Calling for Books!
It has been a long and warm summer, both February and March’s Country Fairs and Easter celebrations were successfully held in glorious sunny weather.
We are grateful to everyone who contributed in every way to the successful result from the sale of Country Goodies produce at both Fairs.
First Church is proud to have had a stall at every Fair and we really enjoy meeting our friends and supporters both from Martinborough and further afield, and making a good sum towards our lovely church’s running costs at the same time.
Anzac Day was a fine day too, at Lake Ferry, and the traditional service, solemn and moving in that coastal location, and with the Rev. Jim Veitch officiating, was attended by a large gathering of young and not so young.
This year we heard and thought about these verses by New Zealand poet Shirley Erena Murray:
Honour the dead, our country’s fighting brave,
Honour our children left in foreign grave,
Where poppies blow and sorrow seeds her flowers,
Honour the crosses marked forever ours.
Weep for the waste of all that might have been
Weep for the cost that war has made obscene
Weep for the homes that ache with human pain,
Weep that we ever sanction war again.
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Our Midwinter Monster Book Fair has become a much anticipated event in the Martinborough calendar – it will be held this year on 17, 18 and 19 June in the Town Hall. Every year we are amazed at the quantity and variety of books passed on to us for this grand sale. This is a great opportunity to tidy and clear those book shelves, and then come to the Fair and have fun finding great books to fill them up again.
Now we are calling for books in earnest and will be sorting them in the First Church Hall on Weld Street, and now is the time to collect up those books you are ready to pass on. This is very politically correct recycling! The colourful bin will be at the library for dropping off books for us – thank you again, Shirley, or leave word at P&K’s, the BNZ or contact any First Church person to arrange pick up: Carol Hawkins, Margaret Peek, Margaret Griffiths, and Anne Dodd.
Here’s a thought:
I cannot do all the good that the world needs.
But the world needs all the good that I can do
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