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Times -Advocate , MarCh 17,1993
Exeter Lion Youth Centre Drop In members Kara Farwell and Michelle Snow entertain fellow
club members with a friendly game of ping pong.
Blind children's boir from
Thalland tours southern Ontario
EXETER - A choir of 10 blind children from Khan
Kaon, Thailand,. will be touching down in Toronto on
April 13, to begin a concert tour through southern On-
tario, Manitoba and B.C. on behalf of the Christian
Blind Mission International (CBMI). The choir will be
at the Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle, on Wednesday,
April 28 at 7:30 pan.
"These childrenaretdynamite," reported Art Brook-
er, national direetorfrom LrBM1 Canada, "and they're a
beautiful testimony: to the work CBMI is doing around
the world to rehabilitate and educate disabled children
- children who. are often considered the 'unloveables'
of ourworld."
Brooker..had the: opportunity of seeing the .hearing
these _children Jai The Christian Foundation-: or she
Biind=last'May when fie was visiting CBMI-projects
throughout Thailand. "Believe me, these children -are
anything but untoveable."
The.concert will consist of musical packages by: -the
Thai choir, some personal ;stories by choir members,
drama and a multismediapresentation.
"All inall, we believe the concert will be a thorough-
ly enjoyable and hopefully aaprofoundly challenging
experience for all who come out," commented Brook-
er.
The tour is intended to raise awareness of the difCi-
%cult plight facing millions of blind children throughout
*he developing world. Accordn►gito4he World Health
Xrganization (WHO), 500,000 more children go blind
every year because of Vitamin A Deficiency.
"That's one chile every minute," stated Brooker.
"And that's just due to Vitamin A Deficiency."
In the developing world, blind children are not often
given much of a chance to discover their abilities.
WHO figures state that 90 percent of the world's blind
children have no schooling available to them. Many of
.these children endup begging on the street in their lo -
:cal village. In any major city in just about any lesser
.developed country.:blindbeggars, young and old alike,
can be found on busy street corners.
To address :.this serious and widespread problem,
CBMI supports 245 educational centres for blindinen,
women and children. One hundred of :these are
schools, like that established by The Christian Founda-
tion for the Blind, where studentsare taught braille,
daily living Skills and often a vocational skill. When-
ever possible the aim is to integrate these students into
the local regular school system.
- According to,Art:Brooker,the children of The Chris-
Aian Foundation>for_the Blind have a story to tell, "a
.compelling story of need, hope and love."
Kippen W1 1.arn4ibotg Russia
KIPPEN - President Grace
Drummond hosted the Kippen
East women's Institute February
resolutions meeting, which was
postponed due to bad weather until
Monday March 8.
Twelve members tamed out to
. hear the gust speaker Joyce Doig
of Seaford]. Doig spoke on her
1991 trip to Russia, she opened by
telling .that 450 men and women
made up the people to people An-
niversary Caravan to Russia. Trav-
elling from Toronto to New York
to Helsinki and finally to Moscow.
Doig's slides and presentation
were excellent., shE showed Red
Square which is inlaid with brick
and stone and is not smooth to
walk on.
Doig then went on to Siberia. It
was mentioned that they spent one
evening with the Mayor of each
city they visited.
Novi Sibirsk was another.beauti-
ful city :As was Samakand where
the group were shown the door, so
to speak: a large wooden. door dat-
ing back to 357 B.C.
Doig then took the women on to
Uzbekistan where she spent some
time with a family as every penton
travelling with the tour had to do.
She also attended a wedding in
Bukara. Then back to Moscow
where they saw the famous Fa-
berge eggs made of pure gold and
covered with jewels. These were
worth 7 million dollars. Then on to
Leningrad now known as St. Pe-
tersburg, the Venice of Russia. due
to its canals and miles of wrought
iron fences and gates. One mu-
seum the Hermitage held 2-3 mil-
lion.art exhibits. Doig had several
slides of the summer palace of
Catherine the Great, unlike .the
saying "All that glitters is not
gold" the gold in the palaces and
Cathedrals is pure gold and is kept
up for the tourists to enjoy.
Helen MacLean thanked Joyce
Doig and presented her with a tok-
en of appreciation.
The roll call was answered by
members telling where they would
:like .to.dive if they didn't live in
e .t7_oada.
liawaii, Sweden, Ireland, Eng-
land, Caribbean, Germany, Costa
Rica. Europe, Switzerland and Ber-
muda were all mentioned.
Rena Caldwell told a story to
bring a smile to the group's faces.
Fityllis Parsons had two contests
for us. Pass the parcel was won by
Helen MacLean and Identify the
dishes, drinks and food was`won
by Sadie Hoy.
President Grace Drummond
closed with a reading "Good For-
tune" Audrey Coleman gave cour-
tesy remarks.
BakingCIub busy at Queensway
HENSALL - The volunteer auxi-
lary held their monthly meeting
last Monday morning. Some dis-
cussion surrounded the recruitment
01 new volunteers and upcoming
volunteer opportunities. The next
auxiliary meeting will be April 5
at 10 a.m.
Reverend Mark Gaskin held a
Memorial . Service as part of the
weekly church service on Tuesday
afternoon. Those held in memory
included Stuart McEwen, Dorothy
Mann, Hilton Laing, Olive Taylor
and Dorothy Insley. Special thanks
to volunteer Joyce Pepper who
provided the music for the service.
The Christian Reformed singers
joined hymn singing Tuesday eve-
ning. 'Their songs combined with
sonic readings told events of the
Laster story. Everyone enjoyed
hearing the story through song.
'I he baking club gathered on
Thursday afternoon and made sev-
eral loaves of date and nut loaf.
Everyone pitched in to chop up
dates. nuts and mix a all together.
The date and nut loaves have been
saved for the volunteer apprecia-
tion party to be held March 17
from 2 - 4 p.m. at Queensway
Nursing home. All volunteers who
help out with resident activities,
provide entertainment at special
events, and all church groups who
help out at church services, are in-
vited to come and. be a part of our
volunteer day.
Upcoming events
March 17, 2-4 p.m. St. Patrick's
Day volunteer appreciation party.
March 23, 7 p.m. The Fellowship
Singers. March 25, 7 p.m. Monthly
birthday parry with Jack Simmon's
Band. April 1, 10 a.rn. - 3 p.rn.
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March8
Carpet bowling
3 gimes
June Hodgson - 3 wins, score 39
Marshall Dearing - 3 wins score 39
Wilma Davis - 2 wins score 25.
1 gine
Mildred Thomson - 1 win score 17
Cribbage
High - Ray Hodgson
Low - Charles Tindall
Don't forget the Poor Boy lunch-
eon the last Monday of March.
Please feel free to come and watch
the carpet bowling any Monday
morning or join us for a game if
you wish!
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