We members of St. Edward’s CWL had a wonderful day at the beginning of April. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and the air was crisp and St. Edward’s parking lot was full of people, cars and balloons of many colours.

Call to order: President Christa Grillmair called the meeting to order at 8:50 a.m. She welcomed Life Members Margaret Beardon, Ann Devlin, the Military Ordinariate and announced the names of the new council presidents:

Congratulations to Jane Brown for receiving her 45 year pin during Ascension Council’s Membership tea. Way to go, Jane, for all these years of dedication to the CWL!

Linda Kubinec is the newly installed President of St. Patrick’s (Campbell River) Council of the CWL.

She was born in Edmonton, AB in 1952; but lived until she was seven in Niton, AB. With the death of her parents, she became an orphan and families in Peers and Edson to care of her until she was fortunate to be taken in by the Frith family. Monica and Ronald treated her like their own children and even took in my other siblings. They all moved to Campbell River when she was 15 years old.

Ascension Parish’s CWL is off to a fast start this year! Already they have installed their new executive council as well as planned out their events for the first half of this year. You can bet that they will add more and more events to this list, so stay posted. Sandi Degras has sent us a beautiful photo of the newly elected council. From left to right, these people are: Viola Cyr (Treasurer), Carmen Tellier (President), Gail Olyniuk (Past President), Maureen Murray (Spiritual) and Helen Metz (Secretary). . . .

A morning Advent Reflection took place at our Nanaimo Trinity Catholic Parish on December 12th, 2019. The newly formed Trinity CWL Council invited members of our parish as well as St. Peter’s (Nanaimo) Catholic Church members, to join us after Mass to take time during this busy Christmas season to stop and reflect on the reading of LUKE 10:38-42, the reflection of “MARTHA AND MARY”.