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Enjoying the new features
Sadie Baxter, left, and Clara deBoer discovered some of the new
features at Hullett Central Public School’s special family barbecue
night held at the school on Sept. 23. Aside from discovering new
outdoor experiences and equipment at the school, the night also
featured the annual Scholastic book fair. (Denny Scott photo)
Fundraising event set in Walton
In the California goldfields in
the mid-19th century, the
explosive used to open up the
gold seams was called ‘peter’
because the explosive contained
saltpeter. When a seam had been
well mined and left, miners said
the seam had ‘petered out’. The
phrase used today means to cease
gradually.
Another mining phrase of
interest is derived from the
panning system of gold
prospecting. Prospectors in river
beds scooped up gravel and water
from the bottom with a shallow
pan. By swirling the pan gold
nuggets or flakes separated from
the gravel or ‘panned out’. The
expression means to turn out
favourably.
Ponder on the expression ‘out
of sorts’ this week. No, it doesn’t
have anything to do with licorice
all sorts.
Minor sports associations are
always looking for new ways to
raise funds to keep the cost of
participating reasonable so more
children/families can be involved.
This coming weekend, Oct. 3-4,
BCH/Blyth Brussels and the
Girls Hockey Association are
sponsoring “Maidens of Mayhem
L’IL Mud Run”. The event, in
partnership with EDGE of
Walton Challenge Course, is an
invite to girls’ teams of all ages
and is designed to build team
spirit, strengthen muscles and
provide competition for the teams
that participate. The main event
for teams is a two-kilometre
obstacle challenge course. To
enter a team and/or to find out
more contact Denise DeJong at
419-440-8691.
The service at Londesborough
United Church on Sunday, Sept.
27 was titled Sky Sunday.
Scripture passages used by Rev.
Terry Fletcher were Genesis 15:
2-6; 2 Esdras 16: 56 and
Philippians 2: 9-15. The
responsive psalm was Psalm 104.
Next Sunday, Oct. 4
Londesborough United will share
the Sacrament of Holy
Communion as part of World
Wide Communion Sunday.
Next Sunday will be the last
chance to drop off items for the
food bank in the boxes
throughout the church.
The United Church of Canada
has issued an appeal to its
members to consider donating to
“Syria Relief” citing it as a way
to demonstrate Christian
faith/outreach in response to the
needs of desperate people. The
Canadian government will match
donated funds dollar for dollar.
One might contact Ken Hunking
for details in this matter.By BRENDA
RADFORD
Call
523-4296
PEOPLE AROUND
LONDESBORO
NEWS
FROM LONDESBORO
Genesis tale of ‘The
Citizen’ explained to
Londesborough UCW
For 30 years Keith
Roulston has been the
Publisher of The Citizen, a
community-owned
newspaper serving Blyth,
Brussels and surrounding
areas. The Citizen and the
business of putting a
newspaper to print every
week were the subjects of
Keith’s talk to the ladies and
one husband at the September
meeting of the
Londesborough UCW on
Monday, Sept. 21.
It was the early 1980s and
the Blyth/Brussels area had
not had a local weekly for a
few years. With the help of
volunteers who believed in
the need for a local paper and
dozens of shareholders The
Citizen began operation in
1985. Mr. Roulston explained
the difference between a
shareholder situation and that
of papers owned and
controlled by
chains/consortiums such as
Sun Media. He also touched
on aspects of The Citizen
which truly make it a
community paper.
Those gathered in the
Sunday school room that
evening got insight into the
changes in printing from the
days of setting print one letter
and one column at a time to
today’s setting up on a
computer. There have been
many changes also since the
days when each local
newspaper had its own
printing press to today when
the setup pages are sent by
computer to a huge printing
firm in Bracebridge. It used to
take over 36 hours to print a
paper whereas today the
paper is brought back to
Blyth ready for distribution in
just a few hours.
Keith was comfortable
answering a variety of
questions during his talk as
audience members queried
aspects of publishing a
newspaper. He left copies of
the latest edition of The
Citizen, The Rural Voice and
Stops Along The Way, all of
which are published through
The Citizen offices, for
people to enjoy and after
learning of the process and
cost of printing them, to
appreciate.
The time of meditation was
led by Harriett Shillinglaw,
Laura Scott and Brenda
Radford and was a study of
‘perspective’. Perspective is
how situations are looked at
or perceived, such as is a
glass half full or half empty?
Perspective helps one handle
trials. For example, Jesus
endured the cross by looking
past the pain to the joy of
heaven. Scripture passages
for this idea are found in
Romans 8: 28, James 1: 3 and
Hebrews 12: 2. Quotations
from Abraham Lincoln,
George Carlin, Helen Keller
and Dr. Seuss encouraged the
ladies to consider situations
from more than one aspect.
Harriett introduced an
interesting reading which the
ladies read together first from
top to bottom and then, to
give another perspective,
from bottom to top.
As this was the first
meeting of the UCW since
June and as there had been an
executive meeting in early
September there were many
items that needed to be
touched on. Donations were
agreed on to hospitals in
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