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Many meter activitift at
Crediton United Church
CREDITON - This week will be
a busy time for Easter celebrations
at Crediton United Church.
Things get underway with a spe-
cial Good Friday service at 10 a.m.
on April 9.
At 8 a.rn. on Easter Sunday
morning, members of the United
Church Women and the Youth
Group will combine to sponsor a
special Sunrise Pancake Breakfast.
This will be followed by the reg-
ular morning worship service at 10
a.m. concluding with an Easter
Communion service.
Senior choir practice this week is
tonight, Wednesday at 8 p.m.
The regular monthly meeting of
-the Crediton Women's Institute was
field on March 24 at the home of
'Eleanor Roezler with Alma Davey
-end Cheryl McLeod in charge of
the programme.
Cheryl McLeod showed slides of
Pond Inlet, the farthest north settle-
ment in the world where she and
her husband Dave spent two years
teaching in the school there.
She showed a display of souve-
nirs from the north, told anecdotes
and taught a game played by the
people of the community when
they got together.
After the winter which seems es-
pecially long this year, none of the
wouldlIke
to gt#ltre where winter is
about 10 months long, there is no
daylight for several weeks of that
time, and, the, snow never com-
pletely melts in the summer.
A business meeting conducted by
Irene Haugh and lunch arranged by
Eleanor Roezler and Mary Kenney
followed the program.
Irene Richardson of St. Marys, a
lay minister, was the guest speaker
at Thursday night's regular meeting
of the Crediton United Church
Women. She spoke on the possibili-
ties of achievement for women if
they keep trying.
UCW president Eleanor Roeszler
was in charge of the program with
Evelyn Pickering, Joyce Preszcator
and Mary Kenney looking after the
lunch.
The Crediton and District Opti-
mists will be sponsoring an Easter
Egg Hunt this Saturday, April 10 at
the Crediton Community Park from
2-3 p.m. (rain or shine).
Also try your talents on a hand-
made Easter Bunny Puppet con-
structed from a brown paper lunch
bag (bring it with you). Cash prizes
will be awarded the day of the hunt.
Treats for everyone. All youngsters
between the ages of two and 11 arc
welcome.
Van by Joan Beierling
VARNA - Residents of the Varna
and Goshen area at the time of Rev.
and Mrs. Pitt's ministry here would
have enjoyed Ruby Hill's topic at
the April meeting of Varna
U.C.W., as those who were present
did.
The Pitt's came to Varna from
Newfoundland in 1951 and re-
turned to the .Island 11 years later.
Rev. Pitt bought a blue Hudson car
and learned to drive it when he
came here. There were no roads
connecting the outports where he
lived in those days.
Bill McNeill of Voice of the Pio-
neer radio program had once inter-
viewed Rev. Pitt's son David about
life in the outports, especially dur-
ing the Great Depres.ion, and in-
cluded that interview in his book.
Ruby read the chapter about him,
then a letter she received from him
in reply to her request about chang-
es in outport life in the intervening
years.
During the depression, destitute
families received 60 cents a day,
51.80 a month. David remembers a
happy childhood in spite of the
poverty. He was taught to read a:
an early age. He enclosed an article
written by his mother for a history
of the Wesleyville Church. She de-
scribed the sumptuous suppers the
church ladies served. Those who
were financially better off quietly
helped others to contribute to the
meals. The outports had beautiful
churches and there might be 700 at
Sunday Night Service in Wesley
ville. There were W.M.S. and W.A.
groups, Girl's Club, Y.P.U., Trail
Rangers, a good Sunday School
and`''Summer School. They put on
plays too.
Of course they always had a
three-point charge. The Pius were
active in choir and Mrs. Pitt played
the organ.
Their daughter Jean Hill of Bay-
field was a guest at our meeting,
and reminisced - about their life
too. She has two other brothers.
Marilyn Kalbfleisch led an Easter
Devotion based on the story of the
women at the tomb as found in
Mark 16.
President. Joyce Dowson opened
the meeting with a poem and
prayer,-.andan.auicie by Rob Wit-
mer of Japan_in the Mandate Maga-
mine.
Dorothy Chapman is speaking on
vier :trip to Russia at the Kippen
Thttnkoffering meeting on April 13.
Easter Sunday there will be an
:Easter Sunrise Service ai Bruce -
;field United Church at 7:30 a.m.
with breakfast to follow about 7:45.
Cost is adults 53.00 and children 12
ntttd under 51.00. This is a project
of the men of Kipper and Bruce-
, field and the "Teen Set".
Minor ball
There is one more day of Stanley
Township Ball Registration left.
Saturday, April 10 from 9-12 noon.
The cost is 512 per child and/or
520 per family. Coaches are also
needed.
Kevin and Arlene Bridge are be-
ing welcomed to the community.
They are the new owners of the
Varna Feed Mill and now live on
the Town Line. They have a daugh-
ter, Leisa in Grade one and a son
Scott in Grade 3.
Congratulations to Doug and
Joanne Reid on the birth of their
new baby boy.
BILL HASKETT
We're glad
you asked!
BOB FLETCHER
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Those people were not well informed. The first two weeks of
mourning are the most stressful, but the process of accepting
the death of a loved one lasts far longer. Mourning is a pro-
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Friends can help in this time by encouraging the bereaved to
carry through with the searching, yearning feelings he or she
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be moody, lonely or withdrawn. Those feelings should be al-
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