Huron Expositor, 2014-11-12, Page 66 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, November 12, 2014
St. Anne's continues to Scaring our children
accept food donations
St. Anne's
if school news
Colin Dobson,
Minister of Public Relations
It's November, and it's great to
see students and teachers wear-
ing poppies for Remembrance
Day.
Midterm reports have offi-
cially been submitted, marking
the halfway point in the first
semester classes.
Monday, Nov. 10 was our
Remembrance Day assembly.
Students gathered in the gym to
pay their respects to the soldiers
who sacrificed their lives to
defend their homeland. Every
year, Ms. Cale and our history
classes present a reverent and
prayerful service with many of
our local legions and veterans
present. We welcomed Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson, whose son served
in Afghanistan, and MPP Lisa
Thompson as our guest
speakers.
An abundance of donations
were brought to the school
following Halloween for hunger.
An estimated 1500 items were
donated and St. Anne's is con-
tinuing to accept donations as
they work towards their goal of
2000 cans.
Wednesday, Nov. 12, was the
first of St. Anne's two annual
Coffee Houses. The event was a
great success, and each per-
former did a fantastic job.
Next week will mark the
beginning of Anti -Bullying Week
and our Agents of Change have
many great lessons and activi-
ties planned for us.
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You are invited to attend
these area churches
ST. THOMAS CHURCH
21Jarvis St. Seaforth
Rector The Rev. Karine Snowdon
Rectory 519-482-9071
Church Office 519-527-1522
Sunday, November 16th
Worship at 9:30 a.m.
followed by coffee hour in Support of
Huron Church Camp
Silver Bells Christmas Bazaar & Tea on Sat.
Nov. 15 from 1-4 p.m. Everyone Welcome,
Council meets Tues. Nov. 18 at 2 p.m.
ST. JAMES ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
WELCOMES YOU
14 Victoria Street, Seaforth
519-345-2972
Sun. Mass 11 a.m.
ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN
Sat. Mass 5 p.m.
Sun. Mass 9 a.m.
FR. BRIAN McCOLL
BETHEL BIBLE CHURCH
An Associated Gospel Church
126 Main St. Seaforth 519-527-0982
Rev. Mark Kennedy
BETHEL BIBLE CHURCH
50TH ANNIVERSARY
OPEN HOUSE
Sat. Nov. 15, 2-4 p.m.
Sun. Nov. 16, 2 p.m.
Anniversary Service
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,....- EVERYONE WELCOME
EGMONDVILLE
UNITED CHURCH
Pastor SteveHildebrand
Youth Coordinator - Laura Nakamura
WORSHIP
November 16, 10:30 a.m.
Youth Sunday School @ 10:30 a.m.
Adult Sunday School @ 9:45 a.m.
For more information view our web site
www.egmondvilleunitedchurch.com
and Like us on Facebook.
Annual Bazaar Coming Nov. 15th
NORTHSIDE
UNITED CHURCH
MINISTER MARY FLETCHER
Welcomes you
Sunday, November 16, 11 a.m.
Sunday School Nursery Provided
54 Goderich St. W.
519-527-1449
(5,... www.cavannorthsideunited.ca III
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
59 Goderich St. W. Seaforth
519-527-0170
Rev. Rob Congram
Lorrie Mann - Organist
Sunday, November 16, 11:00 a.m.
ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY
7 p.m. West Perth Community Singers
Freewill offering to Food Bank
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Naomi Pelss,
director of Seaforth Co-operative
Children's Centre and mother of three
As another Halloween has come and
gone, I began to question this tradition.
Why do we send our children to
strangers' doors and allow them to
accept candy?
Don't we always warn them to never
take candy from strangers?
Are we not sending a confusing mes-
sage here? Oh, it's okay to approach
strangers' houses on this one dark and
stormy night of the year as long as you
are wearing a costume.
Is this a bit strange?
And the scarier the decorations,
the better. My daughter wants me to
decorate our house with even more
frightful decorations each year. "It's
not scary enough," she says. Well, I
was kind of scared of the bats,
ghosts, tombstones and hands com-
ing out of the ground. These are the
images we see everywhere around
Halloween time. I'm surprised chil-
dren even want to go trick or treat-
ing. Do they not remember the Hans
Christian Anderson story about
Hansel and Gretel? When these chil-
dren approached a house of candy,
there was a witch inside who tried to
eat them.
I guess we have been scaring our
children since birth in preparation for
Halloween. The classic nursery
rhymes, for example, leave horrible
images in the mind. In Rockabye
Baby, the cradle falls and down
comes baby. And in three blind mice,
the poor critters get their tails cut off
with a carving knife. I could give more
examples (clowns) but I think you get
the idea.
My son is terrified of the Tooth Fairy,
and he has not even lost his teeth yet.
He is afraid when she is to "arrive" at
our house for his siblings' lost teeth.
We had to lie to him the one night and
tell him she wasn't coming, just so he
could fall asleep. I guess the idea of a
tiny little fairy flying in to the room in
the middle of the night creeped him
out. I can see why.
What's next?
We send our children up onto the lap
of a large strange man with a white
beard and red suit while he asks them
what they would like. If they are lucky,
he will sneak into their houses in the
middle of the night and leave us toys.
Sleep tight children, don't let the bed
bugs bite.
Whitney South, Huron
Expositor
Sharing
stories
Former
Canadian
Armed Forces
Private Justin
Lyon visited
the Grade 6/7
class at St.
James recently
to share stories
about his time
in Afganistan.
Lyon, who is
not a police
officer in
Waterloo
is from the
Clinton area
and spent three
years overseas.
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