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PEOPLE AROUND
WALTON
By Jo-Ann
McDonald
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Travellers are returning from
many interesting places.
Jim and Ruth Axtmann have
returned from a holiday in Portugal.
Clyde and Cathy McClure and Vai
Shortreed have returned from a
holiday in Cuba. Staying at Cayo
Couple enjoys trip of a lifetime
Returning from an absolutely
wonderful trip of a lifetime to South
Africa were Neil and Marie
McGavin. They were travelling with
a group of agricultural folks from the
London. Granton, llderton. Chesley
and Lucan areas.
They Hew to Johannesburg and
toured the Pretoria area for a couple
of days. A flight tQ Port Elizabeth
and the Cape Town area allowed
them to view beautiful mountain
scenery
experienced great roads and saw
some wealthy, modern areas. It is a
rich country with acres of corn,
soybeans, bananas, gold mines,
diamond and platinum mines. There
is a rich forestry area in the south as
well.
They toured a Botanical Gardens
and also travelled to Robbin Island
where Nelson Mandella
years in prison.
While in South Africa
six air flights, two boat
and farmlands. They
spent 27
they took
rides, one
Sacrament of baptism at Duff’s
Keith and Kevin Wilbee greeted
worshippers at Duff’s United
Church on the third Sunday of Lent.
The sacrament of baptism was
observed with the welcoming ’of
Tyler Robert MacGillivary, son of
Robert MacGillivary and Janice
McCallum. Grandparents Ron and
Betty McCallum and Tom and
Gloria MacGillivary were in
attendance and gathered at Ron and
Betty's following the service for
lunch.
Lost day will be added
to end o f school calendar
Coco. Guillerma Resort, they report
good food, good fun and great
weather. They did an island tour that
included a visit to a sugar factory
and a cigar factory.
There was a nice beach to enjoy
and they witnessed several
Valentine’s Day weddings.
When the tide was out. they
walked out into the shallow water
and fed the fish breadcrumbs.
Jeanne Kirkby travelled only as
far as Toronto to visit with son Paul
and wife Jan. Grandchildren Sean
and Melanie enjoyed story hour with
grandma as well as other children
Jan cares for. Jeanne had a
wonderful visit.
Congratulations to Dan and Lynn
train ride and many coach bus rides.
They stopped at the place where
the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian
Ocean. Marie put a foot in both
oceans. They enjoyed great food that
included many barbecues and
buffets with beef. lamb, chicken,
crocodile, zebra and eel.
While on safari, they saw lions
eating tneir catch right beside the
land rover. Guides said they could
pet the lions but the McGavins opted
to keep their arms inside the rover.
They experienced a real African
thunderstorm while at a private
game lodge. The thatched huts were
connected by boardwalks and a call
to the front desk provided an escort
to accompany guests from one place
to another after dark, as animals
wandered freely in the area.
The hydro went out during the
storm and candles provided light.
There were indoor and outdoor
private showers and mosquito
netting, but with no hydro that night.
The time for the young at heart
saw the return of Stubear. the
stewardship bear from his week with
Tyler and Brooke Leslie Riley.
Stubear’s message was on taking
care of ourselves and the world and
making people feel welcome.
Rev. Joan Tuchlinsky gave the
children a cut-out angel and Stubear
went home with Allison, Scott and
Craig Baan.
The senior, choir anthem
Jesus, Lover of My Soul.
was.
McNichol on the birth of daughter
Monica. Sister Madison is very
excited about her new baby.
Speedy recovery wishes go to
Clara Perrie who has suffered a
broken hip.
A speedy recovery also to Laura
Scott who has suffered a badly-
broken ankle. She broke it after she
and Ken returned from a trip to
Ecuador where they visited their
daughter’s-in-laws. They did enjoy a
wonderful time while away.
Attending the Ontario
Ploughman's conference in Stratford
on the weekend were Graeme and
Helen Craig. The topic of volunteers
and their importance at the
upcoming plowing match in
it was very hot. Temperatures were
around 28° to 30°C most days with a
high one day of 38°C.
At Kruiger Park they saw
elephants, giraffes, lions, leopards,
three rhinos, hippos and water
buffalos. The main meal for most of
the animals are the impalas, and they
are everywhere.
The travellers rode in open jeeps
but had to remain sitting at all limes
so as not to provoke any attacks by
the animals. A guide and Zulu
tracker were with them throughout
the tour.
They travelled down a six-
kilometre dirt road through the
forest to emerge into a beautiful
clearing where a mountain seemed
to appear from nowhere. Native
women in costume carried their
luggage to the huts that covered the
slope of the mountain.
They were treated to local dances
by the natives and a tour of a
diamond mine resulted in no
Rev. Joan's reflection was on the
condition of one’s heart. Life is a
matter of the heart and people have a
brave heart, faint heart, hard heart,
gentle, tender, warm or cold
heart.
Jesus lives in our hearts, she said,
and is the wellspring of our lives.
How we show and share our hearts is
crucial to following God.
The congregation broke into small
groups to discuss the Lenten
question.
Howard Hackwell and Keith
Wilbee received the offering.
Phyllis Mitchell and Glenda
Morrison helped out at the You Can
Shine with Bryan Suderman concert
at Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
Listowel was noted.
Ross and Marg Bennett had
company last week when Lois Bell
and her daughters Susan from B.C.
and Jane from Elora stopped in for a
visit. They enjoyed lunch and
catching up with Ross and Marg.
February birthdays end up with
Chris Lee, Adam Hamilton, Terry
Nichol. Jonathan Clarke, Bev
Stevenson. Andrew Black, Aaron
Welsh, Courtney Hymers, Ryan
Baan and Nathan Bachert. March
roars in with Stacey Linton. Audrey
McIlwain, Holly Ryan. Kathy Ryan,
Jeffrey Huether, Crystal White and
Megan denDekker.
Happy anniversary to Doug and
Janet Mitchell.
farms
6,000
regular
harvest
purchases being made.
They visited Sun City, which is the
Las Vegas of South Africa and some
members of the group golfed on the
Gary Player Golf Course.
They visited many
including one .that was
hectares, with 130
employees and up to 800 at
time. The farmer is responsible for
paying, housing, educating and
feeding the workers.
They visited a 600-head cow-calf
operation and a farm with as many
as 106 tractors of various sizes.
They have the same problems
farming as we do here with drought
a major factor. The past three years
have been very dry. There is some
irrigation in areas.
Corn growers 12 - 15’ high and
most farms have very modern
workshops.
It was a fantastic trip and one that
Neil and Marie will remember for
quite a while.
put on by the Brussels Ministerial.
World Day of Prayer is this Friday,
March 4 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Ambrose
Roman Catholic Church.
Bluevale’s fundraising auction is
on Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. and
everyone is welcome.
There are many youth activities
posted on the bulletin to check
out.
M. Humphries hosts WI
The Walton Women’s Institute met
at the home of Marjorie Humphries
last week. Guest speaker was David
Hemingway on genealogy and the
Hemingway family tree.
Brian
McGavin
leads
ORFEDA
Congratulations to Brian McGavin
who has been elected president of
the Ontario Retail Farm Equipment
Dealers Association at their annual
meeting in Niagara Falls. The
association encompasses all dealers
in Ontario. Brian is following in his
father’s footsteps as Neil was
president in 1978.
All the McGavin families were in
attendance including Neil and
Marie, Shelley, Brandon. Abby and
Tyson. Cathy and Pat Melady and
family, Jeff and Shannon McGavin
and family and Heather and Bryan
Kelso and family.
After Brian’s election, the family
members spoke about Brian. Neil
told of him working and joining the
business. Marie spoke on Brian’s
growing up and Jeff on the best of
his big brother. Brian’s children also
were asked about their father and
had some interesting descriptions of
their dad.
Congratulations to Brian and first
lady Shelley in their next year of
efforts for ORFEDA.
A donation was approved for
Murray Gaunt to the Hall of Fame in
Milton at Heritage Park.
Lunch was provided by Marjorie
and Marion Godkin.
Continued from page 1
basis in 2006. She said future use of
the extended break may depend “on
the way the month falls.”
She also noted there should be
clear communication that the lost
instruction day will be added to the
end of the school calendar.
Vice-chair Mike Miller,
meanwhile, spoke in favour of the
extra Friday off, suggesting parents
would also appreciate the additional
travel day. And in the end, Murray
joined his counterparts in a
unanimous vote in favour of the
2005-06 school calendar.
At its meeting Tuesday, Feb. 22,
the Avon Maitland District School
Board unanimously approved a
similar calendar with very little
discussion.
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