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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 2015-07-22, Page 19Wednesday, July 22, 2015 • News Record 19 Village welcomes many new families Brenda Radford Special to the news record This week as you go about your activities and enjoy the summer weather puzzle on the word "curfew" and its origins. Watch this space next week for an answer. Candice De Jong, who had been living in the little house on Main Street that had been home to several Bergsmas and before that the home of Laura Lyon, is being married shortly and now resides in Blyth. Con- gratulations Candice, and best wishes for the future. Now that house is home to Justin Dickinson and Mea- gan Lauzon. We are pleased to welcome them to the vil- lage and trust they will enjoy life here. Residents will be aware that for some time now the former home of Pianova- tions in Londesborough had been sold. The new owner has plans to renovate the building but currently the apartment the girls lived in is home to Tim Varey and Michelle Cain. Tim's son, Zackary, lives there as well. Welcome to the village. Lianne Hoogenboom of Pianovations and Alicia Burton have purchased the former Saundercock house across from the school. You may recognize Alicia from picking up your mail as she works for Radford's. Some work on pianos is still being done in the back of the original store. Ron Kassies and Irene are in the process of mov- ing from the Lear house into their new abode at the edge of Londesborough to the west. By the time you read this week's paper Morag Watt will have been nearly two weeks in her summer loca- tion, Clanwilliam, South Africa. We trust you have enjoyed reading her accounts of that country. I certainly have! Morag first travelled to South Africa for a three week vacation with her mother-in- law. She fell in love with the country and its people and this is her fourth return visit. She leaves immediately her duties at Hullett Central are finished for the year and returns on the Labour Day weekend. Along with family accommodations Morag has made many friends with whom she visits each summer. Incidentally it is winter in South Africa and conse- quently she spends time in the schools in that country. My understanding is she takes items with her to donate to those poorly equipped schools. Over the 10 months of the school year here in Canada as secretary at Hul- lett and before that at Blyth Public School, through her contacts with the schools of the AMDSB, Morag does her own quiet catering fun- draising . All the monies raised through her efforts is donated to the Clanwilliam Hospital where she also volunteers. Obviously South Africa has a special appeal for I have learned that Grand Bend Rotarian, Peter Twynstra, who knows the country through his career in the bean industry has been instru- mental in that club's Global Literacy Project. Regular readers of this space may remember that several years ago I made a comment regarding the shipping of school supplies overseas. My comment questioned how these items could be useful to others if our own schools were rejecting them. Since then and through my con- versations with Mrs. Watt I've learned much. When schools close because of declining enroll- ment the boards have sur- plus supplies of many types. Canadian standards are much more regulated than those of poorer countries like South Africa. When a school has no books those that are outdated here are still great material for new readers. If a school has no teaching aids or even enough desks, our rejects are welcome. Education is so desired in the rural areas of South Africa that teachers and children alike are enthu- siastic about schooling. Returning home after con- ducting a tour of South Africa Peter was encouraged by the tour participants to find some way to get our sur- plus items to that country. Thus began the Global Liter- acy Project initiated by the Grand Bend Rotary Club. The project has had its share of logistical problems along the way. The first of which was convincing the AMDSB to be a partner. Now school boards and Rotary Clubs from Sarnia to Alliston have participated. Supplies are loaded in freight containers by local clubs and volunteers. Morag is one of those volunteers. Each container costs $5500 to ship from a Canadian port to the African port of Middleburg. Transport in Canada to port is assisted by Hensall Global Logistics. The Rotary Club of Middle- burg deals with the land costs in that country. African Rotarian, Charles Deiner, and his club distribute and track the supplies to the vari- ous schools. Each container contains supplies in excess of $100,000. Approximately 50 containers of supplies have made their way to South Africa since the spring of 2009. The project has had a few offshoots as well. Now the containers sometimes hold medical supplies, sports equipment, school uni- forms and musical instru- ments. 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