Pastor: Rev. Barrett Clare-Johnson
Secretary: Patricia Samson (patriciasamson_25@hotmail.com)
Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson: Paula Sampson
Religious Education Co-ordinator: Maureen Sampson

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Before weekday Masses & Saturday 3:15 -3:45pm

Bulletin Announcements: bulletin announcements can be e-mailed to patriciasaitnson_25@hotmail.com or
wbarrettc@yahoo.ca.

Acadian Festival 2006 Meeting: a meeting of the Acadian Festival committee will take place on Sunday,
February 19th at 2 p.m. in the Community Center. Everyone welcome!

Card Games: PLEASE NOTE: 45's card play at the community Center on Saturdays starting at 7:00pm
with the usual 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes. The jackpot is now $625.00 and we now have 2 Cookie Jars: 1st is $1000.00
and the 2nd is $394.00+

L'Ardoise Seniors Jolly Club Meeting on Thursday, February 23 at 1:00 p.m.

Healing Mass: The healing Mass scheduled for Monday, February 13th in Holy Guardian Angels Parish,
L'Ardoise was cancelled because of inclement weather. It has been re-scheduled for Monday, March 27* at 7
p.m. Storm date: Monday, April 3rd at 7 p.m.

Parish Pastoral Council: Pastoral Council will meet on Tuesday, February 21st at 7:30 p.m. in the glebe.

Legion Meeting to be held on Tuesday, February 21st at 7:30 p.m. Executives to meet at 7 p.m. All members
are asked to attend.

The Finance & Management Committee of the Holy Guardian Angels Parish would like to call together
representatives of all user organizations in our parish to discuss policy, pertaining to the operation of our
community center. Representatives from Men's Club, Cadets, AA Group, Jolly Club, Mom's & Tots, Fire
Department, Parish Council, Card Game Committee, Religious Education, L.E.A.D., kitchen operation, booking
co-ordinator, and any other interested groups or individuals, are asked to be represented at a meeting to be held
on Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Center.

Life Lessons: Sessions take place on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Family Service of Port
Hawkesbury office boardroom, 3001 Pitt St. Unit 4. Sessions: Feb. 21st: Marriage Matters: Tips for a
Healthier Relationship; March 7th: Grief is a Journey, Not a Destination; April 4th: Surviving Separation &
Divorce; April 18th: Sex Is Not a Four Letter Word - Talking With Your Kids about Sex; May 2nd: How To
Listen & What To Say: Communicating Effectively; and May 16th: Parenting Through the Tough Teen Years.
For more information & to register, call 625-0131

Thank You: I, Joseph Gracie, would like to thank the ambulance attendents for taking care of me while I was
sick. A very special thank you to Alex & Betty Boyles for all they have done. Thank you to all who sent get-
well cards, phone calls & hospital visits and also to Sheila & Hilary Pottie & Howard LeRue for all their help.

Looking for Old Photos of the L'Ardoise Acadian Festival. The L'Ardoise CAP site is working to put together
a digital album on the history of the L'Ardoise Festival with photos, newspaper clippings, stories and any other
material regarding past Festivals. If you can help, please email scanned photos to
lardoisecap@stpeterscable.com OR come in during CAP hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Monday to Friday
(Community Center). For more information, please call the CAP site at 587-2011 or Cecile at 587-2043.

Richmond RTO Breakfast - Tuesday, February 21 at 9:00 a.m. at the Louisdale Lions Den. $7.00 per person.
For tickets please call Rene Samson @ 587-2426.

Adult Choir Practice: Monday, February 20th at 6:00 p.m. to prepare for funerals and Lent.

L'Ardoise & Grand River Unit 53 Cancer Society are looking for volunteers for the fundraising campaign in
April, also for the Daffodils at the end of March. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Alice Roberge,
President

The Strait Richmond Hospital Seniors Advisory Committee & local Senior's club organize a number of
fund-raising events throughout the year with proceeds going directly to hospital projects. Members of the
committee are presently raising money to assist with setting up a chemotheraphy treatment room at the hospital.
You can support this valuable service by purchasing raffle tickets on a Easter basket. Tickets are available from
the representative in your area, Mary Anne Mombourquette.

Meeting: There will be a meeting on Sunday, February 26 at 6 p.m. at the Louisdale Lions Club for all those
interested in coaching and/or volunteering with the West Richmond Soccer Club. The WRSC hopes to offer
programs for boys and girls ages 5-18 years of age. Soccer experience is not needed to be an effective coach.
The WRSC relys heavily on volunteers to survive, so please remember, you are not volunteering for the club,
you are volunteering for the children. No coaches will result in no teams. Please call Lisa Sampson at 345-
0574 for coaching information.

Poinsetta's are in back of the church (vestry). If anyone wants to take one home. Do so.

Leeside House: Leeside House is a shelter for women and children, in Port Hawkesbury, that serves
Richmond County. For the month of February, there will be a box at the entrance of the church that can be
filled with: toiletries, clothing, twin bed sheets, bath towels, tea towels, dish cloths, cleaning supplies.

Eastern Counties Regional Library will be visiting L'Ardoise (Community Center) on Tuesday, February 21
from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. This library service is free to the public. Everyone is welcome!!!

Variety Concert at the Lakeside Community Center, Sampson on Sunday, February 19th at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is $4.00; Lunch served (Storm date: Sunday, February 26th)

The World Youth Group has been busy making fundraising arrangements for the trip to Australia in July
2008. We set the goal of raising $12,000.00 to cover the cost of arrangements for Stephen and Caitlin. An
initial meeting with representatives from the Diocesan World Youth Day Office was advertised, in the bulletin,
for a number of weeks. This meeting was mentioned at religious education registration, also. It was a meeting
open to all young people, between the ages of 15 and 32, of the parish who were interested. Two came. If any
more young people would like to go, the deadline for letting Carolyn Cook know is Easter (April 16th).
She can be reached @. We have kicked off our fundraising campaign with the Take a Can - Fill a
Can initiative. Please return the can or bottle on the weekend of February 25-26 filled with coins. Do not
forget to write your name and envelope # on the bottle for income tax receipt purposes. Also, we have placed a
box at the main entrance of the Church for Canadian Tire Money. We will be collecting this money until late
spring, early summer. The money will be used to purchase some of the prizes for our Merchandise Bingo
(Details at a later date). Besides the fundraising efforts, there is also an account set up at the East Coast Credit
Union (L'Ardoise). Cash donations can be made directly at the Credit Union and a receipt will be issued.
Thankyou.

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