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Our Christmas Luncheon
Wednesday, December 4
PROBUSNEWS December 11, 2013 Volume 6, Issue 4
Probus Club of Saskatoon
Club Meeting Venue
Royal Cana-dian Legion,
Nutana Branch
3021 Louise St.
First Wednes-day of the
month 9:30 am
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
PAGE 2 Group Activi-ties Activity Co-ordinators
PAGE 3
Group Activi- ties (cont’d) Activity Co-ordinators (cont’d) Up-coming Events
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Up-coming Events (cont) From the Presi-dent Committee Conveners Executive Committee
110 members enjoyed the tasty Christmas Dinner on 4 December, hosted by President Ineke Knight. The Legion was beautifully decorated and provided a great atmos-phere for friendship and conversation. Smileys and the Legion Auxillary ladies provided their very professional service. The door draws were won by Ray Butler and Klaus Post.
Members were treated to a carol sing-a-long, lead by Anne Stephenson, accom-panied by Gary Gullickson. Kevin Wilson provided the song sheets. Thank you to all who helped make this another successful Christmas Dinner.
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Group Activities Book Club: Chapter Two -- Donna Haugen
Seven members met at Muriel Eustace's lovely condo in November to discuss Anthony Bidulka's mystery series. Anthony's novels introduced us to many interesting characters from the BTLG community. Each novel's main charac-ter is an ace private investigator, Russell Quant. Each adventure starts here in Saskatoon and takes Russell to different countries to find clues, and returns him to Saskatoon to solve each case. Our impressions of his novels were var-ied.
Anthony was nominated for his novel, Dos Equus, in the gay mystery division at the Lambda Literary Awards held in New York. He didn't win, but another Saskatchewan author, Jeffrey Round of Dundurn, won the prize for his story, "Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery.” In 2011, Anthony Bidulka's name was added to the College of Education, Alumni Wall of Honour, B.Ed. 1991.
Our next meeting will be held at Elaine Tatarniuk's home on Jan. 21st at 2pm. Address: #5 - 215 Pinehouse Drive. Ph# (306) 931-1283 Luncheon Group — Bill Paulsen
We will not be scheduling a luncheon for December. I am sure many of you will be attending all kinds of holiday lunches with friends and loved ones. Kathi and Bill Paulsen will be away from January to April. Sheila Liota part-nering with Elaine Carter will be arranging the venues during this period. We invite you, if you have not already done so, to come out to one of our luncheons. We try to set up venues that offer reasonably good food at a modest price. Most important, the luncheons are set up to offer fellowship and a opportunity to meet and socialize with fellow Probus members.
Elaine Carter (e-mail [email protected] or phone 306-955-1905) and Sheila Liota (e-mail: [email protected] or phone 306-477-7745) will be arranging Dim Sum at the Genesis on a Saturday morning in January. The restaurant wants to wait until after Christmas before they start booking in Jan. The exact date will be available at the January meeting – you can sign up then.
P R O B U S N E W S December 11, 2013
Activity Coordinators
Book Club Anne Ashcroft 306-242-4835 [email protected] Book Club – Chapter Two Donna Haugen 306-651-5006 [email protected]
Bridge Doreen Butler 306-373-0390 [email protected]
Community Services Concert Group Fay Zimmerman 306-373-4023 [email protected] Cribbage Daryl Lindsay 306-665-2504 [email protected]
Curling Ross M. Harwood 306-384-4977 [email protected]
Dinner Club Gloria Parton 306-652-9622 [email protected] and Nancy Sollosy 306-651-2553 [email protected]
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Group Activities (Continued) Bridge - Doreen Butler
The January meeting of the Probus Bridge Club will be held on Thursday, January 16 at the home Jan and Kevin Wilson, 104 - 803 Heritage Crescent, commencing at 1:30 p.m. Please contact the Wilsons (306-374-3814) or Doreen or Ray Butler (306-373-0390) if you will not be at the Probus January meeting to register on the sign-up sheet.
Walking — Ineke Knight
Our walking group is a hardly lot that gather on Friday mornings. Due to lack of space, the picture of the group walking under the new bridge in October could not be included in the last newsletter so you have it to enjoy now. Added to it is a shot of two of the three brave souls (Al Morton, Anne McKenna and Ineke Knight) who walked on December 6. Ineke reports that it was very, very cold but they had warm winter gear and felt exhilarated coming back to a warm hot cup of coffee.
Up-Coming Events
Tours — Kevin Wilson
Because only one person signed on for the Western Development Museum tour planned for January 14, 2014, this tour has been cancelled. However, the Febru-ary 11, 2014 visit to the curatorial centre of the Western Development Centre is going ahead. Those who have signed up for this tour must pay $7.50 per person admission at our joint Probus meeting on January 8, 2014. Also, on that date, additional members may sign up and pay their $7.50. Particulars about the gath-ering point and the time of the tour will be given to participants before the end of January.
P R O B U S N E W S December 11, 2013
Activity Coordinators (Continued)
Fishing Merv McKee 306-374-9688 [email protected]
Golf Ed Marleau 306-249-3632 [email protected]
Luncheons Bill Paulsen 306-373-7719 [email protected] Horseshoes
Movies Karen Heise 306-373-6801 [email protected] Photography Christopher Dean 306-652-7262 [email protected] Roster Kevin Wilson 306-373-3814 [email protected] Walking Ineke Knight 306-374-7904 [email protected]
Wine Tasting Ed Marleau 306-249-3632 [email protected]
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P R O B U S N E W S December 11, 2013
Committee Conveners
Member Relations Al Propp 306-382-6308 [email protected]
Social Lynn Gee 306-374-9417 [email protected]
Speakers Marge Dymond-Madsen [email protected] 306-242-5600
Communications Colleen Kells 306-242-3527 [email protected]
Tours Ross Harwood 306-384-4977 [email protected]
Club Archives Ray Butler 306-373-0390 [email protected]
Website Geoffrey Hughes 306-373-0962 [email protected]
Your Probus Executive Committee
President President-Elect Treasurer Ineke Knight Gary Gullickson Ross. M. Harwood 306-374-7904 306-933-0126 306-384-4977 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Past-President Secretary Geoffrey Hughes Fay Zimmerman 306-373-0962 306-373-4023 [email protected] [email protected]
Up-coming Events (Continued)
Our Next Meeting
From the President — Ineke Knight
With the Christmas dinner on December 4, we are well on our way into the Festive Season. Parties, receptions, dinners and of course shopping for gifts for loved ones are all part of Christmas. Many of you will be traveling to visit family or making use of the Holidays to travel abroad. Whatever your plans are, may they be happy times with catching up on family news or renewing old friendships. On behalf of the Probus Executive, may I wish you all the very best for the year 2014.
It is hard to believe that another year will soon be over with new visions for another year. As you may already know because of the fact that the first Wednesday is on January first, we will have our first meeting of the year together with the second Probus club on January 8. I am very much looking forward to greeting as many peo-ple as possible for this combined event.
I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a new and exciting 2014. Sincerely, Ineke Knight
Since no-one seemed to want to meet on the first Wednes-day of January (New Year’s Day), our January meeting will be a joint meeting with the Probus Club of Saskatoon — Bridges on Wednesday, January 8 at 9:30. Our guest speaker will be Gregory Burke, who assumed the position of Executive Director & CEO of the Mendel Art Gallery and the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan in June 2013. During his career, Burke has curated more than 90 exhibitions and published more than 100 texts. He has worked with artists around the world, including organizing major exhibitions of Asian art.