4B The Mountain Messenger, Tuesday, March 6, 1990
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Alderson Elementary School has received a grant from West Virginia
Arts and Humanities to provide art classes for students in grands 1
through 6. Students are receiving art instruction once a week for 1 1/
1 hours.
Instructors for the program are Clara Hardesty (left), Marianne Las-
siter, and Adrienne Biesemeyer. Mary Lewis also instructs art but
was unavailable for this photograph.
The grant was written by the Alderson Elementary Parent Teachers
Organization (PTO). Matching funds for the grant will be provided for
by fund raisers sponsored by the PTO.
As a mid-year review of the program the students' art work was on
display for the February 27 PTO meeting. Parents, students, and
staff had the opportunity to view the show.
The PTO has voted to continue their sponsorship of the Alderson Art
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Owner: John Hiser
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Fairlea, WV
By Mark Flynn
Readers of this newspaper are
probably aware of the recycling cen-
ter in Fairlea, and of the need for
wider support of its program. Things
which could be put to good use are
instead being thrown away, and are
filling up our landfill.
Recycling is a good idea. Items
which we can no longer use anyway
can help to save trees, reduce air
pollution, reduce dependence on
foreign oil, and provide jobs in our
community. Christians, and all citi-
zens, have reason to use for good
the sorts of things that would other-
wise be thrown away.
In the twenty-sixth chapter of
Deuteronomy, however, the people
of God are told that God is con-
cerned not just with what they have
left over, but with the first and the
best of what they have.
In Deuteronomy, the people of
God are instructed to dedicate to
God each year a portion of the 'lirst
fruits"-- the first harvest of the sea-
son. The people were told what to
say when they brought this offering
to God. They were told to say, '1
now acknowledge to the Lord my
God that 1 have entered the land
that he promised our ancestors to
give us."
Then, when the priest had placed
the offering on the altar, the people
were to recite their history, remind-
ing themselves that their ancestors
had no home,': and that they had
been slaves in Egypt, but that God
had rescued them from slavery, and
had given them a home, and free-
dom, and bountiful crops.
So, it was out of gratitude for
what God had done for them that
the people of God were to give a
portion of the first fruits back to Him.
We Americans in the last decade
of the Twentieth Century, are, for
the most part, descendants of Euro-
peans or Asians who came to this
great land because of the lack of
opportunity in their homelands, or
descendants of Africans who were
made victims of the same cruel and
unjust system which the Israelites
endured in Egypt. Most of us are the
descendants of people who were
poor and homeless, or even slaves.
Most of us have fared well with the
home and freedom which we now
have. Most of us have enjoyed
bounty which the people of God in
Old Testament times would never
have thought possible.
Today's Americans have more
reason than any other people who
have ever lived to praise and honor
God by the way in which they use
their possessions -- both their "first
fruits" and their trash, and every-
thing in between.
Reverend Mark Flynn is the pas-
tor of Trinity and Elizabeth Chapel
United Methodist Churches in the
Ronceverte area.
Charmco:
First 'Citizens Against Drugs
Organizational Meeting Held
Greenbrier County's first "Citi- door prize.
After the meeting, a "New Eng-
. zens Against Drugs" rally was held
February 24 at Greenbrier West land-style round table discussion
High School, Charmco. West Vir- was held with incumbents Wallace,
ginia House of Delegates members Rowe and Brackenrich joined by
Bill Wallace and James Rowe and aspirants for the House of Dele-
State Senator J. D. Brackenrich gates, Pat Detch and james Gerl.
were among the persons attending Also attending was Elizabeth Bran-
the special meeting, non Sampson of Ivydale, candidate
Katie Rowe, a resident of Sinking for the State Senate.
Creek Road and a senior at Green- Pritchard Farley Collins of Rupert
brier East High School spoke is founder of Greenbrier Citizens
against drugs. Ms Rowe recently Against Drugs. Co-chairmen are
won the regional American Legion Reverend Jay Talbott of Highland
Oratorical Contest in Lewisburg. Baptist Church on Muddy Creek
Sam Atkins talked about how Mountain and Reverend David Jas-
parents may detect drug abuse by per of John Wesley United Method-
their children and how to tell if a ist Church in Lewisburg.
neighborhood building is used for il- The meeting was sponsored by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post
licit drug activity.
The Perry Sisters from White 4464 in Rainelle and the Greenbrier
Sulphur Springs sang the National County Chapter of the National As-
Anthem and several religious songs, sociation for the Advancement of
The Perry sisters' father, Reverent Colored People.
The second meeting of the group
Earl Perry gave the benediction at
is planned for the Lewisburg area in
the meeting.
Rupert artist Jeanne Brenneman March. An announcement as to time
donated an oil painting as the major and place will be made in this news-
paper.
By Helen W. Searle
De Boilet was a carpenter at Cor-
bie Abbey in the northwest province
of Picardy, France. On January 13,
1381 his daughter Nicolette was
born. Colette's parents were already
quite elderly and before she was
twenty-two they both died.
After distributing her inheritance
to the poor, Colette entered the Be-
guinage Monastery at Amiens. Not
finding it strict enough to suit her
ideals, she returned to Corbie and
became a member of the Benedic-
tine Hospital Sisters. Again she was
not satisfied. This time she moved to
Mon£:el and joined the Poor Clares.
Discovering they were not practicing
the strict observances established
by Saint Clare, but the modified
rules set forth by Pope Urban IV,
she decided to become a Francis-
can tertiary. (The Sisters of Saint
Clare or "Poor Clares" are the Sec-
ond Order of Saint Francis for con-
templative and monastic nuns. A
tertiary is the Third Order of Saint
Francis for religious brothers and
sisters. All adhere to the rules of the
First Order of Saint Francis [OFM,
Order of Friars Minor] which are
poverty, chastity and obedience.)
Colette took a vow of seclusion, re-
turned to Corbie and, for three
years, lived in a small cell next to
the Church of N6tre Dame
As Colette grew in holiness and
spiritual wisdom she became in-
spired to restore the Poor Clares to
the original intent of the founder. In
1406, after receiving her habit from
Peter de Luna, who the French rec-
ognized as Pope Benedict XlII, she
began her work as general superior
of all convents of the order.
The Colettine Reforms spread
through France, Flanders, Savoy
and Spain and even had a positive
effect on the Friars Minor communi-
ties. During the forty years of her
work she founded fifteen communi-
ties, one branch of which is called
the Colettines.
Saint Colette died at her commu-
nity in Ghent March 6, 1447. Her rel-
ics are enshrined in a golden reli-
quary made in the form of a small
church at the Monastery of Saint
Clare in Poligny, France, along with
some other small personal posses-
sions like a wooden bowl, an auto-
graphed letter, her seal and a wax
tablet book with a cover scene de-
picting the adoration of the Maji
carved from ivory. "The Cross of
Heaven," a very small jeweled cross
Saint Colette received in a vision
from Our Savior, is kept -- along
with a crucifix presented to her by
Saint Vincent Ferrer --- in the mon-
astery of Saint Clair in Besan£:on,
France.
Saint Colette is remembered on
her feast day, March 6.
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weighed 10 pounds 2.4
and was 21 1/2 inches
has one sister, Heather
Maternal grandparents
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Heaven Is Very Near
By Charles E. Pishner
"1 am to heaven very near.
In fact I am prayers awaY,
Nothing need I fear•
I am going to heaven
Soon the trumpet will
I will rise and shine.
To heaven I will be
Jesus will forever be
Prayers my mother
Nearly every day for me.
i am going to heaven one(
Eternally there I will be.
Jesus is my Lord.
One day I am going home
I read my Bible word.
Never will I be alone.
Yes I am going to
That day is very near.
Jesus has my
Nothing need I fear.
I will then rejoice and
Friends and loved ones I~
Jesus to earth is comingI
I will be with Jesus
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