city’s traffic signal sys-tems controlling 2200 intersections. He led pro-jects including the imple-mentation of a state-of-the-practice traffic signal system, introduction of pedestrian countdown timers to Toronto, “TripInfo” traveler infor-mation system, and “RoadMap” road disrup-tion planning system.

In June 2010, Bruce took on the role of leading the newly formed Transporta-tion Services Department for the City of Burlington, Ontario. Bruce has re-sponsibility for oversight of the city’s transportation planning, traffic signal system, traffic operational by-laws and signing, school crossing guard pro-gram, parking enforce-ment and the operation of the downtown paid park-ing facilities.

In his various roles, Bruce has worked on many mul-

560821 – $9.95 This is

not a typical Aus Shiraz

being less sweet, heavy

and dense than the usual

blockbuster style. It is

more like a Rhone style

with blueberry and mul-

berry with a bit of vanilla

oak with good intensity

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U pcoming

Speakers

May 21st—Glad Bryce—”First In Last Out”

June 18th—John Mac-Donald—Halton’s Heritage

July 16th—TBA

ti-jurisdiction project teams with municipalities, provincial ministries, Transport Canada, and many private sector part-ners.

Bruce is a licensed Profes-sional Engineer in Ontar-io, Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engi-neers and an active mem-ber of the US National Academies Transportation Research Board’s Traffic Signal Systems Commit-tee. Recent activities have included acting as a re-viewer for the US Federal Highway Administration Traffic Signal Timing Manual, Institute of Transportation Engineers Automated Pedestrian Detection report and as a panel member for the Na-tional Cooperative High-way Research Program project on “Traffic Signal Analysis with Varying De-mands and Capacities”.

Traffic Engineering

April 2015

T he next meeting of the Probus

Club of Burlington will be held on Thurs-day April 16th at 10:00AM at the Art Gallery Of Burlington.

E xtending the

hand of wel-

come…

What better way to begin our morning than with a firm handshake and a friendly smile from our four greeters of the month, Colin Morley, Doug Schofield, Bill Smith, Alistair Camp-bell, guarantee this and will set the tone for the morning in true Probusci-an style.

Thanks Gentlemen.

Haney’s Wine Picks for April

I thought I had found a good

white to recommend at

$9.95 but when I re-tasted it

for this report it was too

bland, so no white this

month. The red was fea-

tured in June of 2011, only

to find it was available only

for a short period of time

for An Australian special.

I’m pleased to find it is

now in all the stores in

good supply and at the

same price!

RED – Deakin Estate Shi-

raz – Australia – LCBO #

Bruce Zvani-ga is the Di-rector of Transporta-tion Services for the City of Burlington Ontario, and

is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Society of Canada.

A graduate of the University of Waterloo Civil Engineer-ing program, Bruce spent 27 years working in a variety of transportation roles with the City of Toronto. When the City of Toronto entered the advanced traffic man-agement systems arena in 1989 with the introduction of the Gardiner-Lake Shore Corridor Traffic Manage-ment System (now “RESCU”), Bruce led the planning, design, construc-tion and operation of the system. From 1998 through 2010, Bruce was responsible for the operation of the

for collaboration, and being a con-sensus builder. Many of us have a problem collabo-rating with just one of the opposite gender. Also I will add a very simple comment, "He MUST have his own bathroom". But, back to real intensification. With growth in population and jobs, the Region of Halton will have many thousands more people and need a corresponding increase in jobs in a government study that covers up to 2031. Where is Burlington going to put their share? The areas now being looked at are Burlington GO station / downtown, Appleby and Aldershot GO areas. Burlington is blessed with three GO stations (one also VIA) and multi-lane highways in four direc-tions ..... excellent transportation for a city its' size. If you think we're nearly maxxed out now in some spots. Think again. I'm sure you, "ain't seen nuthin' yet". I believe we're in good hands with Rick Goldring as Mayor. I hope the public comes out in credible numbers at 7pm, Tuesday April 28, at the Per-forming Arts Centre (its free) to hear much of what we heard at this meet-ing. It was somewhat of a trial run here at Probus, and it looked nearly perfect from my view-point.

and finish. Great with a BBQ and

can even stand 20 minutes in the

fridge for outdoor drinking – screw

cap.

On Thursday March 19, a good crowd of Probustites was treated to an interesting, informative, and very well-presented hour by our second-term Mayor, Rick Goldring. (OK, OK, maybe we Probustians are not all "good", and for sure there should have been more than 75 of us there that fine morning, but cer-tainly we were all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed listeners). At least we were all honest --- having tossed an average of $2.05 into the tooney bucket.

Mayor Rick started by telling us how much different the electorate was during his door-to-door walks in the 2010 campaign than in the one just past. In 2010 the big topic was, "Whadda' ya' gonna do about that, blankety-blank pier?". Where-as in 2014 he received a lot of posi-tive accounts about living in Bur-lington. Of course, some in 2014 did talk about the great flood of August 4th, and the Mayor was the perfect per-son to engage on that subject. A be-liever in climate change and the things it might make us suffer from, Mayor Rick and his family ended up with about five feet of, "Climate Change", in their basement --- and a pungent mix of sewage and storm water it was. A result of the flood is him now be-ing one of those pushing for insur-

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ance covering all, or a major part, of such events. How much different should it be than wind damage, for instance? Oh, we'll pay of course, but when you consider the advantages of having the countless thousands in Burlington helping cov-er the few thousand who had dam-age, it shouldn't be too onerous. Well, let's hope. And now we get to the 'intense' part of the talk. The, "Where To Build In A City That's Built Out?" conun-drum. You see, Burlington is trapped. To the west there are the virtual ram-parts of Hamilton. To the south the depths of Lake Ontario, and going north, an impenetrable Greenbelt, backed by an actual rampart --- The Escarpment. To the east sits wealthy Oakville, well protected by its' Bron-te Creek Moat. (OK, Greenbelts have been developed before). Let's face it, Burlington is in a tough spot, but I hope the Greenbelt will remain green. So, with hardly enough acreage left to squeeze a Tim Hortons drive-through lane onto ..... what can we do? The populace seems to have little desire to build towards the heavens, so is intensification the only thing remaining? Here, Mayor Goldring likes to, at least lightly, refer to himself as an expert. You see, when he and his wife Cheryl moved in together in their Burlington home there were a total of three bedrooms for themselves, her four girls and his three girls. The three bedrooms eventually became seven. "Now, that's INTENSIFICATION", he pro-claims with a smile. We can pause here to think of other aspects of one man and eight fe-males. "A League Of Their Own", comes to mind .... as well as Mayor Rick being proud of his reputation

Meeting Review

By Bob Chambers

Gavel Presentation

Jim Boyd reports Al Clarke has a broken Leg and is in Joe Brant Hos-pital. Ted Curtin, not too well and is at home.

On the Membership desk joining Bob Dickinson is Bob Sippel.

Membership Desk

Health and Wellness

President

Ken McCutcheon

1st Vice

President

Robert English

2nd Vice Presi-dent

Brian Pattrick

Past President

Jim Jones

Secretary

Gerry Howe

Treasurer

Glenn Huffman

Auditor

Cam McBain

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Operating Committees

House Chair

Austin Knowlton

Membership

Jim Allan

Speakers

Jim Csordas

Special Events Outings

Graham Schaefer

Special Events

Sports

Milbur Giles

Communica-tions

Bob Lalonde

New Executive

President Ken McCutcheon hands over

Plaque and Gavel to Past President Jim

Jones

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Special Events

A DAY AT THE

SHAW

Enjoy Lunch at The Prince of

Wales (Please arrive by

11:30)

Then on to The Shaw Festi-

val Theatre to see

SWEET CHARITY

(2:00 P:M)

WEDNESDAY MAY

13TH

TICKETS $87.00 PER PER-

SON

(transportation not included)

Member’s Guests Welcome

Please Note

Transportation available if required.

Tickets will be handed out at the Probus meeting on April 16th 2015.

Any payments that are still outstanding are requested to be paid by

this date.

Special Event ZAMBONI Factory Tour

See the assembly of Ice Resurfacing

Machines

Tour can accommodate 30 members

Cost: As a token of our appreciation for the tour, $10 from each participant will be used for a gift card and given to the staff at ZAMBONI. Please contribute at sign-up desk.

When: 9:45 A.M. Wednesday April 8th, 2015

Where: 38 Morton Ave. East, Brantford ON (Directions will be available)

This is a U-Drive event. Arrive @ ZAMBONI Plant Parking lot at 9:45 A.M.

Tour begins at 10:00 A.M. Tour time - about 1-1/2 hours.

Sign-Up: At March PROBUS Meetings

Sign-up closes April 1 or when we reach 30 registered participants

Co-coordinator Warren Elliott, email wkelliott@cogeco.ca or phone 905-315-7790

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Special Events

PRESIDENT’S CUP

Golf

Tournament

Thursday, May 28th, 2015

Flamborough Golf & Country Club

Copetown

Sign-up date at the April meeting. Sign up as an individual

or a foursome. Guests are welcome.

The cost for golf (shotgun start), cart, prizes and a hot sand-

wich lunch is $80.00. Please have your cheque or

cash available when you sign-up.

Sign-up is available on-line at our

website.

Prize donations are welcome and

appreciated.

Your Club Special Events Committee spends a

great deal of time and effort to provide special

events like Curling, Golf, theatre outings, and visits

to locations of interest.

Do your part and come on out.

You can register for events at our meetings or via

our Website.

Support Your Club

Computer

Interest Group

Our next meeting will be Thursday April 9th, 2015. at Appleby Place in the basement

room.

Don’t forget to email Robert Lalonde your questions for the next meeting at Robert.lalonde@my-pc-consultant.com.

Interest Group Activities

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President: Ken McCutcheon, 905-632-5148 Editing & Distribution: Bob Lalonde, 905-332-1383.

Tech Support: 'OK. Right-Click again.

Do you see a pop-up menu?' Custom-

er: 'No'.

Tech Support: 'OK, sir. Can you tell

me what you have done up until this

point?'.

Customer: 'Sure. You told me to write

'click' and I wrote 'click'.

Caller: 'I deleted a file from my PC last week and I have just realised that I need it. If I turn my system clock

back two weeks will I have my file back again?'.

Probus Bridge Club

Play Party Bridge every Monday at the Legion Hall from 1:00pm-3:00pm Entrance Fee $2

Lunch is available at Noon More Info- Contact Jack Montgomery at 905 637 6838

John McCarthy at 905 632 6556

Hiking Group

We will start off

the hiking sea-

son with an easy,

level, good foot-

ing hike to avoid mud and a too stren-

uous walk!

Meet at the refreshment building on

the Beach Strip just past Jo Brant and

the sewage plant at 9am on Tuesday

the 14th of April. The hike will be on

the waterfront trail out to the lift

bridge and back. Benches along the

way.

I have a conflict for that date so War-

ren Elliott will be leading this hike.

He can be contacted at wkel-

liott@cogec.ca or 905-315-7790.

Customer: 'I've been ringing 0700

2300 for two days and can't get

through to enquiries, can you

help?'.

Operator: 'Where did you get that

number from, sir?'

Customer: 'It was on the door to the

Travel Center'.

Operator: 'Sir, 0700 2300 is our

opening hours'.

Tech Support: 'I need you to right-

click on the Open Desktop'.

Customer: 'OK'.

Tech Support: 'Did you get a pop-up

menu?'.

Customer: 'No'.