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Your V VA Community NewsletterDecember 2013

A Year in Review

 At this time of year it is fun to look back at all theinteresting things that we have done and accomplishedthroughout the year. It is amazing how quickly weforget all the excitement had, the tears we have sharedand the new friendships made.

Ringing in the New Year 2013 with a champagne toastand plenty of dancing set the stage. February we triedto warm things up inside as the snow was falling outside.Winter Warm up week hosted an array of activitiessuch as a fashion show, curling bonspiel, beaver tails for

tasty treats, Chinese New Year celebrations, PancakeTuesday, and wear RED day raising $330 for the Heartand Stroke Foundation.

The weather began to warm up and our Garden Clubbegan planning for the planting season. Spirit Weekactivit ies led the fun for May with the Far West Fun FestCarnival, clowns and karaoke were a definite highlightfor many. Community Members had a lot of fun withHat Day with over half of the community participating

including Team Members. The 3rd Annual Music

Festival and Strawberry Social was a hit especially thdance performance by Rosie from culinary! Our firHigh Tea brought Members back to the 1920’s with

fashion display by Watson’s Mills museum.We skipped quickly through the month of August wimany outdoor picnics and scenic summer tours. ThCorn Roast was the highlight of September with a totof 120 cobs of corn consumed! The Knit Wits organizea fundraising sale in support of our local ChildcaCentre raising $402 for children’s programminNovember we honoured the 2 dozen Veterans livinhere at the Waterside with a colour party and veteraluncheon. The men grew “staches” raising awarenefor Movember’s Prostate Cancer with their billiartournament.

Finishing off the year with our Family ChristmBrunch is always the most exciting time of the year we transform he Community with trees and lights ankick off the festive season surrounded by our famand friends.

Thank you for a wonderful 2013 and we look forwato what 2014 has to bring!

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A profile of James (Jim) Robinson

by Ed HearndenSince this profile of Jim Robinson was completed,we regret to share that he passed away suddenly onNovember 17, 2013. We were honoured to have himand his wife Lil, who passed away last year, among thefirst Community Members here at Waterside! Jim willbe sadly missed by many Waterside friends and weextend our condolences to the Robinson Family.

Want to know all about potatoes? Then Jim Robinsonis your man. Born in PEI in 1925, Jim grew up on hisfamily’s potato farm. There are Robinsons still growingpotatoes today on the Island. “The Robinson potatoesare very popular” he says.

Jim can trace his family history back for more than 3½ centuries. Joseph Robinson, born in 1748, workedas a blacksmith in Staffordshire, UK, before joiningthe Royal Navy. He spent 12 years working in the USAbefore deciding to emigrate to Canada. With his wifeMary, they established a home in Charlottetown whichat that time consisted of “four buildings and a shed.”

 As a teenager Jim joined the RCAF Air Cadets , laterenlisting in the Air Force to train as a wireless operator-air gunner. Subsequently, he joined the Air Division of

the federal Department of Transport as an aircraftinspector, travelling to many parts of Canada. Afterretiring in 1985, he and his wife Lilian lived in CarletonPlace, moving to the newly-built Waterside 5 yearslater to become some of the first residents there alongwith Doreen Duff and Melva and Merton Glenn.

Jim has a son David living in the Carleton Place areaand a daughter Shawn in Edmonton. He also boasts5 grand-children and 9 great-grand-children. That’s

what potatoes can do for you!