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[North Crosby Pq rk TOWNSHIP PARK TO BECOME REALITY Jim McGlade, chairman of the North Crosby Recreation Committee proudly announced that the debt on the parcel of land just outside the Village has been cleared away and plans are going ahead to begin the actual work on the site. It will provide a ball diamond, picnic area and later on a hall which would accommodate the Township offices and provide much needed facilities for social functions for the township res- idents. The ten-acre park site will, hopefully, become a focal point for area gatherings. But it all takes money and hard work so a number of fund raising events are planned for the near future. One is the annual walkathon, held each year from Rideau Vista School for a distance of 20 kilometers and pledge cards may be picked up right away at the Township office on Church St. The walk will be held on Satâ€" urday, June 2nd and walkers are asked to be at the school by 8 a.m. . There have been a number of prizes offered by local businesses and in- dividuals and receipts for income tax purposes will be issued to any pl fig '-~ T3.00 and for smaller amounts on request. During the past winter the Council of North Crosby on the advice of the Committee dOnated over $950.00 toward minor hockey in the area and now the North Leeds Minor Ball Association will be using the Recreation Committee for any available grants. -. A Winterio grant of $8,684.01 was received by the Township of May 4th for the work at the new Recreation Centre. HOCKEY .NORTH LEEDS MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION Approximately 300 parents and players attended a banquet at the Westport Community Center on Sunday, May 27th. A roast beef dinner was served after which the various teams were presented with trophies for their years work. An appeal was made by the President, Len Vickers, for help and support for next years season. Coaches, assistants, 3 Hockey Mother's auxiliary, as well as volunteers for exec- utive positions are needed. Bonnie Prevost volunteered to initiate the organization of the Hockey Mothers. She may be contacted at 273-2045. The organization is pleased to announce that they have received a franchise for a Junior B team. Further de- tails will be available at the Annual Meeting to be held on Sunday, June 3, 1979 at 2:00p.m. Election of officers will be held at that time. I. THE WESTPORT MUSEUM "SALLY GHAUT" HITURNC TOPWSWHl Lucille Bresee There is a distinguished lady in Leeds County and like some members of the fairer sex she has just undergone a face lift to bring back the beauty of other days. Her name is Sally Grant and she is a wooden statue whose face lift was far more extensive than that of any of her human counterparts. Sally Grant stood atop the Counties Court House in Brockville for over 100 years and then in August 1956 she had to be removed from her lofty perch due to deterioration and the danger of her weight cracking the roof. She later became a resident of the Rideau District Museum at Westport.and then in 1977 went to Ottawa for restoration work. Now she's coming back to the Village, once more a splendid lady ready to greet old friends and new callers at the Museum. The naming of this figure 01 justice came about in an interesting incident. Among the crowd assembled to see the figure raised were Major Alexander Grant, a man of about 6 feet 5 inches in height and otherwise large in proportions, and Paul Glassford, small of stature, who had been chairman of the building comm- ittee for the new Courthouse. The former was a practical joker and liked nothing better than to have a joke on Glassford. He laughingly called the crowd's attention to the difference in size between Glassford and 'his child'. But, when the figure was in position and the crowd cried, “Name, name", he looked at her and at Grant and said, "Her name is Sally Grant". The tables were turned on the practical joker and through the snows of winter and the heat of summer she held high the scales of justice on Brockville's Court House from 1845 to 1956. Emposure to the elements for more than a century finally took its toll and so in 1956 the Counties Council ordered her removed from the Court House. Aware of her importance or perhaps because of a sentimental attachment, they commissioned Roy Birtch of Seeley's Bay to carve a new replica of Sally for the Court House but the work had barely begun when Mr. Birtch died. Council then had Sally removed to the home of Mort Cross, Reeve of the Front of Leeds and Lansdowne and she remained there in his garage until 1962. Then Orville Forrester, Reeve of Westport and Warden of the United Counties that year, received permission to bring Sally to the newly opened Museum in his Village. Sally remained a resident of the Rideau District Museum here until the summer of 1977, still a tourist attraction and a figure of interest but in a state of disrepair, deâ€" __â€"â€".â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" More help is needed to have a successful club, and hope- fully all interested parents will be in attendence at the meeting. A fund-raising Walkâ€"aâ€"thon is planned for Sunday, June 3 commencing at 12:30 at the beach. Sponsored by the Com- munity Center Fund Raising Committee, an 8 mile walk around the mountain should be an enjoyable outing for all. Sponsor sheets are available at the Mirror Office, Murphy's Barber Shop or from Rita Merkely. Page 18 meaning for a lady of her dignityo The Museum Board, supported by the Rideau Distrit Historical Society began searching for help in the re- storation and preservation of what they felt was a valuable and possibly unique work of Canadian art. For a time it seemed hopeless and then, through the efforts of a Westport native, David Roberts, who is senior historian with the Heritage Adminâ€" istration Branch, Toronto, it Seemed that Sally was to have another chance. Staff members from the Canadian Conâ€" t servation Institute came out to Westâ€" port from Ottawa to view the statue and assess her importance. They found that Sally was significantly val- uable because no other wood figure of that period in Upper Canada is known to exist. In October of that year she was carefully transported to Ottawa to the Institute to begin her long period of restoration. The deterioration was extensive and posed a tremendous challenge to the craftsmen who were to bring her back to her former glory. ‘ Once the initial analysis was com- pleted, the rotted areas were im- pregnated with synthetic resin to give them strength and a steel reinforcing armiture was inserted to support the head and arms. Loose pieces of the original wood were reattached and missâ€" ing areas including the base were re- built with new wood,carefully carved to match the original. These expert craftsmen, fully aware of Sally's historical significance, worked pains- takingly to bring her back to her former self and did not modernize her in any way. Now, a year and a half later, Sally Grant is coming back to the Museum in Westport and a special place has been prepared for her, with a well out in the second floor to accomodate her height. Thursday May 10th she will be installed here to enter the next phase of her already distinguished career. A great number of people are to be commended for making it possible for Sally to carry on as an interesting and unusual artifact here in our community. Especially in this regard, to Orville Forrester for his foresight and the dedicated conservators at the Institute who used their skills to bring about a miracle in the life of this aroud figure in the history of Leeds County.