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Terrace Bay News, 7 Jan 1971, p. 15

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JANUARY 7, 1971 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 15 MRS. REX DYE CLUB INSTRUCTOR The Arts and Crafts club is most fortunate this season in having Mrs. Rex Dye as their instructor for her deft hands and her imagination create so many varieties of articles both practical and decorative one can only exclaim and admire. Everything, it seems, is grist for her mill! One of her very different pieces is a rooster wall decoration, weighing three pounds six ounces. The figure was cut out of plywood, eighteen by eighteen inches, then every bit of it covered with a variety of nails and wire. Included are copper, silver, brass] aluminum nails and wire. = carpet tacks, roofing nails, upholstery nails, decorative tacks of wood pannelling, staples and wire in many colors, creat- ing a stunning effect in color. The largest project she is presently working on is a wool rug, a circle of eighty inches, being done with a latch hook. Innumerable sorts of sewing kits, wall hangings, tiny lovely trees, wall hangings and table centres are in her home to be admired and copied. A novel cushion, suggested for children travelling, has a cosy filling for catnaps, on the journey or it can be used to play the old x and o game with felt x's and o's provided to be moved as the player decides. Mrs. Dye also does knitting, this year making many sets of sweaters in stunning designs. Mrs. Rex Dye holds the rooster wall plaque in photo below. Photo by I. McCuaig. U.C.W. HOLD BAZAAR The lavish glittering decorations introduced a gala mood for the crowd attending the Christmas bazaar tea of the United Church Women. Mrs. Frank Fummerton was cashier and the tea tables were served by Mesdames Walter Dukes, Bill Gerow, Bruce Simon, George Gordon, Cyril Pyke, Ken Davis, E.C. Prinselaar, Frank McKenna, Earl Holmes and Keith Nesbitt. Kitchen committee were Mesdames George Lehto, Russell Macadam, Bill D'Arcy, Wesley Clemens and David Nesbitt. Bazaar tables were attended by Mesdames Steve Petrushack, John Spillane, Hubert Weaver, Annie Niemi, J.G. Scott, Nelson Smith and Della Boon. The C.G. |.T. assisting, under the direction of Mrs. Andy Miller, included Janet Lengyel, Lynne Drake, Debby McCanna, Jayne Davis, Joan Richardson, Judy Lengyel, Clover and Jade Dukes, Brenda Krystia and Debby Jones. In photo below = Mrs. Steve Petrushack serves young customer at the United Church Women bazaar In photo below = Mrs. Hubert Weaver and Mrs. Annie Niemi confer on prices. Photos by |. McCuaig

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