursery School Inc. held * their monthly meeting at the recreational centre. Minutes of the March meet- ing were read by Judy Crawford. Treasurer's report was given by Alice Waldriff. Joanne Lee reported from the Ways and Means Committee: Alex Laurier is booked .for May 10 at the public school with family rates and tickets available ~at-Thompson'sMarket and David's hair styling in Port Perry. There will be no 'spring dance, but plans are being made for a fall dance. It was decided to operate next year for 3 full days, 6 sessions with - 14 children per session. Brenda Walker will be returning as the teacher, however, a re- placement is needed as assistant Beth Schryburt will not be continuing in the fall. .Sign up sheets for fall _.of age. den Hill attended the event. Twelve year old Janet VanGestel did an excellent job as M.C. The home economist for the counties of Durham and North- umberland on behalf of the Department of Agriculture presented ten girls with silver spoons upon comple- tion the club. Several more received certificates and two girls had completed the course but were not eligible for the silver spoon because they were not twelve years All the girls from the 'Hamburger Helpers' had completed beautiful notebooks on the prepara- tion of meat. This year's theme was 'Major 6n Meat'. Next year plans have been made for three separate courses to run from the fall. Blackstock Sunday school was treated to a movie about Haiti from the Oshawa Library on Sunday. The children will be asking their parents to attend the Caribbean Carnival on April 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 to find out more about: Trinidad, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Barbados. Families are invited from the country to see, feel, smell, taste and hear the Caribbean free of charge. Blackstock Wi | The Blackstock Women's Institute, having come to the end of another quite successful year, held their annual meeting in the Community Hall, April 5th. Having sung the Institute Grace, 18 ladies did justice to an unplanned hot pot luck dinner. With Ruth Wilson at the paino and Elizabeth Skeld- ing presiding, the meeting opened with the Ode follow- ed by the Mary Stuart Collect and the minutes. Three voting delegates were appointed to attend the District meeting in Kendal on May 9th. Mae Shortridge reported having attended a recent Nursery Meeting classes are ready now and will be available at the Open House on May 3rd. The meeting was not clos- ed with the usual sweet treats, however, there was a Chinese Auction again. Three of the girls had brought a wrapped gift each which Joanne Lee- put a secret price on. The hat was passed with each bidder putting enough change to bring the pot up to the bid they put in on the .article. The winners had been lucky enough to hit the secret price and won 'the article presently being bid on. Winners were: Cheryl Vogel, Judy Crawford and Kathy Gerard. The Nursery School cook- books will not be available for another four weeks due to added time needed to process the pictures which are being printed in the book. The Class trip this year will be a bus trip to the Peterborough Zoo on June 7th, mothers are asked to attend. meeting of the Parks Board. Several improvements are needed at the Recreational Centre also she was given permission, on request, to inform the Institute mem- bers that they may use the small room in the Recrea- tional Centre for their meet- ings. . An invitation from Honey- dale ladies to be guests at their meeting in the Munici- pal Building, Port Perry, on May 11th in the afternoon was cordially accepted. Plans were made to secure suitable gifts for the 4-H girls who have attained Provincial and County honours. After considerable discus- sion, in answer to Joyce Kelly's letter, a committee was named to plan and set up a display at the Black- stock Fair in August. Roll Call was answered by 16 ladies paying $2.00 each to begin another year. The Nominating Committee reported that the executive for 1978-79 with a few minor changes remains the same. Meeting closed with the singing of 'O Canada!' Students clean-up, fix-up Students at Cartwright Central Public School are doing something beneficial for the society instead of just talking about it. The class of 7C, which consists of 25 students, after a dis- cussion about the lack of appreciation of the practi- cally new school building they occupy decided to fix up, clean up, and change attitudes. They prepared a .menu and held a "special spring staff lunch" at the price of $2.50 a plate. Stu- dents set up, cooked, served and of course cleaned up. There were 31 members of staff that enjoyed the smor- gasbord held at noon hour on April 12th. The students took in $75. which they used to purchase new magazines for the library and buy paint for repainting the graphic designs which have been damaged by idle students holding pencils and pens in the hall. A dance is being planned for grades 6, 7 and 8 to earn money for the repainting of the bath- room where unnecessary graffiti has been scribbled. On the 6th and 7th of April students sold donuts in the halls and made $69. which is being used to buy frames needed to dispay the Art work to beautifuly the school. "Spring-up" this year will be held on May 25th. Many selections will be performed by various groups including the High School Choir. Art work will be displayed and students will be working on several crafts. The McLaughlin Art Gall- ery recently held a showing of school work from the Durham Region. Cart- wright High School and Public School, together dis- played. 60 entries. There were, 100 students and mothers that took a bus trip to Oshawa on the 28th of March to view the Art. Marlene Parsons, a grade 10 student designed the attractive sign that accom- Blackstock U.C.W. The morning unit of the U.C.W., along with several visitors, gathered at the home of Peggy Larmer on Tuesday morning April 11th, President Eileen Mec- Laughlin called the meeting to order and brought to the floor several topics of busi- ness. Noreen Malcolm was called upon for the Treasur- ers report and Margaret Mountjoy for the minutes of the previous meeting. Norma VanCamp reported on plans for the Shorthorn banquet and reminded Wn id of their duties. Ideas were discussed in pre- paration of the Caribbean Carnival to take place Sun- day evening, April 23 at the United Church. The morn- ing unit will centre their interest on the Island of Cuba.. Many treats are in store for the visitors to that booth on Sunday evening. Dalton Dorrell was the guest speaker at the meet- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Dorrell had spent the week of the spring break on the Island of Cuba. He 'talked about the people, culture, climate, -and-many -other points that were of interest. The sub- ject of Cuba was opened to the floor and numerous questions were asked which Dalton was able to answer promptly. Ruby VanCamp presented the-devotional. How trees in the spring of the year were comparied to Christ- ian life. The afternoon unit also met on April 11th at the home of Mrs. Russell LARGE. 20s JROIL Ss GALk oy WAS S00 53 Ad F940 BD A Sh EN SAEs 0030880 0008 PRE CRN TO PR REG ASTRA SE TR i answered with a cookie and recipe exchange. Presi- dent, Jean Ferguson, intro- duced Joanne Lee of the evening unit who showed slides of Jamaica. The slides helped to build up the enthusiasm for the Carib- bean Carnival to be held at the Church this Sunday. panied the seven pieces of art chosen from Cartwright to be displayed at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion in Toronto. The follow- ing students' art was select- ed for the Ex: Lori Ann Emerton-11, marlene Par- sons-10, Tracy Hogg-10, Louise VanCamp-11, Michael Smith-1, Joyce Walker-8, and Darlene Ellis 7. The Yearbook staff of Cartwright High School, having found their budget a little too tight have schedul- - ed a Dance-a-thon to pay for this year's Yearbook and at the same time do a good deed. Eighty per cent of the profit will pay for the Yearbooks while the re- maining twenty per cent will be given to the Cancer Society. Several students are circulating sponsor Sheets to earn more money for more hours on.the dance floor. Mr. Scott is donating his time to their effort and Ray Porrill will provide the D.J. service. The dance will be open to the public from 7:00 until 12:30 after that time only the Dance-a-, thon contestants will be allowed to remain on the floor, if they can, until 7:00 in the morning. Give the teens an extra boost and sign a sponsor sheet for the 28th of April. 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