Times Advocate, 1989-07-19, Page 23Buierflies - The Zurich Playground began its summer season Monday and both morning and after-
nocn classes were kept busy with craft activities. Leader Shannon Regier (left) helps out Kris McKin-
no , Chad Desjardine, Jeffrey Regier, Allan Jeffrey and Raymon Regier with the creation of some pa -
pet butterflies at Monday's age 8-12 class. Playground runs until August 25.
Shortage of queens
ZurichFair this weekend
13 Carmel Sweeney
ZURICH - The Zurich Fair is
celcbraing its 125th year this
weeken4 and the Agricultural Soci-
ety is slicing up the occasion with
special:vents to honour both the
past anclthe present.
As o. press time the society
were, k wever, scrambling to fill
the bit' for the annual fair queen
contest As of Monday, only three
girls h signed up for the event.
"Well like a couple more at
least,"laid contest organizer Marg
Deichrt. Saturday's deadline was
extend to Tuesday in the hope
more:ontestants could be found.
A dimer is planned for Friday for
judgc3 to meet the contestants be-
fore tie contest later that evening.
Tthree contestants registered
as ofMonday were Heidi Soudant,
Maidy Sawchuk, and Roxanne
Malens.
]ichert said that organizational
prollems arising out of celebrating
12.; years of Fairs has caused diffi-
culy in getting the contest under
war. Kathy McNaughton, the cur-
rent CNE Fair queen, will visit the
Zurict Fair and will be present at
the opening ceremonies.
A talent show and prince and
princess (children 2-6)' contest arc
also planned for Friday evening's
dance, which begins at 9:30 p.m.
Past winners of the baby show
are invited back on Saturday and an-
other prize will go to the earliest
winner. It is not yet known how
many "babies" will arrive for the
event.
A draw for $125 will be made
Sunday at the Horse Show for all
those who buy $1 tickets at the
Fair.
Playground
Zurich's summer playground be-
gan this week and will run until
August 25 at the community cen-
tre. Supervisors this year are Lisa
Gibbs and Shannon Regier. Ap-
proximately 50 children are signed
up already for the activities, which
includes swimming, lessons at Va-
nastra's indoor pool.
Personals
May we offer our sympathy to
the Eugene Fox on the loss of his
wife Jan, who passed away recently.
A memorial service was held last
Wednesday at the Mennonite
Church.
Sister Loretta Farwell from Cale-
donia is visiting with relatives in
the area for 10 days, including her
brother Clarence at the Maple
Woods Apartments, and her sister
Marcella Dietrich at the Rest Home.
Carrie Eyebergen and daughters
from Kitchener spent the weekend
with Jerome and Carmel Sweeney.
Ron Oesch held a "Blake Fest"
pork barbecue on Saturday.
Jen Doyle and Veola Wood of Zu-
rich accompanied the Seaforth girls'
marching band to the Calgary Stam-
pede last week. The band won
$1,000 for their participation in the
parade.
Phil and Linda Regier were in
Burlington on Saturday for their
nephew's wedding, along with other
people from Zurich.
A buck and doe was held at the
arena for Tim Bedour and Rita Den-
nome, who are planning tip get mar-
ried at the end of the month.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery
go to Joanne Vermunt and Sandra
Dickert, patients in hospital at the
momeni
ghani souvenirs - Queensway Nursing Home residents got a glimpse of Afghanistan on Friday as
t eir monthly international day featured that country. Items on display, including this doll, donkey
a3ck, and camel bells, came from Marj Steckle's sister Carol who served with the Christian Blind
fission in Afghanistan. From left are residents Grace Dinney, Lloyd McDougall, and Edison Forrest.
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Times -Advocate, July 19 1989 Page 23
Reports on Graham's crusade
By Eugene Fox
ENGLAND - There we were --
73,500 people gathered in Wembley
Stadium to hear Dr. Billy Graham
for the closing meeting of Mission
'89 in London, England. From my
seat high in the Press Section I
could see that 73 -year-old evangelist
deliver a rather ordinary talk in a
quite unspectacular manner -- with
astounding results. For at the con-
clusion, and Graham's quiet sugges-
tion, some 7,000 people promptly
left their scats and walked to the
platform, thus declaring their deci-
sions for Christ.
That's the way it was throughout
the 13 meetings at the four -crusade
locations where the meetings were
held in London. All told, over
380,000 came to hear Dr. Graham's
simple gospel presentations, with
better than 37,000 walking forward
just as they did at Wembley. Even
the times when London's entire
transportation' system was shut
down by strikes, people still made
it to the meetings in record num-
bers.
But the London events were just
the beginning. In 250 other cities
and towns throughout Britain and
Ireland the London meetings were
shown live on huge screens at gath-
erings called Livelinks. They were
attended by 818,000 people, with
better than 46,000 responding by
walking forward just as in the Lon-
don meetings.
The inquirers received brief in-
structions from Billy Graham who
insisted, "You are coming to Jesus
Christ, not to Billy Graham." Then
the trained counselors dealt with
them one-to-one. In London, termed
by Dr. Graham, "The capital of the
world," people of just about every
description, but most of them
young, responded. There are 170
language groups and people from
almost every ethnic background in
the world, and they all seemed to
come to the meetings, streaming
forward, night after night.
Beyond Britain, however, some-
thing even greater was happening.
The same satellite technology that
was bringing the London meetings
to the Livelinks in the British Isles
was employed to beam three of the
meetings via four satellites to 36
Shuffleboard
By Susan Hartman
HENSALL - Shuffleboard scores
for Hensall, July 11: the highest
score came from Eileen Dowson
with 484. Bruce Watson and Helen
Anderson tied at 425 and Gertie
Moir 414.
Thanks to the Kinettes, especial-
ly Pam and Linda for cleaning up
the outdoor courts. Anyone wish-
ing to shuffle for fun can meet be-
hind the IOOF hall Saturdays at
6:30 if weather permits.
There is still regular shuffline on
Tuesdays.
Summer schedules
Rev. Markskin will be on
holiday from Auuust 1 to 31.
In the event of a pastoral emer-
gency, please contact Rev. Chas.
Henderson at 235-2602.
There will be no service at Caven
or Carmel. Hensel) United Church
will beholding service in August.
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nations in Africa where they were
shown on prime time national eve-
ning TV, with a potential audience
of 150 million viewers. Through-
out those nations 16,000 churches
had done hut -to -hut visitations and
gathered the people into 6,000 can-
ters set up like the British Live -
links. All told, the actual.viewing
audience for those three meetings
was between 23 and 30 million.
Figures were not available as to
the responses in Africa, but it was
felt that the 10 percent that held true
in Britain could easily be exceeded
in Africa.
Altogether, this was the greatest
evangelistic thrust ever undertaken
by the Christian Church in the his-
tory of the world.
For my part, when WNFA, the
Christian FM radio station in Port
Huron, Michigan, heard I was going
to England to 11 up relatives and
attend the Billy Graham meetings,
they asked me to represent them as
their reporter, something 1. was glad
to do. I did a 15 -minute interview
just before I left on June 9, and then
broadcast four reports by telephone
from Britain, for the four Fridays I
was there. I concluded my assign-
ment with an in -studio interview on
July 11. The hope of the station
was that my reports would stir up
additional prayer support for the
meetings, and I was assured that
was quite successful.
This reporter was bothhumbled
and exhilarated to have been able to
witness the kind of event many peo-
ple have longed all their lives to
see, and have not. In my opinion,
Dr. Graham was entirely correct
when he declared, "God has been
mightily at work in Britain."
Reporter - Zurich resident Eugene Fox was a media representative
at the Billy Graham crusade in England.
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