HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-06-04, Page 7THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2009. PAGE 7.
The month of June has started and
hopefully the weather will be better,
but it is not starting that way. The
weather the past week was many
things. It is hard to know what to put
on some days.
The flowers are blooming, crops
are growing and school is almost
over. We are in to the last few weeks
of the school year and the kids are
excited. There are many extra special
events at school, school trips, many
are playing sports and most are just
happy about the expected nice
weather and the approaching summer
holidays.
Walton Ball Park had its first night
of baseball basics with 10 children
coming out for fun. They played a
little catch, then everyone had a turn
at bat. The kids then all batted and
had to run all the bases and score
home with the coaches trying to tag
them out. The kids then all enjoyed
popsicles. They had a great time.
Coaches Ron Stevenson and Blaine
Marks expect they will see more
children next week and I think they
will. Remember, kids ages six to 12
are welcome to come out Monday at
7 p.m. for baseball basics and fun.
Hope-you-feel-better wishes go out
to Murray Lowe. He was under the
weather last week and was off work
for a few days.
The birthday girls of Brussels
gathered on Wednesday to celebrate
the May birthdays. The birthday girls
included Rene Richmond, Mary
Bryans, Marie McCutcheon and
Isabel Wheeler. The ladies enjoyed a
turkey dinner at J.R.’s.
Returning from a fantastic 10-day
trip to England are Ross and Cora
Alcock. They were travelmates with
friends Dave and Ruth Kellam from
Stratford. They stayed at a cottage in
Emsworth for a week and visited and
toured many places in southern
England. They rented a van so they
could travel on their own and just had
to keep saying “keep left” to the
driver Dave, and soon got used to the
many round-a-bouts.
They visited Beachy Head, where
it was very windy. The cliffs are over
500 ft. and overlook the English
Channel.
They watched a polo game and
watched children taking sailing
lessons. They toured Stonehenge,
which are prehistoric huge stoneserected by ancient people whomapped the course of the sun andmoon to build the monument.Travelling to Portsmouth, Ross andDave toured two old ships and took aboat tour of the harbour which wasvery interesting. Cora and Ruth didthe ladies’ thing and checked out the
mall. The group toured a couple of
cathedrals, castles and beautiful
English gardens which were in full
bloom.
The Kellams then went to meet
friends and to visit France as well as
the cousins in Northern England. The
Alcocks travelled to Welling, which
is near London and visited a few days
with Sam and MaryJo Ovington,
cousins of Clarence and Jane White.
Welling is a lovely English town with
many shops and lots of restaurants.
They walked to the train station in
Welling and headed for London for a
day with the Ovingtons and their
daughter Sara, who met them in
London. They were told to wear good
walking shoes and they soon found
out why very quickly. They walked
miles enjoying the many beautiful
sites in London including
Buckingham Palace, Parliament
Buildings, Big Ben, the London Eye,
statues and old well-restored
buildings. It is quite a busy city with
their red buses, cars and more cars
and lots of people.
On one of their last days, they went
for a drive with Sam and MaryJo
along part of the Thames River. They
went for a walking tour and visited
the Greenwich Time Clock and and
surrounding area. They planned a
boat tour but the weather was quite
cool so decided not to.
Their trip was very interesting,
enjoyable and unforgettable. They
noticed as soon as they returned
home how beautiful our part of the
world is and how our country roads
are peaceful and relaxing to drive on.
I see that Neil Turnbull is home
from Calgary to check up on Ontario
family and interests. He and his
brother Keith enjoyed Friday night
supper at the Legion, then I ran into
him at the Walton Inn on Monday.
Nice to see you again Neil.
Mary Procter stepped back in time
on the weekend. She attended the
reunion of the graduating nurses
classes from Guelph General
Hospital. The party was held at the
Holiday Inn, Guelph and was
attended by around 170 folks.
Mary’s own class graduated 59
years ago and there were six from her
class in attendance. The noon
luncheon was delicious and the guest
speaker for the afternoon very
enjoyable. Mary reports having a
wonderful day.
Jean Bewley has returned from her
yearly girls’ week away with herdaughters. Jean and her daughterMary Baker, from near Bolton, flewto Alberta to visit with daughterBrenda Raven and family in Airdrieand Calgary. They spent the first dayaway having a special day with Jean’sgreat-granddaughter Bree, who is justaround a year old. Then the trio were
off to the Okanogan Valley and the
beautiful scenery and weather. The
temperature in the valley was
between 25° and 27°. Flowers were
blooming, trees past budding and into
growing fruits.
They saw all kinds of fruit trees
and toured a couple of wineries while
there. They went to the Mission Hills
Winery, the biggest winery of the
area and were amazed at the
wonderful architecture and design of
the high towers and mission bells.
They stayed in the area for four days
and three nights.
Heading back, they went to Banff,
where they met Brenda’s husband
Dan. He is a guide, with a scenic
tours group.
Returning to Airdrie, they
celebrated Brenda’s son Scott’s
birthday with all the family.
They had a great trip with only five
minutes of rain the entire week away.
Jim and Shirley Bowman had a
nice weekend away. They attended
the wedding of Erin Elston, daughter
of Murray and Trudy Elston, in
London. What made it a very special
get-together was the attendance of
Jim’s sisters. Louise came from
Edmonton, Mary from Petrolia and
Doris from London. They were at the
Lamplighter Inn and stayed there and
enjoyed the time together.
Yvonne and Leslie Knight are glad
to have son Rick home from a
business trip. The engineering,
planning and consulting firm where
he works is carrying out a master
engineering and planning study for
the cities of Mecca and Medina.
These two cities are the two holiest
cities in the Muslim world and
annually have a large influx of up to
three million pilgrims during the
months of Ramadon and Haji. Rick
was part of the engineering team
determining what infrastructure
improvements would be required to
service growth in both the resident
population, as well as increasing the
numbers of pilgrims to between five
to 10 million people during the Haji
celebration.
Rick enjoyed his three and a half
weeks working and site seeing there,
but he will never complain about
Canadian drivers again. The taxis
drove on the road, median or
sidewalk, etc. to get him to meetings.
Crazy and scary.
The men of the Knight family
joined together on Saturday for their
annual men’s day. They gathered atthe home of Steve Knight and the 19brothers and cousins went golfing atSmith’s Riveredge golf course. Theyhad a good day and enjoyed abarbecue back at Steve’s followingthe golf.Some Walton Women’s Institutemembers attended the Huron Perth
District annual meeting at the
Listowel Agricultural building. They
had meetings, lunch and guest
speakers to fill the day.
Attending from Walton were Leona
McDonald, Marjory Humphries,
Brenda Perrie, Ruth Axtmann and
Marion Godkin.
Celebrating birthdays are Geri-Lee
Godkin, Adam Forbes, Rob
Shortreed, Scott Henderson, Neil
McGavin, Kyle Pryce, Patricia
Andrades, Bill Humphries and Ernie
Lewington.
Greeting members and guests of
Duff’s United Church were Howard
and Audrey Hackwell.
The lay leader for the service was
Bruce Whitmore. Patty Banks also
assisted with the service.
The Sunday school seals and
certificates were presented, then the
children were invited downstairs for
fun and snacks.
Following the service, coffee and
muffins were enjoyed by all.
Next Sunday, Rev. Peter, the new
minister will be in church at 8:45
a.m. Come out and enjoy coffee and
muffins and meet him prior to the
service.
Duff’s anniversary service is June
14 at 7 p.m. There will be a service
in the morning.
Special music will be by Jennifer
White, who will share Celtic myths,
stories and music played on her
Celtic harp.
She will be accompanied by
Robert McMaster.
The major fundraiser for the
church is the gospel concert in the
style of Elvis Presley featuring Roy
LeBlanc on June 21. Get tickets
from members, McGavins, Sholdice
Insurance or George’s and
don’t forget to invite all your
friends.
Well done
Ronan Jared, right, and Spencer Menzies, two Grade 3
students at Grey Central Public School are now published
poets. The two entered a writing contest hosted by Polar
Expressions which is an all-Canadian company. Both were
selected to have their poems included in a published book.
The poems may be read in the school’s complimentary
copy of Harbour - a collection of poems written by
Canadian young people. The boys will also be featured on
the board’s website along with fellow poets from East
Wawanosh Public School. (Photo submitted)
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