Senior Moments - Campbellford Seniors Club

Senior Moments
Issue #4
October, November, December 2012
55 Grand Rd, Campbellford, Ontario KOL 1L0 (705) 653-3001
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Welcome & New Members . . 3
Soup and sandwich Wednesdays
– food for the body but also for
the soul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Queenie Anderson – Seniors’
centre a place to meet friends
and make new friends . . . . . . 6
Trent Hills Public Library –
read, listen, watch and enjoy. 8
Campbellford Citizens Choir
– hitting a high note with the
joy of singing. . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Upcoming Events at
Island Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
WHAT'S GOING ON?
October Calendar . . . . . 12
Island Park Events. . . . . 15
November Calendar . . . 14
December Calendar . . . . 16
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Welcome to our fourth edition of Senior Moments!
Fall is upon us with the cooler evenings and changing of
the leaves. This edition of Senior Moments will take you
right up to the new year with events for October, November
and December.
In order to provide you with entertainment and news, you
will find Seniors Moments has evolved. We have brought
in Sue Dickens to provide stories about our activities and
members. We are providing more pictures, human interest
stories and news for members.
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the Comments Box at the Senior Citizens Building or speak
to one of your board members – Gerald Brunton, Helen
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newest members:
Jean Doyle
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SOUP AND SANDWICH WEDNESDAYS
food for the body but also for the soul
The classic soup and sandwich
combo is making a comeback
at the seniors’ centre in
Campbellford.
The first Wednesday of every
month from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
the home-cooked meal offers not
only sustenance for the body but
also for the soul.
“I enjoy the food but I also
enjoy the comradeship. It’s
just great to come over and
see everybody,” said Faye
McKelvie who was enjoying her
soup and sandwich meal with
friends, Shirley Twigg and Doris
McAdam.
“The three of us are in the
apartment building just across
the road and we come here once
a month for this,” she explained.
The wonderful aroma from the
kitchen wafted into the room
Photo: Sue Dickens
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where everyone was gathered
for a bite to eat. More than a
bite actually. There were three
kinds of soup simmering in
the kitchen along with plenty
of sandwiches as well as coffee
and some delectable desserts.
The soup and sandwich
Wednesdays program was
started last January, an idea that
soon became more than food for
thought for Gerald Brunton,
president of the Campbellford
Senior Citizens’ Club.
He hopes that word-of-mouth,
no pun intended, will see it
become more well known and
popular within the community.
The hall can accommodate
table settings for about 36
people.
The company of friends is a
bonus.
Kathy Cooper and her
husband Milt line up
for a some of the homemade soup made by
seniors who volunteered
in the kitchen this
Wednesday, on the right,
front to back, Patricia
Simmonds, Dianne
Parker, Jan Rutherford
and to the extreme right,
Muriel Stollery.
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“I like everything about it. It’s
great fellowship,” said Shirley.
Doris agreed. “It’s just a super
place.”
At a table nearby Barbara
Wickens, Kathy Cooper and
Shirley Seguire were seated.
“The food is excellent.
Everybody is so friendly here
and the camaraderie of the
seniors’ club is wonderful,”
said Barbara, in between bites
of food.
Kathy has been coming to
the centre for years. “I was
in the original group that put
the club together. It just keeps
getting better . . . and the food
is excellent,” she commented.
“And the soups are to die for,”
she added with a grin.
In the kitchen Patricia
Simmonds, Dianne Parker,
Muriel Stollery and Jan
Rutherford were busy making
sure there was plenty of food
for everyone.
“I have been helping out with
the soups since January when
this first started,” said Dianne,
who admits her favourite is
clam chowder. She made carrot
soup this particular day.
Muriel said she likes to make
rice pudding.
Jan made the corn chowder
which everyone was enjoying
this day.
“I come because of the
camaraderie and I get to meet
new people every week,” she
said, a newcomer to the centre.
“And it’s open to the public, not
just club members. We want
everybody to come and enjoy
the soup and sandwiches,” said
Jan.
“We’ll even pack it up for you
so you can do a takeout,” she
added.
“We’re very people friendly.”
The cost? Just $7 for the allyou-can-eat soup and sandwich
Wednesday.
by Sue Dickens
Gerald Brunton, President of the
Campbellford Senior Citizens’
Club chats with, from left, Faye
McKelvie, Shirley Twigg and
Doris McAdam as they enjoy
the home-cooked meal at the
soup and sandwich Wednesday
held the first Wednesday of each
month. Photo: Sue Dickens
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One of Our Own
QUEENIE ANDERSON
Seniors’ centre a place to meet friends and make new friends
Meet Queenie Anderson.
A go-getter who gives
new meaning to the words
young-at-heart, she has made
Campbellford her home and
the Forrest Dennis Seniors
Centre is where she likes to
spend a lot of her time.
“I would encourage all
seniors to think of belonging
to the Campbellford Senior
Citizens’ Club. It keeps your
mind alert and gets you
moving,” Queen said.
A war bride who came to
Queenie Anderson enjoys Canada from England in 1944,
b e i n g a m e m b e r o f t h e she and her husband Walter
Campbellford Senior Citizens’
made a life for themselves
Club and encourages everyone
to stop by the Forrest Dennis raising two sons and a
Seniors Centre and see what daughter on a dairy farm at
it is all about. When she isn’t Hoards Station.
there she likes to spend time After the kids were grown,
at the local legion. This plaque they moved to town and when
was presented to Queenie for Watler passed away Queenie
her dedication to the Legion
decided to join the seniors
Ladies. Photo: Sue Dickens
club “for something to do.”
Today it has become much more than that.
She remembers going to the first seniors’ storefront
in the 1970s, at Queen and Bridge Streets. She recalls
playing bingo for 10 cents a card.
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Then in 1980, the Forrest Dennis Seniors building became
a reality, named after the man who inspired the project.
For Queenie and the others who enjoy dropping into
the centre, it offers a place to go to meet friends and
make new friends.
And when she is not car pooling to get there, she
drives herself to the centre at 55 Grand Road where it is
sits along the banks of the beautiful Trent River.
Driving to the centre is not unique by any means, but
for Queenie it does take on a special meaning when you
learn that she is 91 years young.
“I just like to keep going. I don’t like to just sit around,”
she commented, noting she has eight grandchildren
and 11 great grandchildren. And when she’s not at the
seniors’ centre she can be found at the local legion where
she has been an active member for 4 years.
But on any given Wednesday she is at the seniors’ centre.
“Wednesday is my favourite day . . . it’s euchre day
and every third Wednesday we have a pot luck. We go
there in the morning about 11 a.m. and sometimes we
have a special guest speaker. Then at 1:30 until about
4 p.m. we play euchre,” she said.
From bridge to shuffleboard to cribbage there’s
something for everyone to enjoy.
“They have a nice little room in the front and they have
all kinds of books you can take out and read and they
have jigsaw puzzles by the hundreds,” she said.
When asked why she frequents the centre so much, she
answered without hesitation.
“I just love it all, I really do.”
Membership in the club costs $15 annually.
by Sue Dickens
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READ,
LISTEN,
WATCH
AND ENJOY
Trent Hills Public Library has three branches,
Campbellford, Hastings and Warkworth. If you are a
resident or pay taxes to Trent Hills one library card gives
you free library service at any of the three branches. A
non-resident fee is charged if you are not.
Each branch offers a wide range of formats to suit various
needs – magazines, hard cover and paperback books, Large
Print books, audio books, DVDs, and ebooks. We offer
help to set up your ebook reader. We have collections for
children, young adults and adults. If there is something
you are looking for that we do not have we can borrow it
from one of our branches or interlibrary loan from another
library system. Our loan periods are one week for audio
and three weeks for all other materials. You can renew
or put a hold on an item online, by phone or in person.
We offer free high speed internet on our computers or
wireless if you prefer to bring your own. Our wireless
runs 24/7 at all branches so you can access it at any time.
We do charge for photocopying and FAXing at any of
the branches.
We have Storyhours, author visits, school visits and
Summer reading programs for children. Campbellford
branch has two meeting rooms for rent. We have an art
group meeting Friday afternoons and a writing group just
starting. Each branch has it’s own Friends of the Library
group and Book Clubs.
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Check our website for branch hours,
trenthillslibrary.ca
For more information
on activities at individual
branches please contact
them, Campbellford Branch
at 705-653-3611, Hastings
Branch 705-696-2111 and
Wa r k w o r t h B r a n c h a t
705-924-3116.
On Saturday November 3,
2012 we will be celebrating
the 100th anniversary of
the Carnegie Library in
Campbellford. Rededication of the
Carnegie will start at 1:00pm at the
branch. Watch for local papers for
further info.
We are here - ready to help you find
what you need.
Euchre Results
On Saturday, September 15th we had our regular
Euchre tournament. Very nice turnout with 39 players.
1st prize Steve Forstner
90 points
$38.00
2nd prize Dennis Hammett 84 points
$28.00
3rd prize Joyce Stephens
78 points
$19.00
4th prize Ken Boose
77 points
$10.00
Very big thank you to all people who participated!
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CAMPBELLFORD CITIZENS CHOIR
hitting a high note with the joy of singing
La, la la! Ross Cotton, director of
the Campbellford Citizens Choir,
joins Anne Battman, the choir
president, as they practise together.
They encourage anyone, not just
seniors, to find out more about
their group which gets together
every Monday at 7 p.m. at the
Forrest Dennis building.
La la la!
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible, is music”. So wrote English critic and novelist
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) from Music at Night, 1931.
Anne Battman and Ross Cotton would probably agree. She
is president of the Campbellford Citizens Choir (CCC) and
he is the director. Both are singers . . . and more. She sings
alto and he makes sure everyone in the choir has a voice
and that their voice is heard.
From secular music to Broadway favourites, the choir of men
and women, only two men at this point in time, gets together
to practise every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Campbellford
seniors’ building.
“I really enjoy the friendship,” said Anne, who shares the
same love of music that her fellow choir members share.
“It’s a chance to get together and sing together,” said Ross.
Both are celebrating their 78th year and music has always
been and continues to be a big part of their lives.
Anne sings in the choir at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,
Campbellford.
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“When I went to
high school I was
in the choir. I won
a gold medal at a
music festival, for a solo,” she said. “But
that was many many
years ago.”
Photo: Sue Dickens
Ross used to sing
with Westben (Arts Festival Theatre). He graduated from the
Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and after a number of
years working for Bell Canada he left to focus on his music,
teaching piano and voice and theory.
“We’ve had as many as 15 members in the Campbellford
Citizens Choir,”commented Ross,“but we welcome newcomers
and would like to see it grow to at least 26.”
“Sometimes if for example, we don’t have a tenor or a bass,
we can only sing a three-part type of song. . . so we have to
adapt our songs to fit our group,” he said.
Whatever it takes to make it happen, the songs they sing
are inspiring, uplifting and a lot of fun.
Who knows a performance at Roy Thomson Hall might be
within the realm of possibilities.
“We have a bright future ahead and we’re just getting
started,” said Ross, who noted the group is not limited to
just seniors, “everybody is welcome.”
“You have to be able to carry a tune,” he said laughing,“But
the choir is really just about the joy of singing together.”
Perhaps the words of Ella Fitzgerald best describe what
the choir is all about.
“I sing like I feel.”
by Sue Dickens
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October 2012
SAT/SUN
MON
1
TUES
2
BRIDGE
1:30
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
6/7
8
9
13
15
16
WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY
BRIDGE
1:30
14
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
TRIP TO
HERONGATE
THEATRE
20
WED
THURS
FRI
3
4
5
10
11
12
18
19
25
26
Soup &
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
Sandwich BOARD
1:30
11:30am- 1:30
EUCHRE
1:00pm
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
17
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
BOARD
1:30
1:30
EUCHRE
7:30
POT LUCK SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
11:15am
BOARD
1:30
& GENERAL 1:30
EUCHRE
MTG 7:30
Speaker from
Community
Care
EUCHRE
1:30
22
23
24
21
27/28 29
30
31
BID
BRIDGE
EUCHRE 1:30
TOURNAMENT
1:00
BRIDGE
1:30
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
EUCHRE
1:30
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
1:30
BOARD
POT LUCK
1:30
6:00
EUCHRE
7:30
Upcoming Events at
Thursday October 11th @ 2:00pm – Jamie Spurvey, a fantastic
up and coming young country music singer. Jamie’s first CD
was released at the age of 14. Jamie won first place at the
Havelock Country Idol in 2011 to a standing ovation, as well
as, entertained at the Havelock Jamboree in 2011 & 2012. He
sings with a voice much older than his years and speaks to the
listeners’ heart. He has traditional style and grace. Jamie will
win you over and steal your heart.
Thursday October 18th @ 2:00pm – Life Coach Pauline Loney
will be speaking about “Getting your body ready for winter”.
Topics such as Motivation, importance of vitamin D, & Eating
Healthy will be introduced. Come find out how to improve
your life!!!
Saturday November 17th @ 1:00pm-4:00pm – Annual Holiday
Shopping Event – Be sure to be a part of this annual tradition
and get an early start on your “Holiday Shopping”. Be sure to
visit all of our 24+ vendors. New this year, a tea room.
Monday December 17th @ 7:00pm – It wouldn’t feel like
Christmas without the sounds of a brass band playing your
favorite holiday tunes. This brass quintet is made up of 5
Peterborough Musicians who have extensive performance
experience and training. Join us for “Just Us Brass” – a Christmas
special.
Please RSVP to any of our events by calling Island Park at
705-653-3100. Ask for Krista or Cindy. Please bring a friend!
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November 2012
SAT/SUN
MON
TUES
WED
THURS
FRI
1
2
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
BOARD
1:30
1:30
EUCHRE
7:30
3/4
5
EUCHRE
1:00
EUCHRE
TOURNAMENT
7:30
Soup &
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
Sandwich BOARD
1:30
11:30am- 1:30
EUCHRE
1:00pm
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
7
8
9
13
14
15
16
BID
BRIDGE
EUCHRE 1:30
TOURNAMENT
1:00
20
21
22
EUCHRE
POT LUCK SHUFFLE Seniors’
Christmas
1:00
11:15am BOARD
Dinner
& GENERAL 1:30
EUCHRE
TOURNAMENT MTG
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
23
24/25 26
27
28
29
30
BRIDGE
1:30
10/11 12
BRIDGE
1:30
17
19
18
BRIDGE
1:30
6
EUCHRE
EUCHRE
1:30
1:00
EUCHRE
TOURNAMENT
7:30
EUCHRE
EUCHRE
1:30
1:00
EUCHRE
TOURNAMENT
7:30
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
BOARD
1:30
1:30
EUCHRE
7:30
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
1:30
BOARD
1:30
POT LUCK
6:00
EUCHRE
7:30
MEMBERS RELOCATING
The Campbellford Senior Center recently had to say goodbye to two of our long time members Kay Durnford &
Jean Scarborough.
Kay has moved to the Ottawa area to be closer to her
family. Kay was also a convener for many years for the
bridge games.
Jean has moved to the Oshawa area to also be closer to
her family.
We at the Center wish both Kay and Jean the best of
health & happiness in the next phase of their lives.
THE LIGHTER SIDE
A man was walking on the beach one day and he found a
bottle half buried in the sand. He decided to open it. Inside
was a genie. The genie said," I will grant you three wishes
and three wishes only." The man thought about his first wish
and decided, "I think I want 1 million dollars transferred to a
Swiss bank account. POOF! Next he wished for a Ferrari red
in color. POOF! There was the car sitting in front of him. He
asked for his final wish, " I wish I was irresistible to women."
POOF! He turned into a box of chocolates.
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December 2012
SAT/SUN
1
MON
3
Christmas BRIDGE
Dinner
1:30
2
Christmas
Dinner
8/9
15
10
TUES
4
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
11
WED
5
THURS
FRI
6
7
Soup &
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
Sandwich BOARD
1:30
11:30am- 1:30
EUCHRE
1:00pm
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
BRIDGE
1:30
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
12
SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
BOARD
1:30
1:30
EUCHRE
7:30
13
14
17
18
19
20
21
27
28
BID
BRIDGE
EUCHRE 1:30
TOURNAMENT
1:00
EUCHRE
1:00
BID
EUCHRE
7:30
POT LUCK SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
11:15am BOARD
1:30
& GENERAL 1:30
EUCHRE
MTG
7:30
EUCHRE
1:30
22
25
26
16
Christmas
Dinner
24
23
29/30 31
16
Christmas SHUFFLE CRIBBAGE
Dinner
BOARD
1:30
1:30
POT LUCK
6:00
EUCHRE
7:30
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