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istivv 1rt fttaeftt tolttre m the centennial theme for the fifth annual meeting of halton presbyterial united church women held thursday feb ruary 16 in st tails united church oakville mrs h r parker president welcomed the guests and dele gates end mrs m harper ex tended a warm welcome mr mtertte jons vicepre sident hamilton conference vc1w had charge of the wor ship period in her opening remarks the speaker said in thinking of the past the pres ent and the future it seems that change is the keyword but the underlying strength in times of change as far as the christians are concerned is god who is unchanging the treasurers report by mrs l b king showed that financially 1966 had been a good year the sum or 101- 35054 had been raised for all strposes by the women of alton presbyterial their commitment of 27000 to the unified budget fund of the church had been met and they gave aq additional sum of 2- 23536 towards the over and above projects for which the united church women assum ed responsibility in addition they supported generously a presbyterial meeting to past present and future thodist and congregational in burlington mrs e r whit- 1925 came union and the work field cooksville of the women progressed jto bread laughter and dignity new heights the ladies ailwas the film strip depicting or vaa were later in organtz- the work of the church at ing- than were the wals mrs gordon lapp had the literature presentation and after recommending several books for reading she review ed the clear spirit mrs peter zaharak reviewed a new look at television while william bird from the ryer- son bookstore reviewed the big change by rev d dolan there was an excellent selec tion of books on display and for sale mrs martin johns brought greetings from hamilton con ference and presided for the election of officers the slate of officrs was presented by mrs lindsay cummins in the absence of mrs e r whit field these officer were in stalled inthe afternoon session by lherev7to j parr the slate of officers for 1967 is as follows president mrs h r parker port credit past president mrs sove reign burlington exec vice president mrs w d stain- ton oakville area presidents are mrs r e halward rjr hamilton mrs o maclaren george- number of united church pro- town mrs roy coulter camp- jects as well as meeting their behynje mrs w f carroll share of the cost of upkeep of the local church and the manse the ucw proposed budget for 1967 was presented by mrs cooksville mrs c hawke clarksoti recording secretary mrs s j hershey oakville corresponding secretary mrs l riva cooksville treasurer act free press wednesday february 22 1967 9 11 i canadian indians assisted by church wms study shows the afternoon auxiliary of the womens missionary soci ety of knox church acton held its february meeting at the home of mrs a m wiac- pherson the president after a call to worship and prayer wel comed members and quests and then turned the meeting oyer to mrs o moran and her committee for the worship ser vice which included the stud and the devotional period which was taken by mrs c hansen and mrs o moran continuing the study from douglas o wilsons book the church grows in canada the convener introduced the chap ter the church and thefirst canadians by asking the in dian canadian who is he explorers found scattered bands of reddish skinned peo ple having difficult times to find food and shelter the treatment of these people since that time is a part of history that is now resulting in a dif ficult situation for our govern ment for a time the only help i hey received was from the churches that opened schools and brought teachers to the reserves mrs moran mrs mclntyre mrs mccutcheon and mrs macpherson gave a most inter esting history from the time the first white men found them to the present time when we find many educated ones are holding important posi tions and are working to place their people in better homes and helping to get better edu cation for all for years the churches were the only ones who built schools l the presbyterian church has supervision under the govern ment of two schools they built one at birtle and the cecilia canadian weekly newspapers association announces home and abroad the centennial hymn by kenneth a moyer and rev le lacheur was used as an open ing for the afternoon session the guest speaker was rev l a purdy planningassociate for the alcoholism and drug addiction research founda tion he is probably best known as the creater of the clever cartoons in the obser ver the topic of his address was the church in tjie future change and challenge mrs w d stainton was chairman of the committee who planrted the annual meet ing missionary theme at evangel church the womens missionary council of evangel tabernacle took the opportunity sunday night to share the themes of their missionary work for 1967 centennial year the president mrs arlene kingwell acted as chairman and guided the ladies through a very interesting participation relative to national and dist rict wmc day activities e s leaker and was accept- mrsj b wng waterdown ed it is as follows allocation for share of unified budget fund as received from con ference ucw 28000 share of- hamilton conference ucw expenses 245 presbyterial committee chairman citi zenship and social action mrs le m flowers meadow- vale coop in ce me mrs h mcdonald cooksville mv mm i finance mrs e s leaker ucw expends 9 making cooksville nominations mrs a total of 95 e sovereign burlington since the morning session was to deal with the past a portfolio secretaries corn- skit entitled beginnings had munity friendship and visit- been prepared by mrs n k ing mrs k 0 foster milton campbell the players were literarura and communica- p barker mrs e hawes mrs from east flams nd worecltlbyis mrs n kr campbeb- vi norton mrs g stewart costbrncs of pioneer days t- borllngton prdss and publt mrsrlfletcher and mrs h in 1816 at halifax a metho- city miss myrtle blanshard dlst benevolent society was burlington assistant mrs e mrs kay bailey acted as song leader mrs r- brown jeffrey school at kenora mrs b feltham mrs g bow- where a graduate of birtle is en mrs l kingwell rendered now principal special numbers in music and the roll call was answered song information regarding the the evening was interspers- work of indians to show their ed with a missionary skit a value to our country poem offering reminiscing and gifted speakers the theme go and tell was ably given by mrs l macmurdo mrs b kabelka mrs r hod- der mrs f taylor mrs r brown mrs e pasmore and mrs b feltham others taking part were mrs formed five years later at halifax a female benevolent society for home missions was formed lay 1s23 in a little village in princetown pjel four wot men gathered to organite a socictv for helping others a female society for the pro- pogatton of the gospel and other religious purposes the membership was one penny fifty vears later three wo mens mis boa were organized presbyterian me- m tritton burlington pro gram secretary mrs h l shepherd burlington assis tants mrs g w cushnie oak ville and mrs c c smith waterdown stewardship and recruiting mrs l shaw clark- son supply and social assis tance mrs ie c tombs port credit archivist mrs h b monaghan burtington mem bers without portfolio mrs lindsay cummins millgrove mrs byrnes fleuty cooks yille mrs keith mcmillan sconda absent was mrs p binnie wmc secretary mrs h norton was organist a solo i am a child of the king by miss bellamae ros- zell was enjoyed by all reports were read and re ceived mss isobcl anderson read a letter from miss ram say of guiana and mrs sprowl one from mrs e w smith a former member who is now convalescing after a serious ill- 1 ness before closing the meeting the president gave the chal lenge of doing more to bring an offering was taken for ad- happiness to others in this ministration for the national centennial year centennia contest for secondary school students my responsibility asa canadian and district wmc work con ducted at paoc offices in toronto and hamilton respec tively during the social hour they enjoyed meeting a new mem ber and a guest from leth- bridge united church furnishing manor room pageant planned by wi reminiscences of a holiday spent last year abroad were hhred with dublin womens institute members last thurs day evening at their regular mont m w mfs melvin mccullough show ed pictures of their trip it was a delightful sojourn to the british isles jersev and guernsey islands and all en joyed the pictures verv much slider were also shown of a previous trip to florida show ing the beauty down there some local pictures were al so shown on ot special inter est being the change of loca tion of the old bethel hall at knitchbull this building for many years was used as a sun day school and also an elec tion poll when required it had been sold and the purchas ers had dismantled the build ing which was of log construc tion and moved it carefultv to the coltingwood district it has been rebuilt and some changes made and now serves as a ski lodge several of the institute members and their famines had seen the building last summer in its new loca tion mrs w mclntvre thanked mr and mrs mccullough for their enjoyable pictures bring box lunches and coffee will be served by the hosting institute the quilt committee review ed what they had been doine this month one quilt which a meeting hosted by mrs mansell nellis blue springs road nassaga- weya was mrs c britton president who conducted the opening e mrs e- nor ton secretary read the min utes and called the roll which was answered by my favorite superstition final plans were made for the quilt forum to be held on march 7 and at the acton arena from 10 am to 4 pjn a list of articles required was given ladies attending win had been just completed at the home of mrs charles thomp son churchill road s was shown to the ladies another one is in the frames partially completed at the home of mrs george robertson s mrs w britton again hand ed in a nice sum of money from the efforts of herself and her committee at an auction sale at stewart town recently arr are to be made by the secretary with s allen for a visit of some of the members to the new martin house milton the furnishing of a single room in this new home for the aged is the cen tennial project of dublin wo mens institute the usual donation to the halton music festival was ap proved an invitation was accepted to assist the nassagaweya wo mens institute in producing a centennial pageant in brook- ville hall on june 20 as u convener mrs alex near spoke on several food items that are misleading to the housewives purchasing as to content however she explained these facts are being taken up at the present time by the canadian consumer as sociation the place of agriculture at expo 67 was well taken by the convener mrs w britton mrs near gave a humorous reading the animal in man a dainty lunch was served by mrs n douglas and mrs f mccarron assisted by the hostess mrs nellis mrs c mclntyre was courtesy conven er 4s attention secondary school students you can win prizes 25 15 and 10 crtm every citizen of a nation bears a responsibility for the conduct and welfare of his country there 4s no more important group to whom the nation should listen than to its youth it is her young people who will decide what kind of country this canada of ours will be in the years to come as a prominent statesman told the people not long ago as citizens of this democracy you ore the rulers and the ruled the lawgivers and tliewbidingrthebeginningand4heencl a wbmmno of- local interest will be solemnized at the quoensway cathedral toronto march 25 1967 when miss jeanmarie mcdonald a teacher at the m z bennett school becomes the bride of john m anderson toronto the bride- tobe is the daughter of mr and mrs d g mcdonald of scar borough her fiance is the son of mr and mrs chris anderson of south porcupine ont legion ladies from district entertained by acton group a verv enjoyable evening was held in the legion hall when the ladies legioh aux- ilian entertained visiting aux iliaries from georgetown erin bronte milton port credi oakville cooksville brampton and streetsville mrs isabelle moore charlie rocher and e zions played and sang western music ten year old ricky rocher played two selections on the accord ion everyone enjoyed very much com j higgins two solos and john mchugh sang galway bay and an encore george musselle entertained the ladies with a solo also four members of the choral- lers h peal h ohourke j higgins and j mchugh came back manv times for their sel ections there was a draw made for 23 different gifts with winners from all the auxiliaries president mrs g james welcomed the visitors and all the presidents received a small gift the evening ended with a bounteous lunch of all kinds of salads cold meat and dif ferent homemade desserts mrs k turkosz was in charge of the lunch and mrs p turkosz and mrs c shulrjs convened the entertainment mrs lois gordon and mrs r angell looked after the ra- ckv draw because of your importance to the nations future we feel it is ap propriate in this centennial year that you have the opportunity to express your views on what you think your responsibilities are to your country and so it is with pleasure we announce the the acton free press centennial essay contest for secondary school students so start today to write your essay on my responsibiuty as a canadian the people who win will write because they have some ideas and want to express them but for further motivation there are prizes of 25 15 and 10 rriore prizes if you win the provincial competition and a trip to ottawa plus more prizes for the national winner well print the best essays judges decisions are final here t tie me 1 you must be attending high school at the time the essay is submitted 2 you may not be a member of the immediate family of an employee of your newspaper 3 your essay shouldnt be more than 750 vyords long it would be helpful if it were typed or at least written legibly 4 essays must be received by the acton free press not later then march 31 1967 d a