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Penetanguishene Citizen (1975-1988), 20 Aug 1980, p. 29

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: ' Huronia calendar Aug. 19, 20 -- Huronia Fitness Project is on both days at "The Place"' in Balm Beach. Tuesday from 9 a.m. to4p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20 -- Ladies Look! Bake sale, tea and crafts sale, Midland Lawn Bowling Club House, King Street South, at Little Lake, from 2 to 5 p.m, Lots of lovely crafts for Christmas giving and the baked goods are simply scrumptuous. Aug. 21, 22 -- Huronia Fitness Project winds up at the Woodland Beach "'Bayshore Seniors Centre'. Aug. 21 from noon until 3:30 p.m. and August 22 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Testing is free. Friday, Aug. 22 -- The Waverley Recreation Committee will be sponsoring a boat cruise aboard the Georgian Queen out of the Penetanguishene docks. Entertainment will include the Fig Leaf Jazz Band, a cash bar and snack bar. For more information call Hilda Sibthorpe at . 322-2036. Saturday, Aug. 23 -- The Perkinsfield Parks and Recreation will hold the 3rd annual Family Fun Day at the Perkinsfield Park. Some of the highlights include auction sale, flea market, bake sale, games of chance for all ages, corn roast, barbeque, cheer garden and moonlight dance. Saturday, Sept. 6 -- Toanche Parks and Recreation will sponsor the 3rd annual Corn Roast and Outdoor Dance at Toanche Park. Music by Marcel Maurice and The Northerners, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Price $6a couple. Free all the corn you. can eat. Monday, Sept. 8 -- Big Sisters annual dinner is being held at the Georgian Dining Room on Vinden Street. Social hour is 6:30 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are now available at The Treasure Nook in Midland, and E.R. Fashions in Penetang. Guest speaker will be Donna O'Shaughnessy, who is executive director of Big Sisters of Peterborough. Notice -- The Salvation Army Thrift Store will be holding its Garbage Bag Sale from Aug. 20-23. Bring your own bag and fill it with good used clothing for only $3. Notice : \ -- Children can experience the 19th century at the Historic Naval and Military Establish- ments in Penetanguishene with the in- troduction of a new summer program called "Visiting Friends'. The program offers a chance to learn 19th century activities, such as macrame, carpentry, sketching, and . hearthside cooking. The Friends will also wear period dress, portraying the sons and daughters of the men stationed at the naval and military base. Notice -- The three French-Language nursery schools in Penetanguishene, Lafontaine, Perkinsfield still have a few openings for 3 and 4 year olds for the 1980-81 nursery school year. Registration forms and information available at the Centre d'activités francaises, 63 Main Street, Penetanguishene - 549-3116. Coldwater Fall Fair books ready | Fall Fair schedule? Do call us Do you know fall fairs in Ontario have been in existence since 1792? It was back then when John Graves Simcoe, governor of Upper Canada became the patron of the first fall fair. It was held at Niagara-on-the-Lake Since then fall fairs have flourished to a point where some 230 will be held this year in Ontario alone with the biggest of them all already in full swing in Toronto, the Canadian National Exhibition. Midland's Tiny-Tay Agricultural -- Society's Annual Fall Fair is set for Sept. 12 and 13 although as in past years, preparations will be well underway on the 11th. Barrie's'_ started yesterday and continues through to Aug. 24. It attracts thousands from all over the province" since _ its midway is probably the second biggest in Ontario next to the one at the CNE. London's Western Fair, Sept. 5-14 is a dandy as is Collingwood's on Aug. 29-Sept. 1. If you'd like to know where fall fairs will be held in your favorite committee, call the editor of The Midland Times during normal working hours and he'll be happy to share fall fair information with you. The number to call is 526-2283. It's just one more public service feature of The Midland Times, Midland's only = a newsp- Page 30, Wednesday, Muga 20, a by E. Lorraine Orr The 1980 Coldwater Fair books are now available, free, and may be obtained at the Village office. There is a_ large variety of entries to interest everyone. Why not pick up a book and see what you can enter in the Fair? A Fair membership is only $1.50 and this en- titles you to enter as many classes as you wish, from _ garden produce to baking and sewing items, etc. The Fair needs your support - give it by being a competitor. The new 1980 'Miss CNE" is Spring Legard of Orillia. Spring was chosen from 102 other girls at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto last Wednesday. A former Winter Carnival Queen and "Miss Orillia', Spring attended Coldwater Public School and is a graduate of Park Street Collegiate. She is the daughter of Jessie and Harold Legard, owners of the Jay-Haro Rest Home in Coldwater. A large bell will soon sit on top of Georgina and Jack Watterson's garage on Grey Street. Georgina purchased the bell at an auction sale rece mt lve and discovered it had been previously owned by Bill Wylie, Sr. of Coldwater. Mr. Wylie vurchased the bell from a farm sale in Uhthoff many years ago. It had been used at one time to call the farm workers in. from the fields for meals. Melanie Fontaine and Valerie Orr spent a day at the new Water Slide in Collingwood, and were dinner guests at the Cranberry Inn. If you need a few moments rest while shopping in Coldwater, take advantage of the four new _ benches situated along the main street. These _ long- needed benches are a welcome addition to our community, and are a project of the Businessmen's Asso- ciation. Visiting with Mrs. Caroline Orr of RR 3, presents Nets yay A Fun Trek Attraction GOLD: CADILLAC : by Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman Directed by Vernon Chapman August 25 to 30, 1980 At Georgian College Theatre, Hwy 400 at Duckworth St., Barrie Evenings at 8:30 p.m. $8. and $6. Matinees at 2 p.m. Wed., Thurs., $4.50 Call (705) 728-4613 for tickets Coldwater, is son Charles and his wife Rena and children Sherry and Ricky of Kinsac, Nova Scotia. Charles is in his 26th year of service with the Canadian Navy and is at present Warrant Officer with the Reserve Training Unit' in Halifax. Christine Cholack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cholack, is visiting with her great- aunt, Kim MacFarlane in Sarnia. While there her aunt, who is a professional ice skater, will coach Chris at the International Ice Skating Summer School of Figure Skating. Carl McCaskell of Orillia has been visiting with his aunt and uncle, Shirley and John Jen- nett, and cousin Jodi. While in Coldwater he enjoyed a fishing trip to Six Mile Lake and joined in the activities of Kid's Day at the Coldwater Fairgrounds. Visiting with Rita and Gordon Whiston of Eady, is their nephew Eric MacKinder and friend Michael Smith of Manchester, England. They not only visited the Coldwater area from the ground, but had an opportunity to see it from above when Gordon took them up in an airplane. The 15th annual Georgian Bay Steam Show in Cookstown saw several Coldwater residents with their antique machinery on display. Exhibitors Frank and Jim Gleadall were extremely pleased to havea picture of their 1928 Hay Press em- bossed on the red and gold disc given to each of the show's par- ticipants. Their F14 Farmall tractor was the winner again this year in the slow race for steel-wheeled tractors with spikes. The idea of this particular race is to go slower than anyone else, without stalling the machine. Randy Crawford displayed three gas engines at the show. His Alamo 1% h.p. engine won a trophy for the best-restored engine for under-3 h.p. This particular engine was originally used as a water pump or a grain grinder. Randy_purchased it in New Brunswick for $65 and estimates it's value now at approximately $350. Also displaying gas engines was Cameron Gill of Grey Street, Coldwater, and Bruce Goss, who is a director of the show, displayed his Rumley oil-pull tractor. The above mentioned machinery will be on display at the Coldwater Fall Fair on Saturday, Sept. 27 along with a large variety of other antique farm machinery. Congratulations to Jim Williams upon winning the Coat-of- Arms contest conducted by the Coldwater Now appearing Slinger Aug. 21, 22, 23 PALACE TAVERN ENTERTAINMENT LICENSED LLBO LAGE PAVE mae Council. Jim's design was one of over 17 entries received. It depicts four Ojibway Indians, canoeing on the Cold- water River, with the grist mill in the background. GIS-SI-NAU-SE, the Indian word for Cold- water, is inscribed at the top of the design and _ the name Coldwater. below the picture. The design will be imprinted on the Chain of Office and also on the official seal and all letterheads of the Village. Don Maltby of Coldwater and Patricia Koch of Honey Harbour were runners-up. Gryphon Theatre putting on classic spoof Gryphon Theatre presents Barbara Hamilton in The Solid Gold Cadillac at the Georgian College Theatre Aug. 25-Aug. 30. The spoof of big business, politics, television comment- ators, newspaper reporting, the theatrical world and more was written by the team of George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann. Kaufman was a collaborator on You Can't Take It With You, George Washington Slept Here and the - classic The Man Who Came to Dinner. ~ Hamilton stars in the leading role of a sweet- mannered and timid elderly lady who upsets a big corporation's annual stockholders' meeting by asking the company's officers some questions that make them fidget. PHELPSTON TAVERN Country & Western Music Held Over August 21, 22, 23 ee" Next entertainment North Wind August 28, 29, 30 Flos Conc. 4 Phelpston August 28, 29, 30 Main St., Elmvale Gryphon Theatre of Barrie Barbara Jp bedran ~ @All Pictures Subject To Unavoidable Change © 000000 OOCOOOOCOOOOCOEO®D HELD OVER Smokey and the Bandit II Recommended as ADULT ENTERTAINMENT for

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