Page THE W March 1W2 Presbyterian church Improvement to the tune ODD Here made to church hock In 1903 Presbyterian Church hod It ralird 111 and riling decora led carpeting a pipe organ added The congregation has continued to maintain the 103 old building which Is a tourer of pride lo the with lu itriklng Life in notsochilly Yukon gave minister special insights We re being duped about the tough life In the Yukon and Northwest Tern lories according to a former minis Rev Ian MacPherson 35 a and Union Churches in Halton Hills now worked as a minister In Whltehorse or three years After graduate g from of Toronto Knox College with a Master of Divinity degree Rev Mac headed Into the true In good revolutionary fashion I went up to While- horse as a missionary he old The Herald I had a downtown church there Comparing the community In slie to Georgetown he said it was easy to get In many things in They tell all kinds of myths In the Yukon and Northwest Territories to keep people thinking It really tough Rev Mac said One of them is about the Alaska Highway Sure It a gravel road but it good road With only per cent of the population born In White- horse and those living Inert not planning to be there for a long period of 1 me White- horse has acquired very few traditions he said My congregations here are steeped In traditions They came from families who have been farming the same farm going to the same church lifestyle for five or six gene rations Rev said Traditions arc rich and valuable Plunged right from the start into dealing with the heavy problems Whltehorse residents had he said he was counsel people yet felt he didn have enough back ground to do so Is one of the worst places in Canada or problems It has the highest number of abortion divorc es and alcohol consumption of any place else in Canada he said Finding the winter bad Rev MacPherson said he no longer has the nme lion for the season he used to love in Toronto the city he was bom and raised in Ice one and a half inches thick coated the inside of house windows and gave a feeling when Indoors in Whltehorse For Rev MacPherson and his wife Ihe winter cold cab fever and a hemmed in feeling Within a month of moving to his daughter Jennifer now was born Two years later his son Jeremy Joined the family At present Rev Mac is separated from his f c a teacher Both congregations respect him and praise his work not holding his marital troubles against him I was surprised I expect there would be some people saying If you can keep your own house together you t be a minister but I found every body really supportive of both of us Rev son said Wanting more education and background lo deal with the problems people were bringing him Rev Mac left the Yukon and came to Hills where he besides ministering to two congregations is able to take courses at the Institute in Toronto and at the Intcrfalth Pastoral selling Agency In Kitchener This a pretty job It offers the kind of personal involvements that nothing else does Rev MacPher son said enthusiastically You get involved in peoples lives and they Invite you to It kind of neat 1 call my ministry my lifestyle At first ho felt really coordinating two churches atone II was two of everything Now however he gotten used to it and has Initiated a number of Joint events with the two congregations He said elders are final court of appeal for any church matters Looking after the spiritual welfare of the on elders also assist the m In Ruing communion and visiting members of the congregation It s an unwritten law that husbands and wives bolh elders You could hate them taking opposite sides on on Issue and all It could cause is more trouble Rev Barrow said women into the Session and church manage ment board Is current history for Presbyterian congregation but there a lot of past history too With a membership of the spired church on Highway and Draper Street began as a mission church of Terra Union Presbyterian Church back In 1835 Members held services In their homes until when a quarter aero of land south of was purchased from James Mitchell for five A frame church was erected and a cemetery laid InlB52 another quarter acre was added and en additional third of an acre In 1BS9 When the frame church became Inadequate for the needs of the congregation a vacant tot at Guclph and Draper Streets was purchased and on adjoining house and lot Copying the plans of the Georgetown Congregational Church now the library a brick building was erected for In February 1879 In Worth of Improvements were made to floor was raised the walls and ceiling were decora and new seats carpeting and a pipe organ added A manse was built next the church in 1888 costing S3 and an add piece of land was bought for a caretaker collage VOTED NO When the issue of union came up In 1925 whereby Methodist Congregational and LIMESTONE ALL SIZES GRAVEL FILL AND TOP SOIL BUD HAINES 3 DURHAM ST 87733028774593 a NEW HYDRO RATES Effect Apt I 1st tales wll apply on Electric used by customers by Iho Hills RESIDENTIAL Flfit per month a of per month GENERAL SEflVICE Demand Charga First ED 2 M ENERGY First pr month B par A KWH par Uh average lata of will add on ad SO to customer using HALTON HILLS HYDRO ELECTRIC COMMISSION IS The Regional Municipality of PUBLIC NOTICE SOURCE SEPARATION PROGRAM On November 1 Iho tho pally By Low No 11501 loprohibl recyclable n all Regional Silos April Special drop oil po I bo sot up at the follow 1 Burl Land North So Road Burl ton Land ill Silo in L no 31 Hills temporary Transfer Stal on Armstrong Hallon H Is Georgetown Pdlul on Control Plant Church II Rood South Aclon A nor II bo p location only tor purpose of accept ng do an bundled nowsprlnl Res us ng Iho so should bundle up newspapers si newspapers no magazines or papers I bags are used I hoy should bo grocery store typo hand Unl ad bundles news papers placed In bones or paper bags other garbage or newspapers placed In garbage bogs II NOT bo accepted Tho program n Hilton Includes a cur pick up n C Burl and Conquer Program n the Town Hallon a In Town of and voluntary groups throughout Iho Bog on newsprint bo and a a paper recycling plant In Burl urban areas of Towns of and lion and col eel on do of separated has boon deterred but w II bo brought on stream at a lalor dale Call827 or 13 s I Ibal NEW LISTING Country Home 2 Acres 15Mort til SB CHATTED SLOAN HOME OF THE WEEK IN NEW LISTING Featuring Huge lot 3 bedrooms pool bo una central air room many Extras 109 Call today Building Lot picturesque rolling acres m from town Good well on property Ask 60 75 Acres Brick in the heart horse country Great possibilities Ask 259 900 00 BO Farm Minutes from town Excellent workable soil For further mat ion call MCKFERflAHO 677 JN KENNEDY WW LAW Georgetown Semi SANDY CHAMBERLAIN i to form the United Church of Canada Ihe church voted no We had maybe go out and come In our church Albert Hunter Clerk for years said About SO people came from the Mount Pleasant Church on II In Brampton when It want That was when the current Clerk of Session at Church Joined up Church union was going on for about a year and people had taken one side or another by voting lime Harold Mc dure said Margaret Russell Joined the church early In the century and remembers serving Ice cream in a booth Tor a church garden party the day star una declared She said she bin able to go to church regularly now because of her health but she receives copies of the 1 know so people here now she said I might know s of the older ones church con Unties share a minister with Union Church a sharing that began back in 1045 with Rev Patrick Pino THE POX SLEEP INSTYLE Ltrot WittrMi tor ia GEORGETOWN 8772826 nan CARPET CORNER Shop at Home Personal InHome Service Shop at Homo Free Estimates Many Specials In Stock HELPING HAND FOR FARMERS THr PROGRAM New criteria for the 19S20nlino I irm gram will help more turners re strut ture re lble inn enterprises I icing man In to direct fin il firm business selling is pan ided This progr mi It is three pints the tinner in lender the ocmnicnt ASSISTANCE I irmcrs in ike of one or more of the ing options 1 interest the lender on for period of months I leked gu During this time the lender w ill not eonipound the interest An interest on Honing rue loins short term fixed rueopentingloms mum gr ill be md ill not the interesi rile below 12 An iddinoml line for opcritmgpurposesonh guaranteed the Province of Out This new credit would be pan ided the lender it the prime rue THE NEW CRITERIA he farmer must in he irm business of it upper limit Present interest pigments must exceed 20 of operating costs The I Timer must prepare a plan based on sound pro and management out this plan Ihe total of food or tobacco products produced on the farm in 1981 must exceed S12000 a rcduc lion lrom S200 APPLICATIONS For further inform ition on this progrannnd ipplication instructions see our lender or isit m office or write 1982 1 arm Assist nice Queens ioronto I he Ontario eminent working to help people Minis of Agriculture and Food Ontario Dennis Timbrell Minister William Davis Premier