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THE Visit us online: www. DIOCESAN TIMES nspeidiocese.ca OCTOBER 2011 A SECTION OF THE ANGLICAN JOURNAL Serving the Anglican Church in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island UN declares 2011 the International Year of Forests; parish of New Germany agrees THE PARISH OF NEW GERMANY is estimated at $327 billion. celebrated the Year of the The UN’s Food and Forest on September 17 at Agriculture Organization the Kevin Veinotte farm (FAO) estimates that every in West Northfield. To year 130,000 km² of the acknowledge the United. world's forests are lost due to Nations International Year deforestation. Conversion to of the Forest and to bring agricultural land, unsustainable attention to the importance harvesting of timber, unsound of the forest to the local land management practices, economy the parish offered an and creation of human afternoon of interpretation, settlements are the most worship and fellowship on common reasons for this loss of the Veinotte farm. Kevin is a forested areas. seventh-generation farmer on According to the World Bank, his land in West Northfield, deforestation accounts for up Lunenburg County; his large to 20 percent of the global woodlot is certified by the greenhouse gas emissions Forest Stewardship Council. that contribute to global An interpretive walk/wagon warming. FAO data estimates ride through this ‘provincial’ that the world's forests and award winning woodlot talk forest soil store more than one was delivered by Sandy and trillion tons of carbon – twice Trish Hyde, two well-know the amount found in the local foresters. After learning atmosphere. The World Bank about the pitfalls of clearcut estimates that forests provide harvesting (98% of Nova habitats to about two-thirds of Scotia woodland is harvested all species on earth, and that deforestation of closed tropical this way) and the long term rainforests could account for benefits of a well-manged biodiversity loss of as many as forest, the group returned 100 species a day. to camp for a short worship service and a shared outdoor According to the International ‘potluck salad supper’ with Union for the Conservation BBQ hot dogs provided by the of Nature (IUCN) and the planning committee. Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, “Across the globe lie more than a *The year 2011 was declared the billion hectares of lost and International Year of Forests degraded forest land that could by the United Nations to raise be restored”. awareness and strengthen the sustainable forest management, conservation and sustainable * From Wikipedia at: development of all types of www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ forests for the benefit of current International_Year_of_Forests and future generations. Forests are an integral part of global sustainable development. According to World Bank Photo top: Participants aboard estimates, more than 1.6 billion the wagon for a their woodlot people depend on forests for interpretive talk. their livelihoods with some 300 million living in them. Photo bottom: Rev. Juanita The forest product industry is a Barteaux, Rev. Catherine Robar, source of economic growth and Marian Veinotte and son Kevin employment, with global forest Veinotte. products traded internationally find us online: www.nspeidiocese.ca PAGE 2 OCTOBER 2011 - THE DIOCESAN TIMES COLUMNIST Here we go again HERE WE GO AGAIN! That seems school busses show up on the caulking around the windows to be the feeling throughout roads and lanes of her parish and doors of our house and I the parish of St. Bart’s as Octo- she is out there checking on have the warm winter duvet VOLUME 66 NUMBER 8 ber settles into our community. her flock. Most visits result in ready to put on our bed. September is a month of end- a gift of pickles or jam to store Rev Billie preached about ings and beginnings. Summer is in the rectory pantry. My late such needed preparations last PAUL SHERWOOD almost gone and the evenings Mother-in Law always sent Sunday. She urged us to get Editor are cooler. Sweaters are taken the rector home with a pair of our houses ready for a new and when we go out after supper hand knit socks. Of course in different type of weather .She PAUL FRIESEN yet some days are almost too Mum’s heyday the rector was also urged us to get our spiritu- Review Editor hot and sticky. This is the time always a man. I wonder if she al houses ready for any change when kids want to wear their would have been so quick to that may be coming our way. new clothes to school but that offer Rev. Billie a pair of her She was a Girl Guide in her Also on the web at: special jacket or ‘hoodie’ is re- socks? I bet Billie would have youth and according to her, ‘Be www.nspeidiocese.ca ally too much for the tempera- been very pleased to get such Prepared’ is always a good bit ture that is registering outside ST. B ART’S BY THE BOG a gift. They would work very of advice . Subscribe or make changes the window. well under the large boots that So we will begin our Fall life ONLINE at: By the time October arrives Sarah Neish our Rector wears throughout as a parish, plans will be made the leaves are beginning to the long winters we get here By for the Harvest Service and the www.anglicanjournal.com/ turn colour, the cranberries At St. Bart’s we will be cel- the Bog. Fall Bazaar and Cranberry sup- circulation/subscriptions.html that give The Bog it’s true ebrating our Harvest Thanks- Thinking of the rector’s win- per. We will check our houses or write to: identity are ripening in the giving service on the Sunday ter boots brings me back to the to make sure those cold winds Diocesan Times/Anglican marshy fields, different orga- thought of our change of sea- stay outside and the Property of the National Thanksgiving Journal Circulation Dept nizations are calling their first weekend. As is our custom, we sons. We all loved the warmth Committee will do the same at meetings after the summer will be filling the church with of summer and all that brought the rectory. Billie will be driv- 80 Hayden St hiatus and the Sunday bulletin fruit and veggies, corn stocks to the Bog. The many visitors ing up our lanes with her need Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 has a list of committees that and sheaves of wheat. I will be both family and friends, the joy to see us all and she will leave [email protected]. are starting up for the fall. making a loaf of bread in the of stepping out to the garden with some part of our harvest. ca October is a time when shape of such a sheaf of wheat and picking enough green or I think this year will be a good many of us breathe a sigh of to be placed on the altar and yellow beans for supper, the one for us as a parish here By (416 ) 924-9199 Ext relief that we now have the a bottle of Bill Higgins home- windows wide open and the the Bog. 259/245 community to ourselves, sum- made wine will be there too. ocean breezes blowing through mer visitors are long gone and Rev Billie seems to love this the house and the release from I’ll keep you posted, LETTERS & NEWS: we can settle down to the time time of year. The summer has coats and jackets, boots and Aunt Madge Paul Sherwood, Editor honoured chore of bringing in been a time when she rests scarves. Now we are preparing PO Box 8882, the harvest and preserving it in from her usual round of parish for another winter here .My jars and freezer bags. visiting but once the yellow Orin has begun to check the Halifax, NS B3K 5M5 [email protected] 902.477.3040 ADVERTISING: Harold Irving (902) 865-4795 cell (902) 489-4795 [email protected] Published monthly except in July and August by The Diocesan Times Publishing Company. Available electronically at: www.nspeidiocese.ca/times/ times.htm Printed by and mailed from Signal Star Publishing Ltd., Goderich, Ontario. Opinions expressed do not necessarily refl ect the views of the editor, the management board of The Diocesan Times, the diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island or any representative thereof, except where expressly stated. All material subject to editing. SUBSCRIPTION RATE FOR THE DIOCESAN TIMES and ANGLICAN JOURNAL: $20 per year Single copies: $2 SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: Th e fi rst week of the month preceding the month of publication: e.g., the deadline for © Dave Walker the February edition is the fi rst week of January. THE DIOCESAN TIMES - OCTOBER 2011 PAGE 3 BISHOP’S MESSAGE Giving thanks for a change THIS PAST SUMMER has been one of upheaval in our life have to pay more attention to, entering a new phase of as a family. We have entered that phase of life known life calls for even greater attention. as ‘the empty nest’. Both our children are launched (at least for now) All of a sudden our house is larger and The gospel is full of words that indicate change; quieter and there is food in the refrigerator. I have also “leave, come, follow, go, do, forgive”. It seems to me discovered that it is a time for a bit of soul-searching. that the new life in Christ is not a state of ‘being’ it is A lot of my identity over the past twenty-three years a state of ‘becoming’.