This week in Niagara Falls. Remember the fishes in the fountain? They are still jumpin' and the daffodils are high. How old are these fish?! We have generations of family photos beside them. As the season warms, they will spout water from their mouths.

Magnolia Trees

This week in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The magnificent magnolia trees.

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Your Smile for Today:

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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."

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~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001), American aviator and author, wife of Charles Lindbergh.

Canborough Grace United Church

On Sunday, May 16, 10:00 a.m., the bell in the tower will ring one last time. The congregation at Canborough Grace United Church will reminisce about special occasions, celebrations ~ weddings, baptisms and deaths. Children will take their favored places in the Sunday School room. Sweets and tea will be served. There will be scrapbooks and photographs for reflection.

The small country church often serves not only as a place of Christian worship but also as the hub of social life in a community. Folks meet Sunday after Sunday, catching up on who is well, who is ill and who is away ~ sharing good news and bad.

What has changed so drastically in our culture to silence and close a church? Will folks in a rural area still meet and ask how life is, who is well and who is ill? What need existed for over 186 years that exists no longer?

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Smile for Today:

"Find your own quiet centre of life, and write from that to the world."

~ Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist and short story writer (1849 - 1909).

Thought for Today:

"You must have a room, or a certain hour of the day or so when you do not know what was in the morning paper...a place where you can simply experience and bring for what you are, and what you might be."

~ Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987), American writer, recognized for his work in mythology and comparative religions.

Jane Austen ~ Haldimand County Museum

Haldimand County Museum & Archives Invites you to Attend a "DINNER WITH JANE AUSTEN."

Thursday April 22, 2010. Social: 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner 6:30. Catered by The Gingerbread House and Flyer's Cafe. Cost $25 per person.

Tickets available at the Haldimand County Museum, 8 Echo St., Cayuga, ON (behind the Administration Building). Reservations and information: 905-772-5880.

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