Friday, July 09, 2010

The Groups in Town

After hearing someone in Tim's mentioned "the farmers" with a bit of a scowl in his voice I realized that there are more groups here then I first imagined.

The three obvious ones:  First Nations, French, English.  The French go to French school so you won't likely run into them because of course so many things we do are related to school.  But even there, there is a break out of French Roman Catholic and French.  The Roman Catholic also have their own school.  First Nations seem to exist on their own in some unclear way.  I have a feeling its a larger symptom of Canada.  They are hear but I really don't know much about them and I certainly can see a difference in culture that makes others irritable.

But now I have to add the farmers.  Of course they know each other through their agricultural connections.  But then there are two that I know of  The Christian Farmers Association and the mainstream Ontario Farmers Association.   I didn't realize how different the farmers are until I noticed that our church holds its nursing home service at 2:30 when it is our turn while the rest of the churches hold it I think at 6:00.  We can't hold it at six because of milking.  So again there is something that separates our church from the other non-farmer led churches.  I don't think other churches know why we insist on holding it so early and the last time we went the nursing home didn' know we were coming.  I wonder if people think we are being difficult by marching to our own tune!

Its a wonder any of us talk to each other at all! 

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