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Portland On The Rideau Portland, Ontario

November December 2015

Volume 1 Issue 5

VIBE: Venturing in Bible Education

Wednesday’s 7:00 pm Continues weekly to Dec. 2nd

Portland United Church Rev. Takouhi at 613-272-2002

Rideau Lakes Dancers

DANCE RECITAL

No charge for admission.

All are welcome!

Portland United Church Remembrance Day

Worship Service Sunday Nov. 8, 2015

9:15 a.m.

Saturday November 14, 2015

The gymnasium at

Rideau District High School

6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Remembrance Day Ceremony

Wednesday November 11, 2015 10:45 am

Portland Legion Branch 231 Reception to follow

The Royal Canadian Legion Rideau Lakes Branch 231

Portland, ON

Remembrance Day Ceremonies Elgin & Portland Ceremonies will be held on

Sunday November 8, 2015 Elgin Cenotaph 1:30 pm

Portland Cenotaph 3:00 pm

Portland Seniors Club

Christmas Turkey Dinner

at the Portland Legion

Wednesday December 2, 2015

Entertainment at 5:00 pm

Dinner 6:00 pm

$15.00 ea.

Upcoming Activities and Events

in and around the Portland area…

http://www.twprideaulakes.on.ca/


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Coffee & Chat Drop-In (Chit Chat)

Portland Community Hall Thursday mornings

10:30–12 noon

Come & enjoy a bit of social fun! Bring your latest craft, project, a deck of cards or just yourself!

All are welcome. Donations appreciated.

Contact Betty James 613-272-2461

Portland United Church

Calendar of Events

November 8 – Sunday

o Remembrance Day Worship Service

o 9:15 am Portland United Church

November 19 – Thursday

o Jesus, Jazz and Hope – Concert at PUC 7:00 pm

Free Will offering for Refugee Mission of our

Presbytery

November 24 – Tuesday

o Community Luncheon – Portland United Church

November 29 – Sunday

o Advent 1/ Hope

o Communion Sunday


December 6 – Sunday

o Advent 2/ Peace


December 12 – Seasonal Celebration Concert

o Portland United Church 7:00 pm

Free Will offering for PUC’s Mission Work

o (Inclement Weather Date December 13)


o Advent 3/ Joy



o Advent 4/ Love – Winter solstice service


December 24 – Thursday

o Christmas Eve/Communion Service

o Portland United Church at 6:00 pm

Do you know the location

of this stone monument…?


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Come Join us Chair Yoga/Light Stretching

Tuesdays and Fridays at 9:00 am

Emmanuel Church Hall – Portland Free will offering appreciated

Everyone Welcome

Forfar Community Pot-Luck Sunday December 13, 2015

Forfar Community Hall

1:00 pm

For more information please contact:

Peggy Bond 613-272-2252 or

Pauline French 613-272-0231

Wednesday December 2, 2015

Rideau Lakes Horticultural Society

Christmas Dinner 6:30 pm

Westport Legion Hall

Music: Judi Longstreet & Celtic Combination

Admission - $25

Portland-on-the-Rideau

FALL 1948

Farewell to arms, farewell to legs, Farewell to burns and blisters; For Summer Suns have given way To Autumn rains and twisters. The long deserted stretch of sand, Where mermaids used to roam, Is now devoid of even man – He might as well stay home. We’ve time to rest and stretch our legs We’ve time to read and sing. We’ve bread, meat and good fresh eggs And fruit and everything.

BUT

Our summer guests have all gone home. Things do not seem the same. We’ll hibernate till winter’s gone Then greet you once again.

S.S. Scovil & Son

May we sincerely wish you

A MERRY CHRISTMAS

and

A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 1949

Note: Sim Scovil was the local grocer and postmaster

until he retired in the late 1960’s. He wrote a number of

poems that he sent out to his customers.

Deadline for Jan – Feb 2016 Newsletter

December 28th

[email protected]

613-272-8837


mailto:[email protected]

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A Perspective on Portland Doug Bond March 2012

Bins filled with flours and sugars were at the ready. There was the customary sweet fragrance of teas

and spices from shelves to the left, maybe a faint dab of “eau de coal oil” from the stockroom to the

right. Casually stroll toward the inner sanctum of Stanley’s Store. There you’d find an arc of captain’s

chairs that migrated thermostatically by day and by season near and far from a roaring box stove.

There a jury of retired farmers and fishing guides held daily court. They told and retold to any ear

willing to hear of the prowess of teams of horses and of the number of cords of wood cut, split and

piled in a day. Or maybe a guide’s myth-of-the-moment was of that big bass that got away. And on a

stack of Bibles, he’d vow that the novice fisherman was a Mafia mogul or a Hollywood star. Truth was

purely coincidental. Fair game for discussion was last Saturday’s game broadcast on CBC between

the Leafs and Red Wings. And God forbid if you interrupted the jury to suggest that Westport might

win on Portland’s ice next week. From the profane to the profound, the jury might deliberate on

matters of Depression and World Wars as reported in the weekly paper or a monthly magazine.

Instantaneous Facebook was an era away. A discerning observer would detect a similar “hot stove

league” waxing eloquent by the window of Scovil’s General Store on Water Street. But observe

carefully. You’d find that the furniture was a corner bench by the window and the politics was of a

very different shape. At Polk’s, Trotter’s and Gallagher’s General Stores, the same was so different.

And the ladies of the Emmanuel’s A.C.W. They might commune around an evolving quilt, with needle-

and-thread in hand, with china tea cup and saucer at hand. In those decades pre-TV, they might

critique a play staged by the Delta or Crosby amateur travelling theatre that was performed last week

at Portland Community Hall or the Orange Hall. For sure, they rated the relationships of young lads

who evidently carried torches for young lasses. Some of those budding romances might be

sanctioned by mothers and grannies present, priests or parsons future. They might pass judgement

on that great fire which leveled a local hotel (one of three) and the consequent loss of the liquid and

social temptations of that bar room. Their judgment was in the tradition of temperance of the

Reverend Darius Dunham, renowned for his lightning wit in reproving sinners. It seems that a local

squire commented in slurring voice to the good pastor about his riding a fine horse into Portland.

The squire opined that it was so unlike his Master, the Lord Jesus, who rode into Jerusalem on an ass.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Darius responded to the inebriated squire, with theological gravity

and the measured tone of the pulpit, that he would gladly ride on such a lowly beast. However it was

difficult to find a good ass in these parts and times, the government having made all asses into

squires.

(To be continued in Jan-Feb 2016 newsletter)

Taken from… A Perspective on Portland by Doug Bond March 2012




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We wish to thank the following for helping to display this newsletter:

Old N’ New

General Store

Forfar Cheese

Baker’s Feed Store Ltd.

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Some more of Dave’s HANDY HINTS…

To remove sweaty foot smell from shoes. Fill shoes with crumpled newspaper

when not being used.

To get rid of bad smells in plastic containers. Fill container with crumpled

newspapers, close container tight & leave closed for 24 hours.

To clean chrome. Use a dryer sheet.

To remove the smell of garlic from your hands. Wash your hands using

toothpaste.

To clean copper and/or copper bottom pots. Use ketchup.

To clean stainless steel. Use a slice of lemon or a ½ lemon for large jobs.

To remove labels from jars (jam, pickle, etc.) Smear label with mayonnaise and let

stand a couple of hours.

To keep cut flowers longer. Add ½ tsp. sugar and ½ tsp. vinegar to water.

Dave Geddes

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Ultramar Gas Bar Portland

Portland Anglican Church

Rideau Lakes Library Portland Branch

Rideau Lakes Township Office

Portland Grocery

Royal Bank Portland

LCBO Portland


Plus many local people who

have hand delivered the

newsletter within the area…

Thank you so much…


Emmanuel

Anglican Church

8:30 am

Portland United

Church

9:15 am

Free Bus to Gan. Casino leave

Portland Hall 10:05 am

Return about 4:00 pm

Seniors Fit 50+ Exercise

CRCHC program

Portland Hall 10–11am

Portland Library

Open 5 pm – 8 pm

2nd Tues. monthly Bus

To Kingston $15 return trip

Leave Portland Hall 9:00 am

Leave Kingston 4 pm

Call Vicky 613-272-2676

to reserve your seat.

Chair Yoga/Light Stretching


9:00 am Everyone welcome

Portland Library 2 –5 pm

VIBE: Venturing in Biblical

Education 7 pm


Adult Dance Fit Class

Portland Hall 6:30–7:30 pm

Contact Emily at CRCHC

Portland Community Hall

Board Meeting 7:30 pm

10:45-11:45 am

Gentle exercise to help

strengthening at CRCHC

10-11 am Seniors 50+

exercise CPHC program

Portland Hall

Coffee & Chat Drop in…

(Chit Chat) Portland Hall

10:30 am – 12 noon

Chair Yoga Portland Anglican

Church 9:00 am All welcome

Portland Library

Open 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Seniors 50+ Exercise CRCHC

At Portland Hall 10 – 11am

Portland Legion Fun darts 7pm


Euchre every Friday 7:30pm

Portland Library

Open 1 pm – 4 pm

Emmanuel

Anglican Church

8:30 am

Portland United

Church

9:15 am





CRCHC program


Portland Library

Open 5 pm – 8 pm






Education 7 pm





10:45-11:45 am





Portland Hall



10:30 am – 12 noon



Portland Library


at Portland Hall 10 – 11am




Portland Library

Open 1 pm – 4 pm

CRCHC: Country Roads

Community Health Centre

Hwy. 15 Portland

613-272-2799 ext. 0

CPHC: Community

Primary Health Care

(previously VON) Portland

613-272-8014





CRCHC program


Portland Library

Open 5 pm – 8 pm

1st Tues. monthly Casino

Bus to Rideau Carleton

$14.50 Leave Portland Hall

8:30am Return 5:00pm

Echo Tours

1-800-667-0210 Chair Yoga/Light Stretching



Portland Library

Open 2 pm – 5 pm


Education 7 pm


10:45-11:45 am





Portland Hall



10:30 am – 12 noon



Seniors 50+ Exercise CRCHC


Portland Legion 1st Fri.

Spagh. Night 5:30 pm $7 ea.



Portland Library

Open 1 pm – 4 pm

Emmanuel

Anglican Church

8:30 am

Portland United

Church

9:15 am





CRCHC program


Portland Library

Open 5 pm – 8 pm






Education 7 pm





10:45-11:45 am





Portland Hall



10:30 am – 12 noon



Portland Library






Portland Library

Open 1 pm – 4 pm

Emmanuel

Anglican Church

8:30 am

Portland United

Church

9:15 am





CRCHC program


Portland Library

Open 5 pm – 8 pm

Community Luncheon


4th Tues. every month

Pay by donation. Proceeds

to DIG Dental Issues Group

CRCHC Program






Education 7 pm





10:45-11:45 am





Portland Hall



10:30 am – 12 noon



Portland Library






Portland Library

Open 1 pm – 4 pm

Portland On The Rideau Ongoing Monthly Events & Activities

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Portland Area’s

1st

“Battle of the Bulb”!

Let’s celebrate the Christmas Season

Light up the outside of your home,

office, businesses, churches…

Judging the evening of December 17th

Recognition for the best displays

-Religious or Non-Religious

Help us Light up the Area !

Your Portland Community Hall Board in action.

For more info. contact: Del Bresee at 613-272-8837

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