“The RoseBouquet”

The big event of this past weekend was the Walkathon, we - at Western Tract Mission - put on to raise funds to continue our mailing of the booklet with the exciting testimonies called, “There is Hope.” Last year we raised enough money to reach ten cities in our province. Now we plan to cover the two cities we had to leave over, Regina and Yorkton, and if more comes in, we will move next to mailing to all the small towns and rural areas of Saskatchewan.

It will be my job to prepare photo stories of this too, and just last night I popped a few photos on the main index page at our WTM website, but these things take a bit of time.

Although I enjoy walking more and more, and don’t think it a hardship to walk the 11 blocks to our WTM office, where I also have my business office upstairs, I have over the past few years as we’ve run this walkathon, ended up being part of the crew that is setting up the picnic/barbecue at the Kinsmen Park where the walkers are to end up. So I delivered my friends to the starting point, stayed to take pictures of them heading off down the Meewasin Trail along the lovely river, and then drove back to the Kinsmen to set up the food, and to get the sponsor sheets worked over so that the Director, Arnold, would know whom to give the donated prizes to. Almost every family or person who took part this year, got a prize.

The final total of how much was raised keeps rising for a few days or weeks afterwards, but it was over $4,000 the last time I saw the sheets. Hopefully tonight at the Board meeting, we will hear that it has increased to over $5,000!

(By the way, you can order “There is Hope” from our Western Tract Mission office for just .25 cents).

Last week I discovered some instructions for fixing up my Aloe-Vera-and-Handy-Herbs.com site with .css and includes. After pouring over that, I realized that this will work for all my sites. I spent time on Saturday night applying it to all my pages on my SBI site, - but whoa, when I uploaded those 11 or 12 pages, none of them had the left side navigational links! Oh-no! What had I done wrong?

It was just about midnight, so I had to let it be, and go to bed. Yesterday morning I was determined to stay home and solve that problem above all else. Lo-and-behold, when I went to check, the includes file for the nav bar was showing up just fine on most of the pages. There were one or two, where I had not changed all the codes correctly. I was able to fix those quickly enough, and build another page. Hallelujah!

So on the SBI system I have to allow a bit of time for changes to show up, but I’m enthused now and wish I had time to re-do all my other sites with this new trick. It really allows one to make global changes in a much simplified way and will not need the one-by-one approach. Isn’t modern technology wonderful? - Once we catch on.