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President’s Message
Pat Wright
,
Beaver Valley Probus Club
The Grapevine for January 2019
Volume 19, Issue 1
E-mail address: [email protected] Web-Site: www.beavervalleyprobus.com
Box 148, Clarksburg, Ontario N0H 1J0
Current Activities by Convener Kathie O’Malley
(Details) Backroads Cycling
Book Club one Book club two
Book club three Book club four
Books and DVD Exchange Canoeing and Kayaking
Casual Dining Cooking Together Country Cruisers
Cue Sports Digital Photography Dining around town
Dining with Flair Euchre
Euchre 2 Hiking
Marsh Street painters Nordic Pole Walking
Pottery Recreational Cycling
Romeos Scrabble
Singles Gourmet Ski Legends
Snowshoeing Stitch & Bitch Crafts
Support Group Travel
Wood Carving
Activity groups are self sustained. Participate – Volunteer
But above all - have fun and enjoy
“Please be advised that all events and activities of the
Beaver Valley Probus Club are organized for the benefit and
enjoyment of its Members. Individuals who participate do
so at their own risk and are responsible for their own
safety”.
Happy New Year - welcome to 2019!
Our Annual General Meeting is scheduled for February
26th. At this meeting a slate of officers will be elected for
the new year and the Management Team of returning
and new members will be introduced.
The meeting will be preceded by a light luncheon at
12:45 for current members. Please see the volunteers at the back of the hall at
the January meeting to make your reservation, as it is necessary to know how
many will attend and how much food to order.
January will be MY last full meeting as President - the year has gone by very
quickly. I have had the opportunity to meet and get to know many of our
members and enjoyed working with our Management Team. I encourage
everyone to share their talents by helping Activity Coordinators or volunteering for
the Management Team or Club Executive. We have a very active and organized
club, so the time commitment to assist is usually only an hour or two each month.
It is an opportunity to meet new members and often establish lifelong friends.
Please consider stepping forward so our Club remains the vibrant, active Club we
all enjoy.
Be sure to check out all the Club's "winter" activities and sign up for those which
interest you at the January meeting, or alternatively, call or email the coordinator
to become part of the group.
I look forward to seeing you on January 22nd.
Winter Awakes Winter Awakes and stretches....
Casting long, lanky shadows across the landscape, blocking the sun. Winter awakes and yawns....
Icy breath frosting flowers and fields, freezing them in time. Winter awakes, rubbing sleep from its eyes....
Which falls as snow, blanketing all below. Winter awakes and slowly, methodically....
Begins clutching at all living things. But some souls escape like moths....
And drawn from darkness towards light, they flutter feebly Between the frozen fingers of winter, South!
Linda Weeks
Submitted by Sandy Tulloch
Activity Group Updates
GEORGIAN PROBUS TRAVEL GROUP:
1. The Islands and Highlands of Scotland. 2 weeks starting Sunday,12 May. There is still good space left. For info
call Gloria at 705-429-9455. Probus friends, neighbours, family all welcome.
2. PEI and the Magdalen Is. from Collingwood, by bus. Sun 18 Aug to Thurs, 30 Aug. Contact Cleila 705-429-9276
or Pat Bellamy CTC,1-800-563-1885.
3. New Zealand 04 -17 Nov. Contact Erika Nikolic CTC 1-800-561-8677. Flyer will soon be available.
Gloria Thompson
SKI LEGENDS: January is a busy month for Ski Legends and rightfully so, we are a ski club. Our Breakfast is on
Monday, January 7th at 8:30 am in the Cascade Room at Central Lodge, Blue Mountain. Our Dinner Dance is at
Blue Mountain Golf and Country Club on Wednesday, January 23rd, starting at 6:00 pm. Three of our Ski Days at
the local private clubs are in January. We are at Craigleith on Thursday, January 10th, Devil's Glen on Wednesday,
January 16th, and Osler on Thursday, January 31st. Hope to see you at a number of these events, and remember to
keep checking our Web page at www.probusskilegends.ca
Louise Donegani and Wilf Phillips
POTTERY: Classes will start back up in February. Projects will include slab work, making platters and aromatherapy
necklaces. Dates will be sent to those that have already signed up. If interested, please email me..
Pam Hawkins
DINING WITH FLAIR: Thirty Dining with Flair members had a wonderful evening at their annual Christmas cocktail
party hosted in the home of David and Kathy Thompstone. This is one of 2 annual events where everyone is invited
and wonderful finger food ( savoury and sweet ) is enjoyed by all along with the beverage of their choice. Everyone
who attends, contributes, making the food absolutely superb. An evening with old and new friends provides the
perfect mix for lots of good chatter.
Happy New Year to Everyone!
Debbie Catto
Dining With Flair Annual Christmas Cocktail Party
Our Speaker on January 22nd: Brina Romanek
Brina Romanek is a documentary filmmaker and storyteller. At 23 years of age
she has directed and produced for Rogers TV and True Calling Media and is
currently directing a short documentary for CBC.
Brina has been a guest instructor at U of T, and is currently working for Fixtpoint
Arts and Media, an auditory storytelling company in Toronto, helping to create the
mini-series “Main Street Ontario” for TVO.
Brina is passionate about sharing stories on local communities, and the
environment. In 2017, she was chosen to participate in Toronto’s first ever Food Waste Lab. It was her work in
this lab that inspired her documentary Hungry for Leftovers: an investigation of food waste in Simcoe County.
Another Hit at King’s Wharf Theatre
Rated 5 stars on TripAdvisor!
Shear Madness
The Hilarious & Wacky Whodunit
Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as America’s longest running play, Shear Madness continues to delight audiences with its unique blend of madcap improvisation and spine-tickling mystery.
Hairdresser Tony Whitcomb and manicurist Barbara DeMarco comb through the tasks of a normal day until concert pianist Isabel Czerny is murdered. Tony, Barbara, and the Shear Madness customers – socialite Eleanor Shubert, antiques dealer Eddie Lawrence, tough guy Nick Rosetti and his assistant Mikey Thomas – are all suspects.
But whodunit? Witness the fun, put your detective skills to the test, and take a stab at solving the crime!
Join the Beaver Valley Probus Club on Thurs. Aug. 22 for the 2PM show.
Group Rate of $43/ticket
Sign up at the next meeting or by contacting Vicki Kellar
Driving arrangements made individually. A group dinner will be arranged closer to the date.
Stratford 2019
Come and enjoy Billy Elliot the Musical at the Festival Theatre in Stratford on Thursday Oct 10, 2019, 2:00pm
matinee. Music by Elton John. Dreams don’t come easy in the hardscrabble mining town, riven by a bitter national
strike, where eleven year old Billy lives with his bereaved family. But Billy’s discovery of his talent for dance
awakens in him a passion that will transform his life and win the hearts of his whole community. The cost is $110
which includes theatre, bus and lunch at Anna Mae’s in Millbank. Sign up sheets will be at the back of the room at
our January meeting. Payment by CHEQUE ONLY please.
Stella Zahradnik
Grapevine Team
Editor Chris Rickard
Reporters Opportunities for you!
Distribution Barb Thompson
Website Maintenance Barb Thompson Cheryl Besley
The Last Word Submitted by Past President John Dick
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions! Anon.
Support Group
Do you know of a member who needs encouragement to get through a difficult period?
Please do not hesitate to call Eileen Scott who is the contact for January, or any one of the Management team.
Lynn Corrigan
Book Exchange
The January book exchange is a good time to share the great books you read over the holidays.
Bring a Book. Take a Book. Nancy Hart
The Master Gardener’s Corner Things to do in your garden each month taken from the Ontario Master Gardener Calendar by John Hethrington, Past
President, Master Gardeners of Ontario. For more information, or your copy of the 11” x 17” calendar of the full
year’s tips for a $1 contribution to Master Gardeners, call 519-599-5846.
Things to do in your garden in – January 2019:
To start, if you get another day like Friday December 28th, with plus 10 C and no frost in the ground, you can
plant those tulips, daffs and crocus bulbs you had forgotten or had left over. I planted 47 myself. Good luck.
Check with the Co-Op in Markdale (519-986-2031) for triple 19 fertilizer. Pick up enough now to cover your
flower beds in March when there is still snow on the ground. They may not have any until late April, when it’s
too late.
Inspect houseplants for white flies, spider mites and aphids.
Apply insecticidal soap and spray with water.
Inspect spring bulbs in storage. Discard soft or mouldy ones.
Not a problem yet this winter, but if there is a thaw and the snow melts, mound any remaining snow over
roses and tender perennials. It’s the freeze/thaw cycle that kills the plants.
Expand personal knowledge through library visits, courses, catalogues, etc.
Think about and start planning your garden for next spring.
Google “Seed Catalogue Websites” and see hundreds of seed sources.
Order flower and vegetable seeds. Decide which seeds should be started inside.
Try forcing amaryllis and paperwhite narcissus for winter bloom.
At the end of the month, start the slowest germinating seeds like begonias and geranium, also seeds for early
spring bloom e.g. pansy, verbena, alyssum and dianthus.
Your January groan
AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tries to do
BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage
ECLIPSE: What a British barber does for a living
RELIEF: What trees do in spring
HEROES: What a guy in a boat does Submitted by Sandy Tulloch