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Fall 2018 Melville-Seafoam Community Hall Welcomes You by Elaine Falconer were left standing empty when the River John lunch. A refrigerator and a stove is available Consolidated School was built. In the late as well as tea and coffee urns. We have two Things have been happening at the Melville seventies The Little Red Schoolhouse project single washrooms. We also rent out our -Seafoam Community Hall and we welcome was offered by the provincial government to chairs. Please contact Elizabeth Elliott for everyone to join us in our hall on the back turn the buildings over to the communities. information on hall rental. (902-351-2873) shore. We are very proud of our new sign on Being the practical folks that we are on the the front of the building, we have had the roof back shore, we amalgamated because we What have we been up to, you ask? Well, repaired over the entryway, and we have had a needed each other. The Melville School we have had three well-attended jamborees, a new heat pump installed which will alleviate House, (where Earl Johnson currently resides), Family Day in conjunction with Sunrise Trail the cost of the electric baseboards. and the Seafoam School House were 4H and a Paint Night. The hall is located in Seafoam, but is called geographically too close together for the two the Melville-Seafoam Community Hall. In small communities to be successful as 1968 the one-room school houses in the area individuals. That is how the Melville-Seafoam Community Hall was born. Our current executive consists of David Allan, Lynda Manning and Elizabeth Elliott. David replaced our long-serving hard-working past president of forty years, Earl Johnson. Elizabeth is the vice-president, and Lynda is the secretary-treasurer. The members consist of anyone who lives in the Melville or Seafoam communities, so please come out. We are always interested in ideas people may have to bring the community into our hall. The hall is also available for rentals. There is a kitchen that is suitable for a prepared River John film to screen in Las Vegas by Stuart Cresswell, Simple Films about the journey of film - The Only Film in Town is available online or at most bookstores. The Only Game in Town, a film by River John-based Simple Films and which was filmed around River John in 2015, has been selected to be screened at a film festival in Las What do we have planned, you ask? Well, Vegas. we are starting to have Euchre Tournaments on the third Thursday of the month, beginning The film was shot through 2014 and 2015 October 18th. The cost will be $6 per person and featured some 30+ young people with and you don‟t need to bring a partner. It is a speaking roles. It was beset by problems when fun evening, and is like playing cards at the the film-making landscape changed in 2015 kitchen table with your friends. We invite but the producers stayed loyal to the young experienced and inexperienced euchre players. people involved and have pushed on to release the film internationally this year. We are also putting on a concert Sunday, November 25th at 2:00 pm. We have titled it The film has already reached the semi-finals The Month Before Christmas. It is rated PG, of Australia's Sydney Indie Film Festival, so bring the whole family. There will be getting those all important first laurels. A singing, maybe dancing, skits, and of course week later, the company learned about the we are selling fudge. Watch local bulletin selection by Las Vegas's Comedy World boards and social media for more information. Network International Film Festival and the very real chance of further recognition. We have another jamboree planned for The producers have also learnt that a group Sunday, December 2nd. It is titled the Grand of international producers are keen to turn the Ol‟ Opry, with many performers from around story and characters of the film into a TV the province taking part. We haven‟t sitcom and success at film festivals can only established a time yet, but will keep you help in that process. posted. Nimbus Publishing have published a book We hope to see you sometime at our hall. Pioneer remembrance Freedom is Never Free Written by MCpl Ron E. Williams on his way home from Afghanistan When I called home to my Mum and Dad Pride welled up in my voice See I got the call for Afghanistan And this time it was my choice Now I know y‟all have some sleepless nights Sketches from Quiet Hero And shed some tears for me “A Canadian Soldier’s Diary” But I‟m gone to fight for our Written by Kathleen Mills freedom And freedom is never free by R.H.Rabjohn She wakes very early, he‟s leaving today When the plane touched down in Kandahar She will stand tall and proud as he‟s walking away The heat and the dust hit us in the face And I thought for just a second He glances back warmly at his children and his wife That it seems such a peaceful place Knowing they will bravely carry on with their life Then a midnight flight on a chopper Her strength and her courage only one understands Took us far into the war He is walking away with her heart in his hands And the peacefulness was left far behind For he knows that without it he would be lost For some to see no more But they both know freedom comes with a cost Well it didn‟t take long to see The She walks away holding her children so close, hatred in this place Swallowing her tears for the one she loves most And the shots and bombs rang out daily This quiet hero does not walk into war Leaving such a bitter taste She soldiers on behind her front door When the roar of the battle reached deafening And then silence filled the sky She will move through her life Seems the price of freedom just went up The wind at her back And someone had to die Determined to keep her family on track Her tears fall in silence while she lies in her bed By the time you get this message Her fear is right there, but nothing is said I‟ll be on my way back home She will ask that no medals be pinned to her chest Hold your head up high, don‟t cry for me Because I am not alone Her husband‟s safe return her only request For so many have gone before me Few understand her commitment, her life, From the land, the air, and sea She is the quiet hero, the brave soldier‟s wife To pay the price for freedom For freedom is never free Digging out an artillery horse: a halt in an advance When you look around and see our flag Flying high near land and sea over one of the “roads” on the Western Front And the pride wells up inside you For our country as should be The illustration below is one of the many pictures you can find in the copies of The Illustrated Know that I have defended her London News available in the reference collection of the River John library. And I‟m as proud as can be To give myself for freedom For freedom is never free Pioneer community A Thank You to the Lillian Congratulations, Julia Reid! Fraser Memorial Hospital Julia graduated from St. Francis Xavier by Dal Robinson University in May, 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts, Major in History and Minor in Women When you are lying back in your hospital bed and Gender Studies. She graduated in June, Waiting for your body to heal 2018 from the University of New Brunswick, You're feeling grateful and think that you with a Bachelor of Education, Major in Histo- should ry, Social Studies and Visual Arts. Julia is liv- Give voice to thanks that you feel. ing in Tampico, Mexico and teaching at the American School of Tampico. Julia is the My first thank-you would go to the doctors daughter of Terry and Linda Reid, River John, With such a clever and a capable hand and the granddaughter of the late Raymond And very devoted to their profession and Verna Thompson and Maynard and Jean Is something we all must understand Reid. Julia‟s family and friends are wishing her success, as she begins her teaching career. Of course we'll have to thank those nurses Angels of mercy dressed in white It wouldn't be a hospital without their care But oh how, they will like to keep your bed sheets tight. River John Festival I would have to thank my fellow patients Always like one big family in the wards Days – 2018 Through pain or not never a murmuring word The River John Festival Days Committee To them goes my best regards members wish to thank everyone who attended and participated in the various events which My last thank-you would go to the Manage- were held during the week-long festivities. ment Also, thank you to the many volunteers and You're their guest when you enter the door service groups who planned and organized And you couldn't be used any better specific events. We are grateful to the spon- Until they carry your grip to the door sors, who have assisted in the cost of prizes, parade entries and hall rentals.

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