St. Mary Church will be hosting concert with Three Tenors next week
Nobleton Notes
By Angie Maccarone (905) 859-5174

Nobleton United Church

The 111th anniversary of Nobleton United Church will be celebrated Oct. 21, and we invite you to the birthday party we are having for our church.

There will be music and stories and all the fun and fellowship you can imagine. We look forward to welcoming you at 11:15 a.m. We are going to have a special worship service for people of all ages. There will be good music and wonderful stories.

Old Tyme Bazaar The Old Tyme Bazaar will be held Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Nobleton United Church on King Road.

There will be home-made preserves, gourmet dinners and meat pies, a large bake table and fudge upstairs along with our books and fish pond. Our raffle quilt this year is a beauty as well. There is a queen size quilt for sale along with our baby quilts and beautiful afghans. This year, we have a large assortment of knitted wear created by our own Winnie Flear, which includes Barbie clothes, baby sets, mittens and hats and sweaters. Our Christmas table will feature ornaments for the tree, Christmas cake and also shortbreads that can be ordered for closer to Christmas. Join us for lunch in the tearoom or at our barbecue outside. Watch for our ladies selling raffle tickets at both Schomberg IGA and Nobleton plaza over the next two weeks. Hope to see you there.

Nobleton Skating Club

Due to popular demand, the Nobleton Skating Club has extended registration.

We are still accepting registrations for the 2007- '08 skating season. Registration is taking place Oct. 22, 24, 26, 29 and Nov. 2. Please check our Web site a t www.nobletonskatingclub.c om or call (905) 859-4943 for the times of registration.

Please note - We will not be taking any registrations in January this year due to our 50th anniversary ice show. Be sure to join now to be a part of our 50th anniversary ice show, A Skate Down Memory Lane, a tribute to the history of Nobleton. We are also looking for alumni of the club to take part as well. For alumni information, please call (905) 859-4943.

St. Paul's Presbyterian

Church

Our Prayer Group meets this evening at 7:30 p.m.

The men's and women's Thursday morning studies continue tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. The Youth Group will be travelling to Queensway Cathedral in Etobicoke Friday to attend a Christian concert. Anyone wishing to join us can meet us at the church at 6 p.m.

Join us this Sunday (Oct. 21) for the Women's Missionary Society Thankoffering Service at 9:45 a.m. Joseph Taylor of Evangel Hall Mission will be our guest speaker.

Anyone wishing to make a donation to our Thankoffering "BALE" may drop off their treasures at the church. Our secretary is in Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 9 a.m. and noon.

Nursery care (for children five years and younger) is provided during the service and Sunday school for all ages follows at 11 a.m.

For more information about any of our activities or events, please contact the church office at (905) 859- 0843.

St. Mary Catholic Church

St. Mary Catholic Church will be hosting a concert Oct. 26.

This is a fund-raising event to take note of with Andrea Garofalo, Peter Marino and Anthony Macri, Canada's Three Tenors. It is to be held at Marylake Shrine in King City.

Tickets are $40 per person, with wine and cheese to be served at 7 p.m., and the concert to start at 7:30 p.m. Coffee and dessert will be served at intermission.

Call (905) 939-2256 for tickets. Tickets will also be available at mass Sundays.

Nobleton Women's

Institute The Nobleton Women's Institute will be holding their next meeting tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. at the Nobleton Community Hall, 19 Old King Rd. The title of the October meeting is Family and Health. The Roll Call will be "A tip to promote good health." The Motto will be "Family health records are important for safety issues."

WI meetings are always interesting and informative. We are a very friendly group of ladies working hard for home and country. Ladies of the community, you are most welcome to come to WI meetings.

Seniors' euchre

Oct. 9 euchre winners were Rita Reid, Carol Burbidge, Doris Clarkson, Sandy Tower, Walter Bell, John Burbidge and Edgar Clarkson. Lucky draw winners were Roy Hilliard, Lou Curtis and Walter Bell.

The next euchre will be Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Drop-in Centre. All are welcome.

Keep Dec. 8 open for a bus tour to Owen Sound to see the display of Christmas lights, have a good supper and see an Elvis Show. Sounds like a good trip.

Horticulture

A star is born - The stars in my garden at the moment are the perennial asters in shades of wine, pink, purple and yellow.

Of course the name aster comes from the Greek word for star or star-like.

The Greeks and Romans considered these plants sacred.

There are two myths about how asters came to be. One story is that when the Gods left an increasingly evil earth, the last to leave was Astraea, the Goddess of Justice, who was set among the stars as the constellation Virgo and stardust from here was scattered over the ancient world. Asters grew from wherever it settled. The other story tells that Asteria, the daughter of the Titan Coeus, looked down upon the planet and wept with sadness because of what she saw. Wherever her tears touched the earth asters sprang up and flowered.

There are many, many varieties of asters, but few native to Europe. North America has by far the greatest number and it was these plants that were taken back to Europe, especially Britain, where horticulturists developed the many types and colours we have today.

These fall asters from New England became the genus aster novae angliae. They, along with European varieties, were called starworts. But because they, along with closely related but misnamed aster novi belgi, bloomed around the end of September in time for the celebration of the feast of St Michael (the arch angel), they gradually became known as michaelmas daisies in the English speaking world. Some claim that only aster novi belgi should be called this. Novi belgi asters, because they were originally found in New York state, are often called New York asters in the U.S.

A European native that has become popular in the past few years is the Italian aster (aster amellus), and is an offspring of the variety aster frikartii, developed by a Swiss nurseryman A. Frikart. Three cultivars of his - Eiger, Jungfrau and Monch, all named after mountains in the Alps, are long flowering (especially Monch), easy to grow and easy to care for plants.

Most perennial asters are relatively easy to grow and care for in average soil, to which composted cattle manure has been added. The asters/michaelmas daisies grow about three to four feet high and bush out about two feet.

Asters that grow well are aster novi belgi (Winston S. Churchill), a gorgeous wine shade; aster frikartii (Monch), a lavender blue; aster novae angliae (Harrington's Pink); (Alma Potschke) deep rose; (Herbstschnee) (autumn snow) white, and a wild rare pink aster I found growing in a nearby field as well as aster lateriflorus (Lady in Black) small pink flowers on dark foliage; Maryland Golden aster (chrysopsis mariana) bright yellow.

The Nobleton/King Horticultural Society has its last meeting and flower show for 2007 Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in the old Nobleton Community Hall on the Old King Road (just north of the arena). The theme and premiere arrangement category is To Everything There Is a Season, and the guest speaker will be Jim Edwards, discussing tablescapes or how to entertain.