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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1999. PAGE 11.
Walton Public School news
Pupils create colourful eggs
Compiled by Patty Banks Phone 887-6156
Service begins in splendour
Fred and Heidi McClure were
greeters at Duffs United Church on
Easter Sunday, April 4.
Following the organ prelude Rev.
James Murray and the adult choir
took their places. At the back of the
church 10 children garbed in black
pants and white knee-length choir
gowns began to line up waiting for
their cue.
The tape player behind the choir
was turned on and the Celtic beat
of Lord of the Dance began. The
dancers with hands on-hips stepped
down the aisle to the beat of the
music.
The choir began singing with the
tape and one of the most
magnificent openings to an Easter
service took place. A free style
dancing Jesus, performed by
Nathan Murray, came down the
aisle picking up fishermen Peter
and Scott Murray and Josh Baker
on his way.
The dancing troupe was Shannon
Gibbons, Crystal Gibbons, Jennifer
McClure, Cassandra Banks, Sarah
McDonald, Mandy Mitchell, Peter,
Scott, Nathan Murray and Josh
Baker. The highlight of the dance
was Jesus leading the children
skipping around the church. With
white gowns flowing in the
movement they truly looked like
Duff s Angels.
After singing many Easter
favourites Rev. Murray delivered
his Easter sermon. He talked about
his aunt who had lost her husband
but always talked as if he were still
Second-hand shop opens
Doug, Heidi, Tess and Duncan
Wey of Guelph, Deborah Wey and
Tom McIntyre of Port Colborne,
and Dena, Larry, Karla and
Cameron Kale, of Hampton, New
Jersey visited with Campbell and
Edith Wey for the Easter holidays.
How exciting to welcome a new
business into Walton. The Treasure
Chest, located beside the Walton
Country Store will have its grand
opening April 10.
B.J. DeJong is opening the
second-hand store filled with a
wide variety of used goods such as
Londesboro Lions, John Hoggart, left and Carl Nesbitt
were at the grill on Sunday morning for the Old Tyme
Country Breakfast at Londesboro Hall. Proceeds are
going to the Blyth Arena heat hook-up. (Mark Non^s photo)
alive. It caused him to think of
Mary Magdalene who also faced a
terrible loss. But unlike Rev.
Murray's aunt, Mary was willing to
face the pain of her loss and ready
to deal with it and thus she was
more able to move forward with the
situation.
"When we are faced with painful
losses, we have several ways of
dealing with them. We can deny
the problem exists, and keep on
doing business as usual. We can
become stuck in the moment of
agony, and never let the wound of
hurt become healed. Or we can
grieve our loss, and by our
mourning, we are comforted and
healed," he said.
Mary chose to face the reality of
the pain of her loss. She arrived at
the graveside and met an angel who
comforted her. The resurrection of
Jesus is different than that of
Lazarus who came back to life.
Jesus is alive in a new way, a
spiritual way, and he will never die,
said Rev. Murray.
Because Mary was willing to
face the reality of her loss, she was
transformed. She changed from
being the last mourner of the dead
Messiah, into the first witness to
the living Lord. "Our task, our
calling as Christians, especially at
Easter, is to be a community of
people who are able to recognize
Jesus as the risen Lord. We are to
be people who are able to recognize
and participate .in the gift of
resurrection, and all the new
possibilities resurrection offers us."
dishes, tools, toys, games but no
clothing.
B.J. said that any donations of
used items would be greatly
appreciated. The store will be open
the same time as the Walton Store.
She is very excited about the
prospects of getting rich quick and
having lots of fun doing it. It's a
new adventure-full time yard
sailing.
Customers coming to the store on
opening day will be treated to
refreshments.
Good luck B.J. in your new
venture.
The Early Years students had a
fun week making Easter crafts such
as - pompon chickens in a nest,
bunny booklets, painted some
Easter eggs (pastel colours), and
made Easter baskets from old
strawberry cartons. They had a
chocolate Easter egg search with
each child finding up to 10 eggs
each.
There are some still hiding.
(Good thing they are only
chocolate eggs).
The children watched the video,
"Madeline's Easter Bonnet" and
then they got to design their own
easter bonnet. This week with the
help of Shelly McGavin and
Michelle Bennewies the Grade l/2s
tie-dyed eggs and did some other
neat forms of colouring eggs. One
way to colour eggs is by adding
water to crepe paper. The dye
makes the most brilliant colours.
To make a marble effect you put l
good-bye
to nightshade,
nutsedge and
annual grasses
tsp. of oil and l tsp. of vinegar into
l cup of dye water (from the crep^
paper) and dip the eggs into that.
The students read books about
the development of chicks and
made lists of creatures that lay
eggs.
With the help of Mrs. Reinick the
Grade l/2s began the seed planting
for their garden which will be over
at the Murray house across the
road. Tomatoes were started,
sunflowers, cabbage even
watermelon have all been put into
little planters.
The Grade 2/3s are using K’nex
to construct machines that move.
K’nex is made up of axles, wheels
and gears and other parts that all fit
together to make any machine
imaginable.
The students also finished their
letters to their penpals.
The Grade 3/4s began their
swimming lessons in Vanastra this
past week. They made Easter cards,
and their assignment for the
weekend is to invent a machine to
make and decorate eggs.
There were a few April fool
tricks going on last Thursday.
Rumour has it that Mrs. Bowers
tried to pull one over on Mrs.
Haney but Mrs. Haney couldn't be
fooled. That famous bus drive
Brian Pryce tried to fool the
students by telling them he was
going to go into the school and tell
the principal they weren't behaving.
Well he went in but they all knew
that he was just bluffing.
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