or is it still in the beginning stage?

Dorothy Elliott - Dorothy, like a few of your other members, had a one and only goal in mind; that is, to create one, and our Dorothy succeeded, plus a scarf to match. Nice, eh?

Bessie Dumville, a seamstress and milliner of repute, came in to get some of the rough edges smoothed out, but once again, Old Mother Nature intervened and Bessie was laid aside - better luck next year, Bessie. -

Pamela Easter started out to try to create something original. How is it going, Pam? Rumor has it that you are still on the Original!

Rumor has it that Lillian Locke is still beaming over her first pro- duction - a gold Pill-box! Nice, eh?

Now Gwen Gamble was told to try and match the mesh, mix it or make it pleat, pucker it, or do anything that would change it. Poor Gwen! She was the bane of your existence. No one knows how Gwen finally finished up.

Margaret Ellis and Margaret Adams - could it be the name? Neither one ever seemed to get any place in the millinery course. It was either the posies, the material, trouble with the bias! Does any- one know how these two made out?

Mrs. Yetman, we, the members of your 1969 Community School wish to thank you most sincerely for your time and efforts in our behalf, and want you to know that even if all of your Class was not a success, at least some may present a Challenge to you in the years ahead.

From one and all of us, "Best of Everything!” Helen Smallman

Wood Chip Burner

The cost of heating oil continued to rise rapidly during the 1980’s. The provincial and federal governments through the Department of Energy decided that the solution to high heating costs with oil may be found in heating with wood chips supplied locally.

Consequently, a wood chip burner would be built on the site at O’Leary Elementary. Originally it was planned that this unit would supply heat for Community Hospital, the West Prince Regional Services Centre, as well as, the school. However, distance did not make it feasible to connect the Regional Services Centre.

In July 1987, a basement was dug and a red fire shed was con- structed to house the somewhat sophisticated and computerized equipment. Permission was granted by Ella and Leila Craswell to run a pipe through their property to connect the local hospital. This

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