Evan's visit

On March 14th, the Pentecostal Church in Kirkland Lake had company in the way of a couple and their son. These people put on a program for the congregation that was very enlightening and enjoyable. The people were Sharon and Wilson Kindred and their son Evan. Evan is not really their son but we like to call him that as his name is Evan Hardwood Kindling and is actually a puppet. Wilson has become very adept at ventriloquism and has worked out a few skits for himself and Evan. Today's skit is about Evan and his report card from the school that he attends, "The school for dummies". It seems that he has not been handing his report card to Wilson so he can check up on Evan's progress in school. Evan has been hiding the card so Wilson will not see what Evan has or has not been doing in school. He eventually does surrender the evidence to Mr Chandler (Pastor Rob's father in law) who has been a school teacher and principal for many years and has a good knowledge of teaching and dealing with kids. There is a good conversation going on amongst Wilson, Evan and Mr Chandler as the details of Evan's progress is revealed.
As the story goes on we were rolling in the aisles with laughter with the comments that were flying from Evan to Wilson and between Mr Chandler and Evan.
Wilson also provided some good old Southern Gospel songs and a little teaching on the gospel. All was very well appreciated by all and no doubt Mr and Mrs Kindred and Evan will be invited for a return visit sometime in the future.

This is a post that was composed quite awhile ago and was not published at the time. I thought you might enjoy it even at this late date.
Wilf Blakey

A catch up report

I apologize for not posting anything lately, I have been occupied with personal things and it seems to be rather quiet around the Ponderosa lately.
Actually the Winter Carnival has been on the go in February in Kirkland Lake, we have been hearing sounds in the sky for two weekends (Feb 26/27 and Feb 27/28) We finally found out what the noises were, there was a helicopter offering rides to people letting them see what the area looked like around our town only it was an aerial view for a change. I have always desired to take one of these rides but maybe next year.
Cabaret was playing at the LaSalle Theatre from Feb 24 to 27th and I hear that it was a very enjoyable show that they put on. Good work people.
This current weekend, the Baptist church sponsored a fund raising dinner for Teen Challenge to raise money to pay for a year's stay at the Teen Challenge ranch ( I believe it is at the Sault Ste Marie ranch) for a young man in need of rehabilitation. We like to support the work of this association as they definitely do good work with the people who go through the program.
Our church, Living Faith Assembly Pentecostal Church, hosted a group of young people from Cochrane, the Cochrane Young People. There were a total of ten young people, five making up a musical group and five younger boys and girls who made up a drama group. All, in all, the group put on an excellent program of music and skits. After the service, the visitors and our own group enjoyed a carry in lunch in the basement as well as socializing with each other afterwards.
Besides these events, I have been busy with our youngest daughter moving from one house to another and also taking care of some needed medical affairs for myself. Nothing serious, just things that needed to be done.
I will try to post more items in the near future as I find subjects to write on and pictures to take.
I just remembered an item that may be worthy of mentioning. Last summer, myself and a few friends installed a new steel roof on our shop to replace the old dilapidated shingle one that was on there before. As you know, our weather is improving with the warmer temperatures working on our snow on the ground and also on my steel roof. The snow decided to slide down the roof and onto the ground in front of my shop creating a pile about 18 inches deep from the deck stairs to the far side of the garage door. This happened while my wife and I were having our Pentecostal snooze on Sunday afternoon. I went out for a walk that evening and saw the results of my avalanche of snow but decided to work on it Monday morning. Monday morning came and when I tried to blow the snow with my blower, the snow was almost like a block of ice since the temperature had dropped since Sunday evening and had frozen the slushy snow. I had to hire a backhoe to remove the snow from the front area and that was easily done by Mr Crema.
Well I will say goodbye for now and will try to report more in the near future.
Wilf Blakey

Olympic Torch Celebration

Well, we had some excitement in town today. The olympic torch arrived in town after it visited in Virginiatown and Larder Lake. It had come into these places after coming up north from the
Barrie/ Orillia area on its way from the East coast to the west coast.







The torch first came to Burnside Rd, on the east side of town and came up Government Rd and finished up at the Hockey Heritage North, near the Museum. There were a few motorhomes, some buses and a few pickup trucks operated by the sponsors of the Torch Run. These sponsors
were Coca-Cola and the RBC (Royal Bank of Canada).



































The weather today is rather frigid and dull so it
was not an enticing day for outdoor activity, here
in Kirkland Lake,Ontario. It is obvious the
participants were expecting cold weather as they
were very well dressed to stand the cold weather.
This is a good way to start out the New Year with
a little public participation in some activities.





























As you can see, there was a big crowd at the Hockey Heritage North site, it could be that half of the town was here to see what was going on today





There were local singers and groups entertaining on the temporary stage built for the occassion. Some of those on stage were Jamie Taylor, Cory Taylor,Stephan Barrette,Pascal Boucher,Lori-Carter Kasner, Bailer Kasner, Graham Ghent with the children's choir and the KLDCS choir with Paul Benenndyk. Also were some First Nations with their ceremonial service.
Coca-Cola and RBC were giving away samples of their product to the public.













Over all it was a very good way to start the year 2010 and it
is looking good for the upcoming year.



A Happy New Year to one and all from us here at Kirkland
Lake.


Wilf Blakey