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(teta, groups was held at Woodstock Recreation Hallyes- Hex-day. WOODSTOCK Me-rv An Achieve- ment Day for seven county 4-H Home Garden and Home Beauti- Provincial Honor Certificates for girls completing 12 projects went to' Nellie de Wit, RR 1, Embro; Jean Fleming, RR 4, Embro; Hazel Hewitt,-Harring- ton West; Jean McCorquodale, RR 3, Lakeside; Lila Ruth Hold- en, RR 3, Lakeside and Julia McGee, RR 2, Lakeside. ' Comments on demonstrations and club exhibits were given by Mrs. Nancy Buchanan, London, and Miss Carmel Coady, home economist for Brant and Went- worth counties. Oxford home economist Miss Eileen McDer- mid, was chairman. County Honor Certificates for completing six projects were presented to Janice Killing,.RR 5, Embro; Christine Lange, RR 2, Embro; Margaret Hewitt, RR 1, Embro; Jean De Wit, RR 1, Embro; Beverley Piett, RR l, Provincial Honor Winners Provincial honor certificates were presented at a 4-H Home Garden Club and Home Beautification Achievement Day in Woodstock yesterday. Re-. ceiving the awards were left to right: Jean Flem- ing, RR 4, Embro; Hazel Hewitt, Harrington West; TIIE WEEKS of prepara- lion for the staging of the third annual Oxford County Festival of Roses was climax- ed on Saturday evening in the auditorium of the Ingersoll and District Memorial Cent- re, The highlight of the prog- ram was the crowning of the “Queen of the Rose Festival." TOP PHOTO is a general view of the parade which featured majorettes, bands, decorated floats, as l pro- ceeds along Thames street through the business area on its way to the IDMC. CENTRE Miss Jean McCor- Embro; Donna. Walters, RR 3, Embro; Elaine Jensen, RR 4, Embro; Mary Smith, Embro; Valerie Brennemun. Embro; Lynda Martin, Harrington West; Nancy Innes, RR 8, Embro; and Ruth Mills, RR 3, Lakeside. The clubs represented at the achievement day were Brooks- dale 1 and 2; Braemar, Embro 1 and 2; Harrington and Lake- side. quodale, RR 3, Lakeside, is crowned "queen of the Rose Festival" by Oxford County’s Warden Peter McDonald. Bright, with Miss Linda Tot. ten, Thamesford, last year's queen, vutching the proceed- ings. BOTTOM Also vieing for the top honors in the rose competitions. Mrs. Grace Cole (right) won the McConnell Nursery Challenge Silver Cup for the "best rose of the show". Miss Beulah Parker' was the winner of three of the nine events that were judged. (Staff Photos) --Free Press Woodstock Bureau Jean McCorquodale, RR 3, Lakeside; Lila Ruth Holden, RR 3, Lakeside; and Julia McGee, RR 2, Lakeside. A sixth winner, Nellie DeWit, RR l, Embro, was not present. A special thanks to the three models for the April Sew and Save Fashion Show at Kintore goes to Miss Sheila Kittmer, Miss Jean McCorquodale and Miss Lila Ruth Holden. _