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Blyth Artisan Market moving to CRC parking lot
The Blyth Artisan Market will
soon be pulling up roots and moving
down the road to its new site at the
Blyth Christian Reformed Church.
The market is an initiative of the
Blyth Business Improvement Area
(BIA) in a partnership with the
Blyth Destination Development
Partnership.
Organizer Amy Zoethout said the
market was finding difficulty
attracting people to its temporary
site in the alley behind the Blyth
Royal Canadian Legion Branch and
Blyth Memorial Hall.
As a result of those challenges, the
market sought out partnerships with
other community groups and found a
willing host in the Blyth Christian
Reformed Church.
Zoethout said the new site, which
she plans on organizing as a
sidewalk -adjacent market, will be
more visible to people travelling to
and from the community.
She also said that the more visible
location will attract more vendors,
saying that the relationship between
them and the shoppers is very much
a "chicken and egg" situation.
"You need vendors to attract
crowds," she said.
The move will help the group
grow and meet its mandate of having
people support local makers as well
as get to know them.
Some makers provide on-site
demonstrations, which Zoethout
encouraged shoppers to take in. She
said part of the benefit of the market
is shoppers being able to ask
questions of the vendors to get a
better idea of their processes,
inspirations and final products.
The market runs 3:30-8 p.m. on
Thursdays with musical guests
performing from 5 to 7 p.m.
While the new site is ideal in being
visible from the main street,
Zoethout did say that yet another
location would be needed for the
Sunday markets as the church space
is in use that day. The market had
planned on being open several
Carter tops shoot game
Last show in the alley
John Powers performed at the last Blyth Artisan Market to
be held in the alley behind the Blyth Royal Canadian
Legion Branch and Blyth Memorial Hall last week. This
Thursday, June 21, the event will be in the parking lot of the
Blyth Christian Reformed Church. (Denny Scott photo)
Blyth gets Little Library
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Blyth has its first official "Little
Library" in front of Carl and Deb
Stevenson's house on Dinsley
Street.
Located just west of the Blyth
Branch 420 of the Royal Canadian
Legion on the north side of the
street, the Little Library offers a
unique opportunity for readers to
find some tomes with which they
may not be familiar.
The library, a square box in front
of the Stevensons' house with two
shelves of books, started as a
Christmas present earlier this year,
but the inspiration for the gift went
back to a family vacation two years
earlier.
Carl and Deb visited Fredericton,
New Brunswick, where they
discovered several of the structures,
leading to Deb's interest in them.
"I'm huge reader," she said. "I
already share books with friends and
family. This would let me share with
people I may not know."
Carl tagged the library as a
Christmas present, with the two of
them joking that his goal, every
year, is to give her a gift that pulls
her heart strings enough to make her
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cry at the very sight of the gift.
He turned to Goderich-area
carpenter Ron Bushell who put the
box together for her.
The books in the library are free
for anyone to take, whether they
trade in their own books or not. At
first, the library included books from
Deb's collection, as well as Carl's
and their children's, and it has had
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Happy birthday to Jenny
MacDonald and Bodie Craig who
celebrate June 22 and Quinton
Hakkers, June 24.
Happy anniversary to three
couples celebrating their
anniversaries on June 22 — Les and
Evelyn Caldwell, Anne and Dave
Cottel (50th) and Ernie and Emily
Phillips (50th).
The June 12 Shoot party had five
tables of players. Winners were:
first, Dorothy Carter; second, Gord
Haggitt; third, Sharon Freeman;
most shoots, Bob Machan;
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Gord Haggitt and Theresa Machan.
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The next shoot party is scheduled
for Tuesday, June 26 at Blyth
United Church.
Sundays throughout the summer.
She said the location for those
special market days is yet to be
determined.
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The Bible in the pulpit, must never supersede the Bible at home. Let us read our
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There is less private Bible reading than there was fifty years ago. I never would have
believed that so many men and women would have been tossed to and fro with every
wind of doctrine, some falling into skepticism, some rushing into the wildest and
narrowest fanaticism. With many, there was a habit developed of lazy, superficial
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your manna fresh every morning! Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not
scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst,
part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit
the throne of grace and the Bible every day.
Nest to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading.
By reading that Book we may learn...
what to believe,
what to be,
what to do,
how to live with comfort,
and how to die in peace.
Happy is that man who possesses a Bible!
Happier still is he who reads it!
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correction, and for training in righteousness --that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17
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