East Seneca United Church



East Seneca Celebrates 150 years ~



"On the Monday night following the dedication service a grand Tea Meeting was held in the church where the young men brought their best girls in lumber waggons, there being no buggies in the immediate neighbourhood at that time.  This meeting proved a great success.  I believe the Tea Meeting was an annual event in the winter and the Garden Party in the summer.

"I can hardly remember Tea Meetings but the Garden Party was continued on into this century.  Usually they were held on Jas Patterson's place, it being central, that is where the Overends now live.
"Ice cream when they had it was always made with hand freezers, there being no such a thing as the commercial variety and with everyone having a hand in it and telling how it should be done.
"Along with one or two bunches of bananas and a box of "Long Torn Popcorn" at one cent a bag, the boys were able to treat their ladies...Of course, there was a program also ~ usually didn't cost much but it appears to me was much more appreciated than some of the expensive artists of the present day."

~ John Turnbull, late resident of Seneca Twp. (1890 - 1975)



Recently Discovered Sunday School Attendance Chart



Secret to Old Age ~

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, once said, "I can only assume that it is largely due to the accumulation of toasts to my health over the years that I am still enjoying a fairly satisfactory state of health and have reached such an unexpectedly great age."

Prince Phillip is hospitalized this week for exploratory abdominal surgery.  Royal watchers are wishing the Prince continued good health. Prince Phillip was born in Greece on June 10, 1921.

~ Old Geezer Wit,  Quips and Quotes For the Young at Heart,  Richard Benson, Summerdale Publishers, 2006.

Smile For Today ~

"At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgement."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"The essence of age is intellect. wherever that appears, we call it old."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
~ Robert Frost

"When you are dissatisfied and want to go back to your youth, think of algebra."
~ Will Rogers

"Age is a question of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
~ Mark Twain

~ Old Geezer Wit, Richard Benson, 2006, Summersdale Publishers.

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