HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1999-07-21, Page 13Shack in shambles
The Blyth and District Fire Department and OPP were
called to the scene of a sugar shack fire at Lot 34, Cone.
7, East Wawanosh Twp., July 15 at 12:20 p.m. A
campfire, left unattended, had set the shack ablaze. An
investigation showed that one or more persons had been
camping at the shack. The remains of recently caught fish
were found as someone had been taking them from fish
tanks across the road. The OPP are seeking information
on who may be responsible.
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Community
The community extends well
wishes to Laurie Kamilly who is in
Seaforth Hospital.
David and Janet Engel held a
family reunion which was attended
by many.
Congratulations to Missy Engel
for winning the Optimists Award.
Tim Stricken and Tish Erb got
married in Listowel.
The Gratton family moved away
from Cranbrook to Listowel Their
presence will be missed.
Carla Kniestedt from Hoofdorp
in Holland is visiting Marion
Hagedoorn. They are friends from
the time they attended high school
in Amsterdam in the 1950s.
Laura Saxon who resides in
Montreal at present gave birth to a
baby girl on June 22. Daughter
Bronwyn Morganah and mother are
doing well.
Many area residents attended a
going away party for Jeff Zehr who
is following his dream to go west.
The Cranbrook Walking Club is
going strong as a number of
wishes well
residents participate. Mrs. Minielly
is getting recognition for making
the most progress in walking
distance and the Housser children,
Tina, Jamie and Lynn, get
recognition for being the most
faithful regulars.
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McDonalds greet
at Duff’s United
Alvin and Vera McDonald
greeted worshippers at Duff’s
United Church on July 18.
Following the Introit Rev. James
Murray made the announcement
that he will be leaving the Walton-
Bluevale pastoral charge in
October. He will be ministering at a
church in Montreal.
His sermon was called, “Know
thyself (the ice-cream sermon)”. He
began by asking people to think
about what their favourite kind of
ice-cream is. According to Dr.
Hirsch, the neurological director of
the Smell and Taste Treatment and
Research Foundation in Chicago,
distinct personality types
correspond with ice-cream
flavours.
If you like vanilla, you are
colourful, impulsive, a risk taker
who sets high goals and has high
expectations of yourself. You also
enjoy close family relationships: If
you like chocolate, you are lively,
creative, dramatic, charming,
enthusiastic, and the life of the
party. Chocolate fans enjoy being
the centre of attention and can
become bored with the usual
routine. If butter pecan is your
favourite you are orderly, a
perfectionist, careful, detail-
oriented, conscientious, ethical, and
fiscally conservative. You are also
competitive, aggressive in sports,
and a take-charge type. If you like
banana, you are easy-going, well
adjusted, generous, honest and
caring. If you like strawberry, you
are shy, yet emotionally robust,
skeptical, detail oriented,
opinionated, introverted, and self-
critical. If you like chocolate chip,
you are generous, competitive, and
accomplished. You are charming in
social situations, ambitious and
competent.
The ancient Greeks believed the
beginning of wisdom came when
you could know thy self.
“To know yourself is perhaps one
of the greatest challenges each of
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accident
us will ever face,” said Rev.
Murray. Each one is complex,
difficult to sort out, and impossible
to know fully. There is no one
person who is simple, and their
personality is perfectly logical. No
one is perfectly good, just as no one
is perfectly evil.
He told a story about a Sunday
School teacher who asked the
children, “If all the bad people
were painted red and all the good
people were painted green what
colour would you be?” One very
wise child answered, “Striped.”
From the scripture readings the
parable was about the wheat and
the weeds. Parables are those
extreme exaggerated examples of
what God is like.
There was one aspect of Jesus’
parable of that reading that caught
Rev. Murray’s attention. Jesus
believes God’s kingdom exists
among the weeds. The good and
the evil exist side by side in God’s
kingdom. This means the chocolate
ice-cream lovers can exist side by
side with the vanilla lovers.
“We do not have to get rid of all
the banana ice-cream lovers before
God’s kingdom can happen,
because it is already happening,” he
said.
“We can love the people who
love different flavours of ice-cream
because God gave us all the ice
cream in the first place. Scripture
reminds us that we love, because
God first loved us.”
“To succeed at knowing yourself
is to accept this truth. The truth that
we are loved, cherished and
precious to God even though we
are imperfect. Because God so
loves this world, we may love. God
has given us the ice-cream. The
ability to know ourselves, and to
know one another. This knowledge
is doing no-one any good being
stored in the freezer. It was made to
be shared. So know thyself, know
you are loved, and pass the ice
cream.”
claims life
A motorcycle crash claimed the
life of a Colborne twp. man at
approximately 9:15 p.m., July 18.
The accident occurred just a short
distance north of Goderich on Hwy.
21 when 57-year-old Derek Cooper
was travelling northbound, his
1979 Suzuki GS85O motorcycle.
He lost control as the bike head
ed down a hill towards a curve at
the bottom. It left the roadway on
the curve and struck the guardrails
on a bridge that spans the Maitland
River.
Cooper, the lone rider, Hew from
the motorcycle and received fatal
injuries.
Dr. Floyd, a St. Thomas coroner
attended the scene and pronounced
him dead from serious head
injuries.
The highway was closed until
just before 5 a.m. while members
of the Technical Traffic Collision
Investigators reconstructed the
accident scene. The investigation
continues.
Clinton
firefighter
dies
The Blyth and District Fire
Department was called to assist the
Clinton Fire Department with a
field fire Thursday and were faced
with a personal tragedy.
Though a paramedic was in the
truck with Clinton firefighter Doug
Cantelon at the time and the Blyth
First Response team was on scene,
he died of an apparent heart attack.
He was to have been recognized
that evening for 25 years of service
to the fire department.
With Osteoporosis
a fractured hip could be
a life sentence.
Osteoporosis
Society
of Canada
Call 1-800-463-6842
for more information.
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