Keene Talent Auction moving online for this year
Villiers Community Centre is offering yoga classes through Zoom app
The auction will be virtual, the bidders will be at home, and the gavel will be the enter key on the auctioneer’s computing device, but the annual Keene Talent Auction hosted by Keene United Church is going ahead, online.
Popular items from past auctions such as loads of gravel, dinners, homemade baking, plants, flowers and paintings by local artists will be on the block again.
The auction takes place between June 21 and 28. The catalogue can be viewed online after June 14. A paper version can be provided. For more details, contact Ted at 705-295-6692 or email treasurerkuc @nexicom.net.
Villiers virtual yoga
The Villiers Community Centre yoga classes are going online with the use of the free application Zoom. Instructors Beth and Laura have already made the switch and find the technology easy to use. They will help participants with tech support if needed.
A 10-week session starts Thursday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The cost is $65. Call Beth to pre-register and arrange payment at 295-6354 or email bethbrownson@nexicom.net.
Reminders
á OSM FOOD CUPBOARD, June 11, noon to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Keene United Church. If you need food, please register as soon as possible at 705-295-6952 or osmfoodcupboard@nexicom.net. á BOTTLE DROP OFF, June 16, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Keene Lions Den, or arrange for pickup from your driveway June 18, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. by calling Claude at 705295-2210 or Ray at 705-295-4494. Proceeds go to the OSM Food Cupboard.
Scholarships
Graduating OSM high school students can apply for one of four Keene Lions Club Scholarships. Applications are on the website, e-clubhouse.org/sites/keeneon/.
Otonabee Farmer
John Graham Weir was born in 1844 and kept journals from 1880 to 1925.
June 11, 1889
We were working at the fence between Sullivans and our land and finished the fence in splendid order. It is all staked and tied with wire.
June 12, 1889
We all went to the Farmers Picnic at Jubilee Point and the day was fine — in fact it was the pleasantest day this spring. There was an immense crowd at Jubilee. There was seven steamboats and as many scows and all loaded. It was eleven o’clock when we got home.
June 13, 1889
John, Smiley and I and a team were doing roadwork today.
June 14, 1889
Three of us and a team were working on the road all day. We were turnpikeing near our gate. Today was very warm, 76 in the shade.
June 8, 1891
Yesterday forenoon Lovina and I went to church and after dinner we went to Mr. Hunter’s. This morning Lovina and I went to Cavanville to see Mrs. Tinney, who is so very ill with a lung disease that she is not expected to live long.
June 9, 1891
John was at Hunter’s logging bee. Peter and I were washing and painting the buggy. In the evening I attended a District Orange meeting at Jubilee Orange Hall in Smith. It was one o’clock in the night when I got home. Dreadful dry weather.
June 10, 1891
I gave the buggy a second coat of paint this forenoon. The men were working in the garden. Had quite a nice shower of rain this evening.
June 8, 1892
The men are away at the farmer picnic in Burleigh. I took 60 bushels of oats to town and I got 32 cents per bushel for them but they were uncommonly good — the general price is .30. Fine growing weather.