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Written by Our People...For Our People....est. 2010
Issue 22- Volume : 11
Small towns & proud ... connecting communities
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November 15th-2024
Servicing the Almaguin & Parry Sound Districts
THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY IS ALL ABOUT
SHOWER OF BLESSINGS FOR DON AND YVONNE BURGESS CATHARINA BOWERS: Whitestone Here we see Yvonne and Ossy watching their house being lifted in place, Ozzy is not too interested...but we were! Don is watching from the truck in the background. He can't stand for this length of time. All is good! Hi all, we are very excited to announce that the Shower of Blessings for Don and Yvonne Burgess will be held on Thursday, December 5th at 2 pm until 4pm. Admission is a gift to the Burgess family Shower of Blessings. Please write it on your calendar. The invite is also going to be shown on the electronic sign outside of the Dunchurch Community Center. The planning of this community party/Shower of Blessings (as one of my friends calls it) has been very gratifying to say the least. The community is very generous, and willing to give and share. Thank you for being so open and willing to help. The Shower of Blessings, is what you are making for this family. Everything that was in the home, needs to be replaced. One does not realize how much they have until it is all gone. So here we are going to help. On Wednesday, June 26 the Burgess Family’s life was turned upside down when their home here in Dunchurch burned to the ground. Ozzy Burgess was declared the family hero when he continued to bark until Don woke up. Don and Ozzy fighting flames, with the use of a fire extinguisher were able to crawl to the back door and roll down the steps into the driveway. By the time Don found himself laying in the driveway, the house was already engulfed in flames. Next door Kim and Rudy heard Don’s screams for help and came out with a blanket and they dragged him to safety. 911 was called and Don was taken to the hospital in Parry Sound. The story does not end here. Yvonne happened to be in Hamilton visiting their daughters for the graduation of her granddaughter. She was called told of the fire, she headed back to Parry Sound hospital. Lorne and I were on our way home from Toronto when we heard the news from Yvonne on Friday morning. We stopped at the hospital in Parry Sound to see what we could do to help. On June 29th I blogged about the fire and what happened. The community asked then already what they could do to help. Now the time for helping has come! These last 5 months have been a nightmare for Don and Yvonne. Don had been in and out of the hospital in
Sudbury after having 2 major surgeries. Now it is November, he still was not recovered. So, considering his health issues, the fire, the devastation… it still is a story you would never want to happen to your family. But this community is a wonderful warm and giving family. They feel their need and have already started to help. Carol has been collecting and offered up part of her basement to store things. The Yarn Circle ladies have during these past months been talking to people who are able to do something to help. And we thank you ladies very much. The Yarn Circle is a knitting group that Yvonne belongs to, and they are all asking every week…is it time yet to help, YES it is time to help. Yours truly and a small committee has kept everyone up to date. Jessica and Carol, two of the ladies in the Yarn Circle have been talking to people, and have started collecting useable things a family would need to run a household. When you start putting a list together of what is needed to run a household, the list become quite long and expensive. The start of happiness, the end goal is in sight. They did have house insurance. But with the cost of building materials, and the cost of delivering goods to customers, the insurance that they had could not possibly replace everything that they owned. They choose a smaller prefabricated home by Royal. Royal is a first-class builder, reputable and who are able to build a 1000 -1200 sq ft house in 21 building days. Once the house is delivered on 2 flatbed trucks, it is possible, if everything goes according to plan; home inspections are passed and hydro is brought into the house, the house could be ready to move into in 4 weeks. We saw their house arrive on Wednesday, and the crane truck and a second truck with counterweights ar-
rived on Thursday morning. We saw the house being lifted off it’s truck’s flat beds and positioned into place a week ago Thursday. Two hours later by 11AM their new house was standing on its foundation. So, the ball is rolling to get the Burgess’ into their new home. The entire community is invited to attend, and to bring them a little something to make the move into their new house easier. This is what is being planned and needed: Don & Yvonne Continued on Page A12
It’s never to early to start thinking about Christmas. Come in and check out our large selection of toys and Christmas decorations. We also have a good stock of snowblowers.
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All in the Family
Jim Shedden - Emsdale According to PeggySteer (Bizzy Bee Books / U-Haul) of Emsdale, this is the first time that Emsdale has had their very own Remembrance Day services. Originally to be held at the Cenotaph it was moved inside to the new Perry Township Community Centre and out of the rain. What a great way to introduce a new tradition to the community. From left to right is: Julia D’Agata, Charlie D’Agata, Anthony D’Agata, Michelle D’Agata (proud mom), Shelby D’Agata and Isabella D’Agata. You read that correctly; this is all one family of cadets. It would be pretty hard pressed to find a mom with more pride in her kids. Note: It is very hard to decide where to go to observe the Remembrance Day ceremonies. Cyndi and I try to spread it out every year by attending another community. So, when Peggy dropped me a note to see if I would attend the Emsdale service I immediately let her know that I would be there. If we had more room in the GNA I would have pictures from every community. As we expand, maybe this is something we can do next year.
David Sheepway / Realtor / Port Loring Branch Manager
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705-757-1421 / team.sheepway@gmail.com / Parry Sound / Muskoka Realty Ltd. / Port Loring Branch