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a » Mental White Cross Centres across Canada each. year collect: Christmas gifts for patients who are or have ¢ been in Mental Hospitals. C.M.H.A. launched its Nat- ional appeal for gifts to forgotten patients in 1957. The campaign serves not only to reassure the many thousands of patients who » have no continuing contact with friends or relatives that they are not forgotten, but it also serves to remind people of the extent of the mental health problem; inform the public of more facts about Illness; stimulate offers of service to the mentally ill and identify C.M.H.A. as the voluntary agency dedicated to the conquering of all mental illness, our number one 4 problem. In Oshawa and Ontario County this. will be the 11th year for the Christmas Gift Program and while many things have changed during this time, the need has not » diminished. The appeal is for useful NEW ARTICLES such as one would buy for a friénd. It's essence is involvement of a great many people, each doing a simple, inexpensive # act on behalf of a mentally ill person. Suggested value of gifts between $2.00 -- $3.00. ~ A Christmas party is held in early December, usually in Oshawa, when 3 white Cross groups - Whitby, Oshawa and Prince Albert get . together, about 200 present. This year it's. ex- pected the Uxbridge group to join. Each person on attend- ing, receives a gift, Santa Claus distributing. This par- ty is the highlight of the year. * Gifts must not be wrapped -- when they are wrapped, they have to b e opened and this is a time consuming job as they have to be sorted and assessed. Mental Hlness is generally - accompanied by difficulty in relationships. A gift shows that somebody cares. The Committee consists of Miss B. Bassingthwaighte, Co-Chairman, Mrs. M. Coo- lidge, Co-Chairman, Mrs. B. Petersen, Mrs. M. Dymond, Port Perry, Mrs. O. Jamie- son, Brooklin, Mrs. R. Run- dle, Mrs. L. Hastings. The Christmas Gift Pro- gram requires early plan- ning and organization. For Port Perry, gifts should be delivered to Port Perry Medical Centre, Public Li- brary, Lawrence's Phar- macy. Requests Christmas gifts Greenbank News "+ for mental health patients Sunday School'and Church services will be the same hours as usual. In the evening, November 26th at 8 p.m., a "Festival of Joy" service of song and praise at St. Andrew's Uni- ted Church, Sunderland with Pastoral Charges of Cann- ington, Greenbank and Sun- derland attending. There will be a fellowship hour afterwards. There is an official Board meeting this Thursday even- ing at Seagrave Church at 8 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Beaton attended a W< Frank Real Estate Banquet at Genosha Hotel, Oshawa, Saturday evening. Several from Greenbank attended the Curling Club Banquet last Saturday eve- ning in Sunderland. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Boughen and children of Orono were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mel McGee. Congratulations to Miss Marion Couperthwaite. stan- ding 6th ina large class of keen competitors in the 4H Showman (lass at the Royal Winter Fair, last Tuesday. * Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hunter visited with Mrs. E. Hunter of, Scarborough and had supper with Mr. and Mrs. Morley Ryan of Locust Hill on Sunday. ' Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Sim- mons of Curtis, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phoenix for supper Saturday evening. 1 with a G- you can reduce field losses and improve grain quality! G-T Grain Dryers will help you save far more grain and have better quality grain ...enough of both to be a high-yielding investment. You have field losses of at least 5 per cent while waiting for grain to field dry after it matures even if weather is ideal. During this waiting period, you can have losses up to 100 per cent from wind, hail, rain, snow, insects, birds, lodging UTICA FARM EQUIPMENT R.R. 4, PORT PERRY -- T dryer... 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Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Mount attended the annual Ontario Milk Transport meeting at the Royal York on Sunday and were dinner guests of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. MacNamara, Wil- lowdale. . Mrs. Henry Thomas and Miss May Clark, Port Perry Nursing Home, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Albert. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Young and children and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tracy of Cobourg were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Young for dinner, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Art Couves Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Murphy's, Bolton,celebrating their wedding anniversary and daughter Ruth's birthday. Manchester News Church service Sunday, 11:15 p.m. Everyone wel- come. The U.C.W. Tea and Bake sale is this Wednesday, November 22nd at 2:30 p.m. at the church. : Luncheon guests with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Franklin this week were Mr. and Mrs. T. Newhoff of Whitby. Callers at the Franklin home this week were Mrs. George Lane of Port Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Howard of Copper Cliff. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gyton of Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lane , Mrs.John Fabber, Mrs. George MaHaffy, Port Perry. Best wishes for a speedy - recovery to Mrs. Marg Croxall who is a patient in Port Perry Hospital. Mrs. Jean Elliot has re- turned home: from the hospital. Hope your soon "able to be out Jean. Weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Roberts were Mr. and Mrs. G. Mordon of Picton. Mr. and Mrs. L.Best and Rick visited with Sandy and Sally McTavish in Breckin Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. B.D. Hit- chens of Oshawa were dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Mitchell Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Roach spent the week-end in Toronto with her sister Mrs. Ruth ~ Barfoot. They also called on Mr. and Mrs. S. Isoki, Don Mills and Mr. and Mrs. H. Martin, Markham. | HA. E. Johnson OPTOMETRIST for appointment call 985-2383 or Zenith 59240 Prince Young and Of Facts and Fantasy By Reta M. Berrill To Everything there is a Season Winter has never been our favorite season, in fact, we've advanced so far as to say we hate it. But recently, have been doing some soul-searching and self-analysis that produced surprises. We're jealous, that's what! With Spring, we commence to plot and plan long before we can dig. And time marches on. The grass is mown, the hedges clipped. Flowers respond to our loving care. If showers fajl us, we create them. We puff - with pride wherrsomeone says, "My, your garden looks nice." And smugly remind ourself that, He who makes - a garden walks with God. Then, Jack Frost and his little helpers take over and we rise one morning to find desolation, and, all our labor would seem to have been in vain. But old Mother Nature never completely fails us. For it's now that time to dress her world for Summers' Grand Finale. We stand by, helplessly. Beauty emerges everywhere as if by magic, and gradually our senses tingle. Every day brings a new delight. The damp brown leaves that carpet the lawns when hit by the morning sunlight can produce an odor like nothing else, or, mingled with wood-smoke from an open fire in the evening, can rouse nostalgia for everything of beauty we've ever known. We love this, yet tell ourself; if only winter were not lurking around that next corner; if only we could clasp and hold this for a longer time. Then comes November, of which we've been known to say, Please Mother Nature, could you not erase November and give us perhaps, another April? We know this month will bring us fog, rain, murky days and winds to' chill the bones. We've wondered if November were not the Ugly Duckling of the year. And' then without ceremony we're plunged into winter. But we're prone to think only of frosted windshields, choked driveways, fuel-bills, frost-nipped fingers or a pair of needed snow-boots. And those who can, hie themselves to that warmer climate. But really, these inconveniences are merely the admission fee for a Season Ticket to some of the best shows in the world. A wonderland is created while we sleep and all compiled without our lifting a finger. A sunrise on a sub-zero morning is something to soothe the most restless soul. And, unlike a trip to an art gallery, the picture is never the same. Always beautiful. Always different. We can see dark frothy clouds being tipped with pastel pinks--the artist at work. The cedar hedge can become a single file of old ladies toting laundry on their backs. #Fhe bird-feeder and garden table don tall ermine hats or, seemingly disappear. The ordinary clothes-line becomes a garland of fluffy white--afi imaginative deéocration. While the trees in their robes of splendor stand like sentinels, awaiting their Coming Day. | ; We must learn to think of the seasons as we think of life. 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