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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2010-08-12, Page 9Ah, summer! The time for vacations, visiting and youth exchanges. The A9 District of Canada’s Lions Clubs extends south from the Bruce Peninsula to southern Huron County and west from Lake Huron into Perth County. This district has the largest incoming camp of foreign exchange students in Ontario. This year the area welcomed 19 young people, 11 girls and eight boys from around the world. The district also sponsors outgoing exchanges. Londesborough’s immediate area welcomed three young women. This is the 19th year that Don and Kittie MacGregor have had exchange students. This year they hosted Phoebe Holsworthy and Leah Tranmer. The Don Allen family hosted for the first time this summer. Visiting with them was Camilla Hansen. Don and Catherine had considered hosting for some time and this year, with the encouragement of their three daughters, decided the time was right. Obviously the MacGregors have been enjoying this experience. The Allens also claim to have enjoyed the experience and would not hesitate to host again if circumstances work out. Phoebe lives in Lymington, England which she explained is on the country’s south coast near Southampton and across from the Isle of Wight. At 18, she finished high school and is headed to Falmouth in Cornwall to study Creative Events Management. She hopes eventually to work in the personnel/media department of a large company. Phoebe has a twin sister and older siblings, a sister and brother, who are also twins. Her father operates a transportation company. One of company’s jobs is moving masts for ships. Her mother also works there. Leah, also 18, who hails from Northern Ireland, is the younger sister of Zoe, who stayed with the MacGregors in 2004. Having finished her high schooling Leah is headed for Leicester in England to study politics and journalism. She would like to be a reporter. Leah’s father is in projectmanagement for the Northern IrelandWater Board.Camilla lives in a village on thesouthern island of Lolland inDenmark. Denmark is an islandcountry with 5.5 million inhabitants [as many as live in the GTA]. Camilla turns 18 on October 31. She will enter her last year of our equivalent high school education in the fall. Eventually she plans to take a three- and-a-half-year midwifery course in Copenhagen. Camilla is the middle of three children. Her father operates a John Deere dealership and her mother is an elementary school teacher. Camilla was grateful to have been suggested by someone to the Lions Club in her area of Denmark as a candidate for exchange. Her sponsoring group chose to send her to Canada. The youth arrived in Canada on July 3 and were introduced to their host families in Orangeville. The Orangeville Lions Club also ferried the youth back to the Toronto Airport on July 31. One of the purposes of an exchange is to have the youth experience life as part of a regular family. Kittie and various members of the MacGregor’s extended family took Leah and Phoebe to neighbourhood events, a silver wedding anniversary, a wedding shower (a first for them), for a ride in Don’s truck and to the theatre in Grand Bend with the Londesborough UCW. Camilla attended a family reunion, rode on Emily’s horse and went to work with Emily - to the farm to milk cows and to the stables to tend horses. All three girls enjoyed more than one chance to shop. That is not to say, Don Allen noted, that each family didn’t do extra things during the visit that were good for the host families as well. Their family spent a week at a rented cottage in Grand Bend, went canoeing at the Pinery, visited the Goderich Gaol and museum, Benmiller Falls and attended a Blue Jays game. Camilla, who plays handball and badminton in Denmark and also dances and swims, played baseball with the Londesborough Co- ed ball team. The Allens savoured frikadeller, the Danish meatballs Camilla made for them. Liz MacGregor, who lives in Toronto, toured Phoebe and Leah to the Eaton Centre, the Science Centre and various locations there. Phoebe and Leah were keen to see the vampire movie,Eclipse. They have developeda liking for the sweets at Dairy Queenand Tim Hortons and also wereintroduced to peanut butter and jamsandwiches and meat loaf.Another purpose of the exchanges isto give the youth an opportunity to meet other youth from around the world. So for one week of the month that they are in Canada, all exchange youth in the A9 District spend a week at the Charlie Shaw Camp. The camp is held at the Oliphant Education Centre. Four chaperones accompany the youth with activities associated with the camp, Don and Kittie and Gary and Leslie Wood of Sauble Beach. During that week the whole camp takes a tour which includes stops in Toronto, at the guide dog school in Oakville, Stoney Creek and Niagara Falls. In Toronto the group visited the CN Tower, Hockey Hall of Fame, Art Gallery and took a Hippo Bus Tour. In Niagara they rode the Maid of the Mist, went behind the falls and stayed to see the fireworks after dark. At the Battlefield Museum in Stoney Creek the visitors learned much about the history of Canada. Back at the camp, everybody spent a day at Sauble Beach, tackled the obstacle course at the Meaford Army Camp, visited the Tobermory grotto, had campfires and hosted an international night for host parents and Lions Clubs in the area. But most of all the exchange students learned much about each other and their home countries. At some point during the camp week each student is required to give at least a 15-minute presentation about their home country. Camilla remarked that the camp week was very busy and she wished they could have had more free time together. During the month there was a chance for the youth to just hang out together during a day at Canada’s Wonderland and at the farewell barbecue at Formosa on July 29. All three girls mentioned how friendly and welcoming Canadians were. They recognize that they are seeing only a small part of our country but each of them remarked on the variety of landscape in Ontario, the openness and the long, straight roads. Leah, from Ireland, noted that Canadians are less strict about locking up houses and cars; and that police presence is less obvious. Something I learned from Leah that I found interesting was that a stamp costs essentially the same in each country. However our 13 per cent taxis added onto the cost whereas the 20per cent Irish tax is built into the cost.She didn’t think the Irish wouldappreciate adding another fifth to thecost of all their purchases. Also maildrivers, even those in rural areas, put the mail through a slot in the home’s door, no boxes at the end of the laneway. ETCETERA Bev Riley called to say that there are still a few spots left for golfing this Saturday. Golfing is at Bill Lobb’s course and dinner back at Horbanuik’s. This is the August event for the church’s 150th anniversary celebration. Call her for more information. MUNICIPAL ELECTION 2010 NOTICE of NOMINATION for OFFICE Nominations will be received for the following offices of: Municipal Positions: 1.Mayor (One (1) elected at Large) 2. Six (6) Councillors (Three (3) elected from each Ward) Three (3) to be elected from the Morris Ward, the former Township of Morris Three (3) to be elected from the Turnberry Ward, the former Township of Turnberry Nominations may be made by completing and filing in the office of the Clerk of the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry located at 41342 Morris Road, R.R. 4, Brussels, Ontario, nominations in the prescribed form including: ✦A signed consent to the nominations ✦A declaration of qualification by the candidate ✦A $200.00 filing fee for the Head of Council and $100.00 filing fee for all other offices (cash, money order or certified cheque) ✦Identification of the candidate School Board Positions shared with Other Municipalities: 3. One (1) member of the Avon Maitland District School Board representing the Township of North Huron, Township of Howick and the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry. Nomination papers are to be filed with the Clerk of Township of North Huron. 4. One (1) member of the Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board representing the Town of Goderich, Township of Howick, and the Wards of: Clinton, Colborne, Hullett, Turnberry, Wingham, Morris, Blyth, East Wawanosh, West Wawanosh, Ashfield and Goderich. Nomination papers are to be filed with the Clerk of the Town of Goderich. 5. One (1) Trustee representing the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, County of Wellington, County of Middlesex, County of Perth and County of Huron on the French-Language Public School Board. Nomination papers are to be filed with the Clerk of the City of London. 6. One (1) Trustee representing the Counties of Lambton, Huron and Bruce on the French Language Separate District School Board. Nominations papers are to be filed with the Clerk of the City of Sarnia. Terms of Office: December 1, 2010 to November 30, 2014. To submit a Nomination Paper: A nomination paper must be signed by the candidate and may be filed: • in person or • by an agent on a day in the year between January 4th and September 9th, 2010, at a time when the Clerk’s office is open or on Friday, September 10th, 2010 between the hours of 9 am and 2 pm. A nomination must be certified by the Clerk before such person becomes a certified candidate for the office to which she or he is nominated. Nomination may be withdrawn up until 2:00 pm Friday, September 10th, 2010. At that time if only sufficient nomination for office have been certified, those candidates will be declared elected. In the event there are an insufficient number of candidates to fill all positions available, nominations will be reopened for the vacant positions only, on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010, between the hours of 9 am and 2 pm and such additional nominations, if required, may be filed in the office of the Clerk. Electors are hereby given notice that if a greater number of candidates are certified than are required to fill the said offices, an Election will be held. Voting will be by ‘Vote by Mail’and Voting Date will be Monday, October 25, 2010. Dated this 16th day of July, 2010. Nancy Michie Administrator Clerk-Treasurer Municipality of Morris-Turnberry Notice is hereby given to the Municipal Electors of the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry NEWS FROM LONDESBORO Ruth Long conducted the morning service at Londesborough United Church on Sunday, Aug.1. Gail Lear played the piano for the service. Although there were no children present Ruth remarked that the children in each of the adults gathered might find some truth in the story she had prepared. She had brought along a package of spaghetti and a bottle of oil. Her story was the experience she had cooking her first pot of spaghetti at age nine. Of course she got distracted and the pot boiled over. Her mother came to the rescue with a tablespoon of oil. As Ruth’s mother commented, the Bible tells all of us to put oil on troubled waters. When we help someone in need, someone who has concerns and is feeling blue, we are putting oil on their troubles and calming the situation. Helping someone in need was the theme for the message. Psalm 25 was the responsive psalm. The supporting New Testament scripture passage was Luke 10: 25-37, the story of the Good Samaritan. Ruth remarked that the story of the Good Samaritan is familiar to Christians as well as non-Christians for it is a story of morals and living in community. The “what’s mine is yours, I’ll share” attitude is what God wants all of us to have. He wants us to share with the world the care and compassion He gives us. Compassion and concern are the fabric of a community. Good Samaritan is recounted THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2010. PAGE 9. By BRENDARADFORD Call 523-4296 PEOPLE AROUND LONDESBOROExchange students board in Londesboro