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There's something delicious going on here. A trip to Helen Newlove's Kreative Kit- chen must surely be a trip to heaven. It's a chocolate lover's paradise, a sweet tooth's dream come true, a vir- tual cornucopia of taste sensations. All this in downtown Blackstock. Last Saturday Helen's kitchen was crowded with 10 curious women learning the art of chocolate moulding. And it is an art. One look at dainty chocolate strawberries, chocolate flower swirls and mouth- watering chocolate San- ta Claus suckers con- firms this. Under Helen's guidance they learned about cream, nut, fruit and liqueur centres; quick petit-fours and special chocolate desserts. They were treated to sample after sample of Helen's own chocolate wizardry and they were treated to lunch. "It's a day out and it's Bruce Bailey passed away on October 23, 1983 at the Port Perry Com- munity Hospital after an illness of several months. He was the youngest of the family of five of the late John Bailey and Catherine Ackney, both descendants of the Bailey-Ackney early set- tlers of the Bethesda- Epsom areas. He was born at the Bethesda 8th conc. farm in 1909 and was five years old when his older brother died in 1914. Bruce attended Bethesda P.S., Church and S.S. and at age nine, his mother died in 1918. Shortly after, his father sold the farm and moved to Epsom village where he'bought the Tom Wat- son house where Bruce and sister Dora lived with their father, sisters Pearl and Verna, being employed in Toronto. Bruce finished P.S. at the Epsom school where he was the first pupil caretaker toreceive pay. He attended H.S. at Ux- even better if you don't have to take your own sandwich," is Helen's philosophy. 'And you leave the class with so much knowledge that you can make your money back. At least, | feel that way." It was the first chocolate workshop held in Helen's house (with the help of neighbour Susan Gainey) but many local women will know Helen as the lady who teaches cake decorating at night school in Blackstock or as the lady who bakes special birth- day cakes. Recently she completed a cake the size of a small desk for a Port Perry girl's 16th bir- thday. It was enough to satisfy 100 people and it was covered with a chocolate record and a collage of musical notes. '"There are no two ways about it," she cau- tions. "There's no way that I'm a bake shop. I do the things that are specially asked for. It's - all homemade. If so- meone asks for apple pie, I have to sit down and peel apples. 1 do it special for people who want tender loving care in their food." Every Christmas Helen hosts an open house where anybody and everybody is invited to tour through her kit- chen and eyeball the can- dies, cakes and chocolates she displays. Last year she had near- ly 200 people visit and hopes to have even more this year, in the last few days of November. She has learned her craft through seminar after seminar but credits her cake decorating skills to McCalls, where her instructor created a cake for Prince Charles. "You find out by doing little things that there's a lot you want to get into," she says. It's a whole new world and I'm more than willing to share it with anybody." And all this started because of a bunny. It was Easter and she thought it might be nice to invest in a bunny cake ----Obituaries ---- John Elgin and Bruce Bailey bridge for two years, riding a bicycle in good weather and horse power in bad weather with stabling at his Uncle Ned's in town. He was employed in farmwork in his area with Wes Ackney in the village, Joel Miller in the 6th conc., and Cook Ashenhurst at Bethesda and for a time with the Highway Construction Co. In 1936, he rented the 50 acre Jones farm in the 6th conc., property now owned by the Brez- nikars. After his sister Dora's marriage, he and his father lived together in the Epsom home until in 1938 when he married Hilda Ashenhurst of the Goodwood area and they remained at the village home while operating the 50 acre farm. During this time, he was a Trustee of Epsom school and a member of the Par- sonage Board. In the fall of 1939 he bought the Ed- die Christie farm south of the village and moved WHY THROW AWAY TAX FREE $3$ TO FUEL YOUR HOME? Save up to 50% on your Fuel Bill! Air Sealing - Insulating & ERY OR Ke -enersave- U.F.F.l. Removal Specialists. 985'3144 241 QUEEN STREET Cob RR: IT -- PORT PERRY --. 985-2272 there in the summer of 1940. This was the first pro time this farm ownership had changed from the Christie name from 1836. The farm also included the 50 acres across the corner which had been added in 1967. In 1941, on- ly child, Allan was born at the farm home. In 1952 55 acres of the Christie homestead farm at Utica were bought, making the farm 105 acres, border- ing the Utica village. During these years he was a longtime member of the Hall Board of both the Old Memory Hall and the present new one at Utica, and remained as Secretary until the 105 acre farm was sold to the present owners, the Lukes, in 1970. In operating the 155 acres, he was a very successful farmer who had seen ex- perience in horse power and the era of modern machinery and up until 1970 had lived in the local area. At this date, they moved to Minden where pan for the occasion. "By the time I was finished, I'd made 20 bunnies and I said if I ever saw another bunny I'dscream. . .. that was the start of it" she recalls and pulls the bunny pan off a shelf. "This is the culprit." She has always had fun in the kitchen, cooking for her husband and four boys and credits her mother for her interest in good, wholesome food. "My mother was a great cook," she says. "We were raised on things like homemade biscuits and homemade soups for lunch. Fan- tastic butter tarts. We kids would eat all the broken ones." Still, for all her baking skills, Helen's family likes chocolate cake best. Her own chocolate is a blend of commercial chocolate she buys in 50 pound boxes from Toron- to. In her workshops she doesn't use a pure chocolate for molding. "Pure chocolate needs house was built on ty they had bought ears previously. i sold in 1971 and they moved back to the retained 50 acres across the corner where the present buildings were built. Since a teenager, Bruce had been an avid trapper and hunter and in this hobby he was familiar with animal haunts in an area of several miles where he carried on seasonal trap- ping until the 1960's and had the privilege of sell- ing his choice pelts to the Robert Simpson Co., in Toronto, delivering them personally. A man's best friend, his dog, was a reality to him as he was in close companionship with several good hun- ting dogs, including an intelligent Collie, "Sam" who could hunt with the best of them. Bruce and the late Jack Crosier of Utica were familiar (Turn to page 17) DEEGAN Denture Therapy Clinic 305 QUEEN STREET - PORT PERRY -- OPEN -- BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! November THE SPECIAL ENJOY PLEASE CALL: 985-2916 ¢ WEEK END PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. November 22, 1983 -- 13 Sweet dreams are made of these and 20 cakes a week for people who require icing. novelty or character creations. In many cases, she uses chocolate to be tempered. It's just much easier for the average homemaker to work with," she says. She bakes between 10 a cake." Helen Newlove displays just a few of the chocolate goodies she concocts in her Kreative Kitchen. For more mouth-watering details see story. 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