Fort Massey Star AUTUMN - THANKSGIVING - 2011 www.fortmasseychurch.com From the Pastor’s Desk...

Scripture Reading: claims “Our international Enter His gates with Psalm 100 nonprofit organization pro- thanksgiving; His courts In regions of Mexico hot vides resources for living in with praise. Give thanks springs and cold springs the gentle power of grate- to him and bless his are found side by side. Be- fulness, which restores name, for the Lord is cause of the convenience courage, reconciles rela- good and His love is ev- INSIDE of this natural phenome- tionships, and heals our THIS ISSUE: erlasting; His faithfulness non the women often Earth.” Some of the re- endures to all genera- Upcoming 2 bring their laundry, boil sources on the site are tions. UCW Events their clothes in the hot Christian and some are Throughout the history Spirit Con- 3 springs, and rinse them in from other faiths. Some of our faith there have nectors Book the cold springs. A tourist are even from those with- Selections been people of faith who watching this procedure out faith who still feel a have written about the Phantoms of 4 need to live in thanksgiv- the Pipes XIV commented to his guide need for thanks. We need ing. “They must think Mother only look at our hymns like Dr. Mina 5 Nature is generous to MacKenzie Some people are now ‘Count your many bless- Memorial freely supply such ample keeping gratitude journals. ings, name them one by Trust Fund clean hot and cold water.” They take the time to one’ and a more modern Hardships of 6 The guide replied “No write down for a few hymn ‘Our God is an awe- Life senor. There is much minutes each day a short some God’. Different grumbling because she sup- list of things for which they words but the same under- plies no soap.” are grateful. Someone who lying emotion. Gratitude. has written about such a Think of how often we Thanksgiving reminds us practice notes, “By ac- look at life from ungrateful that we are a people called knowledging what is work- eyes; and how often we to gratitude, to a way of ing in our lives, we set in grumble about a small living and being which motion an ancient spiritual thing when overall life is means that we count our law - the more you have going well. Thanksgiving is blessings and live with our and are grateful for, the already here. Some people adversity. We go forward more will be given to you.” are pausing not just for from this day with a new football and turkey but to The Psalmist would not attitude, seeing the glass ask whether there is an have looked up ‘Gratitude half full even when our attitude of thanks in their dot org’ on the internet, inclination is to see it half daily living, an attitude of but he understood grati- empty. Happy Thanksgiv- gratitude. There is a web- tude. ing! site for gratitude which ~Rev. Trent P A G E 2 Upcoming UCW Events

Our ‘Annual Harvest bread with cheese, sweet Submitted by Irene Parks Tea’ is on Saturday, Oc- breads and cookies. Our sale tober 15th, 2 - 4 pm. tables include Silent Auction, Special music with Kevin Pantry, Jewellery, Christmas, Roberts & friend. There New-to-You and Crafts. will be a Bake Table. Tickets are $5 at the door or Freewill offering. during Coffee & Conversa- The ‘Christmas Tea & tion on Sundays. Sale’ is on Saturday, No- Our ‘Christmas Lunch- vember 19th, 10:30 am eon’ will be held at a restau- to 12:30 pm. As usual, rant this year. The restaurant we serve brown & raisin and date is undecided.

From the Manse - Fall 2011 “So now we head Channel surfing is fun son. So we will all have rainy summer evening. but as most of you know, off to college to wait for the next in- On the night stand has you can look at channel stallments. But with a been The Book of Ne- basketball games after channel and find large cast and a budget of groes. But it has finally nothing that appeals. So to watch Beatrice a million dollars an epi- been returned to the most evenings if the TV sode, it is well done. If library - well worth the is on at the manse, there play for the you missed the first few read. And our favourite ia a DVD in the player. episodes, Vision usually University of Kings; movie of the summer First we discovered that starts over and shows it was “The Help”. to concerts with Video Difference has a again or you can wait for wonderful collection but it through the library. So now we head off to Tristan as assistant you can begin to spend We also enjoyed the college basketball games too much on rentals. So to watch Beatrice play conductor and 2010 version of Upstairs then we discovered that Downstairs - a few epi- for the University of singer with the library has most of sodes with some of the Kings; to concerts with the same DVDs. They same cast from the origi- Tristan as assistant con- Camerata are not on the shelf but nal series. ductor and singer with Singers…” you can go online and log Camerata Singers; and into their system and Midsomer Murder and back to bridge lessons Inspector Morse have request. Then you wait. hoping to learn how to been our murder mys- keep score and to re- Our favourite show tery favourites this sum- member what we this summer was Down- mer. Both are British and learned last year. And if ton Abbey. And just as as the plot twists and you attend Bette Mac- we finished it, we discov- turns, we try to guess Donald’s comedy show ered that it is on Vision “who dun it”. Walking in December at the TV this fall on Wednes- through the streets of Cohn, and you hear a day evenings. It is like Oxford with Morse or familiar laugh from the “Upstairs, Downstairs” through the small villages audience, yes, that will and they are currently with Barnaby are good be your minister enjoying filming the second sea- escapism on a cold and every minute of it - again. FORT MASSEY STAR AUTUMN - THANKSGIVING– 2011 P A G E 3 How To Stop Rumours

Mildred, the church gossip, alcoholic after she saw his away. He didn’t explain, and self-appointed monitor old pickup parked in front of defend or deny. He said of the church’s morals, kept the town’s only bar one af- nothing. sticking her nose into other ternoon. Later that evening, Bill people’s business. Several She emphatically told Bill quietly parked his pickup in members did not approve of (and several others) that front of Mildred’s her extracurricular activities every one seeing it there house...walked home...and but feared her enough to WOULD KNOW WHAT left it there all night. (You maintain their silence. HE WAS DOING! gotta love Bill!) She made a mistake, how- Bill, a man of few words, Submitted by Jean Brown ever, when she accused Bill, stared at her for a moment a new member of being an and just turned and walked

A Special Remembrance

ATTENTION…Please join Doughboy was survived by Ivany Place, located off me in remembering yet an- his wife, Play Dough; three Hammonds Plains Road other great icon of the en- children, John Dough, Jane tertainment community. Dough and Dosie Dough; plus they had one in the ov- The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast en. The funeral was held at infection and trauma compli- 3:50 for about 20 minutes. cations from repeated pokes Submitted by Joan Hyslop, to the belly. He was 71. resident at Northwood’s

Spirit Connectors Book Selections

Harvey Cox’s book, two books this fall/winter on Thursdays at 10:30 am, be- The Future of Faith ginning October 13, 2011. and These books can be pur- Barbara Brown Taylor’s chased or ordered at any book, An Altar in the World bookstore, or on-line, and are available in paperback. Our Spirit Connectors group will be reading these Fall Winter P A G E 4 The Royal Canadian FORT MASSEY Holy Humour College of Organists CHURCH Queen & To- A minister parked his car in a Halifax Centre bin, near South, Hali- no-parking zone in a large city fax, NS 423-4294 because he was short of time and couldn't find a space with a P R E S E N T S MC - Dr. Walter H. meter. Kemp PHANTOMS of the Then he put a note under the SATURDAY, 7:30 PIPES XIV windshield wiper that read: "I PM, OCTOBER 29, have circled the block 10 times.

2011 If I don't park here, I'll miss my The Scariest show appointment. Forgive us our Admission: $10, $5 in Town trespasses." (seniors), Children When he returned, he found featuring some of the featuring some of the free, $15 family a citation from a police officer scariest people! along with this note "I've circled PHANTOMS of this block for 10 years.. If I don't the PIPES XIV give you a ticket I'll lose my job. Lead us not into temptation.” QEH Time Capsule Holds Historic Artifacts

A time capsule from said she couldn't wait to students mingled with the old Queen Elizabeth go to the new school. the elderly QEH grads as High School was cracked "I was in Grade 10 in '42, they read the old news- open for the first time in I was 15, I was dying to papers, dominated by 70 years. There was a lot go to school," she said. headlines about the Se- “I was in Grade 10 of curiosity about the "And I remember my dad cond World War. in '42, I was 15, I tiny old box, not much teased me all summer The demolition of bigger than a phone saying, 'It's going to be QEH began last October was dying to go to book. turned into a hospital, but there have been nu- school," she said. It was discovered last there's a war on.'" merous delays, including month among the debris a dispute with a contrac- at the QEH demolition tor. It is scheduled for site. It was found tucked completion by late Sep- away in the cornerstone tember or early Octo- of the old school. ber. QEH opened in Sep- tember 1942. It closed in Among the artifacts Submitted by Ruth Mac- 2007 after 65 years of were newspapers from Kenzie. Taken from a use, and Citadel High September 1941, a Cana- CBC news article. Jean School opened nearby. dian nickel and a board Brown is a member of Fort Massey United Former QEH students of school commissioners Church. from the early 1940s report showing teachers were in attendance. annual salaries ranging Jean Brown, who grad- from $1,200 to $1,500. uated from QEH in 1945, Today's high school FORT MASSEY STAR AUTUMN - THANKSGIVING– 2011 P A G E 5 Dr. Mina MacKenzie Memorial Trust Fund passed away in early 2011, soon rains. Until the roof is but his drive, inspiration and repaired, the children have determination that made the been temporarily moved. To Trust Fund grow is the foun- prevent them from being ex- dation for those now taking posed to cold conditions that the lead to help the children may result in flu and pneumo- who need our support. nia, the Trust Fund needs to This picture is from the This year, through several secure funding to complete Boys Hostel in , generous donations, the the repair prior to the winter taken in July 2010. Trust Fund also funded sev- season. eral special projects includ- The Outreach Committee The Outreach Committee ing: assisting with the care would like you to consider “Dr. Mina of Fort Massey would like to and upkeep of AIDS patients; making a valuable contribution take this opportunity to in- supporting the Leprosy Mis- to the work of this special MacKenzie form you of the Dr. Mina sion in U.P.; and a Trust Fund, perhaps as a spe- was originally MacKenzie Memorial Trust scholarship for a B.Sc. Nurs- cial Christmas gift. Examples Fund – an organization striv- ing student at the R.D. Col- of how your donation will be from Pictou ing to equip underprivileged lege in Ujjain. put to use are: $25 (school and worked children with the tools they Over the past 20 years, uniform); $50 (room and need to become self- many of the children sup- board for 2 months); $100 for many years supporting productive mem- ported by the Trust Fund (medical treatments); and bers of their communities. have graduated high school, $300 (full sponsorship of a as a This year the Trust Fund is found good jobs and became child for 1 year!). in . “ supporting more than 140 self-supporting and produc- Donations can be mailed to: children in India with health tive members of their com- Dr. Mina MacKenzie Memorial and education expenses, munity including supporting Trust Fund, 3490 Cawthra food, clothing and shelter. other members of their fami- Road, Mississauga, Ontario, Dr. Mina MacKenzie was ly. This has only been made L5A 2Y1. originally from Pictou and possible by the generous Please consider supporting worked for many years as a donations made by people this important Trust Fund to missionary in India. Current- like you. carry on the work in succeed- ly, the Trust Fund is being An urgent appeal is being ing in breaking the cycle of run by one of Dr. MacKen- made this year to raise poverty these beautiful chil- zie's adopted daughters, Sari- $25,000 to repair a roof at a dren are currently facing. na Bayer. Sarina's husband, boy’s hostel in Ratlam, MP., William Bayer, one of the India that was partially col- Submitted by founders of the Trust Fund, lapsed during heavy mon- Ian MacDonald Did You Know? Americans did not invent ty that ended a year of hard- al Holiday as the fourth began the traditions of Thanksgiving. It began in ships and death. Abraham Thursday in November. turkeys, pumpkin pies, Canada. Frobisher's celebra- Lincoln established the date Frobisher and early colo- and the gathering of tion in 1578 was 43 years for the US as the last Thurs- nists, giving thanks for safe family and friends. day in November. In 1941, passage, as well as pilgrim before the pilgrims gave thanks in 1621 for the boun- US Congress set the Nation- celebrations in the US that P A G E 6 Hardships of Life

Recently I agreed to drive and thin, perhaps in their late USSR to supplement their our Uzbek refugee friend, 20s - probably desperate for a meager wages. She is truly a Khursunoi to the bottle ex- bit of cash. They yelled they remarkable lady. change. She works faithfully at couldn't understand what she Our Outreach committee is collecting recyclables which was saying. "Is she calling us helping in her efforts to have she sorts, counts and packs thieves?" At this point I got her daughter and two grand- into bags; labelling each with a out of the car to intervene. I daughters move to Canada. tag bearing the tally. We usu- was afraid someone might get The application for their immi- ally make one trip each week hurt (or that someone might gration is almost ready to be to the depot with my car call the police). First I got sent off to Ottawa. packed to the roof and she Khursunoi into the car then I receives around $70 - $80 for told the two fellows, "My Submitted by Sally DeWolf her efforts. That morning, as I friend counts and labels each drove up to her usual loading bag. The three bags she just spot, I realized her pile of retrieved from you bear her What to do With the waiting bags was smaller than labels. We're not calling you usual. She told me in her lim- thieves, we're just saying Leftover Turkey ited English "young man" took someone took three of her 3 bags while she was inside bags this morning and now getting more from her storage she's taking them back. Good- unit, "I run but he NOT stop!" bye." so he got away. This has hap- As quickly as I could I re- pened at least two other times packed the car and left. As we in the past year. drove through town to Clifton Because I was there with the Street depot, Khursunoi and I Colourful Turkey Pasta Salad car, we decided to make the were, at first, upset and a bit 2 cups uncooked tri-colour spiral trip with the remaining bags. frightened. In a few minutes pasta As we were leaving her drive- we were angry that someone 1 cup chopped cooked turkey way Khursunoi indicated she'd could so easily walk off with all 1 cup chopped celery like me to drive over to the her hours of hard work, but 1 medium red onion, chopped Mitchell Street recycling de- then we realized that this had 1 medium green pepper, chopped pot. It's only a couple blocks indeed been a GOOD DAY 1 package (1 ounce) ranch dress- from her apartment but she's because she had successfully ing mix not allowed to use it because overcome her initial bad luck. 1 cup sour cream she argued with them in the I've shared this story to illus- 1 cup Miracle Whip past over what she felt were trate some of the reality of the 1 teaspoon garlic salt 1/2 cup slivered almonds discrepancies in their counting. hardships of life for those in 1 teaspoon paprika She wanted to check for her our city who, for various rea- Tomato wedges, optional "young man." Sure enough, as sons, don't have the resources we drove past the line of col- to live a normal life. Khur- Cook pasta according to package lectors waiting their turn in- sunoi is fortunate because she directions; drain and rinse in cold side she recognized her bags. qualifies for subsidized housing water. Place in a 2-1/2-qt. salad In an instant she was out of and she is, at 74 years of age, bowl. Add turkey, celery, onion the car and taking her bags still healthy and able to do the and green pepper; toss to com- from a pile beside two young strenuous work of pushing bine. Combine dressing mix, sour men. heavy carts along our streets, cream, Miracle Whip and garlic salt. Add to pasta mixture and The scene quickly erupted winter and summer. All the mix well. Sprinkle with almonds into yelling and swearing as money she earns from these and paprika. Garnish with tomato the two fellows tugged on collections gets sent to her wedges, if desired. Makes 6-8 "their" bags. They were pale family who remain in former servings. Enjoy! Submitted by Holly MacIntosh