Times Advocate, 1991-04-17, Page 8Page 8
Times -Advocate, April 17, 1991
FAMILY
Life at
its best
By Pastor Jeannie Udall
Where's our future?
Last Wednesday, over 400 children, from five neighbouring public
schools, gathered together in Exeter for a ChoirFest. After working
hard all day long, the event was topped off with a special perfor-
mance for all the parents.
If the kids were disappointed that no more than a dozen adults
showed up, it sure didn't come out in their music. No macer how
badly you might think your kid sings - put in with 399 others, and
everyone sounds good!
How heart-warming it is to hear the voices of our children singing
about fishing on the shores of Nova Scotia, or weathering storms on
the sea of life.
These children are our future!
That really hit home as the young students, uniting their voices,
sang a lullaby to the babies they one day hope to have. They sang of
a world full of beauty. They sang of nature as something to be ad-
mired.
What kind of a world are we preparing to pass on to our children?
There is no country that has more bodies of water in it than Canada.
Yet, thousands of our lakes are completely dead! All life forms in
those lakes have been killed by acid rain.
Toxic wastes leak into our drinkin* water. Even 'fresh' fruits are
sprayed with poisons that we can neither see nor taste. The green-
house effect warming our climate throughout the whole world threat-
ens to turn our farmlands into deserts.
Highly toxic chemicals are stored in warehouses all over the coun-
try. Canada is not immune to having industrial accidents such as that
in Bhopal in India, or the nuclear blow-out at Chemobyl in Russia.
Sure, we worry about how pollution damages our air, water and
land. But when we all have a million -and -one things to do in our
lives...Well, it just seems we haven't the time or the energy to do
something about these issues.
Besides - don't we have some experts to look after that?
The truth is - we are all experts! When it comes to environmental
issues, each one of us are called to learn together - the scientists, en-
vironmentalists, industry, government and, yes, you, the general pub-
lic!
If our children are to have children, then we all need to learn to
change the way in which we make use of the earth's natural resourc-
es. We need to live in a way that doesn't overuse non-renewable re-
sources - like lakes.
We need to stop being destructive to our earth!
Responsibility for Creation
It would seem that the teal obstacles to a clean environment are not
technological or scientific. What we lack is the moral will to do
something about our earth.
In his book, Caring for Creation, David G. Hallman suggests that
we are all guilty of two sins: the sin of commission in that we have
created environmental problems, and the sin of omission in not doing
more about them.
It is the image of steward that offers us a vision of a new way for
us to relate to creation. As stewards we can protect and care for our
earth rather than conquer and exploit as we have done in the past and
continue to do even now.
A steward is a manager and not an owner. Its true stewards hold a
most prestigious position, speaking on behalf of the owner, being tak-
en into the confidence of the owner. But, nevertheless, still only the
manager and not the true owner.
As stewards of creation, our role becomes one of caretaker or gar-
dener. We simply are not the owners, entitled to do as we wish. For
ultimately, we did not create the world.
Learning to live with the rest of creation, in a role of steward, will
inean humility for all of us. This humility starts with accepting that
we do not own the earth; it is God's.
As our children sing to us of beauty, majesty and hope for our
world, think again about how you fit into our world. Allow your faith
to motivate you to take on the role of steward of the earth.
Rotary Club of Grand Bend
receives charter
GRAND BEND - The newly es-
tablished Rotary Club of Grand
Bend will formally receive its
charter from Rotary International
on Friday, May 3, 1991 in a gala
event to be held in the new con-
vention facilities at Oakwood Inn.
Patrick McAvinchey, District
Governor of Rotary District 633
will travel from Davidson Michi-
gan to make the presentation to the
expected 250 Rotary members and
guests assembled from across On-
tario and Michigan.
The keynote speaker for the eve-
ning will be former Ontario Pre-
mier William Davis. Davis was
first elected to the Legislature in
1959 and was appointed Educati,-
Minister in 1962. He succeee
Robarts as the leader of th(
rio Progressive Conservative Party
in February of 1971 and served as
Premier from March 1, 1971 until
February 8, 1985 when he was ap-
pointed as Canada's Special Envoy
on acid rain by the Prime Minister.
Since that time Davis has served as
director of several companies and
is counsel to the law firm of Tory
Tory Deslauriers and Binnington in
Toronto.
With the sponsorship of the Ro-
tary Club of London, The Rotary
Club of Grand Bend was formed
with 38 Charter Members. They
meet on Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. in
The Thirsty Fox on Highway 21
South in Grand Bend. Don Prowse
is the Club's first president.
The Charter Night festivities are
Zurich Women's Institute
ZURICH - The Zurich Women's
Institute held their monthly meet-
ing on Monday, April 1, in the
Hay Township Hall.
Ina Neebrand and Marg Munn
were in charge of the program.
They read interesting poems relat-
ing to the spring.
After the business portion of the
meeting, the annual election of of-
ficer for 1991-92 took place.
The following were re-elected -
Kay Hay, president, Bridget Groot,
first vice-president, Joan Smith,
secretary, Mary Waters, treasurer,
Ina Neeb was elected as second ;
vice-president, Margau Westlake,
coordinator and Ina Neeb, board di-
rector. The committee taw serveil a
tasty lunch,
Award winner - Tony Jones, left, recently received a Life Saver
Award from Huron County Medical Health Officer Dr. Maarten Bok-
hout.
Nurses week
BLYTH - May 6 - 11 is Nurses
Week and to mark this occasion the
Huron County Registered Nurses
are sponsoring a performance of
"RN (Real Nurse) at Blyth Memori-
al Hall on May 11 at 8 p.m. This
is a humorous musical production
aimed to appeal to everyone.
Nurses week is an opportunity to
recognize the contributions of all
nurses in the community as highly
trained professionals who have the
skills and knowledge to help in
hospitals, community health, nurs-
ing homes, industry or homes for
the aged.
Tickets for the performance of
RN (Real Nurse) may be purchased
from your local hospital or health
unit office. For more information
call 482-3416 or 1-800-265-5184.
RUMOR'S Hair Design
414 Main St., Centre Mall, Exeter
would like to welcome
Karen Smith
(formerly of KK's Hairstyling)
to their professional staff
Please call Sandy, Mari or Karen
at 235-0202 for an appointment (waxing is now available)
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