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The Clarington/Courtice Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, November 2, 1996 5 Hi folks! Welcome to the World of Art. On Monday, September 16th, at Solina Hall, 23 4-H'ers met under the leadership of Eric and Jennifer Bowman. The executive members of our club are Emily Metcalf, President; Gillian Barrie, Vice- President; Mitchell Morawetz, Secretary; Tom Best, Treasurer and Kim Metcalf, Press Reporter. Reporter. One of the activities of this club was to attend the Art Festival at Gamp Samac on September 20 to September 22. Do you know how many different different types of pencils there The Art of Quilts An exhibition of original quilts created by Oshawa artist Thérèse Bisson Kirkland will open at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery on 7 November, 1996. The public is invited to meet the artist at a gallery reception reception to be held Sunday, 17 November, 2 - 4 p.m. At the reception, reception, guests will enjoy music music of the season performed by harpist, Janet Cain. are? We all drew a picture of a building and we will be redrawing redrawing the same picture at our last meeting to see how we have improved. We met again on September 23 at 7:00 p.m. at Solina Hall. If you are between between the age of 10-21 as of January 1,1996 and you are interested interested in 4-H, please contact Karen Dair at 263-8886 for more information. At our second meeting we decided to call ourselves Solina Solina Paint Brushes. Using perspective, perspective, we know know how to draw a building with or without a chimney. Eric and Jennifer Bowman asked us to think of something we wish to draw for our project to complete complete this club. At our third meeting in the Solina Hall, September 30, Glenn Johnson taught us his drawing techniques. Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Planning Fun Activities Xi Zeta Lambda, Beta Sigma Sigma Phi Sorority, has started another another season of Life, Learning and Friendship. Jewel Johnson, as president, is guiding our chapter through this year of fun-filled activities and service. During our twice monthly get-togethers, we have plans to have one meeting to take care of business accompanied accompanied by a program and the other other to be more socially involved either among ourselves or in the community. There are a lot of good social social events planned by Sonia Parfitt and her committee - such as helping with Stratha- ven's Hallowe'en Pub Night with all the sisters in disguises, weird and wonderful. We have already had our Super-Weekend-Get-Aw ay at Sue Jansma's cottage near Hal- iburton - a wow of a success - thanks Sue! Next year's annual return is already planned! Our annual Christmas Dinner Dinner for the Five chapters of Beta Sigma Phi in Clarington is to be held at Trinity Church in early December. A Friendship Friendship Night is planned for February. February. Our Service Committee chaired by Penny Anne Davidson Davidson has been busy exploring needs in the community, to volunteer our time and funds. We are contributing to Bethes- da House, Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville and Courtice High School Scholarships, Blood Donor Clinics, Terry Fox Run amongst others. Our Ways and Means Committee Committee headed by Barb McFa- dyen has already organized a Craft and Bird Feeder sale and a Christmas Cheese Drive to augment our Treasury. You can see we are a busy group having a good time together. together. Sorority is open to anyone anyone wishing to join an interesting interesting and stimulating group of women of all ages. Call Judy Kobes at 263- 2360 for information. Penny Anne Davidson The Bowmanville Mall was filled with a colorful cast of characters on Saturday, October 26. About 30 children entered the Halloween Costume Contest at the mall. The winners are pictured above with their prizes. They are (in the back row): Aaron Van Allen as Death, Rachel Edmondson as a jester (with her mom), and Angela Smart as a princess. In the front are: Caitlynn Vanderstarre as a scarecrow, Travis Doswell as a pirate, and Matthew Dewell as a Power Ranger. 4-H Club Visits Art Festival Photo Essay of Sicily On Display at Gallery Isola, a photographic essay on the islands of Sicily by Pickering artist, Linda Ward Selbie opens at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery on Thursday, Thursday, 7 November. The public is invited to meet the artist 'at a gallery reception reception on Thursday, 7 November, November, 7-9 p.m. The exhibition comprises twenty reprograph images from colour photographs transferred transferred to digital files and output output on the new Xerox large format format printer. The process is similar to four-colour off-set printing. "I use the process in order to achieve size," Ward Selbie emphasizes. "The original original photographs are not manipulated manipulated or altered otherwise." In these large four by five feet works, the grain is magnified, the colours are softened and fused. Eager to understand her Italian heritage: Linda Ward Selbie visited Sicily in 1995 exploring Greek temple sites and volcano sites. "It was a spiritual quest," she says. The only figures in the desolate scenes are carved from stone, plaster, painted on walls or fixed to cemetery monuments as memento mori. "In this series series I have chosen not to photograph photograph people," Ward Selbie says. A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic, Polytechnic, Toronto, Linda Ward Selbie has exhibited her work since 1983. Her exhibition Circus Circus Vesta was featured at the gallery in 1992. The exhibition will be opened by a representative of the Italian Consulate, Toronto. The generous sponsorship of Management Graphics, Research Research Capital Corporation and The Document Company, Xerox, Xerox, all of Toronto, is greatly appreciated. KX96FM Radio and The Scugog Centre Advisory Board present A COUNTRY REUNION DANCE with Square Dancing Featuring Country Recording Artists: Johnny Burke and the East Wind Band with Gary Hooper, Larry Hannah, Ivan Skivinski Skvar at Scugog Centre Community Hall 1655 Reach Street (beside Arena), Port Perry, Ontario Saturday, November 9,1996 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Tickets: $25/couple or $15/single Available at: the Municipal Office, the Arena, Advisory Board Members and User Groups For more information or to order tickets: Call (905) 985-3686 or 985-8698 (Fund Raiser for Scugog Centre) "Win a Trip to Nashvi^e" p NEED TO KNOW SOMETH! NG ABOUT Y OUR NEW COMMUN! TV? 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