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-vf - W* U*<! '1 , ^ * - ,- .' i • * • tyf#cv /-4'«'r.^nva/^*.f:*•$e".>*i'*V:,/ &• •*!:.•• r - $ i* , * .** ? £ • * ' THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875" < McHenry Plaindealer - Thursday, May 25, 1967 Lakeuid Park News Cftrole Htmuum 385-1606 COLUMN DEADLINE CHANGED BECAUSE OF MEMORIAL DAY "Because of the Memorial Day holiday all deadlines for the Plaindealer have been moved up to an earlier time and this column is due into the office first tiling on Friday morning. I hope to be hearing from you on Thursday evening with any news that is available. LPPOA NOTES The playground equipment has been installed at the various places around the subdivision and the pier has beenputoutfor boaters. The merry-go-rounds from the beaches are being repaired and should be usable quite soon. In case you haven't paid for the dues, and first half garbage as of yet do so before Wednesday, May 31, in orderto take advantage of the discount given. After May 31 the dues will be $12 for the year plus the garbage fee. Any one who still has not paid their road assessment should do so immediately to avoid a lien on their property. WOMEN'S CLUB The last meeting of the current year will be held on Thursday, June 1 at 8:30 sharp. Hie dress will be informal with slacks or culottes the order of th® day. The only activity left on the Woman's Club agenda is the annual smorgasbord which will be held in June. Tickets are available from all members of the Woman's Club. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS A great big birthday wish to all the guys and gals who celebrate this week. Larry Fergen leads the list with his fourteenth birthday falling on May 25. Len. Bottari also marks another one off on that day. Patty Jo Mullen will have five big candles on her cake on the twenty-sixth and Ann Kosieracld celebrates on that day too. Johnnie Hendle turns ten on the twenty-seventh followed by Tom Wagner who will celebrate his sixteenth birthday on the twenty-eighth. Rosalie Slonina will blow out her candles on May 29. May 30 is a popular birthday day on Ramble Road with Cheryl Nuss celebrating her twelfth birthday and Susie Barwig turning a great big four on the same day. The thirty-first is birthday day for Judy Ludwig, and Rose Oswald. Little Gail Hutt will have four candles that day, too! Congratulations to each of you and to all the people whose birthdays aren't on the list. ANNIVERSARY WALTZ Best wishes for many more happy years together for Art and Marge Webber who are celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary on May 31. SCIENCE CLUB All ldds between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to join a science club which is just being formed. Both boys and girls from the entire McHenry area are welcome and the only requirement is an interest in science. For further information call Larry Fergen at 385- 5656 or Bob Minor at 385-3674. ATTENTION: DIETERS A new daytime diet club is being formed to help the ladies fight the annual spring battle of ths bulfp). This is tha traditional time of year to begin worrying about getting into a bathing suit in time for the summer sun. Delores White of the W.L.S. (Weigh Less Soon} club is attending the meeting this week of the new diet group to help them form the new club. Any lady who is interested in a new figure or less of the old one should contact Dorothy Lenz at 385-6517 or Sandy Cole at 385-6361. GIRL SCOUT TROOP 320 This week we finished the toys we were making for the Toymaker badge. We have a variety of toys. Some of them are pigs, puppets, pajama bags and dolls. The hostesses for the meeting were Mary Ellen Johnson and Nancy Christie. They served cookies and kool-aid. The only requirement left on the badge is to wrap the presents to send them to the home for mentally retarded children in Woodstock. Last Saturday, May 20, was the Sybaquay Council's tenth birthday party. There were over 6,000 girls attending. Each troop had an exhibit. Some of them did Indian dances and square dancing. Refreshments of popcorn, ice-cream, and pop were served to each one. We sang songs before the pageant. There was a pageant about Indians and the flag ceremony. You never saw so many flags in all your life. Then we were entertained by Bob Atcher and Red Blanchard from "The Barn Dance." They goofed around and also sang beautiful It sure was fun. After that everyone got back on their buses. What a day! Respectfolly submitted, Donna Humann. Note: The girls who will be marching in the Memorial Day parade are to meet by the firetruck in the city park no later than 9 a.m. on Memorial Day. Everyone is to be in complete uniform including white gloves or are to wear a dark skirt and white blouse. The parade will begin at the city park and the time and place of dispersal will be printed in another part of the paper. BROWNIE TROOP £64 Wendy Quast was hostess for the last Brownie meeting. The girls spent most of the meeting talking about the birthday party on Saturday and practicing songs. They had a very good time at the Sybaquay party and had an exhibit of all of the projects which they have worked on throughout the past year. The girls who will be marching in the parade must wear a complete uniform with white anklets and white gloves. They are to be at the city park at 9 a.m. on Memorial Day. BOY SCOUT TROOP 459 On Friday, May 19, at 5:30 p.m. troop 459 left for the camporee at Union, and returned Sunday afternoon. There were three patrols; the Cobras with Don Prazak, Alan Meurer, Charles Campo, Larry Glorch, and Gary Braun. The Flaming Arrows with Clark Bierman, Paul Rogers, John Licastro, Jr., Lance Kuhns, and Dave Wagner. Hie Bat Patrol with Dave George, Howard Parth, Mike Koch, and Steve Jaenicke. These boys are to be commended for their showing in patrol competition, for coming in with scores of excellent and good. For the first time in something of this sort it shows the boys are willing and able to learn and compete. On Saturday there was a mass evacuation with all troops taking necessary gear and equipment with food - and bed packs to a picked area because of a mock tornado warning. They were a little shook but all made it in the necessary time. The boy's menues were well planned and the cooking good. The Scoutmaster, Joe Prazak and his two assistants, Ray Rode, Jr., and William Jaenicke felt that the boys did a wonderful job and they feel as if their efforts were well rewarded. At two o'clock all troops went to headquarters to receive their ribbons. Our troop got one blue ribbon for the Cobra patrol The Bat patrol won a red ribbon for second place and the Flaming Arrows earned a yellow thirdplaceribbqn. PANCAKE BREAKFAST The Boy Scouts are sponsoring another pancake breakfast this year. It will be held on Sunday morning, June 4, at the community i house. Hiey. will be serving pkucakes, sausages and coffee and milk from 7 to 11 a.m. All Boy Scouts are selling tickets now. CUB SCOUTS Our meeting of the interested Cub Scouts and their parents last week at the Bierman home brought out six boys plus a few more who called to have their names put on the list. Barbara Meurer and Dolores Rogers have offered their services as den mother and assistant. This week Tuesday there was another meeting for the boys in the Lakeland Shares area on the north side of Rt. 120 at the Walter Nuss home. In the very near future we will be in contact with those boys in Lakeland Shores on the south side of 120 to get a den started over there. Anyone who has a boy between the ages of 8 and 11 please contact either Ron Bierman or Barbara Meurer. Also any other boys in the park who have not been signed up yet but would like to join Cub scouts should call and arrangements will be made to get enough den mothers in all areas. This coming Saturday there is to be a work shop for den mothers in Woodstock. LITTLE LEAGUE The Little League open meeting will be held as usual on Wednesday, May 24, at 8 p.m. at the community house. Hie first game of the season will be on June 9. STROLLING THROUGH THE PARK This was a busy week for most with lots of kids down with measles, mumps and chicken pox, plus flu and a few other assorted bugs wafting through the air. Makes you want to hide somewhere for a while. Virginia Hodges is home for a brief stay after her grand tour of hospitals. She started out at Woodstock Memorial where she stayed being after the wedding of Caroline Johnson and Martie Kinnerk. She was a lovely bride and he was a happy groom and we wish them a long and happy life. Steve Hoard tried to ignore his birthday but he was surprised Saturday night with a birthday cake and trimmings. Beaula made all the arrangements and what was supposed to be a quiet evening at the Arients turned into quite a birthday party. Bill and Delia Dralle, Clarence and Wilma Atkinson and Vivian and Jim Toepper casually dropped in to toast the birthday bey, and he sure was surprised. Mattie Joe Rogers is sporting a cast on his broken leg after a bicycle accident last week. He's having a gay old time enjoying all the ftissing. Ronnie Bierman and Judtjr Revak were among the per for niters at a recital given last Saturday at the Junior High by the pupils of Nancy Gardiners studio. Julie Perry's nephew, David Werner, spent a few days visiting with his cousins, Billy and Laurie, last week. Julie's sister, Dorothy, and A1 came for dinner on Sunday and he returned home with them. The Couple Bowling League held their banquet at a restaurant in Ingleside last Saturday night preceded by several cocktail parties and much festivities afterwards. Theyhad a good time and really enjoyed MrRESSI Vt & CAfvlEKA CENTER 5 CRYSTAL LAKE PLAZA •13-439 6140 MEET THE "V.I.POWNERS; (X) EXPERIENC ED QUALIFIED AWARD WINNERS SUIE IB (U TOM TflTl IF CIRFIIENCE! g l iWA YNE GA Y LORD BOB WILTBERCER EXPERIENCED MPRESSIVE PASSPORTS HOTOGRAPHY WE SHOOT ANYTHINOI V.I.P STUDIO & CAMERA CENTER s emm HIE nut lis 4si mi their meal. Bob Hromec has adaotfy case erf chicken pox and we hope that he recovers soon. The banquet for the high school band was held mi the sixteenth and awards were given and officers elected. Bill Krater has been named student band director for next year. Juanita Repta was the only sophomore who received her band letter which she earned by her hard work with the band during the past year and appearing in many of the band concerts and affairs through the year. Beth Okal has been chosen as one of the pom-pom girls for the coming year and needless to say all the kids are pretty excited and well deserving of their honors. More kids on the sick list are Jo-Lynn Prazak and Kenny George who are in the middle of German measles. Jack Butler is in McHenry hospital for tests andMr.Domrese is also in the hospital. Hope that everyone is in the pink next week. COMMUNITY HOUSE SCHEDULE All bookings and cancellations for the community house are to be made through Jo Rizzo by calling 385-2728. Wednesday, May 24 - Girl Scout meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Little League meeting. Tuesday, May 30 - Boy Scout meeting, 7:00 to 9:00 Wednesday, May 31 - Girl LAKE REGION YMCA OFFERS SUMMER CAMP The Lake Region YMCA announced completion of the plans for YMCA day camp for the coming summer. Hie Lake Region Y*s day camp will be held in cooperation with the Northwest Suburban YMCA. Campers from the Laks Region service area, which includes Algonquin, Cary, Crystal Lake, Fox River Grovfc, Huntley, Island Lake, Lake in the Hills, McHenry, Wonder Lake and Woodstock, will be picked up by chartered bus each morning and taken to the beautiful Deer Grove Forest Preserve camp site in Palatine for camp activity. In the afternoon, the youngsters will be bussed to the Northwest Suburban "Y", where activities are planned to take full advantage of their wonderful facilities. Examples of activities which are included in day- camp are one - hour swimming instruction each day, recreational swims, trampoline, air rifle, archery, fishing, outdoor cooking, hiking, talks by the forest preserve naturalists, nature arts and crafts, singing, story telling, games, tournaments, carnivals, gold rush days, watermelon feeds, forest ranger Scout Meeting 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 1 - Woman's Club meeting, 8:30 p.m. visits with woods animals and a variety of other camp related experiences. Supervision and instruction will be handled by two counselors from the Lake Region in addition to the day camp staff of the Northwest Suburban YMCA. Only a non - profit organization such as the YMCA can offer these fine services and program at such a low fee. Day campers will be picked up each morning at the McHenry Jr. high school at 8:25 a.m. in McHenry, arriving there at 9:30 a.m. to begin the camp day. The return trip will leave the Northwest Suburban YMCA at 4, arriving at McHenry at 5:40 p.m. Competent, well - trained counsellors will accompany the youngsters at all times. The camping periods are divided into two - week periods, with a total of four different camping periods making an eight - week program. The first camp period runs 26 through July 7, the second July 10 through July 21, the third July 24 through Aug. 4, and the fourth, Aug. 7 through Aug. 8. Registrations will begin to be accepted immediately for any of the four camp periods at either of the Lake Region program centers. In order to give Lake Region campers a five day camp experience; they may take part in the Monday bus trips at no additional fee. READ THE CLASSIFIEDS' Quality Radiator Repair By Factory-Trained Radiator Specialists 12 Years Experience Every Job FLO-TESTED For Your Added Protection. ALL WORK GUARANTEED -- PROMPT SERVICE Complete Stock of Itobailt and New Radiators Complete Stock of Original Equip. Heater Control Valves | ADJmf IROS. REPAIR SERV. Next 2o V.F.W. Phone 385-0783 800-3 W. Route 120 •X THE PERFECT GIFT For FATHER'S DAY Boy Direct And Save for eleven days before transferred to Rockford hospital. After that she went to the Mayo clinic in Rochester where' her ailments were pinpointed. She will be back at Woodstock for surgery scon and then she should really begin to feel like her old self again. Best wishes and a quick recovery. Bob Hodges was the honored guest at a surprise birthday party given in his honor last Thursday.* It was a little early as he was with the Boy Scouts at the Camporee. The guests were Alice and George Morris and Jeannie, Mike Crabill, Chuck Peterson, and Steve, Pat, Peggie and Sue Christmann. Gabrielle Braem has quite a few stitches after an injury at school. John Bierman celebrated his eighth birthday last week with a group of his buddies. Mark and Chris Rogers, John Meurer, Jeffrey Connor, David Bremer, Jeffrey Foat, Ricky and Jeffrey Bierman and Jim helped him with the birthday cake and ice cream and they had a ball playing games. Lee and Ray Bujak, Jr., Judy and Ray Widhalm, Frank and Dolores Woolwine and Don and Carole Humann were among the guests attending the reception AUTOMATICALLY LIGHTS GAUGE Mik SCIEN DOOR OPERATOR DOORS - OPENS-CLOSES AND LOCKS DOORS for YOUR > GARA It's like having your own private doorman when you install an Automatic Garage Door Operator in your home. 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