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moose soup in the fall."<br />
"The Elwood invitational<br />
basketball tournament brought in<br />
over $1,000last year," notes Jim.<br />
" The school activities are very<br />
well suppo rted by the town's<br />
small businesses. We have one<br />
basic fund-raising drive, a<br />
Roots and m eaning<br />
F<br />
ather Edwin Gale . 43, is<br />
priest of the Roman Catholic<br />
Church of the Immaculate Conception<br />
at Deer Lake . His parish<br />
consists of around 350 families<br />
and spans the area from Pynns<br />
Brook to Howley and north to<br />
Bonne Bay .<br />
"There are four chu rches<br />
altogether that we hold services<br />
in.,. explains Father Gale . "This<br />
one here was built in 1951 and<br />
replaced a school and chapel arra<br />
ngement. Before that the<br />
church was referred to as the<br />
Roman Catholic chapel on Chapel<br />
Christmas concert and movies.<br />
Dances are difficult to control<br />
and you don't raise much money.<br />
so we don't have any now."<br />
A little later on, we take a tour<br />
of the school and visit the science<br />
rooms, library and extremely<br />
well-equipped language<br />
Hill. We don't know a great deal<br />
about that one, or what it looked<br />
like or when it was built . We<br />
would like to know. In fact , we<br />
have asked that anybody with<br />
pictures of it to lend them to us.<br />
We would like to put a littJe<br />
history together so that people<br />
will have a sense of roots and<br />
traditions. Many of the younger<br />
people aren't awa re that Chapel<br />
Hill here was named after our<br />
own chapel.<br />
"We do have one picture of the<br />
interior. Tom Healey owns it.<br />
Look at the big iron frames they<br />
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laboratory. It is apparent that<br />
Elwood High offers a wide range<br />
of facilities to its students, who<br />
will doubtless appreciate them<br />
even more when the current<br />
overcrowding ends and there is<br />
more elbow room .<br />
used to tie down the seats. Imagine<br />
somebody tripping over<br />
those today . They would probably<br />
sue us."<br />
Amiable and articulate. Father<br />
Gale talks to us in his book-lined<br />
office. lie graduated (rom 51.<br />
Augustine's in 1965,and came to<br />
Deer Lake five years ago via<br />
Curling, 51. George's, Codroy<br />
VaUey and Harbour Breton . He<br />
finds Deer Lake has a markedly<br />
ecumenical spirit.<br />
" The re are about equal<br />
numbers here in the five<br />
established denominations:<br />
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