THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2019
THE CHATHAM VOICE
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News
Remembering the Massacre Wednesday, December 4: • Pepper (1:00pm) and fun darts (7:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone welcome. • Patricia M. Productions Monthly Luncheon Fashion Show at Links of Kent Golf Course, 120 Indian Creek Rd. W., 519-351-3672. Call restaurant for reservations. Fashions by The Loft benefiting CK Outreach for Hunger. Thursday, December 5: • Open Euchre (1:00pm), Monthly bingo (7:00pm) at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome. Friday, December 6: • Teen Dance at Tilbury Memorial Arena hosted by the Tilbury Area Action Team. 7:00pm-10:00pm for students from grades 5-9. $5/student. Refreshments available for purchase. • Handel’s Messiah will be performed by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra at the Chatham Armoury, 44 William St. N. at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:45pm. Tickets only at St. Andrew’s United Church office. $30/advance. $35/door. Students free. $75/WSO 2019-2020 3 concert series when purchased prior to December 6. For info call 519-352-0010 or www.standrewschatham.org. • Theatre Kent’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. 7:30pm at the Kiwanis Theatre of the Chatham Cultural Centre. $12/person at the Capitol Theatre box office or $13.13 online at cktickets.com. • Meal (5:15pm-6:30pm), open darts (7:30pm) and Catch the Ace (drawn at 6:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Choice of cabbage rolls, roast beef or fish & chips for $10. Everyone welcome. Saturday, December 7: • Mind Character & Personality study group. Saturdays only until Dec. 14. 4:00pm. 222 Lafontaine St., Wallaceburg. Confirm your presence with an email to cal.hmn@gmail.com for this free program. • Christmas Benefit Concert at 7:00pm at First Presbyterian Church. Featuring CK Christian Men’s Choir, “One Accord”, “The Accordian Man”, Mikayle Lozon, Dover Centre Ladies Choir and Nancy Tapley, organist. Lots of carol singing. Free will offering to support Chatham Hope Haven. • Community Assistance Dinner at the Merlin Legion. 6:30pm. Admission is non-perishable food items, new toys or cash donation. Please help us to fill the food hampers in our area. For more info call 519-351-7659 or the Legion 519-689-4884. • Meat draw (4:00pm-6:00pm) and dance (4:30pm9:30pm) featuring FlashBack at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome. • Saturday Morning Breakfast at First Presbyterian Church, Chatham (corner of Fifth St and Wellington). A delicious nutritious breakfast served free of charge 9:30am-11:00am. Everyone welcome! Sunday, December 8: • Classic Country Jamboree at the Merlin Legion. 3:00pm-7:00pm with delicious 5pc. perch dinner at 5:00pm. Hosted by “The Marquis” $5 entry for non-musicians. Dinner priced separately. Bring your singing voices and dancing shoes. • St. Joseph’s K of C Council #10436 breakfast from 9:00am-11:30am at the Spirit & Life Centre (St. Joseph’s site) 184 Welling St. W., Chatham. All you can eat buffet with 2 meats, hash browns, scrambled eggs, French toast or pancakes, toast & fruit cocktail. 50/50 draw and every 50th customer that comes in the door will receive a free breakfast on us! $8/plate for adults. $4/children 6-12. Children under 5 free. • Bingo at the Ridgetown Legion, 2:00pm-4:00pm. $10 admission includes 4 cards. Jackpot $200. Sponsored by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary. • Southern Gospel featuring Gary Parker, 1:30pm at LifeBridge Family Church, 2 Lemuel St., Thamesville. Freewill offering. For info text: 226-627-4247 or call 519-683-1679. • Jubilee Chorus presents “Run to the Manger - a Celebration of Christ Coming Into the World.” 4:00pm at Grace Christian Reformed Church (255
Tweedsmuir Ave. W.) A telling of the Christmas story in song, accompanied by glorious brass, organ, strings and wind instruments. Freewill offering going to support the rebuilding of St. Andrew’s United Church. Monday, December 9: • Drop in to the Chatham branch of the CKPL and make your own ornaments. 5:00pm-8:00pm. • Open euchre (1:00pm) at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome. Tuesday, December 10: • Drop in to the Chatham branch of the CKPL and make your own ornaments. 5:00pm-8:00pm. • Open euchre (1:00pm) at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome. Wednesday, December 11: • Ladies weekly informal bible study and occasional speaker at Calvary Church, 31 Victoria ave. at Barthe St. 9:30am. Come and discover what the Bible says to us while enjoying meeting new friends. For more info call 519-354-4235. • Drop in to the Chatham branch of the CKPL and make your own ornaments. 5:00pm-8:00pm. • Pepper (1:00pm) and fun darts (7:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone welcome. Thursday, December 12: • Drop in to the Chatham branch of the CKPL and make your own ornaments. 5:00pm-8:00pm.
The Chatham Voice
The Chatham-Kent Co-ordinating Committee to End Violence Against Women is remembering the women killed by a lone gunman in Montreal with a ceremony marking 30 years since that horrific day. In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, the Committee is hosting a special event on Dec. 6 beginning at 10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Studio 1 at the Chatham Cultural Centre, 75 William St. N. in Chatham. In 1991, Parliament declared Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action to End Violence Against Women. It was on that dates in 1989, a day known as the Montreal Massacre, that 14 women were systematically separated from the men and killed by one man at
Help stuff a bus with food and toys
• Open Euchre (1:00pm) at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome.
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
• Unifor Local 127 Retiree Meeting.
Clarence Fields is back at it in Wallaceburg. And that means he and a group of volunteers are looking to stuff a bus with non-perishable food items and toys. Spokesman Nick Cadotte said on Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pita Pit in Wallaceburg, people are invited to drop off items. “This gentleman loves Christmas,” Cadotte said of Fields. “It started two years ago, just raising food donations. The support from the community has been overwhelming. They ended up with a trailer full of
Friday, December 13: • Meal (5:15pm-6:30pm), open darts (7:30pm) and Catch the Ace (drawn at 6:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Choice of hot hamburg, roast beef or fish & chips for $10. Everyone welcome. Saturday, December 14: • Mind Character & Personality study group. Saturdays only until Dec. 14. 4:00pm. 222 Lafontaine St., Wallaceburg. Confirm your presence with an email to cal.hmn@gmail.com for this free program. • Meat draw (4:00pm-6:00pm) and dance (4:30pm9:30pm) featuring Good Company at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome. Sunday, December 15: • “Merry Christmas Chatham” at 7:00pm at the Capitol Theatre will be this year’s annual Christmas concert by St. Andrew’s United Church Music Director Devon Hansen, the SAUC Chancel Choir, the CKSS Choir and many talented local musicians singing traditional and non-traditional Christmas music. Free will offering (suggested donation $15). Doors open 30 minutes prior. For more info check www.standrewschatham.org or 519-352-0010. • The Living Nativity, featuring local children and adults as well as live animals, will be presented as a FREE community event. 6:30pm at the Ridgetown Event Centre (inside the Crystal Palace) 20480 Victoria Rd., Ridgetown beside Tim Horton’s. Wednesday, December 25: • Community Christmas Dinner. 11:00am-2:00pm at the Spirit and Life Centre, 184 Wellington St., Chatham. If you need a ride please call 519-3540091 after 10:30am. Call on Christmas day only. CK Metal Detecting Club. Last Thursday of the month. Erickson Arena. 7:00pm. Guests welcome. Free Tutoring every Tuesday night from 5:30pm7:30pm at First Reformed Church. 632 Lacroix St., Chatham. For info call Betty at 519-354-8902. Submit your coming events to bruce@chathamvoice.com or michelle@chathamvoice.com
École Polytechnique de Montréal, for no other reason except they were women. The remembrance will feature a keynote presentation by Samra Zafar; survivor, international speaker, bestselling author and human rights advocate. Additionally, a message of Reflections – 30 Years Later, written by Jack Todd who was one of the first reporters to arrive on the scene at the Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, will be relayed on his behalf. A light lunch will be provided, and Zafar’s memoir, A Good Wife – Escaping the Life I Never Chose, will be available for purchase and the author will be available to sign her book. While there is no cost for admission, donations for local food banks would be appreciated.
food to help restock the shelves at Wallaceburg’s St. Vincent de Paul.” Cadotte said support grows each year. “It’s just a great community event that started with one guy’s vision. There are now a couple of families who donate cash. There are raffle prizes for people who donate; over $1,000 worth,” he said. Cadotte, sales manager at CKXS, said the radio station is working to help fill the bus. It has specific $299 advertising packages for sale, and for each one sold, he said the station will purchase $100 in food to stuff into the bus. Southside Fitness is also collecting food and toys right up until Dec. 14.
C-K man charged with child luring The Chatham Voice
Chatham-Kent police say they’ve charged a local man in connection with child luring. Officers became aware of a video that was circulating on social media recently and investigated. The Internet Child Exploitation Unit examined the video, and social media comments. A 41-year-old Chatham man is charged with luring a child and making sexually explicit material available to a person under the age of 16. Police encourage parents to talk to their children about their social media presence.
“It’s important to be aware of what your kids are doing online and who they are talking to,” Const. Renee Cowell said in a media release. “Stay involved in a way that respects their privacy while ensuring they are safe.” Det. Sgt. Gabe Tetrault of the Criminal Investigations Branch added, “If you suspect a child is being abused or may be a victim of online sexual exploitation, please call police immediately. Together, we can reduce child victimization and hold those responsible accountable for their actions.” For more information regarding Internet safety see cybertip.ca/ app/en/internet_safety.