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Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday June r Days celebrants didnt mind a little rain A weekend of rain dldn dampen the spirit of merchant Involved with Pioneer chairman George Markou told The Herald Monday Intact he attend was up Ibis year during the threeday eel In downtown Georgetown which began Thursday afternoon with a sidewalk sale Although a large chunk of Saturday slate of events was washed out In the steady rainfall which began Friday night plans are already being made to hold a rain date July 10 Mr Mar said The event will largely centre around another sidewalk sale but Georgetown Business Improvement Area chairman Lynn Barnard said groups which were to pate In last week end events are welcome to return and there will be a street dance with Yes terday She also propos ed that the Main Street Area which will be clos ed off with the towns approval may be used by Summerfest artisans to set up displays organised by the Walton Hills Arts Council was to have gone ahead Saturday with events for children and a gala arts and crafts show presented by the Credit Valley Artisans Indoors however Sum s Old Music Hall was a sell out success and those who failed to get ticket for the show at Sacre Church Saluday night were able to watch a special dress rehearsal Friday About as tables had been envisioned in the CVA show Saturday Dressed In pioneer clothes Pearl Brown demonstrated some real oldfashioned quality craftsmanship with her rugbookln g work She sat In front or the and Clark office on Main Street Friday and contributed to Georgetown and Pioneer Days activities This year Tyme Music Hall wss another outstanding success thanks to the efforts or performers Including Al left and Dave Walker Directed by Hon Hills the show was per formed in the Church hall It pro duced by Dorothy Hunt President Janet Armstrong left of the George town Horticultural Society congratulates Knechtel for her first place finish In the Best House Plant category for growing a plant In the basement of Knox Church on Main Street a variety of plants were judged In a Pioneer competition by the Society then displayed for he enjoyment of the general public When It appeared to be doomed because of rain one downtown merchant opened up the Supply store and some of the Artisans set up shop briefly Merchants Mr Mar kou said were pleased with sales nude early in Pioneer Days and said that attendance Thursday afternoon and Friday be fore the rain began at m was excellent In spite of the or ho said everyone Is keen on the result hoy obtained Celebrants were able to enjoy an outdoor street dance Thursday night but night time entertain moved into the Mc Gibbon Hotel Friday and Saturday nights And while some events were entirely washed out among them the Carls berg hones display Sat and Friday night bnioon Take off spans by Canada Dry others carried on lous to the Inclement wea ther Perhaps driven by memories of previous Lions Club sponsored pancake breakfasts early risers Saturday morning t mind the drizzle as they crowded around the clubs Main Street grill waiting to eat And throughout the day the loony antics of Travelling Good Time Show contin ued to cheer up merch ants and shoppers alike Wee Duncan Tost is towns first Youngest Pioneer When Duncan Michael Tost came Into this world Friday Pioneer Days celebrants In George town had already left the McGlbbon Hotel downtown and were carrying on the party In number of private homes in the area Unknown to him at the time and he still rendered speechless with surprise young Duncan became Georgetown s first recipient of the Young est Pioneer of the Year award a new Days event which this year Is sponsored by the Pcnniesworth children s consignment shop Duncan arrived into the Georgetown District Memorial Hospital maternity ward at 1 a weighing a cherubic seven pounds He the child of Mike and Hen Tost of John Street in Georgetown and his father while not entirely sure rule out the possibility that there may be a family connection with Barbara Tost last year winner of The Herald Pioneer Citizen of the Year award and sister of the 1962 winner Frances I have seen him arrive as a Christmas or New Year baby so this award la just great Mrs Tost told The Herald Monday night Mr Tost says he can trace his family Georgetown roots back at least as Tar as his greatgrandfather on his mothers side while Mrs Tost a parents settled In Georgetown when she was three years old This was the first place we settled she said other family which from so guess we were p too Once noon a lime when gas was cheap cars like Ibis one chugged along Georgetown Main Street drawing glances from passing pedestrians Its stylish lines continued to attract attention last weekend during Georgetown s Pioneer Days and Members of Bandoli s Travelling Good Time humor and acrobatics blended well with the relaxed taking a look back Into history Is the Jo and Madonna and their four year Show had and adults In stitches throughout openair malt activities on Georgetown Main Street old daughter Julie Pioneer Days last weekend Their slick pro visa Herald photos by Save and Chris June IS Is Georgetown first recipient of the Youngest PloneeroftheYear award presented by Lynn Barnsrd of Pennies worth left toDuncan and bis mother Real at the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital M Duncan and father Mike live John Street In Georgetown Herald photo Frances Wilson Pioneer Citizen of Year Lasting and lively this greatgranddaughter of George Kennedy represents Georgetowns durability and charm Herald editor Embodying her unity durability as well as lasting charm and providing a living contact with its pioneer past Frances Gertrude Wilson has been selected as Georgetown Pioneer Citizen of the Year Recommended for the honor by local historian and town councillor John McDonald because of her remarkable liveliness at nge S3 and her direct lies with Georgetown found George Kennedy Mrs Wilson was presented with a plaque sponsored by The Herald this week The presentation was to have been made Saturday In the midst of downtown Georgetown s Pioneer Days celebrations but was postponed because of the rain Now in Its third year tho Herald s Plon Citizen of the Year award has previously been presented to Colonel John Barber living de scendant of the Barber family which gave Georgetown its industrial heritage and to Barbara Kennedy Tost a great granddaughter of George Kennedy and Mra Wil son s older sister The Pioneer Citizen of the Year award an individual con tribullon to or represent of some aspect of Georgetown pioneer past The Heralds visit to Mrs Wilsons Main Street home Monday found her In good spirits and good health following a bout with a cold last week But for a lingering cough In fact she is lnsplrlngly lively and industrious continuing a manage a boarding house and cook Ing for Its four residents The house once catered to 10 tenants Mrs Wilson told The Herald She and her late husband John Buchanan Wilson a proud Scotsman who died In 1878 moved Into the longstanding house next door to Restaur ant about years ago Today it sparsely turn ished but clearly a warm home to Mrs Wilson a German shepherd puppy and the four tenants from Belle Isle who help her with chores Frances Gertrude Ken was bom In her parents home located where the Georgetown post office now stands at Guelph and Maple April 19 IBM Her father Will lam Cyrus Kennedy known as Cy ran a grocery store In down town Georgetown assist by his wife Frances Cy and Frances had four children two of whom died young Mrs Wilson a older sitter and last year Pioneer Cltiz en Barbara Elizabeth Tost still Uvea in her Queen Street home Ishell be Aug 3D When 14year old John Wilson arrived In Canada from Scotland starting out by helping his own gardening In Cookstown there was a built In link with the Kennedys of Georgetown His grand father had of the future Mrs Wilson s aunts and eventually a romance developed be tween John Wilson and Frances Kennedy When the couple led In 1B28 they built a new homo on four acres of land extending north from Maple Avenue oppo site the present North Halton golf club Their son Jim still lives there tending the goodalzcd garden his father a trained landscape ener had built up While George Kenn edy a many other great grandchildren have dls persed far and wide over the years Mrs Wilson a own children are H close by Sons Jim and John who s known as Cy have both presented her with grandchildren and one of daughters Debbie Bonham further delight Wilson with a great granddaughter of her own Little Sharon celebrated her first birthday April IS just four days before Mrs Wilsons Proclaiming herself a home girl and not much of a traveller Mrs Wilson says her ties with Georgetown have always been irrevocable She readily acknowledges that downtown George town the town Itself and the rest of Canada are having their economic troubles but Is adamant that things could never again be as bad as they were when she and Mr Wilson were starting out In marriage during the Great Depression Oh no it can never be bad as that she says Things have changed for the better Its nice to have seen the town grow to what it is today I think It will continue growing If Georgetown s spirit Is as hardy and durable as Mrs Wilsons It should Indeed stand up to today s trials and tribulations Last June she suffered a stroke that paralyzed the muscles In one ankle and the doctor offered only the gloomiest predictions as far as her future mobility Mrs Wilson set her mind to overcoming the prob lem and continues to walk solidly without the aid of a cane or a helper Not only that she says proudly posing for A photo In her front garden she still has all her own teeth Take heart George town with a pioneer tage like that afforded by Col Barber and the Ken Bisters you have many many lively years ahead Frances Wilson la spry and chipper an old as yon ever want to meet She runs a boarding house on Main Street and last year shocked doctor fay bouncing back from a stroke overCamuigslightpsralyslstoUiep where she now gets out for the outing But It Mrs Wilson staunch ye for and Icyalty to Georgetown and In particular her direct George Kennedy her great grandfather that has earned 1M1 honor as Pioneer Citlscnof the Year an award bestowed annually by The Herald a living resident who I as contributed to or represents some aspect of our pioneer past Herald photo by Chris