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4-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, December 6th, 1978 Certificate for Exemplory Service three one-woman shows and has been included in group shows at the Robert Mc- Laughlin Gallery, Oshawa One of the many exhibits at shown above. The idea was to and Whitby Arts. Previously the Christmas show of the copy a Christmas card which she has won awards in four is in the bottom left hand exhibitions of the ECOAA, Horticultural Society is corner. and in 1975 won the Bank Purchase Award in the Can- ECOAA annual exhibition won by Oshawa artists exemplory service to the Challice making the present- horticultural society. To the ation. right is the president, Isabelle Award for Meritorious Service All the awards at the 20th Annual East Central Ontario Art Association juried exhibi- tion were won by three Oshawa and region artists. The Dora Purdon Award for Best in the Show went to David Smith of Port Perry. The Rose Baker Award was presented to Laurine Sage of Oshawa, and the Don Maddox Award was won by Charles Cooper of Oshawa. Joan- Marie Dean, Oshawa painter and printmaker, had an etching accepted into the exhibition and she, along with Smith, Sage and Cooper are represented in the current exhibition at the Margot adian Society of Painters in Water Colour exhibition which opened in London, Ontario, at the London Art Gallery. Charles Cooper was born and still lives in Oshawa. After his retirement in 1975, he turned a hobby into a full-time profession. Int- erested in photography for many years, Cooper began to do silk-screen printing in 1976 and is largely self-taught. He received honourable mention in the 1978 Oshawa Art Association juried exhibition. The ECOAA exhibition con- tinues at the Art Gallery of Cobourg until December 26. Also receiving a certificate Adele McGill. Mrs. Joan dent of the society is shown of meritorious service to the Taylor, right, the past presi- making the presentation. horticultural society was SOiI/ Wood Combination Furnaces $995.00 Wood Furnace $540.00 Orono Fuel & Lumber Ltd. Lumber & Building Supplies - Fuel Oil - Oil Furnaces 983-9167 Station St. & Hwy. 115, Orono 'l