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At Left:
The organizing committee for the 90th Anniver-sary Celebration of
Whonnock United Church. Front: Margaret Norman, Betty Nagy, and Ray
Shellburn. Middle: Lillian Collins, Reta Hughson, and Jean Ruttan.
Top: Rev. Dean Boundy and Gordon Collins. Margaret Norman and Betty
Nagy are showing the very popular commemo-rative mugs. |
| On Sunday September 12th,
Whonnock United Church
celebrated a fantastic 90th birthday in the presence of past and present
members, past ministers and family members of past ministers, as well
as many new visitors. They filled the church pews to overflowing and
celebrated with a rousing music and worship service. Services were
conducted by Rev. Dean Boundy. A great assortment of food, music,
and memories was shared by all. Historical records were shown and
some members even dressed up in the style of 1914. Brian Collins took
lots of great photographs. |
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| Betty Koy co-ordinated
a Silent Art Auction and a warm “thank you” goes to those
local artists who donated 13 paintings for the auction. We sold nearly
all of our 72 commemorative mugs. Members of Whonnock United and our
sister church at Webster’s Corners Unit-ed provided food for
the event and they gave an extraordinary amount of time and money,
to spruce up our buildings and our yard. We are also very grateful
for the support given by the Whonnock Community Association, and the
Maple Ridge Rotary Club and the kind efforts of all who have helped
us to begin meeting the “needs” mentioned on our “prayer
list” to restore and upgrade our buildings. |
| We hope to see you at
our worship and fellowship services again, any Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
And please drop in on any of our Alpha programs beginning Wednesday,
September 15th, from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. |
Jean
Ruttan
(on behalf of the organizing committee)
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