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Fall Fair Ladies board reunion marks twentieth year Contact over 700 The Hills M Radio wide Field Day They association set up camp on contacted operators is far the hill Hull dam at Erin as Australia South recently and made contact America Central Americ Blue skies and warm were welcome sight Saturday for Ladies Mir Board at twentieth anmv reunion Approximate jO ladies gathered it home of Thompson Churchill North for the ifternoon This year mirks the twentieth of Won Pall Fur Ladies Before 19jS most of the women worked along with husbands members of the foil fair mens board Then 1958 the women in decided to separate from Hie men board to create i board of their own Ch Ironside thenof mended the first meeting of the ladies at the home of Thompson Mrs Ironside w is then imoKed with the Ladies trio of cultural Societies She helped the ladies to organize ind set up the r objectives at their first meeting Now liter active members ind heritage members met again to celebrate the anniversary The afternoon began with a extended to all by this year president Carmcla Mrs spoke to thfc members about the purpose of the board and how it is not changed in twenty years to organize and assist in the overall prod of the Fair Mrs Cobham spoke about the benefit of a reunion imong the Indies Renews past iquamtancts and dnws together pride of years of growth in the Ladies Division Mrs speech rending of the his lory was done by Irma Mrs was the first president on the I Board in hostess for the event Thompson read a poem to the ludience Two minutes of silence was observed for all the deceased members i the board Charlotte Ironside who attended the first meeting to help the ladles organize their group w as also in attendance humorous recitation was by Flora Bruce of After the program the games began Heather Henna and Mark organized and ran them with prizes donated by ihe ladies group Heading mlo the evening the ladies enjoyed a pot luck buffet Two decorated twentieth an cakes were sup plied by Mrs Edith Mrs Storey is one of the year members The pot iuck dinner was supplied by the current active members Thanks were extended to the hostess at the end of the evening by Grace The majority of the members attending live in guests did travel from Erin and to attend Ladies Fair Board remembers service The following are excerpts from speech f the history of the Dims on of the by Mrs I loyd ind Mrs llnm Thompson The group reeenth irked their anniversary with a reun ion of present past interested the ini met in March 13 it Ihe lion of Mrs St Mrs is I or sptakc Mercian the Board who tile i con struclive interesting line the vork the could do form a I id board in helping to make a the close of this the Miss the election officers Mrs w is secretary for the even nominations were is follows president Mrs Lloyd Mrs ham Thompson Mrs Me and Mrs C David son Mrs wis I vice president Mrs Thompson Mrs George It wis a tied vote Mrs Second vice president Mrs Mrs Jesse The elected Mrs Near Secretary treat irer Mrs Denny Mrs Mrs Denny was elected The new president took the for the rest of ihe meetug Since the fall hair began in 1 the ladies of the community took in active part in helping with he hall exhibits On March 6 Mrs Wit ham Thompson the ladies an ited them to her home to form a Ladies Fair They felt they could help to lighten the load of the men group They have been very busy over the past years Mrs Near quoted when she las i voting delegite at con in loronto Its what up front counts I all forms of pub to jour fair and pro mote public relations nth eomniunity I his prompted the ladies ird to purchase banners to streets at each end of town advertise the dates of the fair Signs w ere made to hang over class in the hall Smocks w ere purchased for tors to wear to assist tors visitors if needed One of the important projects was the new bake in Centennnl year The pinde into the fair grounds for several years included the band and school children marching The tidies decided to give the parade a boost They con acted the industries and organizations a well as advertising in the piper for entries for floats Two tors icted is judges each year for best decorated doll buggies and bicycles in the children classes They en joyed decorating a non competitive float be en tered in parade The ladies were asked to help with the baby show and the entries increased each year by leaps and bounds They help ith the Miss Acton Committee The ladies were pleased to hear another girl from Miss Carol Thompson placed fourth in the Brant essay in the contest in Toronto BOTH THE FIRST and the present Ladies Board president were present at the fall fair Ladies division 20th anniversary reunion Left to right president in Edith Storey and present president Carmela Cobham Mrs Storey made two decorated cakes for the event For the Anniversary of the fur the ladies sponsored a special section in the home paying the prize money Thev give i special prize to the exhibitor with the most points in their class The lady exhibitor who has the most paints in all classes in the hall is awarded special The 12 meetings usually with reports from conveners of the different classes after tie fair They try to improve prue list to be more to the exhibitor Judges hive to be chosen f r another They send two voting dele gates to the convention in Toronto the district an meeting arc heard from furs each fair reports he high lights he ladies find it very interesting The board has many fund raising projects Their first euchre penny sale was held at the parish hall in 195J Some years the grouped together and held euchre in their homes it may seem all work up to this point they hive time for pleasure The ladies have enjoyed the an Christmas parties pic mes pot luck dinners guest speakers and den lions They are proud of their accomplishments over the past twenty years With the continued support of he dih gent hard working members old and new and the faithful helpers who arrive to lend a helping hand where needed they look forward eagerly o fair Past presidents are Mrs I loyd 1959 1960 Mrs William Thompson Mrs Wilfred Waldie 1963 1965 Mrs Donald Mathews Mrs Melvin 1968 Mrs Walter Lmham 1973 Mrs Edward Archibald 1971 Mrs Beer Mrs Wallace 1978 Mrs George Cobham Past secretaries are 1958 Mrs Denny 1965- Mrs McDonald 19681969 Mrs Donald 1971 Mrs McDonald 1972 1975 Mrs Calvin Mrs R Mrs Brian Eva as Heifers die in truck crash Three head of cattle were killed when a pick up truck northbound on the line north of Side Road plowed into a small herd that was walking south Friday morn John Kent R Acton was in charge of a group of five cattle when the truck driven by John of King ham Rd came onto the scene from the south Three heifers valued cording to Regional Police at 1 died in the collision Damage to the front and right front fender and door of the vehicle amounts to about police say Slightly hurt in the mishap was a passenger in truck Leo of Connecticut USA radio operators North nd most of provinces and United States The aim was to practise mobile radio emergency conditions No commercial power was used Taking part were James Colter Georgetown Don Steele Brampton Peter Irwin Bramalca ton Rod Pears liromalea Ron Reynolds Georgetown Bob I ears Itofcr bonk and Larry Sullivan Slreetsville We thought wed mike about 400 con tacts so we re extremely pleased with or so con tacts we made said Mr Colter They II be at It again the third weekend of June next year Tho Acton Free Pres3 Wednesday July 1978 Lucky winner Jim Ware of Mac Mr Ware bought his ticket donald held the win from Mr and Mrs George ticket in the St John during the Back to draw for a Acton Days festivities Tosh bi microwave oven POSITIVE Zellers Has No Low Prices About It Premium Charcoal Enjoy the pleasures of out door cookouts Long lasting charcoal briquets are Ideal or all your B needs ZELLERS MILTON MALL 55 Ontario Street South ITNUW Card Open MondayFriday 930930 Saturday 99 Phone 8788178