Jack Yeo Jack Yeo , Sterling Thompson O--- Home Burning On April 6, 1941 at 2:30 P.M., a cold Sunday afternoon, my father, Samuel (Harry) and several of the children were attending church service in the Lot 16 church. My mother was home with her two-year-old grandson, Mayne. A neighbour noticed the roof of our house on fire and, knowing we were at church service, he hurried to the church to notify the family and to get help. I don't know if the min¬ ister finished his sermon, but I do remember the people who were at the service coming to the fire and helping to save some of the downstairs articles and furniture. I also remem¬ ber leaving the church in a woodsleigh at great speed. The snow was deep and the pitches were deep and plentiful. It made for a very uncomfortable ride back home. My father was able to purchase twenty cords of lumber from a neighbour while the house was still burning. The fol¬ lowing day the neighbours came and hauled the lumber to the mill to be sawed for the new house. Many thanks to the people of Lot 16 who are always there when needed. It was a nice, summer Sunday morning. Service was getting under way at the Lot 16 United Church. A young woman and her child were walking towards the church. They were going to be late that day. As the choir was singing, the woman came to a pew and was about to be seated when, out of the blue, the child began to cry. The child cried and cried and the young woman was unable to quiet her. Finally the minister, the Rev. Mr. Aitken , said to the woman "Take that child home if you are unable to make it behave." His wife, for that was the young woman who had been late, dejectedly took the child and headed for the door and the safety of her home. Margaret Hutchinson , who worked for the Aitken's told her daughter, June, that there was quite a fuzzle at the Aitken home over the incident. Many mothers in the con¬ gregation, after the incident, did not feel comfortable taking their children to church as they feared that they would get the same treatment as Mrs. Aitken . L- 219 Church Reflections