The Citizen, 2007-07-26, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2007. PAGE 3.
We wish the First Blyth Scouts and
their leaders good luck on a trip of a
lifetime as they leave for Canadian
Jamboree north of Montreal. Ten
youth and six leaders are involved.
The Jamboree kicks off a year of
celebrations marking the 100th
anniversary of Scouting.
Happy birthday to Kelsey Kerr
who celebrates her 12th birthday on
July 28.
Happy birthday to Doug Craig of
Atwood who will celebrate his
birthday on July 30.
The Charlie Shaw A9 Lions
International Youth Camp opened
July 14 at Lion Grant Chisholm’s
Kings Bridge Retreat. Seventeen
youths from Austria, Croatia,
Denmark, Finland, Germany,
Guadeloupe, Hungary, India, Israel,
Italy, The Netherlands, Northern
Ireland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,
Spain, Ukraine, and three from A9.
They have been in Canada for a
month with one week in camp.
During the week in camp they have
been to Niagara Falls, Toronto and up
the CN tower, in camp for day then
up the Bruce Peninsula for a day.
Thursday, July 19 was visitors
night. There were 130 visitors with
the Ripley Lions providing a roast
beef dinner and the Blyth Lions
providing dessert which was a large
birthday cake (many of the delegates
had never had a birthday cake) with
the Lions crest and all the delegates’
names and countries on in the icing
with ice cream. This cake was baked
and decorated by Fred and Deb
Hakkers of Blyth.
These youths are in Canada for
four weeks. The other three weeks
are with their host families.
Thanks to Deb for writing my
column for the past two weeks. Job
well done.
Well I’m back and survived a trip
of a lifetime. I had many firsts on this
trip. My first plane ride, first train
ride and a ferry ride which wasn’t my
first but was much more pleasant
than the last one 46 years ago.
We flew to Calgary and took in the
Calgary Stampede parade that passed
right in front of our hotel. We went tothe rodeo and the chuckwagon races.Three of the drivers, Kirk, Kelly andMark Southerland have a familyconnection. We attended thegrandstand show on Friday andSaturday and took a guided tour ofCalgary. We visited Fort Calgary andthe site of the 1988 Olympics. Weeven had a ride from the ski tower to
the bottom of the ski lift.
We boarded the Rocky
Mountaineer Train early Sunday
morning. What a way to see the
mountains. The train doesn’t travel
very fast as it travels along the
riverbank.
We have many pictures between
Nancy and me of our trip. We stayed
in Kamloops overnight and attended
a dinner theatre. The play was about
a lumberjack.
The next morning we were up early
again and on the train down to
Vancouver. The food and attention by
the staff of the Rocky Mountaineer
was great.
While in Vancouver we had a
guided tour of the city and Stanley
Park. We boarded the ferry for a two-
hour ride to Nanaimo, being met by
our cousin, Joyce Anderson and to
spend a week with her and visiting
our Aunt Marion who was 90 last
March. While visiting with Joyce we
went on a smaller ferry to Victoria to
visit Butchart
Gardens. You name a flower and they
have it. It is an old quarry that has
been made into a garden to behold.
When we left Victoria by plane to
Calgary it was raining and has been
raining ever since. Seeing the
mountains from above is a
spectacular view.
While waiting at Calgary for our
plane home to London we met Barry
and Mary Jo Edgar (cousins) who
had been at a wedding north of
Calgary and we were all on the same
plane.
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Greeting at Blyth United Church
on Sunday, July 22 were Ollie Craig
and Mary Lou Stewart. Ushering
were Rob Mason and Terry
Richmond. Guest pianist was
Amanda Swartzentruber. Guest
speaker Tom Dunbar welcomed
everyone to church.
The call to worship was followed
by the first hymn Saviour Like a
Shepherd Lead Us. Mr. Dunbar read
the prayer of confession and the
assurance of pardon was repeated in
unison.
Mr. Dunbar’s children’s story was
followed by The Lord’s Prayer. The
scripture was John 6: 25-40 andPsalm 148.Mr. Dunbar’s message to the adults was Lunch with God. People attendchurch to feed their souls, filling uptheir spiritual tank.At the July 17 meeting, Morris-
Turnberry councillors balked at a
proposal to replace seasonal roads
workers with an additional full-time
employee.
Barry O’Kraftka, public works
co-ordinator, explained there were
many benefits to hiring the
employee. While it’s somewhat easy
to get casual help in winter, it’s often
hard in summer, he said. He noted
that the money is in the budget to
hire the employee and it would
mean savings in hiring contractors
to do work because the roads
department would have enough
employees to operate their own
equipment.
But deputy-mayor Jim Nelemans
led the objections. Nearly everyother business is trying to use morecontract labour, he said.
“I think with seasonal labour you
have a tap you can turn on and off,”
Nelemans said. “If we get big
projects done we just never, ever lay
anyone off.”
If a seasonal worker was needed
for six months, Nelemans
suggested, then hire someone on a
six-month contract.
When O’Kraftka said that
seasonal workers would be needed
to help with summer work,
Councillor Mark Beaven made a
motion to hire a worker on a three-
month contract. The motion carried.
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