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Monkton hosts Huron-Perth Presbyterial fall rally
Monkton Women’s Missionary
Society hosted the fall rally of
Huron-Perth Presbyterial. Seventy-
five registered. They were
welcomed by Knox WMS president,
Elizabeth Stewart and Rev. Theresa
McDonald-Lee.
Ina McMillan, first vice-president
presided for the day’s activities.
Rev. Ann Yee Hibbs, area
education consultant, gave an
explanation of the new study on the
Bhil Peoples of India. She was
thanked by Bernice Richards,
Stratford.
Lois Horne, North Easthope
reviewed several books available
from the Presbyterian Bookroom in
Women Today launches public service announcement
The media launch of Women
Today of Huron’s public service
announcement that urges parents to
“Talk to their sons about sexual
assault,” is set for Nov. 19.
The announcement was produced
by James Buchanan and the
Toronto-based Partners’ Film
Company who donated their time
and equipment to help produce a
Toronto.
Elizabeth Stewart gave the
Presbyterial treasurer’s report. Lois
Robinson and Marian Whitfield of
Listowel Britton WMS gave the
devotions using scripture from
Isaiah and a meditation from
Gwyneth Whilsmith’s book, I Know
God’s in Here Somewhere.
Jean Sangster, Bayfield, reported
on the Pennies for Patrick project.
Enough money was donated to send
him home for a visit with his family
in Malawi and to give him $800 for
personal use and to help with his
education in Toronto.
Patrick is a minister in Malawi,
who is taking a four-year course in
professional-quality commercial
worth approximately $70,000.
Women Today of Huron funded the
filming with a small grant from the
Canadian Women’s Foundation and
with the support of many local
volunteers and retailers, and turned a
local farmhouse into a film set.
On Aug. 24, approximately 80
Huron County youth took part in the
Toronto.
Shirley Aitcheson, Stratford, and
Eunice Bisset, Goderich conducted
a hymn-sing before lunch was
served.
Following a delicious lunch of
beef stew and dumplings, salad and
dessert, Jean Edmunds, Mitchell,
introduced Rev. Sarah Kim, who
spoke on her trip to a Jubilee
gathering in Nigeria, and on her
work as executive secretary of the
Women’s Missionary Society. In her
comments she said the bulk of the
Christians in Nigeria live in the
south part of the country and the
north is mainly Muslim.
The Presbyterian women’s groups
taping of the public service
announcement that stars local youth
Kati Durst and Dan Legge.
The idea to create a public service
announcement came directly from
rural teenage girls, who Women
Today has been working with as part
of a project called Summer Safety
Strategies. The girls reported that
they were tired of being targets of
in Nigeria are organized much the
same as in Canada, with local,
presbyterial and synodical levels.
Each group of presbyterial has its
own uniform for rallies.
The early missionary, Mary
Slessor, made a big impression on
the Nigerian ladies, partly because
of her rescuing many twin babies
who had been thrown into the river
because the belief was that twins
were of the devil.
In Nigeria there is a large military
presence and a large government
presence. There is much corruption
at the government level and there is
a wide gap between the rich and the
poor. Nigeria is rich in natural
sexual assault messages from
schools and parents because it was
boys who were committing the
assaults. They thought that parents
should talk to their sons about this
issue.
They also revealed that most of
the sexual information they saw
didn’t seem relevant because it
usually featured big-city locations
resources.
There is a strict dress code for the
women who must wear church
dresses and hats.
Books are very expensive and the
people appreciate help to buy
them.
In Nigeria malaria is as common
as the cold is in Canada.
The offering was collected by
Yvonne Knight and Eleanor
Stevenson, Cranbrook.
The remainder of the afternoon
was spent quilting the three quilts
which had been made using a 12-
inch block from each group. The
quilts were completed on Tuesday
and Wednesday.
and situations.
Women Today of Huron aims to
show the commercial on television
in as many places as possible, with
an emphasis on rural locations.
They also plan to have some print
and web-based resources available
for parents to assist them with
talking to their sons about sexual
assault.
Hikers take on 2003 Walk
Hikers of all ages gathered at the
Goderich Millennium Trail on Oct.
26 to wrap up the 2003 Walk to Win!
challenge. Sponsored by Take Heart
Huron, the Maitland Trail
Association, Friends of Hullett
Incorporated, and the Ausable
Bayfield and Maitland Valley
Conservation Authorities, the Walk
to Win! challenge encouraged
people of all ages to get out and
explore Huron County’s trails
between May 10 and Oct. 24.
To be eligible for priz'es,
participants had to enter a ballot
after walking one of the trails or
conservation areas listed in the
Hiking Huron County trail guide.
Hikers and contest sponsors from
across Huron County met at the
Millennium Trail to award prizes to
final draw winners; following the
prize presentation, the group
enjoyed Huron County’s natural
beauty by going on a group hike.
From over 250 ballots entered into
the contest, prizes were awarded to
Kelvin Vere of Clinton, Wilma
Vincent of Londesborough, Sue
Scott of Goderich, Evelyn Malcolm
of Goderich, Joe Van Rooijen of
Goderich, Mary Ross of Goderich.
Cody McLarnon of Clinton, Kara
Terpstra of Goderich. Bill Rutledge
of Goderich, Hilary Burgess of
Seaforth.
The opportunity to win great
prizes wasn't the only benefit of
walking this summer. Huron County
has so many beautiful trails and
conservation areas to discover and
hiking is a great way to get active
and improve your health.
“Walking is a convenient,
inexpensive form of physical
activity that can have significant
health benefits,” said Kim Ross,
public health promoter, Huron
County Health Unit. “Being
physically active on a regular basis
can reduce your risk of chronic
disease, strengthen muscles and
bones, improve posture, increase
energy, and help you to maintain a
healthy weight.”
It is never too late to experience
the benefits of regular physical
to Win challenge
activity. 482-3416 for a free copy of the
To find trails close to your home, “Hiking Huron County” trail
call the Huron County Health Unit at guide.
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on Stratford’s playbill
Six Shakespeare plays, along with
seven other productions, will be
mounted at the Stratford Festival of
Canada in 2004 as artistic director
Richard Monette moves toward his
goal of producing all the plays
Shakespeare ever wrote.
“It has been my ambition to
produce every play of Shakespeare
during my time as artistic director at
the Stratford Festival, and this
season moves me very close to
that goal,” said Monette, who
believes Festival enthusiasts as well
as new playgoers deserve the
opportunity to see the full range of
works written by the world’s
greatest playwright.
In addition to Macbeth and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, which
have been produced in other seasons
of Mr. Monette’s tenure since 1994,
the Festival will mount four
Shakespeare plays not seen in many
years at Stratford: Henry VIII, Timon
of Athens, King John and
Cymbeline.
There will be two musicals: Guys
and Dolls and Anything Goes.
“The classical musical, in many
ways, is the heir to Shakespeare in
the way the stories are told,”
Monette said. “In a musical, you
have songs; in Shakespeare, you
have soliloquies. There is an
immediacy about the characters and
the action that is like little else in the
theatre between Shakespeare’s time
and the 20th century.”
At the Avon Theatre, the Festival
will also present the farce Noises Off
and The Count of Monte Cristo, a
swashbuckling stage adaptation of
Alexandre Dumas’s novel.
While the 1,824-seat Festival
Theatre allows artists to examine the
“scope and size” of Shakespeare’s
works, the 487-seat Tom Patterson
Theatre affords the chance to take an
intimate approach that “comes very
close to the text,” Monette said. At
the 260-seat Studio Theatre, the
Festival will mount two new
Canadian works: the third part of
Peter Hinton’s Swanne trilogy, titled
The Swanne: Queen Victoria (The
Seduction of Nemesis), as well as
The Elephant Song by Quebec
playwright Nicolas Billon.
Rounding out the Studio offerings is
The Triumph of Love, the Festival’s
first-ever production of a work by
18th-century French author Pierre
Marivaux.
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