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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1984-09-26, Page 11gives us His love and forgiveness, not what we deserve, but what we really need." Refreshments were served after the service. Personals Mrs. Lois Herbert visited a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hall and baby Jason of Strathroy. Best Interest 12 5/8% Guaranteed Investment Certificates 'subject to change Gaiser.Kneale Insurance Brokers Inc. EXETER 235-2420 GRAND BEND 238-8484 CLINTON GODERICH 482-9747 524-2118 Pa . e 10 Times -Advocate Se . tember 26 1984 WIN REC TITLE The Mount Carmel Bullets recently won the Exeter and district rec fastball championship. Bock, left, Brad Ford, Steve Johns, Bill Hodgins, Bud Ryan, Paul McCann and Dave Cooper. Front: Bill McCann, Rich Webb, Jerry McCann, Shawn Gillespie, John Ross, Dave Prout and John Gillespie. Granton 441 club try new breakfast recipes By MRs. E. $UMM[R$ n The second meeting Granton 4-I( club was held at the home of Colleen Rollings on September 17. The meeting opened with the 4-H pledge followed by the roll call answered by "What was your comment on the breakfast recipe you tried at the last meeting?" Six members were present. We read the manual instruc- tions for the meeting. Colleen and Lisa made corn chowder, then the members stuffed pita bread with sandwich filling which was tasty. Louise Mardlin, secretary Church news At Granton United Church Rev. Bruce Pierce was in charge of morning worship. Taking the text for his sermon from Ephesians IV verses 7 to 16. The minutes entitled his message "The goal of the church". It is not enough to accept Christ as your Saviour and never go any farther", said the minister. To reach the perfection tound in Christ, that is our goal in the church. This is something that you and I are committed to do. We must not stop, no matter how high the standard. Unity of Spirit and giving ourselves to God's pur- pose, that too should be our goal for the church. During the service a church mirror was dedicated in memory of the late Pearl Dann, donated by her family. Mrs. Robt Hardie made the presentation. Anglican church St. Thomas Anglican Church celebrated their harvest thanksgiving service on Sunday morning. The church was nicely decorated with flowers, fruits and vegetables. Rev. Peter Derrick was the celebrant of the holy eucharist, assisted by David Jones as server and John Jones as crucifer. Mrs. Nor- man Hodgins was the organist and accompanied the soloist, Mrs. Jim Hodgins who sang "Shepherd of Love". The epistle was read by Kenneth Beatson and the gospel of the day by the rec- KATIMAVIK CLOWNS — Lynn McCartney, Jack Watt and Jonni Ebel from the Exeter Katimavik group ap- peared in Saturday's Exeter Fair parade as clowns. Denture Therapy Clinic Charles Dosa 451 Main St. S., Exeter Opposite side of Canadian Tire Phone 235-2889 Home: 1-434-1101 Call collect 4 Debentures, G.I.C.s, R.R.S.P.s Canada Savings Bonds Contact Joan Love RR 3 Parhill, Ontario NOM 2K0 Phone Grand Bend 238-2644 YOUNG ENTERTAINERS — The Hill family from Granton provided some of the sing- TAKiNG AIM — Dave Holtzmann and Mike Brintnell ing entertainment at the Exeter Fair Friday night. From the left are Brianna, Mat - participate in Legion Week sports night at the R.E. thew and Jonathon Hill. They were accompanied by their mother Anne.T-A photo Pooley Exeter branch, Wednesday. T -A photo HELP FOR MAGICIAN — Melvin Stade of Dashwood gives magician Earl Heywood some help at the Friday night program at the Exeter Fair. 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In the semi-final the Pan- thers defeated Parkhill 4-0 on two successful shots by Julie Russell and single scores by Kelly Johns and Pauline Brand. in quarter final play, the South Huron girls shut out Glencoe 4-0 on single goals by Julie Russell, Lee O'Rourke, Kendra Arthur and Pauline Brand. ADAM Heating & Cooling E_ • Heating Systems: E of all types INSTALLED, MODERNIZED and MAINTAINED • General Sheet Metal Work • Air Conditioning • Humidifiers • Ventilation 235-2187 133 Huron St. East, Exeter lit nrmnrrinufunnnnnin1iniunni; FIRST IN CANADA — Exeter Fair was chosen as the site for the first public display of Radio Shack's new satellite dish which will give TV viewers access to hundreds of channels. Shown with Gary MacLean (left) is Ron Hunter, national sales manager dealer division, Radio Shack, Canada. .Prepare Your Roof For Winter Give your home top protection with Esgard asphalt shingles. Special while quantities last * Dark Brown only 210 °8.49 bdl. } Cedar Roofmaster 15 only $ 1 2.29 bdl. Other colours available HOME/a, LL at regular prices BUILDING CENTRE Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Phone 228-6638 Open Mon. - Fri. 8 - 6 Sat. 8 - Noon 1 tor. The Rev. Derrick preach- ed his sermon from Matthew 20 verses 1 to 16. "The Lord Computers for 4-H group The Exeter 4-H Computer Club met at the home of Jerry and Mary DeBoer on September 19 with five members present. Mary DeBoer welcomed everyone and after introduc- tions, gave a brief introduc- tion to the Computer Club and general requirements needed to complete the club. The election of officers was then head. Results were as follows: president, Heather Browning; vice-president, Heather Hern; secretary, Brenda Vanderlaan; press reporter, Tim Nethercott. Jerry DeBoer gave the history of computers and everyone answered some questions to completed the quizzes in the members' book. 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In our culture we have the ceremony of bap- tism or dedication at birth, bir- thday ceremonies celebrating each year of life, commence- ment ceremonies marking the accomplishment of education, and wedding ceremonies celebrating the union of two people. The funeral is a ceremony in which we mark the end of a life. A philosopher once said "Show me how a culture cares for their dead and i'II tell you about their value of life." The reason we have ceremony is because we place major value on those significant life events which mark a change in the state of life or a passage. in the funeral ceremony we especially show our value of life, as is indicated by the philosopher, because the very thing we are commemorating is the life which was lived by the deceased. We have all heard the statement "When I die just put me in a garbage bag and cremate me." This statement is a selfish one. Humanly speaking, there is nothing we can do for a dead person which should indicate to us that the funeral ceremony is for the benefit of the living. As with most ceremonies, the funeral has risen out of human need. It would take books to describe every psychological value of a funeral, but for our purposes, let us just look at a brief overview of some of these values. When someone we love dies, every fibre of our beings attempts to find some way to avoid admission to this death. Without admission to the death, we would be living in a mental fantasy which is of course, psychologically unhealthy. When our eyes are assaulted with the reality of the death in viewing the dead per- son's body, it is near impossi- ble to escape admission to the death. Visitation allows us to share the pain of our grief with friends who help us remember accurately the life of the deceased. Grief shared is grief dissipated—meaning that the intensity of our pain is lessened. We then have a funeral service which often reaffirms religious beliefs and helps us to have hope for the future. The disposition of the body represents the separation of the living from the dead in that we leave the body in a cemetery or crematorium and go back to society. If a person truly wants his survivors to "get over" his death as quickly and as painlessly as possible, he will have a funeral ceremony. The pain of grief will surface sooner of later. If we choose to handle this grief in a healthy manner, we will be much bet- ter off as a society. The choice is ours to make. Are funerals barbaric? In the light of this writing, it could be more accurately said that not to mark the end of the most valuable of all human possessions, that being life itself, would be barbaric. Perhaps we should re-examine the value of our life and begin to celebrate it daily. For more information about the funeral ceremony and its reflection of the value of life, contact your local OFSA funeral director. This article written by Bruce Armstrong, a practic- ing funeral director from Port Colborne, is meant to help us understand how the funeral has value. Your area Ontario Funeral Service Members are ://1/e/)e—e (RV ARMSTRONG FUNERAL HOME 04.01E ?33'270 ROHFLETCHER 11. niuutt ttt.d 'tin FUNERAL HOME 223 Main St. Lucan 227-4211