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On Sunday, April 12 Gloria
Wilbee from Walton will be
conducting the service at Knox
United Church while Brian is
attending his grandson’s baptism.
The Huron-Perth Presbyterial
Annual Meeting and Spring Fling is
being held in the Brucefield United
Church on Tuesday, April 14 at 4
p.m. The theme is a panel discussion
on elder care. Registration is $4 and
dinner is $10. Contact Muriel
Coultes if you wish to go.
Please save your 4L outer milk
bags and give them to Jackie to
make comfortable, healthy sleeping
mats for the people of Haiti.
The mats are very much
appreciated.
On Wednesday, April 15, 5 - 7
p.m. the stewards will be hosting a
Swiss Chalet supper in the Belgrave
Community Centre. Advance tickets
only at $17 and are available from
any steward.
Knox choir will be presenting an
Angel Concert in the church on
Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m.
Admission is by donation, with
proceeds going to Brian’s education
fund. Everyone is welcome.
Twenty-two members of the
Anderson family gathered on Good
Friday for supper at the home of
Ross and Barbara Anderson.
Rob and Doreen Roy of
Peterborough and Christina of
Whitby were guests for the Easter
weekend at Ross and Barbara
Anderson’s home.
By Linda
Campbell
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PEOPLE AROUND
BELGRAVE
NEWS
FROM BELGRAVE
Concert set April 19
Activities
Students at North Woods Elementary School participated in a special program late in March
that shows what challenges differently-abled individuals face in the world. Part of that program
was skipping, as demonstrated by Leah Stevenson, left, and Amber Wheeler. (Denny Scott photo)
Fire calls up in M-T for 2014
Fire calls in Morris-Turnberry
were up across the board in 2014
according to two departments
covering the area, though the
whole picture is a little more
complicated.
During Morris-Turnberry
Council’s March 31 meeting,
councillors were told that fire calls
were up in the sections of Morris-
Turnberry covered by the Fire
Department of North Huron and the
Huron East Fire Department.
Fire Chiefs Marty Bedard of
Huron East and David Sparling of
North Huron attended the meeting
and explained the previous year
from a fire suppression point of
view.
Bedard’s report indicated that both
calls and hours spent in Morris-
Turnberry were higher than they
were in 2013, however that was a
poor measurement as 2013 was a
rare case in which there were no
calls in the area.
In 2014, however, there were nine
calls spanning 16 hours which
marks a five-year high in call
numbers.
The department also responded to
two mutual aid calls from North
Huron to help put out a house fire
and a barn fire which would be
reflected in those numbers.
Bedard also said the fire
department had experienced some
shuffling as senior officers retired or
left the department including former
Chief Murray McArter who retired
after 34 years with the department.
“We had five firefighters apply for
Deputy-Chief and Donald Hastings
was awarded that position,” Bedard
said. “We also hired four new
firefighters last fall. There have been
a lot of changes since then.”
Sparling said that 2014 was
“exceptional”, saying that it was the
busiest year the department had ever
had. Call volume was up 50 per cent
he said.
“What was really abnormal about
that, however, was that medical calls
were down as was mutual aid,” he
said. “Structure fires, however,
doubled and severe motor collisions
were up. It took a toll on a whole lot
of things including our firefighters,
their families, their employers and
our budget.”
He added that, in a span of several
months, the department had
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was sung. Rev. Clark invited the
communion servers Gwen Papple,
Emily Phillips and Mary Lou
Stewart to come forward to serve the
communion . The congregation sang
the hymn “All Who Are Thirsty.”
The prayer of consecration was
adapted from the prayer of
Hippolytus of Rome in 215 AD.
Communion was served during the
singing of the hymn “”Let Us Break
Bread Together” The choir sang
their second anthem “This is My
Story, This is My Song.” The
offering was received followed by
the offertory response “For Food in
A World” the offertory prayer, the
prayers for the people and the
singing of the Lord’s Prayer. Emily
Phillips invited David Onn to come
forward and she presented him a gift
of David’s bursary to help pay for
women go to school in third world
countries. The bursary is a way of
saying thank you for all his custodial
duties in the past. David handed the
broom to Steven Payne, who is
going to replace David as custodian.
The last hymn “Jesus Christ is Risen
Today” was sung followed by
the singing of the “Three Fold
Amen.”
Everyone was invited for coffee
and treats and fellowship before
going home.
Bursary set up to
honour Onn’s service
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
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Read Rhea Hamilton Seeger’s
Gardening column
on the
Huron Home and Garden
Guide
section of our website
www.northhuron.on.ca