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The Acton Free Press Wednesday May 14 7 and district Rockwood DIGEST Count tbe Jelly Beam for a prize two year old Ruth Marline with one of the money making tables at the Nursery School Tea and sale Saturday a t Public School The gy Jammed with hundreds or enthusiastic buyer and tea drinkers traffic was jammed all around the school area You may think your household has the liveliest fireworks in but there 11 be some competition Sunday night at Com m unity Centre when the and District lions Clubs start setting off Victoria Day fire works The fun starts at dusk and costs just 1 SO for adults and 50 cents for kids The will have a food booth there Ram date is the following day Monday May 19 same time same station Thirteen scouts of the 1st Troop plus their leaders Bill Hammond and Kevin March travelled to Woodstock on Friday for a two day International with scouts from all over Canada and the United States It was super says leader Hammond We had excellent facilities with creeks hills and woods The youngsters took part in many activities including carving a totem pale lug of war scavenger hunt cross country races and ob stacle courses stilt walking and a tree lashing contest The scouts cooked all meals with the exception of a barbecue chicken dinner on Saturday night noone complained of stomach trouble Bob figures the troop was lucky to get away with a sliver in the hand and sand in an eye as the troops only injuries Bob also a scout leader who organized the event was unfortunately unable to attend due to illness Bill Hammond expressed his thanks to the six parent volunteer drivers who the troop to and from Woodstock and the Parents Committee who raised funds for the trip Sunshine Club are actively planning their float for Pioneer Day on June 14 The choir is also practicing the numbers they will be in Rochester New York when they take their trip on May Mrs Christina Robertson was back In the chair at the last Sunshine Club meeting after an illness In her report Mrs Isabel Neilis gives the results of games played at the recent club meeting playing as a lady Mr Max Milne with points playing as a man Mrs Christina Robertson Alex McPhedran and Wilbur Patterson tied with Mr William and Mr VictorSmithwonatcrokinole Pioneer Day is progressing as planned with many events falling into place The Tennis Club Dance on Saturday June held in conjunction with Pioneer Day will be indoors at the Rockmosa Community Centre instead of outside on the tennis courts as originally planned There will be prizes for decorated bicycles and all youngsters are invited to participate in the parade Bestfloatswillrecelvccashprizes There will be specific classes for the pet show involving dogs cats The Leo Club will be organizing a soap box derby with push type car- A bed race will be included for older children For the par adventurous raft races will be held on the Sounds like lots of fun Plan to attend at the ball park on June 14 Phono Barb with Ideas or if you wish to participate in any way This is the time of year for garage sales If you have junk that can be sold put it out for the special garbage day pickup May with your regular trash but in a separate pile If you want to acquire some pre used goodies be the bowling green town square by the cenotaph on May A huge flea market bake and rummage sale will be held from to p to raise money for the restoration of the Anglican Church On to and days in the sun check farms from Sydney to Melbourne They took in the Sydney Opera House and the harbour tour mountains and the river of Kangaroo Volley the largest fruit cannery in the world at Shcpardton irrigated farms rice paddies citrus groves and the International Harvester plant among ether sights They attended the Royal Sydney Easter Show where Earl Osborne judged classes This splendid fair is the Common wealth show for New South Wales Following Australia the tour group flew to Honolulu for a short rest before coming home In all miles were logged by air and miles by bus Grand River Conservation Authority plans to spend 500on further development of various conservation areas Including after receiving approval of a provincial grant of The grant will enable the authority to continue development and management of areas in with draft master plans and conceptual site plans Proposed development includes general grounds development reforestation land scaping beach development wildlife management roadway construction and general improver en t of various sanitary facilities and picnic areas in all conservation will receive only a portion of plan ned improvements Several residents are home from early spring holidays with interesting tales to tell Three Rockwood couples Joined a group of to take a month long tour of the South Pacific ralla and New Zealand Mr and Mrs Harry Bonner Mr and Mrs Alex and Mr and Mrs Ear Osborne made the trip as part of the Wellington Breeders The trip of a lifetime was organized in con Junction with the Ontario Branch of the Fries inn Association as a farm study tour First stop was where the group was able to spend a few days collecting their wits and re laxing after hectic departure a rrangcmenls On to New Zealand where a busy nine days were spent travelling from CI church and Auckland to Mount Cook and Hamilton seeing everything from the Glowworm caves a Maori concert thermal areas a stud the Agridome in Auckland and the in plus a variety of farms What an active week had for the first week of May Education week nursery school tea scouts going to an International Camperee everybody coming and going busy busy Education week school was well at tended by parents and friends for most of the week long activities The school was open 1 the public at most times special historical talks films and slides were shown to the youngsters and all classes entertained the parents with a lively Music Night on Tutsday Seventy six trombones Not quite but almost The Cenlennnlres the grade band entertained at Music Night at ten tennis Public School during education week 2010orB56 Qsmmge 4H achievement night by Doris Fines Five Ospringc girls completed the 4H pro ject and attended Achievement Night Ross MncKay school in Hillsburgh on May The girls are Shirley Fletcher Koren Wendy Van Dam Linda Earle Karen Pankratz and leaders Donna Sandy Debbie Clark Karen was commentator for the exhibit on The History of Macro me pointer was Wendy Van Dam The foil project will be Food or Ft lends which deals with preparation of party foods and how to energy in while preparing meals The parents organization had their meeting the week follow Ing the one Ospringc school when the school superintendent Mr Cor- came out to speak The ideas put forth were diSLUSsed and the de cision was for someone to attend the board meet to keep up to date on developments Mr Corbet had discussed the inflationary tactics that the school board Is using which they wish to do In the best interest of the taxpayer To fight inflation they are brick windows dropping programs and com puterizing buses to find the most efficient way of busing Schools enrollment has dropped below pupils have been designated for clos ing as one tactic or the second step would be twinning of schools to share one principal Penny and John of with their children Polly Whitney Charlie spent the weekend with John par Mr and Mrs Gor don Aitken The eighth film In the series is on The Age of Fragmentation ana will be shown at Knox Church next Sunday evening Here Dr Shacffer re views the current frag mented state of art music poetry and the motion picture as ex of man dilemma The Girl Guides are having a fun night at Os pringc school on Thurs day May 15 from 7 to m There will be mov ies games of chance refreshments and a rummage sale There will also be a plant sale as a school fund raising project by the parents group De livery will be May To place your order for flow era and vegetables con tact the school before May 10 Ospringc school had a very interesting Ed ucation Week On Mon day Erin District High School band played for all the students in the gym Members of tbe band demonstrated the ranges of their instru ments as they were des cribed by Mr Davidson their very capable band master Co 16 Road S 8776984 ROCKWOOD I DISTRICT LIONS CLUB PRESENTS VICTORIA DAY Fireworks Sunday May 18 Dusk Rockmosa Centre Rockwood Adults CHILDREN GO Ltonetles wilt have a snack booth ucw meets by Mrs R McLean The May meeting of Ebcnezcr UCW wa3 held at the home of Margaret Sadie Moore the president was in charge The roll call was an with a verse con taming the word build A letter was read from their foster child Sokoona The pro gram consisted of listen ing to a tape by Carver of Connection which was quite Spiring Lois assisted the hostess serving lunch Mr dealt with Mary Martha We are indebted much to others The Holy Spirit guides and corrects Just as parents do Home life is demo cratic Children arc taught to eventually be independent The once of Holy Spirit leads to having com munlonwith God on your own Teaching is best done by example ALWAYS GLAD TO HELP That the philosophy we lived by tor more than 100 years Because we made ft our business to offer more than de pendable products and services toour customers in south western Ontario We ve made our business one of helping families and trades people choose the products that are right for their needs And we made our name by provid ing the best possible quality of service It s how Boehmer conducted business when he founded Boehmers It s how we ve been conducting business for more than a century And it s how we II continue ALWAYS GLAD TO HELP How to cope Stress is something we encounter every week of the year But durng Mental Health Week from May to the were putting the stress on know how to cope with Stress is a part of noimal Ivmg And a little stress can even help individuals realize new successes or achievements But dence is mounting tint excess or prolonged stress is linked to llnesses So the trek is not to stress But to understand and control it And now during Mental Health Week is a good me to start If tens on and da ly pressures start mastering you instead of the other way around try dealing with them in a few simple ways Keep up your health Good physical condition can help you cope with stress situations Talk about or work out your problems Talking and physical activity are oml outlets whicn can help put problems into perspective G your support to friends family co workers dunng per of stress As it helps them itcimlsotakeyourmmdoffyour own problems Learn some of the new methods of controlling stress There are all kinds of techn ques from the simplest to the most sophisticated And finally get more information on how you can understand and deal with stress by writing to Ontario Ministry of Health Resource Centre Queens Park Toronto Ontario M7A1S2 After ill the more you know about stress the better you can cope with it And Mental Health Vveek is a good time to start Ontario Ministry of Dennis Ft Timbrell Health Minister