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Five years of Abiding Place Fellowship
Christian Perspectives
      It has been five years since Abiding Place Fellowship was established here in Shelburne. Wow the time sure flies! When sit back and recall all the Lord has done through Abiding Place, I am amazed! Many people have worshiped with us from all around the world, not just Shelburne and the surrounding region; we have been blessed to have them join us and I know they have been blessed also.
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The captain plays the count
     Christopher Plummer whom we once knew as the dashing Austrian Captain Georg von Trapp plays aged Russian Count Leo Tolstoy in the new film The Last Station. It is based on Jay Parini’s 1990 novel of the same name.
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And who, pray tell, is being ‘hateful’ here?
National Affairs
     Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King understood “hate.” They not only lived through it, they overcame it in spectacular fashion. So we should take notice when Coretta said, “hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
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Partners in Governance
From the Global Classroom
     Jeffery Simpson, in a Globe and Mail article, noted that the liberal party appears to lack an independent vision for a Canadian government. I see government/public partnership as providing economic and social gain. I can’t understand why political leaders fail to listen to the voice of the Canadian people. Polls are constantly emphasizing the need for government to listen to people.
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Tory winning praise from his former critics
Queen’s Park
     If all those who have lavished praise on John Tory since he stopped running for public office had expressed similar admiration when he was running, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader and candidate for Toronto mayor would have had one of the longest elected careers in the province’s history.
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County council asked to make donation to proposed new hospital
Dipping Into the Past
      125 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 5, 1885
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