The Citizen, 2012-05-17, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012. PAGE 3.
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• Hanging Baskets • Perennials
• Flowering & Evergreen Shrubs • Trees
• New Planter Pots Available
• Bark Mulch
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Sunday - Closed
Open Victoria Day 9-6
New varieties
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May 21
The Citizen
offices will be closed on
MONDAY, MAY 21
for
The deadline for the
May 24 paper will be
Friday, May 18
2 pm in Brussels
and
4 pm in Blyth
Super spaghetti supper
Deb Stryker, left, served up a perfect pasta plate for
Margaret Mason during the Blyth Legion’s spaghetti
supper dinner on May 12. (Jim Brown photo)
Weather moves gym outside
Africans face strife, disease
Greeting worshippers at Blyth
United Church on Mother’s Day,
Sunday, May 13 were members of
the Sunday school. Ushering were
Brenda Brooks, Brent Brooks,
Nicole Kerr and Gary Trudeau.
Floyd Herman was music director
and Fred Hakkers ran the power
point. Makayla Whitson lit the
candles at the front of the church.
Rev. Gary Clark welcomed
everyone to church on this beautiful
Mother’s Day. He drew everyone’s
attention to the announcements for
the coming week. The call toworship “Come All You People” wassung followed by the prayer ofapproach. The children were askedto come to the front for their story
time. Rev. Clark showed the children
of the picture on the front of the
bulletin. It was a mother and child
lying in bed reading a book of Bible
stories. He told the children that they
should thank their mothers,
grandmothers and maybe their aunts,
everyone who had helped to mother
them. He told them that in Africa itwas very dangerous for the womento have a baby. The United Churchhas sponsored midwives to help inthe birth of the babies and to take
care of their health.
Clark asked the children how they
could say thank you to their moms.
Some answers were to give them
hugs, another was to give them a hug
and a kiss. Rev. Clark also told them
another way was to pray to God and
By Marilyn
Craig
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From Marilyn’s Desk
A woman who had lived a sinful life
(J.C. Ryle, “Coming Events and Present Duties”)
“When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating
at the Pharisee’s house; she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood behind
Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears. Then she wiped them
with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.” Luke 7:37-38
We can never be too well acquainted with our own sinfulness and vileness. The spring
of all humility, thankfulness, grateful love to Christ, and close walk with God--is real,
thorough, Scriptural knowledge of the wickedness of our own hearts. The soul that loves
much--is the soul that feels its sin-debt is great, and that much has been forgiven.
“Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven--for she loved much. But he
who has been forgiven little loves little.” Luke 7:47
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
What a beautiful weekend we have
had. We could not have asked for a
better Mother’s Day. The sun shining,
the weather is perfect just like all
moms. The weather forecast looks
like a very good one for the holiday
weekend coming up. There should be
a lot of outside work getting done if
not already finished.
If you have weekend guests
coming, let me know what was going
on in your family.
Happy birthday to Ian Caldwell
who celebrates May 19 and Candice
Abell-Rinn, May 22.
Congratulations to The Citizen on
moving to its new office at 413 Queen
Street.
Warmth leads to work
Continued on page 19
By Phaedra Scott
Finally! Gym class outside.
Students have been training hard for
the upcoming track and field day
and high jump and running seem to
be the events of choice thanks to the
warm weather. In the Grade 7/8
class the new unit in science is water
and systems and students are
hopeful as they just had their science
test finishing up the last unit on
fluids. Their topic of conversation in
both Grade 7 and 8 math is still
adding and subtracting fractions and
are seeming to understand it quite
well.
In the Grade 3/4 classroom, each
student has picked a staff member of
the school and a job from the
medieval time for social studies.
Students are writing about “If Ms
Clark was a Queen” or whichever
staff member and job they picked.
They are then using the staff
members faces and creating an outfit
for them. Ms Clark is looking
forward to seeing Mr. Gole, Gagne
and Brown in their tights.
Ms Dale has started a compost in
science. She has also tied science
and language together and the
students are writing informational
reports about topics such as soil and
composting. Lots of writing is going
on in Grade 3/4.
Grade 4 math is motoring along in
fractions. By the end of the next
week, we’ll be able to tell you if
we’d rather have 1/6 or 3/4 of sweet
treats. We’ve loved how convenient
food is for teaching fractions.
By Courtney Bachert
Everyone is glad the warm
weather is finally here. Shorts, t-
shirts, flipflops and sunglasses are
appearing at last. Grade 2 students
made Mother’s Day cards. In
reading, they are working on reading
for the main idea or for good
information. In writing, they are
writing animal reports and in math
they are learning to solve and write
“Part, Part, Whole” addition and
subtraction word problems. In
French, the 4/5 students are using
some conventions of oral language
to speak in rehearsed contexts. Right
now they are learning the play “Le
Chat Et Le Lune”. In Grade 6/7 and
Grade 7/8 French, they are writing
in different forms and using French
vocabulary as they create postcards
and brochures about countries they
are researching. In health and
physical education, Grade 1 students
are learning and practising rolling
and jumping. The Grade 2 students
are learning and practising different
types of jumping including off of
benches and from standing
positions. In the Grade 6/7 health
class, they are learning about
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