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Sackville United Church

Paradise: paved or saved?

A place dear to my heart is “For Sale.” Sackville United Church gave me the life-changing experience of singing in a big choir of joyful children’s voices; where I first felt a powerful pipe organ rattle through my feet, had my first chance to act in a play, to paint banners, to memorize poetry, to go Christmas carolling, to sing soaring descants with the big kids. The building is no longer a church. It has been purchased by a developer who intends to take it down from its place of pride; take it out of the heart of town where it… Read More »Paradise: paved or saved?