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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
11
The Junior Congregation of Orono United Church hosted a Christmas party for parents and members. Carol Yeo led the opening acts with poems and prayers, followed by songs, solos, and recitations by the children and leaders, decorated auditorium by the Armstrong brothers.
Ice making at the Orono Rink began this week with James Middleton as caretaker and ice maker. Operated by the Orono Amateur Athletic Association, skating may start by next week weather permitting. A church fund offering was presented by Charlie Reid from Junior Congregation, followed by a poem by Ellen Milson and a boys' reading led by Norman Rickaby and Ross Tamblyn.
Raye West led the Orono Bowmanville Combines with six goals in two games over the weekend, aided by brothers Dean and Junior West and Charles Armstrong. The trio powered wins and kept the team in contention, while Lindsay’s 5–5 tie and overtime loss highlighted the weekend’s action.
Citizens pack the Orono Amateur Athletic Benefit Banquet with two hundred tickets sold and all seats filled. Harold Cobbledick wins the hundred dollar grand prize after an elimination draw. Vernon Graham and Roy Forrester also place. The Bowmanville High School quartet Four Bows performs to an ovation, while seniors from the Orono Figure Skating Club assist in serving.
A Mrs. M. H. Staples hosted a Christmas Carol party for her piano pupils and their mothers. The program featured solos and duets with piano accompaniment, a speech by Ross Tamblyn, and an Azalea gift to Mrs. Staples. Ice cream and cookies followed. participants included Ross and Jean Tamblyn, Douglas Hamm, Marie Hooey, Gay Hinton, and many others.
A community shower at Kendal Orange Hall on Friday December 7 celebrated the engagement of Doreen Langstaff and Jack Neal. Mrs George Mercer read the address, the couple thanked guests for gifts, and cards were exchanged before euchre prizes were awarded to Mrs KE Couroux, Mrs Allan Foster, Mr Roy Foster, and Mr Argus Curtiss.
The Heather Rebekah Social Club sponsors Santa's arrival in Orono this Saturday at 2:30 PM at the Township Hall. The event includes children's films and community singing with Santa distributing candy nuts and fruit, funded by local business support.
Darlington Township filled vacancies at a nomination meeting with Fred Smith winning the council seat by acclamation and Harold Balson taking the school board seat. The 1957 officers include reeve R. W. Nichols and deputy-reeve Garnet Rickard, with council members Allan Thompson Earl Trull and Fred Smith. School board members are Harold Balson and Leslie Coombes.
Bowmanville completed its 1957 council by acclamation at Friday's meeting with J. Presson and Qwen Nicholas elected as councillors. Nelson E. Osborne will be mayor, Sidney Little reeve, and W. D. Carruthers deputy reeve. New and incumbent councillors include John Brough L. G. Preston Keith Lathangue Dave Higgon and Owen Nicholas O. J. Preston. Manager question deferred as no election was needed. Norman J. Scott and T. F. Rehder did not seek re-election.
Kendal friends gathered in the Sunday School room on December 5 to wish Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Tebble happiness in their new Orono home and presented a floor lamp and coffee table. Miss C W Stewart read the address as Roy Mercer and Hatcher Foster handed the gifts. Christmas carols and a program followed amid icy road conditions and a social refreshment time.
A White Gift Service is held Sunday at 7 30 p m in Orono United Church replacing the annual Sunday School Christmas party The event is run by the church Sunday School to bring cheer to needy families and shut ins and to support the Overseas Relief Fund continued on page 3
The Serpent Mounds park on Rice Lake north shore near Keene opens to the public with roads trees picnic sites and trailer campsites. In 12 000 visitors toured the Mounds Museum while 500 Americans from Ohio joined a Hopewellian dig.Next year excavations continue with larger groups expected and visitors urged to keep the park clean.
The Orono Horticultural Society featured a premier slide show "Rambling in the Pacific" by Mr. Clark of Toronto at the Sunday School auditorium. About 100 attendees from Orono and nearby towns viewed images of Japan China and Hawaii with thoughtful commentary.
Orono stores will stay open evenings from December 14 through December 24, until 9 p.m. as the Orono Business Section offers extended hours for Christmas shopping. Merchants fill shops with gift ideas and urge readers to check this week's ads.
Owen Sweetman of Little Britain was elected president of the Central Ontario Spring Show in Peterboro. Other officers include Wellington Sutton first vice president Grover Smith second vice president Olver A Dalry... secretary-treasurer Newton Ashton and a roster of executives and managers for the Memorial Centre exhibition planning and seed show. Plans call for expanded displays foods and more demonstrations. Harold Detlor of Stirling retires as president.
A district wide Christmas fowl draw held in the Village Saturday night by the Crono Oddfellow's Service Club and the annual dance distributed twenty five turkeys. Five prizes went to the Village. Winners include Thom as Stephenson Laura Miles G Manderson Adam Keane Howard Masters Mrs Willis McNair Miss Shirley Vissach Bob Pritchard Hazel Mitchell Alex Anchithick Emma Lunn Neil Hooey J A Babcock Mrs Stanley Sharpe Keith West Mrs C Myles Grant Steward Mrs Roy Hooper Carol Carter Carman G White Douglas Cathcart Sam Keane W M Ogden Jean Vannan M Hedge. Proceeds over four hundred dollars support Community Welfare and the Community Building fund.
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