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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-04-16, Page 11THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009. PAGE 11. The snow at the beginning of last week was a nasty surprise. But, surely we’ve seen the last of the white stuff and can begin to enjoy the spring. The celebration of Easter has everyone ready to see the rejuvenation of nature. Once the warmth comes there seems no end of events and things to do. Here are a few reminders to keep in mind as you plan your weeks ahead. Hullett Central Public School’s annual community fun night and auction takes place this Friday evening, April 17 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. This year’s theme is, A Hawaiian Luau. This is always a fun event for the kids and a great time of socializing for parents and community members. And you might even have the highest bid on one or more of the neat auction items or score a real treat at the bake table. The Happy Gang Seniors card party is also on Friday evening at the hall beginning at 8 p.m. Then on Sunday morning, April 19, the Londesborough Lions Club are serving up their Olde Tyme Country Breakfast at the Londesborough Community Hall between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday evening, beginning at 7 p.m., you can take in Londesborough United Church’s annual Songfest. This evening of music will feature the Londesborough men’s choir, the Durnin Brothers of the Auburn area, the Beard family, various members of the Snell family, and Audibly Awesome all for $10 payable at the door. Children 12 and under are free. A social time with refreshments will follow. Come spring and most folks seem keen to do some cleaning, be it sweeping out and re-organizing the garage or cleaning out closets. There are always items found that are no longer needed or wanted. Londesborough United wants these items for a yard sale! They will hold their sale on Saturday, May 16, the Saturday of the long weekend. Donations can be dropped off at the church during the week prior to the sale. It would be a good chance for others in the village to hold yard sales of their own if they wish. I’ve heard of a couple of other couples who intend to do just that. The more sales, the more people. Two young people from the village are being wed this June, Dawn Dolmage and Matt Smith. Dawn has been a Londesborough resident all her life and Matt came tothe village as a teenager. The coupleare still residents having purchasedthe Brock house. There will be a miscellaneouscommunity shower on May 7 at thechurch for Dawn. Ken Carnochan and Betty Hulleyrecently returned from a wintervacation in Yuma, Arizona. The couple left in mid-December because they had made arrangements for a bus tour to Pasadena, California to the Rose Parade. The trip included a New Year’s Eve tour to watch volunteers making the floats. Betty marvelled at the idea of each flower being placed in a water pik and then stuck onto the float. The floats, she noted, were huge and beautiful. The many bands were also a delight. Ken and Betty stopped in Tombstone, AZ, a mining town of100 years ago. There they witnesseda staged gunfight at the famous OKCorral and visited the BoothillCemetery.Their holiday was not withoutexcitement of another kind, however.Ken and Betty and another coupletook a university arranged farm tour.They learned that most of the lettuce for Canada and the USA is grown in the Yuma area. Crops are irrigated with water from the Colorado River. On one of the farms Ken’s truck was struck by a lettuce truck. All four persons got covered in glass and lettuce but stepped out without a scratch. The truck was written off by the insurance company and they were provided with a car for the remainder of their holiday. Another trip took them in to the mountains of Jerome and Sedona,AZ. These mountains are of red rockcapped with white rock. On cliffedges of the mountains, homes couldbe seen. They visited a Catholic Churchbuilt high up on a mountain.Parishioners can enjoy God’shandiwork as they worship for theside of the church overlooking the mountains is all glass windows. Just across the border from Arizona into California are huge sand dunes, 40 miles long and 15 miles wide. One hundred years ago a plank road was constructed over the dunes to complete a sea to sea highway. The couple had a busy and interesting winter. A June trip will find Ken and Betty heading back to Arizona to pick up the trailer they left in storage. At Londesborough United Church on Easter Sunday Rev. Pat Cook completed the observance of the Lenten Tennebrae. Symbols attached to the cross at the front of the sanctuary for the last six Sundays were a rainbow, a sandal, a picture of a water jug and basin, a small cross, a sheaf of wheat and a palm branch. To each of these symbols Rev. Cook fastened flowers to signal new life in Christ. A ring of flowers was also hung on the cross. The senior choir processed into the sanctuary and began the service with the anthem, He Is Risen. Later in the service they sang Allelu. Flowers in the sanctuary that morning were memorial tributes placed by Tom and Marjorie Duizer, John and Jane Hoggart, Ed and Mary Salverda, Bob and Pat Cook, Bruce and Harriett Shillinglaw and Don and Joan Goodall. During the children’s time at the front, they heard the story of Easter in song in which the adults participated titled, An Easter Alleluia. The morning’s responsive psalm was Psalm 118. The gospel passage, John 20: 1-18, was read by Brenda Radford. It was the account of Mary Magdalene and two disciples finding an empty tomb on Easter morning. Rev. Cook’s Easter message was titled, Go Tell. She acknowledged Christians come to worship on Easter Sunday to celebrate Alleluia. They come with a need to ponder the central theme of their faith. Mary and the disciples went to the tomb to find Christ was resurrected. Through that resurrection came a new creation. It is a miracle of faith to have Christ’s spirit/presence everywhere as a result of that empty tomb. Jesus defeated the powers of death. Just as great joy filled Mary’s heart to see the risen Christ, Easter fills the Christian world with joy, said Rev. Pat. Christ left His old life and established a new pattern to faith. Christians are encouraged to give up the old patterns and find new ways to tell others of their faith. The United Church Women will hold their April meeting on Monday, April 20 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Award-winning fibre artist, Patti Armstrong of Zurich, will be showing and talking about rugs hooked with nylons. Next weekend the youth groups will be taking part in a 30-hour famine at the church. 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