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Section B r Æm thei ^EvHSCDI^Q Brome County News MËk.1 I ÆÊÊÊÊt»^.* * I i «.Thursday, May 30, 1991 V T :i .,i, ; iwlton t è* \ dû p 1 I Ik LUI «i ï-m ' %y > ,,k'' W BE OUR GUEST — Specialities: B.B.Q.Ribs 69 P.M.S.T.Box of 20 Bogs Price: $^25 |OP£N 7 DAYS 1 Principale St.N., Sutton Cf) 538-3720 B4—The RECORD—Thursday, May 30, 1991 Card party- A 500 card party was held in St.¦lames Parish Hall, Foster, when thirteen tables participated.Ladies 1st prize.Dorothy Chute; 2nd.Eva Page; 3rd, Georgette Long; Gents 1st.Gerald Coupland; 2nd, George Wilson.3rd, Paul Gagné.Door prizes: Ola Streeter, Muriel Coupland, Oral McGovern, Doris Porter.Doris Baird, Clar- ence Allen, Adrian Whitehead, Jeannine Vaillaneourt, Marjorie Falle, Catherine Lawrence and Janet Squires.A drawing took place on a piece of ' string-art"; a pair of wooden candle-holders, and a photograph album.The "string-art" was won by Eva Pagé, the candle-holders by Clarence Allen and the photograph album by Ray Tinkler.la caisse populaire de Waterloo SIÈGE SOCIAL 4990 RUE FOSTER / C.P 200 WATERLOO 15141 539 1023 Suzanne Morin Directrice du Centre de Services CENTRE OE SERVICES 459 RUE KNOWLTON VILLE DE LAC BROME 242-1270 Bees ' Queens INucUi " HoNEy A.L Smith Rd.Sutton S 514-538-2711 NEW APPOINTMENT AT R0CHELEAU AUTOMOBILE Rocheleau Automobile is pleased to announce that Mr.DALE BROCK is joining our team as a sales representative.Dale with his many years of experience in automobile sales will be treating all his customers, past and future, with the same courtesy that has been his trademark over the years.All of us at Rocheleau Automobile wish Dale all the best.THE MANAGEMENT DALE BROCK CATCH m NCWAUTOMOTION! ËR ROCHELEAU Chevrolet - Oldsmobile 434 Riviere Street Cowansville, Qc Tel: 263-1541 Students turn tables on McCully "So.is there anything you’d like to share with us, Sharon?” The question threw me for a loop.There they were, all seven of them in the circle, staring at me waiting for my response.“What do you want to know,” I stammered, my Catholic conscience and a lifetime of dreaded Saturday confessions springing to my mind.“Anything you’d like to tell us,” they said, waiting.Hey, I thought, I don’t like this.I’m the one who’s supposed to be asking the questions.I didn't like "circle check".I was at Massey Vanier High School interviewing a group of adults enrolled in a literacy and life skills course.A large part of the progra m focuses on the development of com muniea-tion skills, and building self-esteem.Students in the group begin each daily session by sharing personal experiences — crowning the glories and purging the demons.In the nine months they’ve been together, they’ve developed strong bonds of trust and an acceptance of others for who they are.They care for one another.POSITIVE IMAGES Words like trust, respect, determination, confidence and self esteem have crept into their daily vocabularies.They project positive images of themselves and of each other.The students admit that a few months ago, they were different people.In most cases, the person who arrived in the classroom last September was shy, uncommunicative, defensive, and lacked selfesteem.Gradually they began to discover another side of themselves.With the guidance of their three life skills coaches, and the support of the group, windows began to open on a new world.Diane said when she began the course in September, she was “so shy she wouldn’t go out in a crowd or open her mouth in a group.” Monday, she pulverised me.Groups and crowds don’t frighten me.I thrive on them.And I have no shortage of things to say.Talking to people is my business.But I spend most Out of the ! / Brome f closet I By Sharon McCully days asking other people questions.When Diane turned the tables and invited me to participate in “circle check" — to come out from behind the pen and paper, the copious notes and role of journalist, I felt exposed.She was challenging me to take the same giant step the rest of the group had already taken.It was unnerving.“Now you know what it was like for us,” Diane said.Golden Age Club News MANSONVILLE — On May 21 the club treated its members to a special Roast Beef Dinner, the purpose being two fold.Iris Milroy had been our treasurer for eleven years.In January she had resigned and then accepted the office of Secretary.So this was our way of saying “Thank you Iris” for a job well done, and don’t worry we will do our best to keep you busy, at one job or another.The second reason for a special dinner was that three ladies had May birthdays.Iris (22nd), Betsy Beaulieu (25th).Rose Alma Pouliot (2nd).All three ladies received a couple of gifts, the one from the club was a pretty pink scarf with a beautiful little brooch.Rose Alma had made the lovely carrot birthday cake and Alice Drouin had baked a chocolate one.Seated at the table with our birthday people were Iris, guest.Rev.Keith Schmidt; Rev.Father Gregory Rickerby was Rose Alma's guest along with Vice-President George Hamelin and wife Cecile and treasurer Mary Schoolcraft.We sang the birthday song to them and then both priests said the blessing.Judy Gaboriault and staff of the “Hooter’s Restaurant” cooked our special beef dinner and deserve our gratitude for having done a super job of it.Door prizes were won by Alice Drouin, Rita Mossa, Mildred Atyeo.Evelyn Dubuc and Verlie Aiken.500 winners: Rita Marcoux, Myrtle Bullock.Julienne McDuff and Thelma Wilkins.Game prizes: Verlie Aiken, Evelyn Dubuc, Pearl Greenham, Betsy Beaulieu.Iris Milroy, Silvia Côté, Porter Knowlton.Irene Carrier and Mildred Atyeo.YEARS Of CONSERVATION M Ducks Unlimited Canada WHAT'S IN A WETLAND?We are.Since 1938 we at Ducks Unlimited Canada have put all of our resources into this country's wetlands.We know them as incredibly beautiful, bountiful, complex and fragile places.We are proud to say we're the Canadian partner in the world's most effective privately-funded waterfowl and wetlands conservation organization.Behind us are hundreds of thousands of North Americans who find pleasure and purpose in providing the support we need to carry on our work.We are Ducks Unlimited Canada.WE ARE.FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 1-800-665-DUCK. The RECORD—Thursday, May 30.1901—B5 Dog days: Pet grooming a laughing matter By Sharon McCully KNOWLTON — Even though she swore off it a year ago, Debbie Lawson was back to work Monday morning — face to mane with a 200-pound Bouvier named Shadow.Six years ago, her friend Diane Pardington enticed her into entering the dog-grooming business to stave off empty-nest syndrome.Diane wanted to expand her Knowlton boarding kennel business by offering a grooming service, recalled Debbie.“1 thanked her for thinking of me but pointed out that neither of us new anything about dog grooming.” “We’ll fake it,” Diane told he-r.And they did.Armed with a "how to” book, the pair accepted their first two “clients” in 1985.But not before Debbie honed her newly acquired skills on her own cocker spaniel.“Diane and I shared the same shameful tendency to laugh hysterically when it was completely inappropriate,” Debbie recalled.“We laughed when a dog would bite one of us.We laughed when we made a dog look like a jerk.We laughed for six years.” The first paying clients to the “Suds & Scissors Professional Grooming Establishment” arrived with a miniature poodle and a Iha-sa apso in that summer of ’85.“We sent the owners off assuring them with our cheery smiles, then dashed for our book,” they recall.After some discussion, Diane agreed to clip the poodle because poodles are the most difficult of all clips, while Debbie was to bathe and brush the long-haired lhasa apso.Before long, Diane was in tears trying to control the biting, squirming poodle.And Debbie discovered the lhasa’s coat was a solid matt.Combing it out was out of the question.“We were unable to contact the owner,” says Debbie.“I had no alternative but to clip it.Once the clipper was able to get a foothold under the matt, we found the dog was infested with fleas.” Hysteria followed.“We quickly removed the poodle from the room and sprayed everything in sight causing the fleas to jump all over the room — and us,” she said.“At the end of the day, we had a bald-headed poodle and a knock-kneed lhasa — neither a thing of beauty,” said Debbie.Diane and Debbie persevered throughout the summer, learning new tricks from old dogs.“When a dog didn’t turn out quite the way it was supposed to, Diane would tell the owners that it was because of some deficiency in coat or body that their dog possessed,” Debbie said, giggling.After garnering tips from a professional groomer, and chalking up experience from dozens of canines of all shapes and sizes, Debbie and Diane decided serious busi-ness required a serious investment.“We had to invest in a larger hot water tank, add more electrical circuits, purchase more dryers, clippers, scissors, and muzzles,” said Debbie.The dog-groomers were getting very good and their reputation was extending into the wider community.There's nothing amateurlooking about the grooming studio found today at Pardington’s Stone-heath Kennels.Grooming tables are well equipped with neck halters and electrical outlets to allow groomers to clip and shave.Inside, a series of body dryers blow-dry the bathed beauties.But it wasn’t always this high-tech, the partners recall.“The summer heat and humidity were utterly oppressive,” recalls Debbie.“The hair would stick to our bodies, and get in our eyes, ears, noses and mouths.It was not uncommon to see our bras flung aside and the two of us scratching like a couple of apes.” In addition to the hot days, there were dreaded days — the times when the “difficult dogs” were brought to the salon for grooming.“These were the little darlings who tried to eat us, refused to stand, liked to jump off grooming tables and hang themselves, scratched, piddled and pooped." Six years in the business also brought to mind elderly dogs who scared them to death with their irregular breathing patterns, and others who would go entirely limp or flatten themselves to the ground when any attempt was made to raise them to the table.Then there were the smells.“Being a rural community, we inhaled eau de skunk, eau de pig, eau de sheep, eau de dead animal — all of which our skin and clothes readily absorbed,” says Debbie.Hired help wasn't the solution either, they discovered, after one well-meaning soul cleaned dog feces with the vacuum cleaner.As each spring approached, throngs of satisfied pet-owners returned to the grooming salon .“We had become the village experts on dogs,” said Debbie.“I couldn’t go into the grocery store or the bank without someone asking me about her dog’s fleas or ear mites.” Diane estimates the salon now grooms between four and seven dogs a day from spring to fall.Two trained assistants help ease the load.Six years after Debbie Lawson entered the partnership she's leaving the dog-grooming business she mastered to embark on a new career.But not before standing in for just a few more days during the busiest time of the year.Diane says she is trying to slow down as well.Six years of convincing pony-sized dogs it’s fun to have their nails clipped has taken its toll."Dog-groomers are a chiropractor's best friend," she says.LE DOCTEUR DU PARE-BRISE Pare-Brise repairs without replacing 398 Rivières Cowansville 263-0246/263-9696 SPECIALTIES: Windshield repairs Windshield replacement Glass replacement Sunroofs Car radios Custom seat covers Convertible top Van customizing Cellular telephone Alarm systems Rear window Defroster Vinyl tops Upholstery Interior shampoo PLOMBERIE GILBERT • Chauffage • Brûleurs à l'huile • Pompes à eau • Champs d'épuration • Heating • Oil Burner • Water Pump • Drainage Field PLOMBERIE - PLUMBING 243-6785 49 Mont Echo, Knowlton SERRE LA FLEUR ROSE 201 Chemin Fulford (Blvd.Bromont) /’ Tel.539-3002 J?Rose Producer Choice of plants for outdoors or indoors Shrubs • Perennials • Ornamental Bushes Beautiful plants ! 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B6—The RECORD—Thursday, May 30, 1991 | ^ Decani Diff’rent plays for diff rent ®\ Advertising Consultant folks at Theatre Lake Brome (819) 569-9525 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Clinique d’Électrolyse Diane Champigny C.P.E.273 Knowlton Rd.(Medical-Dental Bldg) Sur rendez-vous 242-1399 By appointment 15% citoyens Senior citizens k Cfk , V^OOSIS ASSOÇ^ PINNACLE PEDDLER GENERAL STORE WITH GIFT SHOP PINNACLE PEDDLER We accept MasterCard Visa Mobil Esso Petro South Main Street, RICHFORD, Vermont (We re at the far end of town) 802-848-3886 KNOWLTON — Theatre Lac Brome’s new Director General Nicholas Pynes has unveiled a varied program of musicals and popular plays to run from June 26 to September 1.The season kicks off with Billy Bishop Goes To War with Bruse Dinsmore and Robert Burns (June 26-July 6), followed by Man of La Mancha (July 10-August 3),Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii ( August 7-August 24).and the acclaimed one-man revue, Noel Coward, A Portrait.starring Peter Pringle August 28-September 1.The season opener,Billy Bishop Goes To War written by John Gray and Eric Peterson, and directed by Elsa Bolam is a musical production centered on Billy Bishop.Canada's famous and heroic flying ace of World War I.This production, brought to Theatre Lac Brome by Geordi Productions, has been a success everywhere it's played across Canada Bruce Dinsmore stars as Billy Bishop with Robert Burns at the piano.Bishop’s mordant humor, songs and tales provide an irreve-rant and somewhat anti-colonial portrait ot a past era.The magnificent young men in their flying machines are immortalized in the most entertaining way.Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m.with matinees on Tuesday and Thur- sday at 2.Week day performances are $13 while Friday.Saturday or Sunday tickets are $16.Students and seniors get a break on mid-week performances with a discount price of $11.Season tickets are the best bet at $45 and $55 (GST included) and $40 for seniors and students who plan to attend midweek performances.Special rates are also available to groups of 20 or more from Tuesday to Thursday.Group leaders and bus riders get a free seat in the theatre.The box office telephone number is 243-0361.V * IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A CAREER READ THE FOLLOWING OFFER Commercial Design Program: - Graphic communications - Elements of basic design Composition image generation/assembly Photomechanical reproducttan/stripping/platemaking - Image transfer/printing - Binding and finishing - Contemporary advertising - Shadow and light - sketches - Head and body proportions - Perspective design and basic geometry - Pen and ink techniques Type design and illustration * Light and colour - Ad standards and creative advertising - Mixed media - Auxiliary procedures and experimental graphics Science of colour - Corporate graphics Basic packaging - Mechanical reproduction techniques - Job training placement Course duration and goals Upon completion of this program ( 1800 hours), die student is granted a diploma m vocational education (D.E.P ) This course helps the student to acquire the knowledge to develop the skills needed to do basic designs.It teaches the student to use pen and reproduction techniques; to achieve artistic and commercial standardized advertisement and to participate in the design of advertising lay-outs.It’s really new The new vocational training programs are adapted to the work market requirements.They prepare specialized manpower to meet industries'needs.The admission criteria makes all the difference.Youth and adults These courses are oper to anyone over 16 years oW as of July I* who meet the following admission criteria.Admission criteria Applicants must have a high school diploma or the equivalent, or have successfully completed secondary 4 credits in English, French, Mathematics and Moral or Religious instruction*, and be 16 years of age as of July 1* of the current year in which the course begins.• Adult candidates do not need Moral or Religious instruction.Financial aid Students residing outside our territory are eligible for financial aid if they are registered in our courses for a period of 25 hours/week or more.This aid can amount to two thousand five hundred dollars (2500$) annually (each case is individually studied).Some adulLs may be eligible to receive a training allowance.Trades related to such training Lay out artist (design) Sign maker Commercial designer OTHER PROGRAMS OFFERED • Hairdressing • Accounting / Secretarial • flilingual Secretarial • Professional Cooking • General Welding • Industrial Machinery Mechanics • Machining DISTRICT OF BEDFORD PROTESTANT REGIONAL SCHOOL BOARD COMMISSION SCOLAIRE DAVIGNON REGISTRATION - INFORMATION Location : Polyvalente Massey Vanter 429, rue Rivière.Cowansville (Québec) J2K 3R9 5* floor Telephone (514) 263-3726 ¦Vocational mm Education ¦ The RECORD-Thursday.May 30, 1991—B7 United church: Methodists settle in late 1700s Here is another in our series of articles on churches in the Brome County region written by local authors.By Phyllis Hamilton It is generally believed that the first Methodists to preach in Canada were Lawrence Coughlan in Newfoundland in 1765 and the Yorkshire Methodists who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1772-1775.In Lower Canada the first known preacher of the Methodist Message was an Irishman, James Tuffy, who with his regiment was stationed in Quebec in 1780.Cotton for many years was part of the Dunham Circuit and received their services from the efforts of the Circuit rider or Saddlebag preacher, as the itinerant ministers were called.In the beginning these missionaries were sent out from the Vermont Circuit.Reuben Harris, Heman Garlick and Timothy Minor were some of the names mentioned in early records.Later Cotton was to become a part of the East Bolton Circuit of the Weslyn Methodist Church and was listed as such in 1864-65 with E.E.Sweet and R.Robinson serving as ministers.The other branch of Methodism, known as the New Connexion Methodists, were probably first active in Cotton around 1837 with the Rev.Roswell Bourn as minister.According to Thomas’ history, Bourn was converted in Fairfax, Vermont, and came to Cotton as early as 1803, in later years becoming a travelling preacher.He was at first a Baptist but later united with the Methodists.He organized several Methodist societies in Cotton and in other places for which he received no salary or compensation from the people.Roswell Bourn, who died in Cotton in 1849, was the Grandfather of Leonard Bourne, who was a member of the Building Committee for the Methodist parsonage constructed in 1896-7, and the greatgrandfather of Miss Ethel Bourne, who resided in Mansonville until the 1940s and was an active member of the Mansonville United Church.In Thomas' history of 1866, he mentions that a large building was erected by the Methodists at Meig’s Corners in 1809 “which was designed to serve the double purpose of a meeting house and school house.This was the first school house in Cotton and for 20 years, the only one.” (Meig’s Corners was the property owned by a Mr.Meigs, near the intersection, just north of the present Mansonville Lumber Company mill on Rte.39 between Mansonville and Highwater.) Thomas also mentions the building in 1844 of a Union Meeting House about one mile west of Mansonville by the Female Benevolent Society of Cotton.This was known as “The Chapel” and was adjacent to the present day Chapel Cemetery.It was used mainly by the New Connexion Methodists but services were also led by ministers of various denominations.After the Baptist Congregation sold their building to the Church of England in 1856, they held their services in "The Chapel.” The Mansonville Methodist Mission was formed in 1873 with the first quarterly Official Board Meeting being held on September 6 of that year.The first minister or Superintendent was the Rev.Richard Shier.The Methodists followed the practise of John Wesley of dividing each society or congregation into small groups called “classes.” There were usually about 12 people in each group and one was appointed “Leader." They met weekly for prayer, study and worship.The Leader collected money at these gatherings for the support of the minister and church, which he turned over to the Stewards regularly at the Quarterly Official Board Meetings.These groups met at different sites in the area and became known by the name of whatever school house or place they gathered in, such as Learned’s class at the Learned School.Rexford Class in the Rexford School, Gordon’s Class at the Gordon School, etc.The membership roll was revised each year and members who had not lived up to their obligations were removed.Rules were strict in the Methodist Church with its "Book of Discipline" which mentioned many types of unworthy behaviour for which a member would be dropped, one of which was "singing those songs or reading those books which do not tend to the knowledge or love of God.” No mention is made in the first Minute Book of the Mansonville Methodist Congregation of a place of worship.However, on July 10, 1878, Trustees George Gunn, Leve-rett Hand, Albert Perkins, Thomas Cowan, Francis Peabody, Alexander Burhart and Stillman Mason, on behalf of the Methodist Society of Mansonville, purchased from Frederick Nick, a tinsmith of Mansonville, a piece of land for the sum of $400.00 for the purpose of building a church and dwelling house.Pencilled notes on the inside cover of the first minute book lead one to believe the cost of construction was $1536.00.The Report to the Conference of 1879 states that the church has been finished.Plans to erect a parsonage were also approved but it was not to become a reality until February 20, 1897.This church building was destroyed by fire either March 4, 1892 or March3,1893.Mr.Harry B.Shu-felt’s book, “Along the Old Roads” quotes a report in “The Montreal Witness” of March 7 (1892 or 1893) under caption of “Mansonville Fire” which says “The fire which broke out here on Friday last, destroying the Methodist Church with all its belongings, save the Bible and organ and the “Old Academy”, a building adjacent." The first report of such a fire in the minutes of Mansonville Methodist Church was on June 17, 1893, when the Trustees met to appoint a building committee to arrange for the construction of a new church on the same site as the former buil- ding.These members were: The Rev.R.Corrigan, L A.Hand, T.Cowan, A.Burhart, B.Young, N.Boright, L.Bourn and Wm.Oliver.Mr.Storey, an architect from Newport, Vermont, was hired to draw plans and specifications at a price not exceeding $2500.00.The funeral notice for Mr.Wm.Oliver states that the burial service was held in the church on April 23, 1894 and that the church had been first used for service the previous Sunday with plans for a dedication service on May 13,1894.The Rev.P.H.Allin was incumbent at the time of the fire and the Rev.R.Corrigan, minister at the time of completion of the church.As in all churches, the basis for the future is its youth involvement and over the years Mansonville has had an active history of Sunday School and Young People’s Groups.The Epworth League was active in 1891-1895.Revived again around 1911, one of its most frequent activities was debating.It was an interdenominational group with members working to support both the Anglican and United Church in Mansonville.Although not active now.most of its members who are still living in the area have gone on to become active in other boards of the two churches.There is no mention of an organist in the early times but Alexander Burhart is listed as Precentor in 1879, which meant that he led the singing.One of the early organists before 1900 was Miss Fannie Boright, later the wife of Dr.David Rodger of Cowansville.Miss Emma Paintin assisted as organist and sang in the early choir.Miss Jennie Reach is listed as organist in 1902 and remained in this position until 1925 or 1926.Miss May Young (later Mrs.Claude George) and Miss Beatrice Boright (later Mrs.J.Clark Reilly) were assistant organists in these early years.In 1925 and for some years during the ministries of the Reverends Eastcott, Huxtable and Morrison.Edith Cowan was part-time organist—becoming regular organist around 1945 until her death in 1967.The present electric Wurlitzer organ was purchased during her time in 1960.Mrs.Cowan is remembered for her faithfulness in walking a distance of 2 miles or more from her farm homes to regularly attend choir practises in all kinds of weather.Young David Bailey at the age of 12 assisted Mrs.George in 1964 and after her death he became the regular organist, thereby becoming the youngest organist in the history of this church.The longest serving organists were Mrs.Jennie Holley and Mrs.Ethel George, who both played the organ for approximately a quarter of a century.Today the church has an electronic keyboard with speakers and Mrs.Mary Bailey usually provides the musical accompaniment for the services.Another strong point of this church has always been its Wo- men’s Associations.As early as port not only their own church but 1826 when the “Potton Female Be- many mission and community in-nevolent Society was formed to aid terests.A turkey dinner is sponso-the poor and promote religious tea- red every fall by the church fi-ching in Potton,” many of the nance committee, members were Methodist ladies.Across the street from the The Rev.E.M.Taylor’s history church is Reilly House, bought du-of Brome County tells of some of ring the incumbency of the Rev.their methods of earning money.Dennis Dwyer and set up as an ecu- At one time they owned a cow menical community centre with a which was hired out to members by tea room, a gift shop for local arti-the year for about $3.75.Members sans, a nearly-new clothes shop, a paid their dues in yarn, knitting or tourist information bureau and a weaving.When wool was donated Youth Centre, all staffed by volun-it was woven into flannel cloth and teers.used for benevolent purposes.The house had belonged to the They met at individual homes and Rev.John Clark Reilly and his each annual meeting was followed wife, Beatrice Boright.After her by a public service of worship led death in 1980.a group of concerned by ministers of various denomina- citizens led by the Rev.Dennis tions.Dwyer rescued it from being torn Records show that a Baked Bean down and bought it for the commu-Supper cost 10c in “the good old nity.days” while the price of a chicken A non-profit organization was pie supper in the early 1900’s was formed to support local groups and 25c the house has become a vital part In her history of the Ladies Aid in of the community.Today people Mansonville, Mrs.Beatrice Reilly meet there to exchange ideas and felt that the first Ladies Aid was to enjoy the company of others of formed here in 1873 with Mrs.Still- many nationalities in the area, man Mason as possibly the first president or one of the early ones.Citizen Advocacy is a program Mrs.S.B.Peabody was president “for people who need people”.Star-from 1898-1900.ted in Magog area, it was reorgani- It would be impossible to men- zed in 1986 and became a program tion all the women who have given within the Mountain Valley Ou-dedicated service to this organiza- treach Mission.This latter was tion which is today known as the started by the Quebec-Sherbrooke United Church Women.Today it is Presbytery of the United Church of Mrs.Bertha Nichols who as presi- Canada but is ecumenically spon-dent works with the group to sup- See UNITED, page 8 Mr.Gilles Lagrandeur Mr.Guy Pelletier, President of Pelletier Pontiac Buick Cadillac, Cowansville, is pleased to announce the nomination of Mr.Gilles Lagrandeur as Sales Representative.Mr.Lagrandeur, originally from Waterloo and now living in Knowlton, will be a major asset to our clientele.Gilles has been working for many years as a Sales Representative for a large GM dealer in the Montreal area.He specializes in long-term leasing of cars and trucks os well as retailing.We wish Gilles all the best in servicing our clientele.PONTIAC liar.HUM'.441 Principale St., Cowansville Tel: 263-1606 B8—The RECORD—Thursday, May 30, 1991 United church has rich past Continued from [xtfte 7.sored.Programs include support groups, job training and experience, respite care, recreational visits, volunteer drivers, referral and counselling, child care and a variety of programs for Youth.New services are continually being offered to meet ever changing needs.1973 saw the church commemorating its centennial anniversary with the Rev.Carl Gustafson leading the congregation in its celebration Mr.Gustafson served this church from 1934-1937 as a newly ordained minister and returned in 1970 to serve again for the last 3 years before his retirement.In his first term, he and his wife organized the Mansonville Youth into active and productive groups.Almost 40 years later he and Verna were responsible for organizing a thriving Senior Citizens Association in Mansonville.One of the most successful centennial projects was the writing of an interesting church history by Mary Cowan Bailey (Mrs.Merloni and from which most of the infor mation in this article was acquired.The Mansonville United Church is a white clapboard structure with the entry through a tower on the right hand side of the building.Three long rectangular windows and a higher circular one are on the face of the church.The shuttered belfry on the tower is topped by a broach spire.The floor of the inner church slopes to a raised platform, which is fronted by an oak communion rail that supports the carved oak pulpit, chairs and organ.The original “electroliers" are still lighting the body of the church.On the front lawn a sign with exterior lighting attached, proclaims the Mansonville United Church and is a memorial to Frank and Edith Cowan, two dedicated and long time members The audio chime system and church collection plates are memorial gifts from the family of the Rev.Archie Sisco who was born in Potton — raised in the Mansonville Church and was ordained to the ministry in 1924.He died in 1963 and is buried in the Mansonville Cemetery.In 1965.Mansonville and Austin United Churches lormed a four-point Pastoral charge covering Mansonville.Vale Perkins, Austin and Bolton Centre.However, the following year Austin decided to join the Magog Circuit.Vale Perkins had united with Manson- ville in 1964.In 1967 the Parish became known as the Mansonville Bolton Centre Pastoral charge.The present minister is the Rev.Ryk Allen, who lives next door to the church, in the parsonage, with his wife Gayle Chouinard.also an ordained minister, and their child.Today the congregation is referred to as the Mountain Valley Pastoral Charge comprising Mansonville-Vale Perkins and Bolton Centre.Sources: History of The Mansonville United Church 1873-1973 by Mary Bailey.History of the Eastern Townships by C.Thomas.History of Brome County by E.M.Taylor.Settlers coming into a new and challenging land developed their communities around the church and most schools were started by the religious educators 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