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f Holiday Hills Karen Kottke 385-5675 Pastor Recalls News Highlights On Barbados I' \(»E 3 - P L A I N D E A L E R - F R I D A Y , D E C E M B E R 2 1 , 1 9 7 3 Twice Told Tales Brownies Will Sing Christmas Carols Saturday Brownie troop No. 409 will spend Saturday evening, Dec. 22, singing Christmas Carols around the subdivision. The girls and their chaperones will cover as much of the sub­ division as possible, presenting their glad tidings of the season. Be sure to be on the look-out for the girls around 7 p.m. tomorrow evening. WOMEN'S CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY On Wednesday, Dec. 12, the Holiday Hills Women's Club held its annual Christmas party. The crowd was sparse but everyone enjoyed them­ selves tremendously. We older members introduced ourselves to three new members, they were Coleen Priko, Lynn Childs and Becki Kline. Becki also brought a guest, Doreen Cumming, with her. we're always glad to meet new members. The evening was highlighted by gift openings, both gag gifts and something nice; games; a delicious punch prepared by Mary Ann Mahon; door prizes; and excellent food prepared by the club officers. Special awards given to Pat Hughes, Bonnie Kellen, Jo Janik, Joan Laskowski, Doreen Cumming , Becki Kline and Joan Laskowski. Game prizes of candy snowmen and snowmen door hangers were won by Pat Hughes, Mary Ann Mahon, Lynn Childs, Coleen Priko, Mimi DeWitt, and myself. We all had a very enjoyable evening and are anxiously looking forward to next year's party. NEW RESIDENTS We would like to extend a very warm welcome to two new residents and their families. Colleen and Terry Priko reside on Hyde Park with their four children, Terri, Michael, Pat and Valerie. Terry is a foreman for a coupling company in Libertyville and Colleen keeps busy tending home and children. Another couple we would like to welcome to Holiday Hills are Peter and Becki Kline. Peter works for a car dealer in Highland Park and Becki keeps occupied with 4ier duties as manager of a paint manufacturing company in Glenview. Both Becki and Peter spend their leisure time camping and skiing. We hope both these families enjoy their new homes and that they'll be with us for many years to come. BOWLING NEWS One of the bowlers in the Friday night mixed couples league at the Crystal Bowl has been doing quite well latelyf Joan Cornwell bowled a 616 series with her handicap on Friday, Dec. 7, of which she and her husband, Ron, are very proud. Keep up the good work Joan! > BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Congratulations to Lorene and Tim Farr on the birth of Michelle Renee on Monday, Dec. 10. Michelle was born at the McHenry hospital and weighed in at 8 lbs. 8 oz. BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday greetings to Peter Kline on Dec. 22; to Debra Smith on Dec. 23; to Maun^n Connell and Scott Thietje on Dec. 26; and to Scott Campbell on Dec. 28. ANNIVERSARIES Happy anniversary roses to Jimmie and Victor Justes and Carolyn and Craig Stackhouse on their special day Dec. 27. CHRISTMAS GREETING With all the shortages and crises around the world and in this country, Christmas promises to be a time of tur­ moil. We should all take time to remember the purpose of Christmas is to celebrate the salvation of mankind. For the first time in many years the world is close to accomplishing the adage "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men." With this in mind, I would like to wish everyone the Merriest Christmas ever. Legal Notice Public Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Village of McHenry Shores will not meet on the fourth Thursday of December due to the Christmas Holidays. Rose Lillegara Village Clerk (by Father Wm. 0. Hanner) Some of you may recall that in December of 1971, after Christmas, Mrs. Hanner,and I went to St. Vincent's Island in the Windward chain, there to take a local parish whose rector was on extended furlough in England. St. Vincent's is about ninety miles west of Barbados and perhaps 175 miles north of Trinidad. We stayed through Easter and returned to the States in ApriLof 1972. This Isle is of the Windward group. It is mountainous, volcanic, has an area of about 150 square miles, a population (growing too rapidly) of 115,000. The population is 99 percent black. There are many things about the Island of Margaret was building while we were there. With our lan­ dlord who managed the Island for an English Estate we visited over a couple of nights and went to see the house then about three fourths done. The Vincentian reports that Princess Anne and her new husbandT Captain Mark Phillips, honeymooned on Mustique using Princess Margaret's hideaway. I guess this piece of news was reported in jolly few papers in the United States outside the McHenry Plaindealer. The very first sewers on the Island are now being laid in the Capital Kingstown, a com­ munity of perhaps 20,000. The total scheme is to cost about beauty and charm. Th&re-is^|2,000,000 (Bee Wee). The work much that is hard to un- Village of McHenry Chores (Pub. Dec. 21,1973) derstand unless you have been there for a long time. It is a poor and undeveloped, agricultural spot. The people I soon learned to love and care for as well as I could. The Island is part of the Windward diocese of the Anglican church • - and it was as a priest of this communion I went to be of what help I could to Bishop Woodruffe. So much for revue. Each week I get a copy of the local paper, the Vincention, by air mail. It is sent to me by a good lady, one of the parishioners. It costs 30 cents U.S. to put a copy in my hands. Here are some of the things going on down there. In the Plaindealer of May 3, 1972, Section 2, Page 4, I reported on the local election of the Parliament of that land. This Assembly has thirteen members divided 7 to 6 in a coalition government. The People's Political party, the PPs, hold this slender majority over the SLVP party (St. Vincent's Labor party). I foretold that this slim majority could not retain power very long because they held a majority of seats but not in majority of total votes cast. I was wrong. Mr. Mitchell's coalition has held power through nearly two years. Mr. Cato, the opposition leader, has brought the government to vote three times and each time the vote had stood 7 to 6 for the government. The Island is a political laboratory. I follow their politics with keen interest. On the small Island, of Mustique, which on a clear day was visible from our quarters and was about ten minutes away in a small plane, ifc a hideaway hou$e which Princess is being done by contractors, (Trinidad Contractors Ltd) with headquarters on the Island of Trinidad. They have done other work on St. Vincent's. The whole scheme for the sewers was drawn up by the United Nations Development programme in 1966. Other stories tell of the speedy return to St. Vincent's of various members of Parliament when they heard there was to be a vote taken on whether the government should fall or not. Last spring a government official was shot to death when he answered the door after dark, about supper time. He identified his assailants, who were known to him, before he died. Both men were convicted of murder and are under sentence to be hanged. It was less than three months from crime to sentencing. Faster than up here. The paper on the first of December increased in price from 15 cents to 20 cents. Editorials seem to be good. If the people of St. Vincent's think sharply they may avoid some of the pitfalls of the people in neighboring states. In­ dependent countries in the Caribbean have not always been true democracies. The paper has a sport's department. Here cricket is the big sport. There are many fields and many play. There are inter-island games and matches. Of late the paper and its pictures and printing are greatly improved. I enjoy anything about St. Vincents. I enjoyed the Isle and the people when I was there. Now I enjoy them through th^r weekly paper. SUPER CHRISTMAS SPECIALS AT BEN FRANKLIN FRIDAY • SATURDAY • SUNDAY - MONDAY ON OFF ALL REGULAR PRICED • CHILDRENS-W0MENS-GIRLS B0YS-MENS WINTER JACKETS • ALL W0MENS SNOW BOOTS • ALL MENS-B0YS ZIPPER-BUCKLE BOOTS (Not All Sizes Left) I REGULAR $14.98 I SUNBEAM HAIR | STYLER DRYER 1 MEN-WOMEN MODELS | '9® REGULAR 94' BOX OF 4 C9 G.E. OUTDOOR LIGHT BULBS 66* BOX REGULAR $14.88 1 7 FT. ARTIFICIAL | CHRISTMAS TREE [ *12* | [ BOX OF 50 I CHRISTMAS CARDS 1 REGULAR $1.99 VALUE I 88* BOX REGULAR $1.50 VALUE FLASHLIGHT BATTERIES C or D SIZE 6/88* WATCH FOR OUR [ AFTER CHRISTMAS J ADV. IN THE WED. I PLAINDEALER, DEC. 26th | BEN F̂RAN KLIN Sunday 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Saturday 9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Mon. -Fri. til 9 GREEN STREET MAH 1250 N. Green St, McHenry, III. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Dec. 28, 1933) The McHenry County Council of the American Legion auxiliary sponsored a Christmas party for the ex- service men at the Elgin State hospital, Friday evening. Ben Miller l-eceived injuries in an automobile accident Christmas day when the tow truck which he was driving skidded and turned over twice into the ditch. Miller, who is employed at Overton's garage, received injuries about the head and the truck was wrecked. All horse drawn vehicles must display a white light in front and a red light in rear while on the highways at night. State highway police are in­ structed to arrest anyone violating tjiis law. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bacon entertained a family party of twenty-nine members at dinner and supper on Christmas day at the William Bacon home on Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Byrd and Mrs. Ruth Bowersox of Three Rivers, Mich., visited in the E.E. Bassett home Saturday. "Mrs. Jack Walsh returned home on Tuesday evening from Rochester, Minn., where she spent a few days with her son, Earl, who is recovering from an operation there. William Tonyan and family have moved into the Mrs. John R. Knox house on Richmond road. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Dec. 30, 1948) On Thursday morning about 9 o'clock work on the new Green street bridge was halted when Arnold Mass, 40 year old worker on the job, was critically hurt. A cable on a crane being used in the con­ struction broke and Mass was hit in the head by a metal shackle. Miss Katie Keefe, aged 90, died Dec. 28, on the Gibbs farm, south of Richmond. She was born in McHenry and lived her life time in this vicinity.. ° McHenry residents who remember the former Florence Howe, a teacher in the McHenry schools for several years, will be interested to learn her daughter, Rita Wray, is now affiliated with the NBC television studios in Chicago as costume designer and make-up artist. On Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Howard Collins ac­ companied Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vassau of Wauconda to Chicago to help them celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. They attended the Chicago theatre and dinner later at Isbell's restaurant. Little Ruth Wenkel of Wonder Woods was accidentally shot through the left hand on Christmas eve. She was taken to the Woodstock hospital for treatment. The Jager family have moved from the Wolff apart­ ments on Elm street to the new Hiller house on the corner of Pearl and Court street which they have purchased. Mr. Jager is proprietor of the Riverside Bake shop. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Jan. 2, 1965) Mrs. Gracia G. Mosher, 73, who with her husband, A. Howard Mosher, operated the McHenry Plaindealer for about twenty-fives, died Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, ic Memorial hospital, Woodstock. Fourteen year old Michael Kelly of Lakemoor underwent surgery for a foot wound received when he was ac­ cidentally shot by his own weapon while hunting. The sewer smoke project started by the city this fall will continue in earnest after the first of the year according to Superintendent of Public Works Fred Meyer. He said the program will take about six weeks to complete. Last week's fifty-two page Plaindealer was one of the largest issues ever printed containing the quadrennial tax assessment listings. The paper contained thirty-seven page of legal material which required about 1,000 hours of labor in setting type, proof reading and press work. A total of 3,631 pounds of newsprint was used for the one publication compared to a normal 1,000 to 1,200 for an average weekly issue. A very lovely holiday wed­ ding was solemnized at St. Patrick's church Dec. 28 when Miss Lucille Knox became the bride of Mr. Preston N. Harris. Rev. Fr. Eugene Parker of­ ficiated at the nuptial rite. Newspapers; Magazines 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. Bottles, Cans 9 A.M. - Noon Third Saturday every month Market Place TURN ON YOUR CITY CHRISTMAS MORNING The new Bearcat 111 automatic scanning monitor gives your famiiy the most exciting Christmas ever. Unlike ordinary radio, it constantly hunts for news... automatically scanning its eight crystal-controlled channels You Fisten to police and firemen in action ... sheriff and state patrol... even car telephone conversations. A Bearcat III will make a fantastic Christmas gift. 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