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Stairlift

8/15/2023

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Trinity, Blenheim has a new stairlift! It runs from the main floor or entry to the building, and goes up to the Sanctuary floor or down to the hall and washrooms. 
Speaking of those washrooms, they are getting a new look, too, and one will be fully accessible to all abilities. 
​Shown seated on the stairlift is Mary Toutant, and at the controls her husband, Clarence. Note, though, that the stairlift can also be controlled by the rider. 
It is licensed by the TSSA.
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Photo courtesy of Brian McCracken
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Saying goodbye

7/8/2023

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On Sunday, June 25, Rondeau Bay Transfiguration, at a service at Christ Church, Dresden, farewelled the Rev'd Dr Justin Comber, and Brittany, Will and Sam. They are off to the bright lights of St George's, Goderich, and Christ Church, Port Albert. We will miss them!
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Photo by Joan Cofell
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Fish Fry at St Paul's

7/8/2023

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A report on the fish fry at St. Paul's on June 25th
by Dennis Cartier
We started setting up at 10 am and were serving at 11:30 am. We shut down at 2 pm. In that time, we sold over 220 delicious yellow perch dinners.
And best of all, all the dishes were done, the deep fryers scrubbed and put away and all the tables and tents stored by 3 pm!
It is great to have a dedicated crew that know their jobs and just start doing them without direction. Best of all, I get to sit in the shade and just sell dinners.
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Coffee and muffin giveaway at St Paul's, Erieau!

6/6/2023

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by Dennis Cartier
​Thank you to everyone who made muffins for our coffee, tea and muffin giveaway today.  Special thanks to Jane Cartier, Jacqui Campbell and Karen Burke-McIntyre for braving the incredible heat to greet everyone who stopped by during the Erieau Firemen’s Association Village wide yard sale today.  Thanks also to Sandy and Dean Jones for helping with setup.   We received lots of compliments on our effort to say thankyou to a village that always supports everything we do.  As an added bonus, we made $92.00 in donations from a free give away.  I had the easy job, I stayed in the nice air-conditioned basement and made coffee and tea and did the dishes.  Our only regret is: we should have offered free water in the heat.  Next time for sure.
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'Discovering' Christ Church, Dresden

2/28/2022

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It's Black History Month in Canada, and Discovering Dawn: Episode 1 is the first of a series of short videos looking at the contributions African Canadians have made to the development of Dresden, Ontario. 
Our own Christ Church, Dresden, and its connection to the Underground Railroad. is featured in this one. Take the tour with Jackie Bernard and Marie Carter inside and outside and learn how you are touching history when you enter Christ Church!  ​
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Secrets revealed in hidden camera leak!

2/4/2022

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May I tell you how we happened to obtain secret footage of the altar guild last fall? 
It went like this: 
Late in the summer, the St. Matthew’s churchwardens noticed something odd. Each night at dusk the outside spotlights were coming on. 
The outside spotlights hadn’t been set to automatically come on at dusk in years. The switch was checked, the electrical panel was checked, and it shouldn’t be happening. But it was.
Were vandals sneaking in to hit the switch each night in a fiendish plot to raise our electricity bills? Were churchmice up to no good? 
One of us has a trailcam, so we decided to use it to see exactly what was happening at the switch. We secured it to a beam high in the chancel. 
And forgot about it. 
You see, in the meantime, we found the answer to the problem lay in the switch itself. Our local technician, Chris, fixed it. Then the church continued to sit empty. We were mostly closed for the pandemic. When open, we were using the parish hall, as it was easier to follow the protocols there. 
The day came, though, when we needed to be in the church. It was All Souls and time to hold a pandemic-postponed cemetery decoration day. We did the usual cleaning and the unusual protocol-setting and laying of wires for mics and equipment for the Zoom component of the service. 
We held the service. It was wonderful. 
Then I, for the trailcam was mine, remembered what was still on a beam high in the chancel…
It’s kind of fun to see a sort of stop-motion of what happens at an altar in the leadup to a service. 
We’ve decided to leak a selection of the photos. 
And now you know our secret: that the altar guild really cleans up. 
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Photos inadvertently taken by Lawrene. Last one is entitled "Realization"...
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Bishop Townshend appoints...

11/9/2021

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​...the Reverend Dr. Lisa Wang as
Developer for Catechumenal Ministries for the Diocese of Huron, effective October 1, 2021.
We are sad that Mother Lisa is no longer our vicar. 
We are happy that she continues to teach us during our learning series! 
We are happy that the rest of the diocese will come to know what a blessing that is!



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The Rural Learning Church

5/19/2021

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The parish learning group is the focus of a three-part video series for the Diocese of Huron. It starts with St. Matthew's and goes parochially viral...
Visit the diocesan media page here to take a look.
Would you like to contribute to future videos? We'd love that! Write to us here to pitch your idea!
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That's our Evelyn on the cover!

2/7/2021

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Bright and beautiful -- and warm!

2/7/2021

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The Village Stitchers of Florence are back to quilting! These days there is no bending together over patchwork, but they came up with a clever workaround. Myrna, who is spearheading this project, cuts the squares and gets them to stitchers who sew them together in sections. She puts those sections together, then does the finishing. The result, just this week, was six full-sized beautiful quilts, all of which went to the Westover Treatment Centre in Thamesville. 

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