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The Colborne Citizen Vol. 2, No. 20 Colborne, Ont, Wednesday, May 15,1974. 15c Single Copy TOP INDIVIDUAL bowlers were honored as the Colborne Bowling League held their annual banquet over the weekend. Nine o'clock league winners were Robbie Colling, high single; Pete Moore, high triple; and Leo Audenaert, high average. TOP SEVEN o'clock winners were Bill average [women's] and Gary CrackneU, Semilitch, high triple; Marg Parker, high U& avera8e [men's]. All systems are go at Salem hothouse By Georgina Rodden Smoke from the hothouse drum heaters at Salem, R.R.4, indicate bedding plants are available and all systems are go. The colonial-type house the Wilfred Fergusons have been living in since taking their leave of the nearby farmstead house some years back, has been sold to Torontians. A new homestead is rising just in front of the big red barns off the roadside, for occupancy in July. Meanwhile.about 91 bags of potatoes have been planted, as well as beets, sweet corn and carrots. The Ferguson roadside stand offers tomato plants, portulaca, petunias, sweet alyssum, pepper and patience among others, despite the cold and a recent frost which nearly did in the greens. Last year, Mrs. Helen Ferguson says their season opened aroun a June 28 with new potatoes. This year, with luck, there will be produce a week earlier. She predicts a great summer for raspberries. For such a hard-working garden hand, Mrs. Ferguson manages a bit of fun, in particular having attended the Wheeling, West Virginia, Grand Ole Oprey show presented by Buck Owens at the Music Hall there. She took a weekend bus trip with 47 others, Friday night to shop Saturday and have the occasion Saturday night, returning Sunday. Daughter Rosemary, who'll soon be through Brighton High School and going on to a social work course in Chatam, is fully capable of tending shop, as well as taking care of younger son and South Cramahe Elementary School student, Tony. The Ferguson operation, like many a market garden in the area, is keyed to the roadside stand, and bus passengers who stop to stock up on fresh fruit, vegetables and plants, or to those who prefer to pick their produce fresh fromi the field for kitchen or freezer. there are animals, about 12 cattle, a registered Charolais calf, cats, dogs, birds, and the tropical fish Rosemary's friend raises in the Ferguson basement. Rosemary makes candles to sell. In the hothouse, under plastic and glass, it is 75 degrees or over, contrasting with the outside cold and dampness. She came back for a visit Mrs. Beatrice Smith returned to Colborne recently in relatively good health, having been to visit her family elsewhere in Ontario. She is the generous donor of the well-kept park which bears her name and her father's, junn Coyle, 1871-1*16. The face of Colborne has changed somewhat, she said, since her father shipped apples. Colboine's orchards are still internationally recognized, although the trade runs to roadside stands farther than freight car haulage now. Briefly interviewed, Mrs. Smith emphasized how varied and time-consuming Colborne activities are, especially in conjunction with family responsibilities and plans. Complete closure by this autumn Cramahe Township department of Works will have completed the closure of roads into the St. Larence Cement Co., across C.P.R. crossings, by autumn, works supervisor Art Moore said on Friday. As he conversed briefly, men and equipment were hard at it, making a turn-around on the cut-off of Elgin St. at the C.P.R. crossing. From Lakeport east some three miles, there will b e no access henceforth to the Ogden Point Quarry property and the Lake 'Ontario shoreline. It can be said the area changed complexion more with the coming of the quarry operation. Trains still rumble through even more frequently than they did before, but they no longer stop at Brighton.To board one, the traveller goes to Brighton and back up the line to another town. The tracks may even increase for the coming of an oil refinery near the old Lakeport CPR station, in which the section foreman, Harold Brash, and his family live. Both Brash and a section hand, Wentzel Hendsby, were among those keeping an eye on the works project. Horticultural flower showing big success Colborne Horticultural Society's spring flower showing took place Monday evening,May 13, in Trinity Anglican Church Hall, the event arranged by Gordon Munro and an enthusiastic thought the whole effort well worth the months of preparation. 'The weather wasn't exactly what we might have wished,' she said ruefully. Prizewinners were selected in a variety of categories by a visiting Scarborough judge that might have earned the envy of a much more sophisticated group. With 140 members, and over half of them active at all meetings, thesociety has four shows annually. After this spring showing, it puts on its June Rose show, an August gladioli and begonia competition, and a September chrysanthemum and dahlia exhibition, as well as assisting Colborne's annual Trade Fair. TheSociety executive has experienced showmen, albeit by the rules amateurs, as Geroge Gummer, Gordon Smith, Cecil Reed, Harold Colling,and H. McConnell. The rule of amateur standing is strictly enforced. Exhibitors must use material from their own gardens. Mrs. T.M.Gresham, whose home on • Elgin St. is picturesque, just as, is the president's on Parliament, Mrs. Ron Mitchell, Mrs. Gordon Haynes, Mrs. C.A" Myles, Mrs. Hugh Robinson, Mrs. Claude Rose, Mrs. Morley Gummow,Mrs. Harold Quinn, and Mrs. Cecil Reed, further the roster of officers and prizewinners. Formed in 1966 as the Colborne Centennial Committee's recognition of green thumb artists in the Village and surrounding area, the Society takes part in regional representations as well, several of which are upcoming. There was no complaint about this sale's success St. Francis de Sales Catholic Women's Leaguemembers had no complaints about the success of their rummage sale Friday in the Masonic Hall. Despite inclement weather, customers arrived to take advantage of the bargains. President Mrs. Mary Barry was most cheerful about the addition to funds for the League's catechism class and the contributions it makes to the upkeep of the attractive black and white church the group upholds. St Francis de Sales, once the home of a local physician and parliamentary representative, and subsequently an insurance agent, is situated on the edge of the ridge paralleling Hwy. 2, in a park-like setting. The distinctive structure inevitably attracts tourists as do other buildings around and about, among them the hexagonal home on Parliament Street to which lines have been devoted in international publications. Centennial cookbook valued possession From Our Kitchen to Yours, the newly-published centennial cookbook of Unit One of the United Church Women at Dundonald is very likely to become a valued possession. Its 110 pages of favorite and sometimes secret family recipes will be a welcome addition to any cookbook collector's shelf, or to the kitchen repertoire. Betty Packard, Dorothy Eddy and Alma Mutton, the cookbook committee, together with Ethel Dunk, past president, and Gail Pearson, current president, assisted by Betty Oliver and a telephone committee comprising Jean Darke, Lillian Bressette, Evelyn Ferguson and Amy Honey, have assembled the instructions for candy, Jelly, preserves, desserts and all kinds of goodies. Secretary Lois Hellemond, treasurer Elma Pearson, and the remaining members of the unit, Marjorie Dudley, Marie Dale, Marlene Callacott.Sue Rowley, Nellie Mutton, Liane Prust and Ethel Purdy, assisted in putting together a most presentable collection, not only their own best, but those of friends, relatives and foodlovers generally. Mae Honey's bean pickles, Ruth Cowie's relish, Emma Coates' sponge taffy, Hazel Waite's nut drop cookies or Hazel Ferguson's raspberry meringue squares... they all sound delicious for that special occasion, or just plain good eating. And there's many, many more. The cookbook has been published as part of the Eden United Church's 1974 centennial celebrations, and copies may be purchased from UCW members or from Joan Jones, office manageress, for The Colborne Citizen.