phy, Keith Pigot, Ernie Crane, Joey D. MacDonald, Lyman Douglas, Mearl Crane and BruCe Affleck (coach). Over the years there have been many dedicated players, and an excellent team spirit has prevailed. An instance of this in practice occurred in February, 1950, when, a severe storm having made the roads impassable, the Mount Stewart team ac- companied by fifteen fans, journeyed to Montague by snowmobile in ord— er to keep an appointment with the “Bisons.” The great lack has always been an enclosed skating surface. Its desirability was taken up by several speakers at a banquet tendered the “Royals” on March 4, 1939; at a victory dance held for the “Seagulls” in May, 1973, it was observed that Mount Stewart was the only team in the Island competition which had no rink on which to play its home games.

The first radio in Mount Stewart was owned by Russell Clark, and, by February, 1928, there were nine sets in the village. The re- lative scarcity of the popular instrument during the early years en— couraged gatherings such as the one at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Jay on December 26, 1926 where “a number of friends” were reported to have spent “a very pleasant evening, tuning in to a number of stations with delightful results.” One of the earliest encounters of a Mount Stewart citizen with television occurred in May, 1954, when Mr. Colin MacDonald was a guest at the home of some friends in Vernon River. There, he was reported to have had the “rare pleasure” of hearing and seeing several programs “which came in exceptionally clear.” CFCY-TV iglgiénenced operations from its transmitter at Strathgartney in August,

The fifties and sixties were marked by a number of ambitious and very successful community concerts. “Ayrshire’s immortal bard” was honoured on January 29, 1957 with the first Scottish concert ever presented in the village. Liberally stocked with such old favourites as “Afton Water,” “Loch Lomand” and “Comin thru the Rye,” the pro- gramme also featured bagpipe selections, a one-act play entitled “Kitty” and a talk on the origin of bagpipes given by Mr. Bruce MacLaren. In March, 1965, the United Church Women and the Catholic Women’s Lea— gue (to-sponsored a St. Patrick’s Day Variety Concert, an exercise in community co—operation which was repeated, with wide acclaim, in 1969.

__ _ The old records are crammed with accounts of other varieties of entertainment which, due to the constraints of space, cannot be in- cluded here. These, from the activities of the Pisquid West Whist Club and the Mount Stewart Rinky Dink Club of earlier years to those of the cribbage and bowling clubs of more recent times clearly demonstrate the versatility of the people in providing for their own amusement.

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