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Welcome to ... THE Club Phrase Origins Dont Count Your Chickens Before they Hatch Refers to not being hasty in evaluating your assets. The first time this was used was in a 1570 sonnet. It’s widely accepted as a metaphor meant to warn people not to plan things based on assumption. It’s not guaranteed all the chickens will hatch of course, so counting them while they’re still eggs would be presumptuous. You must be 55 or over to read this magazine. Open the door to your financial well-being. Pat Smits Financial Advisor 12 Mac Donald Street Forest, ON N0N 1J0 519-786-4924 www.edwardjones.ca Welcome to ... FALL 2021 It’s My Party! By Jeanette Paddon, St. Thomas On Sunday mornings, I tune in to my favourite radio station to listen to the artists from the 50’s and 60’s. For a little while, I am fifteen years old once again, as I sing along with Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Leslie Gore, Fats Domino, Elvis, and The Beatles. It surprises me that so many years later, I still remember all the words to the songs. Growing up in a pretelevision era, my friends and I turned to the radio for entertainment. Each time a new song was played, we would rush out to purchase the little 45 rpm record of this song, then spend hours learning to do the “Jive” and the “Twist” as we sang along with the music. So very young, and just like today’s kids, we were slaves to the latest trends. Those were the days of “penny loafers,” “bobby socks,” and “pedal pushers.” A reversible plaid pleated skirt worn with cardigan sweaters buttoned all the way down, and then worn backward, was our favourite school outfit. We rolled our long hair on prickly rollers before from Daytripping May-June 2012 going to bed, in order to look good the next day, yet still managed to get a good night’s sleep! We thought ourselves to be cool and invincible, and believed we were the generation that was going to change the world! Getting a job would enable us to buy everything we wished for and do anything we wanted. However, as fate would have it, Cupid got involved, which found us all getting married, raising a family, and working hard to make ends meet. The years rushed by, and one day I found my mother looking back in my mirror… Now, while my friends and I discuss our aches and pains, we shake our head in disbelief at the realization that we are now today’s senior citizens! Heading out each day for my “fitness” walk, I know, that as they smile and wave to me, the young people I meet think of me as that nice ‘older’ woman from the neighbourhood. Perhaps it is just as well they do not see me on Sunday mornings, as I sing along to “It’s my party…” Welcome to The Club is published four times annually by Moran Advertising, Brights Grove, Ontario. The publisher reserves the right to reject, discontinue or omit any advertisment without notice or penalty to either party. No portion of this publication can be reproduced in whole or in part without the permission of Moran Advertising. The content of this publication does not necessarily represent the opinions of the publisher. The content of this publication has not been deemed by the publisher to be correct and accurate. The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising directly or indirectly from errors occuring in this publication beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisment in which the error occurred, whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise, and there shall be no liablity for non insertion of any advertisment beyond the amount paid for such advertisment. Use of Material: submitted articles, letters, and other works or materials may be used, published, distributed and stored by Moran Advertising, Welcome To The Club, and Daytripping Magazine, in whole or in part, in print or by any other means. Unique Gifts & Greeting Cards • Home & Garden Decor Sun & Skin Care Products • Purses, Scarves & Jewellery View our flyer at pharmasave.com Seniors Save *15% Every Wednesday *Free Delivery in Lambton Shores * Some restrictions apply Mon-Fri 9-6, Saturday 9-5 Sunday & Holidays 10-2 19 King Street West, Forest • 519-786-5161 An Old Fashioned Country Store with a Modern Twist! • Collecbles & Giware • Kids secon • Fudge • Maple Buer Tarts & Baking • Williamson Farms Beef & Local Pork, Cider, Cheese & Maple Syrup • Gi Baskets Wednesday is SENIORS DAY! Numerous Savings for 55 & over Shop Online www.williamsonfarmsmarket.com Curbside Pickup is always available • Ask us about delivery! 14 King St. W., FOREST • 226-520-0144 OPEN Monday to Friday 10am-6pm • Saturday 10-5 P A G E 4 Popular Slogans... Harley Davidson – American by Birth. Rebel by Choice.
We’re all getting older, we may as well laugh about it! The World at Your Fingertips By Mark Moran, Publisher I have a very good friend who will not take my advice on something that I think would be really good for him, and isn’t nearly as difficult as he thinks it is. Joe (we’ll call him) is one of the newer residents in a nearby long-term home. He’s an avid reader and his mind is as sharp as a tack, but getting around has become a serious challenge. I’ve tried to convince him, to no avail, to learn how to use an iPad. An iPad is one of several brands of tablets, basically touchscreens that contain a world of information, but are much easier to handle and use than a computer. I’m not writing this article to preach to the masses of people who are already well aware of what an iPad is and is capable of. I am writing it for the person that is put off by or afraid of any technology, believing that they could never understand it. I’m also writing this for their kids – the ones who have been saying the same thing to them for months on end with no better luck. What Joe doesn’t realize is that an iPad is hardly any more complicated than using a bank card but it does a whole lot more. This device, which can be cradled in one hand and manipulated using the touchscreen with the other, contains every book he’s ever read. Actually, it can give him easy access to almost every book ever written. It can also give him access to almost every song he’s ever heard, thousands of movies and TV shows, and most of the knowledge in the entire world in multiple languages. If Joe has the urge to learn more about World War II he could type that into the search bar and choose from, in this case, over 2.03 billion pieces of information. No one needs to know that much about war, so let’s choose Elvis Presley instead. Google is a search engine where you would type the King’s name and, within one second, it will offer you 134 million articles, photos, recordings, trivia, stupid facts, look-alikes, just about anything you could imagine. If you search just Elvis, and not Presley, you’ll have 205 million entries to choose from. Joe is set in his ways. He will not listen You can be anywhere in the world and sll read Welcome to The Club Magazine Subscribe for FREE on our homepage and we’ll simply email you a link to each new issue. The online version may not be as “Priceless”... but it’s just as FREE! to me, but would love it if only he could get past the fact that it’s technology that he doesn’t need to understand. I don’t understand it either. Every photo I’ve ever taken in my life will now fit onto a device the size of my pinky finger. I don’t know how it does it, and I don’t need to. It’s amazing, and after a small learning curve most people could master at least some parts of it. Joe would find it to be invaluable if he used it only for reading. I’m sure that the staff or some residents at his new home are perfectly capable of, and very accustomed to, helping people get acquainted with these remarkable devices and overcoming the learning curve. I didn’t know how to play euchre until someone taught me and euchre is vastly more difficult than operating an iPad. But with an iPad you don’t have a partner looking at you as if to say “What the Hell have you done? I don’t have any spades!” It’s also a remarkable communication tool. Whatever age you are, you can find and contact many friends and relatives through Facebook, or email or other social media platforms. You can speak to your kids or your grandkids with it, and see them! You can write notes or an entire book on it, record your voice, song lyrics or random thoughts. You can play chess or solitaire and even euchre against it, or against people anywhere on the globe. It’s also a very good camera, a compass, a star chart, a map of everywhere, a photo album, a cookbook, a radio, a far better sports page, a movie player, a calculator, a dictionary, an alarm clock... the list goes on and on and on. I should note that these are the easy things, the simple things it is capable of. Every eight year old can do these things with ease, and so can my friend if he would only try it for an hour. Trust me, Joe has an hour to spare at this stage of his life. I can’t convince him to just give it a try, but maybe, just maybe, someone reading this will take my advice. What’s that old saying… Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it? Thanks for reading. Mark Moran, Publisher www.welcometotheclub.ca Welcome to ... Welcome to ... THE THE Club CLUB VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 • FALL 2021 Discount List 27 Milestones & Memories 32 Postcards from the Past 29 Trivia 14 Word Search 11 Crossword 23 Recipes 24 Other Stuff 1-40 Cathy h Dobson, on, Lee Michaels, M Tammy With, t , Gordon d on Lane, Corrinna na Austin, n Chris Treftlin, n Anna Marriott M t Evans, Jean a Leedale ed l Hobson, on, William W ia m Bedford, d, Stan t n Scizlowski, k , Glynn y n Leyshon, y n Jeanette Paddon, Dave Hodgson, H d g on, Joanne ne vanDam, m #local, # o a l, Betty t y Popelier, p er , Billy Yurchuk, k Sipkens k Nurseries, s ri es , and a d all the Recipe p and d Milestones & Memories es submissions. b ssio Mark Moran - Publisher, Ad Sales & Design Carla MacGregor r - Advertising in Sales Carrie Ann Timm - Associate so Publisher Angela Lyon - Graphics & Article Formatting Carla a Mejia - Graphic Design From the publishers of Daytripping Magazine The Club Features You’ll find current and nostalgic articles throughout The Club. YOUR CONTRIBUTORS CLUB STAFF P.O. Box 430 • Brights Grove, ON • N0N 1C0 519-491-1676 • info@welcometotheclub.ca Articles & Local Photo Submissions Always Welcome! www.welcometotheclub.ca A Magazineg for 55+ like no other! FALL 2021 Popular Slogans... Volkswagen – Think Small. P A G E 5
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