HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2000-01-19, Page 10PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2000.
The news from
alton
Compiled by Patty Banks Phone 887-6156
TV. Patterson speaks
Recording Grey SS#1 history
The Durrell family greeted
worshippers at Duff’s United
Church. Jan. 16.
Guest speaker, Nancy Patterson,
once again led the congregation in
worship. She announced how
important it is that people attend
the Unified board meeting Jan. 30
at the church at 7 p.m. The annual
meeting will be Jan. 30 with the
service beginning at 11:30 a.m. and
a potluck lunch served after the
service. The meeting will start right
after the meal. Don’t forget to bring
annual reports.
The baptism of Kara Nicole
Godkin will take place Jan. 23.
Bonnie Cole-Arnal will be the
guest minister that day. The sermon
was The Young and The
Restless/The Old and the Listless.
She began by re-telling the story of
Samuel and Eli, stating that God is
not limited to one age group. She
told the story of the old elder who
was greeting the new, young
minister.
“I’ve been an elder in this here
church for more than 50 years,”
said the old one.
“My, you must have seen a lot of
changes in your time,” said the
young, new minister.
“Yep,” said the elder, “And I’ve
been against almost every one of
Walton PS news
Pupils mark 2000
Well it was back to the old
grindstone at Walton Public School
this past week. The kindergartens
studied the letter F and made a frog
that opened his mouth and caught a
fly (pop-up card). Freddy the Frog
visited the classroom for two days.
Whenever the children passed in
front he would croak.
The students practised counting
in sets of four and five and
practised printing the numerals four
and five. They sang, Frog Went a
Courtin' and / know an Old Lady
who swallowed a Fly.
The Grade l/2s recorded the
following reports of their
millennium experiences:
“I played games and I had fun. I
watched my dad play darts.” -
Luke McCallum.
“I almost stayed up on the new
millennium but I fell asleep and my
sister fell asleep too and we had
fun.” - Randy Zwep. /
“I was sleeping in my bed.” -
Angie Fraser.
“I never fell asleep. We had noise
makers. We watched the stuff on
TV.” - Gavin Bowers.
“I stayed until the millennium. It
was fun. I stayed at home. I said,
“Happy New Year”. - Brandon
McGavin.
“I went to my grandma’s house
Howatt, Reid winners
Walton’s euchre tournament saw
eight tables at play last Thursday.
It started off rather cool as the
furnace wasn’t working but with
the handy man at work they soon
had it toasty and warm.
Too hot was the team of Delores
them”
Somehow, God reaches out and
speaks across the generations.
Somehow, God is trying to make
each new generation God’s people.
And sometimes God’s reach toward
a younger generation causes us
older ones some difficulty, said
Patterson.
Why would God favour the boy,
Samuel, with God’s word and not
the old priest, Eli? Why would God
speak to the young and the restless
rather than the old and the listless?
God passes the torch to newer,
stronger hands, she said. God gives
the word to a fresher, keener mind.
But note that Eli has a role to play.
He has a job to do. He tells Samuel
that this voice is the voice of God.
The old man with his vast
experience with God, knows what
God sounds like when God begins
to move. The old man helps the
young man to listen to God.
“We need the young and the old
to discover God’s word for us, to
encourage each other to discover
God's work for ourselves,”
Patterson said. “We need leaders
like Eli who encourage the telling
of God’s truth no matter how
painful or life-changing that word
may be. We need people whose
response to God is, ‘Here I Am.’
for the year 2000. We had smarties
and chips. It was good.” —Luke
Becker.
“When we went to my grandma’s
I got a millennium coin. I saw the
crystal ball go down.” - Taylor
Bennewies.
“I stayed up until I0 p.m. at my
house with my Mommy. I watched
Iceland’s New Year’s. I watched
Ireland’s New Year’s.” - Jessica
Baer.
The class completed their study
of A World of Customs in Canada
by enjoying the Chinese New Year
celebration. They read stories,
attempted to eat Chinese food with
chopsticks and made dragon
puppets.
The Grade 3s began the week
with a short millennium party to
welcome 2000. In math they began
working on multiplication, looking
at two and five times tables. For
writing, they were challenged to
write about, Snowed in at Walton
PS and how that scenario would
present itself.
The Grade 4s were also working
on their multiplication facts. They
are now starting a unit on
measurement. They even watched a
movie about it.
The Reading Club theme this
time is Friendship.
Howatt and Hazel Reid who took
top prize. Tied for second place
were the teams of Lloyd and Lillian
Appleby and Charles and Millie
Johnston. The lone hands winners
were Carmen Pollock and Irene
Sellers.
By Janice Becker
Citizen staff
Though the reason Eleanor Hem
ingway pulled together a collection
of pictures and stories telling the
tale of Grey Twp. School #1 may
have been due to her involvement
in the WI Tweedsmuir project, her
family has its own history in the
building.
Always interested in genealogy
and history, Hemingway began to
gather material on the first Grey
Twp. school prior to the township’s
140th anniversary in 1996.
Since then, it has grown into a
book with a wonderful collection of
pictures from the many classes,
Recording history
Eleanor Hemingway of Grey Twp. has spent the past few
years collecting pictures and interviewing former teachers
and students of SS#1 Grey Twp. for a history book.
Vandals hit
cemetery
On Jan. 12 at 2:30 p.m. officers
working in the Town of Seaforth
were contacted over damage done
in the Egmondville Cemetery on
Bayfield Road.
The property chairman said that
sometime during the first week of
January a person or persons entered
the cemetery and damaged nine
headstones.
The damage is estimated to be
$2,000. Damage has occurred at the
cemetery on two previous
occasions in the last few months.
Huron OPP are asking the public
to observe and record vehicles that
they see hanging around any
property in the area due to the
number of break-ins, thefts and
vandalism that has occurred over
the last few weeks. Anyone seeing
this type of activity is asked to
notify the Huron O.P.P.
immediately so officers can
investigate.
humorous stories, many memories
and familiar faces belonging to res
idents who still reside in the area.
Much of her information was gath
ered by speaking with the surviving
teachers and pupils of the school.
Originally located on Lot 10,
Cone. 11 of Grey Twp. in 1854, the
little school became know as Shine
School, after the family who owned
much of the neighbouring land.
This was the site of the first town
ship council meeting just a few
years later.
Efemingway tells the tale of Mrs.
Shine, apparently quite a character
in her later years. When her hus
band fell ill with TB, she would
light his pipe for him as he did not
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have the breathe to draw on it. She
became so accustomed to smoking
that even after his death, she con
tinued to smoke.
Hemingway notes that was very
unusual for a woman during that
time period.
By the late 1850s, a new building
was needed and a school (Beers)
was built on Lot 7. A frame struc
ture large enough for more than
100 children was built on Lot 6 in
1871.
The brick structure which still
remains on Lot 6 was built in 1911.
It is now used as a family home.
Hemingway’s earliest connection
to the school was developed by her
husband, Carl. He attended school
at SS#1, returned to teach after uni
versity and eventually brought his
family back to the home farm,
across the road from the school, in
1940.
All eight of the Hemingway chil
dren attended school at SS#1
before it closed in 1965 and there
was not a year without a Heming
way in the building during those 25
years.
Carl also returned to the school
as the caretaker and secretary for
the Grey Twp. school board.
Though Hemingway has gathered
a lot of wonderful material, she is
still looking for more information
on SS#1, particularly if it deals
with the people connected to the
school.
At 88, she says she is not ready
to stop and will continue to do pic
torial histories for local points of
interest.
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