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A Magazine for 55+ Like No Other! Welcome to The Club features timeless articles and anecdotes including many from the archives of Daytripping Magazine. It's online at www.welcometotheclub.ca and is also distributed free in Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario.

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Helping you remain safe, active,<br />

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This FREE magazine is distributed in most of Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

Have a Look and Have Your Say!<br />

Deciding what <strong>to</strong> feature on the cover of<br />

this issue <strong>to</strong>ok a while, but we finally decided<br />

on one of many awesome pho<strong>to</strong>graphs<br />

by Jayne Primeau of Brights Grove. It’s an<br />

honour <strong>to</strong> be able <strong>to</strong> showcase some of the<br />

incredibly talented pho<strong>to</strong>graphers in our<br />

area.<br />

We have a favour <strong>to</strong> ask of you, and<br />

there’s a reward involved. You’ll find a<br />

questionnaire on page 38 and we hope <strong>to</strong><br />

see what direction you’d like <strong>The</strong> <strong>Club</strong> <strong>to</strong><br />

go in. Many of the articles in the magazine<br />

come from the archives of Daytripping,<br />

which we’ve published for 27 years, and it<br />

was our original intention <strong>to</strong> run many of<br />

those along with some of the interesting<br />

fillers you see - we have an incredible<br />

collection of both. <strong>The</strong> articles are often<br />

nostalgic and timeless, and our hope is <strong>to</strong><br />

keep the words of many past contribu<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

alive. That’s one of the main reasons we<br />

wanted <strong>to</strong> create a magazine for people 55<br />

plus. We feel we have something unique<br />

<strong>to</strong> offer, an escape from the ordinary and<br />

the daily news which can be challenging,<br />

and even depressing. With no politics and<br />

no real serious issues being addressed, we<br />

hope <strong>The</strong> <strong>Club</strong> is a magazine you’ll read<br />

from start <strong>to</strong> finish and maybe read again<br />

By Mark Moran, Publisher<br />

or pass on <strong>to</strong> someone else.<br />

However, along the way we’ve also tried<br />

some new columns and columnists and they<br />

bring a lot <strong>to</strong> the table as well. Chris Treftlin<br />

has great advice for aging at home and he’s<br />

local - it’s not some canned article from a<br />

media service. Sipkens Nurseries has been<br />

providing a gardening article, Cathy Dobson<br />

is writing great feature pieces as well as a<br />

new column called “In a Few Words” that<br />

I’m a big fan of. We have our first article<br />

about a local trail in this issue.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n there are the crossword and word<br />

search puzzles, our Miles<strong>to</strong>nes page, a local<br />

postcard feature, an Events List now that<br />

there are events again, and the various<br />

funny or sentimental anecdotes that we fill<br />

the spaces in between with.<br />

So the question is... what do you want<br />

<strong>to</strong> see more of, or less of. Remember, we<br />

want <strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Club</strong> <strong>to</strong> be unique<br />

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have your say. Two random readers that<br />

reply <strong>to</strong> the questionnaire will win $100 in<br />

Tourism Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n gift certificates,<br />

redeemable at many local shops, restaurants<br />

and attractions.<br />

Thanks for your time and for reading!<br />

OPENING REMARKS<br />

"<strong>The</strong> Perfect Dress"<br />

Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could<br />

dampen her excitement, not even her parents' nasty divorce.<br />

Her mother had found the PERFECT dress <strong>to</strong> wear<br />

and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!<br />

A week later, Jennifer was horrified <strong>to</strong> learn that her father's<br />

new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!<br />

Jennifer asked her step mom <strong>to</strong> exchange it,<br />

but she refused. "Absolutely not. I look like a million bucks in this<br />

dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.<br />

Jennifer <strong>to</strong>ld her mother who graciously said, "Never mind<br />

sweetheart. I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."<br />

A few days later, they went shopping and did find another<br />

gorgeous dress. When they s<strong>to</strong>pped for lunch, Jennifer asked<br />

her mother, "Aren't you going <strong>to</strong> return the other dress?<br />

You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it."<br />

Her mother just smiled and replied,<br />

"Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it <strong>to</strong> the rehearsal dinner<br />

the night before the wedding."<br />

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Discount List 23<br />

Word Search 13<br />

Postcards from the Past 12<br />

Recipes 14<br />

Crossword 29<br />

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<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> ... SPRING <strong>2022</strong><br />

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My mother did “Spring Cleaning”<br />

every year. It was a big deal around<br />

our house. It seemed that every<br />

surface and textile within our four<br />

walls was either polished, washed,<br />

scrubbed or waxed. Curtains billowed<br />

on the clothes line, windows were<br />

stripped of nose and hand prints<br />

and the floors were transformed<br />

in<strong>to</strong> skating ponds. It<br />

was a flurry of activity<br />

that signaled change and<br />

renewal. I never really<br />

unders<strong>to</strong>od what came<br />

over my Mother at this<br />

time. It was almost as if<br />

she was trying <strong>to</strong> remove<br />

the dullness that had gathered over<br />

our family and home during the<br />

winter months. <strong>The</strong> act of cleaning<br />

was like a shedding of our winter<br />

chrysalis. Soap and water bringing<br />

forth our new emerging spirits.<br />

Part of my mother’s regime<br />

included the rearranging of furniture<br />

in the bedroom that I shared with<br />

my sister. Every other year, one of<br />

us would be in enviable position<br />

of having her bed placed directly<br />

by the window. This desirable<br />

spot included an outside view<br />

and full access <strong>to</strong> the precious<br />

evening breeze. <strong>The</strong> other <strong>to</strong>ok her<br />

placement on the opposite side of<br />

the room graciously, contented with<br />

a change of scenery.<br />

I loved <strong>to</strong> go <strong>to</strong> bed at night with<br />

my head against the sill looking<br />

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Ode To My Mother<br />

by Gayle Ethering<strong>to</strong>n Black, Ancaster • From Daytripping May-June 2006<br />

at my neighbourhood through<br />

the small holes in the screen. <strong>The</strong><br />

view from my private perch was a<br />

solitary pleasure for the senses. I<br />

can still recall lying awake with my<br />

face pressed <strong>to</strong> the screen listening<br />

<strong>to</strong> the symphony of night sounds<br />

which included raccoons, cats and<br />

grown up voices lilting softly on the<br />

night air. I would watch<br />

spell bound at the flying<br />

insects as they danced<br />

erratically under the<br />

street lamp and every<br />

now and then I would<br />

get a whiff of my father’s<br />

pipe <strong>to</strong>bacco and knew<br />

that he must be right below me on<br />

the front porch.<br />

Over the years, I often<br />

wondered why there was such a<br />

strong connection regarding the<br />

transformation of our little space.<br />

How could moving a couple of<br />

beds create such long lasting joy?<br />

Perhaps it is the association with<br />

the change of season and the<br />

intangible emotions of freedom and<br />

rejuvenation that ran so prevalent in<br />

my youth.<br />

My mother probably had no idea<br />

at the time, but her simple act of<br />

cleaning and changing around our<br />

room brought a happiness and<br />

continuity in our lives that will<br />

always be remembered. I like <strong>to</strong><br />

think of it as a ritual of love. For that<br />

Mom, I truly thank you!<br />

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Happy Trails <strong>to</strong> You!<br />

Ausable River Cut Conservation Area Trail<br />

By Mary Lou Tasko, Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Shores Nature Trail • www.lsntblazers.com<br />

Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Shores Nature Trails (LSNT)<br />

is a local volunteer organization with<br />

a lofty vision: <strong>to</strong> build a network of<br />

user-friendly nature trails that inspire<br />

people <strong>to</strong> experience the biodiversity of<br />

Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Shores and vicinity.<br />

Since 2011 LSNT has partnered<br />

with public and private landowners<br />

<strong>to</strong> maintain and improve several local<br />

hiking trails.<br />

Most importantly, LSNT blazes, trims<br />

and clears trails so that the public can<br />

use them year-round. Our accessibility<br />

projects improve access for people of<br />

all ages and abilities. While we strive<br />

<strong>to</strong> expand and connect the trails, LSNT<br />

remains committed <strong>to</strong> protecting and<br />

preserving environmentally sensitive<br />

areas. Beautification of trailheads and<br />

community spaces has been a natural<br />

evolution as we encourage people <strong>to</strong> use<br />

and appreciate our “Gems of Nature.”<br />

If you are new <strong>to</strong> the area—or new<br />

<strong>to</strong> hiking—we encourage you <strong>to</strong> visit<br />

lsntblazers.com <strong>to</strong> learn about our local<br />

trails.<br />

Thanks <strong>to</strong> <strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> the <strong>Club</strong> for<br />

providing the opportunity <strong>to</strong> educate<br />

the public about LSNT’s work and <strong>to</strong><br />

highlight some of our most popular<br />

trails.<br />

In this issue, we introduce the Ausable<br />

River Cut Conservation Area Trail.<br />

First, a little his<strong>to</strong>ry of the area:<br />

Between 1872 and 1875, the “Ausable<br />

River Cut” was constructed between the<br />

northward-moving Ausable River—<br />

just north of <strong>The</strong>dford—and Port<br />

Franks. As a result, the <strong>The</strong>dford<br />

Marsh was drained and flooding in<br />

the area was checked. <strong>The</strong> rich land<br />

of the <strong>The</strong>dford Marsh could now<br />

be used for vegetable farming. <strong>The</strong><br />

Parkhill Creek still flows in<strong>to</strong> the old<br />

river bed north of “<strong>The</strong> Cut” and<br />

outlets at the Grand Bend harbour<br />

through a canal constructed in 1892.<br />

<strong>The</strong> “Old Ausable Channel.” running<br />

from Grand Bend through the Pinery<br />

<strong>to</strong> <strong>The</strong> Cut is the remnant of the<br />

Ausable River section that used <strong>to</strong><br />

flow southward behind the dunes.<br />

In 1973, the Ausable Bayfield<br />

Conservation Authority purchased a<br />

19.6-hectare tract of land along the<br />

south side of the Ausable River Cut <strong>to</strong><br />

protect the natural environment and<br />

provide a public walking area. For<br />

over ten years, LSNT has partnered<br />

with ABCA <strong>to</strong> maintain the trails here<br />

and make significant improvements<br />

<strong>to</strong> accessibility. <strong>The</strong>re are a few trail<br />

options depending on your motivation<br />

and fitness level.<br />

A short, wheelchair-accessible loop<br />

(535 m) on flat ground offers a walk<br />

through the Carolinian forest and along<br />

the Ausable River Cut. It includes a<br />

wheelchair-accessible viewing platform<br />

overlooking <strong>The</strong> Cut. A newly refurbished<br />

stairway leads <strong>to</strong> the river’s<br />

edge where a floating dock is available<br />

during the warmer months <strong>to</strong> launch<br />

canoes/kayaks or offer a fishing perch!<br />

A children’s S<strong>to</strong>rywalk®, courtesy of<br />

the Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Public Library, follows this<br />

short loop as well.<br />

A longer (2 km) difficult loop leads<br />

through Carolinian forest, over sand<br />

dunes and along <strong>The</strong> Cut. <strong>The</strong> dirt path<br />

is narrower, and there is a challenging<br />

dune ascent/descent. However, an<br />

impressive view of <strong>The</strong> Cut (and rest<br />

s<strong>to</strong>p!) await you at the <strong>to</strong>p. Check the<br />

trailhead map—and hike the trail in a<br />

clockwise direction—if you want <strong>to</strong> go<br />

down the dune’s steep side. A connec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

trail cuts across the larger trail loop if<br />

you want <strong>to</strong> shorten your hike—or miss<br />

the large dune!<br />

Free parking is available, as well as<br />

picnic areas and a washroom.<br />

For more information and a map<br />

of the Ausable River Cut Conservation<br />

Area Trails, please visit lsntblazers.com<br />

or abca.ca.<br />

Until we meet you on the trails…<br />

Ausable River Cut Trail<br />

Wheelchair<br />

Accessible<br />

Main Trail<br />

Difficult<br />

Middle<br />

Trail<br />

Moderate<br />

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I want <strong>to</strong> share a s<strong>to</strong>ry that I recently<br />

received from a mother who is a firm<br />

believer that Attitude is Everything and<br />

that humour can see you through any<br />

difficult situation! I think every mother<br />

could use this pick-me-up, especially<br />

on days when everything appears <strong>to</strong> be<br />

going wrong. Mothers have a special role,<br />

and are rarely appreciated for everything<br />

they do. Motherhood is one of the most<br />

rewarding, difficult, exhausting, exciting,<br />

and humorous jobs you will have in your<br />

lifetime.<br />

A mother was picking up her children at<br />

school recently, another mother she knew<br />

rushed up <strong>to</strong> her. She was fuming with<br />

indignation. “Do you know what you and<br />

I are?” she demanded. It seemed she had<br />

just returned from renewing her driver’s<br />

license. Asked by the woman recorder <strong>to</strong><br />

state her occupation, she had hesitated,<br />

uncertain how <strong>to</strong> classify herself. “What I<br />

mean is,” explained the recorder, “do you<br />

have a job, or are you just a …” My friend<br />

responded by saying she was a mother.<br />

“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation…<br />

‘housewife’ covers it, said the recorder. My<br />

friend was furious.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mother forgot all about the s<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

until one day she found herself in the same<br />

situation. “And what is your occupation?”<br />

the recorder probed. What made her say it,<br />

she did not know. <strong>The</strong> words popped out.<br />

“I’m a Research Associate in the field of<br />

Child Development and Human Relations.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> clerk paused, and looked as though she<br />

had not heard right. She repeated it again.<br />

<strong>The</strong> clerk asked with interest “what do you<br />

do in your field?” She calmly answered,<br />

“I have a continuing program of research<br />

(what mother doesn’t?) in the labora<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

and in the field (normally I would have<br />

said indoors and out). “I’m working for<br />

my Masters (the whole darned family) and<br />

already have four credits (all daughters)”.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> job is one of the most demanding in<br />

the field (any mother like <strong>to</strong> disagree?), and<br />

I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more<br />

like it)”. <strong>The</strong> clerk was very impressed, and<br />

personally saw her out the door.<br />

As she drove in<strong>to</strong> her driveway, her<br />

spirits raised by her glamorous new career,<br />

she was greeted by her lab assistants<br />

– ages 13, 7, and 3. Upstairs she could<br />

hear her new experimental model (6<br />

months) in the child-development program<br />

testing out a new vocal pattern. She felt<br />

triumphant! She had gone on the official<br />

records as someone more distinguished<br />

and indispensable <strong>to</strong> mankind than “just<br />

another mother.”<br />

When you are having a down day (as<br />

all of us do) and you feel you can’t face<br />

another day, change your attitude and look<br />

upon the situation with humour. Think<br />

of yourself as not just a mother, but a<br />

researcher in the field of child development<br />

and that your work is priceless. Your results<br />

may change the world!<br />

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Enjoy the Benefits of “Green Time”<br />

By Kelly-Lynn Musico, Brights Grove • Registered Physiotherapist, Registered Yoga Teacher<br />

As you begin reading this, maybe<br />

go find a window and look out, or if<br />

you can, take a step outside. Have<br />

you noticed those first telltale signs<br />

of spring and new growth? So, now<br />

what?<br />

Many of us have been couped up<br />

indoors over the winter and are excited<br />

at the endless possibilities<br />

<strong>to</strong> get moving outdoors.<br />

Getting outdoors is a<br />

fantastic way <strong>to</strong> improve<br />

our mental and physical<br />

health. It’s time <strong>to</strong><br />

increase our in-person<br />

social connections and<br />

physical abilities.<br />

Spring has sprung and<br />

now is the time <strong>to</strong> literally<br />

‘smell the roses’ and get<br />

moving. I recently saw<br />

a program on CTV news<br />

about a BC physician who<br />

has started prescribing<br />

“Green-time,” (spending<br />

time in nature) <strong>to</strong> her<br />

patients. I absolutely love this! Although<br />

I have been informally encouraging<br />

my clients <strong>to</strong> get outdoors <strong>to</strong> do their<br />

exercises, I now have the research <strong>to</strong><br />

back the health benefits of spending<br />

time in nature. This program tweaked<br />

my curiosity, so I further explored<br />

this concept. Yes, there is research<br />

Why Nature?<br />

• 90% of us say we’re happier when we’re outside—and stress hormone<br />

levels drop significantly after just 15 minutes of sitting in a forest.<br />

• Increasing nature time reduces your risk of developing heart disease,<br />

high blood pressure and diabetes.<br />

• Spending time in nature boosts memory, creativity and work satisfaction.<br />

• Spending time in the forest drops inflammation and stress in adults with<br />

COPD and reduces the risk of lung infections.<br />

• Nature therapy improves the psychological wellbeing of cancer patients<br />

and activates tumour-killing cells.<br />

• Seniors who live closer <strong>to</strong> walkable green spaces live longer.<br />

Source: https://www.parkprescriptions.ca/en/whynature<br />

<strong>to</strong> support the health<br />

benefits of spending time<br />

in nature.<br />

My further investigation<br />

concluded,<br />

<strong>to</strong> obtain the health<br />

benefits of nature it is<br />

recommended <strong>to</strong> spend<br />

2 hours a week, only<br />

20+ minutes at a time.<br />

Seems doable, right?<br />

So, what counts as<br />

time spent in nature?<br />

According <strong>to</strong> research,<br />

whenever we feel like<br />

we’ve had meaningful<br />

contact with nature,<br />

it will start <strong>to</strong> create<br />

health benefits which<br />

will start <strong>to</strong> add up. It<br />

could be as simple as<br />

sitting on a park bench<br />

or walking a nature<br />

trail.<br />

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sitting at some of our nature filled<br />

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could count? Spring has sprung and<br />

it’s a great time <strong>to</strong> get moving, feeling<br />

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Makin’ a List<br />

Making a list. It’s an ancient art, I<br />

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of long ago, etching her list in the sand<br />

or on s<strong>to</strong>ne. Were pieces of wood and<br />

leather used before paper became<br />

abundant? Your choice of list paper is<br />

reflective of you and your tastes. Take<br />

the “Chopin-Liszt” (Shopping List) for<br />

music lovers, the “HoneyDew List” for<br />

spousal duty-delegation, the culinaryshaped<br />

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“Things <strong>to</strong> do after I pray”<br />

list for those who consult<br />

Him for help with their plans.<br />

Lists written in haste have<br />

been on Kleenex, napkins,<br />

even clean <strong>to</strong>ilet paper, in an<br />

emergency!<br />

You were probably on a list<br />

before you were born. Your<br />

name was on a list somewhere,<br />

with meaning and origin. I made baby<br />

name lists long before my children were<br />

born. It was fun. It was hopeful. It was<br />

relaxing. Relaxed list-making takes place<br />

at a leisurely pace. It lists pleasurable<br />

things like vacation destinations, party<br />

menu items, <strong>to</strong>pics for speeches and<br />

s<strong>to</strong>ries. When writing on favourite<br />

paper with a smooth-gliding pen, these<br />

lists take on a dream-like quality, where<br />

all things are possible and turn out well.<br />

Not all list-making is relaxing. Take<br />

the Saturday <strong>to</strong>-do list. Drafted on the<br />

back of a paycheque envelope, you<br />

feel weary with each entry. Looking at<br />

hurried handwriting, you know there<br />

are not enough hours <strong>to</strong> accomplish the<br />

things listed. A wise person once said,<br />

a list should be written down, then<br />

promptly cut in half, literally folded<br />

and <strong>to</strong>rn in half, with half <strong>to</strong>ssed in the<br />

trash. Only half of what you listed will<br />

by Adina Haas, LaSalle<br />

From Daytripping May-June 2010<br />

likely get done. Is this your experience?<br />

Your list is for your eyes only. Guard<br />

your list. <strong>The</strong> shorthand you have used<br />

<strong>to</strong> remind yourself of something may<br />

be misinterpreted by others. One of my<br />

lists leading up <strong>to</strong> Christmas dinner had<br />

included, in red pen, “Clean up blood”<br />

as a reminder <strong>to</strong> wipe up drops spilled<br />

when my husband cut his finger while<br />

cutting wood trim. This item would<br />

look very suspicious mingled<br />

in with “Iron the tablecloths,<br />

Bake the cakes, and Roast the<br />

turkey”!<br />

Is list-making a skill we are<br />

born with or is it something<br />

we must learn? I once asked<br />

my first-graders <strong>to</strong> make a<br />

list. I thought it would be a<br />

great activity. I gave them<br />

each a $100.00 bill (fake) and<br />

prompted them <strong>to</strong> write (on a triplescoop<br />

ice-cream cone paper) a list of<br />

how they would spend the money. I<br />

looked around. How could some of<br />

them say they were done? I asked <strong>to</strong><br />

see one list. It said, “All <strong>to</strong> the poor.”<br />

How could I condemn that list! It<br />

wasn’t the in-depth writing activity I<br />

had imagined but it had heart! Other<br />

more list-like lists had listed spending<br />

on Haiti, on me, and on my prize-box!<br />

Lists. We make ‘em, we refer <strong>to</strong><br />

them, we revise them, we misplace<br />

them. You know you are overdoing listmaking,<br />

when you need a master list <strong>to</strong><br />

keep track of other lists. Since we seem<br />

<strong>to</strong> need them, let’s make ‘em fun,<br />

keep ‘em simple and realistic, work at<br />

accomplishing the things on them. Get<br />

out the glitter pens, and colourful pads<br />

of paper. We’re makin’ a list. We’re<br />

checking it twice and cuttin’ it in half!<br />

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Lewis Thomas, born in 1913,<br />

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the worrying animal. We worry away<br />

our lives, fearing the future, discontent<br />

with the present, unable <strong>to</strong> take in the<br />

idea of dying, unable <strong>to</strong> sit still.”<br />

We throw the term around loosely,<br />

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worriers” I’m one of them!<br />

When I was about seven I was playing<br />

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for a ride?” they called.<br />

It’s hard <strong>to</strong> believe <strong>to</strong>day, but in our<br />

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a car ride was something of a novelty.<br />

I hopped in<strong>to</strong> the back seat of that<br />

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excitement <strong>to</strong> tell my mother. <strong>The</strong>n,<br />

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Confessions Of A Born Worrier<br />

By Norma West Linder, Sarnia • From Daytripping March-<strong>April</strong> 2012<br />

worried sick every minute of the time I<br />

was away. I raced in<strong>to</strong> the house as soon<br />

as I got home. My mother, busy with my<br />

little brother, hadn’t even noticed my<br />

absence. That should have taught me a<br />

lesson about the futility of worrying. It<br />

didn’t.<br />

I’ve even posted signs above my desk<br />

- signs <strong>to</strong> read and heed. My favourite<br />

is: Worry is like paying interest on money<br />

you haven’t borrowed. Or words <strong>to</strong> that<br />

effect. I don’t know who coined it, but<br />

that saying worked for me, right up until<br />

a few days later when a friend was late<br />

for a luncheon date. <strong>The</strong> roads were<br />

icy, and I went straight <strong>to</strong> worst scene<br />

scenario, imagining her car upside<br />

down in a ditch, all four wheels spinning<br />

as she lay bloodied and unconscious.<br />

Nothing of the sort happened, of course.<br />

I hate <strong>to</strong> indulge in generalizations,<br />

but it seems <strong>to</strong> me women are more<br />

prone <strong>to</strong> be worriers than are men.<br />

Most of my female friends are like me<br />

when it comes <strong>to</strong> fretting about the vast<br />

number of possible disasters, especially<br />

those of us who have children, or, as<br />

I sometimes call them, “hostages <strong>to</strong><br />

fate.” My daughter Karen was sitting<br />

in a bus shelter in London, England,<br />

in November, when a mo<strong>to</strong>rcyclist lost<br />

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event. I had good reason <strong>to</strong> worry, but I<br />

carried it <strong>to</strong> extremes, picturing that girl<br />

in the film <strong>The</strong> Horse Whisperer waking<br />

up in the hospital minus a leg.<br />

My older daughter, unfortunately, is a<br />

worrier like me, but my son is not. He’s<br />

quite right when he says worry is a bad<br />

use of time because it doesn’t change<br />

the outcome of anything.<br />

I have learned a few ways of lessening<br />

my talent for worry. I no longer open my<br />

big book entitled A Home Medical Guide.<br />

I used <strong>to</strong> imagine I had every symp<strong>to</strong>m<br />

of every illness it contained. Worriers<br />

should never have such reference books<br />

in the house. We should all try <strong>to</strong> take<br />

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P A G E 11


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Ma and Pa bent over gardening <strong>to</strong>gether.<br />

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I’m not a fan of gardening. In our old<br />

neighbourhood we were surrounded by<br />

retired gardeners with years of experience.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir rows of perfectly planted vegetable<br />

gardens <strong>to</strong>ok up entire backyards. <strong>The</strong><br />

most amazing garden of all belonged <strong>to</strong> the<br />

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I remember the day my sister came for<br />

a visit. “<strong>The</strong>re’s Mr. Schwarzkopf digging<br />

in his garden,” she said.<br />

I looked out the window. <strong>The</strong>re it was<br />

again! <strong>The</strong> no<strong>to</strong>rious gardener, bent at the<br />

waist, butt reaching for the sky, rubber<br />

boots <strong>to</strong> the hips, hoe in hand.<br />

“That’s not Mr. Schwarzkopf.<br />

That’s Mrs. Schwarzkopf,” I<br />

exclaimed.<br />

Gardening is clearly<br />

not my forte. All you<br />

hardcore green thumbs<br />

out there will not get this,<br />

but I’d rather be cooped<br />

up in the house typing<br />

away at my computer,<br />

writing about gardening<br />

By Barb Day, Paris, ON<br />

From Daytripping, July-August 2010<br />

or any other subject for that matter,<br />

than actually gardening. How can that<br />

be, you ask, when one could be outside,<br />

enjoying the fresh air, digging in the dirt<br />

under a cloudless sky. Last time I checked<br />

my thumb was still pink. Definitely not<br />

green…never will be.<br />

Naïve, we moved <strong>to</strong> an old house from an<br />

apartment, and were anxious<br />

<strong>to</strong> start a vegetable garden<br />

in that huge backyard at<br />

the first hint of spring.<br />

We moved in the fall,<br />

and all winter we read<br />

books on the subject.<br />

We even subscribed<br />

<strong>to</strong> Harrowsmith and<br />

Canadian Gardener.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y all made it look so<br />

easy. We were pumped, and decided, why<br />

have only one? That yard is so big - there<br />

could be two big gardens, side-by-side!<br />

“Don’t bite off more than you can<br />

chew.” “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”<br />

“Think big, start small.” Those great<br />

words of wisdom forgotten, we forged<br />

ahead. <strong>The</strong> tidy rows started out looking<br />

nice enough, but by summer were an<br />

overwhelming tangle of weeds and crab<br />

grass. It was like a trek through the jungle<br />

<strong>to</strong> find a tiny, weak vegetable plant that<br />

hadn’t yet been strangled <strong>to</strong> death by an<br />

angry weed.<br />

Mr. Schwarzkopf would stand at the<br />

fence, shaking his head in disbelief,<br />

while handing over a basket of succulent<br />

beyond belief Beefsteak <strong>to</strong>ma<strong>to</strong>es.<br />

Sadly, we were the laughing s<strong>to</strong>ck of the<br />

master gardeners of the neighbourhood,<br />

and the last time I checked, my thumb<br />

was still pink.<br />

P A G E<br />

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Party Pota<strong>to</strong> Salad<br />

4 tsp mustard seed<br />

1 Tbsp celery seed<br />

1/3 cup white vinegar<br />

6 lb pota<strong>to</strong>es<br />

2 cups chopped celery<br />

By: Alma Wigle (from<br />

Brigden Fall Fair Cookbook)<br />

1 cup finely chopped green onions & <strong>to</strong>ps<br />

6 hard cooked eggs, chopped<br />

3 1/2 cups mayonnaise<br />

2 tsp salt<br />

Soak mustard seed, celery seed in 1/3 cup white vinegar for several<br />

hours or overnight. Cook, cool, peel and cube 6 pounds of pota<strong>to</strong>es<br />

(about 15 cups). Sprinkle cubed pota<strong>to</strong>es with salt. Toss with celery,<br />

onions and eggs. Combine seed mixture and 2 teaspoons salt with<br />

mayonnaise. Toss pota<strong>to</strong> mixture with mayonnaise. Chill thoroughly.<br />

Garnish with hard cooked egg whites. Serves 25 <strong>to</strong> 30.<br />

Balsamic Glazed Salmon<br />

(from Point Edward<br />

Ex-Servicemen’s<br />

Assoc. Cookbook)<br />

8 fresh salmon fillets, 3/4 inch thick (1 1/2 lb)<br />

Freshly ground black pepper<br />

3 Tbsp Balsamic vinegar<br />

3 Tbsp olive oil<br />

1 Tbsp orange juice<br />

4 1/2 tsp cornstarch<br />

1 Tbsp brown sugar<br />

1 3/4 cups chicken broth<br />

1 tsp grated orange peel<br />

Place salmon in a 12x8x2 inch shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with black<br />

pepper and drizzle with oil. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes, or unl<br />

the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.<br />

Sr the cornstarch, broth, vinegar, orange juice, brown sugar and orange<br />

peel in a 2 quart saucepan over high heat. Heat the mixture <strong>to</strong> a boil.<br />

Connue <strong>to</strong> cook unl the mixture thickens, srring constantly. Place the<br />

salmon on a serving plaer and serve with the sauce. Makes 8 servings.<br />

Hot Artichoke Dip<br />

By: Madame Deery<br />

(from “Millennium Menus”<br />

by Bridgeview Public School<br />

1 can (14 oz) archoke hearts, drained, chopped<br />

1 cup (4 oz) Kra 100% grated Parmesan cheese<br />

1 cup (4 oz) Kra natural shredded, low moisture, part-skim<br />

Mozzarella cheese<br />

3/4 cup Kra real mayonnaise or Miracle Whip salad dressing<br />

1 clove garlic, minced<br />

Heat oven <strong>to</strong> 350 degrees F. Mix all ingredients. Spoon in<strong>to</strong> 9 inch quiche dish<br />

or pie plate. Bake 20 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Garnish with steamed<br />

archoke leaves and red cabbage leaves. Serve with <strong>to</strong>asted French bread<br />

slices or crackers. Makes 2 cups. This is easy, fast and delicious!<br />

Pineapple Upside Down Cake<br />

2 Tbsp buer<br />

1 cup brown sugar<br />

1 cup sliced pineapple<br />

Maraschino cherries<br />

2 eggs<br />

1 cup white sugar<br />

1/2 cup juice from pineapple<br />

1 cup flour<br />

2 tsp baking powder<br />

pinch of salt<br />

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(from Wyoming<br />

Lioness <strong>Club</strong> 30th<br />

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book)<br />

o Melt buer in baking pan. Add brown sugar. Cover with drained pineapple<br />

rings (save juice). Put a cherry in the middle of each ring. Mix remaining<br />

ingredients and pour over pineapple. Bake at 350 degrees F approx. 20<br />

minutes or unl done. Invert on serving plate. Serve with whipped <strong>to</strong>pping.<br />

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Obsolete Task? Calling collect for long distance calls


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By John Gardiner<br />

I’ve already covered my brief hockey<br />

career and my even briefer baseball<br />

career, so I might as well fill you in my<br />

only other venture in<strong>to</strong> organized sports<br />

– other than bowling. And that was my<br />

time with the Hanover District High<br />

School Midget Basketball Team……Now,<br />

basketball has never really been my<br />

thing – it was kind of an exotic sport in<br />

Hanover back in the 1960’s….I mean,<br />

why would you play basketball in the<br />

winter if you could play hockey – and<br />

everybody played hockey and usually<br />

only the real jock guys in high school<br />

shot hoops. But when I first went in<strong>to</strong><br />

Hanover High, I was resolved <strong>to</strong> try <strong>to</strong><br />

get with the program and I’d been <strong>to</strong>ld<br />

I’d get more out of high school if I put a<br />

little effort in<strong>to</strong> it. So, I joined the midget<br />

boys’ basketball team…..<br />

We practiced for a couple of weeks<br />

before the season started and everything<br />

looked good. Most of us were just<br />

beginners <strong>to</strong> the game, other than a tiny<br />

bit in public school, but we had a couple<br />

of jock-type guys on the team and it was<br />

assumed they’d carry us <strong>to</strong> vic<strong>to</strong>ry after<br />

vic<strong>to</strong>ry, while the rest of us would play a<br />

strong supporting role. I actually got sort<br />

of good at the game in practice and could<br />

hit free throws pretty well and could<br />

run drill after drill with some degree of<br />

success.<br />

We had a couple of exhibition games<br />

before the regular season and the first<br />

was against Durham High School. We<br />

battled the Durham team <strong>to</strong>ugh up <strong>to</strong><br />

halftime – the game was tied. And that’s<br />

as close as we got <strong>to</strong> a win all season<br />

– tied at halftime of our first exhibition<br />

game. It turned out that our team<br />

really sucked – like big time. It turned<br />

out our jock-type guys were just mere<br />

mortals and couldn’t possibly hope <strong>to</strong><br />

compensate for the rest of the team. And<br />

so we lost game after game. And what<br />

happened was that the jock-type guys<br />

couldn’t stand the humiliation, so they<br />

started <strong>to</strong> quietly drop off the team – and<br />

<strong>The</strong> following is an excerpt from “My Lefthanded,<br />

Backwards, Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short S<strong>to</strong>ries”<br />

by Wallaceburg writer John Gardiner, who grew up and<br />

came of age in Hanover, Ontario during the 1950’s and<br />

1960’s. In this memoir, Gardiner tells the s<strong>to</strong>ry of his<br />

growing-up years with a series of colourful anecdotes<br />

about the way life used <strong>to</strong> be. More of the writer’s work is<br />

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<strong>The</strong> Basketball Diaries<br />

that meant the team got weaker and<br />

weaker as the season progressed. Like<br />

at the beginning of the season, I was an<br />

extra guy on the team, but by halfway<br />

through the season, I was a starter.<br />

And I discovered that I was a really bad<br />

basketball player, mainly because of my<br />

self-consciousness, and I couldn’t hit a<br />

basket under pressure in a real game<br />

for all the tea in China – whatever that<br />

means.<br />

And so our defeats started <strong>to</strong> get<br />

more and more lopsided. Like at the<br />

beginning of the season, we were losing<br />

sort of like 42-28, but by mid-season we<br />

were losing by scores of 64-12, and as<br />

the end of the season approached, most<br />

opposing teams were trying <strong>to</strong> score<br />

over 100 points against us, while trying<br />

<strong>to</strong> hold us <strong>to</strong> less than 10. And, of course,<br />

they would announce the scores of all<br />

the school teams over the PA at morning<br />

announcements. And it got so the whole<br />

school waited for the score of our latest<br />

game, so they could all cheer wildly for<br />

us. Those of us who had stuck with the<br />

team became sort of celebrities around<br />

the school – like it was an honour <strong>to</strong><br />

be part of what was possibly the worst<br />

midget basketball team in Canadian<br />

sports his<strong>to</strong>ry.<br />

Anyway, there were a couple more<br />

life lessons contained in this experience.<br />

First - don’t be part of a team under<br />

any circumstances, because if the team<br />

sucks, it’ll look like you suck as well.<br />

Second - if you do suck, hang in there<br />

and sometimes it sort of pays off. You<br />

get a type of fame if you’re really pitifully<br />

bad at something. I mean, people laugh<br />

at you, but at least they notice you –<br />

which in some cases is better than not<br />

getting noticed at all. Still, I was glad for<br />

the Neustadt drinking trips while this<br />

was going on… drinking is more fun<br />

than playing losing basketball and pretty<br />

well any other sport. Words well written.<br />

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if you or your partner are self-employed. Service Fee Tax, Telephone Federal<br />

Presumably, the latter requires at least an and Local Surcharge Taxes, Telephone<br />

extra month <strong>to</strong> find all of those receipts Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, Telephone<br />

secreted away in shoe boxes, which my Recurring and Non-Recurring Charges<br />

spouse prefers.<br />

Tax, Telephone and Local Tax, Telephone<br />

Many seniors have asked me if I Usage Charge Tax, Toll Bridge Taxes,<br />

support an extra Carbon Tax <strong>to</strong> help in the Toll Tunnel Taxes, Traffic Fines (indirect<br />

fight against environmental degradation. taxation), Trailer Registration Tax, Utility<br />

<strong>The</strong> logic works like this – suppose you Taxes, Vehicle License Registration Tax,<br />

think that bagels are bad for proper Vehicle Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax,<br />

nutrition. Government solution – apply Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation<br />

supplementary taxes on bagels. Will this Tax and GST on everything, including<br />

force me <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p eating bagels? No way; I your funeral, which nicely ties up death<br />

love them, especially the Montreal variety, and taxes.<br />

and there just happens <strong>to</strong> be a bagel shop None of these taxes existed 100 years<br />

near our home.<br />

ago. How did our nation survive? We had<br />

<strong>The</strong> government has tried a similar absolutely no national debt, one of the<br />

technique with alcohol, <strong>to</strong>bacco and pot largest middle classes in the world.<br />

with much the same results as a bagel Be aware that there are more indirect<br />

tax. <strong>The</strong>y love taxes as much as I admire taxes that I did not yet mention. For<br />

bagels. Under Liberal and Conservative example, when you ride in an eleva<strong>to</strong>r<br />

governments, we have been afflicted with while staying at a hotel, not only do<br />

55 separate kinds of taxes.<br />

you pay a municipal and federal and<br />

To assist your flagging memory, I provincial hotel tax (great <strong>to</strong> have so<br />

will outline them as follows: Accounts many layers of government, eh! Don’t<br />

Receivable Tax, Building Permit Tax, forget the Regional government.), but<br />

Capital Gains Tax, CDL license Tax (I do you also get <strong>to</strong> help pay for the eleva<strong>to</strong>r<br />

not know what CDL stands for), Cigarette license and inspection, the same way that<br />

you help pay for licenses and inspections<br />

for all other goods and services.<br />

Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the<br />

year in which a nation as a whole has<br />

theoretically earned enough income <strong>to</strong><br />

fund its annual tax burden.<br />

India enjoys the shortest tax burden<br />

taking a mere 74 days which amounts<br />

<strong>to</strong> 20% of the calendar year and falling<br />

on March 14. <strong>The</strong> United States is next<br />

at 113 days or 30.8% of the year, ending<br />

on <strong>April</strong> 23. Canada follows Es<strong>to</strong>nia, 114<br />

days, South Africa 132 days, Hungary 140<br />

days, New Zealand 141 days, Slovakia,<br />

142 days, Brazil, 147 days, Lithuania,<br />

150 days, United Kingdom, 153 days,<br />

Belgium, 161 days, Czech Republic, 161<br />

days and Croatia, 164 days.<br />

Yes, we follow all of those countries.<br />

We collectively work a full 165 days of the<br />

year, that’s a whopping 44.8%, and we do<br />

not finish paying for our taxes until June<br />

14. January, February, March, <strong>April</strong>, May<br />

and half of June! So, you wonder how I<br />

feel about another tax on carbon?<br />

It gets better. When retired, you<br />

depend upon a fixed income. <strong>The</strong> lucky<br />

ones have a COLA or cost of living clause.<br />

But unfortunately, the plot thickens.<br />

For example, the local gas station<br />

charged me $1.46 per gallon for regular<br />

gasoline <strong>to</strong>day. <strong>The</strong> way I see inflation<br />

with the huge rise in energy, food and<br />

transportation services, I might move <strong>to</strong><br />

Tahiti like Gaugin did, where at the least,<br />

I would save a lot on clothes. Of course,<br />

with global warming, more and more<br />

seniors will gradually opt <strong>to</strong> move in<strong>to</strong><br />

nudist colonies. I wonder at that time if<br />

the government will tax nudity.<br />

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I am still on a rotary telephone<br />

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A few weeks ago, while daytripping<br />

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of these for some time and it<br />

brought back many memories<br />

from my boyhood.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se are wooden crates in<br />

which oranges were shipped from<br />

the groves <strong>to</strong> the retailers. <strong>The</strong>se were<br />

used for many years before corrugated<br />

cardboard came in<strong>to</strong> use. As a boy, these<br />

boxes were considered a real prize if we<br />

could acquire one from a friendly corner<br />

grocer. <strong>The</strong>y are rarely seen <strong>to</strong>day. I am<br />

sure many thousands of them still exist<br />

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As kids, we wanted them <strong>to</strong> make<br />

playthings from, like pushcarts or<br />

scooters so we could race up and down<br />

city sidewalks in them! It was almost as<br />

much fun <strong>to</strong> make these things as it was<br />

<strong>to</strong> play with them.<br />

To make a pushcart, you needed four<br />

old wheels from a <strong>to</strong>y wagon and the<br />

axles and a piece of rope <strong>to</strong> steer with.<br />

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steering mechanism using a fifth wheel<br />

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Submitted <strong>to</strong> Daytripping in 2006<br />

from a wagon along with some<br />

rope <strong>to</strong> rig it up. This<br />

was more difficult so we<br />

usually used simply a<br />

rope for steering.<br />

My really favourite thing<br />

<strong>to</strong> make from an orange<br />

crate though, was a scooter. For<br />

this you needed one old clip-on<br />

type of roller skate, a piece of board four<br />

inches wide and about four feet long. <strong>The</strong><br />

orange crate was nailed standing on end<br />

at the front of the four foot board, and<br />

the roller wheels were mounted on the<br />

bot<strong>to</strong>m of the board, two wheels at the<br />

front and two wheels at the rear. A cross<br />

bar could then be nailed across the <strong>to</strong>p of<br />

the orange crate for use as handle bars <strong>to</strong><br />

steer with. When complete you could tear<br />

up and down the sidewalk standing with<br />

one foot on the scooter and the other <strong>to</strong><br />

propel you at great speed forward!<br />

Oh, we didn’t have video games, or<br />

Ipods, X-Boxes or even television then,<br />

but we didn’t need them. We just used<br />

our ingenuity and made our own fun<br />

back in the good old days!<br />

So what am I using my “new” old<br />

orange crate for? It’s a shelf for several<br />

books!<br />

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2 <strong>The</strong> Happiest Girl In <strong>The</strong> Whole U.S.A. Donna Fargo<br />

3 Chantilly Lace Jerry Lee Lewis<br />

4 Funny Face Donna Fargo<br />

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5 It's Four In <strong>The</strong> Morning Faron Young<br />

6 She's Got To Be A Saint Ray Price<br />

7 Separate Ways Elvis Presley<br />

8 If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry Jerry Wallace<br />

9 Jambalaya (On the Bayou) John Fogerty<br />

10 It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer Charley Pride<br />

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2 Popcorn Hot Butter<br />

3 Without You Harry Nilsson<br />

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5 Heart of Gold Neil Young<br />

6 <strong>The</strong> First Time Ever I Saw Your Face<br />

Roberta Flack<br />

7 Beautiful Sunday Daniel Boone<br />

8 Let's Stay Together Al Green<br />

9 Alone Again (Naturally) Gilbert O'Sullivan<br />

10 Clair Gilbert O'Sullivan<br />

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<strong>The</strong> Getaway<br />

Last Tango in Paris<br />

Lady Sings the Blues<br />

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colour of our skin, or the language we<br />

speak? Why must there always be war<br />

and rumours of war?<br />

We can learn a lot about life from<br />

a simple box of crayons. Some are<br />

pointed, while others are dull. Some<br />

have funny names. Some are plain and<br />

ordinary. But notice that all the crayons<br />

are different colours, and they all<br />

exist <strong>to</strong>gether in the same box. When<br />

working with a common purpose, they<br />

can make a beautiful picture.<br />

Imagine for a moment, the crayons<br />

in our box of life. <strong>The</strong> red one stands<br />

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hope for the future. <strong>The</strong><br />

black one is in<strong>to</strong>lerance,<br />

racism and prejudice<br />

that is insidiously<br />

widespread although<br />

sometimes hidden and<br />

not acknowledged.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is good news!<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a positive side<br />

<strong>to</strong> the colours. Red is for<br />

the red rose of love, the<br />

splendour of a sunset.<br />

Green is for growth<br />

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It’s officially Spring, and the gardening<br />

season is upon us at last, and it feels<br />

amazing! Here at Sipkens we have big<br />

changes happening, so this Spring is<br />

especially exciting for our team and our<br />

cus<strong>to</strong>mers!<br />

I can almost feel the pulse quickening<br />

and vibe of excitement from gardeners<br />

everywhere as the temperatures begin<br />

<strong>to</strong> rise, the scent of soil and plants<br />

float through the crisp spring air and<br />

the first signs of new life pop up out<br />

of the ground—seemingly overnight. It<br />

feels like we wait (*ALL YEAR*) for this<br />

season and then it’s “Gardeners start<br />

your wheelbarrows!” with a race <strong>to</strong> fit<br />

as much gardening and outdoor living<br />

in<strong>to</strong> one season as we can.<br />

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You can start with a small 4’ x 6’<br />

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strawberries.<br />

To choose a location, watch at your<br />

yard throughout different times of<br />

day and see where and when the sun<br />

lands—you will need<br />

about 6-8 hours of<br />

sunlight for veggies <strong>to</strong><br />

thrive. Another smart<br />

way <strong>to</strong> start is by looking<br />

at your current grocery<br />

list. What do you buy<br />

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your family like <strong>to</strong> eat?<br />

What seasonings do<br />

you regularly use? Grow<br />

what you know and you<br />

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of having your own food<br />

in your backyard. Maybe<br />

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❏ Improve the soil in veggie beds and<br />

containers with new soil, peat moss,<br />

compost and natural fertilizer.<br />

❏ Keep on <strong>to</strong>p of weeds in a garden<br />

bed by starting clean and consider<br />

adding a layer of mulch/straw <strong>to</strong><br />

keep weeds at bay.<br />

❏ Transplant seedlings and/or sow<br />

seeds in<strong>to</strong> the garden based on the<br />

instructions on the seed packet,<br />

good advice from friends or from<br />

your favourite garden centre.<br />

❏ Feed your plants regularly for a great<br />

yield—you only get out what your<br />

put in. Great organic options include<br />

hen manure & kelp meal.<br />

❏ Plant cold-loving veggies early <strong>April</strong><br />

(onions, radish, snow peas and<br />

perennial herbs).<br />

❏ In mid-<strong>April</strong> <strong>to</strong> May, plant pota<strong>to</strong>es,<br />

broccoli, cauliflower and carrots.<br />

❏ Plant tender veggies after the frostfree<br />

date (usually after Vic<strong>to</strong>ria<br />

Day) such as <strong>to</strong>ma<strong>to</strong>es, peppers,<br />

cucumber and melons.<br />

❏ Water vegetables and fruit regularly<br />

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Answers Below<br />

1. Is gold considered an element or a compound?<br />

2. What did Sir John Harring<strong>to</strong>n invent in 1589?<br />

a] <strong>The</strong> flushing <strong>to</strong>ilet b] Microscope<br />

c] Lead pencil d] <strong>The</strong>rmometer<br />

3. Which of the following is the medical term for jet lag?<br />

a] Rhinorrhea b] Epistaxis<br />

c] Xeros<strong>to</strong>miath d] Circadian desynchronosis<br />

4. What is the study of electronic systems that can perform the<br />

functions of living beings?<br />

5. What was the average length of a Beatles concert on their first<br />

American <strong>to</strong>ur?<br />

a] 28 mins b] 45 mins c] 56 mins d] 1 hr 15 mins<br />

6. In 1994, what OHL franchise moved <strong>to</strong> Sarnia and became the Sarnia<br />

Sting?<br />

7. In an interview at Harvard University, Bill Gates admitted that<br />

CTRL-ALT-DELETE was a ___________?<br />

8. What head of government was the first <strong>to</strong> give birth in office?<br />

a] Isabel Martinez de Perón, Argentina b] Agatha Barbara, Malta<br />

c] Benazir Bhut<strong>to</strong>, Pakistan d] Mary Robinson, Ireland<br />

9. What nationality was Erno Rubik, the inven<strong>to</strong>r of the 80s craze, the<br />

Rubik’s Cube?<br />

a] Hungarian b] Polish<br />

c] Slovenian d] Austrian<br />

10. A verruca is:<br />

a] A type of rock b] A type of wind or a musical instrument<br />

c] A type of physical maladie (a wart)<br />

11. Name of one of the three angels mentioned by name in the Bible.<br />

12. Who beat Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open final match?<br />

13. True or False: <strong>The</strong> sheep is the source of most catgut, a material used<br />

for the strings of some musical instruments.<br />

ANSWERS:<br />

1. Element; 2. <strong>The</strong> flushing <strong>to</strong>ilet; 3. Circadian desynchronosis; 4. Bionics;<br />

5. 28 mins; 6. Newmarket Royals; 7. mistake; 8. Benazir Bhut<strong>to</strong>, Pakistan;<br />

9. Hungarian; 10. A type of physical maladie (a wart);<br />

11. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer; 12. Naomi Osaka; 13. True.<br />

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marks with alcohol and dry with a<br />

soft rag. I cautioned her that this may<br />

bleach the colour from the silk but<br />

she was prepared <strong>to</strong> try it anyway.<br />

Thankfully she contacted me again<br />

saying that this worked wonderfully.<br />

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Lessons in Driving<br />

N UMB E R<br />

DEMENTIA<br />

By Mary Jane MacVicar Leaming<strong>to</strong>n • From Daytripping March-<strong>April</strong> 2011<br />

I N F O R M<br />

FRIENDLY<br />

When I was very young, we’re talking going, not even beginning <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p. Dad<br />

F A M I L Y<br />

the early 1950’s, living on a farm made had neglected <strong>to</strong> tell me that one had<br />

it easy <strong>to</strong> learn how <strong>to</strong> drive. I started <strong>to</strong> pump the brakes for them <strong>to</strong> catch,<br />

R E M I N D<br />

out on the trac<strong>to</strong>r and then graduated and started hollering “Pump it, pump<br />

COMMUNITIES<br />

<strong>to</strong> Dad’s pickup truck. In those days, it.”<br />

Find the answer on page 3<br />

O N T A R I O<br />

most vehicles came with standard Well I had no idea what he was<br />

transmissions so I had no choice but talking about and I froze - and drove<br />

<strong>to</strong> learn the horrors of using the clutch, straight in<strong>to</strong> the side of the barn! I was<br />

<strong>The</strong> Dementia-Friendly Canada project is a partnership between<br />

brake and gas pedal, in unison. quite upset but Dad <strong>to</strong>ok it in stride,<br />

Alzheimer Societies across the country. Providing free <strong>to</strong>ols and When I was about 12 years old, and the only damage was a little dent<br />

resources <strong>to</strong>wards building knowledge and confidence <strong>to</strong> support and Dad and I would drive the 7 miles <strong>to</strong> in the steel barn that caused one of the<br />

include people affected by dementia <strong>to</strong> live well in our community. <strong>to</strong>wn from our farm out in the country. headlights <strong>to</strong> turn outward.<br />

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Since I was getting pretty proficient It was actually funny because<br />

in mastering all the gadgets in the whenever we went anywhere at night,<br />

pickup, I would beg and plead for Dad one headlight shone forward and the<br />

<strong>to</strong> let me drive home once we got on other lit up the ditch alongside the road.<br />

the outskirts of <strong>to</strong>wn and finally the Ah the trials and tribulations of<br />

pleading paid off. God rest his soul that<br />

learning how<br />

poor Dad didn’t suffer whiplash with<br />

<strong>to</strong> drive!<br />

my ongoing learning on how <strong>to</strong> have a<br />

smooth clutch release.<br />

On our return home one<br />

day, and me in the driver’s<br />

If your group, business, club, or organization would like seat, I turned down the<br />

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To my horror, the pickup kept<br />

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All things good <strong>to</strong> know are<br />

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A mad bull is not <strong>to</strong> be tied up<br />

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.<br />

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.<br />

A miser is ever in want.<br />

Act quickly, think slowly.<br />

A different man, a different taste.<br />

An iron rod bends while it is hot.<br />

An open enemy is better than a false friend.<br />

Before you can score you must first have a goal.<br />

Character is habit long continued.<br />

Death is never at a loss for occasions.<br />

Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.<br />

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.<br />

Good accounts make good friends.<br />

A gift, though small, is welcome.<br />

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.<br />

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ongoing Lamb<strong>to</strong>n 56th Annual Salmon Derby, Apr 29-May 8 www.bluewateranglers.com<br />

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APRIL <strong>2022</strong><br />

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9 Sarnia <strong>The</strong> Stampeders - Celebrating 50 Years, Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

20%<br />

10 Forest Kiwanis <strong>Club</strong> of Forest Pancake Breakfast & Maple Syrup Festival Facebook<br />

OFF<br />

13 Sarnia Julie Nesrallah at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

Regular Priced<br />

Save<br />

14 Zoom Lamb<strong>to</strong>n County Branch Ontario Ances<strong>to</strong>rs meeting 7 pm www.lamb<strong>to</strong>n.ogs.on.ca<br />

Items In-S<strong>to</strong>re<br />

14 Wyoming Wyoming Legion Quarter Auction 519-381-9787<br />

Every Thursday of every month!<br />

15 Wyoming Wyoming Lions Breakfast Facebook<br />

16 Petrolia Chicken <strong>to</strong> Go Dinner (pre order) at St. Paul’s United 519-383-9085 or Facebook<br />

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16 Alvins<strong>to</strong>n Alvins<strong>to</strong>n Optimists Trivia Night 519-381-8914 or Facebook<br />

16 Sarnia Easter in the Park www.sarnia.ca<br />

Young @ Rewards<br />

20 Corunna Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Elderly Outreach Diner’s <strong>Club</strong>, Wellings of Corunna 519-845-1353 ext.301<br />

on almost<br />

Heart<br />

20 Sarnia Horticultural Soc meeting - Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening 519-332-5837<br />

everything you<br />

20-21 Sarnia Donovan Woods in concert at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

buy at Pharmasave.<br />

22 Wyoming Wyoming Lions Fish Fry Facebook<br />

22-23 Sarnia Fundraiser for Ukraine - Potting Mix Sale at DeGroot’s michael.kooy@rbc.com<br />

FUNDRAISER<br />

Potting Mix Sale at Degroot’s<br />

All proceeds <strong>to</strong> Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Efforts<br />

FOR<br />

1,100 bags of Pro-Mix Potting Mix will be sold!<br />

LONDON ROAD PHARMACY Tammy Maure<br />

UKRAINE APRIL 22nd & 23rd • $25 each (While quantities last!)<br />

Locally Owned and Operated 1249 London Rd<br />

For more info: 519-542-3435 or michael.kooy@rbc.com<br />

www.londonroadpharmacy.com 519-491-6778<br />

DeGroot’s Nurseries, in cooperation with the three Rotary <strong>Club</strong>s of Sarnia<br />

26 Port Franks Port Franks Seniors “Euchreama” Facebook<br />

* Every surface & product is disinfected daily for your safety!<br />

29-30 Sarnia This is Me at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

29-30 Petrolia Town Wide Yard Sale 519-882-2350<br />

MAY <strong>2022</strong><br />

7 Sarnia Sarnia School of Irish Dance presents a Celtic Evening www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

7 Petrolia Sisters of Choice in Concert at St. Paul’s United 519-882-1390 or Facebook<br />

7 Petrolia Ham & Scalloped Pota<strong>to</strong> Take Out, St. Paul’s United (pre order) 519-882-1390 or FB<br />

7 Point Edward Seaway Sounds Annual Garage Sale, 723 Houser St. 8 til Noon mayerp21@gmail.com<br />

7 Point Edward Town Wide Yard Sale --<br />

7 Wyoming Wyoming Legion Craft Show Facebook<br />

7 Wyoming Mother’s Day Craft Sale, 5504 London Line 519-845-3680<br />

10-22 Petrolia Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Playhouse Petrolia - <strong>The</strong> Roaring Twenties www.thevpp.ca<br />

11 Sarnia Sinfonia Toron<strong>to</strong> at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

12 Zoom Lamb<strong>to</strong>n County Branch Ontario Ances<strong>to</strong>rs meeting 7 pm www.lamb<strong>to</strong>n.ogs.on.ca<br />

13 Sarnia Jeff Leeson: <strong>The</strong> non virtual Comedy Tour www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

13 Sarnia Kentucky Derby Party @ Sarnia Golf - proceeds <strong>to</strong> Alzheimer’s 226-932-0699<br />

14 Petrolia Optimist <strong>Club</strong> Spring Craft & Gift Show www.lcpetroliaoptimist.org<br />

20-28 Sarnia Something Rotten” at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

All Inclusive Suites & Apartments with kitchenettes.<br />

23 Watford/Alvin Watford Alvins<strong>to</strong>n Road Race 226-402-3787<br />

27-29 Forest Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Film and Food Festival, Kine<strong>to</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre www.kine<strong>to</strong>.ca<br />

28 Courtright Town Wide yard Sale Facebook<br />

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JUNE <strong>2022</strong><br />

7-19 Petrolia Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Playhouse Petrolia - Dynamic Duos www.thevpp.ca<br />

11 Sarnia Kids Funfest www.sarnia.ca<br />

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12 Sarnia Bluewater Chordsmen Annual Show at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

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13 Sarnia Lunch at Allen’s concert at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

14 Zoom Lamb<strong>to</strong>n County Branch Ontario Ances<strong>to</strong>rs meeting 7 pm www.lamb<strong>to</strong>n.ogs.on.ca<br />

17-19 Alvins<strong>to</strong>n Alvins<strong>to</strong>n Pro Rodeo www.alvins<strong>to</strong>nprorodeo.com<br />

18 Petrolia Time & Talent Auction at St. Paul’s United Church See our Facebook Page<br />

23-25 Sarnia Bluewater BorderFest - Canadian Music Concert www.bluewaterborderfest.ca<br />

23-26 Sarnia Barefoot in the Park at Imperial <strong>The</strong>atre www.imperialtheatre.net<br />

25 Arkona Town Wide Yard Sale --<br />

25 <strong>The</strong>dford Town Wide Yard Sale --<br />

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Spring is<br />

in the Air!<br />

Kids and Kites<br />

By: Kenneth Lapointe, Ottawa • From Daytripping July-Aug 2009<br />

When I was a kid, kites<br />

were a neverending source<br />

of fun. Every kid had a<br />

kite in the neighbourhood<br />

and kite-flying season<br />

would begin on the first<br />

warm, sunny, and windy<br />

day in March or <strong>April</strong>. We<br />

had the perfect place for<br />

it. Our backyard bordered<br />

on Superior Park, a very<br />

large field area where we<br />

also had our very own homemade ball<br />

diamond.<br />

Our kites were the triangle-shaped<br />

ones. Yellow plastic with a spaceman on<br />

the front, two wooden stick crosspieces<br />

and a tail you created out of bits of<br />

cloth and rags. It had <strong>to</strong> be just the right<br />

amount <strong>to</strong> give it the proper weight. Too<br />

much tail and the kite wouldn’t ‘get up’<br />

in<strong>to</strong> the air very well, <strong>to</strong>o little and it<br />

would just swoop around and around in<br />

dizzying circles and eventually ‘bang!’,<br />

in<strong>to</strong> the ever present, ever waiting<br />

ground below.<br />

Someone had a ‘box kite’ once. To<br />

me it seemed incomprehensible how<br />

they could fly. I mean a couple of square<br />

‘boxes’ of plastic on some long sticks?<br />

But fly they did, though <strong>to</strong> me they were<br />

simply weird and not ‘really’ a kite.<br />

Having four brothers, each one with a<br />

kite, made for some interesting and fun<br />

launches in<strong>to</strong> space.<br />

My older brothers Jim and Gary got<br />

the idea of putting somebody’s hamster<br />

in an empty <strong>to</strong>ilet paper cardboard<br />

tube, sealing the ends and sending him<br />

aloft. It worked! After the mission, kite<br />

came back down <strong>to</strong> earth with hamster<br />

emerging unscathed and vic<strong>to</strong>rious. Oh<br />

the glory and fame!<br />

Another time Gary decided <strong>to</strong> hook<br />

up a couple of lightweight batteries <strong>to</strong><br />

some tiny bulbs around the edge of the<br />

kite, and voila, a successful period of<br />

night flying was born. Well, theoretically<br />

anyway.<br />

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I used <strong>to</strong> have a great<br />

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striped plastic parachute,<br />

about a foot in diameter,<br />

with a 5” blue plastic<br />

soldier attached <strong>to</strong> it. I<br />

would fold it all up just<br />

perfectly, insert it behind<br />

the crosspieces of the<br />

kite, and then when it<br />

was way up high, yank<br />

the string hard enough<br />

<strong>to</strong> dislodge it and there he’d be, floating<br />

happily and slowly through the air back<br />

down <strong>to</strong> the ground. Sometimes for<br />

pretty great distances <strong>to</strong>o. I thought that<br />

was the neatest thing in the world.<br />

I put myself in that little man. I was<br />

way up there in the limitless sky, then<br />

floating, floating safely back down. And<br />

no matter how ripped that parachute<br />

became or how many strings came loose<br />

from it, a little plastic and Scotch tape<br />

fixed it right back up. It was one of the<br />

most favorite <strong>to</strong>ys.<br />

One time I tried a much smaller<br />

parachute and man version. But it was<br />

so light that the wind simply carried it<br />

up, up...up, and it never came down!<br />

It simply drifted clear out of sight. Bye!<br />

Have a nice voyage!<br />

And of course being brothers we tried<br />

<strong>to</strong> have ‘kite fights’ but being hard <strong>to</strong><br />

control, it was almost impossible <strong>to</strong> get<br />

them <strong>to</strong> smash <strong>to</strong>gether. Besides, you<br />

never wanted the dreaded ‘tangled-up<br />

kite string’ scenario. That was death!<br />

Another bad thing <strong>to</strong> happen when<br />

kite-flying was if the string broke and<br />

your kite was like WAY, WAY up there.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n you had <strong>to</strong> run like blazes after it,<br />

so scared you’d lose it or it might land on<br />

someone’s roof or in a mean stranger’s<br />

backyard.<br />

Eventually I got a new ‘eagle’ kite that<br />

was sort of fan-shaped with an eagle on<br />

the front. But it never lived up <strong>to</strong> the fun<br />

I had with just the regular old-fashioned<br />

spaceman kites.<br />

<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> ...<br />

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John A. McCharles, Broker<br />

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With Us!<br />

THE <strong>Club</strong><br />

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Maggit: A subscription card that falls from a magazine.<br />

Maintenance-Free: When it breaks, it can't be fixed.<br />

Meter Maid: Windshield viper.<br />

Modesty: Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.<br />

Noise: Having a train yard 20 feet from your backyard.<br />

Oxymoron: One who has used <strong>to</strong>o much acne goo.<br />

Paradox: Two physicians.<br />

Paranoid: Someone who just figured out what's going on.<br />

Parking Space: An area that vanishes as you make a U -Turn.<br />

Pessimist: An optimist with experience.<br />

Pharmacist: A helper on a farm.<br />

Politics: From "poly" meaning many and "ticks,"<br />

a small, annoying bloodsucker.<br />

Positive: Being mistaken at the <strong>to</strong>p of your voice.<br />

Puritan: Someone deathly afraid that someone,<br />

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Pickle:<br />

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Cover of the CLUB<br />

Our local cover pho<strong>to</strong>grapher is Jayne Primeau<br />

Jayne lives in Bright's Grove, and is past president of the Sarnia<br />

Pho<strong>to</strong>graphic <strong>Club</strong>. She has been interested in pho<strong>to</strong>graphy since<br />

she began work in a Toron<strong>to</strong> Camera Shop in her early twenties.<br />

Her pho<strong>to</strong> of a Great Egret shot in Canatara Park won the grand<br />

prize in the Cottage Life 2020 magazine's pho<strong>to</strong> contest. Wildlife<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>graphy is her passion.<br />

MAIL DELIVERY<br />

During a recent cleaning spree, I<br />

came across a box marked “Old<br />

Papers.” As I sorted through various<br />

paper clippings and invitations<br />

<strong>to</strong> weddings and anniversaries,<br />

I came across some old letters<br />

with familiar handwriting and<br />

“Via Airmail” stickers on the<br />

envelopes. Putting all good<br />

intentions for cleaning out cupboards<br />

on hold, I sat down and started reading.<br />

Holding the thin paper pages and rereading<br />

the experiences of relatives<br />

in the Netherlands more than half a<br />

century ago brought back memories of<br />

how these precious letters arrived in my<br />

parental rural home in the Sarnia area.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mailman drove a car that must<br />

have been one of the first au<strong>to</strong>mobiles<br />

made by Henry Ford. It was at least<br />

twenty-five years old but as dependable<br />

as its driver, for we could count on the<br />

mailman <strong>to</strong> be at our mailbox at coffee<br />

time every weekday morning. Hearing<br />

the sound of gears shifting down and<br />

the car coming <strong>to</strong> a s<strong>to</strong>p made us drop<br />

whatever we were doing and run <strong>to</strong> the<br />

mailbox.<br />

For us new immigrants, mail meant<br />

not only a link <strong>to</strong> our old country, but<br />

also a window in<strong>to</strong> the new world we<br />

were living in, as advertising flyers and<br />

seed catalogues arrived by mail. <strong>The</strong><br />

Ea<strong>to</strong>n’s catalogue (or book as we called<br />

it) always received a royal welcome in<br />

our home. It was like a textbook for<br />

us, for it had pictures showing us what<br />

we could buy. When we discovered<br />

we could order by mail, the mailman<br />

became even more popular. We didn’t<br />

have <strong>to</strong> leave home <strong>to</strong> buy a new dress!<br />

We didn’t have <strong>to</strong> leave home <strong>to</strong> buy<br />

groceries either. Mother simply filled in<br />

the list of supplies needed, mailed it <strong>to</strong><br />

the grocer who five days later delivered<br />

the groceries along with a friendly<br />

chat and a list <strong>to</strong> fill in and mail for the<br />

next delivery. <strong>The</strong> grocer, who was a<br />

Second World War veteran, spoke and<br />

unders<strong>to</strong>od some Dutch, so we thanked<br />

him in our native language for not only<br />

bringing us the groceries but also for<br />

being instrumental in bringing freedom<br />

<strong>to</strong> our fatherland.<br />

When cameras became more<br />

affordable and easier <strong>to</strong> operate, we<br />

discovered that even films could be<br />

mailed <strong>to</strong> be developed in<strong>to</strong> pictures<br />

which we’d find two weeks later in<br />

the mailbox, complete with the bill<br />

and correct change from the paper<br />

money we had sent. That brought new<br />

opportunities, for now we could show<br />

family and friends where and how we<br />

...slightly less cool than the<br />

Cover of the Rolling S<strong>to</strong>ne,<br />

but we’re working on that!.<br />

By Jacoba Bos, Strathroy<br />

From Daytripping, March-<strong>April</strong> 2015<br />

lived. Soon, pictures of the house we<br />

lived in, with us smiling from ear <strong>to</strong><br />

ear in front of it, the church we<br />

attended, and the car that<br />

brought our family of eight<br />

<strong>to</strong> that church, were flying<br />

across the ocean one or two<br />

at a time so as not <strong>to</strong> exceed<br />

the allotted weight and price of a<br />

15 cent stamp for airmail.<br />

Because of all the conveniences<br />

Canada Post brought <strong>to</strong> our mailbox,<br />

we hardly ever saw the inside of the<br />

post office, except for finding out where<br />

people whom we knew who had moved<br />

or were new <strong>to</strong> the country were living.<br />

Phones were few and far between in<br />

those days and so were phone books, so<br />

before we’d set out <strong>to</strong> visit a newcomer<br />

who lived on a rural road in the area<br />

we’d s<strong>to</strong>p at the post office. Our request<br />

for help was always met in the typical<br />

Canadian patient and polite manner,<br />

as the postal employee would give us<br />

directions better than any GPS can do<br />

now, for I have yet <strong>to</strong> hear a GPS say,<br />

“when you come <strong>to</strong> that church, you’ve<br />

gone <strong>to</strong>o far.”<br />

Many things have changed at Canada<br />

Post since 1851. That was the year<br />

that Britain transferred control of the<br />

colonial postal system <strong>to</strong> Canada.<br />

Post offices were then established in<br />

places where settlers had formed a<br />

community. <strong>The</strong> newcomers welcomed<br />

this communication link <strong>to</strong> the country<br />

and people they had left behind, and<br />

appreciated the contact with their<br />

new neighbours who lived miles away<br />

through the post office.<br />

Gone are the days when we ran <strong>to</strong><br />

the mailbox <strong>to</strong> find the dress we’d<br />

ordered from the catalogue, the family<br />

allowance cheque from the government<br />

or postcards from friends vacationing<br />

in far away places. Technology has<br />

made great improvements, making<br />

life better for everyone. We now have<br />

instant communication with people<br />

across the ocean and beyond, via<br />

email and Skype. <strong>The</strong>se inventions<br />

that we could not have even dreamt of<br />

half a century ago are not only fast and<br />

easy ways <strong>to</strong> stay in <strong>to</strong>uch, they are<br />

also less costly than communication<br />

via Canada Post. But thanks <strong>to</strong> this<br />

old Canadian institution I will still be<br />

receiving mail, delivered <strong>to</strong> my rural<br />

mailbox. Even though it’s becoming<br />

more costly, I will keep in <strong>to</strong>uch with<br />

friends and relatives in Canada and<br />

Europe via the written word (and<br />

maybe a few pictures) sending them<br />

letters via Canada Post.<br />

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shows up at the Country<br />

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beautiful and very sexy 25<br />

year old who knocks<br />

everyone’s socks off with<br />

her youthful appeal and<br />

outright charm while<br />

hanging over Jock’s arm<br />

and listening intently <strong>to</strong> his<br />

every word. His buddies at<br />

the club are all aghast.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y corner him and ask,<br />

“Jock, How did you get the<br />

trophy girlfriend?” He<br />

replies, “Girlfriend? She’s my<br />

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Jock smiles and says,<br />

“No, I <strong>to</strong>ld her I was 90.”<br />

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“Years ago, I never would have<br />

said I’d get in<strong>to</strong> hard goods or<br />

boutique stuff,” said Ken. “But<br />

that’s where the market is going.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> nursery business has<br />

changed dramatically since he and<br />

Jennifer started Sipkens Garden<br />

Centre 34 years ago. <strong>The</strong>y found<br />

acreage on London Line near<br />

Wyoming where Jennifer grew up<br />

and had one small greenhouse<br />

that first year. Ken was working<br />

for another nursery at the time<br />

and with their know-how, work<br />

ethic and a sense that market<br />

<strong>The</strong> Sipkens family celebrate their 34th year in business<br />

demand was in perennials, the<br />

with the opening of a large retail addition.<br />

Sipkens found success.<br />

From left are: Brian, Alyssa, Ken and Jennifer Sipkens.<br />

Missing are Mark, Chris and Brad.<br />

<strong>The</strong> second year, Ken quit his<br />

other job and the couple devoted<br />

of (garden centre sales) is hard goods,” all their time <strong>to</strong> their new venture and<br />

said Ken.<br />

their five small children.<br />

“People are interested in staying home “We went in<strong>to</strong> the business about the<br />

and they want <strong>to</strong> make their outdoor time that perennials like hostas, ferns and<br />

living space really nice,” said Jennifer, grasses were becoming popular,” said<br />

adding that’s there’s also been a recent Ken. “We saw that as an opportunity.”<br />

explosion in bird watching.<br />

That’s why Sipkens’ new addition is<br />

filled with a wide variety of hard goods<br />

like pottery, planters, bird houses, bird<br />

baths, and more. <strong>The</strong> new addition,<br />

which is adjacent <strong>to</strong> the garden<br />

centre’s boutique, makes room in the<br />

greenhouses for more plants.<br />

<strong>The</strong> addition is spacious, cheery<br />

and air-conditioned, all <strong>to</strong> attract more<br />

shoppers and make going <strong>to</strong> Sipkens<br />

more of an outing, said Jennifer.<br />

A refreshment counter and café<br />

Artist’s concept of the garden<br />

tables are set up just inside an archway<br />

centre’s new addition<br />

attaching the addition <strong>to</strong> the original<br />

boutique area.<br />

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If a business isn’t growing,<br />

it’s stagnating and slipping<br />

backwards, says Ken Sipkens.<br />

That’s why he and his<br />

family have built an enormous,<br />

24,000-square-foot addition <strong>to</strong><br />

their garden centre this spring<br />

and invested in extensive<br />

recycling and water reuse<br />

systems in recent years.<br />

“We reinvest on a regular<br />

basis,” Ken said. “A lot of mom<br />

and pop garden centres don’t do<br />

that and they are struggling. Here,<br />

we are always looking ahead and<br />

researching the newest trends.”<br />

When the pandemic hit, for<br />

instance, Sipkens immediately<br />

set up an online s<strong>to</strong>re that<br />

ultimately outstripped their prepandemic<br />

sales.<br />

“Every day during Covid, we had 60<br />

<strong>to</strong> 70 carts full and ready for pickup or<br />

delivery. It was go, go, go, go,” said Ken’s<br />

wife Jennifer Sipkens. “<strong>The</strong> pandemic<br />

was good for business.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> Sipkens, who run their garden<br />

centre with their five children, Mark,<br />

Chris, Brian, Brad and Alyssa, make sure<br />

they know about industry trends around<br />

the world and apply the best ones <strong>to</strong><br />

their own business.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y have stayed on <strong>to</strong>p of things by<br />

going on regular trips across the globe<br />

with the International Garden Centre<br />

Association. A trip <strong>to</strong> Windsor, England<br />

a few years ago convinced them that<br />

the sale of hard goods like pots, trellises,<br />

garden supplies and yard accessories<br />

was about <strong>to</strong> take off in North America.<br />

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Today Sipkens grows at least 1,000<br />

varieties of perennials. <strong>The</strong>ir garden<br />

centre covers about 10 acres and<br />

employs 20 people year-round and 55<br />

seasonal workers.<br />

On <strong>to</strong>p of watching consumer<br />

trends and reinvesting, the Sipkens are<br />

also environmentally conscious and<br />

started an aggressive on-site recycling<br />

program eight years ago. About 90%<br />

of greenhouse plastic, cardboard,<br />

discarded pots and other waste<br />

produced by the business is recycled or<br />

composted.<br />

Four years ago, Sipkens began recycling<br />

the runoff from their greenhouses and<br />

irrigation by channelling the water in<strong>to</strong> a<br />

reservoir of tanks, treating it and reusing<br />

it for plant growth.<br />

Ken estimates that his five kids run<br />

about 70% of the business these days but<br />

he and Jennifer remain very involved.<br />

“We keep very busy and it’s a<br />

challenging business,” she said. “But we<br />

enjoy this kind of life.”<br />

Sipkens Garden Centre at 3261 London<br />

Line plans a Grand Opening for the new<br />

addition Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 30; 10 a.m.–3 p.m.


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A Father's Love<br />

Author<br />

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Fathers seldom say “I Love You”<br />

Though the feeling's always there,<br />

But somehow those three little words<br />

Are the hardest ones <strong>to</strong> share.<br />

And fathers say "I love you"<br />

In ways that words can't match<br />

With tender bedtime s<strong>to</strong>ries<br />

Or a friendly game of catch!<br />

You can see the words "I love you"<br />

In a father's boyish eyeses<br />

When he runs home, all excited,<br />

With a poorly wrapped surprise.<br />

A father says "I love you"<br />

With his strong helping hands<br />

With a smile when you're in trouble<br />

With the way he understands.<br />

ds.<br />

He says "I love you" haltingly, ly<br />

With awkward tenderness<br />

(It's hard <strong>to</strong> help a four-year-old old in<strong>to</strong> a party dress!)<br />

He speaks his love unselfishly<br />

By giving all l he can<br />

To make some secret dream come true,<br />

Or follow through a plan.<br />

A father's seldom-spoken love<br />

Sounds clearly through the years<br />

Sometimes in peals of laughter,<br />

Sometimes through happy tears.<br />

Perhaps they have <strong>to</strong> speak their love<br />

In a fashion all their own.<br />

Because the love that fathers feel<br />

Is <strong>to</strong>o big for words alone!<br />

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Announcing the long awaited<br />

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Management Facility at<br />

Bluewater Health.<br />

Joining the Minister of Long-Term<br />

Care <strong>to</strong> announce new Long-Term<br />

Care beds at Sumac Lodge.<br />

BOB BAILEY<br />

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Building A Better Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n<br />

At OWS Rail Car Inc. learning<br />

about their expansion project,<br />

supported in part through an<br />

investment by the Southwestern<br />

Ontario Development Fund.<br />

At Sarnia Arena celebrating<br />

Ontario’s investment in youth<br />

sports <strong>to</strong> help with their<br />

recovery from the pandemic<br />

and create opportunities for<br />

the next generation.<br />

Hello again <strong>to</strong> all the fans and followers of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Club</strong>. Spring is<br />

always my favourite season in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n. After the<br />

long, cold winter, we are experiencing all the renewal and<br />

energy in the community that comes with longer days and<br />

warmer temperatures. That is a welcome change and great<br />

for the spirit! Whether it’s sitting on the back patio or going for<br />

a long walk, I try <strong>to</strong> take every opportunity <strong>to</strong> get outside and<br />

enjoy the fresh air. This spring will bring even more outside<br />

time as candidates like myself in the <strong>2022</strong> Provincial Election<br />

hit the campaign trail before the June 2nd vote.<br />

<strong>The</strong> past four years have been very busy working <strong>to</strong> make<br />

things better in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n. Every day, I have been<br />

working <strong>to</strong> ensure Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n’s issues are front and<br />

centre at Queen’s Park. That’s why I’m pleased <strong>to</strong> see that so<br />

many important investments have been made in our<br />

community by the Ford Government.<br />

Although the COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges<br />

in our community, and across the province, our government<br />

never hesitated <strong>to</strong> do what was necessary <strong>to</strong> protect the<br />

health and safety of Ontarians. I continue <strong>to</strong> feel very<br />

optimistic about our future.<br />

It has been my honour <strong>to</strong> serve at Queen’s Park on behalf of<br />

the people of Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n over the last four years. Each<br />

day I wake up with a sense of excitement for what the future<br />

holds for the residents of Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n. With your support,<br />

I can’t wait <strong>to</strong> continue getting things done for our<br />

community. Stay safe and be well!<br />

Discussing Red Tape Reduction<br />

and Small Business Support with<br />

the Associate Minister of Small<br />

Business (right) and local<br />

business owner Manjit Singh<br />

(left) at Sitara Indian Cuisine.<br />

At St. Joseph’s Hospice <strong>to</strong><br />

announce funding support <strong>to</strong><br />

help with the important services<br />

they provide in our community.<br />

Horsing around on the job.<br />

With MP Gladu and Mayor<br />

Loosley attending the Vigil for<br />

Ukraine at Royal Canadian<br />

Legion Branch 216 in Petrolia.<br />

Contact Bob Bailey<br />

Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Progressive Conservative Riding Association<br />

Website: sarnialamb<strong>to</strong>n.ontariopc.ca<br />

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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign<br />

"If you don’t see<br />

what you’re looking for,<br />

you’re in the right place."<br />

A man and a woman had been<br />

married for more than 60 years.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y had shared everything. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

had talked about everything. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

had kept no secrets from each<br />

other except for the little box that<br />

sat up in the closet.<br />

For all of these years he had<br />

never thought about the box, but<br />

one day the little old women got<br />

very sick and the doc<strong>to</strong>r said she<br />

would not recover.<br />

In trying <strong>to</strong> sort out their affairs,<br />

the little old man <strong>to</strong>ok down the<br />

shoebox and <strong>to</strong>ok it <strong>to</strong> his wife's<br />

bedside.<br />

She agreed that it was time that<br />

he should know what was in the<br />

box. When he opened it, he found<br />

two crocheted dolls and a stack of<br />

money <strong>to</strong>talling $95,000.<br />

He asked her about the contents.<br />

"When we were <strong>to</strong> be married,"<br />

she said, "my Grandmother <strong>to</strong>ld me<br />

the secret of a happy marriage was<br />

<strong>to</strong> never argue. She <strong>to</strong>ld me that if<br />

I ever got angry with you, I should<br />

just keep quiet and crochet a doll."<br />

<strong>The</strong> little old man was so moved<br />

that he had <strong>to</strong> fight back tears. Only<br />

two precious dolls were in the box.<br />

She had only been angry with him<br />

two times in all those years of living<br />

and loving.<br />

"Honey," he said, " that explains<br />

the dolls, but what about all this<br />

money? Where did it come from?"<br />

"Oh," she said, "that's the money<br />

I made from selling the dolls."<br />

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OPEN YEAR ROUND<br />

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Closed Jan. 1, July 1 & Dec. 25<br />

COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR AGES 55+<br />

(From m<strong>The</strong> Booklet “A Seniors’ GuideToSarnia-lamb<strong>to</strong>n”)<br />

a amb<strong>to</strong>n Resource booklet available through Age-Friendly Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n<br />

by calling 519-332-0527 or visiting www.agefriendlysarnialamb<strong>to</strong>n.ca<br />

RESOURCE NAME SERVICES OFFERED PHONE WEB/EMAIL<br />

211 Mental Health Support, Food Services, Financial Assistance 211 211oncovid19.ca<br />

Age-Friendly Sarnia Lamb<strong>to</strong>n List of Supports & Services 519-332-0527 agefriendlysarnialamb<strong>to</strong>n.ca<br />

Bayshore Home Care Solutions Assistance with Housekeeping, Errands & Meal Prep 519-383-6979 bayshore.ca<br />

Canadian Red Cross Grocery Pickup & Transportation Services 519-332-6380 redcross.ca<br />

Care-A-Van Door-<strong>to</strong>-Door Public Transportation - lift equipped vehicles 519-336-3789<br />

Habitat for Humanity Low-Cost Home Reno Services 519-339-7957 habitatsarnia.org<br />

Heart <strong>to</strong> Home Meals Pre-Made Frozen Meal Delivery <strong>to</strong> 60+ 877-404-4246 heart<strong>to</strong>homemeals.ca<br />

Instacart Delivery from several local s<strong>to</strong>res 888-246-7822 instacart.ca<br />

Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Elderly Outreach Home & Yard Maintenance, Meals, Various Resources 800-265-0203 lamb<strong>to</strong>nelderlyoutreach.org<br />

Lamb<strong>to</strong>n Public Health Individual, Agency and Cargiver help 226-254-8222 lamb<strong>to</strong>npublichealth.ca<br />

Neighbourlink Household Chores, Transportation, Shopping, Companionship 519-336-5465 neighbourlinksarnia.org<br />

Sarnia Blessings Free Meals for Seniors & Vulnerable People 519-402-9093 sarniablessings@outlook.com<br />

Shine at Home Transportation, 24 hr Housekeeping, Shopping, Meal Prep 519-336-9898 shineathome.com<br />

Strangway Community Centre Recreational, Social & Educational Programs & Activities 519-332-0656 strangway@sarnia.ca<br />

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<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> ... SPRING <strong>2022</strong><br />

<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> ...<br />

Seniors<br />

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Every Thursday!*<br />

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Silver in the Hair<br />

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Crystals in the Kidneys<br />

Sugar in the Blood<br />

Lead in the Ass<br />

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And an inexhaustible<br />

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I never thought<br />

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60 might be the new 40, but 9 pm is the new midnight.<br />

Ah, Spring<br />

Yes your mother and<br />

grandmother were on<strong>to</strong><br />

something when they <strong>to</strong>ok<br />

advantage of a fine early spring<br />

day <strong>to</strong> hang rugs, blankets and<br />

quilts <strong>to</strong> air on the porch. Today<br />

Feng Shui (wind and water) tells<br />

us that stagnant air can be a<br />

health hazard and that <strong>to</strong> open<br />

your windows and keep them<br />

clean is a real boon <strong>to</strong> your overall<br />

health and well being.<br />

Feng Shui has been around for over<br />

four thousand years and has recently<br />

been rediscovered in North America.<br />

It started in China when people<br />

believed that an invisible energy<br />

called ch’i was instrumental in making<br />

certain locations sought after.<br />

Farmers believed that land, with the<br />

protection of tall mountains behind<br />

it would shield crops from wind and<br />

water in the front and so would yield a<br />

great harvest. Today Feng Shui is used<br />

<strong>to</strong> help you identify how ch’i flows<br />

through your work or living space.<br />

Now getting back <strong>to</strong> spring cleaning, in<br />

Feng Shui the belief is that everything<br />

by Rita Veel, London<br />

From Daytripping May-June 2006<br />

you own is attached <strong>to</strong> you<br />

by invisible threads.<br />

This includes stuff hidden<br />

behind doors, under beds<br />

and in your garage, I am<br />

not talking about well<br />

organized collections,<br />

strictly things that have<br />

no purpose in your life<br />

<strong>to</strong>day. Unless you rid<br />

yourself of the old stuff,<br />

no new things will enter your life. This<br />

spring, it is time <strong>to</strong> let go of clutter and<br />

once and for all take control of your<br />

environment. Less is more.<br />

Take a walk through your rooms and<br />

check the amount of space around the<br />

different pieces of furniture in your<br />

house.<br />

You should have a clear path, with<br />

no obstructions from room <strong>to</strong> room. If<br />

you are having a difficult time moving<br />

around your home comfortably, you<br />

will have a hard time negotiating<br />

certain aspects of your life as well.<br />

Open your windows, play music,<br />

clear your clutter and ch’i will bring<br />

positive spring energy in<strong>to</strong> your life.<br />

If you need access <strong>to</strong> additional funds,<br />

using the equity in your home<br />

can be a lower cost way <strong>to</strong> borrow<br />

the money than taking out a traditional loan.<br />

For example, you can use your home equity <strong>to</strong>:<br />

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BUY AN<br />

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PROPERTY<br />

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Obsolete Task? Using an atlas


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Few Words<br />

AFew Words<br />

IN A<br />

By Cathy Dobson<br />

We asked some notable folks in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n <strong>to</strong> have a little fun with us and<br />

answer some not-so-pressing questions, In A Few Words. Here’s what they said:<br />

Leona Holland<br />

Volunteer extraordinaire, mother of six and<br />

grandmother of 17<br />

Name one positive thing that surprises you about being over the age of 55.<br />

“Being over 55 tends <strong>to</strong> make other people more helpful and friendly.”<br />

If you won $1 billion, what would you do with your time?<br />

“I would work with the Department of Education <strong>to</strong> establish trade workshops in all<br />

Ontario high schools. Many non-academic students would benefit as we always need<br />

more trades people.”<br />

What do you love most about living in Sarnia?<br />

“I like the people, the lake, the bridges and the fries.”<br />

Did anything positive arise for you during the pandemic?<br />

“I had time <strong>to</strong> interact with family and friends as no volunteer time was available.”<br />

What’s your favourite day of the year and why?<br />

“My favourite day is Ground Hog Day as I always hope for an early spring.”<br />

Do you have a favourite place in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n? Where is it?<br />

“My favourite place is under the bridges.”<br />

Name one local s<strong>to</strong>re that everyone should visit.<br />

“Russell Street Home Hardware s<strong>to</strong>re is my favourite business in Sarnia.”<br />

Describe your perfect day.<br />

“My perfect day is anytime I can volunteer. I love people.”<br />

Name one person you think should run for office in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n even if they never will.<br />

“Anne Marie Gillis because she’s a great organizer with a clear vision for the future.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> Beatles or <strong>The</strong> Rolling S<strong>to</strong>nes?<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Beatles. Rolling S<strong>to</strong>nes are <strong>to</strong>o far out there for me.”<br />

Who has had the greatest influence on your life, not counting your spouse or children?<br />

“My father. He was a teacher and a volunteer.”<br />

What’s your favourite restaurant in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n?<br />

“Olives Restaurant. Great people, great food and fun <strong>to</strong> visit.”<br />

What’s your favourite movie or book and why?<br />

“I couldn’t put down the book by Douglas Brinkley called <strong>The</strong> Great Deluge - Hurricane<br />

Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. <strong>The</strong> fact that no one was prepared<br />

for Katrina even though they had warning was just unbelievable.”<br />

Name a bucket list item you intend <strong>to</strong> achieve, and one you probably won’t ever get <strong>to</strong>.<br />

“I never had a bucket list. I live day by day.”<br />

SUGGEST someone we should interview!<br />

info@welcome<strong>to</strong>theclub.ca<br />

Charlie Fairbank<br />

of Oil Springs, operates North American’s oldest<br />

oilfield and produces about 24,000 barrels of oil a<br />

year at Fairbank Oil in Oil Springs. He is a fourth<br />

generation oil man and uses only 19th century technology, including the jerker line<br />

system his great-grandfather developed in 1863. Charlie is a teacher by vocation and a<br />

passionate his<strong>to</strong>rian.<br />

You have never retired. What are you working on?<br />

“Working with an amazing team, (locally, nationally and internationally) <strong>to</strong>ward our next<br />

application <strong>to</strong> obtain a UNESCO World Heritage designation for Oil Springs.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> Beatles or <strong>The</strong> Rolling S<strong>to</strong>nes?<br />

“Mozart easily trumps these “boy bands.”<br />

What do you love most about living in Oil Springs?<br />

“I love the diverse landscape of open fields, woodlands, and wetlands with Black Creek<br />

meandering through it. It creates habitats for a rich assortment of wildlife and birds.”<br />

Name one local s<strong>to</strong>re that everyone should visit.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Book Keeper (in Sarnia) has my vote. Great reads, great staff and they will order<br />

any book for you. I also like <strong>The</strong> Ice Creamery on Front Street for a delicious treat.”<br />

What car have you owned that you like the best?<br />

“For me, cars and trucks are tied <strong>to</strong> fond memories. I had a Ford truck with a very chewed<br />

dashboard thanks <strong>to</strong> my wonderful border collie that often sat in the passenger seat.”<br />

Who has had the greatest influence on your life, not counting your spouse or children?<br />

“Both my parents, Charles and Jean Fairbank, were hard working compassionate people<br />

who cared about people and integrity. My father instilled me with immense respect<br />

for the early oilmen here and their ingenuity. My mother gave me a lifelong interest in<br />

singing and listening <strong>to</strong> music.”<br />

What’s your favourite restaurant in Sarnia-Lamb<strong>to</strong>n?<br />

“Hmmm. <strong>The</strong> question is <strong>to</strong>o difficult. I’d have <strong>to</strong> name five.”<br />

Name one positive thing that surprises you about being over the age of 55.<br />

“I don’t have <strong>to</strong> think about my boyhood interest in headstands. I never could do them.”<br />

Name a bucket list item you intend <strong>to</strong> achieve, and one you probably won’t ever get <strong>to</strong>.“I<br />

likely will not ride a helicopter over our oil field but my wife and I once had a terrific hot<br />

air balloon ride over it. And I just might be able <strong>to</strong> grow some really fantastic <strong>to</strong>ma<strong>to</strong>es<br />

this summer.”<br />

What are people most surprised <strong>to</strong> learn about you?<br />

“I’ve been interviewed on national television for Much Music and by Jonny Harris for<br />

CBC’s series Still Standing.”<br />

Do you have a guilty pleasure?<br />

“Yes, sweet chili pistachios. I have <strong>to</strong> limit myself.”<br />

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<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> ... SPRING <strong>2022</strong><br />

<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> ...<br />

THE <strong>Club</strong><br />

If this brings back good memories, send us some of your own.<br />

DELIVERY MONDAY THRU SATURDAY<br />

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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE<br />

TO BE WHAT YOU<br />

WANT TO BE. UNLESS<br />

YOU WANT TO BE<br />

YOUNGER. THEN<br />

YOU'RE SCREWED.<br />

Making Home Care Affordable<br />

During Tax Season<br />

Aging at home, or “aging<br />

in place” is everyone’s<br />

desire. <strong>The</strong> issue for many<br />

is the cost. When paying for<br />

home care and housekeeping<br />

out of pocket the cost may<br />

be less than you think. <strong>The</strong><br />

“how” you can achieve this is<br />

what I will be demonstrating<br />

in this article.<br />

If you, or a loved one, need<br />

services <strong>to</strong> stay independent<br />

there are many options<br />

available <strong>to</strong> you. I will be<br />

speaking about private home care.<br />

Now the Local Health Integration<br />

Network, or LHIN, provides some<br />

home care, it usually isn’t enough.<br />

According <strong>to</strong> our clients the help is<br />

great, they just wish there was more.<br />

So how can I afford a service that cost<br />

$30 an hour and up?<br />

From the CRA:<br />

Disability tax credit - <strong>The</strong><br />

disability tax credit (DTC) is a nonrefundable<br />

tax credit that helps<br />

persons with disabilities or their<br />

supporting family members reduce<br />

the amount of income tax they<br />

may have <strong>to</strong> pay. A person with a<br />

severe and prolonged impairment<br />

in physical or mental functions<br />

may be eligible for the DTC. Once<br />

an individual is eligible for the<br />

DTC, the disability amount can be<br />

claimed on their tax return(s) for<br />

the applicable year(s).<br />

This is how. It is called the Attendant<br />

Care Claim. It is also called the<br />

Disability Tax Credit. This is a nonrefundable<br />

tax credit that can literally<br />

save you thousands of dollars in<br />

income tax.<br />

Disclaimer: I am not a tax professional.<br />

Your tax situation is unique and for<br />

the appropriate and proper advice you<br />

should consult a tax professional.<br />

While I am not a tax professional,<br />

I have been assisting many of my<br />

clients in taking full advantage of<br />

the Attendant Care Claim. Here is a<br />

brief description of the credit. I will<br />

give the link <strong>to</strong> the detailed Canada<br />

Revenue Agency (CRA) Guidelines in<br />

this article, but essentially the credit<br />

is for anyone that needs assistance in<br />

remaining independent in their home.<br />

<strong>The</strong> credit covers the cost of staffing,<br />

or wages that get paid <strong>to</strong> staff by a<br />

home care provider. <strong>The</strong> credit pays for<br />

much more, but I will focus on staffing<br />

costs. For my clients it is over half the<br />

billing amount —a lot of money and I<br />

am amazed at the number of people<br />

that do not take advantage of this tax<br />

credit.<br />

By Chris Treftlin, Shine at Home, Sarnia<br />

See link:<br />

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/<br />

cra-arc/formspubs/pub/rc4064/rc4064-<br />

21e.pdf<br />

<strong>The</strong> details in the CRA document will<br />

fill in any blanks, but at a high level the<br />

steps you <strong>to</strong> get the credit are easy and<br />

as follows:<br />

First, print a copy of the T2201 form<br />

from the CRA website.<br />

See link:<br />

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenueagency/services/forms-publications/<br />

forms/t2201.html (or Google “T2201”),<br />

and take it <strong>to</strong> your primary medical<br />

professional, usually your doc<strong>to</strong>r. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

will fill in the form and return it <strong>to</strong> you.<br />

In the form they answer all the CRA’s<br />

questions regarding and confirming<br />

your specific needs for in-home care.<br />

With the T2201 filled out, the home<br />

care provider writes a letter confirming<br />

the amount that was paid <strong>to</strong> staff from<br />

the client’s annual billing. A little bit<br />

of homework for the service provider,<br />

but easily done. Now, with these two<br />

documents in hand, a claim can be<br />

made in your tax filing. Again, multiple<br />

thousands of dollars are available in<br />

this credit when you qualify.<br />

“Eligibility is not impacted by the<br />

receipt of other federal or provincial<br />

benefits. If you receive Canada<br />

Pension Plan or Quebec Pension<br />

Plan disability benefits, workers’<br />

compensation benefits, or other<br />

types of disability or insurance<br />

benefits, it does not necessarily<br />

mean you are eligible for the<br />

DTC. <strong>The</strong>se programs have other<br />

purposes and different criteria,<br />

such as an individual’s inability <strong>to</strong><br />

work.”<br />

It is also important <strong>to</strong> note that being<br />

on another form of support from the<br />

government does not, repeat does<br />

not necessarily disqualify you from<br />

receiving the credit. (From pg 16 of<br />

Information guide.)<br />

<strong>The</strong>re it is, get home care and save<br />

money on your taxes. I have <strong>to</strong> go<br />

now and write more letters for my<br />

clients.<br />

P A G E<br />

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Obsolete Task? Replacing s<strong>to</strong>rm windows


Let’s grow old <strong>to</strong>gether. You go first.<br />

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How many of you remember<br />

the rest of these jingles?<br />

1) “My bologna has a first name”<br />

2) “I don’t wanna grow up”<br />

3) “Gimme a break, gimme a break”<br />

4) “<strong>The</strong> best part of waking up”<br />

5) “Sometimes you feel like a nut”<br />

6) “I’d like <strong>to</strong> teach the world <strong>to</strong> sing”<br />

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7) “Reach out and <strong>to</strong>uch someone”<br />

8) “If you dare wear short shorts”<br />

9) “<strong>The</strong>y’re magically delicious”<br />

10) “Meow, meow, meow, meow”<br />

11) “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is”<br />

12) “So kiss a little longer. Hold hands a little<br />

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... and how many of you sang them?<br />

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<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong>...<br />

THE<br />

Questionnaire<br />

We W Need d Your Advice... Again!<br />

selected randomly. Please feel free <strong>to</strong> send a few<br />

words or a few pages & elaborate as you see fit.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are articles/s<strong>to</strong>ries in <strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Club</strong>,<br />

and then there are features (such as the<br />

Crossword, Postcards, Jokes, Events list, etc.)<br />

1) Tell us which 5 (or more) “ARTICLES” you liked the<br />

most and which 5 (or more) didn’t appeal <strong>to</strong> you as<br />

much. <strong>The</strong>re are no right or wrong answers.<br />

2) Many of the articles are nostlagic and say near the<br />

title that they were previously published in Daytripping.<br />

Would you like <strong>to</strong> see more or less of these?<br />

3) Tell us which 3 (or more) “FEATURES” you liked the<br />

most and which 3 (or more) didn’t appeal <strong>to</strong> you as<br />

much. Feel free <strong>to</strong> make suggestions.<br />

Again, please feel free <strong>to</strong> elaborate. We’re trying <strong>to</strong> build a<br />

magazine that is different than most, but we need <strong>to</strong><br />

know what you like, what will make you keep this<br />

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