THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C,

Thursday, September-15, 1955

... WITH IRENE

“Where are you going for your
holidays?” enquired the man, “Chim-
ney Lake?”

“Are there other places?” I en-
quired astonished.

Not that there is anything wrong
with Chimney Lake. In fact itis a
beautiful spot and I love it, especi-
ally when the weather is good. (We
Were singularly blessed with having
Wonderful weather for the whole
week). But sometimes it-seems as
théugh we are in a rut. But a nice
Tut, the editor would say.

Life was made bearable for Mother
this time by the
thoughtful addi-
tion of Peggy
Pinehbeck to our
little family who
acted as a haby-
sitter for the holi-
day and relieved
me of the endless
frustrating task
of caring for two —
children, particularly the baby.

In case you have visions of my
Jolling in the sun, eating chocolates
and reading novels, I should hasten
to dispell the illusion. In my spare
moments, I stained the cabin and
myself a rich chocolate brown (got
to get a tan somehow).

This entailed clambering up onto
@ scaffold fully four feet from the
ground and inching my wobbly way
along the walls. My equilibrium
seems to desert me completely when
empty space leers at me from either
side.

One particularly hot day I was
sloshing away happily when I decid-
ed that the shedding of a few clothes
might improve the situation. As the
cabin is nestled among the trees, the
only road winds about 200 feet up
the hill and traffic for a whole day
is usually one truck, I threw caution
to the wind and stripped to the bare
essentials,

I continued to slap at the cabin
wall, when Clive quietly said “We've
got company.” Well... .I don’t know
when I’ve been more panicky. The
Prospect of reaching for and putting
on my shirt in one quick motion
while balacing on that scafiold seem-
ed a superhuman effort, but some-
how I made it.

The driver of the car pulled to a
halt below me, poked his head out of
the window and innocently enquired

. “Is this the road to Lac La Hache?”

The humour of the situation struck
me much later, when my nerves had
calmed down.

When I was relieved from this
chore by the fact that we ran out of
paint, J fell heir to the exhilarating
task of hauling rocks for the con-
erete foundations. As I heaved rocks
into the trailer, I hoped that future
Picnickers would thank me for my
one-man clean-up campaign.

Nell Michell was quite relieved to
See the concrete foundations go in.
She thought the cabin looked rather
Precarious perched on its original
foundations of huge mis-shapen
rocks and odd bits of lumber.

Of course the editor also managed
to do a fair amount of work while I
was slaving away. We now have a
floor to walk on as well as those con-
€rete footings to hold us up, and we
have two windows to look out of. The
foundation is laid for a fireplace, but

Girl Guide News

The first meeting of the local Girl
Guides was held last Thursday, and
in view of the small number present,
the meeting was moved to the air-
port fields where the girls had a
refresher drill on woodcraft.

Saturday a second meeting was
held on the Stampede grounds where
the girls practiced knots and lashing
in preparation for gadget making.

Meeting will be held regularly at
7 p.m. at McKinnon Memorial Hall.
Any interested girls 11 to 14 years
old are invited to attend meetings
to inquire about joining.

it will be a few years hefore we will
be toasting our toes in front of it.

It begins to look as though we
might be able to live in it next year.
Got any old furniture you don't
want?

And of course we must find a name
for the place. We have been mulling
over quite a number, but can’t seem
to hit upon anything. I suggested
“Salt Mines” when I was up on the
scaffold, but the editor took a dim
view of the suggestion. With the

at the “best end of the lake.” May-
be we should shorten it to simply
“Best End” ....

The fishing wasn’t really good,
but we were only skunked one night
and most of our catches were two
and three-pounders. Clive has me
beat at the moment with a $%4-
pounder, I had the grandfather on
my line though, but he got away.

With all my hard work and the
necessity of going easy on the gro-
ceries so we could last out until
Monday without making a trip into
town, I pranced happily into town
secure in the knowledge that I must
have lost five pounds.

I gained three! There ain’t no
justice.

VANCOUVER SCENE OF ¥ VEDDING

TCA STEWARDESS
HAD PIE IN SKY

Prince George— North Céntral
Zone finals for the B.C: One
Drama Festival will be moved from
Printe George to Quesnel next year,
a meeting of the Music and Drama
Association decided last week. _

Decision to hold the drama finals
in Quesnel came aiter long discus-
sion on the possibility of rotating
the entire drama festival between

Prince George and Quesnel, major

centres in the northern zone.

Charles Edkins of the Quesnel
Little Theatre attended the meeting
to present Quesnel’s arguments in
favor of holding all or part~of the
festival there.

Members decided to hold the
‘drama festival as usual in Prince
George with the city and surround-
ing district plays competing.

Winning play in the festival. will
then travel to Quesnel to take part
in the zone finals. In previous years

"Central Press Canadian
Madeline Ford, TCA steward-

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as her favorite. On a Toronto-

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result; pie m the sky, on the “\Sthe Anais lave besa Hela in Prince
ceiling, in passengers’ hair, on | Georges
the floor and on the windows. It ier a z z
was Miss Ford’s job to make the Final winner in the zone will trav-
Plane neat and tidy after the epi- el to Nanaimo to compete in the B.C,
sade. finals,

Representatives from Prince
George, Williams Lake and Quesnel
vill further investigate the possi-
ility of rotating the annual music
and drama festival between the three
cities at a meeting called tentatively
for October 26 in the Quesnel high

Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Pharis of Me-
Grath, Aberta, are visiting with their
daughter and son-in-law, Dr. and
Mrs. J. B. Ringwood.

Carnations Decorate Church -
For Hutchinson-Downey Rites

A number of Williams La
couver for

Church which was graced with
the occasion.

The -bride is the second daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Downey of
Vancouver, and the groom is the son
of Mrs. L. A. Hutchinson of Squam-
ish but has resided in Williams Lake
for a number of years and is employ-
ed by Lignum Ltd. The bride has
been employed by the local Canadian
Bank of Commerce branch.

The bride chose an exquisite gown
of Alencon lace and nylon net. The
filted strapless bodice of lace was
topped with a bolero of the same
material with Peter Pan collar and
long lily-point sleeves. The crino-
Jined skirt of lace and nylon net fell
in bouffant folds to the floor. A cor-
onet of lace and silver sequins held
her full-length sheer veil which was
edged with matching lace. She car-
ried a bouquet of yellow roses and
white stephanotis, and was given in
marriage by her father.

Five senior attendants and a. tiny
flower girl preceded the bride up the
aisle. Bridesmaid were Miss Gayle
Downey, the bride’s sister, Miss
Shirley Reeves, the bride’s cousin,
Miss Catherine Carnelly and matron
of honor Mrs. A. Hobbs, all of Van-
couver, and Miss Shirley Sandberg-

of Williams Lake. They wore iden-| |

tical dresses of pale green nylon net
and woven ribbon styled in balerina
length with strapless bodices topped
by tiny sheer boleros edged with the
ribbon trim. Their headdresses were
fuffled net and sequins, and they car-
ried bouquets of bronze ’mums.

Little Gayle Hobbs was flower
girl in a dainty gown of yellow nylon
net. he carried a colonial bouquet of
yellow roses and daisies, and wore
yellow daisies in her hair.

Reginald Norberg of Williams
Lake was best man, and ushers were
Jack Downey and Andrew Hobbs of
Vancouver, Gary Huchinson and
Ken Huston of Williams Lake.

At the reception at Howden’s Hall
following the ceremony, the toast to
the bride was proposed by Mr. Les
Reeves of Vancouver.

The lace-covered bride’s table was:
centered with a four-tiered wedding
cake flanked by white tapers and
vases of roses, daisies and dahlias.

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Williams Lake

the wedding September 3rd of
Downey and Frederick Curtis Hutchinson. Rey. R. Cunningham
officiated atthe 8 p-m. ceremony at St. Andrews-Wesley United

school.

Annual meeting of the North Cen-
tral Drama region will be held at
the same time.

Dates for the annual festival next
year were also announced at the as-
motored to Van-| sociation meeting. Music festival will
June Margaret

ke residents

Local Youth
Is Junior Warden

The Canadian Forestry Associa-
tion, sponsors of British Columbia’s
popular Junior Forest Warden move-
ent, announce the appointment of
John J:icohsen of Williams Lake az
a Junior Forest Warden.

With new boys joining the ranks
at the rate of approximately 1500 a
year the Junior Forest Wardens have
an active enrolment of 6500. Since
their founding a quarter of a century
ago, the have trained more than
32,000 school-age boys in the prin-
cipals of forest conservation and fire
prevention,

Appointment only on the recom-
mendation of the school teachers,
these forest-concsious youths receive
a three-year training course which
offers 17 badges for proficiency in
various branches of woodcraft, for-
estry and conservation. Summer
camps on the Lower Mainland and
Vancouver Island are a popular fea-
ture of the Warden training pro-
gram.

pink and white carnations for

were the bride's mother attired in
a navy crepe dress with navy and
white accessories, and a pink rose
corsage. Mrs. Hutchinson, the
groom’s mother, wors a black suit
with white accessories and a corsage
of pink roses.

For their wedding trip to Seattle
and Portland, the bride changed to
@ blue fitted suit with white acces-
sories topped by a blue and grey
checked coat. Her corsage was
Talisman roses.

Other guests from Williams Lake
included Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathe-
son, Mr. and Mrs. C. Huston, Miss
Joan Huston, Mr. Ramsay Blair, Mr.
and Mrs. Gary Hutchinson, Mr. Tom
McDougall, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Woodland, Mr. Jim Carson and Mr.
Harry Cur Also attending the
wedding were the groom's brother,
Bob Hutchinson of Big Lake, and his
sister Jennie and brother Don, botn
of Squamish. Many friends from
Powell River were present at the
ceremony.

Our First Birthday

Brown’s Furniture Store

Saturday, September 24th marks the anniversary of
our first year in business. We would like to thank
all our customers who have favoured us -with their

patronage over the past twelve months.

VALUABLE DOOR PRIZE

To mark the occasion, we will give away a valuable
door prize to one of our customers on that day. You
are under no obligation, just a visit to our store

entitles you to a chnce,

Quesnel Shown :

Of 1956 Drama Festival

NOTICE
To 100 Mile House Residents

THE FIRM OF

F. B. Bass Ltd.

REAL ESTATE INSURANCE

Will operate an office over

the new store at 100 Mile
EVERY . FRIDAY

Hours 10 a.m, to 6 p.m.

or later by appointment

Site

be -held from March 19 to 24, and

Act | Drama festival will take place from

April 30 to May 4.

Syllabus for next year’s event is
in the last stages of completion.
Changes in the music section have
Provided new classes for Bach and
Sonata interpretation. Classes have
also been added for older beginners
and accordian class has been en-
larged. ‘

Professional entries will also be
allowed in the open classes for the
first time.

Clinton was ruled the south boun-
dary of the festival area for future
years. Previously the south boun-
dary was at Williams Lake.

Plans Being Laid
For Blind Canvas

Annual appeal for funds to sup-
port the blind persons in this proy-
inee will be carried out by the local
branch of the Canadian National In-
stitute for the Bling from September
15 to October 15.

The main drive will get underway
next week following a meeting of
representatives of town organiza-
tions who volunteer each year to as-
sist the branch. CNIB braneh chair-
man Frank Lee states his organiza-
lion is looking forward to a whole-
hearted response from resfdents of
town and district.

Other members of the branch, ex-
ecutive lining up the drive are Felix
Nicholson, vice-chairman; Miss Helen
Lee, secretary, and Mrs. B. G. Wood-
land, treasurer.

Around Town .

Mrs. Edith Estill of Hydraulic wag
hostess September 7th for Brigadier-
General Vox at a going away party
for his son Stewart, Ricky Wiernes
and Chas. Smith, who were returning
to California to attend school. Guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wallace,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Garrett and Mr.
and Mrs. Emmett Chase. The boys
left by plane from Williams Lake
September 9.

Mrs. G. Blackwell is visiting her
sister at Trail for two weeks.

Charles Lavoie, son of Mr.
Mrs. Buster Lavoie of Nazko,
ing at the home of Mr.
Deschene while attending
here.

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