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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1977
Page
3
An Acton district high school exhibition features Grade 11 student Beverly Anderson working on line block sculpture and Duncan Waldie practicing tuba. The event showcases pottery making, silk screening, and other craft demonstrations in the school auditorium.
Ontario agriculture minister William Newman urged voters to back his friend George Gray the Progressive Conservative candidate in Halton Burlington at a Milton rally. He called for tariff equity and a beef import law, announced a $1 million Ontario farm products campaign, and defended PC guidelines over NDP land control. He ducked a Site F timing question but promised a full environmental board hearing.
A political rally for Progressive-Conservative candidate George Gray and farm speaker William Newman drew about 50 people of a 400 seat audience in Milton on May 24. Gray blamed competing TV debates and busy farming schedules for low turnout, pledged to tackle farm issues, attacked federal beef imports, defended land use policy, and contrasted with opposition criticism.
The Georgetown Y offers a noon hour summer outreach through June and July in industrial and commercial Georgetown areas. It targets working adults with flexible sessions including fitness, educational films, and craft demos. Y representatives will contact local industries. call 877-6162 for details on the Experience Trafeld service branch program of Ontario’s Ministry of Culture and Recreation.
Xi Delta Beta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met at Betty Naylor's home for a program titled Practical Arts A Woman's Best Friend. Officers were installed for 1977 78 and Exemplar Day rituals honored new Exemplar girls. A donation to the Canadian Cancer Society was announced and a year end program prize awarded.
Ashgrove district report from Hillcrest Church details a Womens Institute meeting with 30 members and six visitors. Guest speaker Helen Tucker urged world citizenship and world peace, while local graduations at Guelph and Western Ontario were noted alongside upcoming bus trip and district events.
Wendy Elannah earned a bachelor degree in Religious Studies from the University of Waterloo on May 26. Sympathy sent to Mr. George Herrington and family on his mother’s death May 26. George Book family returned from a Florida motor trip. Limehouse Presbyterian Church held its first Memorial Day service May 29 led by Rev. Peter Barrow with hymns by the ladies choir and a cemetery procession ending with Amazing Grace and Benediction. W.A. ladies served a buffet lunch at the church.
Graham Bell of 531 Catedonia Road Toronto drove south on Bronte Street and failed to negotiate a curve at a railroad crossing on May 28. The car left the road, struck the railway embankment, and plunged into a pond. Bell sustained minimal injuries. The vehicle was wrecked and damage to Canadian Pacific Railway tracks was estimated at $1,000.
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