Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 3, 1976, p. 2

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lSPage March 1B7A One young mans travels on the rocky road of life by Dorti Herald Women The road of life is Full twists turns bumps road blocks and For some the road of life is relatively smooth jet for others the path to one com pie ess is dangerously bumpy After some ten years of travelling this socalled road of life Dave Ji Street in Georgetown having witnessed both the Hunt reached those adventurous yet confusing of 18 and long road of self finding It was thin the age of flower ehildre n dark side of life with many a test along the way can know consider himself more than halfway there lo his finding of a life with God Dave was raised in ere morals of almost Georgetown in what could be aspect of life were questioned termed as an at most coses abandoned mospherc for child Dave was one of many would faithfully attend Sunday School with mother and refers to his younger days as lnltn Leaving the Young The typical Sunday work he had been School life It ntil tumid to to the parties demonstrations and to the new gtnerulion of revolt It was during this time that the is Dead theory Lvoivea everyone was in a state of confusion and despair Shortly after 1 got into the scene I became very who partially abandoned the ha ted I found that I old style of life to find the leBch Sunday School on a Sunday because I had gotten completely bombed the night before said Dave with doing the Knc Presbyterian Church Dave to stand up through About one year after his return from his short holiday li ju jl j fiend from of blond haired head Ijlwrcn and accenting his christian Mission by hitchhiking across Canada and in doing bo hopefully reach out and help all the other lonely It was at this time that I again only this lime by foot thought I had better stop Throughout their journey the feeling sorry or myself T did knew that I could either have a searching questioning and lift of failure or I could seek ultimately discovering the road of J Christ It was at this turn of the road Some may think that it a sissy when Dave had his first type of man who follows this glimpse of the Presbyterian ad It takes more of a man fellowship House In Prince gl THEIR GOOD BYES Ready to return home after a year of schooling the boys staying at the Presbyterian Fellowship House bid their farewells to Dave From left to right stand Isac MacKenzfo Silas Martin and a friend of the boys Gerald Skilltesting q no problem They knew the answer I had lo drop something so I still don know if it was a good or bad move continued Dave Dave that there was o a lot of searching done by the the ti young people In the late gob search aided with drugs alcohol socalled free love and peace However Dave stressed that young of today of the mid 1970s art still searching and are still using drugs drinking pop wine but in today world the reality of all has covered and masked from the truth Is it really getting better Sure i may be making ten or thousand dollars a year and we might own two coloured televisions and own a home but I wonder if all this pronounced optimism of art V better is really true questioned Dave In the Dave turned away from church completely and described as sitting on he last 1 of hope and life Dave on his doctors advice left his factory job to take a holiday Travelling to Vancouver where he stayed for ten days Dave once again disen chanted began the home Albert Altera three week stay and reversed direction and can home A mere three days after home Dave was contacted by Board of World Missions and asked to lake over the directorship of the Fellowship House The Fellowship House la a Christian supported house who have resorted lo which provides a home for hitch hiking in hopes of boy of Canada so that they may continue their June 1 1972 when the schooling two packed their sacks and Dave remained at the began travelling that road once Fellowship House for one and a years learning and experiencing trials and prejudices fated by the native people of Canada He helped the boys with high school work helped them with their lives all the problems faced in was more of a brother the boys setting examples leaving it up to the individuals whether they chose lo follow the the limb alone However and a half years of being without a family father to about ten teenagers at a time attending countless keeping a three storey home In condition the pressure built up a point where Dove thought it was best to return home the end of January Georgetown once again and up until the warm summer months he seemed lo have fallen Into another polholc as lie return to the crowd which he so desperately tried to leave 1 guess it hit me then that I had hit bottom and knew needed I and then knew where to HO for that help said Dave He returned to the Presbyterian church work with the young people of Ihc church and he returned lo the straighter smoother path admits that he has not his destination as of jel and he realties that the path will still be bumpy and treacherous however according to Dave my tommltlmcnt to Christ will allow me to reach final salvation to eventually be with my creator for eternity I HOUSE took over as director of the Presbyterian Fellowship House In Prince Albert for one and a half years TOP MALE ATHLETE Don Bird extreme left was awarded top male athlete of Riverside Collegiate the school at which the boys living in the Fellowship House attend Silting beside Don arc other athletic winners also living In the House Joe Charles Dill Rati Martin and Allan Ross He half w When a Georgetown couple who recently won a 17 foot house trailer valued over SI were notified thai their ticket had been drawn but thai they first had to answer a skill testing question they were well prepared It hap this way Hay and Betty Todd were attending the last day of a camping show held at the Four Seasons Sheraton Hotel in Toronto on Feb and Mrs Todd filled out a ticket for free draw on the house trailer offered by the Royal Bank of Canada Upon returning home they discussed among what Ihe skill testing question could be and decided it would be something like naming the great lakes which they then proceeded to do p m they imugined that the draw stale of shock Mrs had already been held and the said When we got up the 1 red the Mrs Todd and tht thought struck Dave that he d have friends in Ontario in Georgetown Many friends referring to the Young People in the church who were praying and caring for him while he was searching Explain Christian School to Acton parents The Acton chapter of the Toronto District Christian High School held their annual learned that the voice other tnd was that of McLaughlin chairman of the Bank who asked if she was sitting down After informing Mrs Todd that her tic kit had been drawn McLaughlin then lo ask the skill testing question Name two of the great Iakes Mrs Todd said that when she answered she heard over the telephone a great cheer from the at the hotel but thai she so excited at mmng she remember what kind of statement she winning vie were going round in a Red Cross is there meeting Wednesday February Christian Reform Church and about people including Bert recently retired from Board of Governors of Sheridan College attended The purpose of the meeting said Dick president of Ihe Acton chapter was to inrorm parents who may be thinking of sending their children to the High School of the schools curriculum To answer questions J J of the school board of trustees and J Boer and Wle jnga of teaching staff were present I the meeting Among topics discussed at the meeting was a proposed per cent increase in the 450 budget which is raised entirely from the tuition paid by parents who send their children to the school Voskamp said About families in chapters send children to the high Voskamp said the school no money from the government and that the group lobbying with other in dependent private schools to get money from the govern used ling speculative i the Idea hat if growth the Woodbrldge High School were to be kept students in effort to retain a personal touch and students a christian high school miy be built in Hills which would draw students from Georgetown Acton and said that if such a high school were to be built it would be five years Theyre OUR Co Were quiet compared to England Fires storms floods have no timetable They tut at my time of day or night ny time of year very those least afford it Th is Assistance tn Minor Disaster Seruces comes in they are ready for the unexpected with support Come to Church 17 foot mobile home branch of the Bank of Canada which Mrs 11 Todd receives the keys to a house held a free draw for the trailer at a recent trailer she won 15 Presenting the keys camping in Toronto is Bill Ward manager of the Georgetown 1200 Jehovahs Witnesses attend circuit assembly GEORGETOWN ALLIANCE CHURCH Ma Ralph Sunday HALTON HILLS PENTECOSTAL a Morning ASSEMBLY EvcnlnoWori And No Come mike our church Pastor Rev 10 AM lv School your church AM Worsh Lutheran Church P Evening Rev Tueidav Youth Night Ala Sunday School LENTEN SERVICES Study WEDNESDAY EVENINGS Thursday ID P Mittlonettoi Church the Lutheran Hour of Watch Tower Society addressed proximately Jehovah Witnesses Sunday afternoon at Ihe semi annual circuit of tho Jehovah Witnesses held at the assembly hall In Nerval Mr McCann speaking to congregations of tht Jthovah Witnesses spoke on the theme Are you doing what God requires of You an aspect on the semi annual circuit main theme Become Doers of the Word The weekend assembly incorporated some guest speakers which Included Mr Lloyd Payne Circuit Supervisor and District Overseers Doug Mel Taylor Alfred Jim Mel can and Hector Sunday morning featured the Baptism of members of the congregation of the Jehovah Witnesses with the afternoon slated for guest In of This corporate the Georgetown Acton Bramp ton Erin Milton ST JOHNS UNITED CHURCH OF GEORGETOWN AND GLEN W LLIAMS MlnliTer A Mr Dais Wood Mr a m Glen Will 11 Georgetown Shirley Ingllt Sunday School tor all gei At both plica tor VOI i- nil- Ml N were called lo the accident on ltd at the Milton last Wed to hose away the gasoline which was spilt on the road when the driver ran up onto the median strip and tore open his gas Alcohol and Youth seminar i Family Court validity of I cards and the ST GEORGES CHURCH ANGLICAN Rector The Rov Gallagher DA STB LENT I Sunday March fl The Eucharist a Family Euchsrlst 11 Choral Church School is and a and 11am On Thursday March open fonlm Is being held on the campus of Sheridan College The topic is Alcohol and Youth On the panel choired by Marks of the Addiction Research Foundation will be Judge A Jan Hal Regional Police Chief Ken Also tlclpalmg will be Terry Jones of the provincial youth The discussion will center on adolescents drunk driving the mining of the drinking age The public is invited and will have an opportunity to voice their opinions The g starts at 15 and the admission is free The Citizen of the Year is Happiness is helping Be a RED CROSS volunteer After serious analysis and consideration of the up proximately la nominations or Georgetown 1970 Citizen of the Year the Georgetown Lions Club has reached decision However the results of the decision will be a carefully guarded secret until the formal announcement Ik made on Friday March The Lions Club of Georgetown who sponsor this event will be holding a reci and dinner on that The dinner Is on open rceep on to any interested of the community and tickets may be purchased from any Georgetown Lions Club or by contacting Ron at or El One evening in Manchester wouldn happen to you here In a lifetime says Terence A MocCarron of the time he wore the uniform of that English 3 police force Then it was heads split open knifings bod fights every Friday Saturday night At the time Const first class MacCarron of the Regional Police was part of a man deta responsible for patrolling only the centre of Manchester home not of one but two first division soccer teams Man Chester United and Man Chester City ft was like the Hamilton Tiger Cats at one end of town and the Toronto Argonauts at the other On nights when one end of town ployed the other and anything could happen bet ween the rabid soccer fans flushed with victory or eager for revenge sailors from nearby Liverpool would mix in Extra police vans J mounted horses brought to maintain law and order all in city centre Const MacCarron says By comparison It Is relaxed We re allowed a coffee break At high school In Man Chester Const MacCarron set records which still hold for the 100 220yard dash All summer It was athletics with rugger for school team and soccer for church team In the fall and winter Of his six brothers and five sisters now scattered around the world none were police nor was his father but after six months of doing nothing after the end of school on the spur of the moment he became ponce cadet then a police constable at 19 Ihen just stayed Only for a year and a half though until low wages poor working conditions made him and his wife decide to look overseas for a better life In April 1968 he came to Toronto then to Mlssissaugu where lives today with his wife and two children For two years he was out of police work until joining Ihe Georgetown force In February 1970 I get back in quick enough Here it is general duties ranging from watching a hole In ihe rood lo preserving Iht a suicide or going in to murderer It lot better mused Ions a youngster he says its small but It depends on what discipline he says voicing a complaint common to all men who must wear a uniform Hut that the only do not kc pol that it is only small minunty we deal all the time Another percentage we deal with one grows up with Little things annoy you Const MacCarron readily some of the public Thousands in town however never have dialings with police some out there don t like me Perhaps it Optimists sponsor oratorical contest An oratorical contest open to oil boys and girls who have not reached age of 10 is being conducted by the Georgetown Optimist Club Trophies will be awarded to first place second place and runners up In addition the first plact winner boy and girl of the contest will be eligible forfurther competition with a top prize of a scholarship The official contest subject is Tomorrow Promise must speak on the subject for not less than four minutes not more thnn five minutes Storing is based on personal qualities organization of material delivery and presentation and overall feci ess The contest will be held at Howard Wriggles worth Public School on Tuesday March starting at Spectators are welcome For further Information contact David Peach Bank of Montreal In Georgetown SHI justified adding that even police officers can get out on the wrong side of the bed in the morning just like anyone All the poplt really rice he admits frankly Sometimes Ihey bite your head off for an inquiry Rut whatever is Const MacCarron drops a hint as to what it Is thai motivates him when he says You can t do wrong by doing right and you can t do right by doing wrong When he la off the job Const MacCarron is a family man first but still interested in sports tor two years in Misalssauga he played soccer until a knee Injury forced him out of the game Although I vc never had a pair of on my feet in my life he says he watches the Toronto Maple Leafs every chance I get showing his complete transformation to the sports scene In he says I can now understand the Argos But baseball Is as boring as cricket He crossword I try everyone I can get and the bigger more com plicated Jigsaw puzrles as well as novels and movies with the old fashioned virtues of having a beginning a middle nnd an end while being en at the same lime Hills Catering Compute MoblltCalarlno Commercial STEVE CURTIS HOOK I I 41 GEORGE STREET LA CROIX ROUGE Toujoun a 9 MARS da

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