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Covrtice, Yourigsters Grow Top Notch Turnips Juclging from the collection of overgrown vegetables that have been appearing in the Statesman over the last few months, it would seem as though thumbs have neyer been greener than they were last summer. We've had giant cucumbers, jumbo tomatoes,,and huge potatoes. And'now, at the end of the vegetable season, we have discovered these monster turnips. The turnips wieighed in at about twenty pounds each and they were part of a family of six hefty turnips growing in a garden near Courtice. Eleven year old,' Paul Bobier and his ten year old sister. Cindy were the gardeners. The Bobiers live at R.R. 3 Bowmanville, on the Courtice Road. Legion Changes MonthlyDraws. Branch 178 of the' Royal pro vincial tickets and 50 -Canadian Legion will feature Wintario tickets. lottery tickets as well ýas cash As it seems impossible prizes in its monthly draws to beat these larger lotteries next year. with their higher irizes, it has Beginning in January, first been the decision of the Lejion prize will be $500 plus 50 to join them, thereby promot- f rý. Crafts anci Antiques , Brighten youir- Chriotmas giving with Antiques: SBrass, Copper, I China, Pewter, and a fine selection of antique furniture 1-Kendal Hifs Antiquese' Kirby -Highway115 and,35 Phone 983-5476 OpenDlaily 10a.m. to 5p.m. Sunday Noon to 4 p ing these lottery tickets by including themn as prizes. The new scale of prizes for January, February and March'are shown hereunder and it is felt that at the end of February, Br. 178 will have some idea if this is going the right direction, or not: lst prize-$500 cash, 50 Pro- vincial tickets, 50 Wintario tickets. 2nd. prize-$75 cash, 5 Provin- cial tickets, 50 Wintario tick- ets. 3rd prize-$50 cash, 5 Provin- cial tickets, 25 Wintario tick' ets. 4th prize-25 cash, 25 Wintar- io tickets. 5th prize-25 cash, 25 Wintar- io tickets. Sellers' prizes will also be changed accordîngly: lst-$50 & 50 Wintario tickets 2nd-$10 cash & 5 Wintario tickets, 3rd-$5 cash & 5 Wintario tickets, 4th & 5th sellers' prizes will be 5 Wintario tickets each. As the rush seems to be to Wintario and Provincial tick- 1éf Aiý I-oi&dthat the public will nowý spend more freely with the Legion monthly lottery tickets with -the hope of having more chances at the larger prizes from tickets won. The Legion Branch can think of no better advertising than to see that one of -the Legion winners would win, a million or $100,0 *00 dollars or the one of the smaller prizes with a ticket won in the Legion draws. Br. 178, Royal Candian Legion, would like to take this opportunity to thank ail of our customners that have bought tickets over the years. In the past 10 years the total sales on the monthly draw will be in excess of $358,000. Which has enabled the branch to continue doing a job of service to the WE HAVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS THAT WILL DEFINITELy GR'OW ON YQU Thisweeend omeand pick your own. Thristmase lntd corneWe av PonetamdptChristmas ~ ~ There is also a good selection of pottery, dried f Iowers (arranged or for crats) unusul hngesbooks, beautiful azaleas, terrari.ums and even a crafs),unuual angrstouch of the tropics. AZALEAS whil..they last $ 4.6 up UMBRELLA PLANTS $3.50 up NURSERY GRIOWN SPRUCE &t PINE CHRISTMAS L M TREES $3-5O up Open Sundays Taeatour of our big greenhouse and hear a carol or two. 'Tis the season. K*- We are-slightly out of Zic~YGrter-3aopthe way, but well 5e. 2Xéc ..On. worth the effort. (z ms E' >-Morgan '2 miles to M P Fo-r 1WERS. Corners ~ Nwovle . *E'ERÇREENS.- -TREES * sR~USs o2 i *oEDDINÛPlAN4TS w o 9 Lawn .NLERAL ASTOC 3mle oGad .SfER ATNACE 3mle.oGad Newcastle Receives Award at Waterloo Univers it y Deane Mclntyre, 67 Centre St., Bowmanville, is seen receiving a book award.,He has been made a Descartes fellow at the University of Waterloo, where he is a mathematies student. Seen with him is Dr. William Forbes, Dean of UW's Faculty of Mathematies. The Faculty honored those students showing superior ability in clear exposition. Deane McIntyre attended BowmanvilIe High Sehool in Howmanvilie prior to enrolling at UW. PoÉJrt Hope Merchan-kts Propceed %wVith PlIans Merchants in Port Hope are going ahead with plans to establish a business improve- ment district in their town. The plan for improvement calîs for a five year project with a suggested first year expenditure amounting to about $15,000. Money would be spent on items such as parking, street decor, Christmas lights and benches. The money would come fromn a special tax on merchants located in 'the business improvement district and it would be collected by a separate tax billing from the town hall. Details of the plan were presented to Port Hope Coun- cil last week and council was expected to pass the business improvement district by-law on Tuesday, December 7., Over a five year period, the program would cost an estim- ated $110,000 but after one Port Hope plans. Two student teachers, from and Mrs. Dorothy Gilmer cf Kingston' Teachers' -College Port Hope. are boarding with Mrs. Leone Mrs. Tizzard was guest Lane, for a couple weeks, and speaker last Thursday at the their names are Miss Jeanine Newcastle U.C.W. Unit meet- Webster, and Miss Leslie ing at the home of Mrs. Thos. Smith. They teach in New- Smith, Bowmanville. cas tde. At the first Card Party of the A court Whist Party, spon- faîl season, held in Commun- sored by two U.C.W. Units, ity Hall, Friday eveni ng, there wvas held in our Sunday School were foujr tables iin play with 'Hall on Wednes4lay evening. these ç iilrs-Higih Iadv- In spite of the severe weather, tihere w\ere ten tables in play, and an enjoyable time was had by all. Lunch was served,. at the close, with each person being given a number and draws were made. Nearly everyone receiving a gift of some sort. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Fletcher attended the united A.W. Retiree's Christmas Party, in Civic Auditorium, Oshawa, on Thursday afternoon. A turkey dinncr was served, and an enjoyable afternoon spent, with singing, speeches, lucky draws, and renewing old acquaintances. Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. F. Gilmer, on Wednesday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. George Kimbaîl, of Newcastle . > year, the project could be' cancelled by a negative vote from one third of alI partici- pating businesses. The project being proposed for Port Hope would be controlled by a board of administrators composed of two members of council and some Port Hope merchants. Merchants in Bowmanville are considering a business improvement plan of their own. It would be similar to the 'LLE Lena Clysdale, Low lady-Jean Perrin, High man-Edgar Mill- son, Low man-B. Milligan. 50-50 draw-Lena Clysdale. Mrs. Lena Graham of New- castle, was a Friday af temnoon visitor here, with Mr.. and Mrs. F. Gilmer. A family party was held, Saturday night, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Webster, Port Granby, in honor- o-f Section Two. The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, December 1, 1976 their nephew, Lee Webster and his fiance Marilyn Kins- ley, both of Queen's Univers- ity. Daughter Penny was home from Peterborough, of course, and her friend Brian Strippe, of Orillia, with about sixteen relatives being pre- sent. Mr. and Mrs. Melville Jones attended the Gideons' Christ- mas Party, Saturday evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, at Brookla. The second annual "Olde Tyme Barber Shop Show" presented by the Port Hope Chapter was held in the Port Hope High School, Saturday evening and local people in attendance included Mrs. Tiz- zard, Mrs. Leone Lane, Mrs. Bea Jones, Mr. Jim Adams, Mrs. Hazel Irwin. Miss Kim Gilmer with Mr. and Mrs. F. Gilmer and Mr. and Mrs. F. Stapleton. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Ton and Mrs. Amielia Lancaster were among those attending the Bazaar in St. Paul's Church, Port Hope on Friday evening. Violet Gilmèr and son Phil- ip, were the Greeters at our church door Sunday morning and ail admired the attractive Christmas tree, and decora- tions. Rev. Tizzard's theme was "History-His Story, Ad- vent 2" and Marlene Stacey read the story of' the latter, after which Marvin Stapleton and George Chrysler lit the two candles. The choir's offering was» "Lord, Help Me, Jesus", by five junior boys, namely, Mike Tizzard, Tîm Gardner, Ken Gilmer, Drew McQuat and Robbie Thomp- kins. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hender- son were supper guests, Sa tur- day with Mr. and Mrs. R. Alldread, Lakeshore. Mr. and Mrs. Amnie Selvig of Port Hope, with Mr. Wmi. Stapleton and Mr. and Mrs. Don Stapleton were Sunday supper guests in Toronto, with Mr. and Mrs. Neil Stapleton. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Boug- hen with Mrs. S. Gordon of Orono drove out to Peterbor- ough Sunday where they had dinner and watched the Santa Claus Parade. They also visited Rev. and Mrs. Gordon Montgomery, after the par- ade, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Earl McEwen, Peterborough, were Sunday visitors here, with Mrs. Agnes Burley. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lee of Cambray, attended our morn- ing church service and were dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Farrow. A birthday' party honoring the 9th birthday of Mrs. Lola Freeman, was held at Maple Grove Church, Sunday after- noon, and local -pecople attend- i ing included Mr, and Mrs. M. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. S. Lancaster, Mrs. A. Milligan and Bernice. Brownie News NOV. 24-]st Newtonville Brownies, together with Mrs. Marilyn Baker, Mrs. Thelma Sharpe, and Mrs. Val Zeitsma, went- to Ganaraska, Conserva- tion Area, for an ail day hike. They were asio accompanied by a Conservation Officer who guided their tour, and lit the campfire at lunch time. Dec. 1 was the night the "Tweenies" were formerly enrolled. Their parents were invited to watch, and later, were served coffee and dough- nuts by the older Brownies. Those enrolled were Laurie Adams, Tina Cox, Brenda Knapp, Claudia Kuehn, Robyn Lambert, Wendy Harness, Jackie Stapleton, Sharon Stap- leton, Sandra Zeitsma and Juanita Patterson. Final M eeting For 76 Council The Town of Newcastle's 1973-1976 council will hold its final meeting at i p.m. on Monday, December 13. The meeting has been re- scheduled from 7 p.m. Mon- day evening in order to give council members lots of time Io finish any year-end busi- IL iK expected Chat the Town of Neýwcaste will beringing in ils new council almost the same time [hat it rings in the 'new year, The most likely date for the new council to make its debut would be Monday, January 3rd but this date has not been confirme-' The ime and date of the first council meeting of 1977 will probabiy be diséussed when Che old council meets for one fast time on Monday. PHILIPSSle & and Service TE LE VIS ION SERVICE CO. Mel Samelis, Prop. 85 Church St., Bowmahville Telephone 623-3883 MARY LISKO OSHAWA AUTHOR SWILL BE AUTOGRAPHING HER BOOKS The, Happy Cookcer'm 9 ANDHERLATEST 9The Hoppy Looker pa thwrR FRIDAY DECEMBER 1Oth 2p.m.to5p.m. An Ideal Christmas Gift Bowmanville Tel. 623-6543 community, sponsoring youth sports, giving $1800 annuaily in Graduation Scholarships in the high schools, assisting youth activîties, Boy Scouts, Cub, Venturers, Girl Guides, Brownies, etc. as well as contributing to ail the charit- able organizations annually. t would be most unfortunate if the branch had to cut back on their extensive program of service to the community, and this is the main concemn to come up with a new type draw that will lead to greater sales. In 1971 total sales for the year were $52,134 with figures running from a low of $3806. For a month to a high of $4874. This was on the basis of 50-50, but since it was necessary to guarantee a prize, or prizes, on the licence, sales have dwindelled away to an esti- mated total for this year of $31,795 with lows of $2200 & $2300 per month. 1 During the months of Octo- ber and November the follow- ing 'donations and contribu- tions have been made from the lottery fund. Bowmanville Minor Hockey Mother's As- sociation Cook Book Promo- tion-$50, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Recreation Fund-$100, Santa Claus parade fund-$i00, Star Morris, Courtice Second- ary Sehool Scholarship-$600, Dale Metcaîf, C.S.S. Grade 13 English prize-$25, Dean Mcmn- tyre, Bowmanville High School Scholarship-$600, Can- adian National Institute for the Blind-$100, Mark Munday Yr. 4 Mathematics prize, Bowmanville High School-$25, St. John's Anglican Church Walkathon-$50, Durham Region Lung Assoc.-$25, Br. 178 Poppy Fund-$645. Cheryl Savery, Clarke High School Scholarship-$600, Mary Vel- duis, Clarke Hîgh School grade 13 Lower School English prize-$25. Our customers have made this possible. As this will be our last report before the festive season, we would like to wish, everyone a very Merry Christ- mas and a bright and proper-' ous New Year. .",.,, if ;t e e i- e