1 Probus of Huntsville P.O. Box 5261. Huntsville. ON. P1H 2K6 www.probushuntsville.ca 2014 Management Committee President: Patrick Flanagan Past President: Margaret Wood Vice President: Bob Mallette Secretary: Sonja Garlick Treasurer: Beryl Clayson Paul Clayson Membership: Betsy Rothwell Care Bear Margaret Masterson General Interest Barbara Burton Events Mary Ray Ward and Facilities Roger Staig and Jim Miller Newsletter Editor: Andre Tieman Thursday January 16 th, 2014 Sutherland Hall 10:00 AM 1. O Canada Ken Koehler 2. Welcome Patrick Flanagan 3. Financial Report Paul Clayson 4. Membership Report Betsy Rothwell 5. Care Bear Report Margaret Masterson 6. General Interest Report Barbara Burton 7. Guest Speaker Report Bob Mallette 8. Events Report Mary Ray Ward and 9. General Business Patrick Flanagan 10. New Business from the Floor All Membership 11. Social coffee, tea and goodies **No coffee or food upstairs please ** 12. Speaker Subject: Introduced By: Thanked By: Dr. Colin Yates "Developing a Centre of Excellence for Muskoka" Cathie Flanagan Patrick Flanagan 13. Closing remarks Patrick Flanagan If you have any suggestions for the newsletter or website, please contact Andre Tieman at andre.tieman@gmail.com or 705 767 3095.
2 MEMBERSHIP REPORT Betsy Rothwell - Membership Chair We now have 188 members in our club so there is an opportunity to invite friends to join. Application forms are on the Probus of Huntsville website - http://www.probushuntsville.ca (in the Contact Us tab). Please don t forget to look for the red dot on name tags of our new members, and take a moment to introduce yourself and welcome them to our club. Management Committee members will have a green dot on their badge. Badges for new members can be picked up from the desk at the door. Please remember to wear your name tag. If you keep it in the glove box of your car you will always have it handy. CARE BEAR REPORT Margaret Masterson Reporter Get Well cards were sent to Doreen Murray, John McCaig and Pat Hardie. If you have any information (such as operations, death of close family members or even the birth of grandchildren), please let me know. I would appreciate hearing from you and I will send a card on everyone s behalf. I will be away until the end of March. In my absence will be filling in for me. Her email is: gkeg@ sympatico.ca and her phone number is: 705-788-3888. GENERAL INTEREST GROUPS Barbara Burton Coordinator (burtonbaj@sympatico.ca) It would be nice to see some new groups start up in the New-Year. All it takes is one person to coordinate it. Let me know if you are interested- I will help! CLUB DETAILS COORDINATOR Book Books to be discussed for 2013/2014 January 13 th The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed Out the Window -Jonas Jonasson February 10 th The Orenda - Joseph Boyden March 10 th Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor - Sally Armstrong Catherine Hawkins 635-9834 2nd Monday of the month 1:00 p.m. Bridge 4 th Tuesday of the month 1:00-3:45 p.m. at 55. Newcomers of all abilities required and welcome! Gloria Andersen 385-1938 Duplicate Bridge The duplicate bridge games for February will be held on the 4th Monday, returning to our regular practice. They will be at the Clayson s at 1 p.m. Beryl Clayson 789-5510
To ensure that we have sufficient numbers to make it worth holding the game, please contact Beryl & Paul Clayson at 705-789-5510 or e-mail to clayson@cogeco.ca at least a week before the date, if you wish to play. 3 Although we have about 30 regular members, we can still use a few more, especially couples, since there is a preponderance of ladies at present. Bid Euchre Group I - 2nd Tuesday of the month. This group is full. Group II - 2nd Monday of the month @ 1:30 pm. Newcomers welcome. John or Helmy Aben 789-1221 Dan & Doreen Kuzmich 385-3031 Dining in Dining In 2014: An email was sent to all participants before Christmas showing the 7 new groups. Your leader should have sent an email to your group by now to get a volunteer to host the first feast at a convenient date in January. Enjoy! Barbara Burton 788-0059 burtonbaj@s/ympatico.ca Wine Appreciation The Wine Appreciation Group has been a great addition to the Probus activities, we shall be adding another group and there are still places for a few more participants. If you have not signed up and would be interested please email Jeff Cox. Jeff and Ann Cox 685-9900 jeffcox88@gmail.com Arm Chair Travelers Photography Normally the 2 nd Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. at Chartwell Muskoka Traditions 16 Legacy Lane, Huntsville (2 nd floor theatre bring slippers in mucky weather) January's cancelled presentation will be shown on: Wed. Feb. 12 - A month in Provence; its hill towns, the Roman ruins, medieval castles, historic cities and sunny beaches. Our next Probus Photo Group session will be held at 2:00 pm on Friday February 28. Barb and l will be hosting it at 1077 Precambrian Drive -- which exits west off of Highway 35 about 8 kms south of Dorset at the north end of the Wren Lake Bridge. Our theme will be "Macro Mysteries!" This is an opportunity to see how close up we can get to "stuff" -- both indoors and outdoors -- and challenge the others to figure out "...what is that, really"! And remember, if you can't appear in person, emailed images are always welcome! Doug Bell 635-1137 dougdaniela@hotmail.com Please email Doug if you wish to be on his contact list for presentation updates and cancellations. Ken Koehler 766-9936
FUTURE GUEST SPEAKERS Bob Mallette - Vice President Coordinator Please contact Bob if you have any ideas or suggestions for guest speakers for the 2014 season. 4 DATE SPEAKER TOPIC February March Dr. Peter Sale Marine Biologist and member of Muskoka Watershed Council. Jim and Sue Waddington Authors of a book identifying the locations that inspired many of the Group of Seven s paintings. Wondrous Muskoka In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven EVENTS FOR 2013/2014 Mary Ray Ward and Coordinators. We are looking for ideas for 2014. DATE EVENT PRICE EACH DESCRIPTION Wed. Luncheon $25 Hidden Valley Jan. 22 nd Noon social - 1 p.m. lunch ** Please note date, as some Tickets Sold Jan. tickets were printed incorrectly. Thurs. Luncheon $27 Tall Trees Jan. Feb. 27 th Feb. March Open COORDINATORS gkeg@sympatico.ca Mary Ray Ward Tues. Apr. 22 nd Bowling and buffet roast beef dinner. $35 An afternoon of ten or five pin bowling from 3-5 pm. Max. 48 people. More info to follow. Feb. Mar. Apr. Audrey Couttes Jim Miller Tickets for Probus Events are sold between: 9:15 9:55 a.m. and also at coffee break until 10:55 a.m. You can pay for these events by cash or cheques. (Separate cheques for each event). We will reimburse money paid for an event due to cancellation by the member to the extent that there is no cost to the club. We encourage members to organize events (such as lunches, trips, etc.), but due to insurance reasons all events must be cleared through the events chair(s) and approved by the Management Team before members can be contacted or tickets can be sold at meetings. Members organizing events may contact John McCaig at globalskate@sympatico.ca with details of the luncheon /event and he will print the tickets for you if you wish. Please allow 14 days prior to required date. Probus Huntsville Web Site and Newsletter Over the next few months you will see some changes to the newsletter. We are hoping to include pictures of events and other information of interest to our members. Ultimately the newsletter will migrate to our website. We will continue to produce a paper copy for those without computer access. If you have any suggestions for the newsletter or website, please contact Andre Tieman at andre.tieman@gmail.com or 705 767 3095.
5 Arrowhon Pines Activity keep October 1, 2014 open for a repeat of this great event. Probus 's Bid Euchre 11th Christmas Pot Luck Supper held on December 10th 2013, at the home of June and Tom Banks. What a great looking group! Dining in at the Jackson s home in December. The Twelve Days of Christmas. Probus version!