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Remembering longtime Gaston Gazette Bible Says writer
The longtime Cleveland County resident submitted Bible verses to
The Star and
The Gazette in his The Bible Says column for nearly three decades.
A stroke in March and other health complications claimed Brittain’s life April 8, according to his son, Tim Brittain. He was 94 years old. The family plans to hold a memorial service to commemorate his life and all he guided by faith.
“He made the profession of faith at just 6 years old but did not realize at the time the commitment he made to God,” said Tim Brittain. “His father was a Methodist preacher. All of the facts were laid out in front of him. It was a matter of him acting on it.”
Former Student Reunites With a Diary From His Sixth Grade After 33 Years
A retired Canadian teacher, who couldn’t bear to throw away unclaimed diaries from his classes’ creative writing projects in the 198os, has tracked down many of his former students.
With the help of social media, Hugh Brittian, 78, sent the time capsules, replete with preteen secrets, opinions, and ambitions, back to their original owners.
One of them was Austin Hutton, 45, who now lives in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Brittain was his sixth-grade teacher at Havelock Elementary School in New Brunswick.
Receiving his diary back from Brittain in the mail, according to Hutton, was both exciting and emotional.
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While March may have come in like a lion with freezing temperatures, the first month of spring is also the beginning of the dreaded tick season, which, according to experts, may also be on the lion’s path with heavier than normal infestations.
For 2021, “pest” forecasters are predicting that the warm-weather months in the US will be a boon for tick populations, and the weather conditions could extend tick season beyond the average. While http://www.pest.org has Wyoming and Montana as average for tick populations, the Plains, including Nebraska and the Dakotas, will likely see above-average infestations.
A retired Canadian teacher is giving some of his former students a look back at their childhoods by returning long-forgotten diaries they wrote decades ago in his class. In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Hugh Brittain would have his Grade 6 students at Havelock Elementary School in Saint John, N.B. keep a diary for a week as a creative writing exercise. They would seal them up and I gave them free rein to write whatever they wanted to what was bothering them, or what was important in their lives at that time, Brittain told CNN. He never read the diaries, but he held on to them so that he could return them at graduation and have his students look back at what they were like at 12-years-old.