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Probus-Guildwood Our Strength is Fellowship, Our Success is Participation. ISSUE #92 NEWSLETTER November 2019 Probus-Guildwood Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of each Month, 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church, 140 Guildwood Parkway, Guildwood Village Everyone is most welcome. President’s Message Heartfelt thanks to our outgoing 2019 Executive: President Alan Burt, Secretary Ed Stahlberg, Treasurer John Roblin and our 2019 Management Team: Membership - Enid Comars, Barrie Morgan (plus Website Administrator) and Elizabeth Williams; Speaker Chair Jane Corry, Newsletter Editor Dorothée McKinlay and AV Chair Gerard Baribeau and Luncheon Chair, Janet Eaton. Your Probus-Guildwood volunteer services have been exceptional. At our October 9 meeting, the new 2020 Executive was elected: President Wendy Hooker, Vice President Jadwiga Brazda, Secretary Peggy Dear, Treasurer John Roblin and Past President Alan Burt. We certainly appreciated the assistance of Ed and Enid who have completed their service roles and thank the Management Team who remain. We invite any member to come forward on any occasion to assist and share your ideas. During the weeks between our October and November P-G meetings we celebrated our good fortune with Thanksgiving Day on October 14, exercised our citizen right to vote for a federal leader by October 21 and paused to remember all those who serve and have served others via the November 11 Remembrance Day Services. May we all continue sharing our friendship and good times in the future. Wendy Hooker Our new 2019/20 Executive John Roblin, Peggy Dear, Alan Burt, Wendy Hooker and Jadwiga Brazda

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Probus-Gui ldwood

Our Strength is Fellowship, Our Success is Participation.

ISSUE #92 NEWSLETTER November 2019

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

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

President’s Message

Heartfelt thanks to our

outgoing 2019 Executive:

President Alan Burt,

Secretary Ed Stahlberg,

Treasurer John Roblin

and our 2019 Management

Team: Membership - Enid

Comars, Barrie Morgan (plus Website

Administrator) and

Elizabeth Williams; Speaker Chair Jane

Corry, Newsletter Editor Dorothée McKinlay

and AV Chair Gerard Baribeau and Luncheon

Chair, Janet Eaton. Your Probus-Guildwood

volunteer services have been exceptional.

At our October 9 meeting, the new 2020

Executive was elected: President Wendy

Hooker, Vice President Jadwiga Brazda,

Secretary Peggy Dear, Treasurer John Roblin

and Past President Alan Burt. We certainly

appreciated the assistance of Ed and Enid who

have completed their service roles and thank the

Management Team who remain. We invite any

member to come forward on any occasion to

assist and share your ideas.

During the weeks between our October and

November P-G meetings we celebrated our good

fortune with Thanksgiving Day on October 14,

exercised our citizen right to vote for a federal

leader by October 21 and paused to remember

all those who serve and have served others via

the November 11 Remembrance Day Services.

May we all continue sharing our friendship and

good times in the future. Wendy Hooker

Our new 2019/20 Executive

John Roblin, Peggy Dear, Alan Burt,

Wendy Hooker and Jadwiga Brazda

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Jadwiga Brazda with the

delicious refreshments

Refreshments

Thanks to Jadwiga Brazda for preparing and

providing apple cider and fresh apples.

Thanks to Jadwiga Brazda, Pauline Steel,

Dawna Barrett and Betty Coulthard for

providing delicious October refreshments.

Peggy Dear, Doreen McCreary, Glenna Hall

and Dorothée McKinlay have signed up for

November refreshments. Dorothée McKinlay

will prepare coffee and tea for November.

Volunteers usually set up at noon.

Guild Park and Gardens, Where Art Meets Nature – John Mason

As champions of Guild Park, John Mason and

Janet Heise, Probus-Guildwood member, were the

recent recipients of the Paul Harris Fellows

recognition from the Rotary Club of Scarborough .

John Mason, President and founder of the

volunteer group, Friends of Guild Park was our

October 9 speaker. John has been involved with

Guild Park for almost a decade assisting in Guild

Park’s remarkable transformation from neglect.

He’s a unique individual who works collaborat-

ively with many colleagues and officials. He has

helped: a) organize Guild Park events, including

hundreds of popular walking tours; b) collect

stories about the site and the founders of the Guild

of All Arts, Rosa and Spencer Clark; and c)

advocate on behalf of park users.

For his work, Friends of Guild Park has received

awards from all three levels of government, as

well as Heritage Toronto.

History of the Guild

The original building, called Ranelagh Park, was

built in 1914. It was the family home of Colonel

(later General) Harold Child Bickford who only

lived there for three years. Eventually the property

with about 488 acres was purchased by the artistic

patrons, Rosa and Spencer Clark, in 1932 who

transformed the site into Canada’s only “arts

colony” during the Depression. With the

construction of various studio cabins, the Clarks

created The Guild, a home to artists and artisans,

including Thomas Bowie, Sorel Etrog and Dorsey

James for 50 years.

With the demolition of historic Toronto buildings,

Spencer Clark rescued many facades and artifacts

creating a sculpture garden throughout the

manicured gardens and created the current Greek

Theatre. The “Guild” attracted celebrities and

tourists and by 1967 the Guild Inn had grown to

become a popular hotel with an indoor and patio

restaurant.

Misfortune and Neglect

Unfortunately, the Clarks’ dream faded when they

were compelled to sell 400 acres to Guildwood

developers to pay increasing taxes. Eventually

they sold the last 88 acres to the TRCA in 1978.

The Guild Inn and its forest, formal gardens, and

art then were all managed by the City of Toronto.

With the death of Rosa in 1981 and Spencer in

1986, there was an absence of a vision for the site.

The Guild Inn closed in 2001.

Despite the concerns of the Guildwood

community, the Guild Inn was not a priority for

the city.

A fire destroyed the Studio building valued at

$500,000 on December 25, 2008. It was not

insured. Subsequently the hotel wing was

demolished in April 2009. Plans for a tourism

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institute by Centennial College failed. By 2012 the

boarded and fenced-in building was seriously

neglected. The after-effects of the Emerald Ash

Borer and the 2013 Ice Storm caused more than

3,600 mature trees to be cut down. There was

considerable loss of wildlife habitat. The Park was

made ‘off-limits’ to the public.

The Rebirth of The Guild

The original building was restored and reopened as

the Guild Inn Estate in 2017 by a privately-run

corporation for special events only. However, the

Guild property of 88 acres is still managed by the

city. With concerted community action by

concerned volunteers, new initiatives based on

best practices at other Toronto sites were launched

due to the decades of failed plans and inaction.

Current projects, with public input, are now in

progress. Two “Vimy Oaks” were planted in 2018.

In June 2019 the Sculptor’s Cabin was restorated

which is a Volunteer Project becoming a Welcome

Activity hub.

The Clark Centre for Arts, which will have artist

studios and public art space, is scheduled to open

in 2020-21. $7,000 has been raised for a Heritage

Plaque which will be mounted when more funds

become available for installation and site

landscaping.

Seniors Walks in Guild Park ran June 24 to

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Guildwood assisted. Many aspirations and

challenges remain for the volunteer advocates to

revive Guild Park and its significance as a unique

Scarborough landmark.

Dorsey James, former Guild resident sculptor, and

Carole Lidgold, author of The History of the

Guild Inn, joined us for this presentation to

provide further background and to sign copies of

her book.

John is a former journalist and communications

consultant. He holds degrees in forestry,

journalism and business. He can be contacted at

[email protected] or by Mobile/Text:

416-816-9701. John is leaving 10 copies of

Carole’s book for Probus-Guildwood members.

They are $10 a copy cash or cheque payable to

‘Friends of Guild Park’.

My Wife isn't talking to me, says I ruined her birthday.

I'm not sure how. I didn't even know it was her birthday.

John accepts the Heritage Toronto Award

for the Friends of Guild Park

Janet Heise, Dorsey James

and John Mason

Gerard Baribeau and Dorsey Jame

If you're bored and feel like annoying people, find a great parking spot at the mall

and sit in your car with the reverse lights on.

P-G Speakers

Nov. 13 Sgt. Jason Peddle Elder Fraud and Abuse

Dec. 11 Christmas

Luncheon

Great Food and

Entertainment

Jan. 8 Barbara Dickson 100 Bomb Girl Stories

Feb. 12 Chris Cormack Toronto and Region

Conservation Authority

Mar.11 Jason Newman Opioid Overdose

Education & Naloxone

Training Program

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October Birthday and Anniversary

Wendy Hooker Birthday

Wendy Hooker and Alan Burt

40th Anniversary

Membership

At the October meeting 66 members attended,

including three guests. We also had one new

member signing up. Some of these guests and

new members learned about Probus-Guildwood

from the Guild Alive with Culture festival. We

now have thirteen new members which brings

our total to 127 members.

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. Or you can contact Elizabeth

Williams at 416-282-8595 or email

[email protected].

Keeping in Touch and Celebration Kindly inform Karen Manuel at: 416-283-5079 or

by email: [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. Come to the meeting and

we will announce it and celebrate with you.

Membership Committee

Everybody knows 40 is the new 30. Right? But the police officer giving me a speeding

ticket couldn’t be persuaded.

Welcome to our new members –

Antoinette Fattore, Ann Mills and

Earl Bennett receiving their name badges

Lunch with Friends We had 16 members attend on October 25 at Six

Social, the food was very good.

On November 29, at 12:30 p.m. we’ll be

lunching at Thai One On, they are located at

1911A Ellesmere Road at Bellamy.

A sign-up sheet will be at the November

meeting or call 416-261-8857. Jan Eaton

Turning vegan would be a big missed steak

P-G Renewal time again. Membership renewals will be accepted at

our November meeting.

Please bring a cheque of $25 payable to

“Probus-Guildwood” or exact cash of $25.

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John McCreary our potential

‘Million Dollar Winner’

John Roblin

Thank you for your continuous support.

Walking Tour of remaining tunnels

and buildings of wartime GECO,

munitions plant – with Barbara

Dickson

Thursday morning, we gathered at the base of

the Water Tower at Warden and Eglinton,

mother nature decided to keep the rain at bay

and allow the sun to come out. As Barbara

Dickson started with a brief history of the site of

GECO, I could see with my minds eye the

expropriated 350 acres of farmland – green and

lush.

Barbara Dickson started to give us the history of

the building of 346 acres and 172 buildings, and

kilometers of tunnels-completed in only seven

months in 1941. We strolled past original

buildings which were used as change rooms –

20,000 staff could only wear non static non

metallic items and then they would enter the

plant site via walkways. The buildings had no

windows and some of the buildings were also

partially buried just in case of an explosion or

fire. The tour brought us to an original building

whose owner was willing to allow Barbara to

take groups into the tunnels, interesting space,

low ceilings, original clips and doors to stations

still in place, a vivid imagination takes over.

.

We met up and continued past lots of auto repair

shops. Barbara pointed out rows of old

buildings, where walkways would have been. As

we turned a corner, an original building was

being demolished – it was being taken down

with care to reclaim as much as possible.

Post war a large group of the buildings were

being used as affordable housing. Families

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started growing up on the ammo grounds as

Scarborough started grew. One of the buildings

was converted into the Embers Banquet Hall but

it is now a church, 70 years later.

As the story tour ended with Barbara Dickson, I

could look across all the auto shops and could

still see acres of farmland. Jadwiga Brazda

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

interim NL editor [email protected]

Fall/Christmas Sales

Check out these local events all for good causes

and community:

November 16, St Theresa Shrine Church at

Kingston and Midland Rd, Christmas Bazaar.

10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Tuesday, November 26, at 7:30 p.m., archivist

Rick Schofield presents, The History of

Masaryktown. Probus-Guildwood members will

remember we enjoyed a festive Christmas

luncheon at Prague Restaurant last December on

these historic grounds.

East York Probus presents

“A Christmas Carol 2019” Niagara-on-the-Lake

Date: Tuesday, November 26

Depart: 10:00 a.m. 1399 Bayview Avenue in

front of St. Cuthbert’s Church;

Stop: 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Gateway Niagara

Time for a quick bite to eat (on your own)

1-1:45 p.m.- Free time in Niagara-on-the-Lake

Show: 2-4 p.m. Royal George Theatre

Dinner: 4:30-6:00 p.m. Skylon Tower

Lights: 6:15-6:45 p.m. Niagara Parkway

Christmas Lights

Return: Arrival in Toronto by 9:00 p.m.

Price: $145.00 per person

To Book: Contact Dina Papadopoulos at

[email protected]

Scarborough Village Presents

Niagara Fallsview Casino, Skylon

Tower & Christmas Lights Date: Wednesday, November 27

Depart: 9:00 a.m. - Scarborough Village

Casino: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Enjoy a five hour visit to Fallsview Casino

And receive a $15 slot voucher

Dinner: 4:30-6:30 p.m. Enjoy a delicious meal at

the Skylon Tower

Lights: Travel along the Niagara Parkway and

view the Christmas lights

Return: Arrival Scarborough - approx. 8:30 p.m.

Price: $70 per person

To Book: Contact Susan Bach at the Travel

Desk or call 416-755-0179

ScarboroughVillage Seniors Presents

CATS, the record-breaking musical by

Andrew Lloyd Webber at Princess of Wales

Theatre

Date: Wednesday, December 11

Depart: 10:00 a.m. Scarborough Village

Lunch: 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Enjoy a delicious lunch at the Hot House Cafe.

Show: 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Reserved orchestra seating for the performance.

Return: Arrival at the club by 5:30 p.m.

Price: $175 per person

To Book: Contact Susan Bach at 416-755-0179

Janet tells us our monthly joke

Some day we old folks will use cursive

writing as a secret code.

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RECIPE CORNER

Cranberry Walnut Squares Oven setting: 350°F

Baking time: 30-40 minutes

Special dishes: 8 inch square greased

Personal notes:

1) Fresh or frozen (not thawed) cranberries

can be used

2) Any type of nut may be used

3) Freezes well

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 cup white sugar

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

2 cups cranberries

2 eggs

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 tsp. almond extract

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350° F, grease pan

Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder,

cranberries and walnuts

Beat eggs, add butter and almond extract and add

to dry mixture

Pour into greased pan and bake at 350°F for 30 to

40 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted near

the centre comes out clean

Courtesy of Jadwiga Brazda as shared at our

October 9 meeting.

Holiday Treats

Shortbread, Mincemeat, Gingerbread, and more.

Our volunteer bakers will soon be busy making

delicious homemade cookies for Momiji to be

sold to our tenants, their families and

community members. The cookies are packaged

by our volunteer elves and come in various sizes

and prices ranging from our Santa Superior Box

(45 cookies for $20.00) to our Elves Dozen (12

cookies for $7.00). They make a great gift – for

yourself, a friend or a loved one. Interested in

purchasing cookies?

Please contact the Momiji Café or Sheri-Lynn

Armstrong at 416-204-2778 for more

information or fill out an order form. The order

deadline is November 28. Pre-payment is

necessary. Pick-up is on December 17.

Vandermeer Winter Fundraising Program

Vandermeer Nursery has grown high quality

plants in Ajax, including poinsettias and

cyclamen, for over 50 years. These high-quality

plants are the focus of their annual Winter

Fundraising program. The program includes

winter-decorated baskets and evergreen planters

in a wide range of prices. Under the program,

Momiji purchases the plants at a discount and

sells them at cost. These seasonal plants and

planters can spruce up your home or can be

given as a gift. We even deliver to our tenants.

Interested in purchasing from Vandermeers?

Please contact Sheri-Lynn at 416-204-2778 for

more information or for an order form.

The order deadline is November 26. Pre-

payment is necessary. Delivery will be made to

tenants on December 3. All other orders picked

up on December 4.

All proceeds go to Momiji’s Senior Active

Living Centre to be used to fund Dance! Dance!

Dance! with the National Ballet OR the Momiji

Singers – two popular programs that no longer

have funding.

Crime Prevention Week takes place

November 3 to 9. Police services across the province

will be hosting events to help raise awareness and

keep people safe.

If you receive a suspicious call, hang up right

away and contact your local police to report it.

You may also contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud

Centre.

Don't respond to text messages from numbers that

are not complete cell phone numbers or without

verifying who the sender is.

Don't call a phone number texted to you from an

unknown person.

Use caution on free offers or notifications of

winning a prize. If the offer sounds too good to be

true, it probably is.

Additional Resources

Find more on how to report:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/report-scam-or-fraud

For more information about what to do if you or

someone you know has been the victim of a scam, go

to: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/index-

eng.htm

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November – Carbon Monoxide Awareness In Ontario, you must have a working CO alarm

adjacent to each sleeping area of the home if you

have a fuel-burning appliance, a fireplace or an

attached garage. Exposure to CO can cause flu-

like symptoms such as headaches, nausea,

dizziness, as well as confusion, drowsiness, loss

of consciousness and death. If your CO alarm

sounds, and you or other occupants are suffering

from symptoms of CO poisoning, move

everyone out of the home immediately and call

911. Read the manufacturer’s instructions for

your CO alarms to know the difference between

the sound of an alarm and the sound of a low

battery or end of life warning. The CO alarm

sounds different than a smoke alarm. Test both

alarms monthly and make sure everyone in the

home knows the difference between the two

alarm sounds. Test your alarms monthly to

ensure they are working.

All fuel-burning appliances and vents in the

home should be inspected annually by a

registered contractor. In a condo or apartment

building with a service room, CO alarms must

be installed in the service room and in each suite

or sleeping room adjacent to the service room.

Sobering truth: In Ontario, more than 65 per cent

of injuries and deaths from CO occur in the

home.

Lunch with Friends and Cooking With Jan

Kudos to Janet Eaton who coordinates these two

activities. She researches, organizes and reminds

our members who have signed up for the local

luncheons.

On Friday, October 25, the group gathered at Six

Social which opened May 2019 in Highland

Creek. The staff are very friendly and offer free

coffee and soup to patrons.

The next luncheon will be at Thai One On at

Bellamy and Ellesmere. The luncheons are a

great way to explore various restaurants at

relatively low cost while enjoying the company

of new and familiar faces.

Jan also hosts a ‘one pot cooking session’ in her

apartment building Social Room. She and Barry

Scheffer will continue this activity in January

2020 when members will be requested to

register in advance for Jan to purchase required

groceries.

A nominal fee will be charged as participants

will be sampling the demonstration product.

Thanks, Jan, for your gastronomic enthusiasm.

Alan is back…with monthly items. As you requested, here once again are those

celebrations you won’t hear about anywhere else,

not that you were looking. Here is what is going

on in November, a recognized month for excessive

weirdness apparently.

Monthly- Carbon Monoxide Awareness – see

National Family Literacy Month (Share your

family stories)

National Novel Writing Month (Don’t have any,

write some)

Weekly

4-8 – Give Wildlife A Brake Week (Where I live

that’s every day)

10-16 – World Kindness Week (They’re really

pushing it this month)

17-22 – Random Acts of Kindness Week (What,

one day isn’t enough? See below)

Daily

2 – National Play Outside Day and Look for

Circles Day (Try not to get dizzy)

2 – Plan Your Epitaph Day (You better not leave it

to your family)

3 –Cliché Day (Be different – try not using any!)

3 – Daylight Saving time ended

3 – Zero Tasking Day (Stay home)

4 – Color The World Orange Day (Vote NDP –

wait that was 10 days ago, sorry)

4 – Use Your Common Sense Day (Could have

used that 10 days ago)

6 – National Block It Out Day (Pretend reality

doesn’t exist)

6 – Marooned Without a Compass Day (It’s Ok, I

have GPS)

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7 – National Men Make Dinner Day (Once again –

no BBQs and no burning)

8 – Abet and Aid Punsters Day (We all know who

you are)

8 Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day and

Dunce Day (Work well together)

9 – Chaos Never Dies Day (Plenty of evidence of

that both sides of the border)

11 – Remembrance Day

13 – World Kindness Day and Sadie Hawkins Day

(You may finally get that dance)

15 – National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

(What’s growing in your fridge?)

16 – International Day for Tolerance

16 – National Fast Food Day (See above)

17 – Do Dah Day (I have no idea)

17 – National Unfriend Day (For those following

Facebook)

17 – Take A Hike Day (For those following

Facebook)

19 – Have A Bad Day Day

19 – International Men's Day (Anyone else see a

pattern here? See above)

20 – Name Your PC Day and Absurdity Day

(Seems appropriate)

21 – False Confession Day (Does your priest

know? See above)

22 – Random Acts of Kindness Friday (Come on –

it’s only once a year – you can do it)

22 – Start Your Country Day (For all those

frustrated politicians)

24 – Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day (Singing

in the shower doesn’t count)

25 – International Day for the Elimination of

Violence Against Women

27 – Tie One On Day (It’s for aprons – what did

you think I meant?)

30 – Stay Home Because You’re Well Day

(Another one to get behind)

Alan Burt

At my funeral, take the flowers off the coffin and toss it into the crowd to see

who will be next.

A guest calls the waiter and complains, “Why are there are no chairs at our table?” The waiter shrugs, “I’m sorry but you only

booked one table.”

Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to Dolly, "I was artificially

inseminated this morning." "I don't believe you," says Dolly.

"It's true; no bull!" exclaims Daisy.

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

Wednesday

of each 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] website: http://probus-guildwood.homestead.com

Management-Executive Team 2018-2019 The Executive meets the fourth Wednesday of each month

President: Wendy Hooker [email protected]

416 266-4682

Past President: Alan Burt [email protected]

416 266-4682

Vice-President: Jadwiga Brazda [email protected]

416-509-2587

Secretary: Peggy Dear [email protected]

647-343-0534

Treasurer: John Roblin [email protected]

416 266-6349

Membership: Barrie Morgan (Assistant) [email protected] Elizabeth Williams (Assistant) [email protected] Alan Burt (Assistant) [email protected]

416 261-2735 416 282-8595 416-266-4682

Speakers: Jane Corry [email protected]

416 289-1911

Newsletter [ed.] Dorothée McKinlay [email protected]

416 264-4748

Sub-Committees and Helpers AV, etc.: Gerard Baribeau

416 264-4527

Refreshments: Glenna Hall, Dorothée McKinlay 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 416 261-8857 Set-up/Take down: Assistance is needed – please volunteer Speakers: Cheryn Parry, Lee Grayhurst, Diane Gamble Resident Jokester: Janet Heise Membership Assistants: Mitzi Clarke, Carolyn Hannaford, Margaret Niemela Proofreaders: Judy and Gerard Baribeau Reporters: Articles & events welcomed –

The Newsletter is published prior to our monthly meeting. Your Assistance is most welcomed and

many thanks to all our “Helpers”

Last Column – Activity Calendar –

everything in one place Date Activity

Wed. Nov. 13 Monthly Meeting

Friday Nov. 29 Lunch with Friends

Wed. Dec. 11 Christmas Luncheon

Wed. Jan. 8 Monthly Meeting

Fri. Jan. 31 Lunch with Friends

Christmas Luncheon

As you have seen throughout this newsletter, our

annual Festive Christmas Luncheon will be on

Wednesday December 11, at Qssis Banquet

Hall, 3474 Kingston Road (at Markham).

Our guest entertainer will be Meredith Cutting.

He is a talented singer, songwriter and guitar

player who is blessed with a powerful voice and

a vast arsenal of songs. From his youth he has

managed to share the stage with the likes of

Gordon Lightfoot, and Ian and Sylvia Tyson. He

also maintains that Lightfoot left an incredibly

lasting impression on him.

You will be able to purchase tickets at our

November 13 meeting. If you are unable to

attend the meeting, please send your cheque to

me, at the address listed below. Ensure that your

cheque arrives no later than November 29. Write

your phone number on the cheque so that I can

phone you to acknowledge receipt of your

cheque. Your tickets will be available at the door

on December 11.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the

luncheon. Eric Niemela 321–10 Guildwood Pkwy., Toronto, ON M1E 5B5

416-267-2762 [email protected]

Don’t be left out – get your tickets now – a special event for Probus-Guildwood. See Eric for tickets at the Activity

Table.