6 Friday, January 10, 2020brooklintowncrier.com WORSHIP DIRECTORY WORSHIP DIRECTORY Burns Presbyterian Church 765 Myrtle Rd West (just 4 minutes north of Brooklin) 10am Worship, Kids Zone Fun & Nursery Care "Discovering God, Sharing God's Love" 905.655.8509 www.Burnschurch.org Brooklin United Church 19 Cassels Rd. E. Sundays 10:30 am Sunday School & Nursery Care Come catch the Spirit! www.brooklinunited.ca 905.655.4141 Renaissance Baptist Church of Brooklin 40 Vipond Road (Just West Of Library) Sunday Worship & Kids Program 10:30 am We're here for Brooklin! 905.655.4554 www.brooklinrbc.ca Brooklin Village Church At Brooklin High School, 20 Carnwith Drive W. Sundays, 10:30 am Our Mission is to share the love of Christ as we live out our calling to become more like Him. www.brooklinvillagechurch.com St. Thomas' Anglican Church 101 Winchester Road East Sunday Services: 8:30 and 10:30 am Sunday School & Nursery Program (10:30am) Wednesday 10:00 am Communion & Healing Service Celebrating 150 years in Brooklin 'Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, we welcome you!' 905.655.3883 www.stthomasbrooklin.ca The year 2020 marks my twentieth birthday... I wish. But it does mark the twentieth anniversary of the Brooklin Town Crier and I still like to consider it my baby. It is my fourth child. In the year 2000 I found myself home with three children under four years old. I had extensive experience in the newspaper industry but not so much that I could afford to put three children in daycare and pull in a decent salary. So I was faced with a decision. Choices included shelving my career for a while and enjoy the simplicities of motherhood. No car. Walking with a toddler AND a double stroller everywhere. A wardrobe of sweatpants and Birkenstocks. Or, I could start my own publication and grow it slowly while my kids were little. As much as I enjoyed making showering daily an option, I really needed more of a challenge. And so began a quarterly Brooklin Town Crier. It evolved to monthly and finally to bi-weekly as it is today. Page counts went from one to four to as high as 24 in it's peak. Social media has taken it's toll on the paper as it has on others. It draws advertising dollars in different directions. However we still have some loyal customers who I encourage you to visit. And I still hear that people enjoy this little paper because it is part of the fabric that paints Brooklin as a community. I'm a rolling stone. In 2016 as you know I successfuly ran for council. But I'm still here laying out pages and puting the baby to bed. Richard has taken over the content of the paper. This is hard for me. I really like Richard, but it has to be his opinion and influence now if I'm truly to be unbiased. What sorts of things should we see in the twentieth anniversary of the Brooklin Town Crier? I think you may see some throw back photos, some old columns and whether they still hold weight or not and maybe even some return guests columns. I think there will be plenty to reflect on and I hope I can count on you the reader to continue to challenge us with story ideas and support us with advertising. In the meantime I wear sweatpants occassionaly. But heels most of the time. I still get to play with my kids albeit it's now on ski hills and they are a little less demanding. And, I get to be a big part of the future of our community. Something I have never lost passion for and I hope that the paper sees another twenty years as part of the community too. I want to end my column by wishing my good friend Connie Heron a wonderful retirement. Connie, the owner of Connie's in downtown Brooklin, has been supportive of this little paper for twenty years. And she is also responsible for keeping me out of sweatpants. I hope she's offering personal shopping services or I'm in trouble. All my best Connie. Happy Birthday to Me! Regional Councillor: Rhonda Mulcahy The Brooklin Town Crier wishes Connie Heron a most joyful retirement. She's the Connie's of Brooklin owner in our downtown, one of Brooklin's oldest businesses. It will close its door when the merchandise and store hardware are gone.