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Orono Weekly Times, 2 Feb 1983, p. 3

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Rod Stork and Family Honoured Vj Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, Feburary 2, 1983, 3 St. Francis of Assisi News Items The C.W.L. held their general meeting on Thursday, January 13th. Our guest speaker for the evening was Mr. Bob Gleson, who spoke on "Family Life" programs which is now being implemented implemented in grades 1-3. , A card party was held on Thursday, January 27th in the parish hall. There was not a good turnout. Results were: High lady - Marg Gorman, Low lady - Mrs. Moffat. , High man - Alvin Yeo, Low man - Mr. Moffat. Door Prizd Ray Brown. Ndxt card party will be on Thursday, February 24th in the Parish Hall. Keep that date free and plan to attend. Our Parish winter picnic will be held on Sunday, February 6, at 1:00 p.m. at the Brownsdale Hall and Golf Course. Come and have fun with your family and fellow parishioners. A large crowd attended an Appreciation Night for Rod Stork ànd his family last Saturday evening in the Orono Community Centre. Rod has accepted the position as Agricultural Representative in Welland following a number of years working out of the office of the Department of Agriculture and Food in Bowman ville. Junior Farmers and 4-H groups provided a number of skits on Saturday night to the enjoyment of those in attendance and especially so when the take-off was on the former assistant at Bowman ville. The evening was concluded concluded with dancing and lunch. Pictured above are: Don Welsh, chairman for the evening, Rod Stork, Marlene Stork and Brian Hall associate director at Bowmanville and in the front row, Mike and Trevor Stork. The Storks have certainly certainly earned the respect of the farming community in the area. They were wished well through many presentations during the evening in their new challenges in Welland. ORONO, MOM'S KITCHEN QLDTIMERS 2nd Annual Valentines' Dance FEBRUARY 12,1983 8:30-1:00 Orono Community Centre $10.00 Per Couple Professional Social Workers now forming Durham Regional Branch The Ontario Association of Professional Social Workers which has recently seen a dramatic and substantial increase increase in membership and ac- , tivity across the province is gaining local support with the formation of a Durham Region Branch of the O.A.P.S.W. An informal survey among local social workers showed that a majority prefer to form a local branch, and the Durham Region Branch (Provisional) (Provisional) of Ontario Association Association of Professional Social Workers has formed. A Steering Committee (Provincial) (Provincial) for the Durham Branch is composed of local social work professionals. The committee committee plans several significant significant activities for 1983. Planning is underway for an inaugural meeting in April, open to all Durham Social Workers interested in affiliating with the Durham Branch. The meeting will provide an overview of Branch activities for 1983, provide an opportunity for area, social workers to meet as a group and address common interests and identify current social work concerns regarding regarding f)urham social problems. problems. Drummond White, Steering Steering Committee Chairman, in- i vites social workers interested in serving on the Steering Committee to, contact him (831-2424, 9:00 - 5:00). Social Workers who are not yet O.A.P.S.W. members may become involved involved with the local branch at the same time as they pursue O.A.P.S.W. membershig. Interested workers should contact Membership Chairman, Chairman, Colleen FitzGerald at Group of Seven showing at McLaughlin Gallery Lawren Harris Drawings: Seventy-five drawings by this member, of the Group of Seven will be on view at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, from 1 to 22 February 1983. The exhibition, exhibition, organized by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in conjunction conjunction with the Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, is being circulated nationally over the next two years. Several of the drawings are preparatory to well-known paintings. Joan Murray, the director of the gallery, and editor and journalist Robert Fulford prepared the book The Beginning of Vision: Lawren S. Harris which serves as the exhibition catalogue. Harris was a devotee of the pencil sketch as a "beginning of vision," and over the years he amassed a collection which traced his development as surely as any diary. These drawings follow his career from the early days in Toronto, Toronto, through the exhilaration of sketching trips to Lake Superior and The Rocky Mountains to the cool objectively objectively and pure form of his later abstractibns. Members and friends are 668-8024. All social workers interested interested in inaugural meeting should also ensure Colleen FitzGerald has their name and address for the Branch mailing list. A Social Action Subcommittee Subcommittee is also forming. If social workers are interested in supporting this, or wish to identify social issues for advocacy advocacy or social action by the O.A.P.S.W., please contact Grant Fair (433-1551, 9:00 - 5:00). The local Branch will be in a position to provide a variety of local activities to the members. Social workers with specific interests are urged urged to contact the Steering Committee to discuss them. ' Steering Committee members include Vijaya Sadana (668-5881), Rosemary Thompson (666-2500), Drummond White (831-2424), Colleen FitzGerald (668-8024), Marion Hunter (433-1551), invited to the opening on Tuesday, 1 February at 8 p.m. The special guest of honour at the opening will be Mira Godard. Lawren S. Harris will be the subject of Peter Larisey's illustrated lecture on Tuesday, Tuesday, * 15 February at the gallery, beginning at 8 p.m. Larisey has taught Art History at Carleton University University and Regis College, and recently received his Doctorate Doctorate (rom Columbia University . (His thesis was on the life and work of Lawren Harris). Admission $3.00, members $2.00, students and senior citizens $1.00. Paul Atkinson (433-1551), Susan Price (433-1551), and Grant Fair (433-1551). The ' Steering Committee , plans that the local branch will obtain obtain permanent status by this fall. 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