Saturday, June 8, is World Ocean Day

www.worldoceansday.ca  
What can I do to protect watersheds?

Rivers Run Into The Sea

Photo: The Grand River York lbw

Some of the Camp Day Volunteers Caledonia ~ Kate, Cathy, Brenda, Michelle & Tim

Tim Hortons Camp Day, Wednesday, June 5, brought hundreds of customers out to support sending kids to camp.

Volunteers, Michelle, Bailey & Tim take a breather between drive-thru donors.

"Thank You."

Volunteers from Day of 1000 Canoes helped collect donations for Tim Hortons' Camps for Kids.
(Please click on photos for larger image.)

To a Friend ~
by John Keats

As late I rambled in the happy fields,
What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew
From his lush clover covert; ~ when anew
Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields:
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk rose; 'twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer:  graceful it grew
As is the wand that queen Titaniz wields.
And, as I feasted on its fragrancy:
I thought the garden rose it far excell'd:
But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me
My sense with their deliciousness was spell'd:
Soft voices had they, that with tender plea
Whisper'd of peace, and truth, and friendliness
Unquell'd.

~ John Keats (1795-1821) English Romantic PoetTo a friend who sent Keats some roses.

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie."

~George Herbert (1593 - 1633) Welsh-born English Poet, The Temple [1633] The Church Porch, st. 1

". . . there are no rules here ~ we're trying to accomplish something."

~ Thomas A. Edison, American inventor & businessman (1847 - 1931)

John Edelman Congratulations from Out-going President Lynn Hewitt

Cayuga & District Chamber of Commerce meeting will be held at Ye Ole Fisherville Restaurant, Wednesday, June 5, 7:00 a.m.

New President, John Edelman, owner of Haldimand Motors Ltd., has visited many of the current members as well as businesses that may be interested in joining the chamber to introduce his vision for the Chamber.  We welcome John's enthusiasm and invite everyone to attend this meeting.

* Photo Sachem, Tamara Botting, May 7, 2013.
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THE SUN'S WOOING

The sun just touched the morning ;
     The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.

She felt herself supremer, ~
A raised, ethereal thing ;
Henceforth for her what holiday !
Meanwhile, her wheeling king

Trailed slow along the orchards
His haughty, spangled hems,
Leaving a new necessity, ~
The want of diadems !

The morning fluttered, staggered,
Felt feebly for her crown, ~
Her unanointed forehead
Henceforth her only one.

~ Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of ED, Chatham River Press, 1993.

Note:  The Neat L'l Bookshop opens 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to Saturday.  5:00 p.m. closing except for Saturdays when we close at 3:00.  "Stop in, stay a while, read a book.  Coffee pot's always on..."