FRIDAY, MAY 28th, 2010 - It's almost JUNE - cottage time, garden time, outdoor living time, Wednesday night services time!! Enjoy.

Preview of "The Human Experience" an incredible film that has won over 30 awards at Film Festivals. Dante Alighieri High School is hosting this film as their 5th Faith Day. Dante Alighieri Academy, 60 Playfair Avenue, 7:00 pm - tickets $10.00

SATURDAY, MAY 29th, 2010 - Join us for the Garden Digging Day - 9:00 am - 12:00. Bring gloves, tools and be prepared to dig.

Doors Open Toronto - Beach Walking Tour - 10:00 am and 1:00 pm - meet up at the Beach Library, Queen and Lee.

SUNDAY, MAY 30th, 2010 - Join us for worship at 10.30 am - Rev. Matt McKay leading. Following the service we will gather again for our 50 Great Days. Bring your lunch and spend an interesting hour with us.

NOTE: For all of you who have silver and have to polish it - a year ago I wrote about the wonders of WD40. One of which suggested that if you put it on your silver after polishing and let it dry, the silver would not tarnish. So I tried it on a tray that sits on my coffee table. I have not had to polish it since - I will have to soon but that's not bad. I have since tried it on brass.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5th, 2010 - Community Environmental Day - you can, purchase backyard composters, Green Bins, Rain Barrels. Drop off for recycling or disposal - Computer Equipment and Peripherals, Audio/Visual Equipment, as well as Hazardous Waste....(cleaning supplies and solvents, motor oil, paint, batteries, old/unused mercury thermometers/thermostates, pesticides, fluorescent bulbs, propane tanks ETC! My information does not give a location for this event - Go to beachesliving.ca or info@beachesliving.ca

MISSION CAPSULES: Our gifts to Presbyterians Sharing ... support David Pandy-Szekeres as he works with the Reformed Church of Sub-Carpathian Ukraine (RCCU), a church of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. As Supervisor of External Missions, David helps to post RCCU missionaries to mission fields and supervises their work. As Director of Schools, David co-ordinates four Christian secondary schools that are renowned for their high academic standards and Christian teachings. Let us pray for David as he uses his gifts to help the RCCU continue it's mission and ministry in the Ukraine.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6th, 2010 - The East York Choir present a concert at 3:00 pm, Eastminster United Church, Danforth Avenue at the Chester Subway. Musical favourites from the world of Opera and Musical Theatre. www.eastyorkchoir.ca

NOTE: We are looking for volunteers to provide and/or assist with musical accompaniment for our Wednesday evening services. Please contact Don Anderson or Matt McKay.

SUNDAY, JUNE 13th, 2010 - A concert - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - BonarParkdale Presbyterian Church, 250 Dunn Avenue, (Queen Street West). Join us for an eclectic evening of traditional, gospel, contemporary and praise music featuring the talents of the Jubilation Choir, Exaltation Choir and Celebration Ringers hand bell choir. Pay what you can.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23rd, 2010 - 7:00 pm at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street, West, (west of Spadina) "Turtle House Art/Play Centre" presents "Open to the World - A Musical Journey" first annual fundraising concert. Turtle House is a not-for-profit organization. A small but unique art based group primarily for children and families from refugee backgrounds. Three of our Fonseca boys attended programs at Turtle House.


Last but not Least! After Christmas, a teacher asked her young students how they spent their holidays away from school. One child wrote the following.

We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live in a big house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Arizona. Now they live in a tin house and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wreck center, but they must have got it fixed because it is okay now. They do exercises there but they don't do them very well. There is a swimming pool too but they all jump up and down in it with hats on. At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out and go cruising in their golf carts. Nobody there cooks, they just eat out, and they eat the same thing every night - early birds. Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house. The ones who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center for pot luck. My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too...

Have a good week - MB