Canadians Back Grenoble Quest For Olympic Medals
Canadians prepare for Grenoble with seventy two athletes in six sports as costs total 500000 funded by the Canadian Olympic Association. comparisons to Soviet spending highlight national sacrifice and private donations as the path to future success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grenoble
France
Wwe
Lyrow Strom
Whan
Roxy Borou
Mexico City
Canadian Olympic Association
Weste “Pikiera
Editorial: bury power lines to curb storm damage
The piece argues Canada’s advanced society faces weather risks highlighted by January ice storms that knocked out electricity across southern Ontario. It notes millions in repair costs, school and business disruptions, and the suggestion to bury lines underground as a long term solution, balanced against practicality and fairness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ontario
Toronto
Bill Dennison
Playoff Push and Province Jibes Liven Weekend Sports
Local hockey teams enter the playoffs as teams and fans brace for elimination contests. A sharp quip by a University of Guelph professor jokes about beef and a Duke’s table luck frames a weekend of sports banter and television humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Thomas D. Burgess
University of Guelph
Reading while sick in the winter blues
A personal column describes catching the flu on a winter weekend and the mix of remedies, jokes, and family theories. The narrator recalls wartime reading with Richard Hillary and Max Ferguson, finding solace in books and humor while bedridden and shaping a view of humanity amid hardship.
Wedding and skating carnival noted in local Free Press item
The February 12 1948 Free Press reports Bertha March and Herward Drew wedding at St Josephs Church and a Milton Vig Men skating carnival. It describes contestants in races and broom-ball between Y s Men and high school girls, plus Mrs May Dumarsh taking charge of the junior winnat class at the Y citing prior KIT Chen ar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph’s Church
Bertha Shirley
Wesley Marchmight
Herward Drew
Milton
Acton
Carol“Tylor
May ‘Oplers
Grant
Withers
Gregory
May Dumarsh
The
Kitchenar
Fire destroys Moffatt store in 1893 blaze
A lamp toppled by the proprietor caused a fire that destroyed the Moffatt store last Friday. The stock and fixtures, including about eight hundred dollars, were lost while the fire was saved. Other notes mention a popular concert in Gig Wolling, a government aid reception for Edan-Mtts Agricultural Society, and local updates on society leadership, harnessed dogs, and wood harvesting at The Gore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moffatt
Fqiad
Pg ‘Bros
Gig Wolling
Acton Hort
M.P.P
Miiiater ‘of Agriculture
St. Valentina
James Matthews
A. B. Wright
the Gore
Ford car cuts expenses and updates transport needs
Fifty years ago on Thursday February 21 1918 an advertisement touts the Ford as a money saver replacing horse buggy gear with a speedy quiet roomy car priced from 495 to 970 dollars. The town hall staged Doostrick Skule under the Intermediate Red Cross with Dan Ritchie as the teacher and a long cast of local names in supporting roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Red Cross
Dan Ritchie
Boyd Clark
Nell McNabb
A. G. Clarridge
Martha Graham
Olla Armstrong
Laura
Gordon McLeod
Tom Savage
Adam Orr
Harry Harwood
L. M. Royce
Bertie Smith
Pearl Baker
Harold Wildgust
Thos
McClure
Alex Mann
James Smith
M. 2. Bannett
H. Swackhamer
James McIntosh
Religious Services Listings for Acton Ontario February 18 1968
A compact church notices page lists services for multiple churches in Acton Ontario. The Church of St Alban the Martyr Anglican holds 9 AM Eucharist and 10:30 AM church school and morning prayer at Willow Street and St Alban's Drive under Rev Ritchie McMurray. Gethel Reformed Church in Acton offers 10 AM English service and 11:10 AM Sunday School with Dutch and English service at 2:30 PM. Maple Avenue Baptist Church invites families to 9:45 AM Sunday School and 11 AM morning service with 7 PM evangel and 7:45 PM midweek prayer at 81 Maple Ave Georgetown. Knox Church Acton of the Presbyterian Church in Canada led by Rev Andrew H McKenzie lists 9:45 AM church school and teen class, and 1 PM public worship with sermon titled Why Attend Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church OF SY. Alban the Martyr Anglican
Willow St
St. Alban’s Drive
Rev. Ritchie McMurray, M.A
S.T.B
Acton
Georgetown
Trinity Church notices February 18 1963 schedule changes
The United Church of Canada Trinity Church lists morning worship at 11.00 a.m. with a note that February 18 changes bring Sunday School at 10.00 a.m. and Morning Worship at 11.00 a.m. Evangelistic services and prayer meetings fill the week, with details for Junior and Senior Sunday Schools and various programs.
Fatal disease strikes horses across East Flamboro
A new deadly horse disease has appeared in East Flamboro, baffling veterinarians. Infected horses show swollen tongues and apparent paralysis before suffocating within hours. Four horses owned by Reuban Sparks of the Seventh Concussion have died in the past week, as contagion concerns rise and containment is urged. The Lothian post office in Halton County has been suspended. Benjamin Jones of Foster Street near the post office advertises cabinetmaking and undertaker services, stock including bedstands chairs mirrors tables Copp’s patent mattresses, coffins oak and cloth, and a hearse for hire across the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Flamboro
Reuban Sparks
Lothian
Halton
Benjamin Jones
Foster Street
Businss
Copp
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Acton Free Press
Free Press
Bury Power Lines
Duke of
Devonshire
England
Ontario Safety League
Johnny
Kim
Apa
Rownd Upton Sinclair
Richard Hillary
Max
Max Ferguson
CBC
Hillary
Oxford
University of Suffering
Ferguson
Iler
Porsy
Mill St
Man
Penge
Crauianon
Agricig
Hany PaLski
Atvane
Aiken Wan Cabads
Bopsamat
Olsee
Dal Topographa
Buhanr
Aublicker
Das Ryder
Ads
Gethel
Christian Reformed Church
Rev
P. Brouwer
Maple Avenue Baptist Church
Maple Ave
Robert C. Lohnes
Presbyterian Church IN
Trinity Church
United Church of Canada
Gordon B. Turner
George Elliott
Acton Baptisy Church
Stanley Gammon
Tidey Ave
Paul
Evangel Pentecostal Tabernacle P.A.O.C
Churchill Road
S. M. Thoman
Christ Ambassadors
Crusaders
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