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A city grant of $13,500 is sought by Nickolas W. Dick (right), of the Mennonite Central Committee, and Ron Luciano, executive director of Wood Green Community Centre, to start a program of repairing the homes of elderly.

Picture, 1969

Mennonites - 1924 - 1969

Picture, 1924

Sizzling apple fritters are served on the spot during the Mennonite Relief Sale. Mrs. Stanley Wagler, left, and Mrs. Milford Bender test their recipe. Apple fritters brought $1,000 last year.

Picture, 1972

Sausage stuffing: Four thousand pounds of pork are being seasoned for sausages, to be served at the annual relief sale.

Picture, 1981

And wearing long dresses and bonnets, as at right. At this year's sale on saturday they will see the new look of the Mennonites, who now wear modern dress, drive modern cars. But the same good food and fine handicrafts will be on sale, for the same good reason --to raise money for the deprived in 35 countries.

Picture, 1972

Amish farmers inspects the goods and get ready to bid

Picture, 1979

Quilting bees like this one in Hillcrest Mennonite Church are held each year prior to the Relief Sale. Hand sewing this double wedding ring pattern are, left to right, Mrs. David Lichti, Mrs. Henry Yantzi, Mrs. Peter Roth and Mrs. Mahlon Bender. The quilts bring high prices at the auction. Each quilt design has a particular significance.

Picture, 1972

Sizzling Chicken Legs, browned on a 75-foot barbecue grill, proved to be a best seller. Here, one of the workers, sprays 1,000 chicken pieces with special sauce of cider vinegar, corn oil, eggs and seasoning. Price was 75 cents.

Picture, 1970

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

Picture, 1979

Two horsepower: Once a familiar sight in Ontario towns, the family carriage still has its uses in the area around St. Jacobs, where many Old Order Mennonites refuse to use mechanized vehicles.

Picture, 1982

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

Picture, 1979

Amish Buggy on a road in Aylmer passes a stack of the milk cans that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board wants to abolish. Amish farmers, who won't use mechanical methods, could be forced out of business.

Picture, 1977

Her head bent low over a rough wooden frame, Elvina Martin works on a hooked rug like the ones that will be sold this Saturday in aid of the world's needy.

Picture, 1990

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

Picture, 1978

A Different View will soon greet Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peters, who will leave their Toronto high-rise in September to work for the Mennonite Central Committee as teacher and nurse in Zambia for three years. Some 2,000 Canadians have served around the world during the committee's 50 years in action.

Picture, 1970

In traditional dress, a group of Amish farmers check over draught horses to be sold at farm show auction. The Mennonite sect is one of the few that still refuses to use motorized farm vehicles. Farmers say price of gasoline finally has exceeded cost of feed, so many others showed interest in the sales. Farm show officials said it was the largest auction in years. As one added, jokingly, a horse doesn't need a 10,000-mile check.

Picture, 1977

Calico bonnets: One of the specialties of the Mennonite Relief Sale at the New Hamburg Arena Saturday will be calico print bonnets hand sewn by local residents. Helen Duerrstein, right, wears one herself while she tries one on her friend, Verna Jutzi, who is adept at knitting clothes and dolls.

Picture, 1982

Baking blitz: Reta Brubacher, showing off one of her pies, will turn on her oven at 3 a.m. Friday to bake for this year's Mennonite Relief Sale, which takes place Saturday.

Picture, 1986

Horsing around? Don't bet on it, young Mennonite men, great judges of horseflesh who use horses to farm their land, are absorbed in the sight of huge draft horses going through their paces yesterday during an auction in the show ring of the Horse Palace in Exhibition Park, part of the Canada Farm Show, which ends tonight. They watched with great interest as Maple West Dusty Dawn, 4-year-old Percheron mare, as sold by J. Harry Walker of Newmarket for $3,000, a record price at the show.

Picture, 1975

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

Picture, 1979

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A city grant of $13,500 is sought by Nickolas W. Dick (right), of the Mennonite Central Committee, and Ron Luciano, executive director of Wood Green Community Centre, to start a program of repairing the homes of elderly.

Mennonites - 1924 - 1969

Sizzling apple fritters are served on the spot during the Mennonite Relief Sale. Mrs. Stanley Wagler, left, and Mrs. Milford Bender test their recipe. Apple fritters brought $1,000 last year.

Sausage stuffing: Four thousand pounds of pork are being seasoned for sausages, to be served at the annual relief sale.

Amish farmers inspects the goods and get ready to bid

Sizzling Chicken Legs, browned on a 75-foot barbecue grill, proved to be a best seller. Here, one of the workers, sprays 1,000 chicken pieces with special sauce of cider vinegar, corn oil, eggs and seasoning. Price was 75 cents.

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

Two horsepower: Once a familiar sight in Ontario towns, the family carriage still has its uses in the area around St. Jacobs, where many Old Order Mennonites refuse to use mechanized vehicles.

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

Amish Buggy on a road in Aylmer passes a stack of the milk cans that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board wants to abolish. Amish farmers, who won't use mechanical methods, could be forced out of business.

Her head bent low over a rough wooden frame, Elvina Martin works on a hooked rug like the ones that will be sold this Saturday in aid of the world's needy.

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

A Different View will soon greet Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peters, who will leave their Toronto high-rise in September to work for the Mennonite Central Committee as teacher and nurse in Zambia for three years. Some 2,000 Canadians have served around the world during the committee's 50 years in action.

Calico bonnets: One of the specialties of the Mennonite Relief Sale at the New Hamburg Arena Saturday will be calico print bonnets hand sewn by local residents. Helen Duerrstein, right, wears one herself while she tries one on her friend, Verna Jutzi, who is adept at knitting clothes and dolls.

Baking blitz: Reta Brubacher, showing off one of her pies, will turn on her oven at 3 a.m. Friday to bake for this year's Mennonite Relief Sale, which takes place Saturday.

Mennonites - 1970 - 1979

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