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OUR PEOPLE, OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR STORIES
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5
Riverview Seniors Club growing in leaps and bounds
Deborah Carr creates connections
Gunningsville Baptist Church celebrates its centennial
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Father’s Day Show and Shine:
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here she is buddy, just a-gleaming in the sun / there to greet a working man when his day is done.” No-one sings about a favourite car better than Bruce Springsteen (those lyrics are from “Cadillac Ranch”), and no-one lets you show off your favourite car better than the Ford Country Club. The FCC’s Show and Shine has been held every Father’s Day for almost four decades; the 2025 event will be June 15th at Caseley Park in Riverview, which has been the show’s home for the past eighteen years. The FCC’s Darrell Shipley of Riverview recalls that “one day I sat down with then-mayor Clarence Sweetland and said, ‘let’s bring the car show to Riverview.’ And that is how we ended up in Caseley Park.
“We average about twohundred-and-fifty cars and some years are getting closer to three hundred, which is the limit the field will hold. We have classic cars, antique cars, hot rods, one year we had a classic camper, people will bring trucks and other vehicles as well. We now do not charge admission but manage that by donation.” Monies raised go to charity. “The New Brunswick chapter of the Canadian DeafBlind Association is our biggest charity to which we donate,” notes Shipley. “We provide a donation for the association’s children’s camp. We also donate to The Friends of the Moncton Hospital and The Dr. GeorgesL.-Dumont Regional Hospital Foundation. We support other local charities as well.”
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Owners bring their cars from across the Maritime provinces as well as Greater Moncton. The Riverview Lions Club also raises community
funds by providing the food concessions. The FCC membership stands at thirty. The Show and Shine, says Shipley, “is a social
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event. You see people from year to year. Some people like building cars – I build my cars – some people just buy them, shine them, and bring them. It is just a way
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to get out with good friends, maybe one person has a show car, and their friend or neighbour would like to Continued on page 3