Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), February 18, 1970, p. 7

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Highs Operation Ookpik The Aclon Free Press Wednesday February 1970 The young beat was added with the playing of The Satin harmonizing to Taint it Black Born to be Wild and Faster than the Speed of Life Popular students Mike Cooper and Mark Hurst next entertained the audience with a selection of songs including Ode to If I Were a Carpenter and Yesterday To the melody of Top Hat White Shirt and Tails the Joyce Carpenter Dancers did their second number Back to the USSR was the return song of the Lemmun A Folk group consisting of Bob Nancy Anita Thibodeau Frank and Stephanie Mcrrin on flute then sang Sounds of Silence and Those Were The Days Perhaps the hit of the evening was a skit entitled Regressive Education The stars were none other than John Christella Brent Tumbull Clarence Rognvaldson Boris Shean Brian and Kathy Ott all teachers It dealt with a concept school in which Mr taught a lesson of anatomy while surrounded by some of the schools prettiest girls Mr Chnstellos disguise as a woman brought the house down as did his chorus of Wont You Come Home Brent Brian and Margaret Tamblyn than sang Michael Row The Boat Ashore The distribution of the song words to the spectators was an excellent finale to the evening Throughout the evening Skerrett had a variety of roles to play including those of a heckler a drunk a boxer and a little boy all of which had unfortunate endings His ape costume seemed to be everyones favorite He paraded as a biology experiment that was set loose Saturdays program began late in the morning A powder puff foothill game was held between a girls and boys team was the referee hough was intended to be a touch football game the students found it more fun to play tackle Although it was the boys were declared champs Other activities were the Driving contest snowmobile races dog races and wood chopping contest The results are as follows Dog sled races entries Davies from Gait with a three dog team won the Lions Club trophy for first prize Ken Marshall of Acton entered two one driven by himself the other by Steve Snowmobile Acton Paul Diggms Wood Chopping contest Alan Karen Pierce Spike driving contestBill Fields Jim Norm The grand finale of Operation was a semi formal dame held Saturday evening The Flower Town Five entertained both young and old alike as most parents received invitations The auditorium was beautifully and the students who worked on it should feel a great pride in their accomplishments

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