{"id":28179,"date":"2016-07-21T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=28179"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:27:43","slug":"great-weekend-for-barrows-gospel-jamboree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2016\/07\/21\/great-weekend-for-barrows-gospel-jamboree\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Weekend for Barrows Gospel Jamboree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Submitted by:
\nViolet Plett |<\/p>\n

Another Barrows Gospel Jamboree has come and gone. It was a great weekend. The crowd was not very big but everyone there, that we heard from, enjoyed the singing, fellowship, praising God, and good food. <\/p>\n

Pictured above: Ivan and Bernice Chartrand
\nClick any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

People came and went all weekend, and some even showed up on quads. <\/p>\n

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Our Invited Bands for this year were: Rising Above Band-featuring Howard Jolly, Rick Martin, and Terry and Brenda Martin. Carl Crane, Ivan Chartrand, and Josephine Genaille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rising Above Band<\/em>\"\"
\n<\/a>\n<\/td>\n		Carl Crane and Ivan Chartrand<\/em>
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\nMichael Plett was our Emcee for the weekend. He did a great job. Here he is introducing the next singer \u2013 Josephine Genaille.
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\nWe had various local singers as well throughout the weekend. We believe that the oldest singer was 81, and the youngest was 4. Thanks to all the singers.
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\"\"<\/a><\/br>The organizing committee: Mary Spence from Barrows, and Melvin, Violet, Randy and Michael Plett from Mafeking say Thanks to:<\/p>\n

– The town of Barrows for the use of their facilities, and for building a new food booth this year. <\/p>\n

<\/br>– Extra Foods and Co-op stores in Swan River who gave us sales on groceries.<\/p>\n

– Gilbert Plains Parrish and Heimbecker for the pancake mix, and to Andy from Home Hardware in Swan River for picking it up for us.<\/p>\n

– Christian Fellowship Church in Birch River, and Riverside Bible Church in The Pas for their donations towards the cost of the Jamboree. <\/p>\n

– Barrows local MMF for their donation. <\/p>\n

– The businesses in Swan River and Hudson Bay, SK for allowing us to put jars in their businesses to collect donations. <\/p>\n

– The Sapotaweyak Radio Station, and Hudson Bay Radio station for announcing our event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by: Violet Plett | Another Barrows Gospel Jamboree has come and gone. It was a great weekend. The crowd was not very big but everyone there, that we heard from, enjoyed the singing, fellowship, praising God, and good food. Pictured above: Ivan and Bernice Chartrand Click any picture for a larger version. People came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,13,16,20],"class_list":["post-28179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-coverage","tag-life","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}