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A tourist stands at The (temporary) Wall at the
Bethlehem/Jerusalem checkpoint. The photo was taken by
Sandra Clark of Brussels, who is currently studying at the
Bat Kol Institute in Jerusalem.
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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2006. PAGE 19.
Happy New Year to everyone and
all the best in 2006.
We finished off 2005 with some
happy news and some not-so-happy
news. Welcomed into our community
was a wee little girl named Meg
Katharyn a beautiful little girl
to make parents Greg and Jill and big
brother Luke, a happy and thankful
family this Christmas season.
There are three ladies, who are not
quite as happy this Christmas season.
Helen Williamson suffered a fall.
She is home now and having to take
it very easy. Marilyn McDonald fell
and suffered a badly-broken wrist.
She had surgery on it after Christmas
and will be a while recovering.
Aiding with her recovery, is her
sister Janie here from Ottawa to help
her.
The third lady is Jean (Coutts)
Wilbee, who fell and broke her arm.
We send speedy recovery wishes to
all three ladies.
The Walton Women's Institute met
for its Christmas meeting and meal at
the Walton Inn befpre Christmas.
There were only seven members able
to attend and participate in the gift
exchange.
They conducted their usual
business as well as being pleased to
pass the payment of the final bills for
the Hall renovations.
A Trillium grant paid for most of
the improvements and fundraising
raised $2,475 towards the cost. The
remainder was covered by the
Institute and the Walton Hall board.
All the intended work is done and
now plans are underway to do some
other smaller improvements.
Thanks to the community for its
support and all look to the future of
the Hall as a busy meeting place.
There were five family
Christmases held there, two birthday
parties, one concert and three
meetings in December. All report
that the hall is just the right size and
the new furnace keeps everyone nice
and warm, and runs very quietly for
meetings.
Celebrating Christmas at their
home the week before Christmas
were Harold and Pearl McCallum.
They had about 34 family members
on -hand to enjoy a meal and
Christmas time together. Present
were Paul and Dianne McCallum,
Chris, Cindy, Alaina and Lorren
Poland, Colleen McCallum and
Scott, Ken McCallum and Meaghan,
Ron, Betty, Chad and Crystal
McCallum, Rob, Janice and Tyler
McGillvary, Wayne, Joyce and Pearl
Hartman, Marion McCallum and
Merv, Carl, Tabb, Luke, Curtis, Cole
McCallum, Angie, Travis, Shayne,
(Tory, Cory, Natalie, Rick and family.
The Christmas season celebrations
started before Christmas and carried
on until New Years for families in the
area. The Gulutzens, the Bemards,
the Storeys and the McCallums
celebrated a week or two before
Christmas.
The McDonalds, the Humphries,
the Hoegys, the Dennises, the
Mitchells and many more got
together Christmas Day or Boxing
Day.
Others gathered closer to New
Years, including more McCallums
and the Watson clan.
No matter when family get-
togethers are, they're great.
Special visitors home for
Christmas to Barry and Karen
Hoegy's were daughter Sherry and
her new husband Eric from
.Greensville, North Carolina.
Jim Cook and Patty Banks
travelled to Parry Sound to Jim's
Christmas Eve at Duff's United
Church had a full congregation
enjoy a service of celebration, song,
readings and the joy of the
Christmas story. The special gifts of
music by Adam and Ryan Baan at
the piano, Phyllis Mitchell on the
violin and Marion Godkin at the
organ were enjoyed by all.
Paul and Dianne McCallum lit the
advent wreath candle and gave the
reading. The choir sang a song
Where the Stable Light Shines.
Interspersed with scripture
family for a few days between
Christmas and New Years.
Howard and Audrey Hackwell
celebrated their 45th anniversary
with family at Christmas and also
with friends at a New Year's Eve
dinner at the Blyth Inn.
While the Walton Inn was closed
for the holidays, Matt Shortreed was
in to do some repairs. New flooring
was installed under the bar stools,
there were some bathroom touch-ups
and a brand new lock was installed
on the door.
Even the Inn received Christmas
presents.
Sharing the season of celebration
with birthdays were Evelyn Stroop
Gulutzen, Michelle Blake, Mark
Gillis, Alaina Poland, Kandice
Jackl in, Greg Fritz, Elise
Ringgenberg, Judy Emmrich and
Audrey Hackwell.
readings and traditional Christmas
songs were two Christmas stories.
The first, by author Patricia A.
Pingry and Wendy Edelson was
entitled The Christmas Story and the
second, by authors Jean Little and
Werner Zimmermann, was entitled
Pippin the Christmas Pig.
Bethany and Laura Black sang
The Breath of Heaven and Brian
Black's rendition of the Sussex
Carol-was amazing.
Those attending Christmas Eve
were truly blessed by the evening's
FROM WALTON
services
service, the joyous music and the
gathering of the many families and
the echoes of Merry Christmas to all.
Sunday, Dec. 25 and Christmas
morning saw a smaller crowd at
Duff's United Church to celebrate
the birth of Jesus.
Rev. Joan Ilichlinsky led a lovely
service and asked people, when
giving the offering, to fill in on a
special piece of paper, what their gift
to Jesus would or could be. It was a
wonderful way to start Christmas
Day.
Duffs holds special
Letter from Israel
Woman continues education in Jerusalem
Editor's note: Sandra Clark is
currently studying at the Bat Kol
Institute in Jerusalem. The Institute
was founded April 8, 1983. Since
then it has enabled Christians to
study the Bible from within the living
traditions of Judaism with Christian
and Jewish Professors. Clark's
studies have been on the Torah — the
first five books of the Bible. This
year, her. fourth at the Institute, she
is studying Deuteronomy.
By Sandra Clark
Above is a photo 'of The
(temporary) Wall at the
Bethlehem/Jerusalem checkpoint. If
you look up in the right hand corner
you can see - how it relates to the
gentleman who is just under 6 feet
tall. It is constructed of concrete
slabs and is 30 m. tall.
Beside it is a new checkpoint
construction - also out of concrete. It
can be described as sort of an airport
arrangement. It isn't like the booths
at our customs crossings. It has
dedicated lanes for various purposes
such as cars, buses, pedestrians,
supply trucks. I believe I heard that
passengers on a bus must debark
from the bus and walk through the
security. I have took several pictures
of how the wall looks in the general
landscape in the same area.
There were pleasant times also.
The landscapes are beautiful and the
variety in such a postage stamp of a
country never ceases to amaze me.
We were able to go to Jericho. This
is the first time I have been there. I
was very brave and went in the cable
car to the top.
From there the group walked to a
monastery dug in to the side of the
hill. I went along for the first part of
the walk but a couple of us decided
enough was enough and sat on a
bench which gave us a 'view of
Jericho from the side of the
mountain. The steps to the
monastery twisted and wound up the
side of the mountain and was at such
an angle I couldn't even get a picture
The Belgrave Kinsmen held a
turkey bingo on Thursday, Dec. 15.
Approximately 108 people (adults
and children) attended. There were
10 games for turkeys, two share-the-
wealth games and one children's
game.
Following is a list of the winners:
turkeys, Penny Sheppard, Stuart
Chamney, Lois Chamney, Steve
Robinson, Stephanie Robinson,
There were 10 tables of shoot
in play on Friday, Dec. 16 at
the Belgrave Community Cen-
tre.
Winners were: high lady, Eileen
Sellers; second high lady, Dorothy
Carter; most shoots, Freda Scott;
high man, Jim Coultes; sec Jiigh
man, Ken Spears; most shouts,
Stuart Chamney.
The next shoot is Friday, Jan. 13 at
1:30 p.m.
of it.
At our lunch stop we encountered
a gaggle of geese looking for
delicious morsels in the parking lot.
A man also had his camel available
for people to ride.
There were quite a number of tour
buses at the stop.
The last time I saw more than one
tour bus at a time was at least a
dozen years ago when we went to
Israel to visit our son.
There is a gambling casino at
Jericho. It has been closed for some
time now. I guess they tried to open
it last spring but it soon closed.
Rumour has it that Arafat had money
Carole Jamieson, Kathy McCracken,
Mike Miller, Brianna Yuill, Bill
Craig; share-the-wealth — Sheena
Haines, Sandy Anderson; children's
game — Kelsey Smith, Austin
Schiestel, Sydney Michie, Nicole
Hardy, Matthew Hallahan, Jenny
Anderson, Porsche Bissonnette,
Sheena Haines, Stacey Hallahan,
Kevin Pennington, Heidi Raynard.
invested in it. It was very restricted
as to who could gamble
there...mainly real tourists...not
locals at all.
Bat Kol has now completed one
complete Torah study and will start
again with Genesis in July. In
November there will be a study of
T'shuva which translates to Return
and Repentance. It will be a totally
different method of study and is by
invitation only to the 'alums'. We
will be there for the major Holy
Days of the Jewish year and will
probably only do one short retreat -
focussed on Jewish sites. It should
be very interesting.
FROM BELGRAVE
Over 100 play to
take home turkeys
10 tables of players
attend shoot party