Stiftungsfest Concordia Club
 Another annual event is the
celebration of the existence of the Concordia Club. It is a day
of honoring those that built the club and served it. Sarah
Allmendinger was her usual charming self as the MC for the
evening. She welcomed everyone after a wonderful meal prepared
by the club’s kitchen and no time was wasted in
 introducing the
26 honorary members, most of whom were present. New members and
Miss Concordia 2010, were also welcomed. Then Werner Schlueter,
President of the club took the podium and made
his comments for
the anniversary of the club, now
 137 years old. He pointed out
the many contributions made by the German community in this
area, especially our modern day pioneer Wayne Wettlaufer, who
introduced the German Pioneers Day to the Ontario Government so
we now have a day on which we can celebrate the community’s
achievements and contributions in a way that has increased
public awareness tremendously.
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| The
Concordia birthday cake |
 Werner Schlueter also announced that he will not stand for
reelection next year as president, but will stay on the task he
set out to do for some time already as a past president, that is
to legalize the Concordia Farm. Some snags prevented this from
being completed already that evening. Politics got in the way.
He expressed his sincere wishes for the club and the wonderful
people connected to it in the hopes that they can adapt to the
new realities as far as the existence of a club is concerned.
Times are changing and the community has to change with it to
survive. That is how it always has worked.
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| Awarded for
extraordinary voluntary contributions to the Concordia
Club through Werner Schlueter to Danuta Grigaitis, Elsa
Schulz and John Vogel, Ewald Nowak |
He then directed everyone to celebrate their achievements and
was asked to stay on hand to help Heidi Nowak and Miss Concordia
to hand out the many pins for membership recognition:
| 10-year membership |
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25-year membership |
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| 40-year membership |
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| 50-year
membership |
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22 people received a pin for a 10 year membership, 30 for 25
years, 32 for 40 years, 11 for 50 years, and then there was one
for a 60 year membership, Paul Tuerr, last announced at the
President’s Ball as the newest honorary member. That was
welcomed with much applause, and it was obvious that he too was
pleased.
| 60-year
membership for Paul Tuerr |
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| The Concordia Choirs under
Dr. Alfred Kunz |
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Of course the evening would not be complete without the
Concordia Choir singing a few jubilating hymns for all to enjoy
before in the end the band played for general dancing pleasure.
| Dancing to the
tunes of the Edelweiss Trio |
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Kitchener Community Events:
Ceremony Woodland Cemetery
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Ceremony on the Woodland Cemetery
Stiftungsfest
Concordia Club |
