HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-04-18, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013. PAGE 3.
His unsleeping watchfulness
(J.R. Miller)
“You are the God who sees me!” Genesis 16:13
Go where we may, we cannot get away from the calm, clear gaze of the Devine
Eye!Neither in the blue depths of the heavens, nor in the dark abysses of the
grave--can we hide away from God. If we could take the morning sunbeams for
wings, and fly away on them with all the swiftness of light to the remotest bounds
of space--we could not get beyond the reach of the Divine Eye. If we creep into
the darkness, darkness so deep and dense that no human eye can behold us--still
God sees us as clearly as if we stood in the bright noon-day sunshine! Darkness
hides not from Him. Night shines to His eye, as brightly as day.
When we know that God loves us, there is infinite comfort in this thought of His
unsleeping watchfulness.It is our Father who watches us!There ought also to be
wondrous encouragement and inspiration in this consciousness.
While the Eye of divine love is looking upon us, we should always strive to be
pleasing to Him in all things!
“If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea--even there
Your hand will guide me, Your right hand will hold me fast! If I say, ‘Surely the
darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness
will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light
to You!” Psalm 139:9-12
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
Nature’s one last winter trick knocks out power
Happy birthday to Mary Edgar of
Petrolia and Jim Bowman, Brussels
(twins) who celebrated April 17;
Colin Howson, April 18; Bryce
Glousher, April 19; Nancy McInnis
and Gayle Poore, April 21; SheilaMoore, Wingham and Paul Craig,Waterloo, April 22 and SandradeCorte, Kippen, April 23.
Well, Mother Nature did it to us
again this past weekend with an ice
storm that put most of the hydro in
the area out. There were many poles
and wires down. Many of us woke
up Friday morning with no hydro.
Some had the hydro back on Friday
night but others were Saturday,
some were Sunday and the rest are
hoping for their hydro to be on late
tonight. Those who had generators
found themselves with heat and
water while others found out just
how cold it can get. It was like beingback when there was no power forheat and lights. Many schools andevents had to be cancelled in the
area.
Blyth Legion’s monthly pancake
breakfast is on April 28. Come out
and enjoy the food and help support
our local Legion branch.
Come out and enjoy the movie
October Baby on Saturday, April 20
at 7 p.m. at 308 Blyth Road hosted
by Living Water Christian
Fellowship.
Camp Menesetung is having a
clean-up day on Saturday, May 4
beginning at 9 a.m. to get the
grounds and cabins ready forcampers. Lunch is provided.On April 19 the Blyth Mini Me-to-We will be held with local speakers,
performers and school displays at
Blyth Memorial Hall. Doors open at
7:30 p.m. and show starts at 8 p.m.Tickets are $10 each and areavailable at the Blyth Festival BoxOffice at 519-523-9300 or for more
information call Kathy Douglas at
519-523-4380.By Marilyn
Craig
Call
523-9318
From Marilyn’s Desk
Quick thinking leads to lunch
The cancellation of the annual Blyth Women’s Day Out event could have resulted in a lot of
wasted food were it not for some quick thinking from the organizers. A free-will lunch was held
after the regular Sunday service at the Blyth United Church with any donations going to help
cover the costs of the event, which was cancelled due to a power outage caused by an ice
storm on Thursday evening and Friday morning. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Birthday lunch set
for Adeline Campbell
Greeting worshippers at Blyth
United Church on Sunday, April 14
were Tom Cronin and Lavern Clark.
Ushering were Tom Cronin, Terry
Richmond, Doug Howson and
Arletta Hallahan. Floyd Herman was
music director and Fred Hakkers ran
the power point.
Rev. Gary Clark welcomed
everyone to church on this second
Sunday of Easter. He drew
everyone’s attention to that
announcements that had been rolling
on the power point with special
mention that after the service there
was a lunch and on April 21 was the
celebration of Adeline Campbell’s
90th birthday at the church from 2 -
4 p.m.
Floyd Herman gave a short history
of the anthem “Ordinary Miracle”
featuring Anne Elliott as soloist.
The children were asked to come
to the front for their story time. Rev.
Clark had a lamp at the front and
asked the children if they knew what
would happen as he turned the
switch. Nothing happened. He then
asked one of the children to turn the
switch and nothing happened and
then he asked them to try again and
the light came on. He explained to
them that the power was always
there, just as God’s power is always
there. God wants us to be like the
light and the shine through our lives.
Sarah Hallahan pinned a picture of a
light on the cross behind the altar
table. The children said a prayer
along with the congregation and
went over to Lorna Fraser’s home to
make a special surprise.
The call to worship was the
singing of the two hymns, “Dance
with the Spirt” and “Hey Now!
Singing Hallelujah”. The scripture
reading was from Matthew 28: 1-10.
Rev. Clark’s message to the adults
was “Miracles Happen … Believe it
or Not.” Power comes in many ways
like an earthquake and acts of
Mother Nature. The Power of the
Angel rolling away the stone in the
scriptures this morning is another
miracle. The scripture told of Mary
being afraid to look in the tomb but
the joy of seeing that Jesus was alive.
Joy pushes our fears away. We
should let our lights shine so that the
younger generations will
understand. Let your light shine to
show others. The next hymn, “You
Tell Me That the Lord is Risen” was
followed by the receiving of the
offering, the offertory response, the
offertory prayer, the prayers for the
people, the silent prayers and the
singing of The Lord’s Prayer. The
first verse of the last hymn, “Rejoice
the Lord is King” was followed by
the commissioning and the
benediction and the singing of the
response “Go Now In Peace”. There
was a short congregational meeting
and everyone was invited downstairs
for a free-will offering lunch.
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Huron County will not be taking
the lead on a county-wide rain barrel
program, council decided at its April
10 Committee of the Whole
meeting.
After then-Warden Bernie
MacLellan recommended that
county staff look into a county-wide
rain barrel program last year, staff
has come back and said that there is
no benefit to such a program.
“There are many benefits to rain
barrels, and they are one useful tool
in a large toolkit of storm water
management strategies,” said Rachel
White in her report to council. “A
variety of techniques is required to
effectively manage episodes of
extreme weather. Rain barrels could
be an important piece, but would not
likely be the solution to storm water
issues.”
White told councillors that the
greatest benefit to having rain
barrels in the county would be
education and spreading the word
about water conservation and the
stress that municipal water systems
can be under during periods of
extreme weather.
White said that such a program
would “inspire personal ownership
of storm water management”.
As a result of her findings, White
made four recommendations to
council.
The first recommendation was that
any rain barrel program should be
implemented with the co-operation
of the lower tier municipalities. The
second was that council consider a
county-wide program by referring
the study to the Water Protection
Steering Committee for further
consideration. The third comment
was that the objectives of a rain
barrel program in Huron County
should be water conservation and
education and the fourth, she said,
was that if council was to
pursue such a program, that
additional resources would be
required.
North Huron Reeve Neil Vincent
said that when a rain barrel program
was rolled out in Wingham, only
one-third of the population took a
rain barrel, and they were free.
Another one-third of people were
open to rain barrels if they were
delivered, and installed, by
municipal staff. Vincent said that
even for free, the will to install rain
barrels simply wasn’t there when it
was attempted in Wingham.
Councillor Paul Klopp said it
didn’t look like the county had much
to gain.
The rest of council voted to send
the report to the lower tier
municipalities to do with what they
choose.
At its Monday night meeting,
North Huron Council voted to
approve the proposed fire
agreement between North Huron
and Morris-Turnberry.
The agreement has been several
months in the making and after
several meetings moderated by
University of Guelph professor
Wayne Caldwell, the two sides
finally came to an agreement.
The contract was approved
unanimously. For a full story see the
April 25 issue of The Citizen.
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HC won’t run rain barrel program
NH Council
approves
agreement