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Page 8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 29,1999 Newcastle News Hall Festival is Oct. 2 By Hazel Crago Newcastle Public School was opened on Tuesday, Sept. 7. It was a rainy day and traffic at Beaver and Edward was a concern. After speaking speaking to one of the teachers, parents are advised not to use the Edward Street entrance and road to the school. Construction Construction workers and vehicles are supposed to use that route. Now that the Durham Central Fair at Orono is over (and the weekend weather was so lovely) programmes in the village are important to the residents. residents. On Sept. 23 the Newcastle Ratepayers' Association resumes its meetings. The Optimist Club is made up of volunteers who work hard and pay their memberships to support the youth. Many activities are provided by these dedicated persons. Newcastle Hall Festival sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce is held Oct. 2. Many activities continue throughout the day - the Lions Walk- a-Dog^a-Thon, Bed Races, Bike Rodeo by the Optimists. The firefighters firefighters usually start the day with à pancake breakfast after which craft tables are set up. Due to circumstances beyond the manager's control, bowling at the Community Lanes cannot resume as planned. * St George's News !" Pentecost 16 September 12 Holy Communion was celebrated at 8 a.m. and Morning Prayer at 11:15 a.m. Sunday School sign-up was held and due to the increased number of children Chris Evans will welcome additional staff. Call Chris at 697- 8854 if you are able to volunteer 3 or 4 Sundays throughout the year. We are also looking for help in the Nursery. Nursery. Please call Joan Haring at 623- 5266 if you would like to help. The flowers were given to the Glory of God and in celebration of the wedding of Michelle Wilson and Brad Peters. Wednesday Morning Group resumed quilting and crafts on Wednesday Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. All ladies are welcome for this time of fellowship. On Sunday Sept. 12 at Newcastle United Church, guest soloist was Carissa Smith, daughter of Karen and Chris Smith, of Oshawa. Carissa, a Grade Ten student at Monsignor Paul Dwyer School, is studying Grade VI voice and Grade V piano with Ross Cotton. Her selections were Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and, As the Deer Pants for Living Water. Reverend Reverend David Chisling's reflection was titled Moving Over Water - Liberation! Liberation! Bazaar on Saturday, October 2nd from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. Newtonville Card Results There were nine and a half tables of card players at Newtonville Hall on Friday Sept. 10. Winners of the euchre games were: 1 st Helen Rose with 87 points; 2nd Reg McCool 85, 3rd Jean Holmes 78, 4th Norman Russell 77, 5th Cleo Dey 76 and 6th Edna Lucas 75. Lob ball tournament attracts eight teams By Harvey Yellowlees "The most effective water power in thcworld is tears". The country men's Lob Ball tournament tournament was held Sept. 11-12, with eight teams competing: Enniskillen, Pine Ridge, Courtice, Hampton Restaurant, Hampton Cowboys, Hampton Henry's, Solina Cowboys, Solina Computers and Solina Nailers. Some games were goods ones and some were not. Final standings were D champs, Hampton Restaurant; C champs, Courtice; B champs, Hampton Hampton Henry's. A champs- Solina Combines Combines with the runners-up, Solina Nailers. The bowling report this week has Solina with 7 points, Courtice 6, Hi C's 6, Hampton 5, Newton Shaw 0, and My Team 0 (but that will change!). High average - Ron Broome. High single Tim Jukes. Good luck in the season ahead men. Wednesday night cards at Hampton had 10 tables of players. Winners were high - Muriel Butson 90, Fred Griffin 87, Elwood Manns 87. Shirley Bubar 82, Meta Swain 81, Special number - Doric Christensen. Most lone hands Elwood Manns. Low - Cliff Stevenson. Stevenson. Lucky draws Franc Svetec, Betty Kuyer, Rod Simpson, June Marchant, Marie Gibson. The ladies served a tasty lunch. The village has been busy with workers this week installing the gas line to Solina. All the roads are marked with little orange flags so they will avoid other buried lines. Wednesday, Sept. 15 the Solina Silver Set had their monthly meeting at Solina Hall, with a good attendance. Chairperson Margaret Ford called the group together and asked the blessing. Everyone enjoyed the potluck dinner. Eileen Knox introduced our guest speaker, who was our own Jennifer Knox. Jennifer had spent three months in South America. She very capably took us with her on hcV trip by pictures, tales and souvenirs. Bernice Watson thanked her with a small gift. Thanks Jennifer, we all enjoyed it. A business session followed with minutes minutes by Barbara Kapteyn and a financial financial report by Alma Langmaid. On Oct. 20 we are leaving the hall at 8:30 a.m. for a Mystery Tour. Anyone wishing to join us, phone Bernice Watson at 263-2053 before Oct. 1. Travel will be by Kerr Bus Lines. The November meeting will be entertainment by men. Eldad church was busy on Sunday with the regular worship service in the morning and the memorial cemetery service in the afternoon. First meeting of the Bowmanville Women's Institute was held on Sept. 2 in Trinity Church hall with 13 members members present and one guest. The meeting meeting opened with the singing of the Institute Ode and O' Canada. The president read a poem and called on Louise Bell for the programme which was on "Culture". She read a poem on autumn, and Joan Cook read one on September. Motto "Idle hands make idle minds" was given by Jean McCal- lum. Louise introduced the speaker, Ross Metcalf, well known by all present. present. He spoke on culture saying it begins in the home, school and church. Respect for everyone comes from the same places. As he was a music teacher in the schools he spoke of the school fairs and Christmas concerts, concerts, besides other things that were part of the school work. This was also Solina News Dorothy Snowden was the greeter at the 11 am service and the lay reader was Betty Munro. Rev. Munro's sermon sermon was "Walking on Dry Land." Bands of marriage were published between James William Moore and Kimberly Rebecca Ashton. The memorial service was conducted conducted by the cemetery board. Pat Best and Rae Pascoc were greeters. Harold Yellowlees welcomed everyone and introduced the board. Bob Blackburn read the lesson and offered prayer. Clarence Bray and Larry Spires received the offering. The guest speaker was Ron Tidy who also did double duty as organist and choir leader. part of our culture. He said no more music teachers visit the schools so very little music is in the schools anymore. anymore. He closed by playing and singing some Scottish pieces with the ladies around the piano. We certainly enjoyed the music and also the talk of culture. Louis thanked Ross on behalf of the group. We then had the business meeting. Minutes of last meetings were read and approved. Treasure's report was given. Roll Call- Show and tell - any craft you have made was well answered and many crafts were shown. Correspondence was read. Vera Downey gave a report on the meeting we had-regarding our 100 th anniversary to be held on June 1st, 2000 in Trinity Church Hall. Plans are coming along very well, Next meeting is on Oct. 7 at Trinity Church Hall. If interested please come and join us. Bowmanville W.l. learns culture * & u 0 A A r:i JQ ,-u 10 v/ •Ik ni ni nl G A ,b v/ ■;u J -r! if; . o 1 ,7 T O )J Owner/Manager Peter Koslik and Assistant Manager Louise' ; Àrëenàult")Â/oÜld like to invite everyone to the Grand Opening of Newcastle RONA Hardware. Newcastle Hardware opened it's doors September 27th to provide the community a local outlet for hardware, hardware, electrical, plumbing, paint and home decor accessories, houseware and seasonal goods. Peter is looking forward to utilizing his 20 years of sales and marketing as a Professional Engineer and 25 years of extensive home renovation experiences to serve the communities hardware needs. ORANGE ^i$^BÜRDEN BAGS Reg. $5.39 A GRAND Thurs. 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