Santa Arrives in Orono by Helicopter This Saturday
Santa Claus will land at 2 30 PM Saturday December 16 in Orono by helicopter at the fairgrounds. The Orono Band will escort him to McKenzie store where he greets children from 3 00 to 5 30 PM and 7 00 to 8 30 PM. He stays in Orono the following week daily 2 00 to 4 00 PM. Sponsored by the Orono Chamber of Commerce.
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Santa
Orono
Santa Claus
Orono Fair Grounds
McKenzie
McKenzie’s
Orono Mission Band Hosts Leskard Group Christmas Party
The Orono United Church Mission Band hosted over sixty guests from Leskard for an afternoon Christmas gathering. The event featured carols, a Christmas play, a reading, a vocal duet, and a film titled Taro's Christmas Gift, followed by a lunch prepared by mothers.
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Orono Mission
Entertain Leskard
Orono United Church
Leskard Mission Band
Orono Band
Jesus
Harry de Jonge
Loucks
Japan
Taro
Warden Stewart Gray Honoured at United Counties Banquet
About 300 guests attended the Co Bourg Pavilion for the United Counties Wardens banquet honoring Warden Stewart Gray, with Hon. W. A. Goodfellow and other dignitaries present. A gold watch was given to the retiring warden and a silver tray to Mrs Bruce Ashton, wife of the late warden.
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Cobourg
United Counties Wardens
Stewart Gray
Hope Township
Fred Ramsey
Bruce Ashton
Orono Stores To Open Evenings
Orono merchants will stay open every evening through Christmas Eve to aid shoppers. Stores will operate until nine o'clock each night.
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Orono
Oddfellows Dance And Draw Friday At Community Hall
The Oddfellows Service Club hosts a Dance and Draw with 20 turkeys as prizes. Revelairs Orchestra from Port Hope provides music for round and square dancing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Admission is two dollars per couple. Proceeds support community service locally and abroad with various door prizes and a social evening planned.
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Oddfellows Service Club
Revelairs Orchestra of
Port Hope
Oddfellows Community Hall
Artist of 1961 Christmas Seals Showcased
A Toronto designer Alan Fujiwara, born in Vancouver in 1930 and educated at East York Collegiate and Ontario College of Art, unified ten provincial seal designs into a Canada map sheet for the 1961 Christmas Seals after years of conferences ahead of the XVI International Union Against Tuberculosis conference in Canada.
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Association
Toronto
International Union
International Union Against
Canada
Alan Fujiwara
Mr. Fujiwara
Vancouver
B.C
East York Collegiate
Ontario College of Art
John Westren
Orono Chamber Plans Santa Visit and Noon Bank Hours
Fifteen members met at the New Dutch Oven to arrange Santa’s Orono visit and discuss business. A dentist’s interest and a noon bank hour proposal with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce were debated. The group also tackled staffing for Clarke Township High School and honored the Oreéno Band.
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Orono
Charles Armstrong
W. HB. Carman
Santa
McKenzie
St. Nick
S. B. Rutherford
Oreéno
Chamber of Commerce
Orone
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Messrs. C. Armstrong
Wm. Carman
Ray Dickson
Clarke Township
Witherspoon
Carlos Tamblyn
Mr. Carman
Carman
A. McGill
Heather Rebekahs Hold Christmas Party
Heather Rebekah Lodge No. 334 met December 12 with Sister Himma Lunn presiding. About forty members attended a turkey supper and a short business meeting. A nomination committee was named for January, and a film from the Grand Prix at Mosport was promised for the next gathering.
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Heather Rebekah Lodge No. 334
Himma Lunn
Noble Rand
Alice Hooey
Jean Wood
Heather Lodge
Beehive Lodge
Bowmanville
Hirmima
West
Emma Luann
Orono
Chier
Nothir
Messrs
A. McLaren
H. Duvall
D. 8
Staples
Mosport
The Last Silver Ball at Orono Town Hall
Orono High School Student Council presents its final Christmas dance in the Town Hall before moving to Clarke High School. Titled The Last Silver Ball the event promises a glittering decor filled ballroom and a nine thirty performance by the Cavalier’s from Oshawa on Friday December 22.
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Orono High School
Orono Town Hall
Clarke High School
Oshawa
Orono Public School Christmas Exam Results
Orono Public School releases Christmas examination results by grade and division. Junior Division grade lists show A B C D marks with names alphabetized. Intermediate Division includes grades 7 and 8 with multiple students named in each category.
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Orono
Orono Public School
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THE
Cavaliers
Mrs. C. McLaren
Mothers of the Children
Elaine Forrester
S. Gray
W. A. Goodfellow
Mr. Gray
United Counties
Counties Council
Mr. Goodfellow
Alex Carruthers
Durham
Ben Thompson
Northumberland
Garnet Rickard
Oddfellow
Chamber
Heather Rebekahs
Glenda Tennant
Larry Adams
Carol Caldwell
Michael Carman
John Duvall
Nancy Forrester
Donna Gilbank
Heather Hughes
Caroline Johnson
David Manning
Julia Neal
Nancy Nixon
Julie Schmid
Lynda Barraball
Coretta Challice
Tanya Estabrooke
Gordon Hooey
Julie Jones
Arthur Kilpatrick
Linda McLaren
Molly Newman
Dianne Nicholson
Harvey Partner
Raye West
Edith Kilpatrick
Ricky Simpson
Ernie Wilcock
Edward Woodyard
D. McKenzie
J. Alexander
B. Caldwell
Pam Hardy
C. Mercer
E. Milison
G. Simpson
B. Tennant
P. Wallace
A. Arnott
S. Goode
C. Johnson
F. Lewis
M. Middleton
B. Mitchell
B. Nixon
D. Partridge
E. Schmid
M. Taggart
D. Taylor
D. Todd
D. West
H. de Jonge
B. Myles
R. Prescott
Ralf de Jonge
B. Vanderveen
Allin
D. Dunlop
J. Grady
P. Hardy
T. Hardy
C. Kennedy
R. Luxton
W. Mercer
R. Neal
C. Nixon
R. Morrison
L. Tennant
Bob Best
G. Dent
C. Flynn
C. Gilbank
B. Mercer
F. Wallace
W. Arnott
C. Cooper
Gilbart
D. Moffat
R. Morris
P. Partner
Rogerson
R. Sharron
S. Simpson
L. Bowen
M. Tennant
EB. Todd
A. Vandenbrink
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