under the direction of superintendent Dorothy Gamble , took up the challenge. Every child from the youngest to oldest did his/her part in raising $2,000. The nursery class held a walk- a-thon on the and raised $250. The older classes catered a small reception, held a bottle drive, sponsored a can¬ teen at a community play, organized a pancake breakfast following a Sunday worship service, and hosted a concert featuring Island songwriter Alan Rankin and award-winning fiddler Roy Johnstone . The Youth Vision Fund gave the Sunday School $4,000 enabling the children to make a final contribution of $6,000 to the building fund. The building committee, under the chairmanship of Douglas Miller, conducted a pledge campaign of church fami¬ lies to raise the remainder of the monies. This campaign was so successful that the mortgage to Presbytery was repaid in the interest-free rime of three years. The total cost of the church expansion was $82,449.78. An Interview with Calvin Hutchinson , 2000 6 4 T~ji arly in the 1800s the Presbyterian Church was a log _I_j cabin in Belmont, probably on land owned by Archi¬ bald Campbell. The building was also used as a school. The benches were all around the outside of the building. Some people speculate that the old church/school was located near the Baptist Cemetery . Around 200 years ago, the part of the cemetery that is located on the present Yeo property was a Presbyterian Cemetery. It is said that the remains were brought from Malpeque and buried there. In the 1820s a new church was built on the present loca¬ tion of the Lot 16 United Church. The building was built by Robert Milligan . This church was larger than the present church and served a larger area. This church had a high pulpit and no choir loft which was the traditional Presbyterian style. The present church was built in 1877 by David Kirk , my grand uncle. Apparendy he was very interested in mathematics, trigonometry, and geometry. 66 United Church and Its People -J