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Report Summary - Season's last Meeting
April 11, 2018 we had about 125 folks who were still here in The Villages attend our closing meeting of the 2017-2018 season. We were entertained by Doug Souza, a Villages resident magician who wowed us with his bag of tricks and illusions and The Palm Trio featuring our own Jill Marrese on vocals that were fantastic - enough so that we have hired them for our Valentines Party next year.
Laura and Ray Bowen – these 2 keep all of our assets at their house, bring them to every meeting, set up the coffee and then head up our clean up effort after the meeting and in addition organize and run our night golf outing every year.
Wendy and Maurice Poirier – this couple has acted as the conscience of our club for a few years now and organizes and supports our monthly collection of food and used clothing for the charities we support, takes care of the decorations for our Christmas and Valentines Parties – this year being helped by Bernice and Mark Zahringer and in addition Moe’s alter ego – Alley Oop comes by and helps with our social efforts at those parties.
Paul and Judy Rivenbark – have been with us pretty well since the first year which was 7 years ago – Judy working the registration desk and Paul selling 50/50 tickets
Heather and Herman Janssen – have taken over the Christmas Party meal and have organized this the past 4 years even cooking stuffing one year – they also have run the annual Bunko tournament since it is inception 6 years ago and this year provided every one of our golf tournament participants with a Canada hat.
Kathryn St. John – who this year organized and coordinated our ladies lunch group who met bi- weekly for lunch at Demshars and with Sally is putting together a book club for us next year.
Bonnie and Rudy – another couple that have pretty well from day 1 volunteered to do anything we need – working the registration desk, clean up and taking care of our cake needs for our annual Christmas Party.
Dorothy and Jim McCann – our Scottish mates who also help out any way they can
Jacquie and
Charles Ruigrock – our friends from Calgary – again doing anything we ask
and this year taking over and absolutely killing the task of running our 8th consecutive
sold out golf tournament. Also their golf committee – Paula Wilde, Bill
Penney, Mavis and Russell Combe, Linda and Wayne Kelly, and Hazel
Shackleton.
Sally and Lionel – Sally volunteered to take over as club photographer and photo editor has done a magnificent job, check out her work on this website – and of course Lionel keeps us all entertained with his Gordie Howe sweater and smart remarks but is always there to help if needed.
Jim Bacon –
our Santa Claus and for a long time now one of our sergeant at arms help
us directing traffic at the front door every meeting and last but
certainly not least Helen Horsman who also from Day 1 has helped out
anywhere we needed.
We thank each and every one of you as well as anyone who I neglected to
mention that volunteers from the bottom of Pat’s and my heart – without
you we just would not exist.
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We also want to acknowledge John Alden who also has been with us since the start – volunteered to put together our Loonies & Toonies website that he keeps current for us and since that time we have had over 16,000 hits – it is a wealth of information not only for club info but for snowbirds info including a link to the 8840 form we must fill out if we spend more than 120 days a year in the US, was our club photographer for many years and organizes our weekly pickleball program
Pat
Irving
has asked to retire from her position of secretary treasurer for the
past few years – it is a lot of work keeping our database, acting as
treasurer watching our money closely – if you spend money on the club’s
behalf you have got to have a receipt, printing name badges each month
for new members or replacing ones that got lost, taking and making phone
calls, organizing the registration desks each month [she told me that
with all of the speakers we have had over the years she has only heard
about 3 of them because of being busy behind the scenes counting out
money and preparing the 50/50 envelopes while they were talking] and
most of all trying to keep Dave in order, only to be talked out of it
until now. This year is her last in that position we are going to
miss working with her very much.
In appreciation for all of the hard work Pat and her sidekick Brian have
done these past 8 years we presented them with a plaque which says “ In
sincere appreciation for co-founding and volunteering for 8 years” and a
gift certificate as a token of our appreciation and thanks for all you
have done.
We then elected a new executive for the 2018 – 2019 season:
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Dave Horsman returns for his 9th year as President |
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Lionel Mantha was elected as Vice President |
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Hazel Shackleton was elected as
Registrar - Treasurer
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Background music "The Villages Shovelin' Sunshine Song". Written by Ted Merthe, Mark Merthe & Shawna Harrington. To see the video click HERE Photos by Sally Hinds.
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Annual Bunko Tournament
Night
Our Annual Bunko Tournament has come and gone. Special
thanks to Herman and Heather Janssen for once again hosting and organizing
our annual BUNKO tournament and social - we had 84 players out this year
vying for valuable prizes with Canadian themes - 50/50 winners were Mike
McBride from London, Ontario and Flo Stewart from Erin Ontario.
Golf Tournament Results
Here is a list of our 8th Annual Tournament prize winners. For
pictures of all the participants and winners please click
HERE.
RBC Tournament Golf Bag Winners - Nancy Chow and Alan Rae
50/50 Winners - Richard Ives, Mavis Combe, Pat Irving, Denise Roach, Tom
Fleming & Brian Shackleton
Most Honest Golfers Award - Gerry and Gloria Liboiron, & Richard and Pixie
Wilder
Closest to the Pin - Bob Chartrand, Judy Rivenbark, Mike Freshwater and
Diane Bray
Longest Putt - Barry Bates, Julie Marleau, Chuck Harris and Muriel Salyzyn
Closest to the Line - Rob Kengis & Marion Swan
Best Costume - Derrick Reilly and Joan Creedy
Best Team Name - Multiple Foregasms - Ken and Gwen Pozzolo and Mike and Sue
Freshwater
Draw Prizes - Mike Marcy, Teri Sherman, Doris Jalbert, Judy Kidd and Susan
MacLean
Lowest Gross Score - Mavis Combe, Russel Combe, Bill Penney, Paula Wilde
Tournament Champions - Ray and Laura Bowen & Linda and Wayne Kelly.
Background music "The Villages Shovelin' Sunshine Song". Written by Ted
Merthe, Mark Merthe & Shawna Harrington. To see the video click
HERE
Photos by Sally Hinds.
March ---------------
Click here to check out our new section "Clubs - Associations - Groups" and get all the information on Canadian Loonies and Toonies Women’s Lunch Group and more.
Next Meeting is BUNKO night
March 14 - Click
HERE for Details.
March 5, 2018 - we held our 8th annual Canadian Loonies and
Toonies Golf Tournament with 140 participants at Eagle Ridge in fabulous
weather and then on March 8 our 3rd annual Night Golf Event with over 60
participants on a rather cool evening.
Here's what you missed at the last meeting
We celebrated Valentines Day in style on
February 14 with over 250 people attending and bring all sorts of goodies
[much it went to the Wildwood Food Pantry the next day] - we encouraged
folks to sit in areas of the room divided by Canadian geography and it
seemed to be a hit as many people made new friends from their part of our
Canada.
We had Joe Allen in to pinch hit for us as Brian Carl and Company had to
cancel last minute due to Brian coming down with the flu and not being able
to sing. Joe did a fantastic job on very little notice.
Our
Happy 50/50 winners were:
Dorothy White, Thunder Bay, ON
Moe Poirier, Summerstown, ON - attended as Alley Oop
Gen Coolen, Stittsville, ON
Wayne Kelly, Kingston, ON.
each taking home $75.
The winner of the Moncton Bankroll of $46.00 in $1.00 bills
was Larry Balderson, Komoko, ON.
You can check out all your pictures taken at the
'love in' at the Loonies Valentine party
HERE.
And don't miss our next meeting which is our annual BUNKO tournament on
March 14 - come on out and have some fun in this fast paced very easy to
learn social active game
Febuary's Front Page:
Next
Meeting is Valentines Day
Feb 14 - Hacienda - 6:30 sharp
Featuring popular Villages performer Bryan Balyeat
Click HERE to
get all the info
Here's what you
missed at the last meeting
This past Wednesday, January 10, 2018 we had one of the most informative
evenings in our club history with our special guest speaker - Dr. Thomas
Deans speaking to us and answering our questions about a subject most of us
do not want to deal with - our succession - Dr. Deans has authored two NY
Times Best Sellers - The first dealing with selling a family business and
his latest Book - Willing Wisdom - "7 Questions Successful Families Ask”
Dr. Deans usually commands a fairly healthy speaking fee but because he
likes coming to The Villages each year to play golf with a couple of his
buddies [Rob Lewis and Dave Horsman] he was cajoled into doing this for us
pro bono [we did give him some small purple Village gifts and made a
donation to his favourite charity - Sleeping Children around the World as
tokens of our appreciation ] - he did play some golf and shot a 75 with an
Eagle on Laurel Valley # 7 while he was here.
We had approximately 250 attendees and many new members and guests and going
against our usual procedures we had a lot of questions that came from the
floor. TD Bank graciously purchased 200 of Dr. Deans latest book and
distributed them among our attendees with many people stopping to get Dr.
Deans to sign them - many thanks to them for this sponsorship.
Our
50/500 winners on the evening were:
Paul Goulard from Sturgeon Falls ON, Emil Petko from Wasaga Beach ON and
Rodena Hatnean from Lakeshore ON, all won $75.00 while her husband JP
Hatnean won the $70.00 in $1.00 bills during our inaugural Heads/Tails coin
toss game beating out Gwen Pozzolo in the final.
The 10 winners of the Jim Nelford Golf Clinic lesson that will be held at
Baseline Golf on January 23 were Ed Carroll, Tony Crawford, Dennis Daley,
Robert Lewis, Rick Maguire, Mike McBride, Emil Petko, Cal Stotyn, John
Tomlinson & Paul Walther. They will join: Dave Horsman, Helen Horsman, Pat
Irving, Brian Irving, Paul Rivenbark, Judy Rivenbark, Ray Bowen & Laura
Bowen who were preselected as thanks for their hard work in volunteering to
the club since its inception.
Background music "The Villages Shovelin' Sunshine Song". Written by Ted
Merthe, Mark Merthe & Shawna Harrington. To see the video click
HERE
January2018 MainPage -
Next Meeting Jan10 at La Hacienda - Doors Open 5:30
Our January 10th, 2018 meeting may prove to be the most informational meeting our club has ever scheduled. We invite you to attend a very special presentation by Dr. Thomas William Deans Ph.D., New York Times Best Selling author, who hails from Orangeville, Ontario. Dr. Dean's presentation will center on his award winning book "Willing Wisdom - 7 Questions Successful Families Ask".
For all the details,
click
HERE
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We had 222 Canadian Folks come out to celebrate
Christmas at our 7th annual Canadian Loonies and Toonies Christmas
Party on Dec 13 at La Hacienda - food catered by Bob Evans in
Brownwood was terrific and were able to get everyone served in about
20 minutes.
We had a few special guests - all the way from the Village of North Pole - Santa Claus and from Mallory Square our own member of Clown Alley - Mr. Alley Oop - along with our musical guests Nina and Safia who were fantastic and closed their show at 9 pm with renditions of “The Prayer’ and ‘Time to say Goodbye” the popular Andrea Bocelli duet songs he did with Celine Dion and Sarah Brightman. We had drawings for food baskets for those of you that preregistered and 8 people/couples walked away with nice baskets or restaurant vouchers as well as our winners of bottles wine for the best dressed lady and gentlemen of the evening - Ron Radwick from Chatham, Ontario and new member Beverley Booth from Belleville, Ontario.
Our 50/50 program raised $ 750 which allowed us to
award 5 - $ 75 prizes to - Mike Vrebosch from Sudbury, Ont., J. P.
Hatnean from Windsor Ont., Carolyn Walsh from Huntsville, Ont., Elenor
Kyle, from Kenora, Ont. and our Moncton Bankroll made up of mostly one
dollar bills to Heather Adams from Thornbury Ont. |
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here
for coming events
Ladies, how about a
Canadian women’s lunch group - interested?
Click for details
Background music "The Villages Shovelin' Sunshine Song". Written by Ted
Merthe, Mark Merthe & Shawna Harrington. To see the video click
HERE