Editor, The Friday Flyer:
A great big thank you to all the generous people who helped make the Jr. Women’s Club (JWC) annual Holiday Boutique at the Lodge this past Saturday, November 24, such a huge success!
I would like to thank Staples in Hemet for donating our “grand prize” – a beautiful leather Sealy Posturepedic Memory Foam executive desk chair. I’d also like to thank Jdock Seafood Co. and Michelle Rojo for donating our “yummy grand prize” – a five-pound box of fresh Wild Alaskan Salmon, flown in from Seward, Alaska.
The cute snowman and penguin decorations donated by the Do It Center in Lake Elsinore were the door prizes. A special thanks goes to all the vendors who were so generous to donate one of their items for the drawing to raise money for the many local families we help during the holidays.
A big thank you to Rick, Alex, Joe, Chris, Loretta and Scott who were all extremely helpful in setting up all the tables and chairs and lunches for the 50 local vendors who displayed their goods and services.
Thanks to the many shoppers, lookers and ticket buyers who came out to support this year’s event and brought canned goods, blankets and jackets!
Thank you to The Friday Flyer for its wonderful articles. Many thanks to the JWC members who baked items for the baked goods sale.
And, finally, I would like to thank Les Coy, Ruth Stiefel, Misti Janes, Jen Boatman, Heather Gotoski, Meredith Kielty, Karen Wentzel, Melissa Conner, Taylor Conner, Carol Winn, Monica O’Rourke, Michelle Rojo and previous Chairperson Sue Collins. I could not have done it without all their help and hard work. Thank you all!
Becki Kenney
2007 Holiday Boutique Chairperson
http://www.thefridayflyer.com/FF-2007-11-30/FFS-8243.htm
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Game on! Make the best cookies ever
Holiday cookie-baking isn't the apron-wrapped, wooden-spoon, kid-on- a-step-stool Norman Rockwell experience Madison Avenue wants you to believe it is.
Far from it. Any dedicated baker — amateur or professional — knows the truth: Cookies are competition.
We say bring it on. This year, don't bake just for fun. This year, bake to win.
Use our collection of favorite recipes -- provided for you under the heading "Related articles" -- as your personal playbook, and let the games begin. Because these cookies take the cake.
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Dipping Into the Past
2 young Englishmen convicted in thefts from hotel stable
100 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 19, 1907
• Farmers coming into Orangeville recently have suffered rather severely by the theft of valuable robes from their rigs while left in the hotel sheds. On Saturday night, Dec. Dec. 7, two young Englishmen - Hutchings and Lewis - were arrested for attempted assault and later released on cash bail. They were arrested again when Hutchings had a fine robe in his possession and Lewis a big fish, which they could not account for. Last Friday, Police Magistrate Pattulo imposed a nominal fine for the assault and Hutchings and Lewis were convicted of theft of the robe and fish. The sentences were 30 days for Hutchings and 14 for Lewis.
• The seventh number of "Yuletide," the Christmas publication of the Victoria Literary Society of Shelburne Continuation School, is now on sale. There are half-tone pictures of the founder of the Society, the Winter and Michaelmas term Executives, and the members of Dufferin County Council and the county officials. The reading matter includes special articles on different subjects, letters from the absent ones, a letter to the absent ones, school and society notes for the year, the school register, etc. The 40-page publication is quite a handsome one, and you need feel no doubt as to its acceptability as a Christmas card to an absent friend. The price is only 15 cents a copy. You can secure a copy at the ECONOMIST office or by placing your order with any of the teachers or senior pupils of the school.
• The annual entertainment in connection with St. James' Church, Primrose, held in the new hall, lot 30, Prince of Wales Road, Mono, Tuesday evening, was a great success, both from the standpoint of attendance and excellence of program presented. The big feature was the presentation of the drama in four acts, "Dot, the Miner's Daughter, or One Glass of Wine," by amateurs of the neighbourhood.
• The contest for mayor in Orangeville is currently between A. D. McKitrick, the present deputy reeve, and J. L. Island, who opposed Mayor C. W. McKeown last year, with chances in favour of the former. James Armstrong, the present reeve, will be a candidate for re-election and will probably be elected by acclamation.
• At its meeting Monday evening, Shelburne Council passed the following motion: "That pursuant to the petition by R. A. Riky and others for a sanitary and storm sewer on part of Main Street, part of Owen Sound St. and part of Victoria St., as described in petition, and the clerk having certified to the correctness of the same pursuant to the bylaw respecting local improvements, this council does decide to go on with the work and hereby refer the matter to such engineer as may be decided upon, for a report according to the bylaw."
75 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 22, 1932
• The Shelburne High School Year Book 1932 is the niftiest of souvenirs and available for only 35 cents a copy. It is an advertisement for the town, because it is a handsome little book in its purple and gold cover, and with black and white drawings, half-tone photographs and a page of cartoons, as well as many pages representing the literary efforts of the pupils, in addition to articles giving an epitome of school life of the year.
• The C.P.R. has announced a decision to cut off the buffet-parlor car on its line between Owen Sound and Toronto at about the end of December. One of the expensive frills due to railway competition, it was instituted about 12 years ago at the request of the Owen Sound Board of Trade. The district passenger agent says the car has been showing a serious loss.
50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 18, 1957
• David Nesbitt, 24, of Orangeville, is recovering from a severe shaking up and shock when the read end of his commercial bread truck was struck by the northbound passenger train at the Main Street crossing in Shelburne last Friday morning. Mr. Nesbitt was thrown into the snow and the immediate area was strewn with baked goods. An up-to-date alarm system for the crossing is plainly needed.
25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 22, 1982
• Dufferin County Board of Education has ordered the removal of pinball machines from Orangeville District Secondary School and Centre dufferin District High School, In presenting a motion calling for their removal, Shelburne trustee Larry Haskell said board bylaws prohibit gambling on board premises and pinball machines "are nothing more than a low form of gambling and should not be in the schools.
• Dufferin County Council will consider setting up a reserve fund for Dufferin Oaks. Orangeville Reeve Arnold Patterson said he is in favour of putting surplus funds in a reserve, so long as the fund was set up in such a way that it did not require putting monies into the fund annually.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2007/1220/Columns/025.html
100 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 19, 1907
• Farmers coming into Orangeville recently have suffered rather severely by the theft of valuable robes from their rigs while left in the hotel sheds. On Saturday night, Dec. Dec. 7, two young Englishmen - Hutchings and Lewis - were arrested for attempted assault and later released on cash bail. They were arrested again when Hutchings had a fine robe in his possession and Lewis a big fish, which they could not account for. Last Friday, Police Magistrate Pattulo imposed a nominal fine for the assault and Hutchings and Lewis were convicted of theft of the robe and fish. The sentences were 30 days for Hutchings and 14 for Lewis.
• The seventh number of "Yuletide," the Christmas publication of the Victoria Literary Society of Shelburne Continuation School, is now on sale. There are half-tone pictures of the founder of the Society, the Winter and Michaelmas term Executives, and the members of Dufferin County Council and the county officials. The reading matter includes special articles on different subjects, letters from the absent ones, a letter to the absent ones, school and society notes for the year, the school register, etc. The 40-page publication is quite a handsome one, and you need feel no doubt as to its acceptability as a Christmas card to an absent friend. The price is only 15 cents a copy. You can secure a copy at the ECONOMIST office or by placing your order with any of the teachers or senior pupils of the school.
• The annual entertainment in connection with St. James' Church, Primrose, held in the new hall, lot 30, Prince of Wales Road, Mono, Tuesday evening, was a great success, both from the standpoint of attendance and excellence of program presented. The big feature was the presentation of the drama in four acts, "Dot, the Miner's Daughter, or One Glass of Wine," by amateurs of the neighbourhood.
• The contest for mayor in Orangeville is currently between A. D. McKitrick, the present deputy reeve, and J. L. Island, who opposed Mayor C. W. McKeown last year, with chances in favour of the former. James Armstrong, the present reeve, will be a candidate for re-election and will probably be elected by acclamation.
• At its meeting Monday evening, Shelburne Council passed the following motion: "That pursuant to the petition by R. A. Riky and others for a sanitary and storm sewer on part of Main Street, part of Owen Sound St. and part of Victoria St., as described in petition, and the clerk having certified to the correctness of the same pursuant to the bylaw respecting local improvements, this council does decide to go on with the work and hereby refer the matter to such engineer as may be decided upon, for a report according to the bylaw."
75 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 22, 1932
• The Shelburne High School Year Book 1932 is the niftiest of souvenirs and available for only 35 cents a copy. It is an advertisement for the town, because it is a handsome little book in its purple and gold cover, and with black and white drawings, half-tone photographs and a page of cartoons, as well as many pages representing the literary efforts of the pupils, in addition to articles giving an epitome of school life of the year.
• The C.P.R. has announced a decision to cut off the buffet-parlor car on its line between Owen Sound and Toronto at about the end of December. One of the expensive frills due to railway competition, it was instituted about 12 years ago at the request of the Owen Sound Board of Trade. The district passenger agent says the car has been showing a serious loss.
50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 18, 1957
• David Nesbitt, 24, of Orangeville, is recovering from a severe shaking up and shock when the read end of his commercial bread truck was struck by the northbound passenger train at the Main Street crossing in Shelburne last Friday morning. Mr. Nesbitt was thrown into the snow and the immediate area was strewn with baked goods. An up-to-date alarm system for the crossing is plainly needed.
25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 22, 1982
• Dufferin County Board of Education has ordered the removal of pinball machines from Orangeville District Secondary School and Centre dufferin District High School, In presenting a motion calling for their removal, Shelburne trustee Larry Haskell said board bylaws prohibit gambling on board premises and pinball machines "are nothing more than a low form of gambling and should not be in the schools.
• Dufferin County Council will consider setting up a reserve fund for Dufferin Oaks. Orangeville Reeve Arnold Patterson said he is in favour of putting surplus funds in a reserve, so long as the fund was set up in such a way that it did not require putting monies into the fund annually.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2007/1220/Columns/025.html
Baked Goods -- Bake Me A Wish
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