Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), November 7, 1979, p. 12

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The Free Press Wednesday Nov 7 Library looseleaf by Esther Taylor Remember old Bannockburn school Dublin and Lome and all Ihe rest of the one roomers an rural roads outside of Acton II dates youbut who you remember these schools or belter yet attended one of these outdated Institutions of learning It you only know of Lome from hearsay and find to imagine slogging two or three wintry miles to a little school warmed not always adequately by a voracious wood heater you may still enjoy reading John C Charyk volume of the Little While Schoolhouse subtitled of the Com unity Local readers will notice some differences because Charyk school house wis set In Alberta where the kids caught gophers for a one cent bounty during noon hour and rcce3S there are more similarities than differences as prairie schools like their counterparts in Ontario were dedicated to teaching the three Ft as economically as possible By todays more opulent standards on the heap Trusties of those rugged years would have howled Madness at anyone predicting broadloom Indoor wash rooms and gyms for schools of the future A chapter on The Christmas Concert will ring bells for old and middle aged Locally as in Alberta Chnstmis concerts were un forgettable It a long time ago but this ageing can recall the exuberant overcrowding the heat and the excitement during that continued for hours replete with some tearful and shepherds weiring paternal dressing gowns The reason was not complete if one failed to attend a rural school wingding Pulse of the Community is well named and well worth reading if only for an exercise In nostalgia In a world of catastrophes and alarms and all manner of lanky scary entertainment a new truly humorous book is an event Praia Is up to her laughable tricks again In Aunt Cope Book How To Get from Monday to Friday In Davs If the spate or self improve books and how to manuals drives you bananas Aunt Ermti Cope Book points the way to sanity claims she waded through 60odd books and articles on how to deal with oneself Having completed this punishment she reverted to being herself realizing at last that something was missing a sense of humor The library hab two of earlier books The Grnss is Always Greener Over the Septic Tankpapcrbaek If Life is A Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing In The Pits hi Looking for an absorbing biography Staff truelife addicts are happy to recommend Brando For Breakfast by Anna Kashfi Brando and P Stein and James Portrait of An American Heiress Life with Brando drove his wife Anna to seek solace in drink drugs and madness ConsueloVanderbilt 1964 heiress to the largest personal fort America has ever known married Charles Richard Spencer Churchill ninth Duke of Marl borough It was a loveless match plotted by her ruthless mother Alva whose father in law inherited when old Co nice Vanderbilt reluctantly went to his heavenly reward Another Brough biography in the library is the popular The Prince and the Lily Among fall fiction titles recently processed are A Choice of Catastrophes Isaac Successful Children Parties Wolf Recta To The Red Plant Eric Burgess King Landing Country Life in Canada Wayne Barrett English Furniture Edward T Toy Margaret At wood Lift Before Man a best seller top3 the current crop of new fiction titles Also on hand arc Sophie Choice William Needles William Deverell The Spring of the Tiger Victoria Holt Lions at Night RichardHlmmcl The aces of Nemesis Antony Ross Melville The Termination Order Phil Friedman Stephen In lime for and Christmas gifts the popular magazine Crafts n Things carries tips on making felt bunnies and mice wooden puzzles and a mocrame and lace hook combination labelled Owls in a Nest Seasonable but horrifying If am happens to be antihunt and trap Maclean cover story The Fall KIM contains some nightmarish statistics about the Increase in Canadian hunters and the rise in hunting licences by approx In the past two years According to the article by Roy six million or so living creatures of Canada will fall to the guns of autumn Ten per cent of this country population now engage in hunting spending upward of million on equipment and Iran sport Two or three daily at this time of Ihe year flocks of Canada geese fly over the en route to and from Fairy Lake and surrounding greens No matter how often one sees and heirs these magnificent birds there the same wonder and stirring of spirit Thit some will fall kill is unthinkable Minor injuries Eden Mills Pranksters out on Halloween me An resident received minor Injuries In a two car collision in Georgetown recently John Trimble Churchill Road S was driving his 1976 Mercury along Guelph Street when Ihe incident occurred Driver of the second vehicle Stephen Brown 3 Heather Court Georgetown was not injured Damage lo the Trimble car Is estimated at Brown 1977 Dodge has damage A 1979 Pont lae received in damages in a single car mishap John Kavanaugh 77 Nelson was driving down Ihe Line when he left he roadway in on effort to an animal Passengers Daniel and Marion Kavanaugh Queen St Georgetown and Ihe driver were not injured Second Alton Guide Pack received member from the Brownies last Wednesday evening In the front row led to right Shelley Dons ton Aral Connor Gudgeon Wendy Cotton and Angela Hunter Back Row new Guide Leader Ann Dow loo Chris line Beaton Helen Bird Nancy Norton and Sum one Mellon Halloween promenade brought out costumes EVE INJURIES St John Ambulance advises that eye injuries must receive medical attention immediately Bandage a clean dressing over the eye and take the casualty to the hospital by Mm MacDfwgaU Halloween passed rather quietly the young ones were out trick or treating and then went to the hall for a party The older ones played their annual trick by setting flres on both bridges Traffic was held up for a time until the Rockwood Fire Depart came and the flames The annual Community Club Baraar will be coming up on November Keep in mind also the annual Community meeting on November 19 All members most come Sincere gel well wishes from friends in this lage go to Archie of Ihe Guelph Police Force who lained serious injuries lo his hips and legs when a tree he was cutting down fell and pinned him to the ground A coffee group for young mothers Is being started for women In and Eden Mills They will meet every Wednesday morning from SO to The first meeting will be hosted by Rev Carrie at manse A babysitter will be available for the child ren The church Youth Group Is visiting an Anglican service of wor ship al St Matthias Church in Guelph Nov ember 16th They are also having a retreat to Crieff Hills on the week end of December 7 There were some American visitors at worship on Sunday Rev Doehring had her three aunts from Buffalo and Mr and Mrs bad company from Illinois Recent guests at the Gilbertson home were Mr and Mrs Jim Stevenson and Jennifer and Mr and Mrs Harry Cochrane or Creek Mr and Mrs Ted Archibald of Guelph and Jim and Grant Gilbert son Mrs Anna Wilson spent Sunday Moere- with sister Mrs Margaret ROey Friends of Mrs Wilson will be sorry to bear that she suffered a stroke and Is confined to hospital in Guelph Straight Stitch SEWING experience preferred Part time or fvff time available Days 8 to 4 or Nights 4 to 9 wr Country Legends 8784620 Main St Congratulations to Nora on lur accomplishments which arc acquired only through hard and Having received her in from Poly lech men I Institute loronln in iv this year she graduated in from of iielph with her Bachelor of Psychology and White studying the University a pari unit job and set up a library m tin Welling ion County Health Unit which is now Wellington and is now working as library itclmiuan Willi Hie of treasury and library Park Toronto lint supper it well with silting down lo Hit moulh watering goodness Mr Mrs Murray McLean of tht mna Town I me have bold their house and mined Into the end month Worth Texas has visiting a few days with his sisters and brothers in law Phyllis and Rev Hugh Moor house firmly London Ontario and and Gordon and visited the families at and Willowdalt Tin or treat crowd roaming iround nigh must have been irtatcd right for hen no ricks ll was pood spooky for tin witches to be roaming about and it is a credit Hit young folk I hat was no wilful damage done Mr and Mrs George of visited last weekend with their daughter and son inlaw Anne and Bruce Smith and wet son On Sunday they all attended Hit family re union al lhe Brownies and Guides enjoyed an outing at Kelso Park Three with help from mothers kept a watchful on Ihe young Brownies while lit Guides were their three leaders two groups had heir own hiking rails and their ires for cookout built wilhin of one Iliey ended up the by playing panics On Saturday join project the Guides and Brownies was a I lake sale at Grundy s sale barn Tht Guides sold the baking bui the donations came from both groups Manv strange para did in the annual school en promenade Almost every was in costume and for mi or A CANADAS NEEDS Prices Slashed to Clear on all 79 new factory demo HEART LAKE MOTORS MAIN ST NORTH BRAMPTON Pats Sales Sfirvice ACIW ado nun prizes were awarded for different categories Brislol as a bunny and Connie Me- received prizes for best animal costume The best Halloween cos was won by Mclanle Patterson as a witch and Rene VanKes leren as a hobo Nathan as a bunny and Doug Grundy as a hobo were the funniest and the most original was Heidi Schotach a scare crow Doug Root a headless man The best couple were VanManen and Debbie Sinclair as Raggedy Ann and Andy and Jim Culling and Mike Jessop as Franken stein and The grade 7 students had i heir parly before going to Ihe High School at i clock Co Accountants Road S GEORGETOWN 8776984 Lottario TICKETS Now Available At Eds In n Out 18 MAIN STREET SOUTH ACTON The natural beauty of Israel is something to behold The desert with its violet mountains yellow canyons rare wildlife and unique vegetation The dazzling coral of the Red Sea where youll see some of the most remarkable colors ever viewed underwater The nature reserve of Hai Bar where biblical animals such as the ibex gazelle and oryx antelope roam freely The Mediterranean grottoes of where splashing waves become rainbows The Sea of Galilee at sunrise The stillness of the Dead Sea at sunset But there is another kind of beauty too that is Israel A beauty that can be felt in Jerusalem Bethlehem Hebron Nazareth Jericho For Israel is the land of the Bible Come visit us Your you about the new Blow St Wot Suite low airfares and Toronto Ontario tours to Israel Tell me what to see once I get there

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