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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2002. PAGE 13.
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UCW presents life memberships
FROM LONDESBORO
School
says
thanks
to helpers
Thich Nhat Han states that "every
morning, when we wake up, we
have 24 brand new hours to live.
What a precious gift!" This supports
the virtue at Hullett Central Public
School this week of June 9 - 14 of
thankfulness.
To thank the 24 people, who this
school year have given of their time
and talent to assist the staff and
students, an assembly and luncheon
was held in their honour on Friday,
May 31. The hours these volunteers
have donated to the learning
experience at the school is a
wonderful gift — the gift of
themselves.
On Thursday, June 6 the Grades
5/6 and 6/7 took in a Blue Jays game
in Toronto. They watched a great
game as "the birds" won by a run in
the ninth inning.
This Friday all grades will be
involved in sports activities. The
three-pitch tournament for Grade 8
students in this region will be held
in Clinton. There will be a co-
operative/sport afternoon for pupils
from kindergarten to Grade 7 that
afternoon at Hullett. Pupils are
encouraged to wear their Hullett
tees or colours that day to
demonstrate their school spirit.
Again this past Sunday, June 9,
Londesboro United Church had
cause to celebrate. Consequently,
there were extra churchgoers as a
number of friends and relatives were
on hand to witness the presentation
of life memberships in the United
Church Women to nine past
presidents of Londesboro United
Church.
Margaret Anderson, Edythe
Beacom, Barbara Carson, Marjorie
Duizer, Gail Lear, Kittie MacGregor,
Betty Miller, Brenda Radford and
Cheryl Trewartha were presented
with life membership pins in
appreciation of tticir loyalty to Jesus
Christ, their devoted service and the
sharing of their own special talents
and gifts in the United Church of
Canada and Londesboro United
Church in particular. These pins
represent the responsibilities of
County councillors at their June 6
meeting wanted to know who will
pay for a mistake in the siting of the
Clinton-Seaforth ambulance station.'
Claus Breede, project manager for
the construction of three new
ambulance stations, reported that
after the four-foot concrete
foundation walls were in place it was
discovered that the contractor had
been working from old plans and
had located the building too close to
the back edge of the property and no
longer met the zoning regulations of
Huron East.
After examining other options the
county decided to purchase an extra
one-metre of land across the width
of the property to bring the site back
in conformation with the zoning
bylaw.
"Is the cost to the builder or to the
county?" asked Paul Klopp,
Bluewater councillor.
"We will be putting pressure on
the contractor to pick up the extra,"
said Breede.
United Church Women and their
involvement in the whole work of
the church.
Sunday's honourees were pleased
to have in attendance four ladies of
Londesboro United Church who had
previously been pinned — Joan
Whyte, Audrey Thompson, Helen
Lee, and Reta Kelland. Presenting
the pins were Londesboro UCW's
co-presidents for 2002, Lynda
Horbanuik and Kittie MacGregor.
During the children's time, a travel
alarm clock was discovered in Rev.
Paul Ross's storybag. The group
discussed what people need to pack
for a trip — alarm clock, clothes,
beach towels, etc. It was pointed out
that it is not necessary to pack God
as wherever one goes, God goes too.
The hymn, I Tell the Winds of God
Today was played by Rev. Ross on
his flute and formed the basis of his
Travel in and around Londesboro
the past few weeks has been chaotic
as the village- is situated midway
between Blyth and Clinton in this
current construction zone.
However years of winter sand has
been removed, and the new grass
which has been sown on those
boulevards will soon be in need of
mowing.
Patches of repaired asphalt at
"It's only appropriate we expect
the contractor to be responsible for
his error," said. Lin Stealer, Huron
East councillor.
Meanwhile Klopp also objected to
nearly $65,000 in deletions from the
original contract ranging -from
$32,000 for buying one mobile
generator instead of a ,fixed
generator at each of the three
stations to $1,080 for using hot water
in the in-floor heating system instead
of a Glycox mix.
Breede said there was no
contingency fund built into the
contract price and it's dangerous to
go into a contract of more than a
million dollars with no contingency.
"My task was to find room within
the contract space to cover
contingencies."
Warden Ben Van Diepenbeek shut
down further discussion of the issue
saying council had already
authorized Breede to seek savings.
"We're not going to beat this thing to
death," he told Klopp.
message that morning.
At age 85, Abram was settled and
content with his life as a shepherd in
Haran and patriarch of his family.
Then, as recorded in Genesis 12: 1-
19, God called him to leave this life
and go where God led.
In the New Testament passage,
Matthew 9: 9-13, Christ called the
tax collector, Matthew, to leave his
life and be Jesus' disciple. Both men
placed their trust in God and heeded
the call.
To leave one's comfort zone is
difficult and filled with emotion but
the need to make changes in one's
life, to feel the winds of God and to
adapt to new situations comes to
everyone. Being in a comfortable
situation can bring stagnation
whereas a change can bring strength
heightened awareness and better
health.
intersections should make travel less
hazardous.
Those of us for whom travel has
had the odd snafu really have it
much easier than the residents along
London Road who have endu-
red asphalt fumes, noise and
dust.
Another much smaller
construction job ran into a snag last
week.
Rev. Ross expressed gratitude for
having been allowed to serve in
Londesboro for 12 years but that he
has heeded the winds of God's
change calling him. He closed his
message with the wish that members
of Londesboro United Church have
the faith and trust of Abram and
Matthew when God's winds call for
change in their lives.
Any ladies wishing to be a part of
a ladies' choir next Sunday, June 16,
Father's Day, are asked to come for
practice at 9:45 a.m.
The Rural Response for Healthy
Children will present a puppet show,
Kids on the Block, at the UCW
meeting on Monday, June 17 at 7:30
p.m.
On Sunday, June 23, Londesboro
and Auburn will flip church times.
Therefore, service at Londesboro
will begin that day at 9:45 a.m.
It seems that Doug and Karen
Dolmage now have much deeper
ruts in their driveway than those
they were hoping to eliminate with
new cement.
From the number of cars at the
Londesboro Community Hall on
Sunday evening, there was a good
turnout for the annual fish fry
sponsored by the Hunters and
Trappers Association.
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County councillors wonder
who'll pay for the flops
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The Huron East Recreation Department is creating a
recreation booklet that will include all of the
community events and organizations in the municipality.
In order to make this project comprehensive, we need
your help. If you are involved in an organization,
community, sporting or social group and would like your
information of events to be included in the booklet,
please submit a brief description of your group and
the dates of events you would like to be included by
June 28, 2002.
You can submit the information by mail to:
Huron East Recreation Department
Attn: Recreation Booklet
P.O. Box 939
Seaforth, ON
NOK 1 WO
Or bring the information into the Huron East
Recreation Department office located at the Seaforth
Arena, 122 Duke St., Seaforth, ON.
For more information call Kelly at