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Speakers

October 17th, 2013 Rabbi Bernar Baskin—How Im-portant Am I.

November 21St—Tom Bochsler—Remember to Remember.

Bernard Baskin, the son of a Rabbi, was born in New Jersey. He spent most of his youth and formative years in Brooklyn, New York, where his father had accepted the call of a large congregation. He was graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.A. degree and also from the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, which con-ferred upon him the de-gree, Master of Hebrew Literature. Prior to his coming to Hamilton, over six decades ago, to minis-ter at Temple Anshe Shol-om, the oldest Reform Congregation in Canada.

The Rabbi is widely known for his community work and speaking en-gagements. For many years he has presented course in the School of Continuing Education at McMaster University and elsewhere.

He is a recipient of the coveted B'nai Brith Hu-manitarian Award for his interest in inter-faith ac-tivities and has been hon-oured by the Hamilton Jewish Community as "Man of the Year." He has also received the Good Servant Award of the Ca-nadian Council of Chris-tians and Jews. In 1969, McMaster conferred on him the honourary degree - Doctor of Laws; and in 1972, he was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by the Hebrew Union Col-lege.

Over the years he has con-tributed to the Book Re-

view Section of the Hamil-ton Spectator and has been Book Editor of the Canadian Jewish News for over 25 years. His articles have appeared in many periodicals.

A Canadian citizen, he is a former member of the Board of Governors of McMaster University and has served on the boards of the Hamilton Art Gal-lery and Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a former Chairman of the Hamilton Library Board. Rabbi Baskin has served as Na-tional Jewish Chairman for the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.

In 1990 he was chosen for Hamilton's "Gallery of Distinction" He is now retired but still serves as Rabbi Emeritus of the Temple Anshe Sholom congregation.

How Important Am I

October 2013

T he next meeting of the Probus

Club of Burlington will be held on Thurs-day October 17th at 10:00AM at the Bur-lington Arts Centre.

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, Dave Adeney; Del Kindy; Harvey Williams; and Doug Winter, guarantee this and will set the tone for the morning in true Pro-buscian style.

Thanks Gentlemen.

2014 Parking Passes Available

Well it is that time of the year again where we offer 2014

parking passes to our mem-bers.

Passes will be available for sale at the October 17th meeting at a desk set up next to the Membership desk. Look for Brian Little.

Price will be $22.00 for the 11 meetings for 2014.

Can be paid in cash, or by cheque made out to the Burlington Art Centre.

So why not save the walk-ing from the pay machine back to the car.

Colin Morley grew up in Vineland and St.Catharines.

He is a gradu-ate of the Uni-versity of To-ronto and Os-

goode Hall Law School.

After practicing law in Toronto for a couple years, He joined Stelco where he met Vic Harris who intro-duced him to a number of bad hab-its. One of the good ones was fish-ing, which they still enjoy together.

After Stelco he returned to legal practice in Toronto. He is a retired founding partner of Hicks Morley, an employment law firm based in Toronto. with offices in Water-loo,London,Ottawa and Kingston.

He and his wife Marilyn have been married for 61 years and raised a family of five, one daughter and four sons. They have lived in Bur-lington since 1957. They are long time members of Wellington Square United Church. Colin is a Past Chair of the Joseph Brant Hospital Board of Governors. Since retirement, he has been active with the Hamilton Branch of the United Empire Loyal-ist Association, Burlington Doors Open, Burlington Heritage Umbrel-la Group and the Burlington Histor-ical Society.

His prized possessions are his 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 and a farm in St.Ann's purchased by the Rev. Ste-phen Morley in the 1890's.

Charles Fraser was born and brought up in Quebec. He was active in school and sports and played the or-gan at church.

Colin Morley

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He obtained a B.Sc. from Bishop’s University and spent the summers in the COTC army camp at Picton at the RCSA Ack Ack Regimental base where he was commissioned.

Started work as a Chemist with BA Oil and progressed to Tech Service Rep covering all of Quebec and the Cornwall area of Ontario. He then went back to school, achieving an MBA from Western. His first time in Burlington was in one summer dur-ing his studies where he and his wife Billie lived in an old schoolhouse on Appleby Line.

After graduating, he joined McKim Advertising in Montreal and also continued teaching at McGill in the MBA program for the next 30 years. He continued to progress and moved to Toronto where he became a part-ner in the firm.

He ran his first Boston Marathon in 1978 and continues being fit by run-ning/walking and other activities.

After a short time as head of Market-ing for the Metro Region Toronto Conservation Authority he decided to really retire.

He and his wife have the travel bug and have been exploring the world for over 40 years. They and their three children have seen quite a lot of the world and have included their two grandchildren upon occasion in these world travels.

They are proud of the legacies which they passed on to their family – reading, music, travel and keeping fit.

"Take one aspirin, divide it into ten pieces, and then hold one piece out at arm’s length". No, it's not the start of some unusual medical ad-vice from a doctor, but, part of a statement by astronomer John Gauvreau, during his Sept 18th address to 100 of us Probussians. When he started his speech John asked for the lights to be turned out so we could see the slides better, but had he known what this crowd was like, he may have wanted the lights left on. Why? To keep an eye on his wallet. This audience had come up with only $98.40 for the coffee kitty. Obviously, at least two of us were short of the looney re-quired for attendance. But thankfully the lights were off. Because it indeed gave us a better view of his presentation of beauti-ful images of the eight planets in our solar system, followed by spec-tacular scenes of interstellar space. John's dynamic delivery and his way of making a complex subject understandable and enjoyable is quite an art. He has had lots of practice; teaching astronomy at Mohawk College for twenty years, sitting on the National Council of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and currently doing an in-terschool interactive space science program. He even makes forays into the audience --- possibly to get the attention of some slacker in the back row. But he need not have worried about lack of attention on the part of this group of Probustini-ans, for, at the end, we asked some probing and insightful questions.

Meeting Review

By Bob Chambers

Charles Fraser

Who is in the News...

For instance, one of us knew about the "Schmidt Plate", that makes basic reflecting telescope even bet-ter --- his alma mater had one on the school's telescope --- and I thought most students frequented observatory hill because it was dark up there. Another knew it was not physics, but mathematics, that can't properly explain all the un-explainable about space. Oh, about that use of 1/10 of an as-pirin, that I mentioned at the begin-ning. It's this --- surely one of the most incredible things (to me any-way) in John's talk. Astronomers have aimed the Hubble Space Tele-scope at an area of the sky, the size of that fleck of aspirin held at arm’s length (in the darkest part of the sky by the way) and found, guess what? 5,000 galaxies. Each with billions, or scores of billions, of stars. This is space we live in it. What is it? How big? How small? Where is it? When is it? Why is it? To borrow from Winston Churchill describing Russia in 1939, space might be called, “A riddle, wrapped in mys-tery, inside an enigma". The only disappointing thing about John Gauvreau's talk --- it wasn't long enough. Probustonian busi-ness, i.e., introductions of new members, weak jokes, members health, lame jokes, club activities, and did I mention, ancient jokes? --- delayed his start by at least 30 minutes. But, strangely, we'd miss those groaners.


A recent Telecast showed member Nick Olchowy among a group of CHCH-TV staff taken when the sta-tion opened 60 years ago. Since Nick still does some directing for Crime Stoppers and was the only person in both the 1953 photo and the current staff photo.

Member Bill Warren has a display of his photographs on the walls of the BAC, taken over the past five dec-ades.

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For members UNDER THE AGE OF 75 in good standing with Probus, there is a ONE-TIME OPEN ENROLMENT PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 15, 2013 TO OCTOBER 31, 2013 for Extended Health Care (EHC) with Prestige Emergency Medical Travel and Trip Cancel-lation Insurance. During the open enrolment period, Probus members under the age of 75 can apply for Extended Health Care coverage without evidence of good health . (After October 31, only members leaving an exist-ing health insurance plan have 60 days to enroll without evi-dence.) Also , annual Dental Care limits will not have mid-year reductions when applied for before October 31.

Additional information is availa-ble on Johnson lnc.'s website at www.johnson .ca/probus .

For answers to further questions , ple--ase contact Probus Plan Ad-ministr-atg,r,Johnson Inc., toll free at : 1-877-989-2600 or email pbservicewest@johnson .ca .

Enrolling in this Insurance plan is at your discre-tion, your Executive.

Pictures from the Golf Tournament

Lakeshore wins trophy…

More Pictures on the Website

He thinks we won!

Probus Central Insurance


Special Events

Tuesday, December 10th, 2013

Christmas

Gala

Luncheon

Royal Botanical Gardens Banquet

Room

Reception 12:00pm

Luncheon Buffet Style 12:30 pm

Entertainment

Cash Bar

$55.00 per person

Tickets go on sale at our October Meeting at the Gala Signup desk. Cheques to be made out to the Pro-

bus Club of Burlington. You can also register online at our website.


Special Events

LAST CALL!! one pair left for

the Dunfield Theatre. Call Bill

Miles (905) 847-8299

Computer

Interest Group

Our next meeting will be Thursday October 10th, 2013.

Don’t forget to email Robert Lalonde your questions for the next meeting at [email protected].

Don’t forget to email Jim Lewis at [email protected] to let him know if you are going to attend.

Interest Group Activities

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When the results were in, both men

had scored 19 out of 20.

The manager went to Big Eagle and

said, "Thank you for coming to the

interview, but we’ve decided to give

the white guy the job."

Big Eagle replied, "What 'cho mean?

Why you doin that? You racist? We

both got 19 questions right. This is

Prince Albert and I 'm First Nations; I

should get the job."

The manager responded, "We have

made our decision not on the correct

answers, but on the question you got

wrong."

Big Eagle: "Tell me how would one

wrong answer be better than another?"

Manager: "Simple. On question num-

ber 7 the white guy wrote down 'I don’t

know.' You put down 'Neither do I.'"

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A big game hunter went on a safari with his wife and mother-in-law. One

Probus Bridge Club

Probus Bridge Club Starts Monday October 7th 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

INVESTMENT GROUP

We will meet every second month, the first THURSDAY of a month, and collect

$5.00 per member per meeting, for speakers gifts, and a year end gift to Appleby Place.

New members to the Investment Group are welcome. Please register on line.

Doug Walker, Coordinator

Hiking Group

This hike will take us

past Webster's and

Tew's Falls and out to

Dundas peak to get a

great view of the fall colours. No long

hills and generally smooth earthen

paths with some wooden stairs. Not

physically demanding so a hike for

all.

Meet at 9 a.m. on Tuesday the 15th of

October at the Optimist parking lot in

Greensville. Coming from the south

and Dundas on highway 8, immedi-

ately after 8 turns left and Brock

Road carries straight on the lot in on

the right. Coming south from High-

way 5 the lot is on the left just before

the stop sign for Highway 8.

I'll get there early and park at the en-

trance to avoid confusion. Questions

or information contact Hugh Haney

at 905-335-9405 or

[email protected]

Big Eagle applied for a fork lift oper-

ator job at a firm based in Prince

Albert. A white man applied for the

same job and since both applicants

had similar qualifications, they were

asked to take a test.

They were led by the manager to a

quiet room with no interruptions.

Some Humour

morning, while still deep in the jun-gle, the hunter's wife awakened to find her mother gone.

She woke her husband and they both set off in search of the old woman. In a clearing not far from the camp, they came upon a chilling sight.

The mother-in-law was standing face to face with a ferocious lion. "What are we going to do," ? his horrified wife asked. "Nothing," her husband replied, "The lion got himself into this mess, let him get himself out of it."

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