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Clubs and Oreanizations The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, May 27,1992 7 Veteran Lions Honored with 50 Year Awards Perfect Attendance forSolina W.t. Members Rotary Auction May 28th by Lorraine Manfredo Rotarians will be auctioning off $20,000 worth of goods and services tomorrow night at the Rotary dinner auction to be held at the Lions Centre. All proceeds will go to charity. Items destined for the auctioneer's auctioneer's block include antiques, power tools, original artwork, golf packages, boat cruises, baseball baseball tickets, sides of beef and much, much more. Bidders will find items ranging ranging in value from $25 to $3,000. All were donated by participating, participating, local merchants. Some tickets are still available. available. Contact Brad Hoc kin at 623- 4115 or Reg Freethy at 623- 7476. Ticket price includes dinner. The event kicks off at 6:00, Thursday, May 28th. Solina Women's Institute Holds Business Meeting The May meeting Women's Institute was of the Solina held at the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Plan Bike-a-thon May 31st food and drink * and more. The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen would like to invite the community out to enjoy this free event and support support the students involved. ■ Recently, eight members of Solina Women's Institute were honored honored for'attaining Perfect Attendance for 1991-92. Each received a tarnation for this feat. They are, from the left, Marjorie Cryderman, vi at T 8 ;P° I h I T,' l on l May 13 ^ 2 ' iViola Ashton Margaret Ford, Elaine Baker, Marion Broome, Dora- meeting witha pocmfolGty the ;thy Pascoe and Bernice Watson. Congratulations! ode and the Mary Stewart Collect. The minutes of the last meeting were read and the financial report was given. given. Correspondence was read including including a letter'from F.W.I.O. President Margaret Eberle re "I'm Proud to be a Canadian." November 12/92 will be Women's Day at the Royal Winter Fair. An Environment Fair will be held May 31 at the Bowmanville Recreation Recreation Complex. Reports were given re: Friendship. District Annual - by Barbara Kapteyn, Kapteyn, who stated there will be a rest booth at Orono Fair sponsored by W.I., also a W.I. exhibit at the fair. Fun Fair will be held at Kendal in '92. Jean Taylor reported on the Handicap Handicap access. -More information and prices should soon be available. Bernice Watson made a presentation presentation to member Dorothy Smith'who is moving from our community. Dorothy fittingly replied for the lovely "sun catcher". Donations were made to Durham Police for the Ontario Special Olympics and to the Adelaide Hoodless Hoodless Utility Fund. Barbara Kapteyn announced the list of items for the display at Orono. Barbara would welcome offers to make these items or to lend them for the display. Roll Call was - your participation plans for May 27. Many ideas from gardening to walking were given. Following one's Participaction call either 623-3379 or 623-3392 to have your 15 minute activity counted for our Town on May 27/92. Baker's Group with Jean Taylor as group leader began their programme entitled Spacetrack 2000. Jean read article "The Old Fashioned Garden". The Motto "Life is like a meat loaf - only as good as what goes into it" was given by Blaikic Rowsell complete complete with "apron" and "spoon" to make the meat loaf. Blaikie outlined the recipe for meatloaf from the Federated Federated W.I. Cook Book then gave a "Recipe for Living" and concluded with a "Psalm of Life". A recipe for all-of us to strive for through life. Well done, Blaikic. Barbara Kapteyn introduced our guest speaker for the evening, Carol Gonder, Recreation On Sunday, May 31st, from the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen will be holding their 3rd annual Bike-a-Thon and (Roadeo at the Clarke High School. >; Five primary schools (Kirby, Oro- Jio, St. Francis of Assisi, Newcastle, •and Newtonville) and the Pine Senior ^Public School will be taking part. The ■main purpose of the event, is to promote promote bicycle safety. All entrants must go through a bicycle safety inspection try their abilities on a skill testing course, then enter onto the Bike-a- thon track which is laid out on the parking lot. It's on this track, where the students will drive around (for a maximum 100 laps) to generate money money from pledges they have collected. 75% of the proceeds will be returned to the students' respective schools for them to use as they see fit. The remaining remaining 25% will go back to the Kinsmen, Kinsmen, so they may continue serving the community. During the event, all entrants will receive a prize, plus spot prizes are given out throughout the day. Prizes, including bicycles for highest pledges collected, and trophies and medallions for driving abilities will be presented at the schools at a later date. This event is being held in conjunction conjunction with Canada Fitwcck and Newcastle's Heritage Week celebrations. celebrations. There's going to be several other activities going on through-out. the day, including: * The Newcastle Fire Department's Department's new "Fire Safety House" which simulates an actual fire with smoke. The Firefighters will take the children through the house to show them the proper way to escape in an emergency. * a large yard sale * clowns * children's children's tractor pull * dunk tank * music music by Disc Jockey "Yellow Jacket" * Community Services Department for. the Town of Newcastle. Carol led us through exercises to music and told us about Space Track 2000. Carol gave us each a pin for Spacetrack 2000. She had many good ideas for fitness programmes for us. Carol was thanked for her presentation. presentation. The meeting closed with O Canada and Grace. A social hour followed in the lower lower hall with Baker's group in charge. Draws'for A.C.W.W. were provided by the East group. We were reminded of the June meeting June 10 at 8:00 p.m. Canadian Canadian Industry with the Village Group in charge. Lion Bob Kent (right), was honoured by fellow Lions at the May 11th meeting of the Bowmanville Lions Club. Since he joined the Lions Lions in 1942, Mr. Kent has missed only three actual meetings out of 1,200 - and those few he eventually made-up! The dedicated past- president described his 50 years with the club as "wonderful - with never a bad time or bad feeling." Bob Kent is seen here with his plaque and with Lion Jack Brough, another 50-year member. New Slate of Officers Elected for Business and Professional Women's Club 4H Horse Club Elects Directors : At May Meeting Durham East Horse Club is proud to say that they have begun another year of horse-laughing fun. We have had two meetings (including the first one) since that special day of April 29th when the fun began. On that day we introduced ourselves and our project project animals. The fun really began on May 20 when we met at Trillium Morgan Horse Farm (both meetings have been there). That day we had elections for president, vice-president, secretary and news reporter. It was a long and nerve racking experience for the candidates. candidates. After all positions were filled we were separated into two groups where we talked about nutrition (this year's topic). Then we had a contest to see which, people could put the horse's digestive system together the fastest and the most accurate. (Sorry, I hope you didn't just finish supper. It wasn't the real stuff. It was pieces of string on paper. The meeting was then closed and everyone jumped at the food being served. Two meetings down, a lot more to come (thank goodness). Tune in next time: same horsey news reporter;, reporter;, same horsey club, for the further further adventures of the Horse Club, as we visit Guelph University and a stan- dardbred farm. Who knows what could happen! Natalie Price District Liberals Hold Pre-Election Meetinq _ Members of the Bowmanville Business & Professional Women's Club met Thursday, May 21st at the Co-ordinator Darlington Manna Hotel. Recently, their new executive members to handle the club's affairs for d , uly o le f ed ' T r &y ar T z P ictl | red here - H front row, President Roxy Barnes, Carol Lohnes, District 4 Director, 2nd row, Irene Konzelmann, 1st Vice-President; Maureen Mumford, Past President- 3rd row, Peggy Bremner, Bulletin Editor; Barb Hicks, 2nd Vice President; back row, Wendy Martin' Treasurer; Susan Bowers, Ways & Means Director; Mavis Carlton, Secretary. ITS DEERE SEASON! great value just got better LX172 Lawn TYactor Federal Liberals from the surrounding area as far away as Haliburton, held a meeting at the Port Darlington Darlington Marina Hotel on Thursday, May 21st with a good attendance. At the head table were executive members, 1-r, Donna Lohnes, Treasurer; Linda Porritt, President; Judy Longficld, Nomination Chair, and Bev. Grose, OLP Area Co-ordinator. Following the photo session, members began their serious discussion discussion concerning pre-election proposals. 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