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Wheatland Senior Centre news

The results of the senior Centre's activities from February 3 to February 9: Bridge: (Monday) 1st John Whitell, 2nd George Gillies, 3rd Stan Sampson. Bridge: (Friday) 1st Mildred Sandiford, 2nd Jack Medwed, 3rd John Whitell.

UC Chimes: Lenten season begins

According to the Solar Terms of 24 Seasons in the Oriental Calendar, last Monday, Feb. 4, was the beginning day of spring. Called "ipchun" in Korean, it means "start of spring" or "spring begins." The Solar Terms of 24 Seasons is a seasonal calendar.

Tender moments

In a pain-filled week of human suffering it would have been easy to think that there wasn't much more to life than that. It we let them, news reports of war, gang rape, killing sprees and more can dominate the air waves and deaden the soul.

Choose life! Choose life! A Christian imperative!

A good way to measure Christian ethics is with the question "What would Christ do?" Love always triumphs. Good trumps greed or hate or any sin. For some time I have debated whether or not to write about the thorny issue of abortion.

UC Chimes: Why and how?

A couple of weeks ago, Peter Mansbridge, the anchor of CBC National TV News, had an one to one interview with Chris Hadfield who has been on the space shuttle. It was very excited to watch the program.

Old wineskins and the year of faith

A little girl is sitting on her grandpa's lap, studying his face. She gets up the nerve to rub her fingers over the wrinkles. Then she touches her own face and looks more puzzled.

It was written

I've begun reaming out my office. It's not that there's a lot of trash and I do keep the wastebasket emptied on a regular basis, it's just I find it hard to part with the somewhere around fifteen hundred articles I've had published.

UC Chimes: Who's gonna be responsible?

At a presbytery meeting, a person complained, "it is too hot here!" An elderly lady said, "people complain no matter what!" People complain either its too hot or too cold.

On our pilgrim journey sometimes we need more wine

Three days after calling Andrew, Peter, Philip and Nathanial to be disciples, Jesus took them to a wedding at Cana. They were all invited. In the Aramaic language the word for wedding feast had the same root as the word drink.

UC Chimes: Spring will surely come

The last couple of weeks have been really cold. There has been almost 30C degrees difference between here, Carlyle (-23C) and Toronto (+12C). It was good for me to taste what a Saskatchewan winter is like.
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