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Dryden Go-Getters Activity Centre News
“An energetic senior citizens group” 84 St. Charles Street, Dryden, ON P8N 1L3
Office M-F 9-1, 223-5937 [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/gogettersdryden/
President-Jack Nesbitt /Office Admin-Joyce Tattrie
August 2019
Visit our webpage - https://drydengogetters.com/
ON/Off THE CALENDAR THIS MONTH Aug 4 - Pancake Breakfast –(1st Sunday
of the month) - 9 –12:30, $7 /adult & $4 /12 & under – menu is an exceptional brunch buffet Aug 5 – Civic Holiday – DGG closed Aug 17 – Annual BBQ – see ad pg 2 Aug 27 - Brd Meeting @ 3:30 Advance notice to present is required.
WEEKLY ACTIVITY SCHEDULE
AM PM
M 9 – Line Dance (intermediate/advanced) 10:15-11:15 – Chair Yoga with Gina - $5 / session
1 – Cribbage (Last Monday partners) - Floor Shuffleboard 3:30-5 – Floor Curling
T 9 – Handcrafts - Line Dance
12:30 – Hand & Foot Canasta
W 9 – Handcrafts Quilting, Swed Emb 9:30 – Tbl Shufflebd
1 – Bid Euchre - - Darts - - Mahjong
T Bingo Setup 1 – Bingo
F 9 – Line Dance (all levels welcome) 10:15-11:15 – Chair Yoga with Gina - $5 / session
1 – Bid Euchre - - Floor Shuffleboard
M – Th 8:30-9 low impact aerobics with Mary Jane WOOD SHOP 8:30 – 11 Daily October –May
Ask activity convenor for summer schedule.
Life Member Happy Birthdays – August Dorothy Bowes, Don Felske, Trudy Krahn
Margaret Madussi, Edgar Mason, Les Plomp Mavis Rushak, Helen Sargisson, Pat Wilson
Mildred Woodbeck
WELCOME to DGG NEW MEMBERS
Carolyn Callan, Nel DePorto, Judy Hillier Pat Kirkpatrick, Hilda Shearer
AVAILABLE IN THE DGGAC OFFICE PANCAKE Breakfast & LUNCH Tickets - $7
Membership Purchase/Renewal - $15
Daily lunch @ DGG 11:30 – 12:30 M-F All are welcome.
Here we are half way through summer! Hope you are packing in lots of opportunities and activities to make warm memories of summer 2019 to last you through the winter. Check the local and regional events calendars and bulletin boards for things that interest you or a group and make it happen. Or plan an event of your own. Just do it. There are berry patches to check, preserves to make, derbies to fish, golf games to play, festivals & pow-wows to attend, and more. Most important! Be in the moment and enjoy whatever you are doing.
Downtown planter 2019.
The Ministry of Health funding grant is based on member participation, please sign in on each visit.
Thanks to convenors Mary Case and Freda Dougall who organized the July Pancake Breakfast. Well done ladies!
Hope to see you all come on out… dress country, dance & have fun.
SAT., AUGUST 17 Steak/Chicken – your pick
$15.00 Doors Open @ 4, Supper @ 5
Entertainment: “L & J Toe Tappers”
Buy your ticket now @ office. Dance ONLY = $5.00
Weekly Thursday 50/50 Winners– July July 4 cancelled, Holly Bakala, Lorna Mathews, Rose Marginet
Scent Sensitivity = allergic reaction.
Let’s all make ourselves aware of how
our personal use of scents can impact
others with scent intolerances. Even a
small amount of scent can cause
reaction and exclude people from full
participation. Many personal care
products offer scent free options.
It’s fall fair time Aug 22 – 24! Free senior 65+ entry Friday 8 am-noon.
Tea & dainties sponsored by DDAS.
Ideas /news welcome, [email protected] 227-2333
A little about the history of fairs and how they have become what we know today. By Guy Scott, Past President OAAS
Fairs are almost as old as recorded history.
There were two types of ancient fairs: trade shows and festivals. From the biblical "Fairs of Tyre" to Sturbridge Fair in medieval England,
fairs were used as market places and carnivals. In the 1700's the British crossed the agricultural improvement society with the
traditional trade fair/carnival and agricultural fairs were born. These agricultural fairs were transplanted to
the colonies by the earliest British settlers. The concept of fairs soon flourished in agrarian North America. In Canada, the first agricultural
society was formed in 1765 in Nova Scotia. Ontario followed suit in 1792 with the Agricultural Society of Upper Canada based at
Niagara on the Lake. From the Ontario strongholds, the concept of agricultural fairs spread west with the first settlers.
After a few false starts, the system of agricultural societies and their fairs spread all over Ontario in the 1800’s. They were
organized by county and township and at one time numbered over 500 in Ontario alone. While agricultural societies used many
methods (by varying success) to improve agriculture and the rural lifestyle, their most enduring and endearing legacy was the
agricultural fair. Industrial exhibitions and festivals came and went, but the fairs just carried on. Fairs soon became an ingrained
part of Ontario’s (and indeed Canada’s) culture. Ontario Fairs have changed since their
inception, but they still carry on their mandate of promoting agriculture and the rural lifestyle.
Meet friends & visit, see & enjoy your
favourite parts of the fair - exhibits, animals, entertainment, food, fun & competitions.
