HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-01-19, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012. PAGE 3.
DOG
LICENSING
Dog Tags are now due and available at the Township of North Huron
Municipal Office. All dogs must be licensed in compliance with Township
of North Huron By-law No. 41-2008. An owner or boarder of a dog(s)
shall within 10 days of becoming such an owner or boarder, and
thereafter on or before the 1st day of February cause such dog(s) to be
licensed for one year. A $15.00 late payment charge shall be assessed
in addition to the licence fee after February 1st. Proof of Rabies
Vaccination must be presented at the time of purchase.
The By-law requires dog owners to forthwith remove excrement left by
the dog anywhere in the municipality of the Township of North Huron.
Any person contravening this provision is subject to a $100.00 fine.
For concerns regarding dogs running at large, contact the Municipality
Office at 519-357-3550 during normal working hours Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or after hours contact Jim Renwick, Animal
Control Officer at 519-327-4681.
The Township of North Huron
274 Josephine Street
Wingham, ON N0G 2W0
519-357-3550
Long-term perfection
Lions District Governor Bill Chalmers attended the Jan. 12 Blyth Lions Club meeting and
presented 12 long-term perfect attendance awards to a dozen Blyth Lions. Back row, from left:
Ernie Phillips, 25 years; Tyler Stewart, 10 years; Brenda McDonald, 10 years; Bill Chalmers;
John Stewart, 35 years; Frank Hallahan, five years; Barney Stewart, 25 years and Sheron
Stadelmann, 10 years. Front row, from left: Gord Jenkins, 40 years; Charlie Shaw, 50 years
and Bill Logue, 10 years. Absent were Alex Blair, 20 years and Dave Craig, five years. (Photo
submitted)
Giving Jesus likegiving new clothes
Greeting worshippers at Blyth
United Church on Sunday, Jan. 15
was Joan Clark. Ushering were
Laurie Sparling, Terry Richmond
and Donna Moore. Floyd Herman
was music director and Fred
Hakkers ran the power point. Rev.
Gary Clark welcomed everyone to
church on the beautiful sunny
winter’s day. He drew everyone’s
attention to the announcements in
the bulletin with special mention
that the Holy Rollers would be
making beef pies Wednesday, Jan.
25 and turkey pies Feb. 8. Call Joann
MacDonald to put your name on the
list.
The call to worship was followed
by a duet, “I am the Light of the
World” sung by Cheryl Cronin and
Avon Corneil. The prayer of
approach was followed by the first
hymn, “Will You Come and See the
Light”.
Rev. Clark asked the children to
come to the front. Tanner Brooks,
with the assistance of older brother
Connor, lit the candles at the front of
the church. Rev. Clark asked the
children if they had received new
clothes for Christmas. Then he asked
them if these new clothes changed
them in any way. He told them that
new clothes really don’t change us
but they make us feel better when we
get something new. It makes us feel
better towards the person who gave
us the new clothes.
Jesus is like new clothes, He
makes you feel good and we know
we are always loved. The scripture
lesson was from Jonah 13: 1-10.
Rev. Clark’s message to the adults
was “A Brave New You”. Change
means a Brave New You. Most of usdon’t like change, we like who we
are and change does not appeal to
us. We can’t change ourselves
because we like our ways of
convenience. In order to change we
have to feel comfortable and safe.
Often extreme pain causes us to
change our ways and try to keep
healthier by changing our habits. In
the scriptures Jonah didn’t want to
go and tell the people of Nineveh
that unless they repented, there
would be no Nineveh in 40 days.
Jonah finally changed his mind with
God’s help and went to Nineveh to
tell the people God’s message. The
people of Nineveh heard the
message and believed it to be true.
They changed their ways and God
didn’t destroy them. Society can
change to be a New Brave Us not
Me. We can change for the healthier
way of life. Small changes make a
difference.
Rev. Clark challenged the
congregation to make one new
change in their lives this week.
The next hymn, “Open My Eyes
That I May See” was followed by
the offering being received, the
offering hymn, the offertory prayer,
prayers for the world, silent prayers
and the singing of The Lord’s
Prayer. The last hymn, “O God Our
Help in Ages Past” was followed by
the commissioning and benediction.
Everyone was invited by the
Sunday School for coffee,
fellowship and birthday cake to
celebrate the January birthdays in
the congregation.
By Marilyn
Craig
Call
523-9318
From Marilyn’s Desk
NEWS
FROM BLYTH
Find a job or advertise
a job on the
Jobs In Huron section
of our website at
www.northhuron.on.ca
Class uses Google Docs to collaborate
By Phaedra Scott
The Grade 7 and 8 students have
been continuing their collaborative
learning project with students from
Wingham Public School. This week
they “met” online to co-create a
slide show presentation using
Google Presentations. This program
allows all group members to work
simultaneously on the same slides.
The subject that they worked on was
“Finding positive things out of
disappointment.”
Girls and boys volleyball has
started for the season. They are
practising hard and are sure to do
their best at the tournament.
The Grade 6/7 and 7/8 art classes
are studying the works of Vincent
Van Gogh and are working on
recreating their favourite piece.
Some class members were surprised
to find out that the song “Vincent”
sometimes called “Starry Starry
Night, written by Don McLean, was
written about Van Gogh.
Mr. Brown has the computer club
up and running again. Since the club
was a little crowded last year, he is
holding two clubs for separate
classes. Hope everyone had a great
holiday.
By Courtney Bachert
The Grade 2 students have been
learning that a New Year’s resolution
is a promise you make to yourself to
improve as a student and a person.
So they are making resolutions to
improve and to help others, based on
a story they’ve been reading in class
titled “Squirrels’ New Year’s
Resolutions”.
In Math the Grade 2 students have
been exploring how to add two-digit
numbers using a variety of non-
standard methods, such as using a
100 chart, 10-frames, sticks and
cubes, and open number lines. These
are important strategies to learn
before they learn the standard form
of addition. Using geoboards and
rubber bands to investigate the
properties of various regular and
irregular 2-D shapes, they are
learning to use proper math
vocabulary such as vertices,
symmetrical and polygon to name
and describe shapes.
Mrs. Zembashi’s French classes
have just finished their Christmas
projects and are starting up again
with their play practising. They are
practising their pronunciation and
performances so they can get
it “just right” for when they
present.
The Grade 3 students have been
practising numerous ways to add
double-digit and three-digit numbers
(number lines, number splitting,
expanded form) and now are
practising adding numbers with and
without regrouping in standard
form. In reading, they have just
started a Robert Munsch unit. They
will be reading independently and in
small groups to practise their
reading fluency and comprehension
of text.
The Grade 7 students are
beginning this month with 2D
measurement. This will include
reviewing area of a rectangle,
parallelogram and triangle. New, to
Grade 7, they will be finding the
area of a trapezoid and composite
shapes (shapes made up by more
than one regular shape) and solving
area problems that require
conversion between metric units of
area (millimetre, centimetre, metre
and kilometre).
By Hunter Dale
This first week back at school has
been very exciting for the
Kindergarten students. The Junior
students painted pictures of what
they did during their winter
holidays. They concentrated on the
sounds and correct formation of the
letters I, T, L, H, F, E and V.
They read the story, “Albert’s Old
Shoes” and talked about what it
feels like to be different from others,
and then completed visual
discrimination activities where the
students tried to be first to spot the
differences between objects.
Making and taking apart groups of
four, (composing and decomposing
when adding and subtracting buttons
from snowmen has been a part of the
mathematical work surrounding
their further understanding of the
number four.
The senior students have been
concentrating on the letter C – as it
has two sounds, a hard c/k sound
like the word “country” and a soft s
sound like in the word “city”. They
read the fable of the “City Mouse
and the Country Mouse” and made
many text-to-self connections with
their understanding of what cities
look like as opposed to how a
countryside appears.
Students visualized first and then
drew pictures of their own homes,
labelling them as either located in
the town or country. They read the
story “Chicken Little” and wrote
about their experiences making
mistakes. The class has begun to
assemble a math toolbox to help
them solve mathematical problems.
They drew pictures of their favourite
winter activities after making world-
to-self connections.
The first meeting of the Blyth
Swinging Seniors in 2012 is on
Wednesday, Jan. 25 with a potluck
lunch at noon with entertainment to
follow. Come out and enjoy the
fellowship.
The Blyth Community Kitchen is
Friday, Jan. 20 at Blyth United
Church from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
This week’s menu is beef vegetable
noodle soup, cheese biscuits and
secret chocolate cake. Please bring
containers with tight-fitting lids to
take home what you have made – $2
per participant. Children are
welcome. Contact Kathy Douglas at
519-523-4380.
Happy birthday to Bob
McClinchey who celebrates Jan. 19;
Joan Clark, Jan. 20; Lori Brooks,
Jan. 21; Mark Caldwell, Jan. 22; Ed
Daer, Wingham, Jan. 23; Mary
Rouw, Gerald Kerr and Jessica
Sparling, Jan. 24.
Happy anniversary to John and
Ann Nesbit who celebrate Jan. 22;
and to Jim and Erma Mason, their
60th, Jan. 19.
Profiting from the Scriptures
by J.C. Ryle
(6) For another thing, read all of the Bible -- and read it in an orderly way.I fear
there are many parts of the Word which some people never read at all. This is to say at
the least, a very presumptuous habit. “All Scripture is profitable.” (2 Timothy 3:16.) To
this habit may be traced that lack of well-proportioned views of truth,which is so
common in this day. Some people’s Bible-reading is a system of perpetual ‘dipping and
picking’. They do not seem to have an idea of regularly going through the whole book.
This also is a great mistake. No doubt in times of sickness and affliction, it is allowable
to search out seasonable portions. But with this exception, I believe it is by far the best
plan to begin the Old and New Testaments at the same time -- to read each straight
through to the end, and then begin again. This is a matter in which every one must be
persuaded in his own mind. I can only say it has been my own plan for nearly forty
years, and I have never seen cause to alter it.
(to be continued next week)
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
Swinging Seniors group to meet Jan. 25