HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-02-16, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012. PAGE 3. Fellowship hosting movie night
Eleventh hour donations
The United Way of Perth-Huron’s Caravan of Hope tour
made stops in both Wingham and Blyth on Feb. 9. Through
focused fundraising the group turned what was a $100,000
gap between their expected and actual fundraising for the
year into a $33,158 deficit. Shown are Blyth Festival Artistic
Director Eric Coates, left, and General Manager Deb
Sholdice, right, making their donations to United Way
Campaign Manager Lesley Spencer-Cooper, centre, during
the Blyth stop at the Memorial Hall. (Denny Scott photo)
Sympathy is extended to Steve and
Ron Howson and Sandra DeCorte
and families in the death of their
grandmother Ruth Newcombe who
passed away this past week.
Happy 58th wedding anniversary
to Fred and Hanny Meier who
celebrated on Feb. 13.
A belated happy birthday to Nan
Gore who celebrated Feb. 11. Happy
birthday to Evelyn Popp and George
Hubbard who celebrate Feb. 16;
Christina Hoba of Clinton, Feb. 19;
Sharon Jackson, Robbie Lawrie of
Bayfield, Joan Caldwell and Shirley
Giilck, Feb. 22; and Paul Josling,
Feb. 24.
Many relatives, friends andneighbours gathered at the home ofJohn and Ann Nesbit on Saturday,Feb. 11 to help them celebrate 40years of marriage. There was a lot of
reminiscing of years gone by.
Everyone enjoyed the fellowship
and of course the food.
Blyth Swinging Seniors are
meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at
noon with a potluck lunch and
entertainment to follow. Everyone is
welcome.
The Blyth Community Kitchen is
Friday, Feb. 17 at Blyth United
Church, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Come
and cook or just watch. Cost is $2.
Bring a container to take home a full
meal.
Toonie Tuesday at Trinity
Anglican Church on Feb. 21 from
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Everyone is
welcome. Menu is pancakes,
sausage, salad and dessert.
Faith In Song will celebrate 10
years on Friday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. in
the Blyth Christian Reformed
Church, sponsored by the ABC
Women’s Ministry.
Living Water Christian Fellowshipwill be hosting the movieCourageousat Blyth Memorial Hallon March 2. Show begins at 8:15p.m. Free admission.
There were seven-and-a-half
tables in play at the Monday night
euchre, Feb. 6. Winners were: high
lady, Berva Cartwright, 86; high
man, Doug Cartwright, 75; lone
hands, Betty Archambault and Jewel
Plunkett, four; low lady, Pat
Hunking, 49; low man, Darrell
Wood, 49; door prize, Doris
McClinchey and Jean Nethery; share
the wealth, Betty Archambault,
Helen Lee and Joann MacDonald.
The next euchre will be Monday,
Feb. 20 at 1:30 p.m. in the Legion
Hall.
By Marilyn
Craig
Call
523-9318
From Marilyn’s Desk
NEWS
FROM BLYTH
Love a thing to give away
Greeting worshippers at Blyth
United Church on Sunday, Feb. 12
were Barb and Doug Howson.
Ushering were Hope Button, Laurie
Sparling and Rob Mason. Floyd
Herman was music director.
Rev.Gary Clark welcomed
everyone to church and drew
everyone’s attention to the
announcements in the bulletin with
special mention that the annual
meeting is on Feb. 19 after church.
There will be a lunch prepared
before the meeting. The ladies are
making pies again this month and
March 7 will be the last until the end
of April.
The call to worship, “Come All
You People”was sung followed by
the prayer of approach. The children
were asked to come to the front for
their story time. Rev. Clark gave
each child a squirt of hand sanitizer
and told them to wash their hands
with it. He told them he would
explain later. He asked what
Valentine’s Day meant to them.
Some answers were valentines,
candy and flowers.
Rev. Clark gave each child a
chocolate candy to give to someone
they did not know in the
congregation. He explained to them
that love is like the candy to give
away. Love is not like the bag of
candy, Love never goes empty.
Rev. Clark then gave each child a
chocolate candy and they went
down to Sunday school for their
time of fellowship. The choir sang
two hymns, “See Ye First” and
“Jesus is the Answer.” They sang
them separately and then together.
Rev. Clark’s message to the adults
was “Valentines, Can’t Buy Love.”
In the scriptures Jesus leaves
Simon’s house and goes to a lonely
WINGHAM & DISTRICT
HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
“Excellence in Rural Health Care”
Phone: 519-357-3210 Fax: 519-357-2931 Website: www.lwha.ca
NEED A DOCTOR?
Welcome to Dr. Stephen Vander Klippe! Dr. Vander Klippe has been a welcome addition in the
Wingham Hospital Emerg department. Dr. Vander Klippe is building his roster of patients who
he will begin seeing Feb. 15th in the Wingham Medical Clinic. To become a patient of Dr.
Vander Klippe’s please contact Health Care Connect at 1.800.445.1822 or www.ontario.ca/
healthcareconnect
ROCKS FOR DOCS
The Wingham Recruitment Committee will be hosting a Curling Bonspiel fundraiser on
Saturday February 25th at the Wingham Curling Club. Please contact John Smuck 519-357-
2058 or Jan McKague-Weishar 519-357-3711 Ext 5294 to enter a team. For those who are not
curling, tickets are available for the roast beef dinner.
HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE VOLUNTEER TRAINING
For persons wishing to learn more about hospice visiting, 30 hours of training is being offered
beginning Thursday, March 22 – May 17. Location: Wingham Hospital Pre-Registration:
Huron Hospice – 517-357-2720 or 519-527-0655
The Citizen
The deadline for the
February 23 paper
will be
Friday,
February 17
2 pm in Brussels
and
4 pm in Blyth
offices will be closed on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
for
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Grade 8 tours F.E. Madill
By Phaedra Scott
This week, Grade 8 students took
a tour of F.E. Madill Secondary
School and learned about all of the
possible Grade 9 programs
including tech rotation and the arts
program.
The Blyth Public School Book
Fair started Monday, Feb. 13 and
runs through until Thursday, Feb.
16. Each student is given a chance to
win $25 worth of books for their
classroom library and $25 worth of
books for themselves.
The school also received two new
smartboards that are designed for
primary students for Mr. Gole’s
class and Kindergarten. A
smartboard uses a projector and a
touch-screen whiteboard that allows
students to be fully involved in
different interactive activities.
By Courtney Bachert
Everyone was excited for
Valentine’s Day on Tuesday.
Members of Student Council were
selling carnations for $2 each on
Wednesday and Thursday. The
Grade 4/5 students are building
bridges to study forces. They will be
breaking their bridges later next
week to test out the strength of their
construction.
They also learned about two
strategies for multiplication – open
array and partial product
multiplication. For the Grade 2
science class students have been
investigating the properties of
familiar liquids such as maple syrup,
cooking oil, dish soap, juices, water,
milk and tomato juice. They have
been describing them using science
terms such as Viscosity (how they
flow or pour), Transparency (how
well you can see through it),
Absorbancy (how long it takes to
soak into a paper towel) with
Density to be studied next.
In math, they are taking some of
the strategies they learned in
addition and applying them to
subtraction, such as near numbers,
using doubles and using addition.
Let me try to draw a picture of Biblical holiness
(J.C. Ryle, “Holiness, Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”)
“Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord!”Hebrews 12:14
Are we holy? Shall we see the Lord?
In this hurrying, bustling world -- let us stand still for a few minutes and consider the
matter of holiness. It is a solemn thing to hear the Word of God saying, “Without
holiness, no man shall see the Lord!”
A man may go great lengths in religion--and yet never reach true holiness.
What is true practical holiness?
It is not knowledge--Balaam had that. It is not great profession--Judas Iscariot had that.
It is not doing many things--Herod had that. It is not zeal for certain matters in religion-
-Jehu had that. It is not morality and outward respectability of conduct--the rich young
ruler had that. It is not taking pleasure in hearing preachers--the Jews in Ezekiel’s time
had that. It is not keeping company with godly people--Joab and Gehazi and Demas had
that.
Yet none of these were holy people! These things alone, are not holiness. A man may
have any one of them--and yet never see the Lord!
Let me try to draw a picture of Biblical holiness, that we may see it clearly before the
eyes of our minds.
1. Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind
described in Scripture.
(to be continued next week)
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
The Blyth Legion Branch would
like to welcome four new members,
Bruce Brown, Joanne Hickey,
Xavier O’Krafka and Ryan Lee who
were inducted over the past two
months.
Motions that were passed by
members present benefitted the
March of Dimes, $50; Crime
Stoppers, $50; Lung Association,
$50 and District “C” Track and
Field, $100.
The members voted to support the
North Huron Family Day with a
matching donation of $50 with the
Legion Ladies Auxiliary.
Three teams from the Blyth
Branch will advance to district
euchre finals in Seaforth on March
3 and two teams will be travelling to
Woodbridge for provincial cribbage
finals.
John Verway will advance to
provincial darts in the singles
division.
Upcoming events in the work of
the Legion include the monthly
community breakfast on Feb. 26.
The next Legion meeting will be
held on March 6.
Legion ranks
grown by four