Stewart home will be future site of Norwood hospice
Norwood Freemasons donate $2,000 in memory of longtime member Jack Stewart
The Norwood Masonic Lodge presented Norwood’s Hospice project with a generous donation on October 18. The lodge presented Hospice committee members with a cheque for $2,000 on the front lawn of the Victorian house on Highway 7 that is destined to be the hospice’s future home.
Lodge members dedicated the donation to the memory of one of their long serving members the late Jack Stewart, a Past Master and a 70-year-plus member of the Norwood lodge. (Members believe that Jack was very likely the longest-serving member at the lodge.)
Making the donation even more poignant is the fact that the hospice house was the long-time home of Bro. Jack Stewart. It was donated to Hospice by the Stewart family following Jack’s passing in 2016 at the age of 102. The Stewart house had been owned by the family almost since the time it was built in the 1890s.
Lions, Knights, Hospice
For a number of years now the Norwood Knights Football team at Norwood District High School has hosted an annual Friday Night Lights Football match.
This year’s competition against the visiting Campbellford Flames teams was hard fought and resulted in our junior team falling to Campbellford 32 to 14; redemption was to come soon after however as our senior team earned an 8 to 1 victory. The Norwood and Havelock Lions Clubs have been sponsoring the Friday Night Lights games from the beginning by funding the rental of the large lighting bars and this year was no exception, to show their appreciation the teams invited representatives from the clubs to the centre of the pitch for the playing of O Canada before the game.
The Knights decided to donate 100 percent of the admission proceeds to Norwood Hospice; with over 400 spectators watching the games, the teams will be presenting Hospice with a cheque for more than $2,000 in the near future.
Norwood Curling Club
The Norwood Curling Club will kick off its 2018/19 season with an Open House at their Alma Street Rink on Oct. 27 and 28 from noon to 4 p.m.
The event is free of charge and everyone is welcome to drop in to throw some rocks and find out what the sport of curling is like. Instructors will be available for newcomers and you need only bring a pair of clean soft-soled running shoes as all other equipment will be provided.
The club will also be operating their Learn to Curl Program again this year, with the basics of the game.
The program will run from 1to 3 p.m. on each Sunday in November starting on November 4. Cost is $40 per person.
Regular Sunday afternoon league play will begin in December.
An evening of music
Knox Presbyterian Church, 15 George Street East in Havelock will host Friends Sharing Songs of Blessings on Friday, November 2, at 7 p.m.
It will be a delightful evening of music and fellowship as a nine piece Church Band from St. John’s Anglican Church, Lakefield will provide the entertainment with a large variety of music and singing, plus they will be sharing stories of Old Spirituals, Gospel Songs and Hymns.
A free will offering will be collected with the proceeds going to the Havelock Food Bank.
Light refreshments to follow, invite your friends, everyone is welcome!