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< 4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 13,1991 Section Two Kidney Dance Successful Again This Year Top Students of the Month Selected for March Orono News by I. Challlce Quote - "The heart that is truly happy, never grows old. We don't cease playing because we have grown old; we grow old because we have ceased playing." Congratulations to our friends, Mac and Norma Ransberry who held another successful Kidney Foundation Foundation dance recently in Newcastle Newcastle Town hall. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ful- ford, Meaford, were Saturday Saturday visitors with her mother, mother, Mrs. Inez Harris. Remember to get your Durham Central Fair board banquet tickets right away. Call Donna Scott 983-5026 (Banquet) for April 10. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pi- gott, Mr. and Mrs. Fay Adams Adams attended the funeral of Alfred's niece's husband, Mr. Donald Ford, in Brantford, Brantford, last Wednesday. "Winter break" holiday visitors with the O. Çhallic- es were Mrs. Denise Warren, Warren, Peterborough, Mrs. Nancy Heckbeet, Rebecca, Rachel. Jessica and Jennifer, Jennifer, all from Apple River, N.S. and Mrs. Deanna Harmer, Oshawa. Sympathy of Community to Mrs. Joan Hollingsworth, formerly from Orono and now Bethany, in the loss of her father, Mr. George Marshall, Marshall, Cannington. Mrs. Edith Taylor and daughter, Anna-Marie Thomson have arrived home safely, after enjoying holidays holidays in Florida. Oshawa Presbyterial The annual meeting of the Oshawa Presbyterial U.C.W. (United Church Women) was held Tues., March 5, in Port Perry United United Church. The 1991 theme "Hi Neighbor, It's a Small World." Greetings were given by Rev. R. Lepage of Port Perry United church, and following following the "Let's Sing", Call to order by Mrs. Betty Turcott, President. The guest speaker for the meeting was Marion Kirkwood, Kirkwood, and she was one "of 8 United Church women to visit the women of the National National Council of Churches of Kenya from Nov. 5-17, 1990. Marion and her family were formerly United Church overseas personnel in Zambia. Many of those present will remember her tor her excellent leadership in music and story from the Ontario Women's Conferences, Conferences, Waterloo, 1990. Marion is presently on sabbatical from Metro Toronto school board. A delicious luncheon was much appreciated by all present. Those from Orono U.C.W. in attendance were Thelma Gilbank, Thelma Vagg, Dorothy Dorothy Barnett, Dorothy Bailey, Bailey, Eileen Billings, Inez Harris, Myrtle Reid, Adele McGill, Donna Scott, Shirley Moffat, Marie Tamblyn, Leila Leila Werry and Margaret Gunter. Orono Town Hall Party There were 10 tables of progressive euchre at the weekly card party in Orono Town hall, on Wed., March 7, and the following win- ners- High Scores - Marg Todd - 81; Tom Wilson - 80; Marg Linton - 78; Gladys Greenwood Greenwood - 75; Marion Sears - 73- Low Score - Jean Jillsen Lucky Draws - Vi Hayward, Hayward, Ray Goodey, Marion Sears, Raye Goode. Euchre every Wed. night at 8:00 p.m. and ladies please bring lunch. Leskard Card Party A smaller than usual crowd at the monthly euchre Let H&R Block prepare your GST return. If you're required to file a Goods and Services tax return, let the experts prepare it. We'll find you the biggest input tax credit you have coming. H&R BLOCK Canada's Tax Team. Put us to work for you! 243 King St. E. Bowmanville Mall 623-6957 1413 King St. E. Oshawa 432-6800 party, held Thurs., March 6, in Leskard Church hall and the following winners - High Score - Bernice Soper Soper - 86;Edgar Millson - 79; Low Score - Marg Todd 47; Rick Simpson - 46; Lucky Door Prize - Bill Grady Next card party is Thursday, Thursday, April 4, at 8:00 p.m. in Leskard Church hall. U.C.W. News The members of unit #1, met Wed. afternoon in the hall of the church with a good attendance. Dorothy Robinson, our leader, read a timely poem on "March" telling us the flower for March "The Daffodil" Daffodil" and our birthstone is "Aquamarine." Dorothy Barnett gave us an interesting resume of the annual Presbyterial U.C.W. meeting, held this year in Port Perry. An excellent programme programme and guest was thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed by all. The ladies of Unit #1 are catering to the upcoming D.H.I.C. banquet on March 29 at 12:00 p.m. Our general U.C.W. meeting is Thurs., March 28 in the main hall. The Committee Committee in charge of this meeting is Bertha White, Violet Violet Dunlop and Barbara Hannah. The theme of devotions was "Self Denial". Following the singing of the hymn "Count Your Many Blessings", Blessings", Bertha read an article "Lord Help Me" and Violet read scripture readings. Dorothy Barnett helped in place of Barbara Hannah who was absent, and she read the "Mission Moments." Moments." Following the benediction, benediction, a tasty lunch was enjoyed. enjoyed. The ladies of Unit #5 held their monthly meeting Tues., March 5, at the home of Mrs. Majorie Best. Devotions were based on "Humility" and very capably presented by Bud Grant. Following a short business business period, a delicious lunch and fellowship was much enjoyed by all present. Unit #4 met Tuesday evening evening in the Friendship Room, with Donna Scott and Irene Tennant in charge of the meeting. The devotions were from the recent "World Day of Prayer" program. A delightful film on "Canada" was much enjoyed by those present. A delicious lunch of muffins muffins and tea closed the meeting. meeting. Orono United Church News Rev. Milnes led a spirited sing-song of children's hymns in place of the children's children's story-time. We noticed noticed the adults enjoyed the music too. The choir ren- Old Munich Restaurant 255 King St. E. (at Ritson) Oshawa 436-5065 Live Entertainment and Dancing Fri. - Sat. - Sun. Dinner Special Mon. - Thurs. $6.95 Licensed Under-L.L.B.O. A «4 «I • Custom Homes • Designing • Renovating • Drafting • Additions • Permits. • Barns • Finishing "30 Years Experience" Box 401, Newcastle - 987-5400 I ' ! J Olde Tyme < Fish & Chips 136 King St. E. Bowmanville 623-1781 / r-JTtr / Mon. - Thurs. 11 a.m.--7 p.m. / J Friday-11 am.--9 p.m. 1 ----" Saturday -11 a.m.--7 p.m. We take pride in serving quality Fish and Chips. 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Flowers - Donna Scott has kindly offered to be in charge of the flowers at the front of the church. If you wish to place flowers in the church anytime,please contact contact Donna at 983-5026. Easter lilies would be welcome. If you could have them in time for Palm Sunday. Sunday. Good Friday Service - March 29, at 11:00 a.m. (Please note the time) for Kirby and Orono Congregations. Congregations. The Sacrament of Holy Communion with meditation meditation on Christ's last words from the Cross. A Taste of Korea - with Rev. Kwang II Lee, Wed., March 20tn at 7:00 p.m, Newcastle United Church. For tickets call 983-5550 Marie Tamblyn or 983-5702 Marlene Riseborough. Reserve Sunday, March 24'at 6:30 p.m. for our next film presentation "Jesus". The man you thought you knew! at Orono United Church. Note the time change, as the film is 2 hours long, lunch and fellowship fellowship following the film. Pictures Pictures are shown on large screen. Next film production is Sunday, April 21st at 7:00 p.m. 6 Molder of Dreams" (Part 1) and Sunday, April 28, at 7:00 p.m. Part II. These are all excellent family films, bring the children children and enjoy! Remember our food banks are in need of your participation. Also while nouse cleaning, urgent need of men's, children's and women's good, clean used clothing. Donations maybe left at Room #1 (off main hall, downstairs). \ Wilt'll hi'lp is iii'i'ded. The Red Cross. With your help, Red Cross provides a blanket of services and programmes in your community. Please support your local Red Cross branch. The Canadian Red Cross Society ^^1 The February "Students of the Month" at the Dr. Emily Stowe School in Courtice are shown here with Principal Wally Pitt and Vice-Prinicpal Pat Van Seg- gelen. The students are: Trina Guthrie, Erin Stainton, Jason Dobson, Krista Burnet, Erin Hyde, Shannon Ouellette, Millie Patel, Kate Fitzpatrick, John Meyer, Ashling Amato, Behzad Ali, Joel Esslemont, Matthew BACK A FIGHTER - The annual Easter Seals Campaign Campaign is now in full swing and the objective this year is $5 million. More than 36 million Easter Seals will be mailed to households across Canada as part of the fund-raising drive. The Bowmanville Rotary Club advises advises us that this year's local goal is $20,000. You are asked to drop off your envelope at the Bowmanville branch of the Bank of Montreal, so that fund-raisers can save on the cost of mailing. The Easter Seal Society Society serves over 7,700 Ontario children with physical disabilities. The society employs 40 Easter Seals nurses nurses in 23 offices within the province. It provides financial financial assistance, treatment and services. SPRING DANCE - The Tyrone United Church will hold its annual Spring Dance on Saturday, April 6. It starts at 8:30 p.m. and will be held at the Tyrone Community Centre. The D.J. will be Frank Barkey and the evening will include a light lunch and prizes. BIG SCIENCE FAIR - The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education will host a Science Fair on Saturday, April 13, in Port Hope. Students from across the Board's jurisdiction will be represented. Projects from kindergarten to grade three will be presented presented at the Dr. L. B. Powers Public School from 11 a.m. to 11:30. And Port Hope High School will host the displays from grade four to secondary school between between the hours of noon and 2:30 p.m. Last year, five students and four projects were selected from Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle to compete at a Canada- Wide Science Fair in Windsor. The students earned two gold medals and one honorable mention at the Canadian Canadian science fair. URANIUM FILM -'- A National Film Board of .Canada .Canada production entitled "Uranium" will be shown this evening (Wednesday, March 13) at the Whitby Public Library. It will be presented by Durham Nuclear Awareness and admission is free. The film will be shown at eight p.m. STICKY FINGERS -- Parents wondering what to do with the kids during the March school break may wish to visit the Maple Syrup Demonstration at the Purple Woods Conservation Area. Staff from the Central Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority will lead free tours of the sugarbush, illustrating Indian, pioneer, pioneer, and modern methods of producing maple syrup. Tours leave from the conservation area parking lot at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. from March 11 to 15. Tours ana demonstrations will also be offered on the following weekends: March 16-17 and March 29-April 1. BIG BANDS - Here's a film of interest to those who appreciate music from the heyday of Big Bands. Rare films featuring music of Harry James, Buddy Rogers and Ray Sinatra will be screened at the McLaughlin. Gallery in Oshawa on Thursday, March 21, at two p.m. The footage was shot during 1942-43 at the Skyline Skyline club, in New York City. Admission is free, but tickets are required. These can be picked up at the Gallery's security desk in advance of the film. WATERFOWL WEEKENDS -- Waterfowl viewing weekends will take place at Presqu'île Provincial Park on March 23 and 24 and March 29 to April 1. Bird watchers and those who would like to be bird watchers watchers are invited to come out and view the up to 25 species species of ducks, geese and swans returning to Canada after their winter in the south. Viewing stations are set up at the park, along with volunteers to identify the different birds. The park is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more details, call Presqu'île Provincial Park in Brighton at (613) 475-2204. SPRING/SUMMER ACTIVITIES - The Town of Newcastle's Spring/Summer Activity Guide is being distributed to area homes through the mail or through local post offices. Watch for it this week. It provides YUK-YUK'S -- On Thursday, April 4, there will be a Yuk Yuk's Comedy Night at Bowmanville High School Auditorium. Showtime is eight p.m. and tickets are available from the school. We'll keep you posted on other details as they are available. LIBRARY'S MARCH BREAK EVENTS - Your local local library has a number of special activities to keep the kids entertained and educated during the break. The topic on Thursday and Friday in the Newcastle Village branch will be codes and ciphers. All amateur spies age nine and up are invited to report to the library library between 2 and 3 p.m. to discover different kinds of codes and how they work. Register in person or by calling 987-4844. On Friday, March 15, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., the Bowmanville Branch will present "Percussion "Percussion Discussion." Kids are invited to join percussionist percussionist Michael Wood as he presents a lively music workshop introducing hand percussion instruments to children ages 6 to 10. Register in person or by calling 623-7322. Finally, children aged six an up are invited to meet visitors from the Orono Jungle Cat World on Saturday, March 16, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jungle Cat world will be bringing some special animals to the Bowmanville Library at that time. Free tickets are available from all branches. P complete list of sports and recreational activities for all ages. Information is also available by calling the Community Services Department of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle at 623-3379. PANCAKE WEEKEND -- Pancakes will be served from 9,:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Purple Woods Conservation Conservation Area March 23-24. Sugarbush tours will he running every half hour in conjunction with the event. The weekend is sponsored by the Durham A.M. Ki warns, warns, in association with the Conservation Authority. The tours, parking and admission are all free of charge. TEEN DANCE - On Friday, March 22, the Great Pine Ridge Kinettes will be holding a teen dance for students in grades six, seven, and eight. It will be held at the Orono Town Hall, between the hours of seven p.m. and 10 p.m. A special dance contest (for which an entry fee is required) will be part of the event. An admission fco will be charged, MAPLE SYRUP FEST -- The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen will be hosting a Maple Syrup Festival at the Alan Downes farm on Sunday, March 17. The event begins at nine a.m. and the menu includes sausage sausage and pancakes, fresh maple syrup, hot chocolate and coffee. There will be a small animal petting area and horse-drawn sleigh rides. The farm is located one kilometre east of the Kirby Ski Hill on Regional Road Nine. A small fee will be charged. PUBLIC SKATING THURSDAY - The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club will be offering free public skating skating on Thursday, March 14, in the Orono Arena. Bring along your skates between noon and three p.m. to enjoy enjoy the outing. SPRING FLOODING PROBLEMS - With rising temperatures and the levels of precipitation that can normally be expected during late winter and early spring, creeks may overflow their banks. Residents of the Oshawa, Bowmanville and Whitby areas with concerns concerns about high stream levels and hazardous conditions conditions should contact C. Conti, of the Central Lake Ontario Ontario Conservation Authority (579-0411). The Authority maintains a warning system to notify police and emergency departments, school boards, and the media, whenever flooding or hazardous creek conditions conditions can be expected. AIDS SPECIALIST SPEAKS - Dr. Alex Klein, HIV specialist from Mount Sinai Hospital, will be the keynote keynote speaker at a medical seminar planned by the Durham Region Lung Association for Wednesday, March 27. The one-day seminar will be held at the Oshawa Holiday Inn and will be of interest to physicians, physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and social workers. workers. For more details, call the Lung Association in Oshawa at 436-1046. PUBLIC TOURS RESUME -- The Darlington Nuclear Nuclear Generating Station has announced that it is resuming resuming its'program of public tours inside the station. You may recall that the tours had been cancelled earlier as a precaution against possible terrorist strikes. Now that the Gulf War has ended, the tours will resume. You must, however, call ahead if you wish to arrange to go inside the station. The Information Centre can be visited at any time during the regular hours of operation. operation. For further details, call 623-7122. OPTIMISTS TAKE KIDS TO JAYS GAME - The Bowmanville Optimist Club wishes to announce that with the co-operation of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Salvation Army, and local schools, they will be taking 72 boys and girls ages 8-16 to a Toronto Blue Jays game in June. Their day will include transportation, lunch at skydome, and a souvenir Blue Jay hat. Further Further details will follow. Little Brother Corner... "When you stretch the truth, people usually see through *?k «•" " Big Brothers of Newcastle 623-6646 irtVilkKls.-Will.. Withers, Sarah Ostler, Stephanie Lapointe, Laura Fitzpatrick, Diane Tuttle, Michelle Griffins, Christopher Christopher Cubitt, Grant Stirton, Joel Bridgewater, Ash- leigh Lawrence, Pearl Howard, Thespina Stassinakis, Roger Tsai, Tammy Kauffeldt, Stephanie Ileise, Jennifer Jennifer Lapointe, James Tuttle, Barry Bryans, Jamie Phillips, Victor Sealy and Clara Ong. MERVYN B. KELLY Barrister and Solicitor Serving Bowmanville and area residents since 19G8. 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