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Welcome to ... THE Club Must be 55 or over to read this magaizine. Welcome to ... Winter 2021 Floors for life. Hardwood • Tile • Laminate • Carpet Luxury Vinyl Tile and Plank & More! Recipes Send Us Your u Recipes! e c es ! 532 CHRISTINA ST. N., SARNIA • 519.344.8855 • CARPETONE.CA ® Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Co., and Custom Floors Carpet One Floor & Home. (A through B) Accordionated: Able to drive and refold a road map at the same time. Adult: A person who stopped growing at both ends but not in the middle. Adultery: Putting yourself in someone else's position. Aeroma: Odor coming from an exercise room after an aerobic workout. Air travel: Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in Brazil. Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; can multiply and divide at the same time. Aquadextrous: Able to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. Arbitrator: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s Artery: Study of paintings. Avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do. Banectomy: The removal of bruises on a banana. Antonym: Barium: What doctors do when treatment fails. The opposite of the word Bernadette: The act of torching a mortgage. you’re trying Boy: A noise with dirt on it. to think of. Bureaucrat: A person who cuts red tape sideways. Here are a few recipes from various fundraising cookbooks we’ve collected over the years. You’re welcome to send your own recipes, or on behalf of an organizaon that has a new cookbook we can help to promote... it’s free of course. Creamed Potatoes 5 medium potatoes, pared & cut into 1/4 inch slices 6 Tbsp mayonnaise 3 Tbsp mustard By: The Dobson Family from “Millennium Menus” by Bridgeview Public School A lile fresh snipped parsley 3/4 cup sour cream 6 Tbsp pied ripe black olives 3/4 tsp salt Microwave potatoes in shallow microwavable dish covered with plasc wrap on high power unl tender (approx 15 minutes). Let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Combine sour cream, mayonnaise, olives, mustard and salt in a smal bowl. Add to potatoes. Toss gently, sprinkle with parsley. Serves 6. Affordable Rates • All Work Guaranteed • 25 Years Experience Interior & Exterior Painting and Makeovers 15% Seniors DISCOUNT PLUS HANDYMAN SERVICES: • Repairs • Waterproofing (caulking) • Maintenance • Renovations All types of painting, feature walls, wallpaper Call Mark 519-330-4424 or email 1863989ontarioinc@gmail.com A Fairy Tale for the New Millennium Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle. The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said, "Elegant lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however; and I will turn back into the dapper young prince that I am." The frog went on, "And then, my sweet, we can marry and set up house in yonder castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children and forever feel grateful and happy doing so." That night, on a repast of lightly sauteed frogs legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, the princess chuckled to herself and thought, "I don't think so Mr. Frog." By: Slow Cooker Irish Style Beef Pot Roast 3 to 4 lb beef roast, boneless 4-5 large peeled carrots, in 2” pieces 5-6 medium red potatoes, quartered 2 large onions, peeled & quartered 6 celery stalks, in 2” pieces 1 parsnip, peeled, in 2” pieces Mike Courtney from Brigden Fall Fair 2010 Cookbook 1 pkg mushroom gravy mix 1 pkg brown gravy mix 1/3 cup all purpose flour 1/2 tsp each salt & pepper 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp Dijon mustard 1 cup beer Combine gravy mixes, salt, pepper and flour in large bowl. Add the vegetables to the bowl and toss to coat well. Put vegetables in 5 to 6 quart slow cooker. Add beef roast to bowl, turning to coat with flour mixture. Remove roast and place in slow cooker in centre of vegetables. Whisk beer, Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard in remaining flour mixture unl smooth. Add to slow cooker. Cover; cook on low for 10 to 11 hours or on high for 6 to 7 hours or unl beef and vegetables are fork tender (no srring is necessary during cooking). Remove roast and vegetables. Carve roast in thin slices. Serve with vegetables and gravy. Serves 6 to 8. Orange Mandarin Cake 1 cup sugar 1 cup flour 1 can mandarin oranges with juice 1 tsp baking soda By: Fran Wellington from Wyoming Lioness 30th Anniversary Cookbook 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla TOPPING: 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup nuts Mix first 6 ingredients well. Pour in 8x8” pan, then sprinkle with brown sugar and nuts. Bake at 350F for 35 minutes Send Your Recipes to info@welcometotheclub.ca P A G E 8 Better to be a man of character than a man of means. (Irish Proverb)
Most of the articles in here have been written by people like you. Bright & Unique Lighng Ideas For Your Home 116 Michigan Ave POINT EDWARD (519) 344-3535 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm www.twinbridgelighng.com FOOT ORTHOTICS For slippers, shoes, boots, and sandals 30 Years Experience! ON SITE SHOE ALTERATIONS For comfort, support, circulation, balance & fatigue 303 Davis Street, Sarnia • 888-971-6345 Help with 3rd party claims Memories By Steve Hartwell, St. Catharines from Daytripping, Sept.-Oct. 2017 Our memories, particularly of childhood, are the most powerful emotion, because our memories evoke all the emotions at the same time. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Feeling all of them at the same time can sometimes be, I imagine, like being on the receiving end of a shotgun blast in the face and surviving it. But, can more than equally be very worth the experience. Imagine you are 58. Imagine that after a 16 year search, you finally track down 20 minutes of old 8mm films of yourself and your family recorded in the 1950s and 60s that you haven’t seen since way back then. Personal family photographs are worth a 1,000 words each. Personal family old film ‘Moving Pictures’ are worth a million words per second. How would you feel seeing those old family films, including yourself at age four, for the first time since way back then? I don’t mind confessing that when, at age 58, it happened to me, I experienced shock and then I balled my eyes out. Indeed, I’m 65 now, and every time I watch those old film memories the emotion blast hits me and I still usually can’t see those old film memories I’m trying to watch through the tears. I grew up on the west side of Islington Avenue, north of Dundas Street West, in Julie Munday, Certified Pedorthist www.soledecisions.com Etobicoke, the now west end of Toronto. Our next door neighbours, Joyce Medforth and her mother-in-law Lily, both widows, just happened to have an 8mm movie camera. Joyce recorded a bunch of home movies of our family. Every Christmas we would have Christmas brunch together in their home and watch the movies she had recorded of us. 30 years later, in 1992, I was 42 and became obsessed with finding Joyce’s old home movies of my family, and it became a 16 year search. In early 2002 I had heard about DVD technology just beginning to emerge in Canada, and I finally got my hands on another family relative’s home movie films to try transferring them to digital video. Later that year the extended family got together for Thanksgiving and watched those old films. There was endless laughing and crying and thank yous from family, and a 10 minute chance to talk about it on radio, which was my mother’s idea. The radio show call-in phone tree lit up, and my 10 minutes brought in 40 phone calls the first day and another 40 every day for the next week on my message machine. This response convinced me there were a lot of people who would also want their family memories transferred, too. I’ve been doing it ever since. I expanded my services to photos, slides, audio and video tapes, and have made a tonne of families very happy. I’ve met a lot of WWII veterans and holocaust survivors and heard their stories. I have transferred recordings of things and events of historical or general interest to many Canadians: local festivals, parades, main streets of towns and villages, Montreal’s Expo ‘67 and Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition visits, a royal visit to Argentina in 1936 and royal visits to Welcome to ... The Meaning of Success At age 4... success is... not peeing your pants. At age 10... success is... making your own meals. At age 12... success is... having friends. At age 16... success is... having a drivers license. At age 20... success is... having sex. At age 35... success is... having money. At age 50... success is... having money. At age 60... success is... having sex. At age 70... success is... having a drivers license. At age 80... success is...having friends. At age 85... success is... not peeing in your pants. BUTTONS Elegance at its finest! Canada and Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, last runs of old trains, Port Hope flooding and Credit River winter skating—an endless list. I did a 1982 Reunion of the Canadian Rock Band Lighthouse at Ontario Place for co-founder Paul Hoffert, which included performing ‘Fly’ on stage with all the band members’ kids. I transferred home movie films for Jim Floyd, Chief Engineer of the AVRO ARROW, and Arrow footage recorded by the Chief Photo-Filmographer Lou Wise. I transferred a bunch of 1929-1932 16mm films recorded by Denton Massey of the famous Canadian agricultural equipment Massey family, which included the Calgary Stampede, Lake Louise, and a lake steamer tourist trip from Toronto to Lakeside Park at Port Dalhousie. All quite fascinating and very gratifying, some of which I’ve uploaded to my YouTube channel. But, what about my own family’s old home movies recorded by Joyce Medforth? Finally in 2008, my father gave me a shoebox of some family slides and photos, that very surprisingly also included the pamphlet for Joyce Medforth’s memorial. On that pamphlet was the name of one of her nephews who presented her eulogy. I decided to call every person with that name in Canada until I found him, hoping he would know where Joyce’s old films were. My very first phone call was to Sarnia, Ontario, who turned out to be Joyce’s eulogy presenting nephew and he knew who had the films—another nephew of Joyce. I contacted that nephew, and six months later, I had 20 minutes of those old 8mm home movie films Joyce Medforth had recorded of my family. When I saw myself in 1954, age four, on my little orange tractor in the driveway, I finally experienced what all my customers do when they see their own memories ‘come back to life’ on the tv screen. THE Club From size 2 to 22! Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm Saturday 10am to 2pm www.buttons-and-bows.ca 131 Michigan Ave., Point Edward • 519-491-1412 Shock, and then I balled my eyes out. Most if not all my customers have the same first experience. Many have done it in front of me when I play them a bit of their memories to be sure they are happy with my work. Even the guys who swear to me the memories mean absolutely nothing to them, that they are only getting the memories transferred for a family member who made them promise to get it done. I quickly learned to have a box of kleenex in my hands for the inevitable ‘Niagara Falls.’ I transferred Joyce Medforth’s films of my family just in time for Christmas 2008 to watch and share with my family. We have watched the films together every Christmas since then. When I was that little kid, and older later, and depressed, my mother would rally my hopes by telling me that I was ‘special.’ That one day I would find and do something special. I just had to hang on to that hope, and be patient, for one day eventually I would find my special. That hope my mother gave me kept me going through life’s ups and downs, searching for that something to do that would be my special calling. Since 2002 I’ve been making so many people happy by saving their family memories. In November 2015 my wife and I retired to St Catharines, where throughout the Niagara Region and Southwestern Ontario, I hope to find a lot more families to make happy, too. Huh, go figure, eh, Mom? I hope you can hear me where you are now. You said way back then that I would find it eventually, and you were right after all. I did finally find my special calling. Thanks, Mom. Oh crap, there I go balling my eyes out again… Winter 2021 It’s not a delay to stop and sharpen the scythe. (Irish Proverb) P A G E 9 & Bows TAKE HOME! Fresh Made Comfort Food A tradition since 1992! 105 MICHIGAN AVENUE PT. EDWARD • 519-344-2855 Worth Repeating... Age appears best in 4 things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Ladies Clothing & Accessories!
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