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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-02-06, Page 28Page 12A February 6, 1985 Reeve speaks to Institute The postponed meeting of the Lucan Women's institute was held January 30 in the village Council Chambers, with Lillian Radcliffe, convener of Citizenship and World Af- fairs, in charge . Mrs. Radcliffe had arranged a tour of the facilities and the Reeve, Nor- man Steeper, gave a most interesting and informative talk to the members and guests. Mr. Steeper told that when he took office in 1982 he had five objectives. They were to provide for greater par- ticipation in the decision making pro- cesses by having councilors more ac- tively involved through assigned areas of accountability. To provide for a greater in-depth study of issues and concerns prior to council decision making. This in- volves the use of committees and assigned personnel. To give a clearer picture of the total village operation by cross - representation of councillors on the various committees, and by permit- ting the free flow of information to council and to the public, where ethical. To encourage the growth of the skill of effective law making and an ap- preciation of the basic rights of the citizen and finally to develop the con- cept that council is the elected authority in the village and as such is ultimately responsible and accoun- table for all _council and municipal activities. During the business meeting, chaired by president, Bernice Lockyer, four members intimated they would be interested in the district bus trip to the Erland Lee Homestead, in June. If you are in- terested please phone Mrs. Lockyer, 227-4421 soon for reservations. A donation was voted to the War Memorial Children's Hospital, a donation will be made to th Optimists Club each time we use their clubrooms for a meeting, reserva- tions will be made for several of the members to attend the National Con- vention Lillian Radcliffe was appointed to represent the Branch at the meeting of the Helping Hands to form a "Sup- port Group" for the St. Marys and _District Association for the Mentally Retarded to be held in the Masonic Hall Wednesday evening, February 20 at 8:15 p.m. Announcements were made regar- ding the Farm Show - when Terri McRoberts will be the entry for the Lucan W.I. in the Farm Princess Con- ea . er, I ranne Goody, to assist Debbie Revington, and the "Museumobile - History of the North" which will be at the Communi- ty Centre January 31st to February 7. A note of thanks was read from Bill Nieulands of the Villa, writing on behalf of all the residents in apprecia- tion of the plant sent at Christmas and Iola Goring passed on the thanks of the former W.I. members, now at Craigholme and the Villa, for their Christmas remembrance. The February meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 27 at 2 p.m. Mrs. Radcliffe was also the hostess for the meeting and provided a delightful lunch, served around the large very historic table in the coun- cil chambers. The table had graced the dining room of the Porte.family whose home is now the municipal of- fices. OM YOUNG REPORTERS — Chris Lo zer and Bobby Hilis of Lucan Public School show off their versions of the "Room 6 News". The grade two students were following-up a presentation of "The Tales of Beatrix Potter". .Urge UCW members to attend Presbyterial Unit leader Marjorie Park opened the January meeting of the Dorcas Unit, U.C.W. with a New Year's thought and prayer as they met in the C.E. Wing of the church Tuesday .afternoon. She announced the in- terdenominational World Day of Prayer for Friday evening, March 1 in St. Pat's gym, and encouraged the women also to attend the, annual UCW Presbyterial meeting at Metropolitan United Church in London on February 14. Transportation will be available for those who wish to participate in this inspirational day. Discussion followed regarding preparation of gifts for Christmas shut-in baskets, and the names of this year's "Secret Friends" from Meadowcrest Homes were distributed. Worship and Bible Studyfollowed, led by Jean Brown. The group discussed the theme "Facing the Future with Faith" as they con- sidered the story of the 12 Israelites who spied out the land God had pro- mised to 'v them, e minority who focused on God and His promises were able to view the task before them with confidence, and opened the way for God to ac- complish His best purposes for their lives. The majority, who focused on the difficultieis ahead and left God out of their thinking, were the losers and involved their families and others also in their loss. A special report to assist the hungry in Africa through the Canadian Food Grains Bank was made by Wes Stanley at Lucan United Church ser- vice Sunday morning. This agency, established by the Mennonite Central Committee, is supported by a cross- section of Christian denominations, and donations are matched by the Federal government in the ratio of three to one for every dollar given. Only three percent of the budget is us- ed for running expenses, and grain is Two area Only two accidents were in- vestigated by the Lucan detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police this week. A vehicle driven by Sylvia Bret- trager of London went out of control Sunday at 10:30 p.m. while she was driving west on Highway 7, and hit an eastbound vehicle driven by David Allman of Stratford. There were no injuries. Damage was set at $3,500 by Constable Lang. Wednesday at 11:40 a.m. a vehicle driven by Thomas Flitz of London was travelling north on Adelaide Sl. when he drove off the roadway and rolled over. Blitz sustained minimal injuries. Estimated damage to the vehicle was $1,000, according to Con- stable Wilcox. There were 3.5 general occurrences. Seniors meet President Harry Noels welcomed members and two visitors. Cards of thanks were read from Mabel Needham, Liz Conlin and thefamilies of Alexia Atkinson. The February program committee are as follows Mice Hodgson, Mabel Needham, Lela Abbott. Florence and Elmer Hoffman. Thursday Fehruary 14 members are asked to bring a Valentine for ex- change. Everyone enjoyed a skit en- titled "The Tune the Salesman Played". Greta Gipson acted as commen- tator and Beulah Hardy played "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" in varied tempo. Those taking part were Iva Hodgins. Ed Dowdall, Mary Davis, Gote Wennerstrom, Jean Miller, Mur- ray Carter. Laura and Percy Williams and Muriel Cohleigh. The craft group was pleased to have Sue Haskett tell of Interior Design. Next week February 7 Meda McComh will demonstrate cake decorating. Everyone welcome. Craft prize winner Rose Bakker. Crokinole winners were Greta Gibson and Gote Wennerstrom. Euchre prizes went to ladies high - Helen MacDonald. ladies lones - Marion Noels, ladies low - Laura Williams. ('.ruts high - Harry Noels, gents tones - Joe Carter. gents low - Elmer Huffman. 1 accidents including two break and enters and three thefts over $200. One male was charged with failure to attend court. One person was charged with im- paired driving and five 12 -hour suspensions were issued. Three peo- ple were charged with violations of the Liquor Licence Act. distributed through the agency of local churches in the counties to which assistance is given. Marguerite McRoberts, in charge of the children's story time, told the boys and girls about Ned who often didn't "feel like"helpinghis mother. His mother found an effective way to convince him that it was really bet- tet- when they all did things for each other. Marguerite took charge also of Junior Congregation with the assistance of the Junior Helpers. Sherry and Ted Lane were the welcome committee for the morning and were assisted by Jan Coughlin and Brent Bannerman in receiving the offering. The choir assisted in worship with their anthem, "His blood can never lose its power", and Freeda Melanson represented the Session of the Church as she read the morning's Scripture lesson. United Church Mr. Brown's second sermon in his_ p e- sians outlined more of the blessings God has provided for those who give their lives to Christ. He makes known His plan for the universe, and gives us a new heart that enables us to become part of the answer in this needy world. He gives us His Holy Spirit to be His presence with us always and to mark us unmistakeably as His own. He encourages us by the prayers of those who care, and by revealing to us the greatness of His power available to us. Mr. Brown challeng- ed those present to open their lives to these realities, and thus, like Paul live "to the praise of His glory". The monthly Coffee Hour followed the service in the C.E. Wing. Coming Events - Quilters are invited to assist with a quilt which will be in progress this week in the C.E. Wing. The Senior Choir practises at the regular 7:30 hour on Wednesday. Prayer and Share Fellowship meets this Thursday at 9:45 a.m. in the C.E. Wing. Please note change of week. A Confirmation Class for those 12 and over who wish to join the Church on profession of faith begins on Sun- day at 3 p.m. in the C.E. Wing. Please note that the Sunday School play scheduled for presentation during the Church service on February 10 is now rescheduled for February 17. News from Revival Centre Sunday morning Rev. Roger Mason from Matthew 13:37-38 showed Jesus sows the good seed of the gospel in the world, and Christians are the fruit in it. The tares are the unbelievers. The field, the world, can be where a Chris- tian works and lives. We come to church to receive encouragement and instruction on how to get out to work for God. Some people look on the church be- ing a building, where Christians come to work for God on Sundays. This is a false concept. The church is all week long doing the work God gave us to do. Usually the emphasis is to get people into the church building. Believers concept is really public relations. looking well in public, and building up the quality of the church, Travelling play visits public school The play was the thing last 'Tues- day, when the Erewhon Theatre group of Toronto came to Lucan to present two plays to Lucan students. Children from Kindergarten to Grade Three saw The Tales of Beatrix Potter, while students from Grade Four to Eight saw The Hoot Cellar. The Tales of Beatrix Potter was based on the stories of the English woman who wrote.The Tales of Peter Rabbit. The two actors began by tell- ing The Tales of Jeremy Fisher, a frog that went fishing with unex- pected results. The actors then related the adventures of Peter Rab- bit and Peter's further adventures with his cousin Benjamin Bunny, and Mr. Fox. Masks were used in the production. The Root Cellar told the story of a young girl who went back 100 years in time to the Civil War in the United States. Both productions were followed by a chance for students to talk with the actors. Mrs. LaVerne Revington, a teacher -librarian at Biddulph Lucan Central School, made the ar- rangements with Erewhon Theatre of Canada to do these live drama pro- ductions. Biddulph-Lucan Student Council paid $600 to cover the cost of the productions. Melanie Vance, the new secretary of the Student Council, said Peter Rabbit "delighted the young au- dience", and that "the excellent per- formance of the Root Cellar was en- joyed very much." Because of the actors' visit, over 400 students experienced a live theatre performance, many for the first time. Principal Eva Brophey stresses the importance of exposing children to live drama. There were integrated follow-up ac- tivities in classrooms at both schools last week. Jody Aldridge, Grade 4 student, wrote this poem about The Root Cellar: "In the Civil War, Was death and agony. But it turns out that the good side won but no more slavery, that's what counts." Grade 2 students under Cathy Van Dop in Room 6 and Shirley MacMillan in Room 7 produced a lot of bunnies. There were so many bunny puppets, sculptures, stories and models it seemed as if • the rabbits were reproducing. Bobby Hillis and Chris Lojzer each produced a version of "The Room Six News", and illustrated one-page newspaper about the Beatrix Potter characters. Greg Langrendyk made a vegetable patch out of plasticine complete with lettuce, carrots and radishes, and Peter Rabbit feasting happily. Room 7 wrote a story together re- counting the animals, adventures. The students then wrote their own stories about animal characters to practice their writing skills. Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail, Mother Rabbit and Peter, and mean old Mr. McGregor all made a big im- pression on the children of Lucan Public School. promoting special church speakers. Often the goal of the local church is success in numbers, a healthy budget, and good facilities to get super Chris- tians there. These should be by pro- ducts of fulfilled spiritual goals. The church is people who know Jesus, equipped to serve God. It is believers who see a need and fill it. The believer church is infiltrating the world, the field around them, engag- ing in the work of God. Then Sundays they assemble in the church meeting place. Emphasis on worship, the word, and fellowship produce strong believers, fitted to go out and minister. rhe goal of the church is that the believer may be a whole per- son, with a proper diet of the word, worship, and fellowship. The church's atmosphere should be of love and healing, where believers come to receive relazation and restoration. Communion was served at end of the service. Rev. Roger Mason Sunday evening read Nehemiah 2:9-20, the story of preparing to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, against strong opposition. Nehemiah first had proper authorization to build, because he an- ticipated opposition from the gover- nors of the countries around Israel. God opened the way for Nehemiah to go from the king, to do his vision to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. When Christians have a vision to build for God, they will have opposi- tion. Also Christians have the promise Jesus will build His church. When Christians pray, and work for God, the work will not fail. AUXILIARY BOWLS The Ladies Auxiliary of Branch 540 of the Lucan Legion hosted the Z9ne Round at Lucan Bowling Lanes, Sun- day. Teams competing in this bowl- ing tournament came from Strathroy, which had four teams, Mount Brydges and Lucan with two and I1- derton and Ailsa Craig, one each. The winning team was Elsie Hawkins from Strathroy with a total of 2836. Second place went to Anne Craig's team from Lucan with 2751 followed closely by May Murphy's Lucan team at 2745. The next step for these teams is the District playdowns in London. J ROOM 7 ART --- The Grade two students of Room 7, Lucan Public School, show off their paper sculptures representing various characters in "The Tales of Beatrix Potter". 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