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Bake and Craft Sale in Grand Bend WI members and friends enjoy bus trip
The Grand Bend UCW held a Bake and Craft Sale in, the United
5 to raise. funds.. Among those selling their wares- were from left,
Chatham, UCW member Grady Kerslake, and president of the
Johnson.
Opinion
Hunger takes no holidays
It) Leonard :1. Lesser,
Lundun, Ontario
It is Augusi.autd southwestern,
Ontario Mims are bursting at arc
scams witf anotller bumper crop..
The curry Is as tall as a man's rye
and -the sup be:uls,. and wheat
fields are maturing as -1 si•nle:
What a svonderttil array ut eolith
that spring forth From `OUr riult
cartlftu• he hart•eslcd and enjoyed
by all.
The.. mothers and children of
South •Sudan are not so fortunate
as•v �, and are facing a civil war
:and slarvatieii."Ilia numhl,rs hog-
gle the mind. 1.2 million people
may die 11 there'is no intervention
by !he c,uiside world. This•is simi-
lar to the Holocaust of the Second
WurW War.: si,x million Jews died
with few raising a linger to infer-
- vene. ,We in Canada had an.
,excuse for our lack of caring. We
did nut know of thc.starvation and
plight of our fell;,w • human
I) ings. There was no -71'.V. or.
instant news to bring the ,world's
'travails to our family roosts, no
,stark pr.tuics of stal\!I L intarts
withrhloitted stomachs .old out-.
stretched lianas rcachlni. for a few
grains ill nourishment.
I. had -an interesting telephone
conversation with Philip Maher of
.World, Vision, regarding the
plight of the people of South
Sudan. He gavel the media "the
trews of the starvation of a people
and, the need to act tit save a
whole generation of children. 'lite
Mothers and children have lost
)heir hoinefi and are fared to lor-
age for leaves and roots to sustain
themselves. There are few pass-
able roads -and politics and reli-
pions intolerances shake the pith
to survival harder. Yet a few dedi-
•
i:ur.l people are II) InP to Make :1
lercnce.,The %onkets tt.tic
estahhslted feeding station-, Inn
1(1,000 Mothers a)ld their chilli: n
• supplying—wet:.luod-, unnius. :1
High protein purridgi-like sub
stance of be9ns and Iei•umcs for
those what are list) nta(nourishe`d
to eat. I00,(X)0 villagers a day are .
given "dry ttllSl to lake -home to
teed their lalnilies. Aict is not just
in .fhe li,rni 411 104,41, "There is a
saying that it you _•Ice a man
bread you have to Teed brill fur a
lifetime but if you give 11111) seed
and it plows he will. he, sellsuffi-
cient. World Vision is helping.ln
, the drilling of wells and providing
seeds and turns for planting in
order that the cycle ut.starvatioih
and hunger might he ended.
, What are our options.' We -cant
ignore the problem and let L:2
million people" die_or we van
become iii ol\ ed. fray er Is tine
solution hut In itself will not seditc
the problem. You k "nut Iwse 1,1
11y to Africa and leavc.your lou-
_ing famnily•hLhind or -tie up your
home air fiord. The solutio)) is oh
so simple. •Make a phone call to 1-
800-262(-165I.VVorld Vision and
dciirue-,t -acs' dollars to save -a
child's Zile. We hate hien blessed
with a bountiful hall % est and are
lurtunate to live in the hest Coun-
try in the world._ 1 sincerely'
believe that Canadians ore willing
• to help starving children. •
"Most men lorik at things !u the
are and wander Why? 1.dreanl or
- things that never were .and ask
Why -not?' - -
Lc•n I:e.%si•r i.c (l speeiali.ii in
g(id.ance p1•0(Idirix `personal,
. educational and carrier c'nHii-
.selling for families. Ile can be
reached at 5/9-•134-h'3/1, , •-
Church basement on Aug.
hat maker Joan Cooper of
Grand Bend UCW Evelyn
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(.'anon Michael (nitlin ul Stratford
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curator Ro,ella Clancy of Sterling
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history. hook -s were :et up which
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