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CLASSIFIED AD SECTION *If you would like to advertise in this section, please call 656-1591. $5.00 for a ten word advertisement.* For Sale Bunk Bed & Dresser- $100 656-9063 For Sale Single Headboard 39” & New Roll Away Bed Laura Franks 656-4897 Announcements Birth Announcement Makaila Kaitlyn (8 lb. 12 oz.) was welcomed with warm and loving hearts by her big sister Logan, parents Amanda and Paul Gray, her grandparents, cousin Jacey and lots and lots of family and friends on Wednesday June 8, 2005. Death Notice Bob Nash, 72 years young. Late in the evening of Wednesday, August 10'th, Bob slipped away peacefully at home. Arrangements are to be determined. The Burleigh Road Historical Society is preparing a book, "Up The Burleigh Road", and is calling for the public to provide photos or information. Please contact Jean Henninge (henninge@pipcom.com) or Mary Jean Metrow (656-4601), or leave the information at the Apsley Library during library hours.	CHURCH NEWS St. George's Anglican Church Burleigh Street, Apsley The Reverend Peter Bishop Phone 652-8302 Sunday Service 11:00 a.m St, George's 130'th Anniversary Celebration is Sunday August 7, 2005 - Service at 11AM with luncheon to follow. . All Welcome! Baptist Church Hwy 28, Woodview Sunday @ 10:30 AM Rev Paul Caldwell 652-9401 St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Clydesdale Rd. 8:30 a.m. Confessions 9:00 a.m. Holy Mass Father Joachim O. Nnanna is the new Pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Father Joachim is also the Pastor for Our Lady of Lourds (Cardiff) and St. John Vianney in Highland Grove. St. Mary’s Phone Number is 613-339-2852 Trinity United Church Service at 11.30 am. Rev. Don Green has been minister of Trinity United for just over one year. Like his predecessor, Rev. Peter Robinson, Don started his ministry after a very successful business career. He was also a star soccer player and referee. This has taken him to other countries to participate in his favorite past time. Don has fit in well at Trinity as well as the other churches in his charge. It is with sorrow that we remember Pat Carlos who passed away on July 7th 2005. She was well known for her work in Peterborough Presbytery and attended many events at Trinity United. She will be greatly missed. St Stephen's Anglican Church Hwy 620 and West Bay Road The Rev Peter Bishop 652-8302 Sundays 9.30 a.m. Easter through Thanksgiving. Chandos Lake Chapel-in-the-Woods An outdoor, interdenominational Chapel Service held each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. from July 3rd to September 4th, "weather permitting". Located at 545 Renwick Rd. (Lake Lot #896). Everyone is welcome! Call 656-4616 for more information. This is the coolest church ever! Apsley Community Chapel Regular Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Wednesday 7:00 p.m. All ladies are invited to join the Apsley Community Chapel ladies on the 2nd Tues. of each month at 7:30 p.m. for Bible teaching and fellowship. Please call 656-1510 or 656-4506 for location. The first Wed. evening of each month a prophecy video on End Times is shown.

The Apsley Bard

The Sighs of Summer

I have seen the forests, shining lakes and green growth 'cross the plains.
While here at home there's sun and heat, out west they curse the rains
Mosquitoes hide from daytime's scorch, here game fish seek the shade
Under overhang, a log or shoal, shunning hook and spinner's blade.
In the bush the breeze is stilled, the salt sweat flows like brine
The deer flies buzz and take their meal from skin that wetness shines
They carve a hole like Flylocks and take their pound of meat, while
We swing and swat to no avail, and curse the bugs and heat.
Out in the west, the grain is sown, but lies dead in a bog
The ceaseless rains make fields of muck through which sad farmers slog
The planter would so gladly trade his wet and drowning peat
To dry and heat the soil and save his flax and oats and wheat.
It's said that we here in the East face discomfort in degrees
With Celsius as our gauge of hell, we pray for just a breeze
To stand knee deep amid the ruins of crops so water-cursed
The farmer wonders how we'd feel if the fortunes were reversed
He feeds a nation and the world from what the ground will yield
He'll watch the sky, the wind and hope that God will bless his field
When hopes are dashed and rain has splashed his work of countless springs
He'll suck it up, and take his loss, accept what nature brings.
So we who listless sit and wish that things would slightly chill
Consider that through sun and heat, we have lakes and breezes still
The one demand that weather brings if we bemoan such things, is that
We suck it up, take summer's spells, and accept what nature brings.
Across this land a nation toils, yet we who stay in place
Will never know the Rockies or our prairie's open space,
We could not know our farmer, our rancher, if we just sat
We have to get up off our butts and go to where they're at.
Oh Canada!