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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1967
Page
7
Georgetown firefighter William Hyde praised two Oakville Grade 5 students, Alan Cartwright and Kathleen Higgins, for winning the Halton Fire Prevention Bureau’s annual poster contest. They received personal trophies, a school trophy, and a certificate at a banquet.
St Francis of Assisi popularized the Christmas Nativity display and authored a well known prayer about peace and selfless giving. The prayer urges sowing love, pardoning injuries, and seeking to console others rather than be consoled. It ends with the idea that giving brings reward and dying leads to eternal life.
Many parents chase expensive presents but youngsters value amusement and attention more. The piece argues intangible gifts like family time, shared activities, and helping with chores trump luxury items. It also gives a simple Christmas tree lighting formula and example.
Cranberries are as traditional as apple pie. Indians called them Ibimi or bitter berry, used as pemmican on wounds. Pilgrims named them craneberries for cranes, later changed to cranberries. Bogs host swallows to curb pests. bees pollinate flowers for fruit.
Esquesing Township public school board remains unchanged after Monday elections. Incumbents Dr. Alan Thompson Lloyd Fisher and Chester Early were all reelected, preserving the existing trio of trustees.
Slippery roads in the first week of December led to five Georgetown collisions with property damage over $100 each. Notable incidents include Jen nifer Boudrea’s car collision on Maple Avenue West, Wilfrid McCluskey’s slide into a pole on Rexway Drive, and separate crashes on the John St East hill and Main St South. Gerald Callaghan’s vehicle also struck a vacuum machine base at a car wash, causing lighter damage.
Five female and one bull elk arrive from Elk Island game preserve in Alberta to join the buffalo herd at a 75 acre preserve west of Rattlesnake Point. The Halton Region Conservation Authority kept them in quarantine for several weeks after the fall roundup before release.
In a Georgetown Herald report from December 7 1967 two Authority men were sent to Alberta to supervise elk on a lengthy return trip. The journey extended past three days due to a derailment near Manitoba. The elk were moved by train to Hamilton then by truck to Rattlesnake Point and released. Field officer Dave Murray notes plans to acquire musk oxen for the preserve though no firm plan exists yet.
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