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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 8, 1983, p. 3

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Make A Wish New group aims to brighten lives SECTION A THE HERALD Jane 1M Page Herald During the past month NHL official Bryan Lewis received the assistance of Ken Bellamy and in forming a tag l tee organize non profit organization called Make a Wish of Hills Make a Wish or Hot Ion Hills is a profit organization with one goal to brighten the lives of children stricken with serious lirethreaten ing Illnesses It Is done in a simple way It tries to grant every child it can his or her single special Constable Rod Beau and his close asso ciation with children was sought and he too was willing to assist In the formation or Hal ton Hills Make a Wish We would like to have a Doctor Clergyman and a few other Jn teres led and will ing people to complete a committee that would oversee the operation on Make a Wish Wo will have officers fund era volunteers whose sole purpose will be to gather resources to begin grant wishes TOGA TOGA TOGA To cap off weeks of study of ancient history students at George town Centennial school organized their own Olympics Wives and slaves of local lore showed up to cheer their champions on Among them left to right Dee Dee Heather Forbes Corcoran Paula Eden Cathie Barton Kym Hale Andrea Newman and Stephanie Jackson I Herald photo and Athenians slugged it out but not amidst the pillar of he Parthenon Thursday afternoon They were Centennial school students dressed In tunics and togas who held their own form of the ancient Olympic games The students like the ones above have been studying ancient and what belter way to cap off weeks of instruction than by doing what the Romans would The trick In this pillow fight Is to do battle while hopping about on I Hern Id photo With the roar of the crowd urging them on to victory the chariot team of driver Ray Fisher and horses Scott Webb left and Rob Horton head Tor the finish line at Centennial School in Georgetown The school s senior students have been reading about ancient Roman and Greek culture and held a special Toga Day complete with Olympic games as a show of appreciation for what they have learned The event was held Thursday afternoon Herald photo No other Halton Hills group wc know of Is dedi to grunting wishes Tor children with serious and lifethreaten ing Illnesses What s more thework that Make a Wish does Is entirely voluntary Virtually every penny we can muster is devoted to making children a wishes come true Other than the cost of a child wish the only expenses foreseen at this time is letterheads envelopes and thank you cards The efforts to put a wish into reality are all voluntarily Any child of Hills under 18 who has been diagnosed with a serious and lifethreaten Illness could have a wish granted by Make a Wish The child disease condition background and financial situation don matter All we require ore the an and family per mission to help and the resources to do so We will start by ing a bank of money volunteer time and talent empty seats on airplanes accommodations at motels or resorts and so Virtually any type of contribution Is useful Wish children can be referred to us by almost anyone doctors friends or relatives service agen cies families A special committee reviews refer rals Interviews potential wish recipients and tries to fulfill wishes as quickly and completely as ible Most wishes will be simple ones often Involv trips away from the hospital Similar groups have fulfilled wishes ranging from trips to Disneyland to a day on a farm from tickets to a football or baseball game to a visit by a favourite athlete We don know what wishes will be asked to fulfill but the fact is most children dreams are ones they could fulfill It better to tun at a reason abletpecd whether you cover a mile in tight minute or four you burn the tame amount of WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT GEORGETOWN DECORATING CENTRE and ARE CONSOLIDATING INTO THE BIGGEST DECORATING CENTRE UNDER ONE ROOF ADVANTAGE OF OUR OVERCROWDEDNESS LAST 3 DAYS CONSOLIDATION SALE BELOW ARE SOME OF THE MANY SAVINGS PRICE PAINTS SEMIGLOSS SPRED SATIN GLIDDEN LATEX CEILING FLAT SUPER LATEX as WHITE AND COLOURS GOING METRIC GOING METRIC GOING METRIC ALL INSTORE WALLPAPER Choose from Sunworthy Kingfisher etc MANY MORE INSTORE SPECIALS GEORGETOWN DECORATING CENTRE Georgetown Market Place themselves In time These children simply can wait That is why we are so determined to make their special wishes whatever they are come true A box Dumber will be established for donations to sent to but for the present you could send BRYAN LEWIS them to MAKE A WISH OF HILLS Bryan Lewis Sixth Line Georgetown Out The Halton Hills Ser vice Club ball league Is cooperating with the National Hockey League Officials to kick off the fund raising on of Hills Make a Wish with a charity ball game Sunday June Hot in the Georgetown Fairgrounds Park Dona will be accepted that day also Obituary Greta LeeNicholas GL T veteran was backstage favorite A well known member of the Georgetown Theatre GLT passed away Saturday night din ing the GLT annual din an event she had convened for many years Funeral services were held for LeeNich olas Tuesday at St George Anglican Church Mrs LecNlchol as who was named the boxoffice voice of the GLT died of cancer she had been honored with a nation never before granted toamember The President Award cat Ion to he Association of Community Theatres reads who for years has given unselfishly of herself behind the scenes and on the stage for the long recognized by the community the boxoffice voice this award would represent only a small token of our love and esteem for an energetic and courageous She is survived by her husband of 19 months Sidney Nicholas and three children Margaret strandcr Michael and Ian Bom in Scotland she came to Canada In 1952 with her first husband and they lived in and Slmcoe before com to Georgetown in ALL ASPECTS Mrs LeeNicholas al most ImraediaUly Joined the and Involved herself In all aspects of the theatre She acted In Maurice He Lough In s A Letter from a Gener and William Gibson s The Miracle Worker In 197S GRETA I In 1962 she acted In Thornton Wilder s Our Town However most of her support of the theatre came from the 10 plays she helped with costumes and eight plays she work ed front of house In addition to handling the annual dinner respon sibilities card convenor sending birthday and get well wishes to members Mrs Greta as was a very strong person who was dedicated and never afraid to ex press her opinion said her close friend Dorothy Hunt She was ill for many years but she never complained Mrs Hunt said She always gave more than she took her son Ian said Even in the hospital she worried about GLT annual dinner arrangements he said The doctors and nurses commended her for her stubbornness and while In the hospital she was ways worried about the other patients Mr Lee said Mr Lee remembers In their early days in Can ada when his mother gave up meals In order to feed her children Mrs LeeNicholas liked to knit when she 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