the basis for the Centenni-al Fitness Program and, later, the Canada Fitness Awards. He also co-developed and co-authored the R.C.A.F.‟s famous 5BX Program. For seven years, Dr. Hay-den served as a Director at the Kennedy Foundation in Washington, D.C. Per-haps his most significant accomplishment was the creation and development of “Special Olympics‟. From 1981 to 1984, Dr. Hayden established Spe-cial Olympics‟ Office of International Develop-ment, and served as its first Director. He designed and directed international growth of the program from 15 national organiza-tions to 50. His travels have taken him across Europe, South and Cen-tral America, Asia and the South Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, North America and the Caribbe-an.

St. Patrick's Day

is an enchanted

time -- a day to

begin transform-

ing winter's dreams into

summer's magic.

Adrienne Cook

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U pcoming

Speakers

April 17th—Bill Fer-ris—Disaster Manage-ment.

In 1988, Dr. Hayden took early retirement from McMaster and moved to Paris to establish and di-rect the Office of Europe-an Affairs for Special Olympics Inter-national. In the two years which followed, 13 new national organizations were creat-ed in Europe, making a total of 30, stretching from Moscow to Reykja-vik and Oslo to Nicosia. A total of 2,300 athletes from those countries com-peted at the European Summer Games in Glas-gow, Scotland in July, 1990. Dr. Hayden has received the Order of Canada among several more recognitions, and has a Burlington Secondary named after him. (Dr. Frank J. Hayden Second-ary School)

The Birth of Special Olympics

March 2014

T he next meeting of the Probus

Club of Burlington will be held on Thurs-day March 20th 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, Dennis Hla-dysh, Joe Kane, John Luckanuck, and Gar-net Maccara , guarantee this and will set the tone for the morning in true Probuscian style.

Thanks Gentlemen. AGM to be Held March 20th, 2014

AGM 2014AGM 2014AGM 2014

The AGM will be held on

Thursday March 20th. The

AGM documents are at the

back of this newsletter. They

will also be in the docu-

ments section of our website

AGM 2014AGM 2014AGM 2014

Professor Emeritus at McMaster Universi-ty in Hamil-ton, Can-

ada, Dr. Hayden has also served on the faculties of the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. From 1975 to 1981 he was Director of the School of Physical Educa-tion and Athletics at McMaster. He has a special interest in sport and fitness programs for children, particularly for those classified as develop-mentally disabled. A graduate of the University of Illinois‟ Physical Fitness Research Laboratory, he has spent over 40 years design-ing and evaluating exercise and sport programs. In 1966, he co-authored the first national study of the fitness of Canadian children, a project which involved 11,000 boys and girls from coast to coast and provided

Jim Lumb Congratulated By

President Dave Rokosh

With our Feb 20th speaker being Barry Burtis, DVM, co-founder of Bay Cities Animal Hospital, I ex-pected to be hearing from him about his profession. I went back to my limited experience with the ani-mal kingdom and veterinarians and the most interesting thing I could come up with reads almost like a joke. A friend of ours had a very ill cat and it needed a CT scan. Turns out that a "cat" scan was easier to get for her cat than for a human. Easier maybe, but pricey. She was glad that cats don't actually have nine lives, because eight more cat scans would have bankrupted her. But Barry saved me the problem of trying to ask him a question about my friend's cat's, cat scan, because his entire talk was about travel and photographs. He took us on inter-esting and well-presented trips to four continents. (The three remain-ing land masses will follow on his next visit to us) I welcomed the comparison of the sizes of the conti-nents. He's the first person I have ever seen, to illustrate how much larger Africa is than North America, while emphasizing that North America also includes Central America. I always felt that Africa has been a victim of the Mercator Projection: which makes places, like even a considerably smaller Green-land, appear much too large. It makes phrases like, "deepest, dark-est Africa", even deeper and darker, when you find that both Canada and the USA, can easily be placed in Af-rica. His photographs, almost all of them being images that I (a professional

Members Pages

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At the membership desk in March

will be Bob Dickison and Rick

Walton.

At our February meeting two

longstanding members of our club ,

Jim Lumb and Willard Price, were

inducted as Honorary Members of

our club. In the photos below, Presi-

dent Dave Rokosh congratulates

them.

photographer) wish I would have taken, were almost always placed two or more on the screen, showing an interesting mix of scenery, flora and fauna. Though perhaps too many of shots of him and wife Donna in front of identifying signs. However these were also good shots, certainly proving they were actually in all of these exotic locations. Not that we should doubt Barry, who seems an honest sort --- someone you would trust with a geographic location, or your cat. He's been more places than most people (other than say National Geo-graphic staffers) and he's welcome to that --- I wouldn't be swimming with penguins in the Antarctic, or say, rappelling down a waterfall in Africa --- I find physically dangerous activi-ties repellent. So, we'll welcome Barry back to Pro-bus --- he has all of Europe, Asia and Australia yet to show us. I'm anxious to see what he will do on Everest, although I don't think he summited. He's opened up my mind to new are-as of travel. Tame stuff, that even I could do --- like nights on a ranch in the Argentine pampas, or the pano-ramic view of lake and mountains from a Explora Hotel, also in Argen-tina. And that Rovos Rail luxury train in Africa certainly beckons. Maybe they have accommodations in a cattle car that I could afford.

Stokker, John

On Sunday, February

16th, 2014, John Stokker

died in his 91st year.

A letter of condolence and a dona-

tion to a charity of their choice were

sent to the family.

A moment of silence will be held for

John at our March 20th meet-

ing.

Meeting Review

By Bob Chambers

Condolences

At the Membership Desk

Honorary Members Inducted

Willard Price Congratulated By

President Dave Rokosh

I have been able to find both a white

and a red to recommend. Neither

are new but have been around for

some time and are generally availa-

ble.

White Wine

Santa Carolina Sauvignon Blanc -

Chile - LCBO # 269597 - $8.95

Some note of grass and hay but

mainly tropical fruits for a pleasant

full style. Good on its' own or with

food. Not at all aggressive as New

Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.

Red Wine

La Vieille Ferme Ventoux - France -

LCBO # 263640 - $11.90

An old chestnut that just keeps get-

ting better. It is made from mainly

the Grenache grape which is the

same as my recent Spanish recom-

mendations. Full of ripe fruit - cher-

ry and raspberry with good body

and low tannins - no mouth pucker

here.

Both these wines are featured in

Steve Thurlow's Top 50 LCBO val-

ues and the white was chosen as of

one Wine Aligns top 25 value wines

of 2013. Easy to find and definitely

worth a try!

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The 2014 Grummett Bonspiel was

held at the Burlington Curling Club

on Feb.05. Once again Burlington

Probus proved victorious winning all

5 games played.

A successful day was enjoyed by all

under an Olympic Team theme. Priz-

es were presented to all game win-

ners.

The Grummett Trophy was present-

ed to the high game winning team of

Great Britain; Skip-Milbur Giles,

Third-Ian Taylor, Second-Doug

Gross and Lead-Bill Miles.

The “Crying Towel” was awarded to

the losing section, Lakshore Probus

Coordinator Dave McKenzie.

To date Lakeshore Probus leads the

overall series 10 wins to 7 wins for

Burlington Probus.

Committee members for the day

were; Milbur Giles, Dave McKenzie

Members Pages (Lakeshore) and photographer

Warren Elliot. Haney's Cheapies But Goodies

- Wine picks for March 17th Grummett Bonspiel

2014

March is March is March is

Probus MonthProbus MonthProbus Month

Irish Humour

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Special Events

On the Humourous Side

How children perceive

their Grandparents

1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, "But Grand-ma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!" I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye.

2. My young grandson called the oth-er day to wish me Happy Birth-day. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, 80. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked,

"Did you start at 1?"

3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and pro-ceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"

4. A grandmother was telling her lit-tle granddaughter what her own childhood was like. "We used to skate

outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our po-ny. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"

5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo and I said, "No, how are we alike?'' "You're both old," he replied. 6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word pro-cessor. She told him she was writing a story.

PRESIDENT’S CUP Golf Tournament

Thursday, May 22th, 2014

Flamborough Golf & Country Club

Copetown

First sign-up date is Thursday, March 20th at our regular Probus Club meeting. Sign up as an individual or a four-some.

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.

Doug Gross, Co-ordinator Sign-up On-line at our website.

Sign up On-line at our website today

Computer Inter-est Group

Our next meeting will be Thursday March 13th 2014, 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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Editing & Distribution: Bob Lalonde, 905-332-1383.

10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little sur-prised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting." she said... "How do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'." 11. Children's Logic:

"Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant." The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," said the young boy confident-ly. 'It means carrying a child."

Probus Bridge Club

Play Party Bridge every Monday at the Legion Hall from 11:30am-3:00pm Entrance Fee $2 We meet at 11:30am at the

Legion for a light lunch and start playing at 12:30. We have also intro-duced a new handicapping system, which has added a degree of interest to our scoring and prize distribution.

More Info- Contact Jack Montgomery at 905 637 6838

John McCarthy at 905 632 6556

INVESTMENT GROUP

The next Investment Meet-ing will be Thursday April 3, at Appleby Place, 500 Appleby Line.

Guest speaker will be announced at the next Probus Meeting, March 20. Bill Miles

"What's it about?" he asked. "I don't know," she replied. "I can't read." 7. I didn't know if my granddaugh-ter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me and was al-ways correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she headed for the door, saying, "Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these colors yourself!" 8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky in-sects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, "It's no use Grand-pa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights." 9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure." "Look in your under-wear, Grandpa," he advised "Mine says I'm 4 to 6."