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16 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, November 2,1994 Clubs and Organizations Providence Shaw's W.l. Meets in October Members were invited to start the mystery tour at the comer of Cone. Rd. 3 and Bragg Rd. where we toured the Providence Cemetery. Gordon Barrie and Judy Buma recounted some history' of the church which was moved and is the former SLEEP'S store on Liberty St. Some members noted the names on the collection collection of head stones and could trace their families and relatives. From there we traveled to St. George's cemetery on Hwy. #2 and Browview Rd. A questionnaire dealing dealing with many historical names was to be answered. Few were completed, Woodcarvers Demonstrate Intricate Talent but Shirley Brown reviewed the answers answers and invited the members to her home and a business meeting followed. followed. Convener Marie Becker is recuperating recuperating in hospital so was unable to attend. Members of her committee Shirley Brown, Marion Allin, Belly Blakcr, Dorothy Crago and Judy Buma were able to present an excellent excellent program. The meeting opened with the Ode, followed by the minutes read by acting acting secretary Marion Allin. Lidy Bouwmccstcr gave the treasurer's report report and Sylvia Payer gave the Sunshine Sunshine report. Correspondence included included a thank you from Dave Kellogg for our donation to the milk committee. committee. We were pleased to welcome Inez Boughen, a former Ncwlonville Branch member to our meeting. An invitation was received from Maple Grove Women's Institute to visit them the evening of November. 21/94. The meeting closed with the announcement announcement of the November meeting meeting being held on the 17th at the home of Wylma Allin. For more information, please call President Shirley Brown 987-4474. Our meetings arc at 1:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. Mdrily nn Dow P.R.O. Separate School Board T rustee Wards 1*2 + 3 ELECT Donna LUCAS-ASTLEY © Authorized by the CFO for the Donna Lucas-Astley campaign. © I WANT YOUR VOTE! John Sproalt of Bowmanvillc is a member of the Brooklin Wood- carvers Club. ,He was working on a mask of a leaf man when our photographer caught him in action, Sproalt was just one member of many clubs who participated in the sale which took place at the Bow- manville Lions Centre on Saturday, Oct. 29. rs Microwave Goodies The Nasty Nukers' first meeting began on October 11 by electing the Club positions. President - Marilyn Arbucklc; Vice-President - Rebecca Graziotto; Secretary - Laura Dunk- lcyand, Press reporters - Julie Sackctt and Tracey McKee. After that we broke into three groups - one made applesauce muffins, another made party popcorn and the last worked in their booklets and then played a quick game of "Darling I love you". Roll call was "describe a situation where your family has been rushed to make a meal" followed by answering questions out of our 4-H booklets. A good beginning for the Nasty Nukers by Julie Sacked and Tracey McKee. The second meeting was held on October 18 at 7 p.m. The meeting began began with the 4-H Pledge followed by the roll call "Name 2 convenience foods available at your local grocery store". We divided into groups, the same as last week. One group made two kinds of tea biscuits, plain and cheese that were delicious, the second second made homemade macaroni and cheese which was very good loo. The last group read out of their books and played some games. While the food was cooking all of the groups read about 4-H and played "Darling I Love You". When the food was cooked everyone enjoyed it. Thanks to Mrs. Graziotto and Mrs. Arbuckle for supplying the beverage. All in all it was another great meeting of the Nasty Nukers. by Tracey McKee and Julie Sackett. Holocaust Survivor Tells Rotary Anger is Worse Than Dynamite When Abe Shenilzer describes what life was like in a Nazi labor camp, he goes beyond recalling the starvation, the brutality and the executions. executions. Instead, he focuses on how the camps robbed both prisoners and captors of their humanity. The Polish-bom holocaust survivor survivor was at the Bowmanvillc Rotary Club on Thursday, October 22 . Previously a professor of mathematics mathematics at York University, Shenilzer is currently associate editor of American Mathematics Monthly Magazine. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Shenilzer was shipped to the first of seven different camps where he would spend the war. These were all camps where Jews were known to be worked literally to death. Most of his family perished perished at Auschwitz almost immediately immediately upon arrival there. Asked if he could explain Adolf Hitler's hatred for Jews, Shenilzer admitted he hadn't the foggiest idea. "It might have been some early disappointment," he speculated, "or frustration in his life," but Hiller's haired remains a troubling mystery to Shenilzer. "Anger is worse than dynamite," he warns. "I find it baffling how anyone can form an opinion about an entire cultural group. "When I meet someone, I first want to know what kind of individual individual I am dealing with. Knowing their cultural background is just a decorative decorative frill. I want to know if a person has moral brakes or is. that person more like a car without brakes going at high speed." He compares the rise of the Nazi movement in wartime Germany to such a runaway car. "The most deplorable tiling about the holocaust is not the numbers of the dead. Not the bookkeeping. What is most deplorable is that some of the people responsible for this most horrendous chapter in the history of Mankind had PhDs, but their education did them no good to the purpose of making them human." human." Some of Shenitzer's worst memories memories came during 1944, when he was on the brink of fatal exhaustion at a labor camp with thousands of workers. Having sunk to a point where self-preservation was his only concern, concern, he dared to approach a German German camp official to request transfer transfer from the arduous work of delivering housing materials. He asked to return to the machinery division division where, he argued, he could "better serve the German war effort". effort". To this day he is not sure whether whether it was the party line, his fluent dignity, or just a benevolent whim on the part of the manager, but She- nitzer says he owes his life to this man and calls him a "personal saint." He can name many other wartime wartime "saints": There was the camp commander who once addressed him politely, Pope John XXIII, a factory owner recently honored by Yad Vachcm in Israel, and a German German bishop who helped stir up public public protest against the German euthanasia euthanasia policy. "It's a luxury to care for others," Shenilzer observed. "Camp conditions conditions were so poor you hadn't one iota of care to spare for others. My universe was as big as the head of a pin. I was aware that I was alive. Beyond that my only concern was where I could gel another bowl of soup. That was the extent of my intellectual intellectual scope." Prisoners were reduced to a point where they could not afford to care what was going on around them. "The true horror is that people came and told you, "you arc sentenced sentenced to death" and you haven't the slightest idea what you did to deserve deserve it. This will help you understand understand what it was like to be in a Nazi concentration camp," he told Rotarians and guests. When the camp prisoners were liberated at die end of the war, it was like paradise realized, lie recalls. recalls. And back then lie had the illusion illusion that life would be perfect from there on after He left his audience with a Latin quote by Terrence lie calls a prescription prescription for being human: "I am human, human, and nothing human is foreign to me." The guest was given a standing ovation from the club membership. Holocaust survivor Abe Shenilzer (right) forgoes the usual handshake handshake in favor of a hug for host Ernie Harvey of the Bowmanvillc Rotary Club following his talk last week on wartime labor camps. Mr. Shenilzer emigrated to America after the European liberation in 1945 and came to Canada during the Vietnam war protest. Our Teens And Seniors Must Be Accommodated NOW My Plan Will Work! Help me to Accomplish It. 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