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i~- Cmi,. W..kIyTIm.a~ W.d>nnday, AprU 21% 1993 A short one this time- Althat jazz by Michael D. Woolner A some what reg.ular to'ý the, western bar was Gloria Gray being se.rved by bier daughter (ini real life), JuIe Mackey. Not woman enough You Aint Woman Enough states Sandra Lewis as shie protects her man, Charlie Hestor, On Saturday, April l7th, twelve societies of District 17, Horticulture assemnbled in the spacious auditorium of St. Joseph's on Liberty S t., Bowmnanville. Tables were ail set witb each societies name on, s0 you knew where to go. Stage was al] decorated witb plants to be given, away as prizes, and a big table withi coffee and freshi muffins, fruit bread, etc. and everyone with deeorated Easter bonnets to bc judged later. After you got your plants in competition and displays in order, you were able to have your coffee and goodies. District Director Anne Bourke was chairman, who called the meceting to order at 9:30 a.m. singing O'Canada. Pianist Doreen Lowery. A memorial service with Presidents of each society placing a carnation in a vase at the front of the room in m~emory of the dearly departed, while Doreen Lowery played 'Amnazing Grace". Greetings were brought fromn Host Society, E1aine Hutton, Bowmnanville, followed by Gord Milîs, M.PP, Mary Novac on. hehaîf of Mayor Hamnre of Gloria wants it a sbort-one this time stating that bier husband was beginnling to look good to iber so it was time to quit. from the Advances of Cheryl Klawitter made both in song and dance. Newcastle, Bert Card, O.H.A. Gust and Barbara Weese, R.O.S., O.M.A.F. Each were presented with a gift in apprciïation. Anne Bourke, called on the President of Orono Society to receive the District Award tor Orono for all the accomplishiments we made in 1992, with our fundraising for the Cenotaph. Shelley Etmanskîe called on Loran Atkins and they both h taîked tbe District for the award. -Roll caîl was taken with ninety-five present from twelve societies, followed by reports and minutes. Jill Chappeli of Orono, gave tbe Master Gardener report. Lorna Atkins was called on to introduce special guest speaker, AI Crawford, Past Pres. O.H.A. speaking on "Plant Stress ini Our Environment'. "AlI plant problems including insects and diseases are caused directly or indirectly by Plant Stress." Whatt is the definition of plant stress? t is conditions anid, influences that have an adverse affect on plants, their ge-neral health and vigour. Light, lack of igIl,. water, water levels, drainage, dew, ramn, soil, Adoption1 1 have always found the topic j of adoption quite interesting. Although there is flot mucb to tel about. f enjoy watching the reactions of some people when they -discover 1through conversation that is one area in which 1 thoroughily enjoy discussing. The-re are some however, who crinige at the very thought, as if they cannot understand the possibilýity o-f such an ordeal. Often, as 1 have noted before, that peoIple geýt a misconceptiofi that those ad.,opted-are different. Not quite. -It is true, thought of "rejection" had crossed mny mind many urnes during my life. 1. had felt at separate occasions, as if my air," fertility, trace mineraIs, tentliperature, competition, transplant stress and use stress to our advantage. It was a very interesýting to hecar about these. HortLiculture is flot just a hobby, it's a science of' an art of growing plants. Anne Bourke thanked our guest speaker and prcsented bim withi a gift of appreciation. Lunch was th)en served by Bowmianvilec Society. After lunch A the bats were on parade, with Doreen Lowery playing Easter Parade and Englisbi Country Garden. The ladies A paraded with tbcir fancy bats. Shelley Etmnanskie of Orono came in second. There were four meun who paraded thecir biats also. Presenitation of ftbe Tink Award, Society Table Top Display went to Pickering. Our retiring Anne Bourke made comments on bier past five years as Director and tbanked everyone for their support for al bier belpers, Vickie Lesnick wbio bas mo-ved tb e larmn. Botb receiîved gifts of ap-prciation. Annec declared ail off-iLces peni and Bert, Card, Past President O.H.A. was in chargo Eof io of Officers. KaitleenI Petrie is ouir New District Director; Ass. District Directors: Ernie Sobanti and Jiii Chappell; Secr-etatry Louise Johnson; Treasurer Bert Dickie; Auditors jlin and Joan Mc'william. Acceptance speech was given by our New Director Kathleen Petrie and congratulations to al the new assistants. .Margaret Almack expressed appreciation to the Host Society and inivited everyone to the 1994 Annual Meeting at Georgina- Brock. Shelley Etmanskie, Lorna Atkins, Doreen Lowery and Minnie Zegers all won prizes on their exhibits. Inez Harris and Minnie Zegers both won a draw prize. Nice to be lucky eh! Thie Meeting adjourned at 2:30 P.M., by Doreen Lcowery biological parentLs did flot want mie as their own. maybe !the cause of me existing was made possible by two teenage kids in the back seat of a car ninant empty parking? lot, or the upstairs bedroomi at a wild Fridlay night party. M',aybe it's something totally different. I don't eveni know for sure. Maybe 1 neyer will. As of yet, my decision to apply to Parent Finders, a children's aid organization, has flot been made certain. 1 have hard mnany stories of "cild-mieeting parent(s)", in which the whole idea was a compllete mistake, sucb as, discovýering somietbing about them you did flot likec, or do not secc fit. in that case, somnetimfes its ail Lthe best yvon do0flot 1<n1W. I guess, the main point of the story is, that ail it takes is two peopflec to bring a child into the world. But in the ey« es of a caring adoptive mnother, that's only part of' the journey. (With thanks to Linda Woolner, a.k.a. "mromn".) Orono J&M Customn Framing Tykes News (Contiued ftoni page 4) throwing him in the locker room shower. Appreciation is also extended to Brian's assistant coaches, Gerald Martin and Stuart Irwin. At each game, these men helped keep the lines straight, yelled at the bad referring and generally boasted the confidence of each player. One cannot forget the Contributions of therien in the Tim-Kepe'sBox, Poor Fred Cox spenit most of the season there, as did Blain oft Chris Robinson, Ron, Beacock and Wilf Quigley. And finally, appreciation is e-xtended to the fans and famiies who camne out and cheered, chanted and yelled at those referees, on behalf of their team. The hockey season may be over for J&M Custom Framing, Tykes, but the team deserves to be proud of this seasons' accomplisbments. The players will have the good memnories, the numerous trophies and the new skills they learned to tide them over until next season. Final playoff notes: Sunday, April 11, 1993- Shopper's Drug Mart defeats J&M Custom by a score of 6-3. Scoring for Orono were: Kyle MacDonald assisted by Chris Moffat; Curtis Rý,ohinson, unasýsisted;J- and Jordan Beacock assiý;sted by Curtis Robinson. Tuecsday, April '13, 1993 - J&M' Custom defeats M&M Meats hy a score of 14- 1. Scoring for Orono were: Nathan Adegeest Kyle Allin Jordan Becacock Steve Gregg Tyler Gregg A~ 3 1 2 3 Chris Moffat 1 4 Kyle MacDonald 3 Jesse Price 2 1 Curtis Robinson 4 4 Kienan Williams 2 Sunday, April 18, 1993 - Durham T.V. defeats j&M Custom by a score of 3-1. The Orono goal was scored by Jesse Price assisted by Tyler Gregg. The Lifesaver course is designed to teach essential lifesaving first aid skills to people of ail ages. Three and a haif hours of your timne could save a life. 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