February 5, 2021 TheWee Voice Newsletter FEBRUARY IS HERE !! Will you share your stories? CHINESE NEW YEAR STARTS FEBRUARY 12th What is your sign? How do you celebrate? We would love to hear your stories, if you would like to share. Send them to us by February 10th Valetine’s Day is Coming!!! With so many loving, caring readers I am sure there are many Valentine stories to tell!!! Loving Stories Tender Stories Humourous Stories If you would like to share, send them to us by February 10th to appear in our February 12th Wee VOICE February 16th PANCAKE DAY COVER PHOTO “Black History Month” Special memories Waterloo ON Poster to share? BLACK HISTORY MONTH This Sunday It is hard to understand, to have empathy with, EPIPHANY the experiences of others whose racial and Luke 5: 27 ~ 32 cultural backgrounds are so different from our own. In our worship together We can't truly feel their pain, their joy. Our life journeys have been very different. this Sunday morning, February 7, we'll hear Unlike our American neighbours who have been the story of Jesus described as a “Cultural Melting Pot”, Canada has calling Levi (also known worked at being a “Cultural Mosaic”. In theory this as Matthew). When you hear the words: "I society allows its citizens to flourish, living in the have not come to call the righteous, but culture, the religion, the traditions they hold dear. sinners to repentance" what do you feel? Do In theory no group is treated more favourably than you count yourselves among the righteous, or any other. The benefits to the Canadian society should be immeasurable! see yourself as a sinner? Maybe a little of both? Rev Jennifer Palin In practise our society does not give every member an equal chance to participate and Tina’s Hymn flourish. In practice far too often politics, business and entrenched “traditions” get in the way of an Sing egalitarian society. Keep enjoying the selection In February of each year we celebrate Black of hymns on the list already History Month. We recognize the tremendous created - 72!! hardships, and injustices that have happened, and continue to happen, to Canadians of Colour in our https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt8T0eq-qUqnJnWMsWUVqx5vdC60GUbO4 society. We also share in the hope of those who try to make our country a better place. Each week in February, in addition to stories shared by our Our Church Office readers, we will profile two inspiring Canadians of Our church of fice is now open: Colour – two of the thousands of stories that exist Monday to Friday, if you care to find them in books and on the internet. 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. No one but Emily is allowed access into the I hope you do. When you read them, office. Offering cheques can be dropped in the you will be amazed at the great mailbox (call Emily and let her know). Please contributions they have made, and help support Emily as we live the new life of continue to make. Tom Joyce self-distancing. Keep on ZOOMing!! The City of Toronto has passed a bylaw requiring Until we have a plan, our Sunday services masks to be worn in public places. Section 6 of the will keep on Zooming along! Don’t forget you bylaw specifically includes churches. To conform can join by regular phone. Need some help? with the requirements the following notice will be Don’t be shy! Call the church office and we’ll posted on all entrance doors. get someone to help you. ALL PERSONS ENTERING OR REMAINING Remember to look for your zoom invites in IN THESE PREMISES SHALL WEAR A MASK your email IN box every Friday for the Sunday OR FACE COVERING WHICH COVERS THE Worship Service. Don’t see it? Check NOSE, MOUTH AND CHIN AS REQUIRED UNDER CITY OF TORONTO BY-LAW 541-2020 your SPAM or JUNK folders. Not there either, please call Please help keep everyone safe by doing your part. the church office. WANT TO STAY Follow us and Like us on Facebook UP TO DATE? Donway Covenant United Church A COVID STYLE EPIPHANY SERVICES “FRONT of the LINE” Join us on ZOOM each Sunday The Thunder Bay Symphony morning. Call the church office is putting together a (virtual) for the link. concert which airs : Feb. 7 Jesus Calls the Outcast Levi February 13th 10:30 am at 7 pm Feb. 14 Jesus Transfiguration 10:30 am It can be seen at www .tbso.ca and is Free of Charge!! It doesn’t matter where you are - in Don Mills, or across the country, Chris Sutherland and I recorded a piece together at the church for the concert - or around the world, you can join us on ZOOM! Philip Glass's Etude No.11 The Worship Committee The piece is with myself on piano and Chris on drums. We technically aren't supposed to share the Ash Wednesday Service video until after the concert but... I think we can bend some rules here haha! February 17th at 10:30 am Let’s treat this as a special sneak preview and not share beyond The Wee VOICE audience on ZOOM until next week. Tina Faye Join us as Jennifer leads us in service. CLICK HERE to enjoy! https://youtu.be/4E7S1VHHYzU “Burning Last Year’s Palms” LENTEN REFLECTION small group “ History has shown discussion on ZOOM us that courage can be contagious and “TABLE hope can take on TALK” a life of its own” Saturdays at 2:00 pm March 13th, 20th and 27th Michelle Obama QUESTIONS? There are a lot of questions being asked If you have one or more symptoms of COVID-19 about the “Stay At Home” program, and about or think you may have been exposed to the virus, how the Covid 19 vaccine is being rolled out. take the Ministry of Health’s self-assessment to You might find this Government of Ontario find out if you should get tested. web site informative. It is updated daily. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/covid-19-vaccines-ontario https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/ become the first registered hockey school in HERB CARNEGIE Canada. And while Future Aces taught young THE ACE IN FUTURE ACES people the skills of the game, it provided much more. Carnegie many years later during an interview Since 1893, thousands have with Trans World Sport news, revealed these competed to hold, hoist, and feelings about why he started the hockey school. have their name engraved on “From my point of view, I was excluded from hockey. the Stanley Cup. Unfortunately I wanted something inclusive. And the idea came to one legendary hockey player me - if we have the fundamentals of the game of did not; and it wasn’t for a lack hockey, why can’t we have the fundamentals of how of effort or skill. Herb Carnegie to live? And what are they?” was born in Toronto on November 8, 1919; the son of A year later Carnegie would introduce the Future Jamaican parents who Aces creed; an acrostic based on the word ACES immigrated to Canada in 1912 which would act as a guiding tool for what he as 20-somethings, in search of believed embodied the qualities of a good person a better life. and citizen. In the 2019 re-release of the book, A Fly in a Pail of Milk: The Herb Carnegie Story, Growing up in North York, co-author Bernice Carnegie explained that being Carnegie showed a determined spirit from a young Future Aces means, “taking responsibility for who age, often fighting for what he believed in. In you are, what you do and how your behaviour elementary school his principal banned him from affects other people. It means demonstrating arriving at school too early, as he would fight back respect for yourself and others.” when other schoolmates threw racial epithets his way. That racism would follow Herb Carnegie Carnegie’s lifetime of throughout his life, but his will, determination, and individual accomplishments sharp moral compass would set him up for a lifetime were only matched by his of impact, on and off the ice. remarkable philanthropy. And while he never chased When it came to hockey, Carnegie praise, praise often found enthusiastically took to ice skating, using frozen him. During his life ponds near his childhood home in North York as his Carnegie was inducted into practice rinks. “I’d loved the game since I was 7½ … 13 sports halls of fame, We’d play all day on ponds in Willowdale, then listen received the Order of on the radio to Foster Hewitt and Hockey Night in Canada, the Order of Ontario, three Queen Jubilee Canada. I wanted to be a Maple Leaf,” Carnegie medals, along with many other awards and told The Globe and Mail in 2006. distinctions. A school and an arena were named in At the age of 18 Carnegie’s play caught the his honour. Carnegie and the Future Aces were also attention of Toronto Maple Leafs’ owner Conn featured as heroes in two special issues of Marvel’s, Smythe. And while Smythe marvelled at Carnegie’s The Amazing Spider-Man comics titled, “Skating athleticism and play, it wasn’t enough. Smythe on Thin Ice!” and “Double Trouble.” allegedly said, “he’d take you tomorrow if he could Herb Carnegie would pass turn you white.” away on March 9, 2012 at the age Carnegie would round out his hockey career in of 92, leaving behind an 1954 with the Owen Sound Mercury’s of the undeniable legacy.