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The Gregorys The Acton Free Press Wednesday Nov 30 1977 BB Only happy memories remain of year in Canada Less than a month from now the Gregory family will be on their way home to Aus tralia after a fantastic whirl wind stay in Canada The family came from down under last Christmas as part of a teacher exchange program Bruce Gregory traded jobs and home with Jim Acton While Mr Gregory was to teach deaf children at School in Milton Mr Mr McCullouch was to teach in a boys school in New South Wales Mr Gregory and his family wife Judy son Paul and daughter Melissa arrived at their country home on New Year Eve They had spent a week with Mr Gregory brother in Los Angeles before heading north to their new home In the year they have been here the Gregorys have taken full advantage of the time During the holidays they headed east for five weeks going through Quebec New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia Maine Rhode Island New Hampshire and Connecticut They spent five days in Boston three in Cape Cod and a few days in New York City where they went to a Broadway show After a week to rest up the family left home to travel in the other direction for three more weeks They drove west to British Columbia and visited Montana Wyoming Yellowstone Pork South Dakota Mount the badlands Mitchell South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Indiana and Michigan Altogether they travelled miles in the McCullouchs car Even though they spent a fortune in gas over the two months they saved a lot of money by using the travel trailer also Nashville Tennessee was the destination on their last holiday at Thanksgiving The family had the previous week spent their first Thanksgiving at a friends cottage on Georgian Bay Because there is no Thanksgiving holiday back home the entire tradition was new and exciting to them Mrs Gregory was so impressed with the meaning of the day she said the family has decided to carry on the event once they return home She explained that each year when Canadians arc cele brating Thanksgiving they will in a small way be thank ful for what they have and also remember their friends in Canada Fathers Day which is In June here and September in Australia was celebrated by the Gregorys on the Canadian day However when Fathers Day at home rolled around Mrs Gregory said naturally there were no in the stores nor advertisements in any of the media and as a result she forgot all about it As a result there are two grandfathers In Australia who did not get Father Day greetings this year One question in Mrs Gregory s mind now is how to get the accumulation of more than 12 miles of travel and one yeor of memories into a few suitcases At the Acton fall fair she won a giant stuffed polar bear for Melissa The thought of leaving the beast behind is too much for the young girl and ways and means of getting It home are being thought of Mrs Gregory has called the airline and was informed it would cost to take It on the airplane It only costs to buy at home It would be possible to keep It on their laps the entire way back bul at hours flying time and a three day tram ride to get to Vancouver it would be too much to handle It also costs a fortune to ship it She Is currently looking for a good seam to rip open to take the stuffing out The bear is not the only thing causing problems For his birthday Paul received a ten speed bicycle He also won one by selling chocolate bars for Erin High School He will be selling one and will have to carry an bled bike all the way home The family leaves by train for Vancouver on December There they will catch a plane to Hawaii and from there travel home When they arrive It will be late evening of Christmas Day- right in the middle of the summer holidays For anyone with a penchant the situation was The family left home in the middle of their summer arriving here in the winter After a few months of the cold they found themselves in hot weather again When they leave behind the beginning of winter here they will find themselves in summer again three sum mers In one year This has played havoc with the children schooling however At home Melissa was preparing to enter grade three and Paul grade seven A lot of hard work and studying saw it possible for the youngsters to enter their grades here in Canada although they were four months behind When they return to school at home In February they will be in grades four and eight the same as in Osprlnge school However classes will Just be beginning and they will have to sit through the first part again This means they will have a complete school year in Australia in those grades plus half a year in Canada In the end however they did not lose any school time and actually are more learned from their experiences The family has seen more of the North American con tinent than most who spend The only part they did not explore was down in the Florida area mainly because they have very similar beaches at home and they did not want to spend time seeing something they could see at home Even though the year has been an expensive one in regards to airfare high cost of living Mr Gregorys wages were sent to him from Australia plus the usual expenditures while on a trip it was a year the family will never regret doing The experience was worth every Get Your Home In Shape For The New Year The Westclox Smoke Detector A Small Price For Safety An easy to install smoke detector that gives you and your family the protection you re looking for Gives a continuous alarm at the first trace of smoke Has an automatic reset Attractive Antique White Do Door Track door track set In various sizes slid Sea our A Franklin Fireplace Trad ami contemporary nan all cast it will cheer up any room from roar or through top Uso as a I or an of com healer B Electric Fireplace A g oil replace ih I shed hood and 1 black Complete with an Elect I and Ian hooter deep Orangey Cop pert one C Parlour Stove All cast on Hat B ack and ruckle window frame Includes fool I lop rail ng top and 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are both decorative and Mirror Tiles Recessed Fixture 8 Light Fixture A super decorative idea Aluminum construction Whllo ceramic glass with that adds brightness and with 5V dlamotor Has WhilBtrlm Equipped with to any room plastic and Satin aluminum rofloctor Ideal Choose Plain or Gold Vein aluminum finish for basement and kitchen Imperial Accotone 141 Available in several attractive col ours and patterns Yd NEW STORE HOURS Effective Friday November 11th Until Chrhrtmai 9am Monday thru Friday Saturday 9am to 316 GiMlph Stmt East Georgetown WE ACCEPT Chnrgo Accounts Chargex Master Charge cent they leel Mr Gregory faced a great challenge when he accepted the position at the school or the deaf He had to learn sign language and get adjusted to the entire situation All felt pangs of home sickness but no one more than Melissa Living in the country she was not able to moke any close friends like the ones at home Add to that an almost constant cold and anyone would want to go home When they do leave though says Mrs Gregory they are going to miss the huge house they had become accustomed to They art also going to miss their many friends and neighbors of whom they have become very fond Mrs Gregory does not know how her family can ever thank everyone for making their stay so enjoyable Because of everyone and consideration they are able to have happy memories of the past year Now they ore packing to return home they look ahead to the future and hopefully foresee a return visit Although there is no place like home and they would not like to live here permanently she says anolUryearor two in Acton and area would have been just fine Acton library looseleaf Visitors to the Acton Library this week will see a special display of recent The inimitable Charlie Brown and Cn have always done more than their bit for literary excellence The Charlie Brown Dictionary is no exception This is not a new book but when the library dog eared copy finally disintegrated com plctely the Acton Ladies Bowling League leapt into the breach to provide a replacement we re now back in business with a sparkling fresh compendium of definitions according to Snoopy and friends The Acton Women Institute and the Library have been friends for years and as yet another of their many gestures of the ladies of the institute this year presented two books to the library The first is a detailed and heavily illustrated biography of King George VI and Queen lliabeth by Frances Donaldson which traces their lives from family background and birth through their joint reign and follows tht Queen Mother to the present with her unflagging joy in life The second book comes a little closer to home with a collection of traditional receipts handed down through the generations and published in an attractive book called The Old Ontario Cookbook Author Muriel reck en ridge s fascination with old family recipes hah resulted in a thoroughly tested well searched volume of wholesome flavourful cooking that springs from the pioneer traditions of Ontario The print in this book is par ticularly clear and large enough for easy use and in addition metric equivalent measurements iavc been given To commemorate the Queen s Silver Jubilee the Lakeside chapter of the IODE has given the library a remarkable book entitled People of the Willow The Tribe of the Caribou Eskimo by Winifred Marsh In 1933 Mrs Marsh arrived at Eskimo Point as the bride of Anglican missionary David Marsh A highly trained artist she gradually overcame her own hesitancy and began to record the landscape and life or this fascinating alien and now vanished society Rendered In with all the luminosity and subtle shading one expects of that medium the pictures also startle with their almost photographic clarity and the brilliance of colour that leaps out of the subtleties This is a book to browse over to steep in to let the great sweep of the take over and paradoxically is a book to pore over treasuring the minute details and exquisite flashes of truth Tom Thompson the silence and the storm is obviously the Canadian art book of the season Thanks to Mr John Mowat the Acton Library will have a copy dedicated to the memory of his mother Ann as thanks for the hours of pleasure she found In books This particular book will provide years of pleasure For anyone who has somehow managed to avoid tho legendary art of the man who paved the way for the Group of Seven this book will destroy all resistance It literally explodes with colour The famous Algonquin scenes so hackneyed and copied and endlessly badly reproduced ore here resented as though still wet the artist brush Interestingly many are reproduced life size in their original small scale Working in the bush travelling by canoe and portage Tom Thompson could not afford to carry large loads of canvas and many of his field sketches were never transferred to standard finished landscape paintings These field actually his trial runs for colour and form now supply the largest body of his work and they bland brilliantly as the mainstay of his reputation This is a book for cold winter evenings with energy restrictions the heat of the colour will make fires and light unnecessary As a final note on donations ihe Library staff would like to thank the family of Acton for the multitude of books they have given us over the years The list of titles is truthfully too long to publish and a display of their gifts would fill shelves The people of Acton have been enriched in a wide range of subjects by these generous people Thank you ANN MARIE Lucas has a few important things to tell Santa Claus at the Y on Saturday at ternoon IN A businesslike encounter David andSantatatkoverDec 25s possibilities