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Granton
by Muriel Lewis
asommemommommuc
GRANTON - The • Anglican par-
ish Bible Study group met- at Mar-
garet Oeldey's home last Wednes-
day afternoon when the study topic
was quilt.
At the St Thomas' Anglican
Chfuth 'on 'Sunday; the • Rev: 'Ste-
phen Emery led the Communion
service and his message was about
Humility before Ood and Forgive-
ness of sin. Robert Parkinson read
the lessons and led the prayers for
Canada.
At the Granton United Church on
Sunday, Bev Rabbets •of St. Marys
took charge of the service when the
sermon was entitled "What is our
purpose?"
The children's time was led by
April Bryan and the choir sang
Wonderful Peace
Granton WI
Alma Nicholson was the hostess
for the Granton Women's Institute
last Tuesday evening.
Muriel Lewis opened the meeting
and read -the Feel of -being Happy.
Members answered the roll call
with a smile for the day.
The program topic was Canadian
Industries when Elsie Dann demon-
strated a house composter and told
about a larger one she had pur-
chased from the township. She also
read A Season to Count Blessings,
a story Lest We Forget Flanders,
and Accept Mye Full Heart',
Thanks.
Alma Nicholson assisted with
two readings "The Magic Onion"
and "Yesterday, Today and Tomor-
row" which were read for her by
Florence McRobert
A report of the recent London
arca Convention held at Ailsa Craig
was given by the co -delegates
Olive Hodgins and Muriel Lewis.
Business discussion included in-
formation on courses available,
loonies for the establishment of the
F.W.I.O. headquarters and support
for the W.I. book which will com-
memorate the centennial in 1997
Arrangements were also made for
the next meeting.
During the social time, a crash
course in baseball etiquette was
given by the active fans and every-
one enjoyed the Jays versus Braves
World Series game in Toronto.
Varna
by Joan Beierling
VARNA - Varna 4H girls "The
Fned Chicks" mct for their sixth
and final meeting before Achieve-
ment on Tuesday.
"What's Left was the title for this
meeting. Roll call was to suggest a
use for the "leftovers" from eggs -
egg shells and .egg - cartons. Then
the girls judged eggs giving each
egg so many points for size, val-
our, shape and texture. Achieve-
ment was discussed and their was
some time for finishing up books.
Leaders of this club are Lorraine
"faylor and Joan Beierling.
U.C.W. members in Varna are
-reminded-of their monthly.haheeting .:
Thursday, November 5 to be held
at the Church at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 8 Remem-
brance Day services will be held in
both churches at regular times.
Their will be a short service at the
cenotaph in Varna following Var-
na Church service.
Flower; placed in Varna and
Goshen Church on Sunday were in
memory of Brenda Buruma and
Helen Keys fathers' death, David
Colclough of Huron Park. Our
sympathy encl. prayers arc with
thein and their families at this
umc.
The young people's youth group
lcd by Bev and Don Robinson of
Brucefteld was held Friday night
with volleyball at the Brucefield
School with youth groups from Se-
brmgvillc and Rostock. Games
were enjoyed at the church follow-
urg. Next meeting is Sunday No-
vember I. They are to .meet at the
Brucefield Church at 6:45 p.m. for
a trip to the funeral home.
The Stan Lee Club is reminded
of the luncheon and entertainment
at Huronview on Tuesday Novem-
ber 10. All members arc asked to
- bring cookies or squares Those
not entertaining will be joked .to
prepare and serve the food.
Their regular meeting will be
November 18 which will take the
form of a tour of Stratford Theatre.
Members are asked to be at the co -
complex by 11 a.m., where rides
will.be *ranged. Lunch will be in a
,. Stroked nealaurant with the tour
gwdesa1-s.
Queensway Nursing Home In Hensall held their annual craft and bake sale Wednesday, with
donations made by residents, families, volunteers and staff. Proceeds go to resident council
where residents have input into how funds are spent. In the past, monies have been used for
such things as a sound system, keyboard and Christmas tree. As an added bonus, this year
staff from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce decided to do a community protect, focus-
sing on seniors. They helped by selling quilt raffle tickets and each staff member baked vari-
ous goods to be sold at Queensway. Shown lending a helping hand are: CIBC's Dianne
DeWys (left), auxiliary volunteer Mary Roobol and Brenda Dayman, also of CIBC.
1 Awn, rill' /at, y
Ii111FOUAIIC e
Bureaucracy knows no boundaries
EXETER - East is east, and west is west, and
sometimes the two do meet. One connecting link is
a Jesuit priest whose remarkable work in the Dar-
jeeling district of India is supported by many people
within the area covered by this newspaper.
In 1948 Father Murray Abraham, a native of
North Sydney, Cape Breton, first went to India. Be-
lieving that if you feed someone you help that per-
son for a day, but if you teach him to provide for
himself, you have helped him for a lifetime, he in-
spired the poorest of the poor to build themselves
an elementary school.
As students need money for books and school
supplies and living expenses, and running a school
costs money. Father Abraham conceived a way to
produce some cash.
In 1967 Brucefield farmer Malcolm Davidson, a
remarkable man in his own right, 'visited Father
Abraham to help set up a corn and hog operation so
that children, by assisting, could earn their way
through school. Unfortunately, Davidson was killed
in a tragic accident soon after retuning to Canada,
but the agricultural program hfld been well founded,
and has been astoundingly successful.
A flock of Shaver hens, hardy birds developed in
Ontario, were soon laying eggs and providing valu-
able fertilizer.
In 1972 Davidson's widow Jane and her five chil-
dren travelled to India to see the work for them-
selves. Jane was soon assigned her own flock of
hens.
Spotting Jane doing embroidery, Father Abraham
asked her to pass on her skills to the Indian women.
Though she doubted that such gnarled, work -worn
hands could accomplish such a delicate task, Jane
began teaching. She soon learned "there is nothing
they can't do". Now, between 40 and 50 women
busily tum out saris, placemats. and other items as
beautiful as they are useful. And saleable.
Jane is an enthusiastic supporter of Father Abra-
ham. When the priest is in Canada on one of his in-
frequent tnps outside -India, Jane has-been his -Most
She invites people she thinks would be interested in
this projext to sheet tint. Those wishing 10 contrib-
ute financially are asked w send the equivalent of
doing without dessert once a week.
Now, four decades after such modest beginnings,
Father Abraham can point to both an elementary
and a high school, thriving flocks of hens, a herd of
pigs, a herd of dairy cows, and Saint Alphonsus So-
cial and Agricultural Centre (SASAC), a cooperd-
tive community living enclave for graduate scholar-
ship students and their families. The graduates go
out among tic villages to pass on what they have
teamed.
"They arc sell poor, .but they have tremendous
power and clout," Jane noted recently.
Jane is currently at SASAC. She has been back
more than 40 times, taking with her friends of Fa-
ther Abraham to experience for themselves third
was almost/100 percent This approach was even
better than fay original plan. It meant we would not
only be able to plant thousands of trees, but in the
process we would be edgcating and involving all
our village people in our vi vo our Himalayan
cnvuexhment. Better still, our village people
get to nurturing different varieties of "baby" trees
on their own land, their babies, they will learn to
"love" and respect also the trees in our forests. I al-
most felt like going down and bussing my bureau-
cratic forest friend on his beak. 1f he hadn't been a
glazed -eyed codfish, I would never have recruited
an array of villagers in our reforestation campaign.
Scenario lip: Enter Felix. an "old Boy" of St. Al-
phonsus. At school he was educated through our
surveys and exhibitions: "All About Food", "All
About Water", "All About Trees". Later be got him-
self Iwo degrees, one in agriculture, one as a social
worker. He is probably the most active ecologist in
our area.
Unbeknown to me, Felix went and controoted our
bureaucratic codfish.
"How can you stop Father Abe from punting
trees? Our government's new policy is people -par-
ticipation in forest protection. Father is warkiag
with thousands of our people. You're a; govarwn9gt
official from Calcutta. I warn you our bill people
are noi.goiagtolikelbis."
I regret to say at this point Fells bet;awc obit dike
a shark having a "friendly" 4jalggue,wilha ggdfNh,
The codfish got the'ms. je. "Aix bad.teedtteiy
unglazed his eyes, Now the DFO 1w cloatly aur
world living conditions, like making one-half buck-
et of water last for all drinking, cooking and hygen-
ic daily needs. The tours also include visits to New
Delhi and the Taj Mahal.
All contributors receive a monthly newsletter
from Father Abraham. The epistles reveal the man's
wit and compassion. Here is the September missive.
Dear Friends:
Peace! Joy! Love!
Now I know - really I do - that you must be grow-
ing weary of Father Abe's Fairy Tales. But how can
I help it if God fills my life with Cinderella's slip-
pers, Jacks' bean stalk and Dick Whittington's mar-
velous cat? its all very embarrassing, really. I walk
on water. I multiply loaves. I fill fishermen's nets
with fish to bursting point. I sow seeds that produce
a hundredfold. I don't do all this. Jesus does it and
He does it through you. You really are the author of
my fairy tales. I am only the narrator. Your love,
your concern for the poor makes me a Flans Chris
tian Anderson. You arc the little boy supplying the
loaves. Jesus blesses them. And my young maple
and 1 feed the multitude on the mountainside.
Scenario 1: This year 1 determined that on the 100
acres of naked, treeless government forest land
above SASAC, we would plant thousands of sap-
lings. For the last month, a hundred of our poor
workers have been preparing this land for our tree -
planting campaign. Then our local forest Beat Offr-
cer warned me I would get into trouble if 1 planted
saplings on government land. So I went to the Dis-
trict Forest Officer.
When I told him 1 wanted to plant trees on Gov-
ernment Forest Land, he looked at me as if I had
asked him permission to use his nose for a door-
knob.
"But -but -but -you can't plant trees on government
land!"
In my most patient manner I said: "For the 43
years I've been in India, the Forest Deparunent has
not stopped people from wantonly cutting down
-trees and destroying this forest. But now you're go-
ing to stop us from replanting it. Come. walk with
me now from Kurseong and 'lung and let's count
the landslides together. And by the way, have you
ever heard of the West Bengal and Bangladesh
floods - year after year''"
Ah, brothers and sisters rine. 'twos no use. As
government regulations ran through his bureaucratic
brain like haunting ghosts, his eyes glazed over. His
stare reminded me of the codfish look I knew so
well as a Bluenose boy. But is there any point trying
to reason with codfish at the bottom of a dory'! I left
him, his mouth slowly opening and closing in silent.
incredulous protest; in that. tiro, very much like a
codfish gasping for breath.
Scenario 1I: 1 return to SASAC a discouraged but
not defeated man. 1 send out some of my men to the
villages around us. Would they let us plant trees on
their waste land? To my amazement, the response
tree -planting campaign is a gift frim God.
Scenario IV: So while monsoon rains pour like
mini-Niagaras all over our mountainside - creating
excellent conditions for sapling planting - our work-
ers (the poorest, remember, widows, the deaf, in
retarded, die cripples, and so, so many up -to -now
frustrated, jobless, bitter young men and women) all
in teams of 20 are swarming over the steep moun-
tain land above us. like busy, .buzzing, contented
honeybees in a flower garden. Our poor, simple vil-
lage people know, perhaps better than the sophisti-
cated ecological experts at the Rio Earth Summit, if
there is no future in our forests, there is no future
for the human race.
Brothers and sisters mine, 1 know sonic of you
may be asking yourselves "Why is he planting trees.
Shouldn't be be preaching the Good News? That's
just the point. 1 think trees are part of the Good
News. "0 let the earth bless the Lord. And you,
-ir+outttains ea& hills, 0 bless the Loud. And you,.all
plants of the earth, 0 bless the Lord. To Him be
highest glory and praise forever!"
I have no trouble at all imagining that the Jesus
who waked part of his lift as a carpenter in Naza-
reth serving and helping his neighbour, if he were
here. would be out on our mountainside working
with our poor workers, planting trees to save our
titwaad -fpr future generation of His Father's chil-
dren.
Your brother in Darjeeling,
Father Abraham S.J.