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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Orono Weekly Times - 13 Church Directory Orono United Church Reverend Dorinda Vollmer Orono Church Office 905-983-5502 905-697-9715 - Minister * * * * * . December 5 - 2nd Sunday in Advent Regular Service December 12 - 3rd Sunday in Advent Sunday School Pageant & White Gift Service ~ All Welcome ~ NURSERY & SUNDAY SCHOOL fl ill! ■ * «* i ** i l „ "i i 1 iffB li The United Church of Canada NEWTONVILLE-SHILÔH PASTORAL CHARGE Rev. D.A. Stiles, B.A., b.d. 905-786-2950 Newtonville - 9:45 a.m. Shiloh -11:15 a.m. "A warm welcome to all" St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 47 Temperance St., Bowmanville Welcomes you to Worship! Sunday, December 5th • 11 a.m. Advent 2 Communion Celebration Sunday School 11 a.m. Sunday, December 12 • 11 a.m. Sunday School Pageant "Our Message" Rev. Noel Gordon 905-623-3432 S - . llliSilljSlijlllSllilliiijjiiiilîljiiili • il wo'rs 1 mill Anglican Churches Rev. Canon David R. Saunders, CD St. Saviour's - Orono 27 Mill Street • 905-987-2019 9:30 a.m. - Worship, Sunday School, Youth Group Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer - 2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday Coffee and Fellowship to follow St. George's - Newcastle 250 Mill St. S. • 905-987-2019 8 a.m. - Holy Communion 11:15 a.m. - Worship, Sunday School Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer 2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday Coffee and Fellowship to follow . Kendal | United Church "Friendly Church in the Vale" Rev. Dr. Frank Lockhart MA, MDiv, Mth, ThD • 905-623-6793 Worship Service Dec. 5 • 10:30 a.m. ; Helen Dacey - Music Director Sunday School • Nursery Christmas Eve Cantata Service 7:00 p.m. '%et's Go to Bethlehem " Newcastle United Church 84 Mill St. S., Newcastle LIB 1H2 905-9874515 • nuc@durham.net Rev. James Feairs B.A., M.Div. Minister Sun., Dec. 5 - 10:30 a.m. Worship & Children's Church. 3:00 p.m. - The Choir and The Clarington Concert Band invite you to attend our 3rd annual Christinas Concert "Follow That Star!" in the sanctuary. Freewill offering. Stulls shut down OPG Stutt's Pharmacy Orono Leafs Novice team shut down OPG 4- 0 in house league play Saturday. With an awesome awesome 10 saves, goalie Danny Benedict recorded recorded his first shutout including a last minute squeeze between his skate and the goal post. The blue-liners (Ryan (Ryan Armstrong, Jacob Stere, Daniel Owens, And Kale Stephens) don't usually get enough recognition after a game, but these 4 kids played a flawless game. From covering a man to back-checking or pinching pinching in at the opponents end there were no errors made!! Up front our players all had great games. Mitchell Trachsler scored scored on a pass from Jacob • Diamond. Diamond scored himself shortly after. Cameron Reilly scored with one of the best shots he has had all season, assisted by Kale Stephens. Glenn Acorn scored, assisted by Austin Cole. Tyler Trimble and Jimmy Chaplow both helped create scoring opportunities. opportunities. Our next game is Sunday Dec. 5th at 11 in Courtice. D.B. Old country, new blues By Myno Van Dyke MERRY CHRISTMAS from Risebrough Refrigeration Refrigeration & Heat Pump Service t 1905-983-5702 _ ORONO lHTOi fié? Eastons Major Tykes undefeated On November 20th, Easton Truck Cap went up against a Courtice team and came up undefeated undefeated in their fourth game. The team scored five goals to Courtice's one. In the first period, Orono scored on a goal by Thomas Speer- Mayall. In the second, Orono scored two more, one by Curtis Shewchuk and the other goal was scored by Derek Knoblauch. In the third period, Orono scored two more goals to finish off the opponent. Knoblauch and Cameron Mac- Varish were awarded a point each. Outstanding goaltending came from Eric Leblanc. The Major Tykes won their fifth game, 11 to 5 against the Bruins. Goal scorers were Knoblauch, Tessa Chad, David Upper!, James Coud, Spcer-Mayall and MacVarish. Again Leblanc played a solid game between the pipes. The Newcastle Community Community Hall was packed. It was a "free" summer concert sponsored by the Newcastle businesses. I knew or recognized most of the people there who were my age or older. It was supposed to be outside but it started started to rain, so they moved indoors. He stood there, all alone, in the centre of the big stage with his large tan cowboy hat, cowboy boots, a neat looking western shirt and blue denims. Sixty-four and still wearing jeans. He started strumming his Takamine acoustic guitar, guitar, walked up to the microphone and belted out sixteen old country songs in-a row. He didn't didn't need to look at notes, so he kept his glasses off. No need for butterflies, butterflies, he's been doing this for forty-five years. After forty-five minutes, he took a little break. The crowd applauded. He walked off the stage and went down to the table where his wife Teresa was peddling a variety of "Johnny Burke" compact discs for $15.00 each. Johnny Bourque (stage name is "Burke") was born in Rosairville, New Brunswick. One of those big families you don't see anymore. Thirteen kids. When he turned seventeen, he'd had enough of New Brunswick. Just like many before him, he headed west-bound to seek a better life. His mother prepared the "East - Coast Travel Package", a road map, a handful of peanut butter sandwiches and a paper bag with one change of clothes. Johnny caught a ride with his cousin, who had a fairly new car and a few days later they arrived at another cousin's in Hamilton. It was 1957. But, Johnny had a trade, he could play a guitar and sing. Pretty soon he got his first gig in a bar. They needed a base guitar player. "Sure" he fibbed, "1 can play that". They hired him and he soon got the hang of playing base. The pay wasn't much though, $2.00 a night. That started a long career as a country musician. His first band was Johnny and the Bees, then The Blue Valley Boys and they got a long stint at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern. That band eventually eventually became "East- wind" and Johnny played with all the great country stars, Lefty Frizell, Tex Ritter, Loretta Lynn, Bobby Bare, Mel Tillis, Glen Campbell and Conway Twitty, just to name a few. Then his television career began, with shows like Country Music Hall, At the Caribou, Funny Farm, The Harry Hibbs Show and a seven-year stint with CTV's Opry North. In 1978, he had a big (by Canadian standards) hit called "Wild Honey", which was named "Country Single of the Year" in Canada. It was the cigarette smoké that drove him out of the bars and honky-tonks. His asthma and smoky places were not compatible. compatible. Johnny kept on playing and singing, but also learned the carpentry carpentry trade and became a cabinet-maker. Twelve years ago, he had a gig in Newcastle at the Newcastle Community Community Hall, King and Mill. His wife, Teresa, went for a look around the village. After the show, Teresa advised Johnny she had found the perfect house, a gray, brick bungalow on Graham Court. They bought it and moved into Newcastle. Later, they built a two-storey "garage" behind the house. Here, Johnny could have his woodworking woodworking shop and a few years later, they turned the second floor into "The Loft". Often, on Sunday afternoons, some well-known country country music entertainers show up and accompany Johnny for a great show. Yes, you can get tickets. During the break at the Newcastle Community Community Hall, they sell a few CD's and folks amble over to talk to Johnny and Teresa. Then, a bearded fellow walks up towards the table with a small fiddle case. Too shy to ask personally, personally, he asks someone someone to ask Johnny if he can join him on stage for the second half. Although, Although, Johnny doesn't know him, he says, "Sure, why not?". The fellow goes up onto the stage, practices a bit with his violin and Johnny starts to sing. The fiddle player gets nervous and moves behind the curtain, out of the view of most of the crowd, but continues to play. After, I asked Johnny, "What would have happened if the fellow fellow was terrible?". "Oh, I just would have had him move farther away." Johnny replied. Actually, Actually, the fiddle player wasn't bad... Johnny Burke has continued, to record and perform. He has a total of eleven albums now and has an ongoing love of traditional country music. "The country radio stations won't play my music around here." he adds. "They think it's too country" Johnny still loves to perform and has a very busy schedule, but now he seems, content content with just making sure that the old traditional traditional country songs stay alive. Now, move the calendar calendar ahead a few months to November 19th. I am back at the Newcastle Community Hall, King and Mill, and the place is packed. I sit beside my friend, Ken Stephenson and his family, family, but I don't recognize too many of the people there. The crowd is definitely definitely younger than me (and especially Ken) and there are a lot of very young people there too. This time the show isn't free, it's twenty bucks. Twenty bucks to see a kid who just turned fourteen, fourteen, play "blues" music? What was I thinking... But, 1 had seen this young chap on Canada AM around the time Johnny Burke played at the Hall. He was unbelievable on television, could he be that great in person? Jimmy Bowskill is from nearby Bailieboro and was born on B.B. King's birthday. B.B. King is "The King of Blues" and probably the most renowned blues musician of the past forty years. When