HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-11-08, Page 10PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012.
Masons hold ladies night
Saturday collision wakes Londesborough residents
Lucky drivers
While the damage was extensive, this mid-morning collision in Londesborough on Saturday
thankfully resulted in no serious injuries. The truck was travelling northbound when the
collision with a car travelling westbound occurred. Emergency personnel were on scene well
into Saturday afternoon. (Keith Roulston photo)
The Hullett Masonic Lodge #568
held its annual Ladies Night at the
Londesborough Community Hall on
Friday, Oct. 26. Ladies of the
Londesborough UCW catered a beef
dinner for the event. The group had
presentations by two area folk on
behalf of charitable organizations.
Meaghan (Lee) Gahan gave an
outline of the trip to South Africa
she and her husband, Joseph are
leaving on Nov. 8. Joe is a stone and
bricklayer who emigrated to Canada
five years ago. He was a member of
the Irish Stone Mason Union in his
native Ireland. This is the 10th
anniversary of the Niall Melton
Township Trust, set up to build
homes in poor countries. This is the
first time Canadians have been
invited to join the build. The union
and the trust deal with the
paperwork, politics, etc. that goes
along with this type of enterprise.
The couple is part of a team
headed to South Africa. Each
participant must raise $12,000 for
the trip to cover the cost of the trip
plus materials for the work.
Meaghan showed a short video
outlining the work the trust does.
The homes they build will replace
poor shanties. The new single family
dwellings will not be elaborate by
our standards but will have hydro
and hot water. They will also have
an eavestrough collection system for
water and solar panels.
The Masons and Meaghan’s
grandmother, Helen Lee, helped
with monies for the build by raffling
a quilt, won by Dr. Charlie Mustard
of Tweed, and an afghan, won by
Bev Riley of Londesborough.
The Gahans will work the build
for a week and they plan to work in
an orphanage for a time. Grandma
Lee and her friend, Betty Hulley,
have spent many hours knitting
small dolls for the couple to
distribute to children.
Gary Jewitt was a guest that
evening as well to talk about
“Sleeping Children Around the
World,” an organization with which
he has been associated since he
taught at Huron Centennial School
in the mid 1990s. This charitable
organization provides bed kits for
children in impoverished countries.
Begun by Murray Dryden of
Toronto the work is funded by his
legacy. Again the background work
is handled by the organization and
clubs such as Rotary Clubs in the
affected countries are enlisted to
help as well. Once a year the Royal
York Hotel in Toronto hosts a
breakfast which raises in excess of
$100,000 for the legacy.
All items in the bed kits are
purchased and collected in the
countries where the children are to
receive them. In this way the
children are helped and so, too, is
the economy. A donation of $35
covers the cost of a kit. Groups of
volunteers, six to a team, travel to
locations to help with the
distribution. Gary has been present
for distributions in Thailand, India,
Tanzania and most recently, Sierra
Leone. For more information one
can check the website:
www.scaw.org.
The interesting thing to note about
both the charities presented that
evening is that they are quietly going
about their work without
government help or interference and
all monies donated are for the work.
One can be sure their donations are
not used for salaries, transportation
costs, etc. And the help offered is
appropriate for the conditions in the
particular countries.
By Rachel Robinson
This past week at St. Anne’s
Catholic Secondary School began
with a spooky start with Halloween
Wednesday on Oct. 31. Many
students, especially those who are a
part of the “Me to We” group,
participated once again in the
Halloween for Hunger food
drive, where instead of “trick or
treating” for candy on Halloween
night, canned goods were
collected and donated to local
food banks.
On the evening of Tuesday, Nov.
6, St. Anne’s held an open house for
prospective students of Grades 6, 7
and 8 from local elementary
schools. Local families had an
opportunity to tour the school, meet
and greet with present students and
staff members, learn more about the
school and the special facilities it
has to offer, as well as the variety of
extra-curricular teams and clubs
Likely driver distraction caused a
nasty accident at the main
intersection of the village at about
10:45 a.m. Saturday morning. A
tractor trailer northbound on
London Road was unable to avoid
contact with car headed west
through the intersection. It was
fortunate the trailer was empty or the
driver from Flynn Farms may easily
have hit the house on the corner.
Luckily no one was seriously injured
in the crash. However, both
vehicles were badly damaged.
Emergency personnel were
on scene into the afternoon.
I had a teacher in high school who
made it clear that “better never than
late” for his classes. However, it is a
wonderful thing that one of
our village folk was late for his date.
In the recent Frankenstorm Sandy
that barreled up the east coast last
week the ship The Bounty
went down in heavy seas. It was on
its way to Florida when the stormhit.The Bounty was replicated for the
movie Mutiny on the Bounty some
decades ago and was more recently
used for Pirate of the Caribbean.
When not being used for filming the
tall ship was on display for tours and
for training. Many of you will know
that Sam Dougherty has been a part
of the ship’s crew many times. He
was to make his last trip aboard on
the sail to Florida. However he was
held by travel and by the time he
reached port the ship had started
south.
Congratulations and best wishes
are sent out to Phyllis Szusz by the
community as she celebrated her
75th birthday on Nov. 4.
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