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16 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, January 26,1994 News from Blackstock ggjBBgBggjEgg Mm MtfWw / ' - ; y ■BU by Joyce Kelly Our community was shocked to learn of the passing of Mona Ferguson Ferguson Dunbar of West Hill very suddenly suddenly at her home. Sympathy is extended extended to her husband George and their family and also to her sister Thelma and Lloyd Wright and brother brother Bill and Jean Ferguson of this area. Sympathy is also extended to her brother Grant of Peterborough and sister Sandra of Oshawa, to their spouses and their families. Funeral service was Monday with spring burial burial at Cartwright Cemetery. Sympathy is also extended to Mary Forrest and her family on the sudden passing of her husband Bill. Bill and Mary moved to their new home in Caesarea last year and have been involved in community events, since then. Glad to report that Lloyd Trewin is progressing favorably following major surgery in Sunny brook Hospital Hospital last week. Happenings in Elizabethville By Edna Thickson On Tuesday afternoon the Elizabethville Elizabethville U.C.W. Unit II held their January meeting at Ken and Bertha Trew's home. We were supposed to go to Betty Mercer's but her brother John Burgess, Frankfort died and she went to her brother's. We had seven attend as several were sick, also we, were afraid of the weather as it was to be stormy but it did hold off for the meeting. The President Bertha presided and she had the devotional for the meeting. Predicting our own Future was her topic. Vivian Quan- trill, secretary, read the minutes and we discussed the annual meeting coming up later in January at Wark- worth and the Congregational meeting, meeting, January 30. Susan Peacock had a study on who is going to make the future. future. She finished with a piece about Widder Green's last Words. Edna Thickson had a poem and Bertha closed with prayer. A dainty lunch was served by the hostess. Orley Mercer is in Peterborough hospital. Elsie Litz came home from the hospital recently. On Thursday, the seniors had about twenty-five attending. It was time to renew our membership cards which Jean White was in charge of and most joined again for another year. On Sunday we cancelled the church service as it was so cold, especially especially in the morning, Sunday school was cancelled at Elizabethville Elizabethville too. Sympathies are extended to friends and relatives in the death of the late John Burgess who was buried at Brooklin last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Plunketts, Toronto, had dinner on Sunday with Vivian and Howard Quantrill. Irene Beatty had Gregory Austin for lunch on Sunday. The Burton boys James, Jonathon and Justin Yarema played hockey most of Sunday in different age groups at tournaments. Beryl and Suzanne were with me on Sunday, The cold weather and so much snow is keeping road crews as well as families busy, shovelling snow or trying to keep warm. Hope the coming coming week is a little warmer. Î; Clarence and Betty attended the Burgess funeral. New Exhibit Opens Longtime Blackstock resident Jenny Jenny Bailey has been transferred from Bowmanville Nursing Home to the Port Perry Community Nursing Home. She will welcome visits from her many friends, I am sure. Many from the Blackstock area enjoyed the many interesting events at the Snow Flake Festival in Port Perry over the past two weekends. Congratulations to the organizers for a job well done. The euchre party was struck by the very cold weather when only five tables were held. Winners were Margaret Margaret Finney, Doug Stanfield, Ncrta Masters, Edna Manns, Vivian Kidd, Grant Bright and Ross McRoberts. Lucky draws were won by Vivian Kidd, Muriel Butson, Earla Hill and Richard Manns. The annual Robert Fletcher Memorial Memorial Mixed Bonspiel will be held Saturday, February 5 at the local arena. arena. Sign-up sheet is at the rink now. After the curling, a roast beef dinner followed by dancing to the sounds of Bakerline DJ services will complete the day. You can take part in any part of the event that you choose, Make this an event to chase the winter blahs - a lot cheaper than to travel south! Many of our farm community are involved in various annual meetings and workshops in locations in many Ontario communities. Life in the agricultural agricultural business section is certainly busy at all times of the year. Karen and Doug Kadowaki, Allison, Allison, Janice and Phillip recently returned returned from a week in Florida where they visited Disneyworld and unexpectedly unexpectedly bumped into the Dingmans of Blackstock. Small world, isn't it? L armer chaired the meeting and began by reading a tribute to the New Year. Jean Ferguson used "A safe, stronghold" as'her topic for the worship. worship. Announcements were: workshops workshops for UCW at Courtice Church on Monday, January 17; Banquet for the Bob Fletcher Bonspiel February 5 and a Memorial Service for Reverend Clarence Ferguson in Blackstock United Church on April 17. Program was a dramatic presentation presentation of our "Overseas Mission History" History" with appropriate costumes and props, nanated by Marion and acted out by Audrey and Dora. The skit had the third world person saying "The missionaries came to us when we had the land and they had the Bible. They said "let us pray" and when we opened our eyes, the missionaries missionaries had the land and we had the Bible." The skit, taken from the Mandate Mandate magazine, ended -with the missionary missionary admitting that changes had to be made. Jean Ferguson closed the meeting with the benediction. News from Yelverton by Harvey Malcolm The many friends of Mrs. Mac Ransberry (Norma) of Orono will be pleased to hear that after suffering a brief relapse that at time of writing Norma has bounced back and is much improved. She is currently a patient in Oshawa General Hospital room 2409. Mac has indicated that they will again be sponsoring the Kidney Foundation dance in Newcastle in 1 early March as they have done for many years and hopes that they will continue to get the fine support that they have enjoyed in the past. It was our pleasure to attend a slide show and discussion by wildlife artist Michael Michael Dumas at the Lindsay Art Gallery Gallery on January 12th. The Gallery was filled to capacity to enjoy the many nature slides of his work followed followed by a discussion of how he proceeds proceeds from beginning to finished product of his paintings and sketches. As an addendum to the entertainment, entertainment, Mr. Dumas showed slides he had taken when he visited the Antarctic Antarctic by boat. A very interesting and informative informative evening and an opportunity to view many of his paintings. The old saw "Everybody talks about it, but nobody docs anything about it." - referring of course to the weather, was never more true than the last week or two when our general general area slipped into the deep freeze and stayed there day after day. We , can't remember having such a continuous continuous period of cold weather since we attended High School - and that ain't yesterday. One day we travelled to Blackstock High School when it was minus 36°F, the next day - a chilly 39°F (minus) we decided to stay home. Frostbitten faces were the order order of the day back in those good old days. Speedy convalescence to Mrs. Gertie McCabe of nearby Lotus who recently underwent an operation on her hand to correct a problem in that location. Congratulations to Reverend Paul Ross and his new Bride who are scheduled to be married near London Ontario where he is currently preaching preaching in a United Church Charge. Attending Attending the ceremony from Yelverton area were Linda and Ralph Pfoh who motored to London for the happy occasion. occasion. „ Tomorrow according to our weather reporters we will be experiencing experiencing the coldest day of the winter with wind chills aggravating even the frigid temperature. While we humans sit in the relative comfort of our heated heated domicile, it behooves us to think and to act to alleviate the hunger and suffering .of our feathered friends who do not enjoy such comforts. We submit the following poem we acquired acquired we remember not where which seems most appropriate to the topic: Feed the Birds When you sit beside your fireside, Secure and snug and warm, The little feathered songsters, Are battered by the storm. They huddle in the pinetrees, By winter's tempest chilled, Their welcome songs are silent, Their golden notes are stilled. Locked beneath a coat of ice, The ground on which they feed, Our little friends will perish, Unless we supply their need. Then let us feed the songsters, Throughout the bitter cold, In summer they'll repay us, A thousand thousand fold. Gallery in Oshawa ii An exhibition of drawings by Ajax artist Simon Gaskins will open at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery on February 3. The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on Thursday, February 3, 7-9 p.m. r, The works in this exhibition have been inspired by Simon Gaskin's recent recent travels. He says: j- The work which I am currently involved involved in has been triggered by the travelling I have done. The first thing Which I become aware of in another culture different to that which I am used to, I feel the need to edit and change myself, so that I fit in. In turn 11 1 become more aware of my surroundings. surroundings. This new self consciousness consciousness makes some of my memories of places I have been, and experiences I have had, very vivid. It is as though these places have imprinted on me and I have become a different person because of them. i! In my work I can not present feelings. feelings. I map the exterior or physical concept of shifting landscapes, and passage of time. My memories arc not accurately sequenced, some seem tb gain significance while others fade. All my life experience appears as a montage. j: I believe that the basis of all our experiences is held in the ground we walk on every day, the earth beneath our feet. 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