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ORCA PROBUS
CLUB
NEWSLETTER
COURTENAY / COMOX
FEBRUARY 2015
President’s PODIUM
Greetings everyone.
We’re already into February, the shortest month of the year! You
have to love February because it brings with it promises of so many
Elaine Walker
pleasant things to come: goodbye to winter, the days getting
delightfully longer, and perhaps Cupid’s arrow delivering love and
romance, or maybe Hot Chocolates and champagne???
The focus on red Valentine hearts also reminds us that it is Heart & Stroke
month, raising our awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy hearts and
blood pressure, particularly as we age. (How’s your physical maintenance
program going?)
Looking at events to come, remember to bring your cheque book for the
February meeting as the tickets for the St. Patrick’s dinner/dance will be on sale.
Tickets are $15 per person for dinner and dancing the night away to the Celtic
Cargo Cult, a great local Celtic band whom you may have enjoyed at the Zocalo.
Thinking ahead to more of our social events, we are looking for more
volunteers for the July BBQ and the August picnic. Plans are afoot for the BBQ,
but helpers are always needed and appreciated.
Once again, Past President Jim Hercus will preside over this month’s
membership meeting on February 10th, but we’ll be flying home later this month
with the rest of the snowbirds.
Looking forward to seeing you all in March,
Elaine
The ORCA PROBUS CLUB meets on the second Tuesday of the
month at 2:00 pm. in the Comox Legion Hall.
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IN THIS EDITION
FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS
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Wendy Irwin
Ron Lowrie
Mike Scott
Einar Brasso
Marilynn Manley
Glyn Jones
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25
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Joan Fentiman
Gerry Dempsey
Earl Sontag
Liz Van Boeschoten
Sonja Leach
Birthdays
Event Calendar
Mgmt. Committee
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February Speaker 3
Group Contacts
St. Patrick’s
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Recipe Update
PRISMA
New Members
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Mug Reminder
Pub Club
Camera Club
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Hiking Group
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Probus Singers
Walking Group
Classified Ads
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ORCA PROBUS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Membership
Social & Activities
Facilities
Publicity
Past President
Elaine Walker
Douglas Payne
Lawrence Petkus
Ross Cowan
Cricket Price
Liz Van Boeschoten
Beverly Ouellette
John Brooks
Audrey Brooks
Ian Pratt
Jim Hercus
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FEBRUARY SPEAKER
Dennis Richardson is the area representative for Canada
Purple Shield and specializes in cremation or burial
preplanning. He has been assisting clients in the Financial
Industry for over 35 years. He has worked as a trust company
manager and as an investment advisor for BMO Nesbitt Burns
and as a Financial Planner with BMO Bank of Montreal.
Dennis and his wife, Hildy, moved, to the Comox Valley eight
years ago, from Saskatoon, where they were lifelong
residents. Dennis is an active member of the Rotary Club of Comox, the local
Kinsmen-K40 Club, and a Director on the Board of the Comox Valley Child
Development Association. Dennis and family love to fish and water ski at their
cottage in the summer months.
ACTIVITY GROUP CONTACTS
BBQ Group
Bridge
Camera Club
Bill & Caroline Urquhart
Rose Jacobson
Jill Ackerman
Dave Kelly
Classical Music Grp Audrey Brooks
Dining Out
Don & Marilynn Manley
Dining In Group
Wendy Irwin
Gardening Group
(lying fallow)
Golf Group
Ross Cowan
Happy Appie Group Sandi Tetreau
Hiking Group
Rotating Leaders
History Group
Audrey Brooks
Lunch Bunch
Joanne & Reg Crone
Probus Singers
and Friends
Pub Club
Quilters Group
Walking Group
Wine Club
Rae Siebert
Howard Siebert
Beth Ritchie
Aksel Porsild
Dave & Joan Matheson
(250) 339-7221 [email protected]
(250) 338-8033 - [email protected]
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(250) 338-8234 - [email protected]
(250) 334-9880 - [email protected]
(250) 898-8782 - [email protected]
(250) 334-0607 - [email protected]
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(250) 339-5435 - [email protected]
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(250) 871-1001 - [email protected]
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St. Patrick's Day Event
Get ready for a fun-filled lively evening on March 20th.
We are having a special dinner and dance to celebrate
St. Patrick's Day. This is to be held at the Comox Legion.
Kick up your heels or sit back and listen and clap along to
the music of Celtic Cargo Cult!
Tickets are $15 per person for members and will be on sale
at our next Member meeting on February 10th.
Recipe Book UPDATE
Our Recipe Book is taking a new and exciting direction!
We have thirty delicious recipes that we will begin
featuring in our Probus Newsletter as the 'Recipe of the
Month'.
If you have contributed any recipes it would be terrific if you could
send a picture that could be posted with the recipe. Your recipe
will now reach all of our membership and I know that they will be
greatly appreciated by all.
- Bev
PRISM
Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy
The “Symphony Cruise” is scheduled for SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015
(10:10 am ferry leaving from Little River; 5:15 pm from Powell River).
Although June seems a long way away, slot this date into your calendars
so you don’t miss this great opportunity.
We’ll keep you posted on further details as we receive them.
Co-Chairs: Marie Knowles and Lawrence Petkus
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Attention, new orca members!
As you know, the club publishes a roster booklet which many of us find to be an
invaluable aid for contacting other members and, importantly, for refreshing our
memories with the photos it contains.
We will update and reprint the roster for 2016 but, since we have a number of
recent new members, we would like to publish their contact info and photographs
in an upcoming newsletter as a stopgap measure.
If you have not already had your head-and-shoulders portrait taken for the
roster, please let us do it during February. If you will be attending the meeting
on Feb. 10, please find me and let me take your picture then. If you can’t be there,
we could arrange to meet elsewhere or, perhaps, you could email me an
appropriate photo.
You can reach me at: [email protected] or at 250 338-0780
Thank you.
Ian Pratt
Remember that mug!
A gentle reminder……John Brooks, who arranges the
refreshments for our meetings, reports that too many of us
are forgetting to bring along our own mugs, with the result
that we are using way too many plastic cups, to the
detriment of both the environment and the budget.
EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 60
● Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at
each side.
● With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your
sides and hold them there as long as you can.
● Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.
● Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
● After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags . Then try 50-lb potato
bags and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each
hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level).
● After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
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PUB CLUB NEWS FOR FEBRUARY
After the January meeting we went to the White Whale Public House and
Restaurant. We had our own room, which was filled to capacity. It was a bit noisy
but we all had a good time. The food and beer were very good. The house
pizzas were especially good. This place is a keeper for sure.
This month we will be going to the Union Street Grill and Grotto and again we
will have the Grotto all to ourselves. It is under new ownership but the staff was
quite enthusiastic about having us come to their establishment. I think you will
enjoy yourselves if you choose to attend. During my absence you will be well
looked after by Paul Ellegood. Hopefully I will have some good stories to tell you
on my return.
Looking ahead to March we will be returning to the Fluid Bar and Grill. Ian
Pratt will be sending out the March announcement for me as I’m not back until
March 8th. Remember to RSVP back to me at” [email protected] “and not to Ian.
If you do not currently receive Pub Club emails and wish to be added to the list
contact Howard Siebert at
[email protected]
CAMERA CLUB
We had a two month break since our last meeting
on December 5th, and this Newsletter will be published
before we have our next meeting on February 6th. We
hope we will have told each other what we have done
in that time period, or what new issues may have
challenged us. Maybe some got new photo ‘toys’ for
Christmas?
So….as usual we will have seen and discussed a variety of each others’
photos, whether new or rediscovered from stored files.
We have 54 Instruction Videos available covering quite a variety of subjects,
and 21 of these have not yet been played at our meetings.
We have some new members and a number that have been away for many of
the recent meetings. We will be interested in an exchange of accomplishments
and identification of what could merit interest in our 2015 programs.
Cheers,
Dave Kelly
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On January 14, Mary-Kate and Ross led us on a pleasant hike in Seal Bay
Park: first, down to the beach, and then up again for a long loop in the woods on
the other side of Bates Rd. The weather was ideal and a good time was had by all.
On the 22nd we were fortunate to get a reasonable weather window for hiking
the Bevan Hostel / Puntledge River Loop Trail. For those of you not familiar with
this route, the first part follows the south bank of the Puntledge R. to the dam. We
then hiked to a lovely beach which wasn’t affected by the high water of Comox
Lake. A nice spot to have lunch, & discuss 'world affairs'.
On our return to the trailhead, we took the forested route over the old coal
ridges & past the remaining apparatus which formed part of the mine adjacent to
the then thriving village of Bevan. A very pleasant day.
Tim will provide the details of our next hike which will take place on or about 11
Feb.
- Earl
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Our next sing along will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 20.
Walking group
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$25.