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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Nov 2 VOLUNTEERS RECEIVED Red Cross crests in recognition of their work at Georgetown and Acton high school blood donor clinics Suzanne Bew and Heather Duff of Georgetown and Mary Kroes and Sandra Splinter of Acton were given their crests at last Tuesday annual meeting Red Cross awards for devoted service Georgetown and District Red Cross its by presenting all who worked to make the organization successful with awards at the annual meeting last Tuesday night Ivy Si mm Dorothy Allan Jean Brands and Flo Street arc all recip ients of Certificates of Merit for long time service A special gift was given to Connie Nieuwhof George- towns 1977 of the Year for her many years of detotion to many Red Cross pursuits Henry Kroes of blood donor clinics in Acton and a leading fund raiser from the rowing Red Cross organization in Acton was presented with a special lion Three Acton residents Mrs Joan Ford Mrs Nellie and Mrs were given volunteer pins Georgetown recipients of volunteer pins were Mrs Mrs Betty Baker Mrs J Mrs Jennie Mrs Christine Mrs Pat Bur roughs Mrs J Court Mrs Judy Crobbe Mrs K Dobbie Mrs Sandra ski Mrs AnnDnschler Mrs Duchln Miss Jennifer Mr Mike Hamilton Mrs Helen Hansen Mrs Harvey Mrs June Mrs M Hunt Mrs Shirley Mrs Isabel Jack Mrs Tern Mrs Nellie McCudden Miss Peggy McDonoId Mrs Sandra Mrs Georgette Miss Pat Nathaniel Mrs Mrs Betty Parry Miss Cynthia Peelers Mrs J Percheson Mrs Mrs Lois Ritchie Mrs Giselle Sommer Mrs Nancy When Patrick was three he approached a man with a dachshund on a lead and commented My grandmother has like that and a pigeon that talks Well she did too Her pigeon that talks was actually a bird Have you bird They look like crows with a little extra yellow marking around the head But talking to them is a weird experience They converse with their beaks wide open even to whistling It bad enough talking to a bird but when he wolf whistles at you with his beak pursed it guaranteed to make you look twice Charlie mothers bird had a full repertoire of phrases and he used them In very appropriate places It was easy to believe he understood exactly what he was saying He mimicked my mother and sounded so like her it was almost impossible to tell them apart on a cassette tape My grandmother used to wander Into the kitchen chatting away to her daughter in law when my mother was out shopping I don t think she ever knew those stimulating conversations How about that One day due to of those voidable accidents the kit chen caught fire Fortunately mother and father were home upstairs and were able to avert a catastrophe Mother flew into the smokefilled flaming kitchen and dragged Charlie cage from the top of the fridge The bird was sitting cowed under a haze of soot and ash She raced Into the living room and dumped him on a chair whereby he shook himself and said very clearly Well how about that Charlie had some favorite activities one of which was preying on tea bags Mother was always making a cup of tea with one bag and setting the used bag on Ihe corner of the sink If Charlie was out of his cage he swoop down make off with the teabag and lead a merry chase round the kitchen until the bag burst in a shower of soggy tea leaves He also loved to play with big brown paper bags He d walk around Inside them so all you could see was a bag with yellow legs One day he was marching round the counter in his bag and he fell off He scrambled out of his bag straightened his feathers and muttered the inevitable How about that He had quite a variety of phrases all used at the proper time If asked how he was he replied Alright He d bellow Quiet when the dogs barked and he was always calling What re you doing He even called himself Charlie my parents name is Whiteside At times Mother would have friends in for tea and as they were sitting chatting a plaintive mynah bird voice could be heard sighing Well now dear dear dear When my parents went away he boarded at the pel store with another mynah bird who was always reminding people he was Not for sale I He often embarrassed my mother by whistling at the wrong time He was being transported In his cage to the pet shop one warm afternoon As mother stopped the car at a police guided intersection Charlie let a gorgeous wolf whistle float out of the window Mother nearly picked up a handsome police officer with that one Charlie with us any more but he probably running In a paper bag yelling item Mrs Picn Dyke Mrs Van Dyke Mrs Shirley West Awards were given to Mrs Dons Barber Mrs Jessie Bunion Mrs Dick Mrs Beverley Gray Mrs Hall Mrs Kraus Mrs McDonald Mrs March Pi natell Mrs Hud Mrs Mrs Mrs Thorns Mrs Mary Tucker Miss Ward and Miss Cathy crests were given to Suzanne Hew Duff and Jennifer reen of Georgetown and M Sandra Splinter of Acton for thur work at high school blood donor clinics Marriott is awarded a blood donor stroll pin blood donation scroll pins went to C K It CI irk J Harvey I Murphy J Powell J K South Miss I I Treble J J It Collins Mrs It Hartley J Miller Mrs M Mrs Cinicron t- Carpenter Shepherd II J Doherly J Dalton K Clarke and J Dawson were given donation pins and scrolls SPECIAL citation from the Red Cross was pre sented to Henry Kroes Occasion was the 38th anniversary of George town Red Cross Deer darts A deer dirted in front of truck moving on the Sixth 1 me Friday and the vehicle left the road to strike a tree It It was slightly injured in the mishap cording to Regional Police The truck was north bound at when the ammil bolted Police put the damage to the truck at about FINANCIAL CORPORATION FIRST AND SECOND MORTGAGES ARRANGED PRIME RATES TO PER CENT OP VALUE Applications taken by phone and in the privacy of your home CALL MRS B BURT PRECHRISTMAS TOY SALE THURS SAT NOVEMBER 3 5 Shop Zellers Now For These Exciting Toy Values I