President’s Message

Pat Wright

,

Beaver Valley Probus Club

The Grapevine for January 2019

Volume 19, Issue 1

E-mail address: beavervalleyprobus@beavervalleyprobus.com Web-Site: www.beavervalleyprobus.com

Box 148, Clarksburg, Ontario N0H 1J0

Current Activities by Convener Kathie O’Malley

(Details) Backroads Cycling

Book Club one Book club two

Book club three Book club four

Books and DVD Exchange Canoeing and Kayaking

Casual Dining Cooking Together Country Cruisers

Cue Sports Digital Photography Dining around town

Dining with Flair Euchre

Euchre 2 Hiking

Marsh Street painters Nordic Pole Walking

Pottery Recreational Cycling

Romeos Scrabble

Singles Gourmet Ski Legends

Snowshoeing Stitch & Bitch Crafts

Support Group Travel

Wood Carving

Activity groups are self sustained. Participate – Volunteer

But above all - have fun and enjoy

“Please be advised that all events and activities of the

Beaver Valley Probus Club are organized for the benefit and

enjoyment of its Members. Individuals who participate do

so at their own risk and are responsible for their own

safety”.

Happy New Year - welcome to 2019!

Our Annual General Meeting is scheduled for February

26th. At this meeting a slate of officers will be elected for

the new year and the Management Team of returning

and new members will be introduced.

The meeting will be preceded by a light luncheon at

12:45 for current members. Please see the volunteers at the back of the hall at

the January meeting to make your reservation, as it is necessary to know how

many will attend and how much food to order.

January will be MY last full meeting as President - the year has gone by very

quickly. I have had the opportunity to meet and get to know many of our

members and enjoyed working with our Management Team. I encourage

everyone to share their talents by helping Activity Coordinators or volunteering for

the Management Team or Club Executive. We have a very active and organized

club, so the time commitment to assist is usually only an hour or two each month.

It is an opportunity to meet new members and often establish lifelong friends.

Please consider stepping forward so our Club remains the vibrant, active Club we

all enjoy.

Be sure to check out all the Club's "winter" activities and sign up for those which

interest you at the January meeting, or alternatively, call or email the coordinator

to become part of the group.

I look forward to seeing you on January 22nd.

Winter Awakes Winter Awakes and stretches....

Casting long, lanky shadows across the landscape, blocking the sun. Winter awakes and yawns....

Icy breath frosting flowers and fields, freezing them in time. Winter awakes, rubbing sleep from its eyes....

Which falls as snow, blanketing all below. Winter awakes and slowly, methodically....

Begins clutching at all living things. But some souls escape like moths....

And drawn from darkness towards light, they flutter feebly Between the frozen fingers of winter, South!

Linda Weeks

Submitted by Sandy Tulloch

Activity Group Updates

GEORGIAN PROBUS TRAVEL GROUP:

1. The Islands and Highlands of Scotland. 2 weeks starting Sunday,12 May. There is still good space left. For info

call Gloria at 705-429-9455. Probus friends, neighbours, family all welcome.

2. PEI and the Magdalen Is. from Collingwood, by bus. Sun 18 Aug to Thurs, 30 Aug. Contact Cleila 705-429-9276

or Pat Bellamy CTC,1-800-563-1885.

3. New Zealand 04 -17 Nov. Contact Erika Nikolic CTC 1-800-561-8677. Flyer will soon be available.

Gloria Thompson

SKI LEGENDS: January is a busy month for Ski Legends and rightfully so, we are a ski club. Our Breakfast is on

Monday, January 7th at 8:30 am in the Cascade Room at Central Lodge, Blue Mountain. Our Dinner Dance is at

Blue Mountain Golf and Country Club on Wednesday, January 23rd, starting at 6:00 pm. Three of our Ski Days at

the local private clubs are in January. We are at Craigleith on Thursday, January 10th, Devil's Glen on Wednesday,

January 16th, and Osler on Thursday, January 31st. Hope to see you at a number of these events, and remember to

keep checking our Web page at www.probusskilegends.ca

Louise Donegani and Wilf Phillips

POTTERY: Classes will start back up in February. Projects will include slab work, making platters and aromatherapy

necklaces. Dates will be sent to those that have already signed up. If interested, please email me..

Pam Hawkins

DINING WITH FLAIR: Thirty Dining with Flair members had a wonderful evening at their annual Christmas cocktail

party hosted in the home of David and Kathy Thompstone. This is one of 2 annual events where everyone is invited

and wonderful finger food ( savoury and sweet ) is enjoyed by all along with the beverage of their choice. Everyone

who attends, contributes, making the food absolutely superb. An evening with old and new friends provides the

perfect mix for lots of good chatter.

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Debbie Catto

Dining With Flair Annual Christmas Cocktail Party

Our Speaker on January 22nd: Brina Romanek

Brina Romanek is a documentary filmmaker and storyteller. At 23 years of age

she has directed and produced for Rogers TV and True Calling Media and is

currently directing a short documentary for CBC.

Brina has been a guest instructor at U of T, and is currently working for Fixtpoint

Arts and Media, an auditory storytelling company in Toronto, helping to create the

mini-series “Main Street Ontario” for TVO.

Brina is passionate about sharing stories on local communities, and the

environment. In 2017, she was chosen to participate in Toronto’s first ever Food Waste Lab. It was her work in

this lab that inspired her documentary Hungry for Leftovers: an investigation of food waste in Simcoe County.

Another Hit at King’s Wharf Theatre

Rated 5 stars on TripAdvisor!

Shear Madness

The Hilarious & Wacky Whodunit

Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as America’s longest running play, Shear Madness continues to delight audiences with its unique blend of madcap improvisation and spine-tickling mystery.

Hairdresser Tony Whitcomb and manicurist Barbara DeMarco comb through the tasks of a normal day until concert pianist Isabel Czerny is murdered. Tony, Barbara, and the Shear Madness customers – socialite Eleanor Shubert, antiques dealer Eddie Lawrence, tough guy Nick Rosetti and his assistant Mikey Thomas – are all suspects.

But whodunit? Witness the fun, put your detective skills to the test, and take a stab at solving the crime!

Join the Beaver Valley Probus Club on Thurs. Aug. 22 for the 2PM show.

Group Rate of $43/ticket

Sign up at the next meeting or by contacting Vicki Kellar

Driving arrangements made individually. A group dinner will be arranged closer to the date.

Stratford 2019

Come and enjoy Billy Elliot the Musical at the Festival Theatre in Stratford on Thursday Oct 10, 2019, 2:00pm

matinee. Music by Elton John. Dreams don’t come easy in the hardscrabble mining town, riven by a bitter national

strike, where eleven year old Billy lives with his bereaved family. But Billy’s discovery of his talent for dance

awakens in him a passion that will transform his life and win the hearts of his whole community. The cost is $110

which includes theatre, bus and lunch at Anna Mae’s in Millbank. Sign up sheets will be at the back of the room at

our January meeting. Payment by CHEQUE ONLY please.

Stella Zahradnik

Grapevine Team

Editor Chris Rickard

Reporters Opportunities for you!

Distribution Barb Thompson

Website Maintenance Barb Thompson Cheryl Besley

The Last Word Submitted by Past President John Dick

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions! Anon.

Support Group

Do you know of a member who needs encouragement to get through a difficult period?

Please do not hesitate to call Eileen Scott who is the contact for January, or any one of the Management team.

Lynn Corrigan

Book Exchange

The January book exchange is a good time to share the great books you read over the holidays.

Bring a Book. Take a Book. Nancy Hart

The Master Gardener’s Corner Things to do in your garden each month taken from the Ontario Master Gardener Calendar by John Hethrington, Past

President, Master Gardeners of Ontario. For more information, or your copy of the 11” x 17” calendar of the full

year’s tips for a $1 contribution to Master Gardeners, call 519-599-5846.

Things to do in your garden in – January 2019:

To start, if you get another day like Friday December 28th, with plus 10 C and no frost in the ground, you can

plant those tulips, daffs and crocus bulbs you had forgotten or had left over. I planted 47 myself. Good luck.

Check with the Co-Op in Markdale (519-986-2031) for triple 19 fertilizer. Pick up enough now to cover your

flower beds in March when there is still snow on the ground. They may not have any until late April, when it’s

too late.

Inspect houseplants for white flies, spider mites and aphids.

Apply insecticidal soap and spray with water.

Inspect spring bulbs in storage. Discard soft or mouldy ones.

Not a problem yet this winter, but if there is a thaw and the snow melts, mound any remaining snow over

roses and tender perennials. It’s the freeze/thaw cycle that kills the plants.

Expand personal knowledge through library visits, courses, catalogues, etc.

Think about and start planning your garden for next spring.

Google “Seed Catalogue Websites” and see hundreds of seed sources.

Order flower and vegetable seeds. Decide which seeds should be started inside.

Try forcing amaryllis and paperwhite narcissus for winter bloom.

At the end of the month, start the slowest germinating seeds like begonias and geranium, also seeds for early

spring bloom e.g. pansy, verbena, alyssum and dianthus.

Your January groan

AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tries to do

BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage

ECLIPSE: What a British barber does for a living

RELIEF: What trees do in spring

HEROES: What a guy in a boat does Submitted by Sandy Tulloch