Times-Advocate, 1996-05-29, Page 81
Times -Advocate, May 29,1996
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Exeter participates in March for Jesus
EXETER - Waiving banners,
singing and praying approximately
300 Christians gathered outside
the Bethel Reformed Church to
March for Jesus on Saturday.
Exeter participated in the annual
event that originated in England
eight years ago and has since
spread world-wide.
More than 150,000 Canadians
from coast to coast took part in the
march that involves countries from
Brenda Stubbs, bottom left,
entertains her daughter Cindy
while they wait for the March
to begin. Below, Laurie Clapp
pushes her children Evan and
Alicia while marching with
friend Ceceilia Dinney on
Main Street.
around the globe and was expected
to draw eight million people.
"We are here to proclaim to the
world that Jesus is indeed a God to
be reckoned with and our salvation
lies through our commitment to
him," said march organizer Harold
Devriea. "His message has been
kept within the church walls for
too long. We want to bring it out to
the street where people can rejoice
and be more vocal," he added.
Starting from the Bethel Reform
Church on Huron street East, the
marchers made their way down
Main Street towards MacNaughton
Paris where they gathered for a
worship service.
A carver's creations
ZURICH - More than 50 years
ago, Lloyd Otterbein picked up a
jackknife and began carving the
figure of a Clydesdale horse.
Now, using a wooden mallet as
his base tool, he chooses from a se-
lection of 30 chisels to achieve de-
sired effects for an active wood
carving hobby that attracts attention
from as far away as Pennsylvania.
Lloyd Otterbein
sits with carvings
he created for a
show wagon in
Michigan. He
started the project
in December and
finished it in
March. Clydesdale
horses appear as
a theme through-
out his carvings.
"It's something that comes nat-
urally I guess," he said of his craft
that was inspired by the skills of his
father and great uncle.
Although he concentrates on an-
;,isnaprojects, with a particular eril-
phasis on horse and wagon teams,
he has also created trophies, signs,
cupboard doors and detailed re-
ligious carvings such as The Last
Supper, his first piece using people
as the subject matter.
"I don't want two faces to look
the same," he said while gazing up
at expressions of Last Supper fig
ures set against: red, velvet on his
wall.
He's also carved eight wagon de-
signs, most of them directly on the
vehicles.
"I've gotten into a lot of different
carving," he said. "I get some un-
usual requests at times."
His tiniest project required carv-
ing deer antlers on a ring box for a
woman in Ottawa. In 1984 he craft-
ed a town 'crest for Clinton.
He later created a piece dedicated
to a Clinton Hydro employee that
depicted a man on a hydro pole in
the upper section of the plaque and
at a desk on the bottom portion.
Otterbein's art is not limited to
local admirers. Besides filling re-
quests from Alberta, he once made
a trophy for Detroit's International
Horse Show and constructed a bam
sign while on holidays in Penn-
sylvania. He's presently working
on a crest for his family reunion on
June 22.
Otterbein likes to work with bass
wood but he has used cherry, maple
and black walnut as well. He finds
finer carving detail is the most
challenging aspect of his art.
He sometimes carves to music,
claiming the hobby puts him in a
meditative state similar to the ex-
perience of gardening.
"I'm always carving something,"
he said, "It's just a hobby."
Sunsense
Barb Munro, chair of the Huron -Perth Unit /Canadian Can-
cer Society Health Promotions, gave a sunsense presenta-
tion to Exeter PubNc School students last Wednesday.
Munro talked to children about how to protect their skin
against the damaging rays of the sun.
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Kourtney MacDonald was sporting an angel costume as
she takes her place at the front of the March.
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1- 5 p.m Lions' Den Matinee with The Talbots and more
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9 p.m. -1 a.m Lions' Den with the Molly McCuires
Air Rock Concert
1 p.m Parade - Main Street
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