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St Josephs holds public speaking contest The first annual public speaking contest Tor St Josephs separate school held last Tuesday February at the Scout Hall Six students were chosen from their classes to repre sent their classes In the school contest The winner from the grade five and six category and the winner from the seven and eight category represented St Josephs at the North Halton Public Speaking contest in Milton yesterday One overall winner was selected to repre sent the school in the separate school championships in Burlington tonight day In the grade seven and eight category was Totjana Frank and Jamie Taras Frank who won the school competition and went to the finals spoke on the importance of having a sense of humor His speech recounted many great comi cal men in show business and Franks own humor came through in his speech Jansen spoke on tho energy crisis and the pro blems people could face in the future Her use of humor the speech enjoyable well as informative Jamie took the fence though world of fan tasy in his speech vantages and advantages of a fantasy world were discussed Guide In his speech Winner In grade five and six category and representing St in the junior division at the finals was Kim Kim was also chosen as the overall winner who will re present the school In the separate school finals to night Kim did her speech on nur sery rhymes Her dramatic impersonations of various well known rhymes enter the audience Also in the junior division were Lynn Graham and Helen Lynn took her audience on a trip to the land of the sun Mexico her speech Helen did her informative speech on the topic of salt Her speech included some of many uses of the mineral and the plentiful supply available Two students from grade four took part in the competi tion Cathy Barrett and Debbie were able to gain the experience of speaking in a contest for future years Judges for the contest were Rudy Mrs Peggy Graham Mrs Margaret Maronesc and Mrs Carmcl Jim was the time keeper Regular meeting Leisure activities at 4H meeting CHINA was the topic for this group of Second Acton Guides Kelly Donna Evans Lisa Kuuter Dawn Cook and Marie Uniform and promise are different there Golden Agere supper meeting by Julie Pierce The third meeting of the Dublin North Hillbillies- was held last Wednesday at the home of Mrs Marion Hunter The meeting was opened with the pledge Then collec tion and attendance were taken This meetings discussion dealt with leisure activities Everyone first stated what hobbles they had and ones that they would like to take up Almost everyones favor leisure activity was skiing hiking and camping All of them seemed to like the out doors news photography reading Indoor gardening music art his toric interests and going to the live theatre It was a very interesting discussion as Mrs Klrton mentioned that the working hours per week are getting shorter and this means when everyone grows older they will have more spore time How they spend this time Is Important The group discussed their trip and decided to go to Bruce Creek on Saturday February They are going on an Environmental Studies hike At the end of the meeting they sat around enjoying tea and snacks while working on their project The Golden Age Club had a pot luck supper for their evening meeting After the supper which was called for Mr Davidson called for a short meeting which was opened by singing Canada and the theme song Mrs Dennis had a report by Lisa Kuuter Monday Feb 13 the Second Acton girl guides mode crafts for the bazaar on March Almost everyone made two or more different crafts Some of the things were assorted pin cushions hearts happy faces and shamrocks as well as magnets for the refrigerator in various shapes We ap preciate the help from three of our Guide Mothers Mrs Mane Mrs Pat Mitchell and Mrs Diane Evans Thank you very much We are pleased to learn that Mrs Hamilton who has come to our Guide meetings since the first of January has decided to become a We are continuing with our plans for the on March and Halton does well in test Board of Education members were delighted to find their former students fared far belter than others in the highly publicized Erin dale College literacy test The test given to first year university students last year at the campus of the University of Toronto sup posedly showed high school graduates were illiterate Fifty per cent of the students t pass the test and results were a topic of discussion with trustees Thursday Trustee Fred Arm I ta go said the results spoke for themselves since 6 per cent of students passed the literacy exam There ore no really strong conclusions to draw but there arc the facts declared Committee Swimtime snacks From the synchronized degree oven for 18 to swim teams new cook book Mukcs Pineapple and Carrot Muffins c white sugar Criseo Oil 2 eggs beaten Is flour 1 tsp baking powder soda tsp cinnamon tsp salt NOTE batter seems very thin but is alright 1 tsp inlllo crushed pineapple with some juice 1 grated carrots Placesugar oil and eggs in a large bowl and beat well Add flour baking powder soda salt and cinnamon sifted together Mix well and add vanilla carrots and pine apple Mix well Bake in a LOVE STEAK and your partner loves SEAFOOD therm s only onit RED DEER Choice PRIME RIB ROAST Choice WING ROAST Choice SIRLOIN TIP TOP ROUND ROASTS ib IOSI SHOULDER ROAST Members of the coffee house committee ore busy working to get the room ready for the planned opening date of March The coffee house known as The Mug Is located in the basement or the Acton M A A group of ambitious students are working to set up The Mug so that students will have relaxing place with entertainment in town PIANOS TOCHER RED BRAND BEEF 149 Extra Lean Boneless A is working BRISKET POINT GROUND BEEF Fresh SMALL LINK SAUSAGE 95 Maple Leaf Sliced Ib SIDE BACON FOR YOUR FREEZER Lean GROUND BEEF 995 LOVELL BROS MODERN MEAT MARKET about he Ice in Kitchener next month but not enough were Interested to charter a bus Mrs Dennis read a letter from Mrs Shaw about a July trip with Burlington Seniors to Scotts House in New York State Anyone interested may get In touch with Mrs Shaw at Burling ton Euchre and were played while a stereo played a number of haunting old songs In the background The first regular meeting of the newly reorganized Bertha Buchanan Group of Knox Presbyterian Church was held in the Mary Ellen Anderson room of the church last Wednesday Mrs Helen Hocrlg leader for his month opened the meeting with the singing of the groups theme hymn The Lords my Shepherd Mrs Mary read the poem by Helen Stelner Bice entitled Praying Hands She also read the Scripture portion Lamentations Helen hen read a chapter from the book Happiness Is by Betty Carlson en titled Many Beginnings There followed a short discussion on the way to find personal happiness The worship was closed with prayer During the business period the secretory Mary Watson handed out copies of the proposed contract or by laws These were discussed and several members paid their membership fees The meeting concluded with lunch served by the committee The Acton Free Press Wednesday Feb 1978 Ten Days program on Nigeria Friday An interested heard natives who had never seen a Jim and Johnson speak white man work like that on their experiences in before There was also a Nigeria Friday The program drum used to convey was part of the Ten Days for messages over many miles World Development program Woven baskets and articles of here In Acton clothing Jim worked on an intonating slides mental farm while showed the landscape and the taught too girls school The pe lhey with couple told of their life there Eldon Comforl introduced and showed slides They were p dressed In native costume and had a large table filled The group chatted with the with interesting articles they Ple afterward over had brought home These refreshments included the short ha A collection was taken Jim worked with in the fields The program was In 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