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Local UCWfocuses on family at February meeting
PEOPLE AROUND
LONDESBORO
By BRENDA
RADFORD
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The Londesborough UCW met on
Feb. 19 for their regular monthly
meeting. The meditative program
was conducted by Joan Goodall,
Joan Howatt, Brenda Konarski and
Margaret Wright. The meeting fell
on Family Day and that was the
theme for their program.
Part of Dalton McGuinty's
campaign platform for the 2007
election was the institution of a mid-
February holiday to be dubbed, in
Ontario, Family Day. His idea was to
give families time together and
provide a day of relief in the mid-
winter from the hectic schedule of
today's families. The rest is history.
Ontario became one of seven
provinces to enjoy a February break.
In other provinces the holiday is
known as Islander Day, Heritage
Day or Louis Riel Day.
Flood water record nearly hit
High waters
Rain and melting snow caused a significant flood event in Huron County last month. The
Maitland Valley Conservation Authority said the water in Benmiller nearly reached its highest
volume in over 30 years. Above, the Wingham flood plains earn their name. (Denny Scott photo)
While flood waters across the
province may have claimed one life
and caused significant damage to
infrastructure, northern Huron
County has escaped the worst of the
damage, despite extremely high
volumes of water moving through
the area.
The flood was a once -in -20 -year
flood according to Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority Flood and
Erosion Safety Services Co-
ordinator Steve Jackson, however he
said it may be time to revisit those
classifications.
"We have those kinds of statistics,
but, with global warming, these
floods are happening more often
than they should," he said.
When comparing to past flood
events, Jackson said this caused the
second-highest water per cubic
metre levels through the Benmiller
area since the MVCA started
recording those statistics more than
30 years ago.
"The water was moving through
Benmiller at 920 cubic metres per
second," he said, saying that peak
was reached at 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, Feb. 22. "The only other
time we've had that much water
flowing through there was in 2008
when it was recorded at 953 cubic
meters per second"
Jackson said that normal February
weather usually has Benmiller
witnessing the water moving at 55
cubic metres per second, so the
increase was substantial.
"Fortunately for this area, the little
ice jamming we had eroded
quickly," Jackson said. "There has
been no significant damages
reported thus far."
While much of the snow pack has
been lost with the thaw and that
could result in less danger of
flooding as warmer weather moves
in, Jackson said there are no
guarantees and that, with rain falling
on frozen ground, there still could be
flooding.
"It limits flood possibility," he
said. "There is still a risk, however."
Floods have hit other parts of the
province hard, causing a young boy
near Orangeville to be swept out of
his mother's arms on Wednesday,
Feb. 22.
Three-year-old Kaden Young fell
in the flood waters of the Grand
River near his home when his
mother tried to escape the family's
minivan with him in her arms.
The search for Young continued to
early this week.
The City of Brantford, 100
kilometres away from Orangeville
and also on the Grand River,
declared a state of emergency and
evacuated low-lying areas due to the
flood waters. Reports indicate that
2,200 homes were evacuated,
CORPORATION OF THE
MUNICIPALITY OF
MORRIS-TURNBERRY
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO CONSIDER
2018 BUDGET and
BELGRAVE WATER RATES
Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Corporation of the
Municipality of Morris-Turnberry, will be giving consideration to:
1. The `2018' Budget with the intention to adopt and/or amend
the budget
2. The `2018' Water rates for the Belgrave Water System
The meeting will be held:
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Council Chambers
located at 41342 Morris Rd., Brussels, ON
Everyone is welcome to attend
Nancy Michie,
Administrator Clerk -Treasurer
Municipality of Morris-Turnberry
displacing approximately 5,500
people.
Other cities closed roads as ice
and water flooded over
infrastructure.
For the most up-to-date flood
information in this area, visit
mvca.on.ca
In their presentation that evening
the ladies focused on celebrating
family which is defined by love,
support, commitment, acceptance
and loyalty for each other, and to
remind everyone that God is
everywhere in that family. The group
in charge noted that God is present
to help and guide us when we work
to create the masterpiece that is our
life/family according to His plan.
The scripture passage Psalm 37: 1-
11 reinforced this.
A cute story about a grandmother
and granddaughter icing a cake
prompted other similar stories from
listeners. After the reading of "Then
Mother Said" each lady present drew
a quote from a basket and read it to
everyone. All were interesting and
along the lines of mine — "Everyone
needs a house to live in, but a
supportive family is what builds a
home"
There were comments from
everyone to suggest that there are
other types of families as well that
offer support, caring, concern, etc. —
work families, faith families,
community families, etc.
The group's next meeting on
March 19 will be Londesborough's
celebration of the World Day of
Prayer.
You might want to plan on
attending Londesborough United on
March 4 to see which young lady
from the village will begin her faith
journey through the sacrament of
baptism.
Our winter continues to be
somewhat spring-like lulling us into
FROM LONDESBORO
thinking winter is over. Not likely.
But what winter we have had has
been hard on our roads. We've
noticed many potholes in our local
area roads which will keep county
folk busy repairing. And we made a
trip east on the weekend and
discovered the 400 -series highways
have fared no better.
See histories and
historic photographs
on the Huron History
section of our website
www.northhuron.on.ca
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