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Our Strength is Fellowship, Our Success is Participation.

ISSUE #70 NEWSLETTER January 2018

Probus-Guildwood Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of each Month, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church,

140 Guildwood Parkway, Guildwood Village – Everyone is most welcome.

President’s Message

Happy New Year to you all. I

hope that you have all

recovered from your post-

celebration hazes and weren’t

left too embarrassed, at least

no more than usual. And I’m

sure you’ve made the appropriate resolutions to

ensure it doesn’t happen again; or at least make

it better next time. So let’s get this year off on

the right foot and see what you have to look

forward to. I’ll give you a taste of what you

have to look forward to in January (only a small

sampling since the full list would again take up

the entire newsletter and I’m informed that that

is a bad thing for some reason).

January is the month for:

International Brain Teaser Month (Like putting

together this message)

International Creativity Month (Take it where

you want to)

National Clean Up Your Computer Month (And

mine needs to go outside)

National Polka Music Month (I think I’ll pass –

anyone else?)

The week of:

January 1-8 – New Year’s Resolution Week

(Obviously procrastination is one of them)

January 2-8 – Someday We'll Laugh About This

Week (At all those resolutions no doubt)

January 11-17 – Cuckoo Dancing Week (Nope,

I don’t want to know)

January 15-19 – No Name Calling Week:

(That’ll leave some with nothing to do)

January 21-27 – Hunt For Happiness Week

(Mine’s hiding behind the sofa)

January 22-26 – Clean Out Your Inbox Week

(Mine will definitely take much longer)

January is just chock full of fun days:

January 1 – New Year’s Day

January 1 – Mummer’s Parade (For you

Newfoundlanders out there)

January 6 – Fruitcake Toss Day (Sorry you

missed it? Hope you didn’t hurt someone)

January 9 - National Static Electricity Day (It’s

enough to make your hair stand up)

January 11 – Learn Your Name in Morse Code

Day (It’s cheaper than a cellphone)

January 14 – Dress Up Your Pet Day (Some of

you do this more often)

January 14 – No Pants Subway Ride Day (I

don’t want to know or see)

January 16 – Nothing Day (Finally a day to

really embrace)

January 17 – Ditch New Year’s Resolutions

Day (Well, now we know what happens)

January 19 – International Fetish Day (Nope,

not touching that one)

January 22 – Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day

(Anyone want to field this one?)

January 27 – Thomas Crapper Day (Honestly, I

don’t make these up)

January 29 – National Curmudgeons Day (You

know who you are)

January 29 – Freethinkers Day (Need to offset

those curmudgeons)

January 30 – Inane Answering Machine

Message (Go for it)

January 31 – Backward Day (sdrawkcab

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Even though it looks to be a very cold period,

try to keep active and embrace challenging

activities around you. Get out there (ok, maybe

not literally) and have fun this year.

Alan Burt

January 2018 Probus-Guildwood Newsletter

Life can be Fun… as long as you do it with the right people.

Chess Anyone?

Stimulate your brain by learning a new skill and

simultaneously meet new people. Adults 60+

are invited to learn Chess at the FREE program

offered Mondays, 1-3 p.m. at Scarborough

Village Recreation Centre. Jan Eaton and some

other Probus-Guildwood members started in

October.

Classes resume on January 8. Register online at

https://efun.toronto.ca/torontofun or by operator

assisted phone at: 416-338-4386 or by touch

tone registration at: 416-338-0000. Program

Code – 3017166.

The Scarborough Village R.C. offers many

complementary senior programs throughout the

year where you’ll meet some of our members

like Mitzi Clarke and Betty Barron who

graciously volunteer there.

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Mural Routes 2018 Calendars Are your interested in supporting the restoration

of the original Heritage Trail Murals along

Kingston Road?

In the fall of 2016, Karin Eaton presented Mural

Routes to us and coordinated a novelty tour for

our members in March 2017. The restoration

project includes the Halfway House and The

Bluff’s as Viewed by Elizabeth Simcoe C.1793.

Purchase a 2018 Mural Routes Calendar for $20

available at our January meeting, or contact

Kyla Ross at: [email protected] or by phone

at 416-698-7995

.

Lunch with Friends

Our luncheon on January 26 will be at Remezzo

Italian Bistro at 3335 Sheppard Ave. E, on the

southwest corner of Sheppard and Warden.

There will be a sign-up sheet at the January

meeting or call Jan Eaton at 416-261-8857.

Jan Eaton ______________________________________________

Children’s Reading Program Guildwood Junior Public School is searching for

reading volunteers.

Previously our Probus-Guildwood members

volunteered one morning a week from 9:30 to

11:30 to support young readers improve their

reading skills. The school has students from JK

to Grade 6 and is located at 225 Livingston

Road. If you are interested, please contact:

Principal Marilyn Leighton

[email protected] or secretary Dawn

Bernasch, [email protected]. or call

416-396-6295.

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Membership

70 members and 53 guests attended our

Christmas luncheon .

Updating Your Information – Occasionally

we need to contact members either by phone or

email. A reminder that if you have changed your

address, phone number or email address, please

advise the membership team when you sign in at

our meetings. Alternately you can contact: Enid

Comars at 416-264-2816, or email:

[email protected] to update your

information. Membership back-up contact is

Elizabeth Williams at: 416-282-8595 or email:

[email protected].

To reduce printing costs, please advise us of

your email address so that we can email your

monthly newsletter. (As a bonus, you will

receive it in colour.)

Keeping In Touch and Celebration

We often think of our members who are

currently healing from their surgeries and whom

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we certainly miss: Jane Corry, Speakers Chair,

recovering at Cedarbrook Residence and Carole

Lidgolde, Refreshment Coordinator and

Guildwood writer.

Kindly inform Karen Manuel at: 416-283-5079

or by e-mail: [email protected]

about any member, who is ill, hospitalized or

has experienced a recent bereavement. We

would also enjoy announcing any special event

of yours at our next meeting, such as an award,

or significant anniversary or birthday.

We would also like to know about any

member’s special event, such as an award, 50th

anniversary, etc. Come to the meeting and we

will announce it and celebrate with you.

Membership Committee _________________________________

Bylaw or Administrative Policy change? Bylaw No. 2 – Membership reads as follows,

“……An application for membership shall be

accompanied by an initiation fee of $20.00 and

an annual membership fee of $20.00.

[Depending on when a new member is accepted,

the membership fee may be prorated]..…”

To interpret the above paragraph the

administrative policy has been that if a person

joins Probus-Guildwood (P-G) from November

through April s/he will pay a membership fee of

$20.00. (No proration is allowed.) If a person

joins from May to October the prorated

membership fee will be $10.00.

The new policy change recommends that if a

person joins any month from November to

October, a person would pay a prorated fee of

one twelfth of $20.00 times the number of

months a person is a member of P-G.

The reason for the change in the administrative

policy is that some people maintain that rather

than joining say in August they would get ‘a

better deal’ by joining in November. Now

whenever a person joins P-G s/he pays for the

membership fees for the period when s/he is a

member of P-G.

If approved this proposed administrative policy

change could be shown in the newly approved

Standing Rules which further clarify the

Bylaws. Personally I feel that the

administrative policy should be changed rather

than the Bylaw.

Obviously this policy change applies to new

members only and it does not affect any of the

current members. Eric Niemela

The immediate past Membership Chair __________________________________________

Meeting Refreshments

Betty Barron, Jean Barrett, Genia Young and

Wendy Hooker have volunteered baked goods

for our January meeting.

We need four volunteers for our February

meeting. There will be a sign up sheet at our

January meeting,

Many thanks to all the wonderful folks who take

the time to provide our Probus-Guildwood

meeting with baked goods. Please remember

that all of our volunteer bakers are fully

compensated for their costs. __________________________________________

Probus-Guildwood Christmas Luncheon – The Guild Inn Estate December 13

Kudos to all for supporting our christmas

luncheon

We had 125 members and guests attemd our

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at the Guild

Inn Estate. Barry Scheffer was fantastic in

capturing the event and Barrie Morgan

embedded all pictures into our website. We also

had a surprise visit from Santa who graciously

had his picture taken with our guests.

Tim O’Reilly was an excellent performer. He

played a range of Christmas themed tunes with

his guitar and led the group in a carol sing. Our December Entertainer

Tim O’Reilly

Janet delivers our Giggle of the month




Our December Christmas Luncheon

Barry Scheffer with Santa Claus

Group photo with Santa

Wendy Johnston, Evelyn Carnie

and Kay Barrett

Group photo

Barrie Morgan’s loyal toast

to the Queen

Group photo

Santa visits Joyce Russell

and Eleanor Erion

Santa visits Jackie Wilkinson

and Lee Grayhurst

Tim O’Reilly with group

Bad decisions always make good stories. If a woman speaks and no one is listening, chances are her name is Mom.



Ingeborg Spribille with daughter

Carmen Patterson

Helen Hanrahan, Pat Parsons,

Ruth Rohwer and Tom Parsons

Tom Parsons, Nick Rohwer,

Sharon Robinson and Adele Matthews

Santa with Freda Morgan

December Birthdays

Marion MacDonald, Agnes Williams, Kay

Jeffries, Ellen Poborsa, Freda Morgan,

Mary MacLeod, Eric Niemela, Barry

Hitchcock and Elizabeth Williams

The 50/50 ticket drawn

by Tim O’Reilly was won by

Marion MacDonald

The chance to win Million Dollars

Lottery ticket was won by:

Josephine Flynn

Classical CD Collection donated by

Jan Eaton won by:

Glenna Hall

I very quietly confided to my friend that I was having an affair. She turned to me and asked, "Are you having it catered?"



Wine was won by:

Susan MacDonald

Gingerbread was won by:

Guest Jackie Wilkinson

The Jane Goodall Foundation If you want to read ahead about our January

topic, The Jane Goodall Foundation, have a look

at the October 2017 issue of the National

Geographic titled Becoming Jane Goodall. Also

there’s an interesting article. Do the next few

words belong in the P-G NL? Debating Trophy

Hunting. Does hunting aid conservation as some

claim?

Speakers at Our Monthly Meetings

Jan. 10 Jane Goodall Society –

AndreaTeather

Feb. 14 Driftwood Theatre – Jeremy

Smith

Mar. 14 Environment & Energy –

Megan MacLean

FYI (For Your Information)

FYI contains items-notices-events that members

feel others may be interested in. Thank you to

members who submit items. Please send to

[email protected] or directly to the

NL editor [email protected]

September 26 to May 31, Free Concert Series

in the Bradshaw Amphitheatre at 145 Queen

Street West. (Phone 416-363-8231)

Artists from around the world share their talent

and passion in vocal, piano, jazz, dance,

chamber and world music.

Concerts take place most Tuesdays and

Thursdays at noon, and some Wednesdays at

noon or 5:30 p.m. The doors open half an hour

prior to the performance start time. Admission is

on a first-come, first-served basis and seating is

limited to 230. Line up early to avoid

disappointment. Latecomers are not admitted,

check the website:

http://www.coc.ca/PerformancesAndTickets/Fre

eConcertSeries.aspx to download the brochure

or pick up a copy from your library

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Fallingbrook Presbyterians’ Burns’

Dinner & Ceilidh – Saturday, January 27,

5:30 p.m. – Reception

6:00 p.m. – Dinner & Ceilidh

Haggis, Roast Beef, Neeps & Baps & Ceilidh

with Pipers, Dancers and SingSong

Downstairs in the church’s Friendship Hall,

$35.00 per person RSVP in advance to:

[email protected] or 416-699-3084.

Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church, 35 Wood

Glen Rd at Kingston Rd. (four blocks east of

Victoria Park Ave.).

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The Healthy Brain – How Diet and

Supplements Can Help Optimize Brain

Power At Any Age – with Dr. Aileen Burford-

Mason, PhD (author of The Healthy Brain and Eat

Well, Age Better)

Monday, February 5, at 7:00 p.m.

Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church

35 Wood Glen at Kingston Road

Limited Seating. Reserve at: [email protected]

or 416-699-3084

$20.00 tickets, Pay at the Door

Books will be available for purchase.


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Scarborough Village Seniors Presents

Murder Mystery at the Old Mill What’s this? Suspcious characters mingling at

your cocktail reception? Was that a confession

of jealousy you overheard? Did a strange man

whisper of revenge?And who is that mysterious

woman you are talking to? Just when you think

you’ve found out who the characters are,

someone you’ve just met dies. A detective leads

the investigation during dinner. The suspects are

spread throughout the room, sitting at the tables

with you. Do some of them work with you?

The jokes fly non-stop. The action is fast and

furious. The suspense is unbearable. Finally

youi get to sift through the tangled web of clues

and evidence and see if you can figure

out…WHODUNIT?

Date: Wednesday, February 21

Depart: 10:30 a.m. Scarborough Village

Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Enjoy a delicious buffet at The Old Mill

Show: 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Murder on the Disorient Express

Market: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Visit to the Cheese Boutique

Return: Arrival in Scarborough by 5:00 p.m.

Price: $99.00 per person

Payment due upon booking

Inclusion: Return transportation via deluxe

coach, lunch and show at The Old Mill, driver

gratuity, meal gratuity and all taxes.

To book: Contact Susan Bach at

(416) 755-0179

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Jeremy Smith is the dynamic creator and artistic

director of Driftwood Theatre and our engaging

speaker on February 14. (The Guild enjoyed his

company’s production of Othello on August 1.)

Jeremy reminds us to mark our calendars for

March 9, to enjoy TRAFALGAR 24, 6:30-11:00

p.m.

For full details see December newsletter.

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Scarborough Village Seniors Presents

Tundra Swana Every year thousands of Tundra Swans use the

Aylmer Wildlife Management Area to refuel on

their migration to the high Arctic Region

between Alaska and Baffin Island. It’s expected

that up to 60 thousand birds will stop over here.

Birdwatchers from all over the province come to

Aylmer to see this beautiful bird and wonder of

nature that is right here in our backyard.

Date: Tuesday, March 21, (To be determined,

possibly March 15)

Depart: 9:00 a.m. Scarborough Village

Lunch: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Enjoy a delicious lunch at the Elmhurst Inn &

Spa, Ingersoll

Swans: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Visit to the Aylmer Wildlife Area

Coyle’s: 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Visit to Coyle’s Country Store

Bright’s: 3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Visit to Bright’s Cheese Store

Return: Arrival in Scarborough approximately

5:30 p.m.

Price: $80.00 per person (HST Included)

Payment due by March 1

Inclusion: Return transportation via deluxe

coach, buffet lunch, visit to Aylmer Wildlife

Management Area, visit to Coyle’s Country

Store, visit to Bright’s Cheese Store, driver

gratuity, gratuity on meal, and all taxes.

To book: Contact Susan Bach at

(416)-755-0179

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Pickering Probus Trip – Medieval Times –

Dinner and Tournament – Friday March 23

Cost $99.00

Your evening includes: Transportation by Motor

coach from Pickering, leaving at 5:00 p.m.to

Theatre. A four-course meal fit for royalty

inside the stone walls of our 11th century style,

Medieval Spain will come to life before your

eyes.

Contact Jill or Shirlie to sign up

[email protected]

Shirlie van Putten 905-619-8583

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Love Instrumental Music?

P-G member, Karen Anhorn, invites all to

attend The Metropolitan Winds of Toronto and

the Symphonic Winds orchestras.

They are performing at the Scarborough Citadel

Community Church at 2021 Lawrence Avenue

E. on Saturday, March 24. The tickets are $20

each. www.metrowinds.ca for more

information.


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This just in from Wendy: The Star’s short

story contest is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

If you are interested in submitting your prose –

visit their website at:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2

018/01/05/the-toronto-stars-40th-annual-short-

story-contest-is-open-for-submissions--.html

Could you be the winner of the $5,000 first

prize?

Memorial

Sadly we share this news to our P-G members.

On December 23 Freda Morgan celebrated her

birthday only to be advised of the loss of her last

remaining sister who was 67. Yvonne Holland

was a resident of Nottingham, England.

The Clay Emporium – a one day session

during the last week of January, day to be set

by interested parties. There will be a sign up

sheet at the January 10 General meeting. Speak

to Jan Eaton or call her at:416-261-8857.

Volunteers for Probus-Guildwood Due to recent illness or surgery, we need your

help. Sadly we lost Joy McIntosh, our

Secretary, while Jane Corry, Speakers Chair, is

in respite care. If you have a computer and are

willing to attend the general and executive

meetings each month – you would be a welcome

addition to our executive. Jane has been

finalizing our 2018 monthly speakers but she

really needs a partner. Please contact an

executive member if interested.

Tomorrow is one of the greatest

labour saving devices of today.

Children of The Greatest Generation-

We (and their children – will understand)

Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a

very special age cohort. We are the Silent

Generation.

We are the smallest number of children born

since the early 1900s. We are the “last ones.”

We are the last generation, climbing out of the

depression, who can remember the winds of war

and the impact of a world at war which rattled

the structure of our daily lives for years.

We are the last to remember ration books for

everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.

We saved tin foil and

poured fat into tin cans.

We saw cars up on blocks

because tires weren't

available.

We can remember milk

being delivered to our

house early in the morning and placed in the

“milk box” on the porch. We are the last to see

the gold stars in the front windows of our

grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.

We saw the “boys” home from the war, build

their little houses.

We are the last

generation who

spent childhood

without

television;

instead, we

imagined what we

heard on the radio. As we all like to brag, with

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no TV, we spent our childhood “playing

outside”. We did play outside, and we did play

on our own. There was no little league. There

was no city playground for kids. The lack of

television in our early years meant, for most of

us, that we had little real understanding of what

the world was like. On Saturday afternoons, the

movies, gave us newsreels of the war

sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.

Telephones were one to a

house, often shared (party

lines) and hung on the wall.

Computers were called

calculators, they only added and were hand

cranked; typewriters were driven by pounding

fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the

ribbon. The “Internet” and “GOOGLE” were

words that did not exist.

Newspapers and magazines were written for

adults and the news was broadcast on our table

radio in the evening by Gabriel Heatter. We are

the last group who had to find out for ourselves.

As we grew up, the country was exploding with

growth.

The G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means

to get an education and spurred colleges to

grow. VA loans fanned a housing boom. Pent-

up demand coupled with new installment

payment plans put factories to work. New

highways would bring jobs and mobility. The

veterans joined civic clubs and became active

in politics. The radio network expanded from

three stations to thousands of stations.

Our parents were suddenly free from the

confines of the depression and the war, and they

threw themselves into exploring opportunities

they had never imagined. We weren’t neglected,

but we weren’t today’s all-consuming family

focus. They were glad we played by ourselves

until the street lights came on. They were busy

discovering the post war world. We entered a

world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a

world where we were welcomed. We enjoyed a

luxury; we felt secure in our future.

Depression poverty was deep rooted. Polio was

still a crippler. The Korean War was a dark

presage in the early 50s and by mid-decade

school children were ducking under desks for

Air-Raid training. Russia built the “Iron

Curtain” and China became Red China.

Eisenhower sent the first “advisers” to

Vietnam. Castro set up camp in Cuba and

Khrushchev came to power.

We are the last generation to experience an

interlude when there were no threats to our

homeland. We came of age in the 40s and 50s.

The war was over and the cold war, terrorism,

“global warming”, and perpetual economic

insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.

Only our generation can remember both a time

of great war, and a time when our world was

secure and full of bright promise and plenty. We

have lived through both. We grew up at the best

possible time, a time when the world was

getting better, not worse.

We are the Silent Generation

“The Last Ones” - more than 99 % of us are

either retired or deceased, and we feel privileged

to have “lived in the best of times”.



Probus-Guildwood Information – Meeting Schedule The Club meets on the 2nd

Wednesday of the

Month

1:30 to 3:30 p.m. – Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church, 140 Guildwood Parkway,

Guildwood Village

CLUB PURPOSE

To provide regular gatherings for active retirees who join together to create opportunities to keep minds active, expand interests and enjoy the fellowship of new friends.

CLUB MAILING ADDRESS Probus-Guildwood

50 Sunnypoint Crescent Scarborough, ON M1M 1B9

email: [email protected] web site: http://probus-guildwood.homestead.com

Management-Executive Team 2016 - 2017 The Executive meets the fourth Wednesday of each month

President: Alan Burt [email protected]

416 266-4682

Past President: Wendy Hooker [email protected]

416 266-4682

Vice-President: vacant Secretary: Joy McIntosh [email protected]

416 269-7376

Treasurer: John Roblin [email protected]

416-266-6349

Membership: Enid Comars (chairperson) [email protected] Barrie Morgan (Assistant) [email protected] Elizabeth Williams (Assistant) [email protected]

416-264-2816 416-261-2735 416-282-8595

Speakers: Jane Corry [email protected]

416 261-6812

Newsletter [ed.] Dorothée McKinlay [email protected]

416 264-4748

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Sub-Committees and Helpers

Refreshments: Carole Lidgold, Dorothée McKinlay, Lee Grayhurst 50/50 Draw: Lee Grayhurst, Cheryn Parry, Diane Gamble Photographer: Barry Scheffer Web Site Co-ordinator: Barrie Morgan Activities: Vacant Lunch with Friends: Jan Eaton Set-up/Take down: assistance is needed – please volunteer, you are needed – John Roblin Speakers: Cheryn Parry, Lee Grayhurst, Jan Eaton Resident Jokester: Janet Heise Membership Assistants: Mitzi Clarke, Maureen Bushey, Carolyn Hannaford, Margaret Niemela Proofreaders: Judy and Gerard Baribeau Reporters: articles welcomed – Please – Thanks to all who submit items/articles...

The Newsletter is published monthly prior to our monthly meeting. Your Assistance most welcome and many thanks to all our “helpers”

Last Column – Activity Calendar–

everything in one place

Date Activity

Wed. Jan. 10 Monthly Meeting

Fri. Jan. 26 Lunch with Friends

Wed. Feb. 14 Monthly Meeting

Fri. Feb. 23 Lunch with Friends

Wed. Mar. 14 Monthly Meeting

As a final item –

let’s all Cheer with

Dorothée McKinlay

who “whooped” it up Friday when the Team Canada – 2018 Juniors

beat Sweden 3-1 to win GOLD in the IIHF final

game in Bufflo. Dorothée’s reason for the big

cheer is that step-grandson, Jonah Gadjovich,

from Whitby, is on team Canada – he was

player of the game against Slovakia

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