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Over 200 celebrate start of Acton AAs Recently the Acton Mobile spiritually financially and Group of Alcoholics friendless he turned to A A mous celebrated the 17th for help He found what he anniversary of the group A wanted and has since enjoyed crowd of over visitors and several years of sobriety and friends from the surrounding contented living district jammed the Scout chaired the meeting Housetocapaclty and Roy G Pat W Jack W KeathA of Oshawa was the andWallieS assisted guest speaker and brought a Over the years since the message of strength founding of the Acton Group toanappreclativeaudience the members have very A former O P officer and quietly been doing a terrific later a car salesman and job helping others when service station owner he told called upon of an unmanageable life and Alcoholics Anonymous is a the loss of various businesses fellowship of men and women use and abuse of who share their experience alcohol strength and hope with each Finally bankrupt mentally other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism The only requirement for membership is Ihe desire to stop drink ng Step one of the program we admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become un manageable Steptwelvc Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs At the close all enjoyed a bounteous buffet supper provided and presided over by the members of Alanon Friends InDeed Fun tirrfe for all Santa visits party STEVE had a good time at the Friends In Deed Christmas Party Thursday evening Santa was on hand and gave everyone gifts gaily wrapped by Mrs Emily Price Our Christmas party on Thursday was a great success with 34 people silting down to a wonderful dinner of turkey and all the trimmings Dr Frank Oakes said grace and Mrs Pat our social convener proposed the toast to the Queen After dinner jolly old Santa arrived lo distribute the exchange of gifts Sincere thanks go to Pat and her group of helpers for the good job they did to make the evening so enjoyable They deserve a great deal of credit for all their work and effort Our thanks also go to the firefighters for the use of their hall and their help in cooking Ihe turkey and ing for us It was so good to seen Anne out to enjoy Ihe even well and we hope they will soon be out and able to enjoy the festivities with We would like to thank Caroline Nurseries for their donation of our door prize and to Acton Pharmacy and Pro with us Keep up good Hardware for their donations y lw for our contests and spot The Acton Free Press Wed December B Both meetings will be at at the fireball In closing we wish each and everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthful See you alt in the New Year We were also very pleased 1 see Betty out and that she was able to take time out from her busy schedule to be with us Betty has been a member since our tion started The door prize was won by Mrs Charlotte Holmes Congratulations Musical lime The rest of the evening was spent enjoying the music of Ihe Country Dee a and the singing of Christmas carols It was a great evening for all of us and all the comments were very favorable We were sorry that two of our members Sommer and Isabel Overland wereunabletoattend as they ore both hospitalized The last report is that are do- prize Meetings Lost seat Our next executive meeting will be Tuesday January and our regular meeting will be on Tuesday January 25 J Bert Wood a former Acton resident lost his seal as mayor of Georgian Bay in the election Village of Garbage Collection HOLIDAYS 1976 Monday December 27 Friday December 31 CHOOSING HER favorite goodies at the Trinity Activity Group sale Saturday is Nancy Patter son Clerks are Betty Bowman and Jean McLean The sale was in Trinity church base ment and drew a good crowd Elect officers at LArche meeting The November meeting of Ihe Auxiliary was held at the home of Gayle The annual election of of was held with the results as follows president Ferguson vice presi dent Julie Conroy treasurer Ruby recording secretary Christine Stcen correspondence secretary Pat Jackson Historian I B Plans were discussed for the various Christmas parties to be held later in December at the d fferent schools work Ted Sheehan is guest at Lions club meeting The regular dinner meeting of the Acton Lions club held at the Station Hotel on Monday evening was attended by Ted Sheehan governor of Lions District A Ted is a member of the Dun das Lions club and was ac com pa rued by three of his fellow club members At the D strict meeting following the dinner meeting on Haigaz was appointed second vicepresident and Lion Michael members of the Duke of Devonshire chapter of the I 0 D enjoyed their special Christmas meeting at the home of Mrs J Beatty Members brought their specialties for the pot luck luncheon After the meeting there was a happy exchange of gifts and the members en joyed a social time together Mrs Val Newton was back GUELPH S ONLY SPECIALTY LIGHTING STORE CHATELAINE LIGHTING York Road Multi Bnght Ideas for all jour Lighting Needs EXTENSIVE SELECTION OF HOUSE FIXTURES Table Lamps Door Chimes Swag Lamps Van Cab Heat Baseboard and Portable Central Vacuum Cleaning Systems Wrng Devices fixture Parts etc Ventilation Hoods Fans FREE PARKING OpenDallyB30 ThursFrl TilVpm Sat shops and residences sup ported by NHAMR Cheques were made out to these to help them with their parties Gifts were also sent to two area attending the Regional Centre in O rill a and to two at the new complex in Oakville The Auxiliary expressed their thanks to many Acton residents for their help and support as it is only with your help we are able to make this Christmas season even more joyous for the mentally relardedof North pointed a director of the Lions club of Acton The committee of the club will present a gift to each of the guests of the Acton Rest Home and 12 at the Maple Inn Lodge on Wednesday evening tonight The Lions Tail draw will be held during interm at the Royal Canadian Legion Dance on Saturday evening December IB at which time tails will be won by 16 lucky ticket holders from Bronte for the occasion and Ihe other members were pleased to see her again Friends are sorry to learn Mr Jack Scriven Poplar Ave is a patient in Guelph General Hospital Mr and Mrs Elliott visited last week in Camber with relatives and friends PRICES LOWER THAN THE SUPERMARKETS WAREHOUSE FOODS primo SP SAUCE 3 SAVADAY BLEACH T WAREHOUSE FOODS n I 200 WITH THIS COUPON GET OFF DISCOUNT PRICE J TO 3lr AYLMER TO JUICE VAN CAMP Wool BE 3 PEANUT BUTTER P 6 KLEENEX T0MVEG SOUP 5 CANADIAN QUEEN COOKED CANNED HAM CHOICE FRUIT COCKTAIL MACARONI n CHEESE CHOICE Garden City STANDARD ST E Brookxtde Fresh AYLMER CATSUP OZ SPORTCOLA SUGARFREE 59 APPLE PIE O MUSHROOMS T N PIECES STEMS frozen BACON tea W I BAGS Pizzas LUXURY XXX a CHOWTBlCpOKES59 l4oCeoTK TEA BISK Ft APPLE JUICE 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