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Adamson celebrated as Citizen of the Year
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Notes on time Family history lives again
BY DEREK SWARTZ
Special to the VOICE
Frank Adamson learned a valuable lesson at a young age. His Boy Scout troop was performing the ageold rite of spring—selling apples. He was doing fine, hitting folks up for nickels and handing them freshly polished apples. All was unfolding according to plan until one gentleman the youngster approached asked him if he was going to buy an apple too. Young Frank replied he was selling apples, not buying them. Unfazed, the man asked the boy why should he buy an apple if Frank wasn’t prepared to buy one too. This caused him to think. He had his allowance, a quarter. Would spending a nickel for an apple be worth it, even if it meant selling another apple to help out his Boy Scout troop? He had something of a sidewalk epiphany and bought an apple for himself. “I learned early on you have to be prepared to support the cause if you’re going to ask people for their support. So you better believe in it and be passionate about it,” he said. Adamson has taken those words to heart, and over the decades he has raised money for hospital equipment,
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I Frank Adamson and his wife of 46 years, Judy, show their fingers. As part of his acceptance speech, Adamson asked the audience to donate toward the Rotary Club’s polio eradication effort. Children dip their index fingers in purple ink after being vaccinated against the crippling disease. Likewise, audience members dipped their fingers after contributing. DEREK SWARTZ PHOTO for organizations such as the United Way, and for facilities like the Meridian Community Centre, among other causes too numerous to list. He was honoured by the Fonthill and District Kinsmen on March 5 as Pelham’s 2018 Citizen of the Year. The award, now in its 21st year, is bestowed on a Pelham resident, or someone who works in Pelham, who volunteers their time and effort to make the town a better place to live. Adamson praised the Kinsmen Club for having the See AWARD Page 14
Past recipients of the Pelham Citizen of the Year award join 2018 recipient Frank Adamson following the ceremony. DEREK SWARTZ PHOTO
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BY LOIS LA CROIX
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A M PROUD TO SAY I have kept my New Year’s resolution…and it’s only the second week of March! Okay, so maybe I haven’t fully completed it, but I am well on my way to put this baby to bed before the calls of gardens and golf courses beckon. Time is moving quickly! After both of my parents died, I ended up with two bins that held pieces of my father’s life. He was 89 years old when he died in 1997. The blue plastic bins had been stored in the basement of my home since my mom died in 2004. They travelled with me ten years later, unexplored, when we moved to Pelham, and quickly found their way to a corner of the “new” basement. I have periodically shuffled them around these past five years to facilitate reaching other storage containers for Christmas decorations, seasonal clothing, etc., vowing each time to get through their contents one day. January 1, 2019 was the See COLUMN SIX back page