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Ladies of the Londesborough
UCW met in the church’s lower
room on Feb. 18. Mikayla Allen gave
a most interesting laptop photo
presentation of her school trip to
Ecuador during the first two weeks
of July, 2012.
Sixteen teenagers from St. Anne’s
Secondary school in Clinton along
with their principal travelled to this
South American country through the
“Me to We, Free the Children”
organization. It was an educational
and mission work trip.
Their work took them to the
village of Gulahuayco, a rural
indigenous community high up in the
Andes Mountains. The village was
3,400 metres above sea level and the
Canadians had to adjust to the lack of
oxygen at that height and limit
activities accordingly. The weather
was cool at that height and
sometimes they were above the
clouds.
This community survives on
subsistence farming while the men
often migrate to the cities for work.
Mikayla stated that the young people
worked on a variety of small projects
to improve the community and the
children at the school. They helped
with the foundation for a water
project and a staircase at the school.
They also spent time visiting with the
women and understanding how they
provide for their families.
The children of the village enjoyed
playing soccer with the visitors and
braiding their hair.
The group did have occasions to
tour Ecuador. They participated in
activities at the Ecuador, visited the
Amazon Rain Forest and toured a
rose greenhouse.
During the business part of the
evening the women decided to
donate $2,500 to the church and
pledged an allocation of $2,100 to
the United Church Mission and
Service fund for 2013.
The UCW will meet again on
March 18 and hold a World Day of
Prayer Service. Everyone in the
community is invited to attend this
service.
Allen presents slide
show of Ecuador trip
NEWS
FROM LONDESBORO
Continued from page 1lot to give up,” she explained. “It’s alot of land to use from a farmer forbasically an entire year. However,
it’s a pretty cool opportunity for a
farmer to be able to say they
hosted the match, especially the
100th one.”
The journey to host the match in
just over four years was given a
boost earlier this year when Huron
County Council agreed to provide
support, including financial, in
principle and in kind, for the event.
One hundred thousand dollars will
be provided to the organization over
four years, split into $10,000 thisyear and $30,000 a year for the nextthree years to prepare for the event.Having that support is an
important step in pursuing the bid,
Sparling said.
“When you go to the Ontario
Plowman’s Association, it’s good to
know that you have your county to
back you and have seed money,” she
said. “After we had that, all we had
to do was get ready, make a
presentation explaining the benefits
of Huron County for the match and
select sites for the IPM committee to
choose from.”
She said that the county was verywilling to help, and that made a bigdifference.The presentation was well
received by the association,
according to Sparling, both because
of its content and because of the
group involved in getting it ready.
“They’re excited that we’re
excited,” she said. “They’re excited
about the amount of young people
we have involved.”
As for the future, Sparling said
that setting up the government for
the committee that will lead the local
side of the IPM is the first goal.
“The next step is finding a chair
person and a treasurer and then
waiting for the Ontario Plowmen’s
Association to help us select a site,”
she said.
The four possible sites are near
Walton, Brucefield, Hensall and
Vanastra and a final decision will be
made with input from the Plowmen’sAssociation after they narrow thechoices down.“They will be looking at the sites
in the next few months,” Sparling
said. “Aside from that, we’re
hopefully going to get some heads
selected for some of the more
important committees.”The IPM will be held on Sept. 19-23, 2017 and anyone interested inhelping should contact Brian
McGavin at McGavin Farm
Equipment in Walton at 519-
887-6365 or Sparling at 519-440-
8187,
Huron County support helped bid for local IPM
Londesborough
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Church with the area congregations
taking part. This service is prepared
yearly since 1922 by a different
country, this year France. For many
it’s a tradition, a time to think
beyond their church walls and see
the needs and differences in our
community and in the world. So the
women of area kept up the tradition
of supporting this world-wide
happening.
March is a busy time, March
Break, St. Patrick’s Day, Lindsay,
Julie and Val’s birthdays, Holy Week
and Easter Sunday. Oh my, my.
Take care of yourself.
Bye now, Betty G.W.
World Day of Prayer
celebrates France
A media item last week voiced the
concern that wind turbines may
interfere with weather predictions,
specifically the weather station
outside Exeter. Anyone living in
southwestern Ontario, surrounded
by the Great Lakes as we are,
recognizes how important forecasts
can be to our lives. The tornado that
hit Goderich in 2011 came too fast
even for current forecasting to warn
the area. Any further hindrance to
forecasting would not be good. Now
forgive me if I sound redundant, but
why was Ontario/Canada not aware
of this before launching this green
project? Were our researchers not
listening? Hiding their heads in the
sand? And new reports are surfacing
about health issues as well.
I heard an interesting item on a
radio station recently that I thought I
would comment on. We’ve all heard
the expression – women are from
Venus; men are from Mars. This was
another example of same. In a recent
study researchers established that
women uttered about 20,000 words a
day while men were heard to voice
7,000. Does that mean women are
talking to themselves or having one-
sided conversations? Now, men, it
seems to me that a two-sided
conversation would be better for all
concerned. How about jumping in
once in a while with a suggestion or
comment or opinion and evening up
the numbers.
Turbines and weather
forecasts concern writer
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Achieving success
Gregory Smith, standing, made a presentation to Hullett Central Public School’s Grade 7/8
class last week. On Thursday, Feb. 28, students participated in Smith’s “Flipping the Iceberg”
workshop, an interactive event to help students realize their potential and skills they have
available to them. Pictured getting some group help from Smith are, from left, Cody Bos,
Kaleb Wilts, Jacob Bjerg, Naomi Filiatreault and Kalvin Westerhout. (Denny Scott photo)