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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Goshen's Anniversary celebration Oct. 21
By Joan Beierling
VARNA CORRESPONDENT
VARNA - Thanksgiving as well as World
Wide Communion was celebrated on Sunday
in Varna Church.
Pastor Elly Van Bergen welcomed everyone
and gave the announcements about upcom-
ing events. Mayor Bill Dowson was wished a
Happy Birthday on Sunday. Birthday Wishes
were also extended to Bill Taylor and Gerald
Hayter on Oct. 10. Anniversary wishes go to
Tom and Barb Consitt, Leanne and Mike
Colclough and Arnold and Nora Keys.
At commencement Friday night at the
Clinton Central Huron Secondary School
youth from our area graduated. Congrats to
Stacey Consitt, Alysha Dowson, Cameron
Laurie and Robyn Taylor on the Roster of
High Achievers. Robyn Taylor was also an
Ontario Scholar as well as receiving the
Usborne and Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance
Company Adward.
The Huron County Women's Institute
Education Award was received by Stacey
Consitt. Cameron Laurie received the Blyth
Festival Theatre Award, the Goderich
Township Farm Show Award as well as the
Teachers -Festival Liason Council
Scholarship. Congrats to all these students on
their future endeavors.
During pastor Elly's message on the "Gula
Walk." Elly announced she would be doing
the Gula Walk in Goderich on Oct. 20. This is
a one day worldwide event focused on being
a voice for peace in Northern Uganda, and
also aims to deliver much needed funds to on
the ground programs for education, rehabili-
tation and youth support projects for a gener-
ation of children left behind.
A Tim Hortons extra large coffee cup which
is worth $2.15 with the coffee in it is at the
Varna Corner Store. Anyone wanting to
pledge Elly $2.15 or any donation can do so
there. For more information on how you can
sign up or donate online please visit
www.guluwalk.com.
Communion was celebrated following the
hymn Come and Dine.
Jim Kirton, clerk of the session read Pastor
Elly Van Bergen's Wedding Banns for the
second time. Happy Thanksgiving was
wished to all.
Coming Events
Sun., Oct. 21 church will be in Goshen and
Goshen Anniversary will be celebrated as
well as Elly's last Sunday. Please bring sand-
wiches and desserts for a social after church.
Brucefield United Church are hosting their
Annual Beef BBQ Supper on Sun., Oct. 21 by
Cardiff Catering at $12 per adult and $6 per
student (6-12 yrs). Take outs are available.
Advance tickets only.
Contact Jim Collins at 233-7188 or David
Townsend at 482-3718 for tickets.
Oct. 22 is the U.C.W. Presbytery Fall Rally
at St. Marys United Church with registration
at 6:30 p.m. with a sing song at 7 p.m. The
Guest speaker will be Elly Van Bergen.
Contact Anna Keys, Geraldine Eckel or Carol
Simons for car pooling.
Mark your calendars for Oct. 24 which is
the Goshen Fall Super at 5:30 and 6:30 sit-
tings at $14 each. Advance tickets only.
Elly Van Bergen's up coming wedding was
celebrated with a community shower in her
honour, Oct. 11 at the Varna Complex.
Varna U.C.W. met last Thursday evening.
Leader Deb Rathwell welcomed all and read
the Ten Commandments of Good Living. She
also thanked the committee in charge of pro-
gram Sharon Chuter and Margaret Hayter.
Supper Committee Shirley Hill there are two
catering events coming up: the Seniors'
Christmas dinner on Dec. 5 and Meggin
Bartliffe Reid's Wedding dinner on Sept. 27,
2008. The upcoming U.C.W. fall rally is in St.
Marys on Oct. 22.
Thurs., Nov. 1 will be a planning / executive
meeting.
The Christmas meeting will be Nov. 29.
Sharon Chuter read a Thanksgiving piece
"Feast But Do Not Forget to Thank" She read
ideas on what to do for other people.
Margaret read "Ready on Thanksgiving" fol-
lowed by Sharon with the scripture reading.
Sharon also read a poem out of the book
Patch Work Pieces "A Thankful Heart."
Margaret Hayter introduced guest speaker
Dorothy Dietrich. Dorothy and her husband
went to Tanzania and Kenya as a work team.
Dorothy told everyone how they got there.
Their church last Christmas decreased their
Christmas gifts and gave towards the project
of building a church in Africa and ended with
enough to build the church
$5,000. Dorothy and her
husband joined a work team
and went over.
Dorothy read from her
journal of how she felt about
her visit and recounted her
story with us just like we
were there with them. They
had a wonderful trip and
she showed us all the gifts
they were given as well as
what they bought.
They had a wonderful
time. Sharon thanked
Dorothy for her time and
Margaret closed the meeting
followed by the benediction.
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POLICE BRIEFS
Driver arrested in parking lot
EXETER — Huron OPP officers in South Huron were alerted to a pos-
sible impaired driver at the McDonalds in Exeter. On Oct. 6 officers
found a 23 -year-old male sitting in his car in the parking lot of the
restaurant with the keys in the ignition. The male had been drinking
and failed the roadside Alco test. He was arrested and taken to the
Exeter Detachment where he provided two more breath samples and
was found to be over the legal limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol. He faces
one criminal charge of care and control with Over 80 milligrams of alco-
hol.
Urinating at the library
LUCAN — On Oct. 6, culprits urinated in the library drop-off box at the
Lucan Library.
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