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I 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. February 12, 1985 Kinsmen celebrate 50 years of charitable service Lr fa Re or gv oe g - i ~ he % a i :, os By i y . i. y a we Kin grin Next week is Kinsmen Week across Canada and Port Perry club president Brian Callery would like to see the week go off with a bang. See story for details. Fifty years ago a wet behind the ears plumb- ing supply salesman named Hal Rogers stop- ped a man on a Hamilton street and asked him what he thought about starting up a young men's club. Next week, the Kinsmen Club of Canada celebrates its golden an- niversary with more than 500 clubs across the country and some 15,000 members. One of its most en- thusiastic card carriers is an insurance salesman named Brian Callery, the energetic president of the Port Perry Kinsmen. . Not one to miss an op- portunity, Mr. Callery plans on putting his club on the map during Kin Week with a whole roster of special events and presentations, from February 18th to 23rd. Early Monday morn- ing the club will present an oversized busary plague to Port Perry High school, followed by a quick jog to the Township Municipal Of- fice to raise the Kinsmen flag. That night the Lat- cham centre will be the scene of a special Kinsmen Bingo, to be followed the 'next night When the headlights on your GM car or light truck go, come in and replace them with genuine GM sealed beam headlights. They're your guarantee that you're buying the very best for your GM car or light truck. And now you can buy them at our best price. Fhe oa 0 2 0 el il yf a ie ai cai A 2 Lamp Rectangular System or 4 Lamp Rectangular System EXCLUDING HALOGEN SYSTEMS only $1195 GUARANTEED SERVICE GUARANTEED GM PARTS GUARANTEED PRICE PONTIAC BUICK LIMITED 10 VANEDWARD DRIVE, PORT PERRY - 985-3474 'by a Kinsmen Dinner meeting at, where else, the Kin-Scout Hall. The Kinsmen Deputy Gover- nor will be an honoured guest, and a public speaking contest will be judged that night and cheque presentations will also be made to Cen- tral Seven and the Mathew Geer fund. When Saturday February 23rd rolls around, a Kinsmen infor- mation drop-in centre will open its doors at the former Brooks Feed store on Queen Street (from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) with everything you've always wanted to know about Canada's foremost young man's club -- but were too shy to ask. Anniversary Dance And on Saturday night the week will be topped off with an anniversary night dinner and dance at the Kin-Scout Hall. Guests are welcome, Kinsmen or otherwise. The week is a celebra- tion of all the good Kinsmen has done for the Port Perry community. From its first major pro- ject in 1975, when Kin , . members donated $12,000 to the arena board, to its plans to build glassed-in addition to the existing arena, the club has involved itself in many fundraising 'ventures. In 1977 the club built a sand beach at Palmer Park ($7,500). In 1978 it donated a defribulator (worth some $3-4,000) to the hospital and in 1980 it contributed $5,000 to the library. In 1975 the Kinsmen provided near- ly $5,000 worth of playground equipment in Blackstock, Port Perry and Greenbank, and just now in 1985, the club has coughed up the big end of a $10,000 pledge to the hospital expansion fund. The club sells fertilizer and geraniums every year, sponsors minor hockey, supports figure skating, baseball and Ringette. 'One of my favourite projects has been when. the seniors moved to the complex on Cochrane Street,"' Mr. Callery recalls. "We moved like- ly a dozen senior citizens to the complex." Free Muscles Kin members have also been known to volunteer their muscles to seniors in the autumn, when eavestroughs need to be cleaned and storm windows have to be put up. And the club runs a Bingo at the Latcham Centre every Monday night, with special Bingos on holidays like Christmas and Valen- tine's Day. The club looks after the Kin-Scout Hall on an ongoing basis, after deciding to help out the Boy Scouts in 1977, when they were finding ends tough to meet. But nothing is too small for Kinsmen atten- tion and although its motto is 'Serving the Community's Greatest Need," members have often jumped in to help individuals like Larry Cooke or Mathew Geer. "Our motto says we should serve the com- munity but if someone comes up with a special situation, we try to lend ahand," Mr. Callery ex- plains. "Our constitution says it has to be a com- munity thing, but we don't turn down anybody who needs us." Coming up, though, is a large-sized project Mr. Callery is hoping will be undertaken by the Kinsmen together with other local service clubs and the Township of Scugog. What he's hop- ing to do is provide funds for an addition to the arena, providing banquet space for visiting hockey teams, other sports teams, wedding or any other social functions re- quiring a great deal of space not currently available in this area. "I've been wanting to put an addition on that arena almost since the day it was built," he says. 'It's almost become an addiction." Like other Kinsmen, particularly club founder Hal Rogers, Mr. Callery enjoys the challenges, as well as the fellowship, being a Kin member provides. Although it's strictly a man's club, women are invited to join the Kinet- tes and Kinsmen members over 40 years old retire to the K-40 club. Members meet at the Kin-Scout Hall on Lilla Street alternate Tuesdays and more in- formation can be obtain- ed about Kinsmen by calling Brian Callery at 985-8111 or 7254772. Help healthy hearts stay healthy, exercise daily. NO HOCKEY PUCKS! NO HAMBURGS! NO ASHTRAYS! NO WATERGLASSES! 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