The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-06-19, Page 10Page 10—The Wingham Advance -Times, June 19,
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Is guest speaker
at UCW meeting
The United Church Women
of Wingham United Church
preceded their June meeting
with dessert and coffee on
Monday evening off last
week. Mrs. Stan Orien in-
troduced the speaker, Miss
Martha Veldhuis of the
Dundas Greenhouses.
Surrounded by her colorful
plants, she provided in-
formation on various plants,
using scripture references
and quotations. Everyone
enjoyed her talk.
Mrs. Stewart Leedham,
UCW president, welcomed
all present. Ladies from
neighboring churches joined
the UCW members. Mrs.
Sinclair Wardrop led a
singsong, with Mrs. Ernie
Walker at the piano. Andrea
Grant favored the group with
piano solos and Mrs. Jim
Ritter sang two numbers.
A -worship service closed
the meeting. Those taking
part were Mrs. Murray
Taylor, Mrs. Art "Laidlaw,
Mrs. Bill Hanula and Mrs.
Ernie Walker.
Communion held
at St. Andrew's
The Sacrament of Holy
Communion was observed
Sunday at St. Andrew's,
Presbyterian Church in
Wingham. Rev. Paul Mills
officiated and was assisted
by Jack Whytock of
Whitechurch, a student at
Regent College in Van-
couver, who will assist in the
ministry at St. Andrew's for
the summer months.
Mr. Whytock played a
violin s0'lo, "Bless This
House", accompanied by
Mrs. Julia Mills on' the piano.
Since it was Father's. Day,
Mr. Mills paid tribute to
fathers: Speaking af-
fectionately about his own
father, he said it is a won-
derful thing to have a good
father. The choir sang the
anthem "All Creatures of
God and King".
"A song for the sick and
sinful" was the subject Mr.
Mills chose for his sermon,
giinghope to those who are
haunted by failure and sin:
"Forget not all His benefits
for He forgives all your
sins," he quoted.
After the sermon, the
Sacrament . of the Lord's
Supper was conducted.
Mr. Mills thanked all those
who helped make the spring
luncheon .last Friday a
success.
Slides shown
of trip to Haiti
Eleven members and two
visitors heard Mrs. Jim
Hunter of Belgrave when she
was the guest speaker at the
"World Affairs" meeting of
the Lakelet Women's In-
stitute held at the home of
Mrs. Earlicavelman on June
6.
She spoke- about farming
and showed slides of her tour
of Haiti.
The meeting was opened
by the president, Mrs. Lyle
Murray. Devotions were
read by Mrs. Derril Hall-
man.
• Mrs. Jake Versteeg will
present the WI pen set to the
most improved student in the
special education class at
Howick Central School.
Mrs. Earl Kavelman re-
ported on the 4-.H Club.
The motto "Travel broad-
ens the mind was written
by Mrs. Harry Judge and
read by Mrs. Emmerson
Fergus -on.
Mrs. Don Juno gave a
report of the district annual.
It will be held in Gorrie next
year.
The next meeting in
August will be held at the
home of Mrs. Lyle Murray.
Debbie Coghlin will be . the
speaker. It will be a youth
meeting and young people
able invited.
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visitor at
meeting
Canadians are lucky they
live in a democracy, Huron
County Council was told re-
cently by Soloman Silassie.
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Mission, is a graduate of
Columbia University in New
York.
hle said he is impressed
with the amount of
democracy in Canada.
"There is a tremendous
amount of debate,"te said.
He noted he has heard bit-
ter debates at the national
level on television and was
amazed at the smoothness of
the debates within county
council.
"It's what the world needs,
this kind of democracy," he
said.
Mr. Silassie and his wife
are holidaying at the home of
Warden Paul Steckle and his
wife, Kathy of RR 2, Zurich.
Mrs. Steckle's sister and
brother-in-law are involved
in the Christian Blind Mis-
sion. It was through this con-
nection that the Silassie's
decided to take a holiday in
Canada.
"It's the first time di my
memory that someone from
that far abroad has address-
od these chambers," Warden
Steckle commented.
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UCW SPEAKER—Martha Veldhuis, a greenhouse owner from Dundas, addressed
the June meeting of the Wingham United Church Women. Miss Veldhuis spoke about
the care and nurturing of plants, using scripture references and quotations from the
Bible.
MRS. LEWIS STONEHOUSE
Belgrave Personal Notes
(Intended for last week)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Grasby spent the weekend in
Ilderton. On Saturday even-
ing they were entertained by
their family, Mr. and Mrs.
Gary Leitch and family, Mr.
and Mrs. George Johnston
and family on the occasion of
their 40th wedding anniver-
-sary at the_Great West Beef
Restaurant in London. On
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Leitch hosted a surprise
smorgasbord dinner at their
home for relatives and
friends from Ilderton, Brus-
sels, Belgrave, Thorndale
and London,
Don Vincent of Riverview,
New Brunswick, spent the
weekend with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Vin-
cent.
The, Family and Consumer
Affairs meeting of -thea WI
will be held in the hall on
June 18 at 8:15 with the
speaker being the home
economist, Mary Anne
Yaromich, and as special
guests the 4-H leaders and
girls and Denise Nethery,
the Huron County Dairy
Pri.nc.es.s.,..L uoch..will..be.s exv-,..
ed by Mrs, Ross Higgins'and
Mrs. Evelyn James.
Knox Presbyterian Church
congregation held a pot luck
supper on Sunday evening at
the home of Mr, and' Mrs'.
Hebo Sierstema. Special
guests were the Rev. and
Mrs. Kenneth Innes, Troy
and Ryan of Winnipeg, Man-
itoba, formerly of Belgrave
and Brussels.
Mr. and Mrs. Les Vincent
spent Sunday) afternoon at
the home of their daughter,
and son-in-law, Mr, and Mrs"
Doug Mitchell of Hanover, in
honor of their 45th wedding
anniversary. Also attending
were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Vincent, Alex, Stuart and
Carrie Anne of Milton, Paul
Vincent' and Laura Jones of
Oakville, Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Taff of London, David Taff
and friend of Oshawa, Don-
ald Taff and friend of London
and Mr. and Mrs. Doug Taff
of St. Thomas.
Congratulations to Mrs.
Neil Vincent Who received
her Bachelor of Soienc'e4
degree in agriculture from
the University of Guelph, at
the convocation exercises
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held on Friday at the univer-
sity. Joan was presented
with the Roy Jewell Award
in Agricultural Communica-
tions at the awards banquet
held in the University Centre
at noon on Friday. Those at-
tending the convocation ex-
ercises were Neil Vincent,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Os-
borne, Joyce, Sheila and
Kevin Osborne and Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Vincent. Fol-
lowing the reception at the
university a family dinner
was held at the Bavarian
Inn in,Joan's honor.
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