Nobleton Skating Club celebrates 50th birthday with show
Nobleton Notes By Angie Maccarone (905) 859-5174

Easter schedule

at St. Mary

The schedule for services at St. Mary Church in the coming days includes Holy Thursday (March 20) at 8 p.m. at St. Patrick Church in Schomberg.

Good Friday (March 21) services will be at 12:30 p.m. at the St. Mary School gym and 3 p.m. in the St. Patrick School gym.

Easter Vigil (March 22) will be at 1p.m., with Easter Food Blessing at St. Patrick Church, and at 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick Church.

Easter Sunday (March 23) will see services at 8:30 a.m. at St. Mary Mission Church, at 9:45 a.m. at St. Mary School gym, and 11 a.m. at St. Patrick School gym.

Nobleton Skating Club

The Nobleton Skating Club is celebrating 50 years.

In honour of the golden anniversary of the Nobleton Skating Club, the club will be presenting its ice show, A Skate Down Memory Lane. The show is a tribute to the history of Nobleton over the last 50 years. There are three shows this year: April 5 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., and April 6 at 1 p.m. Tickets will be available for sale beginning this week, and will be $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors. Children under three get in for free.

For more information and details on the sale of tickets, call the club at (905) 859-4943. We are also actively seeking former skaters with the club to take part in a special alumni number. If you have skated with the club in the past, we want to hear from you. Please call Susan Zacchigna or Janice Boyd at (905) 859- 4943.

Nobleton Women's

Institute

The 100th anniversary celebration for Nobleton WI starts with an Open House tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. at Nobleton Community Hall, on Old King Road. Copies of the Tweedsmuir history books will be on display and Louise DiIorio will talk briefly about the collection of Tweedsmuir books from Nobleton and the other seven Women's Institutes in King (Kettleby, King City, King Ridge, Laskay, Schomberg, Snowball and Temperanceville).

An important part of this meeting involves participation by members of the community who are invited to bring stories (and have them taped), letters and photos (and have them scanned by King Township library staff). The idea is to add new historical information to the Tweedsmuir Books. This is a chance to contribute to the history of the whole township, not just the Nobleton area.

We would be pleased to receive names of ladies in King Township who have been members of Women's Institutes so that they can be invited to our June Anniversary celebration.

This is a community get together with an opportunity to meet, talk, tell stories and enjoy refreshments. If you are unable to attend but wish to tell us your story or share photos, please contact Joan Jackaman at (905 859-5010 or Mary Anne Merritt at (905) 859-0709.

Nobleton Seniors'

activities

The Tuesday evening euchre results were (for women) Cathy Kiekebelt, Rita Reid and Carol Burbridge. For the men, the winners were Paula Latanville, Herb Workman and John Burbridge. The most lone hands were played by Bill Groombridge.

There will be a pot-luck supper March 25, followed by euchre. Supper is at 6 p.m.

The bus trip to Stage West is March 26. The bus leaves arena at 10 a.m. Call Paula at (905) 859-2631 for tickets. The cost is $60 per person and includes bus, lunch and the show Beauty and the Beast.

Nobleton United

Church

Nobleton United Church invites you to join us this Friday (March 21) for our Good Friday service at 9 a.m. and the Easter Sunday Service March 23 at 11:15 a.m.

For our Good Friday Service, we will be re-enacting four stories from Jesus' Passion: The Garden of Gethsemane, The Arrest, The Trial and The Crucifixion. The stories will be dramatized as the hymns, choir anthems and scriptures are read.

Come and mourn with us a while.

For Easter Sunday, our sermon is Resurrection and life before death.

Join us as we celebrate.

Mark on your calendars Games Night for the entire family March 29. Refreshments will be served at 6 p.m., followed by a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m.

April 7, at 7 p.m., we will welcome Stacey Hollings as our guest to our UCW meeting. Stacey will be doing a workshop on yoga.

Also, the annual Roast Beef Dinner is fast approaching and tickets are now on sale by calling Mary Anne at (905) 859-0709 or the church at (905) 859- 3976. This fund-raiser for the Nobleton United Church is being held at the Nobleton Community Hall April 12.

Horticulture

"A wand'ring column this, a thing of threads and patches, of ballad songs and snatches and . . ."

So here are a few bits and pieces of horticultural information I've found useful.

To have healthy plants, you need nutrient-rich soil. These nutrients are divided into two main groups; major or macronutrients, like calcium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur; and minor or micronutrients, such as boron, chlorine, copper, iron, molybdenum, manganese and zinc.

Air and water supply carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, so if you have good easily worked soil, it will absorb these three elements and release them to plants. Most of us only need to be concerned about the three most important nutrients; nitrogen for foliage/leaves, phosphorus for strong roots flowers, fruits and resistance to disease, and potassium for healthy stems, roots and further resistance to disease as well as drought. It is usually easy to tell if soil is being fed properly, as plants will appear healthy.

By adding kitchen compost and/or composted cattle manure regularly to garden soil, the use of commercial fertilizer isn't really essential.

Commercial fertilizers list on their labels in numbers the amounts of these nutrients they contain. The first number refers to nitrogen[ N] the second to phosphorus[ P] and the third to potassium[K]. Thus a fertilizer reading 10-40-10 has 10 per cent nitrogen, 40 per cent phosphorus and 10 per cent potassium and is good for producing great blooms (for hostas and lettuce the first number should be the highest and for carrots, beets and asparagus the last number needs to be the highest). In the case of this fertilizer, 40 per cent is filler but we're not being cheated, as a product containing 100 per cent nutrients would be much too strong.

In the my recent article about lilacs, I mentioned that the only lilac I have is a prestonia lilac. This lilac hybrid was developed in the 1920s by Isabella Preston of Ottawa. These hardy shrubs grow about seven feet high with a width over time of 12 feet. Prestoniae bloom in late spring, some two weeks after regular lilacs are finished, with clusters of fragrant flowers six inches long. Colours range from white to mauve-pink through lilac to deep purple.

In a house where the air is dry and there is no humidifier, set potted plants in shallow containers of gravel or pebbles and fill the containers with just enough of water so that the tops of the stones stay dry. Don't let the water touch the pot bottom. Check and replace the water as necessary and continue a regular plant watering program.

The Nobleton - King City Horticultural Society hopes all in the community had a happy St. Patrick's Day and wish the blessings of Easter.