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v ~~ -- 24 - PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, December 29,1993 a. i, a -- . = -- NS -- News of interest to our rural neighbours Mrs. Manitius' Grade 3 class at R.H. Corni food for Operation Scugog. The students h A Wl Moo sh Public School have been working hard to collect ave collecting door-to-door at the school gathering the food which the other students have brought. They posed in front of the impressive collec- tion before taking it to the local food bank last week. Hope you enjoyed a safe and Joyous Christmas. The Davis family enjoyed their annual Christmas gather- ing at Valerie and Tom Hunt- er's of Greenbank on Monday. Florence and Ray Fralick en- Joyed having their family from Vancouver home for the holi- days. Second Scugog Scouts The Second Scugog Scouts will be holding a bottle drive on Scugog Island on Saturday, Jan. 8. Please keep on saving your bottles from the holidays. ~ Scugog Island United Church, 191001Island Road A memorable Christmas Eve service was held at our little Is- land church. Over 150 people enjoyed hearing the Christmas story and singing many Christ- mas carols. Our minister, Elaine Barber, was assisted with the readings by Pat Adder- ley, Bernie Chandler, Ray Fra- lick and Tom Rennick. The or- chestra and choir provided special Christmas music. Robin Adderley and Dawn Beare sang a beautiful duet called "The Star Carol". The service was concluded by the congregation singing "Let There Be Peace On Earth" with 140 luminaries glowing. It was a beautiful sight! Many thanks to the peo- Bottle Drive January 8 ple who helped make this ser- vice so special. A few Island folk ventured out on the cold Sunday morning of Dec. 26 to join their friends at Manchester United Church for a service of "Christmas Thanks- giving". Children brought gifts they received at Christmas and a few adults shared Christmas memories. The service on Sunday, Jan. 2 will be at our regular time of 9:45 a.m. A reminder to those of you who like to get a head start on January deadlines, written 1993 annual reports for the Is- land and Pastoral Charge are due Jan. 16, 1994. Financial re- ports are due Jan. 30, 1994. Please submit.them to Karen Davis. For pastoral care, please call Elaine Barber at 985-4094. A Happy New Year to All! Sunday School meeting Jan. 5 Happy Birthday this week to Mrs. Stanley Bennett, Logan Snider and Fred Nobbs, and our son, Bill Sandiford, who will be 18 this New Year's Eve. We welcome to Canada rela- tives of mine who are arriving for a holiday this week from England. Auntie Alice (my mum's sister) and my cousin David and two more friends ar- rive Tuesday. We are all looking ~ forward to having them visit with us. It will be wonderful to catch up on news as we haven't seen them for quite a long time. Sympathy from the communi- ty is extended to Ila Keen and' her family in the death of her husband Bill Keen, at the age of 92, at Uxbridge Health Care Centre last Thursday, Dec. 23. The funeral was held on Tues- day from the Seagrave Church. Seagrave Church News The Christmas Eve service was well attended by families and friends of the three church- es of this charge. The combined choirs of Greenbank, Pinedale and Seagrave, with the organist Muriel Jebson, presented a beautiful presentation of Christmas music. The theme was the Heart of Christmas. Mary Wilson sang a wonderful solo, "Oh Holy Night" and Mar- garet Ingram sang "Huron Car- ol"; accompanied by Alex on the clarinet. The Lee, Smith and MacDon- ald families representing each church lit a white Christ candle. Chris Ward, Graham Smith in Seugog Township and Matt Shepherd read scrip- tures. Christmas was celebrated last Sunday. Five ladies of the choir sang "Midst the Deep Silence". Those who brought a Christmas tree ornament showed it to the con- gregation as they told what it .meant to them. Next Sunday, which is Cove- nant Sunday, the Lord's Supper will also be celebrated. Sunday School meeting- will be on Wednesday, Jan. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Church. : family Sunday The -annual congregational meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. at the Church. The UCW will meet at the home of Donna Sweetman Wednesday, Jan. 5 at 1:30 p.m, Please note the winter meet- ings will be held in the after- noon. Donations to "Victoria's" may be brought to this meeting. Those who have not completed their "Profiles of United Church Women" for the ar- chives are urged to do so. Just a note of safety to any- one coming in to Robinglade Es- tates. The hill at the end. of Puckrin Drive is very icy these days. More than one caf has. hit the ditch at that corner the last . tL ~ couple of days. This week always seems to be a week of Ringette, Hockey and other types of tournaments, we -wish each one of our local com- petitors "good luck" as they all strive to bring the "Gold". By the way, Fellowship Sis ters, don't forget your "Sister" inthe New Year! ~~ oo That's it for this week. Diane and I wish everyone a very hap- PY, healthy, safe and:fun New Year and we look forward to hearing from everyone in the new year with news. Please call Diane Cooke with news next week at 985-37 22. LY Park Association raising money for equipment Christmas Celebrations On Sunday, Dec. 19, Neta Fish, Calvin and Yvonne Hol- land and family of Edgerton Road held the Christmas cele- bration for the family, with al 28 present for dinper at 2 p.m. An all day celebration and many pictures were taken, the four generations, and five great-granddaughters! Later in the day the table was set with all kinds of goodies for another feast for all to partake of this festive occasion Relatives were present from Stroud, Reaboro, Peterborough and Nestleton area. A joyous oc- casion for all! Edgar and Anne Emerson of Nestleton hosted their family for Christmas Day with 11 present at their lovely old farm home on Christmas Day. Many stayed over! Another large group were arriving on Boxing Day! A meaningful time for all - a festive time at its best! Cliff and Chris Davis, Scott and Carl of Hyde House, Scugog Point Road, hosted 12 relatives from the Toronto area for the lovely dinner with all the trim- mings - a festive occasion for the family! Don and Norma Frew held Christmas at their spacious home for the family - 24 in all! A great festive celebration for the family! Roy and Doris Nottingham of Caesarea hosted their family for the Christmas celebration with 38 present. Thirty-five were seated and three little ba- bies. What a nice get together. Norm and Bernice Mairs of Fleetwood Trailer Park, Janet- ville were guests of daughter Diane Slute and Julie of Prince Albert. Other guests present were Robert and Carol Mairs, Steven and Katie of Nestleton and Allan Mairs of Gormley. A lovely family party for the fes- tive season' Henry and Effa Stainton, Williams Point, entertained 12 family members on Boxing Day. A great celebration for all! Robert and Carolyn Hall of Port Perry hosted Christmas for the family with 15 present! Alovely festive occasion! Arnold and Jean Williams of Nestleton entertained their families for the Christmas din- ner, Steve and Dale and Neil and their families! Mrs. Mabel Cawker of Scugog Point was a guest with son Grant and Merna Cawker and family for a lovely brunch at 1 p.m. on Christmas Day in Oshawa with eight present! Later in the afternoon she was a dinner guest with Alan and El- eanor Cawker and family, Oshawa - 24 in all present for this "gala" occasion. ' Caesarea News by Albert Putsey Friday night is New Year's Eve and I sincerely hope you will join with us to bring in the New Year at the hall, 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. Advance ticket sales until 6 p.m., Dec. 31 at $20 a couple from Sunnyside Market, $25 at the door. Hats! Noise makers! Food! Good Friendship! Music! Happy New Year toeveryone! The Cartwright Scout Group are not holding their annual bottle drive this year. P-A-R-K Association have decided to cov- er this void by holding one from 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. So don't fall lugging your empty beer cans or bottles or pop bottles back to the store just leave them on your front porch on Jan. 8 for them. The money is for phase two of the park equipment which is for youths eight - 14 years enjoy- ment, plus a couple of park benches. Thank you for your support. In 1993, $5,459.76 was spent on phase one. You can be assured it will be installed in May not September with your support. Dec. 27 - happy birthday John Pottery. Christmas is over and all the gifts are in use. have been very fortunate in the past in obtain- ing lasting treasures which I prize greatly and this year was no exception. We have personal oil paintings done by Eileen's mother and a friend Len Thorpe, both deceased, one by Eileen's sister Jean and this year one by Eileen's niece Con- nie Stett. She came all the way from Midland to enter our ba- zaar selling her miniature crea- tions. Art critics can come and go but to me they are treasures because of their personal con- tent. Sign or saying of the week: To help make the Now Year's party a success I'll tell you this old rid- dle told to me about 50 years. ago by my puplic school pal, the late Jack Rittie who later be- came chief administrator for York Region. | There was a convention in town and these three men after trying five hotels ended up at this one at 2 a.m. begging for somewhere to sleep. The bell hop who was standing in for the night manager, as he went to the washroom said, "Well we have a room we use for mops, soiled linens and etc. on the sec-. ond floor, maybe if we shifted this stuff to one end we can set three beds." That's. fine! . \ u That's fine! they said, welll take. . it. The bell hop charged them. $10 each. When the night man- ager returned who saw the reg- ister and asked where did you put them and how much did you charge them. End room, second floor, $30 was the reply. That's terrible the manager replied, that room hasn't been painted for years. Here take this $5 up to them. The bell hop on his way was thinking they can't split $5 I'l take $2. This meant each rson paid $9 which equalled $27 plus the $2 the .bell hop kept What happened to the oth- er $1° Ly