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 Gayle McCaig Facilities Roger Staig and Jim Miller Newsletter Editor: Andre Tieman Thursday February 20 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 Gayle McCaig 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 Dr. Peter Sale Marine Biologist Member of Muskoka Watershed Council. Subject: "Wondrous Muskoka" Introduced By: Bob Mallette Thanked By: Dee Mallette 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 had 70 members at the January meeting. We had one new member application, Dale Aris, approved at the January Management Team meeting. Dale hopes to be at our April Probus meeting. We have 188 members at the beginning of 2014. If you have friends who would like to join Probus, we have 12 openings, so it s a good time to apply. The application form is 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 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 Gayle McCaig 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 TIME DETAILS COORDINATOR Book 2 nd Mon. 1:00 PM Books to be discussed for 2014 March 10 : Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor - Sally Armstrong April 14: And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini May 12 : No Time for Goodbye - Linwood Barclay Catherine Hawkins 635-9834 Bridge 4 th Tues. 1:00-3:45 PM At 55. Newcomers of all abilities required and welcome! Gloria Andersen 385-1938 Duplicate Bridge 4 th Mon. 1:00 PM At the Clayson s. To ensure that we have sufficient numbers to make it worth holding the game, please contact Beryl & Paul Beryl Clayson 789-5510
Clayson at least a week before the date, if you wish to play. 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. 3 clayson@cogeco.ca Bid Euchre 2 nd Tues. 2 nd Mon. 1:30 PM Group I - This group is full. Group II - Newcomers welcome. John or Helmy Aben 789-1221 Dan & Doreen Kuzmich 385-3031 Dining in Dining In 2014: We have seven new groups up and feasting! Barbara Burton 788-0059 burtonbaj@ sympatico.ca Wine Appreciation The wine appreciation club is up and running. For those who are interested, here are the results of Group A's first meeting. Jeff and Ann Cox 685-9900 jeffcox88@ gmail.com Country Region Type Producer/Appelation Year Alcohol Price Group Cdn Rating Portugal Red Bocalhoa JP 2012 13.0% $8.85 5 France Southwest Merlot Azeito Tinto 2012 12.5% $8.95 3 Argentina Cabernet Yvon Mau 2012 14.0% $10.95 4 Sauvignon Canada Niagara Baco Noir Staff Baco Noir 2012 11.5% $14.95 1 Italy California Valpolicella Enzo Cabernet Sauvignon Vincenzo Valplicello Pipasso 2011 13.5% $13.10 6 Rodney Strong Alexander Valley 2011 14.5% $27.95 2
4 Arm Chair Travelers 2 nd Wed. 7:00 PM At Chartwell Muskoka Traditions 16 Legacy Lane, Huntsville (2 nd floor theatre bring slippers in mucky weather) Wed. 12 Mar. - No Presentation, due to most people being away. Wed. 9 Apr. - "Travels Through Southern England and Wales". Presented by Ann Rogers Doug Bell 635-1137 dougdaniela@ hotmail.com Please email Doug if you wish to be his contact list and receive an email reminder for shows. Photography 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. Ken Koehler 766-9936 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! 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. DATE SPEAKER TOPIC March Jim and Sue Waddington Authors of a book identifying the locations that inspired many of the Group of Seven s paintings. In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven EVENTS FOR 2013/2014 Mary Ray Ward and Gayle McCaig Coordinators. We are looking for ideas for 2014. DATE EVENT PRICE EACH DESCRIPTION Tickets Sold COORDINATORS Thurs. Feb. 27 th Luncheon $27 Tall Trees Feb. Mary Ray Ward March Open
Tues. Apr. 22 nd Tickets Time: Bowling and buffet roast beef dinner. For sale at the Feb, Mar and April meetings. Contacts are Audrey Coutts and Jim Miller. Warm-up and bowling: 3:30 to 5:30 PM, Social Hour/Dinner: 5:30-7:30 PM 5 Dinner: Cost: Buffet style, Roast Beef, oven browned potatoes, glazed carrots, pickle tray, salad, dessert, tea/coffee, water. Paper plates will not be used. $30 per person which includes two games of bowling, equipment rental, dinner, tax and gratuity. If we are able to sell 48 tickets, then the function will be private and restricted to our Probus group only. Both five and ten pin bowling will be available. 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.