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6 The Acton Free Press Wednesday Oct Cistercian monastery to Georgetown area Canada first English- speaking Cistercian monastery may be situated In Halton Hills close to Georgetown Six monks of the Catholic Cistercian Order which dales back to the century could be moving into Georgetown in December and they will use a home as a temporary base before building a monastery The Cistercians are a strict order founded in France in 1098 AD as an offshoot of another order founded by St Bernard The monks kept a vow of silence until recently when Pope Paul revised the rules Novices for the new monastery will be drawn from English speaking Canada although the first monks come from Oka Quebec where their world- cheese was produced cheese business has been sold and is now operated independently The order first con templated building a monastery in Cavan town ship south west of Peter borough but the nonCatholic rural township council refused to land allegedly because they claimed residents did not want a Catholic monastery in their neighborhood especially one from Quebec Milton mayor Don Gordon released the information about the intended establish ment of a monastery in Hills at a meeting of his council He mentioned that township had raised the spectre of discrimination against Catholics and French by late anyway since the order refusing to land for a had either purchased or were monastery negotiating for property in or Milton councillors near Georgetown discussed it and Councillor Father Otger Devent Russell sponsored pastor of Holy Cross church Sdoroad Conservation cling blodegradablc waste what lovely new words we coin for ideas as old as mankind Quite often I pick up one of those womenoriented In the dentist office and read features on how to use leftovers how to save money on food budgets generally Well I was brought up in post war Britain and certainly ion need lessons in saving and recycling I bet a large pro portion of us were raised in similar atmospheres during limes when all the money in the world wouldn t buy food that there Bean again and again In those days you ate all your vegetables because your mother had queued for three hours hat morning to get two tomatoes and a half pound of wilted green beans Any ex cess found its way into tomorrow s rissoles a sort of meat patty made with in the pantry Tomorrow leftover rissoles became part of Tuesday casserole You didn t ask what was in those casseroles We were fortunate My mother could bake very well put up quarts of berries the- taking In sprayed hedge rows Wehad a vegetable garden and chickens Any waste finally given up by humans went through the dogs and chickens or became compost Nowadays I give our organic waste to the rabbits dogs cats sheep chickens and peacocks They make the com post Even when we came to God s country in S3 Mother kept her parsimonious habits She nearly fainted when she saw her first super market with acres of food and no lineups It took months before she stopped racing up to the meat counter grabbing a pound of sausages and looking furtively around who was about to fight her for them She kept cakes of soap until they disintegrated in Jelly drops When she had several soap ends she d paste them together with a little water and make a larger usable piece out of them Idothatdoday She had a drawer for string I think she still saves string Father would get so angry at her mounds of six inch pieces of string Buy a whole ball of the stuff he d roar We can afford it But Mother habit Mind you her parcels were a plcasso of knots and gave the mailman a few chuckles I save bags all kinds of bags a basement full or bags I never need tobuy any though Hamburg 1452 Those early lessons from my mother gave me a good grounding when Mack and I were first married and on a limited budget that a nice way of saying we were as poor as church mice It gives you a great feeling of accom to survive on next to nothing and to know you could do if you had to I ve still got a file box full of recipes pastries flour less cakes meatless meatballs you name It I can make it Have you ever stretched three sausages bet ween three people No you don give them one each on a plate You cut the sausages into small sections brown them then cook them In a Yorkshire pudding batter and call it Toad in the- hole A few years of want are a very good thing to teach the art of wasteless living You don t catch people who lived through the depression throwing away great gobs of good food burning paper bags and leaving the last quarter inch at ketchup in the be What do our children do Where do they learn these lessons NATURES EMPORIUM Sun Dried APRICOTS PEANUTS STORE Tim Wed Sat 10 G 10 J Now Of en Su I 5 30 8771955 520 MAIN ST GLEN WILLIAMS Natural Foods Cheeses monastery here or not He explained the Cistercians are what is called a con order whose life Is devoted to work and prayer They motion which passed said the monks raising Ihelr owl kiiu- i their council declaring Milton had been living would welcome the orders Georgetown for a week location there to show Cavan looking for a suitable site and township was not typical of working on a farm but he hod Ontario no knowledge of whether they Then Gordon said it was too had decided to establish a Darts Cribbage and games all got started on schedule there last two weeks Ten teams are playing in the Cribbage league and Command Records have jumped Into a quick lead closely followed by Seven 11 s Team points at Press Time were 230 Club Firemen A Firemen B Station Hotel 5 Legion A 9 Hills Work Dept Command Records 11 Die Hards 3 Alton Mclssac Con and the Seven food making their own clothes and living cloistered Most of the monks do not become priests but a certain percentage are ordained to the priesthood They follow the rules of St Bernard strictly Father Robert pastor of Sacre Coeur Church Georgetown that the Cistercians are defln Itely interested in locating in the Georgetown area but pointed out nothing Is definite you should get in touch yet He said the monks were with comrade Vic Patrick our here in July and again last Branch Service Officer week looking for suitable land See you at the Branch but there are many steps to Us ID tickets went on sale to the public on October so if you forgot to get your ticket you better hustle on down to the Branch before they are all gone Scheduled entertainment for the balance of the month is Friday Lounge October The October Stereo Roe Saturday Auditorium October The Command and Oct Willy Stackell and his Band Cigarette machines are now in the auditorium and the games room and If you prefer music to watching TV there is now a Juke Box in the lounge The Service Officer from the Provincial Command wilt be at the Branch on October at hours If you want to talk to him and have not already made an appoint Council mileage The in the budget for mileage allowance for councillors Is due to in creased involvement and interest on the part of according to Regions Chief live Officer Ernie Reid Our real problem is we dldn budget enough We have more committees and greater interest than last year he said There had been consider given to having absorb any travelling expense after the budget was spent but the committee discarded that after discus slon and debate Regional Chairman Ric Morrow said any move to da away with the mileage allow a nee would be unfair to coun clllors from the northern part of the region take anything is set tied including getting per mission and possible from Halton Hills Father is familiar wilh the Cistercian order attending retreats at Oka Quebec He says the monks are very discreet sociable and there only when needed never interfering He says they are self sustaining work for a living and would be an asset for Hills He noted they no longer produce their famed Oka cheese but arc also well known for the quality of other produce from their farms Monasttclsm has existed In the Christian church since the early centuries and is generally credited with preserving western knowledge and civilization through centuries when education was discouraged The movement reached Its zenith during the middle ages under such luminaries as St Bernard of Clalrvaux and hit a low point during the Protestant Reformation when kings such as Henry VIII abolished monasteries and executed priors and However the monastic orders survived and have grown since this century began especially after World War II when it appealed to many novices such as Thomas the well known American author PEOPLE WHO go out canvassing on Apple Day are allowed one apple each per day Here Frank Goulding ana Craig Robbins 5 enjoy then- allowance while waiting for someone to answer the door on St Frank is a Scout and Craig is a Beaver and they were teamed up for the day To study systems The awarding of a contract to study water pollution control plants in Halton Hills and Milton was deferred pending submissions by Ltd and Proctor and Redfern Ltd The region is seeking ways to find 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