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THE PROBUS CLUB OF HUNTSVILLE THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2016

SUTHERLAND HALL,

Meeting 10:00 am - Ticket Sales 9:30 am

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An Overwhelming Success!!!!

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PROBUS member Shirley Prittie, kindly opened up The Manse gallery in Baysville and extended her hospitality to the group.

Let’s raise our glasses to Betsy Rothwell, Barbara Burton and Jim Miller! This totally awesome team put together a fabulous event. I have asked our President Lynne Newell to give us an overview of the Beer Tour.

On May 18, several members headed off by bus on our “beer” excursion. Sawdust City in Gravenhurst was our first destination where we were treated to a great tour and assorted tastes of beer. At Lake of Bays Brewery in Baysville we got to tour, taste and visit a local art gallery. Muskoka Brewery in Bracebridge was our final stop to taste more local brews. Everyone was able to find a favourite (or two….or three!) We ate a great meal at the Cast Iron Restaurant in Baysville where we socialized and swapped names of our new favourite beers. Barb kept us entertained on the bus with her trivia questions, snacks, great sense of humour and great prizes (beer of course). Lots of laughs and lots of fun!

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Ken Morrison The Art of Imitating Life June’s Guest Speaker

While his skill as a woodcarver has earned him all sorts of awards and recognition, being an expert at taxidermy hasn’t gone unnoticed either. Over the last 10 years he has worked on several different contracts for the Royal Ontario Museum and has restored and mounted more than 100 birds for ROM, some of which are extinct, in-cluding the Carolina Parakeet. Last year, he resurrected and repaired 12 passenger pigeons for a display that honoured the bird’s extinction 100 years ago.

Eva OlssonEva OlssonEva OlssonEva Olsson Talk about a consummate speaker, Eva Olsson was spellbinding as she related some of the horrors of her young life in Auschwitz. At 93 years old her manner of delivery was so profound that I know there were very few dry eyes in the audience.

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This Trivia organizing committee has the event down pat. On Wednesday June 8, Heather spewed out questions to a sold out audience. Everyone agreed it was super fun with the exception of the “trees” segment which produced many groans. Trust this committee to come up with something that will always stretch our minds. Anne & Bill Rogers and Heather and David Hockin are to be commended on the entire day. Our dinner host, Muskoka on the Rocks served up a delicious dinner . All of the scores were very close, but there was a definitive winning team scoring 85 out of the 100 questions. They were Margaret Connor, Pat Flanagan, Judy Clapp, Cathy Nystrom, Peter Hill and David Caswell. (pictured below)

The runners up with a score of 82 were Sheila Mills, Marilyn Stirling, Anne Rogers, Ron Hill, Steve Tonge and Sandy Raven. Congrats to everyone for a grand effort!!

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Welcome back Snowbirds

At our May meeting we wel-comed back many of our mem-bers who had the good fortune to spend their winter in warmer climes. Peter and Mary Jane Robinson warmly greeted everyone as they arrived. This club is all about people and promoting closer friendships and our monthly greeters cer-tainly help to make this happen.

Thank You

At our June meeting we will be selling tickets for all of our upcoming events.

THE SUMMER PICNIC

ANNUAL GOLF SCRAMBLE

LUNCH AT THE BALDWINS

THE CAR RALLY

Please remember to bring your cheques along if you plan on attending any of these events.

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Care Bear HELMY ABEN—705-789-1221

johnhelmyaben@gmail.com Please contact Helmy if you know of anyone who needs a card.

Our warmest and caring thoughts go out to Lynn Fletcher, and we wish her a full and very speedy recovery.

Armchair Travellers Contact: DOUG BELL 705-635-1137

dougdaniela@hotmail.com Please Note: June until August is the Armchair Travellers Summer break. They will be returning on September 14 at Chartwell with yet another amazing presen-tation. Stay tuned!

Membership Report - Betsy Rothwell This month we welcome 5 new members:

Colin Oke, sponsored by Ken and Sandy Raven Michael and Judy Salter sponsored by Barb Munro and Steve Tonge Hugh and Anne Mackenzie sponsored by Leslie and David Caswell

Welcome, and we know you’ll enjoy the fun events and special interest groups, and meeting lots of new people! In May we said goodbye to Barb Baker, a Charter Member who has moved to Texas, leaving many wonderful Muskoka friends. There are 196 members in the Probus Club of Huntsville, with a cap of 200. This is a good time to invite friends to join and enjoy all of the activities Probus has to offer! There were 75 members and 2 guests at the May 2016 meeting. Please remember to wear your name badge at Probus events, including our monthly meetings. This makes greeting other members easy. And be sure to pick up your 2016 Photo Directory of Club Members – put a face to that name, or a name to that smiling face! New Probus members have a red dot on their name badges. Please take a few moments to intro-duce yourself during the coffee break, welcome them to our club, and encourage them to join the Events and Interest Groups. Have you lost or misplaced your name badge? Let me know so I can order another at a small cost to you. If you have any changes to your address, phone or email information, please advise Betsy Rothwell at betsyrothwell@gmail.com.

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CONTACT: CATHERINE HAWKINS 705-635-9834 BARB BURTON burtonbaj@sympatico.ca .June 13: The Nightingale by Kristin Hanna July 11: A Walk Across the Sun by Corbin Addison August 8: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Bid Euchre CONTACT: JOHN & HELMY ABEN 705-789-1221

johnhelmyaben@gmail.com NEW PLAYERS ARE INDEED WELCOME! GIVE IT A GO!!!

Meets the second Tuesday of each month.

Duplicate Bridge CONTACT: BERYL CLAYSON 705-789-5510 clayson@cogeco.ca

Probus duplicate bridge meets at the Clayson’s on the 4th Monday of each month. 1:00 pm October to April 7:00 pm May to September THE DATE FOR THIS MONTH’S BRIDGE IS MONDAY, JUNE 27 AT 7:00 PM In order for Beryl and Paul to prepare, please contact them at least a day before the date, if you wish to play.

ANYONE INTERESTED IN BEING A SPARE, OR LOOKING FOR A REGULAR PARTNER, PLEASE LET BERYL OR PAUL KNOW.

Dining In CONTACT: BARBARA BURTON 705-788-0059 burtonbaj@sympatico.ca Groups meet once a month for the year, rotating hosts. The host provides the main dish and sets the theme if any. The rest select or are assigned dishes to complete the meal. Participants bring their own beverage of choice.

There is still some room on the spare list if you wish to be added.

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CONTACT: SUSAN MAGEE 416-816-4107 susanmagee@rogers.com

THE SEPTEMBER DATE IS MONDAY the 12 th, 2016

The time is 1:00 pm and the cost is $10.15 for 3 games (including shoes). Monika Rhodes from Probus 3 is our contact person for this event. Her e mail address is

monika.rhodes@bell.net Please let her know if you would like to bowl.

If you are bowling this Monday, June 13, those who would like to share in a farewell lunch please meet at the alley at 11:45am.

Probus Monthly Bowling

Wine Appreciation CONTACT: JEFF & ANN COX 705-685-9900 jeffcox88@gmail.com

Peter Jennings is an author of fiction and non-fiction books (pjauthor.com) who ran a marketing agency in Toronto for sev-eral years before turning to writing full time. He lives in Muskoka, Ontario, where his monthly TV show Be My Guest features in-depth interviews with interesting personalities.

August Guest Speaker Peter Jennings

Please

note!

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Activities at a glance

DATE EVENT LOCATION

JUNE 13 MONTHLY BOWLING HUNTSVILLE BOWL JUNE 16 MONTHLY MEETING SUTHERLAND HALL 10:00 AM JUNE 17 IHOP HIKE JUNE 27 DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLAYSON’S 7:00 PM JULY 21 PICNIC MOOSE CAFÉ 3:00 PM AUG. 18 MONTHLY MEETING SUTHERLAND HALL 10:00 am SEPT. 1 GOLF SCRAMBLE LAKESIDE 12:00 noon SEPT. 12 MONTHLY BOWLING HUNTSVILLE BOWL 1:00 PM SEPT. 15 MONTHLY MEETING SUTHERLAND HALL 10:00 AM SEPT. 22 LUNCH AT THE BALDWINS OCT. 6 CAR RALLY DETAILS TO FOLLOW

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO MONTHLY MEETING IN JULY.

DATES TO REMEMBER

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“A HOP”

“Awesome Hikers of Probus”

Lunch at

The Baldwins

Thursday, September 22, 2016 $31.00 all in

Your hosts for this event are

Linda and Bruce Stimers Tickets on sale at the June Meeting

Photography Club CONTACT: KEN KOEHLER 705-766-9936 kkoehler@vianet.ca The next get-together of the Probus Photo Group will be at 2:00 pm on Friday September 9. Ken and Barb will be hosting at their Huntsville Condo -- 35 Dairy Lane, Suite 101. Our theme will be "Summer Memories!". So as Summer 2016 unfolds, let's have our cameras ready to capture memorable scenes and activities that we want to preserve. And let's also have a look through our photo archives for scenes and activities that evoke "Summer Memories From

The Past!". If you cannot appear in person, emailed images to kkoehler@vianet.ca are always welcome. And if you'd just like to see what the Photo Group is all about, please feel free to come along and join the fun as a spectator!

The plan is to meet at the Mizzy Lake parking lot adjacent to Hwy 60 in the Park at 9:00 am. Then do a 12 km morning hike, meet for lunch (TBA) with an option for an additional hike after-wards. Once the final numbers are confirmed arrangements will be made for car pooling. Please confirm with David ASAP and he will co-ordinate the hike.

CONTACT: David Mason 705-635-2927 dmason@genau.ca Friday, June 17, 2016

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Your hosts

Lorna & Jim Popofski

Come and join us for an afternoon of fun

activities, games and great prizes.

The Moose Café & Grill

2803 HWY. 60 DWIGHT 3:00 PM

$40.00 PP

Hot & Cold Hors D’oeuvres, Assorted Cheeses

“Famoose” homemade hamburgers Beerfest sausage on a bun

Maple BBQ ribs Selection of Salads, Crudite Platter

Butter tarts, fruit tarts, Maple sugar shortbread,

Chocolate Raspberry Petit Fours, Watermelon fruit bowl.

Coffee, tea, cold beverage

Tickets can be purchased at the PROBUS Meeting in June

Or call Lorna Popofski 705-635-9263

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PLANS ARE WELL UNDERWAY FOR THIS YEAR’S

Probus Golf Scramble One of the club’s most exciting and fun events!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

DEERHURST LAKESIDE GOLF COURSE 12:30 PM SHOT GUN START

18 HOLE 4 PERSON SCRAMBLE FORMAT, power carts included

Dinner following at Deerhurst in the beautiful Tom Thomson Ball Room

Lakeside Members $44.00 Non Members $93.00 Dinner Only $42.00

Registration at the June Meeting

If you won’t be at the meeting and wish to play, please contact Sandy Raven at 705-789-3223 or e mail sandykenraven@gmail.com

Looking forward to yet another awesome Probus event

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016

You all know how popular this event is!!!!!! Tickets will go on sale at our June PROBUS Meeting

…….and we are strongly suggesting that you buy your tickets early!!!!

Those of us you who have been fortunate enough to participate in this event know just what an extrodinary time is had by all of the participants.

“SLOW DOWN, BACK UP, ARE WE DIVORCING, OMG I THINK I SEE IT!” All phrases that we have heard.

And we thought that we had seen it all!!!!

But this year Pat Spencer & Jean Campbell have researched a totally new route that hopefully no one has travelled before!!!

To infinity & beyond!!! But still in beautiful Muskoka at the height of the Fall colours!

We will be ending up at Grand Tappattoo Lodge on Otter Lake, that boasts a beautiful patio overlooking the lake, where we can enjoy

much deserved drinks after our trek! Buffet dinner will be served with lovely choices

including roast beef and chicken. Instead of our Port Sydney start we will begin our adventure

from Rosseau……..and of course, Jean and Pat will provide explicit instructions on how to get home the easy way!! Whew!!!

Talk about an exciting new experience, these two ladies have gone beyond

amazing to make October 6 a date to remember. Tickets are limited...DON’T MISS OUT!!!