Times Advocate, 1994-03-02, Page 24Page 24
Times -Advocate, March 2, 1994
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Angela Clarke says the displays of "shamrocks" at Clarke's Food Market are growing quickly,
This is just one display behind the counter. As it gets bigger more customers get curious, ask
what it's for, and end up donating themselves.
Two weekly shows by April
Local churches
doubling televised
Sunday broadcasts
EXETER - Local church services
on television are a hit, and the group
behind the cameras is expanding its
programming.
The Eternal Life Video Ministry
will be adding a show to its program
each Sunday morning, starting April
3. An early show at 9:30 a.m. will
join the programming, and the 11
a.m. service will continue as before.
"Our video and audio quality
should be much
better than it
used to be," said
Harold Dev-
ries, one of
the members
of the four -
church tele-
vised ministry.
Devries said Ex-Cen Cable Televi-
sion is adding new equipment to al-
low those video taping the services
to better exploit the quality of the
newer video cameras, and micro-
phone arrangements.
"It will simply be a more profes-
sional product," said Dcvrics.
The Eternal Life Video Ministry
first went on the air on the commu-
nity cable channel in November
1992, with the aim of making the
Exeter are more aware of the four
churches involved in the project:
the Exeter Christian Reformed
Church, the Exeter Pentecostal
Tabernacle, the Emmanuel Baptist
Church, and the Exeter Bible Fel-
lowship.
Although they offer different ap-
proaches to Christianity, the four
churches
have em-
braced the
video pro-
gramming as a
way of getting
their messages
out.
The shows have
been successful,
even more than the organizers
expected.
"We're discovering many, many
people are watching it," said Dev-
ries. "More people are watching
than we thought."
The videotaped services are
broadcast on channel 10 on ca'!e
television in Exeter, Centralia, Hu-
ron Park and Dashwood.
You Can Fix
It Corner.
By David Eastwood
Q• Dear Dave - Why does my freezer stop working when
it g colder outside. Can I fix it?
P. Jones, RR I Hensall.
A•From your letter, 1 can guess thatP
ou keep your freezer in
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an unheated room of your home. Your frcczcr is probably still
working, it is just not running at this time due to the excessive cold.
The reason is, your freezer works on a temperature sensor and it is
sensing the cold from the room. It the contents arc thawing, you
have two choices: One, if the room temperature is below freezing,
prop up the lid and the contents will freeze. Or, you can put a space
heater in the room and have it blow on the freezer.
fal
• Dear Dave - i have a solid marble mantle above my
replace. I have found a chip in the corner, it Ls almost an
inch in size. Can I fix it?
Y. Duhame, Grand Bend.
A•You arc going to need a package of two-part epoxy, Yx. some
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painter's whiting, powdered mineral pigment, two-inch masking
tape, a fine paint hrush and some fine and very fine wet/dry sand-
paper. Start by creating a mold around the chip. Using the masking
tape, make the mold deeper and wider than the chip. Next, make a
test patch, by mixing enough whiting to a small amount of resin to
have a thick paste, then add the pigment and hardener.
After it has hardened, check it against the marble. If your colour is a
good match, make enough to fill the mold. While the epoxy is still
sticky, use the paint hrush and pigment to create the streaking effect.
Let the patch harden overnight and then remove the tape. Use a
spray bottle to keep the arca wet and start sanding in a circular mo-
tion. Use plenty of water, it prevents scratching of the surrounding
area and aid the sanding process. You may want to use a sanding
block to help keep the finish smooth and flat. The sanding can take
a long time, so be patient.
If you have any questions for the You Can Fix It Corner, please send
them to David Eastwood, care of the Times -Advocate, Box 850, Ex-
eter Ontario,.NOM 1 S6.
Questions can be on anything from household repairs, automotive,
recreational equipment, or whatever else is broken and needs fixing.
A shamrock hall of fame
Lucan store raising funds
for VON Palliative Care
LUCAN - Clarke's Food Market in Lucan is running
a unique campaign to collect donations for the Mid-
dlesex VON Palliative Care. Each donor gets his
name on a paper shamrock for display in the store -
and the number of shamrocks is growing by leaps and
bounds.
"Everybody has somebody they know who needs
this service," explained one customer who had just
made a donation.
Angela Clarke agrees. A member of the VON advi-
sory committee for Middlesex, she said her daughter
Mary's idea to run the shamrock campaign sounded
great. A 25¢ donation or rnore buys a shamrock for
the display. Since it•started Valentine's Day $50 has
already been taken from the jar, and more is in there
now. The store also sells Nevada tickets which also
benefit Palliative Care.
"The Palliative Care gets very little from the govern-
ment," said Clarke, noting that the program lies on the
"fringes" of the Ministry of Community and Social
Services.
It allows terminally ill patients to spend their last
days at home, with the aid of a VON nurse, and Clarke
says that is so important to those facing a terminal ill-
ness.
The VON's next big fundraiser is a Strathroy dinner
auction in June.
Clarke says she will continue to collect shamrocks
and donations until St. Patrick's Day on March 17, and
she wonders how many of the green decorations will
be on the store's walls by then. One little girl even
made donations in the name of her cat and dog, and
their names are up on their own shamrocks.
The shamrock idea fits in well, said Clarke, both for
St. Patrick's Day, and for Lucan in general.
"Everything's Irish in this town," she said.
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