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THEllkHAtt Wednesday September mi BalErin reception for newest neighbors Joe and Catherine of Farm in honor of Midge and Ed who will be moving to this neighborhood Among local friends attend were Barbara Stewart Graham Bonnie and Ed Belly West and her sister Given Moore of ngland May and Dennis Maggie and Eric Itowntree Edith Dill Clements of and Isabel Dawson Glad to report Ihtl Lindsay is rccovLring from surgery at General llobpltal His many friends hope he can re I urn home soon rank Smith is Mill a patient in Medical Centre at Hamilton where he is under going treatment Eileen Cotter and children from Nassau spent some time last week visiting with Lloyd and Lola Marhall and other in the neighborhood Agnes McEnery is In we Georgetown Hospital We hope her slay will be a short one There will be no service Worship Church Sunday 1 STREET NEAR I QA 8776822 OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY APPOINTMENTS NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY r history SI Church on In Georgrlonn undergone relatively Utile Bull I on land that was donated by to- Kennedy SI George Met in a country like Urge trees and greenery Herald photo St Georges congregation rebuilds after personal loss By Herald Staff Writer George Anglican Church in Georgetown is at a crossroads in its the congregation a severe blow In Januar the sudden ill ess and death of their rector Reverend Tees For the past eight the congregation has been wiihout a permanent rector Graham Blind St sin Glen Williams and former SI Georges rector John have been temporarily serving the pjnsh but according to Bland the congre gation needs a rector of lis who a lull In Reverend Bland told The Herald recently that the St George congregation has had its Jnd dawns the past and has been in a stale limbo following the toss of Reverend Tees the arrival this week of lis rector Reverend Jim the congregation will hopefully be able to settle down once Reverend comes to Georgetown from the office of the Anglican Church of Canada in Toronto where worked for the past In 1905 the seating was after the lion tired of the able pine pevs and replaced them Ihe black ash pew still in today The funding behind the new Runner Reverend Ian was a young popular minister the jouthful members of the congregation who organized and staged that performed out crowds in Town Hall Through his efforts money to pay for new seating was gathered in si order Approximately five years liter the congregation purchased a new pipe organ wis much larger than the one they had The present altar is installed a few years later Those two new additions to St George made major re no- vat by 1921 It had become obvious that Ihe chancel loo small Tor the growing choir With the add Hon of pipe organ and the years officer dealing with many denominations Reverend isn the only theologian in his family His wife Solly is also an ordained minister and has been serving the parish of St John Norway Anglican Church In Toronto Reverend will be serving an Anglican congrega Hon that has Its roots In earliest days of George own Prior to Anglic worshipped in Georgetown homes and were served by itinerant ministers who travelled all over southern An Anglican parish was established In Georgetown in 1652 the congregation had already built the first St George church In the laic 1040s on the present Guelph site The land for the church was donated by Hie town founder George Kennedy The first church was a simple frame structure with a lower and spire It contained straight box pews square enclosure for choir which has always ployed an import ant role in the services at Between 1870 and 1BTS talk in the congregation centred around fad that they were slowly beginning to outgrow he liny church and they discustcd the possibility of building a new one discussion and planning the old church was lorn down In 1878 and a new St Georges was built In its place at cost of The new church Is a much sturdier structure made of stone and mortar and can seat approximately worshipp ers St Georges has under gone certain renovations In Ihc intervening years but lis basic structure has remained altar romped and reduced the amount of seating for the congregation It was decided to lengthen chancel to provide an organ chamber on south side at a cost of IW The basement of St Georges was connected to the vestibule by means of staircase Two stained glass windows in memory or parishioners who fought and died during the World War were Installed above the sanctuary a few years later and were unveiled In a special ceremony by former LieutenantGovernor Colonel Henry Cockshutt The basement of St George had always been used as a meeting place by church groups nod for other social activities The quarters were very cramped though since there was lllUe head room During the the congregation decided to lower the basement floor Increasing the height of the basement from seven to nine feet The new floor was made of concrete not wood but in 1951 they reverted to the old wood floor and had a maple founds laid on top of the concrete It had become apparent that the years had taken their loll on the church The mortar was crumbling In Continued on page A 10 LABOUR DAY ALMOST FALL TIME TO LANDSCAPE Buy 1 bag FallWinter fertilizer get 1 free draw ticket Prize 1 CIL B1 Cyclone Fertilizer Spreader Value 59 95 nmnagMngDmr INDOOR LANDSCAPING OFF REGULAR PRICES ON MOST GREENHOUSE PLANTS with greenhouse specials OFF ON SELECTED SPECIALS DONT LET WINTER RUIN YOUR LAWN Use FallWinter protection gcHZS Lawn Foods CIL 6 or OUTDOOR LANDSCAPING WITH Q DECIDUOUS SHRUBS MM lar shrubs REGULAR PRICES enhance your oar den create areas arid add the beauty spring to your landscape SUMMER HOURS NORTH 3 MISSISSAUQA ONT 2B3 Monday thru Friday Saturday Sunday 700pm 530pm 8261501 SENIORS ONTMOPHOPERTYTXaANT APPLICATIONS The addition a new proved be loo lor already crowded chancel of SI George The large choir was cramped and Ihe addition of a new pipe organ took up even more space Major renovation were carried the Ural time In St George history as the chancel was enlarged In Herald photo LIMESTONE ALL SIZES GRAVEL FILL AND TOP SOIL BUD HAINES DURHAM ST Come to Church GEORGETOWN ALLIANCE CHURCH 1981 Sunday School a and Our Ct Evutyono Wolcomrj R RALPH MAPLE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH PASTOR EDWIN H MITCHELL ALL SUMMER LONG EVERY SUNDAY F HI t II WEEKLY judySP 1 A I 1 ft ton Visitor always wnlcamo and Grow ST GEORGES CHURCH Sunday SoplomborB Holy chads Thrd Canadian Holy IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Road Carole St PASTOR REV JM Siplombof 1061 SUMMER SCHEDULE 10AM CHURCH SERVICE Church of Lullarm Hour Ontario d system of lax dils for si with now proKrun of Property Sal Grant to help offset school retail lux rty Tax Grant of up to per household If provldi In two instnllmt annually Satis Tux Grant it an S50 paid yi In all Ontario sldtmts and over PROPERTY TAX GRANTS APPLICATIONS rim Property lux Grant paid to t ipionls in In MM Grant Is Iiih paid in two installments I ho first payment automata ally In spring was quill 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