LMT October 1 2018

6 Last Mountain Times • Monday, October 1, 2018 • lmtimes.ca
Between Friends
September 15 saw thirteen members of the Between Friends
Quilt Guild gather at The Silver Sages Drop in Center in Drake
to begin our 2018-2019 year! The meeting was chaired by
Elaine B. The upcoming Fall Retreat was discussed and dates
and places for our upcoming meetings were finalized. Some
beautiful pieces were displayed during Show and Tell.
Kelly Willcox then taught us how to make ‘string art’ quilt
blocks. This is a technique that is great for using up scrap pieces
of material. These blocks will become ‘comfort quilts’ and by
the time we adjourned that afternoon we had enough blocks to
complete a quilt top! Good job girls!
Our next meeting is October 13 in Strasbourg and we will be
putting binding on Humboldt Broncos quilts. See you the then.
-Donna Morningstar
Lockwood social news
Craig and Susan Harkness from Thunder Bay, Ontario were overnight guests at the home of Larry and
Donna Morningstar on September 19, enroute to visit their son and his family in Alberta.
Former longtime resident of Lockwood, Herb Nadiger, passed away in Lanigan on September 23. The
Lockwood community sends condolences to Elaine, Tracy and Nancy and their families as well as Herb’s
extended families.
-DM
Facing off against concussions
New concussion program will
provide a mental health safety net
SASKATOON– The Canadian Junior Hockey
League (CJHL) and The Co-operators announced
last week the first national concussion program
available across the CJHL to safeguard player mental
and physical wellbeing. The CJHL Concussion
Program Funded by The Co-operators, establishes
a mandatory concussion protocol for the CJHL that
will implement clear guidelines for the recognition,
assessment, and management of concussion for 133
teams and over 3000 players across Canada.
“Player safety is our number one priority,” said
Brent Ladds, President of the CJHL. “The long-term
effects of concussion are a growing concern for
our organization, our athletes and their families.
This is a major milestone for improving concussion
management standards in junior hockey. We are
grateful to the SJHL Assistance Program which
provided the foundation for this program. Thanks
to the partnership with The Co-operators we are
able to make it available to our players across the
league.”
Becoming Together
Although most individuals who suffer concussion
recover without lasting effect, research shows that
10–20% of concussion patients may face a difficult
recovery, sometimes leading to mental health
issues.
The CJHL Concussion Program will use innovative
mobile and web-based software from Head-
Check Health, Inc. (HeadCheck) that will allow
team trainers to perform the concussion protocol
and the league to monitor compliance. Under the
new program, a player’s concussion history will
be digitally tracked and transferred with them
for more informed healthcare decisions. “We look
forward to working with the CJHL to ensure that
all players, regardless of team or skill level, will
be afforded the same level of concussion care, said
Harrison Brown, CEO of HeadCheck. “We’re very
pleased that The Co-operators are aligned in our
mission of improving player safety.”
HeadCheck and the CJHL will regularly review
aggregate data and continuously improve the program.
-media release
MINISTERIAL MESSAGES
Our communities, can at times, be full of divisions
and differences on several levels. Whether we
are talking in terms of economics, social status, culture,
religion, sexuality, or race, a ‘chasm’ exists. Or,
to express this same thought a little more personally,
maybe there exists divisions in our personal
lives with our families, which also create divisions
within our own selves.
The chasm is whatever divides and separates
people from each other. The challenge “of our life
together” is to recognize these differences and
perhaps instead of majoring on our differences we
can take time to ask ourselves the question of what
it is we have in common? What makes us the same?
What brings us together, whether we are talking
about our personal selves, our familial relationships,
others in our community or the world?
When we seriously engage in the questions: “What
makes us the same? What brings us together?” then
we are also talking seriously and responsibly about
our differences. To do so, turns our hearts from
doubt and suspicion of each other to understanding
each other - understanding that we are all worthy.
Worthy, because we learn that we all belong to one
another and that our worth is not measured by what
we own or possess; what color our skin is or what
particular religion we choose to be a part of, but
an understanding that, in this life, we all belong to
each other.
If we belong to each other then we belong to that
Holy Other who made us His own by bridging the
greatest division between God and humanity. Martin
Luther, of the 16th century, called it the glorious
exchange: “the one who knew no sin became sin for
us that we might become the “children” of God”. Or
to put it another way, the One rich in everything
(Jesus) became poor for us so that we (humanity)
might become rich in Him - rich in love; rich
in mercy; rich in forgiveness; rich in grace. What
brings us together is why God sent Jesus to us - to
show us the richness of our common humanity!
Through Jesus, the embodiment of God’s mercy
and grace, God’s humanity, our humanity, we
belong to each other and we belong to God! Thanks
be to God! Amen.
- Rev. Glenn Shore, Pastor Zion Lutheran Church,
Jansen & Grace/Aarnes Lutheran Church, Wynyard)