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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 16, 1996 - 15 RR E> PORT PERRY STAR €] | RR Y will offer babysitting course at end of the month Y.M.C.A. will be offering a babysitting course at Greenbank Hall, starting Jan. 31 from 4 - 6 p.m. The course will run for six weeks. To pre-register, call the Y.M.C.A. office at 985-2824. Fee is $45. for qualified instruction by Simone Clarkson of Greenbank. If you are almost 12 years old help families with children who have facial differences. It is called, "About Face". For information phone 985-2613. The Lions' Club will be finan- cially supporting this project. It was nice to see Debbie Beattie, and daughter Jenna, of Cumbemere, at church on Sunday. They were home for the weekend visiting with her parents Mel and Betty McGee. Holly was at Grandma's too and she had a busy time visiting with her Greenbank school friends. Thought for the week: "Intuition" is what a woman gives as the explanation when Ken Toms and his family on the sudden death of his father on Sunday, Jan. 15. The Green Team is holding a lecture at the new Community Centre in Port Perry and the subject will be "green jobs." Phone 985-3225 for information. Date is Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m. Cost is free. Hall meeting planned The Annual Hall and Park Board Meeting will be held on Jan. 23 at the Hall at 8 p.m. and the business meet- ing will be followed by a social time to help recognize all of the contributions for the over 20 volunteers who keep this building running so success- . fully. she doesn't want to tell a man Elaine Campbell is start- that she's smarter than he ing a new support group to 18 Service at Greenbank United Church convened at 11 a.m. Sunday morning with the Sunday School going to their classes after Rev. | Shepherd told them a story | - of how to use their diaphragm to take deep breaths to relax them from our busy life and doing this will prepare them for saying their prayers. Betty McGee was pianist for the or over this will be for you to morning service with special prepare you for a responsible music by Heidi Howsam who job. sang a lovely rendition of "Amazing Grace". Don't forget meetings this week, Sunday School Annual Meeting Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. Church Annual Meeting on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. Come out and support these meetings. Greenbank by Shirley Lee new members will be sworn in. Guests are welcome. For further information call 985- 3723. Don't forget the Lions Club are having a draw for two Raptors Tickets plus $50 cash. Tickets can be pur- chased at Greenbank Store with the draw on Jan. 24. Sympathy is extended to Sympathy extended Sympathy goes to Bill and Kim Owen on the sudden death of his grandmother Melba Owen of Port Perry. The next meeting of the Lions Club will be held at Greenbank Hall on Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. At this meeting, Block Parents sought Sad news to report this week This week I appear to have nothing but sad news. Last week the village said goodbye for the last time to June Steven- son who ran the gift shop on the east side of the village on High- way 57. At Regatta time when we went to see her she always assisted us with something for the draw. She succumbed to lung cancer. Our sincere condo- lences to husband Raymond and the families. Our next sad note was the passing of Mary (Betty) Forsyth who was very active in the Pine Ridge Garden Club. She passed away due to heart problems. Our sincere condolences to the family. I'm sorry to report Mrs. Joan Pottery is in St. Michael's Hos- pital in Toronto. Granddaugh- ter and her were always a smil- ing pair when we ran our Caesarea JAY] o]1g Putsey bingos. Chin up Joan, you're in our thoughts and we know you'll be feeling much better be- fore long. I'm very happy to say Ab Sel- by is recovering nicely from his seven hour operation last Tues- day. We're pulling for you Ab. Nice to see the kids with their new types of snow equipment having so much fun. In our days it was a sleigh or a toboggan. Now there is such a large varie- Memory Hall meeting Church and Sunday School this week will be held in Epsom Church at 9:30 a.m. The Annual Memory Hall Board meeting is this Sunday starting at 1 p.m. in the Hall. All interested people are invited to attend. There was excitement in the area on Sunday evening as po- lice cars were on the roads searching for break and enter thieves. I understand that the search was later pinpointed in the Durham Forest area. Hope you caught them. Grace Kirk spent a few days visiting with Irene Emburgh in Mississauga. Clive and Linda Powell and boys spent an enjoyable two week trip to England. Happy 16th birthday to Graeme who Utica & | Epsom spent it on the plane. They spent a few days and celebrated New Years with friends who are on a teaching exchange in Gor- ing-by-Sea. They visited Clive's aunt and uncle in West Wick- ham and Graeme and Evan met their cousins for the first time. They also toured Norwich and sites in London. It must have been a shock to return to our ty. You see with all this activity we don't need to go to Florida to freeze. I wish to thank the person who phoned me Saturday at 3 p.m. about a jeep in the park. It happened they were trying to pull an ice hut off the lawn when the chain broke or came un- hooked and consequently the jeep took a leap ahead. Thanks for calling just the same. Saying of the week on hones- ty: He is not great who is not greatly good. 'William Shakespeare Joke of the week: A born-to-lose gambler named Biff In frustration drove off a steep cliff But no sooner twas done Than his Lotto card won You could call him a real lucky stiff. iS Sunday snowy winter after being where the fields were green and some of the flowers were in bloom. Jack and Nancy Skelding en- Joyed a Saturday evening visit with their neighbors Lorne and Eileen Slute. Best wishes to those in the community that have been hit by that old flu bug. I understand that Bill McKay is feeling much better and it was nice to see his wife Melba out on Sunday. The Sobils seem to be back to nor- mal, I understand that most of the family was affected. Mrs. Crosier says that she feels much better. I visited with her a bit on Sunday. That's all for this week. Please give me a call next week as I really appreciate your in- put, and remember, there is no column without it. Diane and I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday season, spending time with family and friends over Christmas and New Year. The weather man Christmas mornirig and has been kind ever since. We would like to say happy birthday to everyone who had birthdays during the holidays as well as...my son Bill Sandi- ford, Pete King, Trisha Wray, Robin Prentice, Len Somer- ville, Charlie Short, Luella Kennedy and Lillian Ross. Attention all local preteens and teens. If you are interested in attending a babysitting course, there is one available through the Port Perry Y.M.C.A. The course will be held at the Greenbank Hall starting January 31. Please call 985-2824 if you are inter- ested in attending. The community would like to express its sympathy to the Runcieman family, Diane, Trevor, Jason, Tara, Laura and Scott and to the Maunder family Marie and Greg, Ed and Jamie on the recent passing of Dianne and Marie's mother Georgette McCoy. Georgette and Jack enjoyed 48 years to- gether recently living in Va- lentia. Our thoughts are with you all. As the Block Parent Chair- person for this area, I again would like to request support for the program. We need a representative from the vil- lage of Seagrave as well as Ep- som, Utica, Saintfield and Greenbank. I will be putting these requests in the local col- umns next week. The annual dues for Block Parents is due shortly and unless we have a full quota of representatives, I feel it is not appropriate to keep the program going. Seagrave Church News We welcomed several of the Pinedale congregation who certainly made it a white Ann SELENE] joined us for our service on Sunday when their furnace failed. The choir sang the an- them "God Will Take Care of You," accompanied by the or- ganist Muriel Jebson. Reverend Shepherd chose for his sermon, "The Annual Meeting". Some questions asked were, "Will it serve the Gospel?", "What do we want from Jesus?", "Sharing Jesus with the World". It was a very appropriate subject before our annual congregational meet- ing which is this Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. at the Church. Sympathy of the community is extended to the family of Marion Short. The flowers in the chancel on Sunday were placed there by Ken and Mari- on Short in memory of Mari- on's uncle, Morley Johnston of Manilla who passed away last week. Seagrave U.C.W. will meet this Wednesday, Jan. 17 at the home of Gloria Newman, be- ginning with a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. | Diane and I would like to re- quest that anyone having news for the Seagrave News to- please give us a call. We both had to get together tonight to scrape this column together even though we haven't done Seagrave News for the past three weeks due to the holi- days. That's it for this week; please call Diane Cooke at 985- 3722 with news for next week.