The Citizen, 1998-06-17, Page 16In procession
A large crowd turned out at the Blyth Union Cemetery decoration service, June 14. Blyth
Legion members began the ceremony with a march past of pipers and flags.
Shaping tomorrow's world at conference
BRUSSELS - E-THEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
- Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister
church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540
Sunday. June 21, 1998
9:30 a.m. Ethel Worship
11:00 a.m. Brussels Worship
CELEBRATING FATHERS AND FAMILIES
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
You are invited
to worship with us
at
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m. Christian Education
(for all ages)
Pastor Ben Wiebe
887-6388
You are Welcome at the
BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for Children and Adults
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 McConnell St., Blyth
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
Rev. Nancy Beale
JUNE 21 - PENTECOST 3
ST. JOHN'S - HOLY EUCHARIST
POT LUCK - SANDWICHES & SQUARES
TRINITY - HOLY EUCHARIST
Trinity, Blyth St. John's,
9:30 a.m. Brussels
Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m.
Please join us for worship this Sunday
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to glis
commands. gls you have heard from the beginning, 5fis
command is that you walk in love.
2 Yohn:6
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
At
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
tI Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
PASTOR JAMES H, CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788
Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
8:45 a.m. - Morning Worship Service
10:00 a.m. - Family Bible Hour
11 a.m. - Morning Worship Service
8 p.m. - Evening Service
7:30 p.m. - New Hope Support Group
7:30 p.m. - Prayer & Bible Study
7:30 p.m. - Youth
PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1998.
Sorry, our mistake
Six hundred and fifty delegates
from 39 countries attended the
22nd triennial conference of the
Associated Country Women of the
World (ACWW) held in Pretoria,
South Africa recently. Sixty-nine
Canadians participated in the
discussions, following the theme of
the conference "Shaping
Tomorrow's World."
The two recommendations put
forward by the Canadian Area
Conference were adopted. They
include ACWW member societies
taking action in their own countries
on the issue of the preservation of
fish species. There is a need to
rejuvenate fish stocks in the oceans,
clean up the marine environment
and avoid further risk to the
balance of the oceanic eco-systems.
The recommendation concerning
female genital mutilation was the
most controversial. Female
circumcision is related to the
question of women's rights and
human rights in general. It was
agreed that, where this is a
common practice, there is a need to
make the procedure as sanitary as
possible, to avoid future health
complications.
ACWW societies, encouraged by
the Canadian Area Conference,
resolved to work for quality
children's programming on
television and radio which will
allow children to develop
physically, mentally, socially and
culturally, without suffering from
undesirable content. Of prime
concern is the amount of violence
on current television programming.
The voting delegates for the
Federated Women's Institutes of
Ontario were President Arthena
Hecker (Algoma District), Past
President Marg Harris (Middlesex
County), President-Elect Christine
Reaburn (Renfrew County),
Curator Rosella Clancy (Hastings
County) and Board Director Luella
Robinson (Stormont/Glengarry
County).
President Hecker found that
during the conference "it came
home to me how much women are
exploited world-wide and how
lucky we are here in Canada."
Reaburn recognized the power
held with a voting card at a world
conference makes people realize
that one individual can be part of
the solution, that one person
working with others can make a
difference.
During the last triennium, 20
projects were initiated world-wide.
All projects must be initiated in the
community where they are
undertaken. This means that the
local women take responsibility for
the success of the project and that
ACWW assistance is minimal,
because most of the projects
become self-sustaining. ACWW
projects target areas such as
education and communication,
HIV/AIDS, micro lending,
community wells, literacy, drug
abuse, textile art and animal
rearing.
Over the past several years
ACWW has supported two co-
action programmes with the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UNESCO has reorganized its
program and as a result withdrawn
its support for both Water for All
and Women Feed the World, but
ACWW will continue
independently with these valuable
projects, relying on the donations
of its members.
Hilda Stewart, representing the
Federation of Women's Institutes of
Northern Ireland was elected
president of ACWW. The new
deputy president is Ursula Goh of
Malaysia. Elizabeth Rushton, from
Alberta Women's Institute, is the
newly-elected ACWW president
(Canada Area). Margaret Munro of
Kanata was re-elected ACWW
treasurer and Charlotte Johnson of
Cochrane was appointed to the
ACWW Projects Committee, along
with Jennie McInnes of Nova
Scotia.
Delegates learned much about
Continued on page 21
There was an error in the story
"Church burns mortgage", pub-
lished on page 13 of the June 10
issue of The Citizen.
The paragraph should have read:
"Special guests during the day
included Larry Brennan, business
. administrator of the Diocese of
London, former Brussels reeve
Gordon Workman and his wife Iso-
bel, Revs. Nancy and Brad Beale of
St. John's Anglican Church and
Ken Matthews, builder of the
church."
We apologize for the mistake.