Volume 7, number 4
February 24, 2003
Peter Dyck to speak at
canning fundraisers
Kitchener, Ont.—Peter Dyck, storyteller and long-time Mennonite Central Committee worker, will speak at three Ontario fundraising events for MCC meat canning projects.
On March 15, he will speak at a fundraising breakfast at Calvary United Church in St. Jacobs. That evening he will speak at Kitchener Mennonite Brethren Church at 7:00 p.m. Call (519) 745-8458 to buy tickets for the breakfast. On March 16, Dyck will speak at a fundraiser in Leamington.
Dyck served with MCC in England during World War II. After the war, he and Elfrieda directed MCC’s material aid program in Holland and then worked with refugees in Germany. Dyck served at MCC headquarters until his retirement in 1982.
—From MCC Ontario release
MVS Canada
seeks alumni
Winnipeg, Man.—Mennonite Voluntary Service coordinators in Canada are updating their lists of MVS and Service Adventure alumni. They are asking all past volunteers to file their names and contact information with Monika Selluski at the Mennonite Church Canada office, phone 1-866-888-6785, or e-mail: mselluski@mennonitechurch.ca.
The oldest “living” MVS unit in North America is Welcome Inn in Hamilton, Ontario, begun in 1966. Two new units are in development in Toronto and Ottawa. By fall of this year, there will be 7 units in Canada, with 25 volunteer openings.
Brad Reimer, associate director of Christian Service Ministry for MC Canada, hopes to reconnect alumni by developing a newsletter and special events.
—From MC Canada release
Novelist to present
Bechtel Lectures
Waterloo, Ont.—Author Rudy Wiebe will present the 2003 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist Mennonite Studies at Conrad Grebel University College here March 6 and 7. His subject will be “Possessing land.”
The March 6 lecture will address “The fiction of ownership;” the March 7 topic is “Mennonite land fictions.” Both lectures begin at 7:00 p.m. The Bechtel Lectures were established in 2000 by Lester Bechtel in honour of his late wife, Alma.
Rudy Wiebe, from Edmonton, is the author of nine novels and several collections of short stories. For more information about the lectures, call (519) 885-0220, ext. 265.
—From college release
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