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A big year is in the works as Nobleton Skating Club is turning 50 The Nobleton Skating Club turns 50 in 2008! We are committed to offering the community many of the same great programs as years past, and new ones as well. Registration for our fall and winter programs began Sept. 8 and runs through until Sept. 29 at the arena. We will be taking registrations Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m., Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. until noon. Cash, cheque, VISA and Mastercard will be accepted. STARSkate programs (junior, intermediate and senior) begin Sept. 17; and Canskate and pre-power start Oct. 10. Please check out our improved Web site at www.nobletonskatingclub.c om for more details regarding the fall and winter schedule. As well, this is an Ice Show year! As part of our golden anniversary celebration, the club will present A Skate Down Memory Lane April 5 and 6. The show will be a tribute to Nobleton's history, and a celebration of our 50 years of skating excellence. We are requesting that former skaters with the club contact us at (905) 859-4943 to be a part of the celebration. For more information on any of our programs, please call (905) 859-4943 or visit our Web site. New look at St. Paul's Look, no more pot holes! Yes, the parking lot at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church has finally been paved! Praise the Lord! A big thank you goes out to all those in the congregation and the community who have given money toward our parking lot fund throughout the years. If you haven't already come by to check it out, please do so. Watch for information about our many Bible studies that will be resuming shortly as well. For information about any of our activities, please contact the church office at (905) 859- 0843 or visit our Web site at www.stpaulsnobleton.ca Join us for the next three Sundays at 9:45 a.m. as we welcome Gregory Dickson to the pulpit. Nursery care (for children five years of age and younger) is provided during the service. Our Sunday school program is back in full swing and starts immediately following the service at 11a.m. Our Prayer Group meets this evening (Sept. 12) at 7:30 p.m. The women's Thursday morning Bible study resumes tomorrow (Sept. 13) at 9:30 a.m. They will be studying the book of Matthew. For further information about any of our activities, please contact the church office at (905) 859- 0843. Seniors' euchre Sept. 4 euchre winners were Doris Hill, Annie Hill, Cathy Kiekebelt, Murray Hilliard, Bob Fleury and Walter Hill. We are having a Pot luck supper Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. at the Drop in Centre. There will be a euchre game after the supper. St. Mary fall tea-bazaar It's that time again for our annual fall bazaar to be held Sept. 23 at the Nobleton Community Hall. There are many bargains at the white elephant table, raffle items, sewing table, bake table and the fish pond for the children. The cost is $3 for the tea and light lunch. If you want to just browse through our bazaar items on the top floor, this is free entrance. Our raffle tickets are being sold and these tickets are $1 each or five for $3 for a chance to win some great sports tickets; Raptors, Leafs and Blue Jays - all great seats. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this community event. Horticulture Two plants that always seem to fascinate visitors to my garden are sea holly (eryngium er-IN-gee-um) and equally interesting but not related sea lavender (limonium). Sea holly, a member of the umbelliferae family (related to dill and angelica), is thistle-like with its prickly stems and tiny steel blue thimble shaped flowers nestled in whirls of spiny bracts also steel blue in colour. The whole plant has a mercury to blue glossy sheen about it. Canadian horticulturalist Patrick Lima says it reminds him of mediaeval mace, wielded by armour clad knights. Sea holly grows about a foot high and likes full sun in well drained, not too fertile, sandy soil. It tends to rot in heavy wet clay. It is heat and drought tolerant and at its best in midsummer (not to be confused with Midsomer of British TV mystery fame). Limoniums have stems that grow about 18 inches and hold myriads of tiny lavender flowers that shimmer like miniature amethysts in the rain or when covered with dew. They give a misty and delicate look to their place in the late summer garden. Sea lavenders like full sun and grow well in the sandy soil of my garden into which I've dug a goodly amount of composted cattle manure. September is the ideal time to plant new perennials, as well as divide and replant old ones, as the soil is still warm. Thus they can get established before freeze up. This is also the time to plant daffodils and hyacinths. Irene Sheardown of Nobleton and a charter member of the Nobleton-- King City Horticultural Society always said Labour Day is not too early to start planting daffodils. A foot or two is a good depth to plant these bulbs as then there less danger of digging them up when planting annuals near them in the spring. |
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