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February 19th, 2016
Vol. 21, Issue 07
Rotary gives the gift of vocabulary
n January, the Rotary Club of Chase gifted Dictionary/ Thesauraus books to Grade 3 students of schools in the area - Haldane, Chief Atham, Celista, and Sorrento. The books have been very received over the 4 years of Students at Haldane show off their books (while hiding their this Rotarian tradition. faces because not all privacy forms had been signed).
A story 101 years in the making...
By Cavelle Layes Chase resident Georgette Landault who was still alone at the family home. She celebrated her 101st birthday on January recalls a time when the soldiers stopped in 9, a landmark age that has brought in it a to her farm and she was forced to prepare lifetime of adventure and wisdom. them a meal. Before the German soldiers Georgette grew up in Forten, a small area would eat the food themselves, they made in Noir Valley, France, about 200 kms from Georgette try it herself to ensure it had Paris. As a child she grew up on a farm and not been poisoned. Times were tough was used to doing general farm work. At during this period, and while her family the age of 18 she married her husband and was fortunate to live on a farm where they helped him take over his father’s vineyard. could grow their own food to get by, having Together they produced both red and to give away food to soldiers still took away white wine, as well as raised various animals from her own family. Before leaving on this including cattle. occasion, the Germans also took a horse During WWII Georgette`s husband was and a sack of grain along with other items forced to go to war as a solider, leaving her from the family. to care for the children, and tend to both On one occasion three Canadians showed the farm and vineyard on her own. German up at Georgette’s home in “horrible shape”, soldiers frequented the area around her so despite the high risk that it put her family home, commonly stopping in on residents. in, she allowed the Canadians to hide from During these times, residents were forced the German soldiers in her attic space. She to give the soldiers whatever they requested removed the ladder that lead up, so no one without question. would know there was an accessible area It was a fear-ridden time for Georgette above. Continued on page 4 Reduced Lakeview!
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