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Deciding what to feature on the cover of
this issue took a while, but we finally decided
on one of many awesome photographs
by Jayne Primeau of Brights Grove. It’s an
honour to be able to showcase some of the
incredibly talented photographers in our
area.
We have a favour to ask of you, and
there’s a reward involved. You’ll find a
questionnaire on page 38 and we hope to
see what direction you’d like The Club to
go in. Many of the articles in the magazine
come from the archives of Daytripping,
which we’ve published for 27 years, and it
was our original intention to run many of
those along with some of the interesting
fillers you see - we have an incredible
collection of both. The articles are often
nostalgic and timeless, and our hope is to
keep the words of many past contributors
alive. That’s one of the main reasons we
wanted to create a magazine for people 55
plus. We feel we have something unique
to offer, an escape from the ordinary and
the daily news which can be challenging,
and even depressing. With no politics and
no real serious issues being addressed, we
hope The Club is a magazine you’ll read
from start to finish and maybe read again
By Mark Moran, Publisher
or pass on to someone else.
However, along the way we’ve also tried
some new columns and columnists and they
bring a lot to the table as well. Chris Treftlin
has great advice for aging at home and he’s
local - it’s not some canned article from a
media service. Sipkens Nurseries has been
providing a gardening article, Cathy Dobson
is writing great feature pieces as well as a
new column called “In a Few Words” that
I’m a big fan of. We have our first article
about a local trail in this issue.
Then there are the crossword and word
search puzzles, our Milestones page, a local
postcard feature, an Events List now that
there are events again, and the various
funny or sentimental anecdotes that we fill
the spaces in between with.
So the question is... what do you want
to see more of, or less of. Remember, we
want Welcome to The Club to be unique
enough that you’ll think twice about
throwing it away. Please have a look and
have your say. Two random readers that
reply to the questionnaire will win $100 in
Tourism Sarnia-Lambton gift certificates,
redeemable at many local shops, restaurants
and attractions.
Thanks for your time and for reading!
OPENING REMARKS
"The Perfect Dress"
Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could
dampen her excitement, not even her parents' nasty divorce.
Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear
and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's
new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!
Jennifer asked her step mom to exchange it,
but she refused. "Absolutely not. I look like a million bucks in this
dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.
Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, "Never mind
sweetheart. I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."
A few days later, they went shopping and did find another
gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked
her mother, "Aren't you going to return the other dress?
You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it."
Her mother just smiled and replied,
"Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner
the night before the wedding."
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Discount List 23
Word Search 13
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My mother did “Spring Cleaning”
every year. It was a big deal around
our house. It seemed that every
surface and textile within our four
walls was either polished, washed,
scrubbed or waxed. Curtains billowed
on the clothes line, windows were
stripped of nose and hand prints
and the floors were transformed
into skating ponds. It
was a flurry of activity
that signaled change and
renewal. I never really
understood what came
over my Mother at this
time. It was almost as if
she was trying to remove
the dullness that had gathered over
our family and home during the
winter months. The act of cleaning
was like a shedding of our winter
chrysalis. Soap and water bringing
forth our new emerging spirits.
Part of my mother’s regime
included the rearranging of furniture
in the bedroom that I shared with
my sister. Every other year, one of
us would be in enviable position
of having her bed placed directly
by the window. This desirable
spot included an outside view
and full access to the precious
evening breeze. The other took her
placement on the opposite side of
the room graciously, contented with
a change of scenery.
I loved to go to bed at night with
my head against the sill looking
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Ode To My Mother
by Gayle Etherington Black, Ancaster • From Daytripping May-June 2006
at my neighbourhood through
the small holes in the screen. The
view from my private perch was a
solitary pleasure for the senses. I
can still recall lying awake with my
face pressed to the screen listening
to the symphony of night sounds
which included raccoons, cats and
grown up voices lilting softly on the
night air. I would watch
spell bound at the flying
insects as they danced
erratically under the
street lamp and every
now and then I would
get a whiff of my father’s
pipe tobacco and knew
that he must be right below me on
the front porch.
Over the years, I often
wondered why there was such a
strong connection regarding the
transformation of our little space.
How could moving a couple of
beds create such long lasting joy?
Perhaps it is the association with
the change of season and the
intangible emotions of freedom and
rejuvenation that ran so prevalent in
my youth.
My mother probably had no idea
at the time, but her simple act of
cleaning and changing around our
room brought a happiness and
continuity in our lives that will
always be remembered. I like to
think of it as a ritual of love. For that
Mom, I truly thank you!
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Happy Trails to You!
Ausable River Cut Conservation Area Trail
By Mary Lou Tasko, Lambton Shores Nature Trail • www.lsntblazers.com
Lambton Shores Nature Trails (LSNT)
is a local volunteer organization with
a lofty vision: to build a network of
user-friendly nature trails that inspire
people to experience the biodiversity of
Lambton Shores and vicinity.
Since 2011 LSNT has partnered
with public and private landowners
to maintain and improve several local
hiking trails.
Most importantly, LSNT blazes, trims
and clears trails so that the public can
use them year-round. Our accessibility
projects improve access for people of
all ages and abilities. While we strive
to expand and connect the trails, LSNT
remains committed to protecting and
preserving environmentally sensitive
areas. Beautification of trailheads and
community spaces has been a natural
evolution as we encourage people to use
and appreciate our “Gems of Nature.”
If you are new to the area—or new
to hiking—we encourage you to visit
lsntblazers.com to learn about our local
trails.
Thanks to Welcome to the Club for
providing the opportunity to educate
the public about LSNT’s work and to
highlight some of our most popular
trails.
In this issue, we introduce the Ausable
River Cut Conservation Area Trail.
First, a little history of the area:
Between 1872 and 1875, the “Ausable
River Cut” was constructed between the
northward-moving Ausable River—
just north of Thedford—and Port
Franks. As a result, the Thedford
Marsh was drained and flooding in
the area was checked. The rich land
of the Thedford Marsh could now
be used for vegetable farming. The
Parkhill Creek still flows into the old
river bed north of “The Cut” and
outlets at the Grand Bend harbour
through a canal constructed in 1892.
The “Old Ausable Channel.” running
from Grand Bend through the Pinery
to The Cut is the remnant of the
Ausable River section that used to
flow southward behind the dunes.
In 1973, the Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority purchased a
19.6-hectare tract of land along the
south side of the Ausable River Cut to
protect the natural environment and
provide a public walking area. For
over ten years, LSNT has partnered
with ABCA to maintain the trails here
and make significant improvements
to accessibility. There are a few trail
options depending on your motivation
and fitness level.
A short, wheelchair-accessible loop
(535 m) on flat ground offers a walk
through the Carolinian forest and along
the Ausable River Cut. It includes a
wheelchair-accessible viewing platform
overlooking The Cut. A newly refurbished
stairway leads to the river’s
edge where a floating dock is available
during the warmer months to launch
canoes/kayaks or offer a fishing perch!
A children’s Storywalk®, courtesy of
the Lambton Public Library, follows this
short loop as well.
A longer (2 km) difficult loop leads
through Carolinian forest, over sand
dunes and along The Cut. The dirt path
is narrower, and there is a challenging
dune ascent/descent. However, an
impressive view of The Cut (and rest
stop!) await you at the top. Check the
trailhead map—and hike the trail in a
clockwise direction—if you want to go
down the dune’s steep side. A connector
trail cuts across the larger trail loop if
you want to shorten your hike—or miss
the large dune!
Free parking is available, as well as
picnic areas and a washroom.
For more information and a map
of the Ausable River Cut Conservation
Area Trails, please visit lsntblazers.com
or abca.ca.
Until we meet you on the trails…
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I want to share a story that I recently
received from a mother who is a firm
believer that Attitude is Everything and
that humour can see you through any
difficult situation! I think every mother
could use this pick-me-up, especially
on days when everything appears to be
going wrong. Mothers have a special role,
and are rarely appreciated for everything
they do. Motherhood is one of the most
rewarding, difficult, exhausting, exciting,
and humorous jobs you will have in your
lifetime.
A mother was picking up her children at
school recently, another mother she knew
rushed up to her. She was fuming with
indignation. “Do you know what you and
I are?” she demanded. It seemed she had
just returned from renewing her driver’s
license. Asked by the woman recorder to
state her occupation, she had hesitated,
uncertain how to classify herself. “What I
mean is,” explained the recorder, “do you
have a job, or are you just a …” My friend
responded by saying she was a mother.
“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation…
‘housewife’ covers it, said the recorder. My
friend was furious.
The mother forgot all about the story
until one day she found herself in the same
situation. “And what is your occupation?”
the recorder probed. What made her say it,
she did not know. The words popped out.
“I’m a Research Associate in the field of
Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk paused, and looked as though she
had not heard right. She repeated it again.
The clerk asked with interest “what do you
do in your field?” She calmly answered,
“I have a continuing program of research
(what mother doesn’t?) in the laboratory
and in the field (normally I would have
said indoors and out). “I’m working for
my Masters (the whole darned family) and
already have four credits (all daughters)”.
“The job is one of the most demanding in
the field (any mother like to disagree?), and
I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more
like it)”. The clerk was very impressed, and
personally saw her out the door.
As she drove into her driveway, her
spirits raised by her glamorous new career,
she was greeted by her lab assistants
– ages 13, 7, and 3. Upstairs she could
hear her new experimental model (6
months) in the child-development program
testing out a new vocal pattern. She felt
triumphant! She had gone on the official
records as someone more distinguished
and indispensable to mankind than “just
another mother.”
When you are having a down day (as
all of us do) and you feel you can’t face
another day, change your attitude and look
upon the situation with humour. Think
of yourself as not just a mother, but a
researcher in the field of child development
and that your work is priceless. Your results
may change the world!
For more information, or to find a
Canadian Mental Health branch near you,
visit www.cmha.ca.
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Enjoy the Benefits of “Green Time”
By Kelly-Lynn Musico, Brights Grove • Registered Physiotherapist, Registered Yoga Teacher
As you begin reading this, maybe
go find a window and look out, or if
you can, take a step outside. Have
you noticed those first telltale signs
of spring and new growth? So, now
what?
Many of us have been couped up
indoors over the winter and are excited
at the endless possibilities
to get moving outdoors.
Getting outdoors is a
fantastic way to improve
our mental and physical
health. It’s time to
increase our in-person
social connections and
physical abilities.
Spring has sprung and
now is the time to literally
‘smell the roses’ and get
moving. I recently saw
a program on CTV news
about a BC physician who
has started prescribing
“Green-time,” (spending
time in nature) to her
patients. I absolutely love this! Although
I have been informally encouraging
my clients to get outdoors to do their
exercises, I now have the research to
back the health benefits of spending
time in nature. This program tweaked
my curiosity, so I further explored
this concept. Yes, there is research
Why Nature?
• 90% of us say we’re happier when we’re outside—and stress hormone
levels drop significantly after just 15 minutes of sitting in a forest.
• Increasing nature time reduces your risk of developing heart disease,
high blood pressure and diabetes.
• Spending time in nature boosts memory, creativity and work satisfaction.
• Spending time in the forest drops inflammation and stress in adults with
COPD and reduces the risk of lung infections.
• Nature therapy improves the psychological wellbeing of cancer patients
and activates tumour-killing cells.
• Seniors who live closer to walkable green spaces live longer.
Source: https://www.parkprescriptions.ca/en/whynature
to support the health
benefits of spending time
in nature.
My further investigation
concluded,
to obtain the health
benefits of nature it is
recommended to spend
2 hours a week, only
20+ minutes at a time.
Seems doable, right?
So, what counts as
time spent in nature?
According to research,
whenever we feel like
we’ve had meaningful
contact with nature,
it will start to create
health benefits which
will start to add up. It
could be as simple as
sitting on a park bench
or walking a nature
trail.
There are plenty
of wonderful nature
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adventures to be had in and around
Sarnia-Lambton.
When was the last time you walked
the Howard Watson trail? Sat on a park
bench? Sat at the river and watched
the boats go by? Watched the ducks
in Lake Chipican? How about a stroll
along the beach? Exploring a sugar
bush? Apple orchard? Maybe even
sitting at some of our nature filled
local wineries, cideries, and breweries
could count? Spring has sprung and
it’s a great time to get moving, feeling
and living better.
Go ahead and start adding up those
health benefits by exploring all that
Sarnia-Lambton County has to offer.
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Makin’ a List
Making a list. It’s an ancient art, I
suspect. I can imagine the housewife
of long ago, etching her list in the sand
or on stone. Were pieces of wood and
leather used before paper became
abundant? Your choice of list paper is
reflective of you and your tastes. Take
the “Chopin-Liszt” (Shopping List) for
music lovers, the “HoneyDew List” for
spousal duty-delegation, the culinaryshaped
list for groceries, the
“Things to do after I pray”
list for those who consult
Him for help with their plans.
Lists written in haste have
been on Kleenex, napkins,
even clean toilet paper, in an
emergency!
You were probably on a list
before you were born. Your
name was on a list somewhere,
with meaning and origin. I made baby
name lists long before my children were
born. It was fun. It was hopeful. It was
relaxing. Relaxed list-making takes place
at a leisurely pace. It lists pleasurable
things like vacation destinations, party
menu items, topics for speeches and
stories. When writing on favourite
paper with a smooth-gliding pen, these
lists take on a dream-like quality, where
all things are possible and turn out well.
Not all list-making is relaxing. Take
the Saturday to-do list. Drafted on the
back of a paycheque envelope, you
feel weary with each entry. Looking at
hurried handwriting, you know there
are not enough hours to accomplish the
things listed. A wise person once said,
a list should be written down, then
promptly cut in half, literally folded
and torn in half, with half tossed in the
trash. Only half of what you listed will
by Adina Haas, LaSalle
From Daytripping May-June 2010
likely get done. Is this your experience?
Your list is for your eyes only. Guard
your list. The shorthand you have used
to remind yourself of something may
be misinterpreted by others. One of my
lists leading up to Christmas dinner had
included, in red pen, “Clean up blood”
as a reminder to wipe up drops spilled
when my husband cut his finger while
cutting wood trim. This item would
look very suspicious mingled
in with “Iron the tablecloths,
Bake the cakes, and Roast the
turkey”!
Is list-making a skill we are
born with or is it something
we must learn? I once asked
my first-graders to make a
list. I thought it would be a
great activity. I gave them
each a $100.00 bill (fake) and
prompted them to write (on a triplescoop
ice-cream cone paper) a list of
how they would spend the money. I
looked around. How could some of
them say they were done? I asked to
see one list. It said, “All to the poor.”
How could I condemn that list! It
wasn’t the in-depth writing activity I
had imagined but it had heart! Other
more list-like lists had listed spending
on Haiti, on me, and on my prize-box!
Lists. We make ‘em, we refer to
them, we revise them, we misplace
them. You know you are overdoing listmaking,
when you need a master list to
keep track of other lists. Since we seem
to need them, let’s make ‘em fun,
keep ‘em simple and realistic, work at
accomplishing the things on them. Get
out the glitter pens, and colourful pads
of paper. We’re makin’ a list. We’re
checking it twice and cuttin’ it in half!
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Lewis Thomas, born in 1913,
expressed it well: “We are, perhaps
uniquely among the earth’s creatures,
the worrying animal. We worry away
our lives, fearing the future, discontent
with the present, unable to take in the
idea of dying, unable to sit still.”
We throw the term around loosely,
but I truly believe there are “born
worriers” I’m one of them!
When I was about seven I was playing
alone in one corner of our large yard
when friends of my parents stopped on
the gravel road near me. “Want to go
for a ride?” they called.
It’s hard to believe today, but in our
village on Manitoulin Island in the ‘30s
a car ride was something of a novelty.
I hopped into the back seat of that
boxy-looking Ford, forgetting in my
excitement to tell my mother. Then,
instead of enjoying the outing, I was
Confessions Of A Born Worrier
By Norma West Linder, Sarnia • From Daytripping March-April 2012
worried sick every minute of the time I
was away. I raced into the house as soon
as I got home. My mother, busy with my
little brother, hadn’t even noticed my
absence. That should have taught me a
lesson about the futility of worrying. It
didn’t.
I’ve even posted signs above my desk
- signs to read and heed. My favourite
is: Worry is like paying interest on money
you haven’t borrowed. Or words to that
effect. I don’t know who coined it, but
that saying worked for me, right up until
a few days later when a friend was late
for a luncheon date. The roads were
icy, and I went straight to worst scene
scenario, imagining her car upside
down in a ditch, all four wheels spinning
as she lay bloodied and unconscious.
Nothing of the sort happened, of course.
I hate to indulge in generalizations,
but it seems to me women are more
prone to be worriers than are men.
Most of my female friends are like me
when it comes to fretting about the vast
number of possible disasters, especially
those of us who have children, or, as
I sometimes call them, “hostages to
fate.” My daughter Karen was sitting
in a bus shelter in London, England,
in November, when a motorcyclist lost
control and ran into her. She suffered
cuts on one leg that required surgery
and she needed time to overcome the
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event. I had good reason to worry, but I
carried it to extremes, picturing that girl
in the film The Horse Whisperer waking
up in the hospital minus a leg.
My older daughter, unfortunately, is a
worrier like me, but my son is not. He’s
quite right when he says worry is a bad
use of time because it doesn’t change
the outcome of anything.
I have learned a few ways of lessening
my talent for worry. I no longer open my
big book entitled A Home Medical Guide.
I used to imagine I had every symptom
of every illness it contained. Worriers
should never have such reference books
in the house. We should all try to take
to heart the words penned in 1915 by
George H. Powell (1880-1951):
“What’s the use of worrying? It
never was worthwhile, so, pack up your
troubles in your old kit-bag. And smile,
smile, smile.”
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Do one thing everyday that scares you.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but
beautiful old people are works of art.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long
enough to make them all yourself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray
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Why don’t people bend at the knees
when they garden? It’s not very attractive,
when you’re walking by delighting in the
sweetly-scented honeysuckle, the russet
tiger-lilies, their long stems swaying in
the breeze and the vibrant fuchsia roses.
Suddenly, there it is…the full moon facing
the roadway for all passing by to see, but
not admire. The sight has inspired those
wooden lawn ornaments you can buy, with
Ma and Pa bent over gardening together.
There’s Pa in his low-riding trousers and
Ma in her polka-dot bloomers.
I’m not a fan of gardening. In our old
neighbourhood we were surrounded by
retired gardeners with years of experience.
Their rows of perfectly planted vegetable
gardens took up entire backyards. The
most amazing garden of all belonged to the
old European couple, the Schwarzkopf’s.
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name it, those Schwarzkopf’s grew it.
I remember the day my sister came for
a visit. “There’s Mr. Schwarzkopf digging
in his garden,” she said.
I looked out the window. There it was
again! The notorious gardener, bent at the
waist, butt reaching for the sky, rubber
boots to the hips, hoe in hand.
“That’s not Mr. Schwarzkopf.
That’s Mrs. Schwarzkopf,” I
exclaimed.
Gardening is clearly
not my forte. All you
hardcore green thumbs
out there will not get this,
but I’d rather be cooped
up in the house typing
away at my computer,
writing about gardening
By Barb Day, Paris, ON
From Daytripping, July-August 2010
or any other subject for that matter,
than actually gardening. How can that
be, you ask, when one could be outside,
enjoying the fresh air, digging in the dirt
under a cloudless sky. Last time I checked
my thumb was still pink. Definitely not
green…never will be.
Naïve, we moved to an old house from an
apartment, and were anxious
to start a vegetable garden
in that huge backyard at
the first hint of spring.
We moved in the fall,
and all winter we read
books on the subject.
We even subscribed
to Harrowsmith and
Canadian Gardener.
They all made it look so
easy. We were pumped, and decided, why
have only one? That yard is so big - there
could be two big gardens, side-by-side!
“Don’t bite off more than you can
chew.” “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
“Think big, start small.” Those great
words of wisdom forgotten, we forged
ahead. The tidy rows started out looking
nice enough, but by summer were an
overwhelming tangle of weeds and crab
grass. It was like a trek through the jungle
to find a tiny, weak vegetable plant that
hadn’t yet been strangled to death by an
angry weed.
Mr. Schwarzkopf would stand at the
fence, shaking his head in disbelief,
while handing over a basket of succulent
beyond belief Beefsteak tomatoes.
Sadly, we were the laughing stock of the
master gardeners of the neighbourhood,
and the last time I checked, my thumb
was still pink.
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for our well-being. Thank you for
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Know too, when you’ve come to
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Freedom of choice and freedom to
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Party Potato Salad
4 tsp mustard seed
1 Tbsp celery seed
1/3 cup white vinegar
6 lb potatoes
2 cups chopped celery
By: Alma Wigle (from
Brigden Fall Fair Cookbook)
1 cup finely chopped green onions & tops
6 hard cooked eggs, chopped
3 1/2 cups mayonnaise
2 tsp salt
Soak mustard seed, celery seed in 1/3 cup white vinegar for several
hours or overnight. Cook, cool, peel and cube 6 pounds of potatoes
(about 15 cups). Sprinkle cubed potatoes with salt. Toss with celery,
onions and eggs. Combine seed mixture and 2 teaspoons salt with
mayonnaise. Toss potato mixture with mayonnaise. Chill thoroughly.
Garnish with hard cooked egg whites. Serves 25 to 30.
Balsamic Glazed Salmon
(from Point Edward
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Assoc. Cookbook)
8 fresh salmon fillets, 3/4 inch thick (1 1/2 lb)
Freshly ground black pepper
3 Tbsp Balsamic vinegar
3 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp orange juice
4 1/2 tsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 3/4 cups chicken broth
1 tsp grated orange peel
Place salmon in a 12x8x2 inch shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with black
pepper and drizzle with oil. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes, or unl
the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
Sr the cornstarch, broth, vinegar, orange juice, brown sugar and orange
peel in a 2 quart saucepan over high heat. Heat the mixture to a boil.
Connue to cook unl the mixture thickens, srring constantly. Place the
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Hot Artichoke Dip
By: Madame Deery
(from “Millennium Menus”
by Bridgeview Public School
1 can (14 oz) archoke hearts, drained, chopped
1 cup (4 oz) Kra 100% grated Parmesan cheese
1 cup (4 oz) Kra natural shredded, low moisture, part-skim
Mozzarella cheese
3/4 cup Kra real mayonnaise or Miracle Whip salad dressing
1 clove garlic, minced
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix all ingredients. Spoon into 9 inch quiche dish
or pie plate. Bake 20 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Garnish with steamed
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2 Tbsp buer
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sliced pineapple
Maraschino cherries
2 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup juice from pineapple
1 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
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ingredients and pour over pineapple. Bake at 350 degrees F approx. 20
minutes or unl done. Invert on serving plate. Serve with whipped topping.
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My Lefthanded, Backwards,
Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short Stories
By John Gardiner
I’ve already covered my brief hockey
career and my even briefer baseball
career, so I might as well fill you in my
only other venture into organized sports
– other than bowling. And that was my
time with the Hanover District High
School Midget Basketball Team……Now,
basketball has never really been my
thing – it was kind of an exotic sport in
Hanover back in the 1960’s….I mean,
why would you play basketball in the
winter if you could play hockey – and
everybody played hockey and usually
only the real jock guys in high school
shot hoops. But when I first went into
Hanover High, I was resolved to try to
get with the program and I’d been told
I’d get more out of high school if I put a
little effort into it. So, I joined the midget
boys’ basketball team…..
We practiced for a couple of weeks
before the season started and everything
looked good. Most of us were just
beginners to the game, other than a tiny
bit in public school, but we had a couple
of jock-type guys on the team and it was
assumed they’d carry us to victory after
victory, while the rest of us would play a
strong supporting role. I actually got sort
of good at the game in practice and could
hit free throws pretty well and could
run drill after drill with some degree of
success.
We had a couple of exhibition games
before the regular season and the first
was against Durham High School. We
battled the Durham team tough up to
halftime – the game was tied. And that’s
as close as we got to a win all season
– tied at halftime of our first exhibition
game. It turned out that our team
really sucked – like big time. It turned
out our jock-type guys were just mere
mortals and couldn’t possibly hope to
compensate for the rest of the team. And
so we lost game after game. And what
happened was that the jock-type guys
couldn’t stand the humiliation, so they
started to quietly drop off the team – and
The following is an excerpt from “My Lefthanded,
Backwards, Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short Stories”
by Wallaceburg writer John Gardiner, who grew up and
came of age in Hanover, Ontario during the 1950’s and
1960’s. In this memoir, Gardiner tells the story of his
growing-up years with a series of colourful anecdotes
about the way life used to be. More of the writer’s work is
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The Basketball Diaries
that meant the team got weaker and
weaker as the season progressed. Like
at the beginning of the season, I was an
extra guy on the team, but by halfway
through the season, I was a starter.
And I discovered that I was a really bad
basketball player, mainly because of my
self-consciousness, and I couldn’t hit a
basket under pressure in a real game
for all the tea in China – whatever that
means.
And so our defeats started to get
more and more lopsided. Like at the
beginning of the season, we were losing
sort of like 42-28, but by mid-season we
were losing by scores of 64-12, and as
the end of the season approached, most
opposing teams were trying to score
over 100 points against us, while trying
to hold us to less than 10. And, of course,
they would announce the scores of all
the school teams over the PA at morning
announcements. And it got so the whole
school waited for the score of our latest
game, so they could all cheer wildly for
us. Those of us who had stuck with the
team became sort of celebrities around
the school – like it was an honour to
be part of what was possibly the worst
midget basketball team in Canadian
sports history.
Anyway, there were a couple more
life lessons contained in this experience.
First - don’t be part of a team under
any circumstances, because if the team
sucks, it’ll look like you suck as well.
Second - if you do suck, hang in there
and sometimes it sort of pays off. You
get a type of fame if you’re really pitifully
bad at something. I mean, people laugh
at you, but at least they notice you –
which in some cases is better than not
getting noticed at all. Still, I was glad for
the Neustadt drinking trips while this
was going on… drinking is more fun
than playing losing basketball and pretty
well any other sport. Words well written.
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As a public service to seniors out there Service Charge Taxes, Social Security
who might be wondering – yes, death and
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taxes while Jun 15, 2022 is the deadline Excise Tax, Telephone Federal Universal
if you or your partner are self-employed. Service Fee Tax, Telephone Federal
Presumably, the latter requires at least an and Local Surcharge Taxes, Telephone
extra month to find all of those receipts Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, Telephone
secreted away in shoe boxes, which my Recurring and Non-Recurring Charges
spouse prefers.
Tax, Telephone and Local Tax, Telephone
Many seniors have asked me if I Usage Charge Tax, Toll Bridge Taxes,
support an extra Carbon Tax to help in the Toll Tunnel Taxes, Traffic Fines (indirect
fight against environmental degradation. taxation), Trailer Registration Tax, Utility
The logic works like this – suppose you Taxes, Vehicle License Registration Tax,
think that bagels are bad for proper Vehicle Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax,
nutrition. Government solution – apply Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation
supplementary taxes on bagels. Will this Tax and GST on everything, including
force me to stop eating bagels? No way; I your funeral, which nicely ties up death
love them, especially the Montreal variety, and taxes.
and there just happens to be a bagel shop None of these taxes existed 100 years
near our home.
ago. How did our nation survive? We had
The government has tried a similar absolutely no national debt, one of the
technique with alcohol, tobacco and pot largest middle classes in the world.
with much the same results as a bagel Be aware that there are more indirect
tax. They love taxes as much as I admire taxes that I did not yet mention. For
bagels. Under Liberal and Conservative example, when you ride in an elevator
governments, we have been afflicted with while staying at a hotel, not only do
55 separate kinds of taxes.
you pay a municipal and federal and
To assist your flagging memory, I provincial hotel tax (great to have so
will outline them as follows: Accounts many layers of government, eh! Don’t
Receivable Tax, Building Permit Tax, forget the Regional government.), but
Capital Gains Tax, CDL license Tax (I do you also get to help pay for the elevator
not know what CDL stands for), Cigarette license and inspection, the same way that
you help pay for licenses and inspections
for all other goods and services.
Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the
year in which a nation as a whole has
theoretically earned enough income to
fund its annual tax burden.
India enjoys the shortest tax burden
taking a mere 74 days which amounts
to 20% of the calendar year and falling
on March 14. The United States is next
at 113 days or 30.8% of the year, ending
on April 23. Canada follows Estonia, 114
days, South Africa 132 days, Hungary 140
days, New Zealand 141 days, Slovakia,
142 days, Brazil, 147 days, Lithuania,
150 days, United Kingdom, 153 days,
Belgium, 161 days, Czech Republic, 161
days and Croatia, 164 days.
Yes, we follow all of those countries.
We collectively work a full 165 days of the
year, that’s a whopping 44.8%, and we do
not finish paying for our taxes until June
14. January, February, March, April, May
and half of June! So, you wonder how I
feel about another tax on carbon?
It gets better. When retired, you
depend upon a fixed income. The lucky
ones have a COLA or cost of living clause.
But unfortunately, the plot thickens.
For example, the local gas station
charged me $1.46 per gallon for regular
gasoline today. The way I see inflation
with the huge rise in energy, food and
transportation services, I might move to
Tahiti like Gaugin did, where at the least,
I would save a lot on clothes. Of course,
with global warming, more and more
seniors will gradually opt to move into
nudist colonies. I wonder at that time if
the government will tax nudity.
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My husband and I, ages 92 and
86 were coping satisfactorily or so I
thought. I was busy with my spring
cleaning which I have done every year
for more than 60 years. Although, it
is becoming more stressful on my
body as I age, my mental attitude
is happy accomplishing ridding the
house of dust, cobwebs and clutter,
a good feeling. It wasn’t to last.
I noticed in rearranging my office
desk that I would be shortly running
out of cheques. Not a bother, just call
up that cheque printing office and
place an order. Much to my surprise,
their response was not expected.
I hadn’t ordered cheques in over
three years so I was obliterated
from their files. I thought with the
new digital age all they had to do
was call my name back again and
it would be away to the races. No
way! I was off the books. Wishing
to get back to the cleaning, I dialled
Exasperation
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my local bank assuring myself they
would put it right in no time at all
and I could get back to my dusting.
I am still on a rotary telephone
system and consequently when told
to push this or that button, I have
no buttons to push. This happened
immediately and in most cases is
followed by the request, “If you are
on a rotary phone, please stay on the
line.” but there was no such request
and I was literally left hanging. On
to operation Two. I delved in my
loaded purse and located my very
tiny cell phone, cost $100 a year,
bought for emergency problems
on the road. It has ten digits. I
redialled the local bank’s number
to be told that my wait would be
5 to 20 minutes. “Odd,” I thought,
“They usually answer right away.”
So I sat and sat and sure enough
at twenty minutes, of course not at
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told this was the bank’s call centre
in downtown Toronto. I didn’t call
the bank’s call centre in downtown
Toronto, I wanted my local bank
on Main Street in Markdale. I was
totally frustrated and one might say
angry at this point. If this was the
new digital age where everything
was to be efficient customer service
with all this new technology, why
then at every turn of attempting this
new digital world, I was frustrated,
my time was wasted, my opinion no
longer counted, I was just another
decimal in the system. Customer
benefits, customer appreciation,
customer courtesy went into the
nether world with all the digits.
Customers, in other words people,
no longer counted.
I was finally connected with a
lady I knew from MY branch of the
bank on Main Street and she took
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I had wasted 30 minutes of my day
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of these for some time and it
brought back many memories
from my boyhood.
These are wooden crates in
which oranges were shipped from
the groves to the retailers. These were
used for many years before corrugated
cardboard came into use. As a boy, these
boxes were considered a real prize if we
could acquire one from a friendly corner
grocer. They are rarely seen today. I am
sure many thousands of them still exist
all over the country, where they are used
as bookshelves and record storage in
college dorms and summer cottages all
over North America.
As kids, we wanted them to make
playthings from, like pushcarts or
scooters so we could race up and down
city sidewalks in them! It was almost as
much fun to make these things as it was
to play with them.
To make a pushcart, you needed four
old wheels from a toy wagon and the
axles and a piece of rope to steer with.
Or you could make a more elaborate
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from a wagon along with some
rope to rig it up. This
was more difficult so we
usually used simply a
rope for steering.
My really favourite thing
to make from an orange
crate though, was a scooter. For
this you needed one old clip-on
type of roller skate, a piece of board four
inches wide and about four feet long. The
orange crate was nailed standing on end
at the front of the four foot board, and
the roller wheels were mounted on the
bottom of the board, two wheels at the
front and two wheels at the rear. A cross
bar could then be nailed across the top of
the orange crate for use as handle bars to
steer with. When complete you could tear
up and down the sidewalk standing with
one foot on the scooter and the other to
propel you at great speed forward!
Oh, we didn’t have video games, or
Ipods, X-Boxes or even television then,
but we didn’t need them. We just used
our ingenuity and made our own fun
back in the good old days!
So what am I using my “new” old
orange crate for? It’s a shelf for several
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to live with each other regardless of
who we are, where we come from, the
colour of our skin, or the language we
speak? Why must there always be war
and rumours of war?
We can learn a lot about life from
a simple box of crayons. Some are
pointed, while others are dull. Some
have funny names. Some are plain and
ordinary. But notice that all the crayons
are different colours, and they all
exist together in the same box. When
working with a common purpose, they
can make a beautiful picture.
Imagine for a moment, the crayons
in our box of life. The red one stands
for the frustration and anger in our
lives. The green one stands for envy
and jealousy of others. The yellow
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that is insidiously
widespread although
sometimes hidden and
not acknowledged.
There is good news!
There is a positive side
to the colours. Red is for
the red rose of love, the
splendour of a sunset.
Green is for growth
and a new beginning.
Yellow is the sunshine
of acceptance of our
neighbours and all citizens of earth.
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It’s officially Spring, and the gardening
season is upon us at last, and it feels
amazing! Here at Sipkens we have big
changes happening, so this Spring is
especially exciting for our team and our
customers!
I can almost feel the pulse quickening
and vibe of excitement from gardeners
everywhere as the temperatures begin
to rise, the scent of soil and plants
float through the crisp spring air and
the first signs of new life pop up out
of the ground—seemingly overnight. It
feels like we wait (*ALL YEAR*) for this
season and then it’s “Gardeners start
your wheelbarrows!” with a race to fit
as much gardening and outdoor living
into one season as we can.
With so many gardening activities
to set your sights on over the next few
months, I thought it would be more
manageable to focus on something
bite-sized in this article, such as edible
gardening! (See what I did there?)
Growing your own food is incredibly
rewarding and fun for the whole family.
You not only get to tend a garden
outdoors in the sun, you also get to reap
the rewards and delight in the fruit of
your labours—literally!
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or to suit your needs.
You can start with a small 4’ x 6’
raised bed for veggies like carrots,
peppers, tomatoes, and beet. Or start
smaller with a patio vegetable planter
with smaller items like lettuce, herbs or
strawberries.
To choose a location, watch at your
yard throughout different times of
day and see where and when the sun
lands—you will need
about 6-8 hours of
sunlight for veggies to
thrive. Another smart
way to start is by looking
at your current grocery
list. What do you buy
regularly? What does
your family like to eat?
What seasonings do
you regularly use? Grow
what you know and you
will really see the value
of having your own food
in your backyard. Maybe
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SPRING CHECKLIST:
❏ Improve the soil in veggie beds and
containers with new soil, peat moss,
compost and natural fertilizer.
❏ Keep on top of weeds in a garden
bed by starting clean and consider
adding a layer of mulch/straw to
keep weeds at bay.
❏ Transplant seedlings and/or sow
seeds into the garden based on the
instructions on the seed packet,
good advice from friends or from
your favourite garden centre.
❏ Feed your plants regularly for a great
yield—you only get out what your
put in. Great organic options include
hen manure & kelp meal.
❏ Plant cold-loving veggies early April
(onions, radish, snow peas and
perennial herbs).
❏ In mid-April to May, plant potatoes,
broccoli, cauliflower and carrots.
❏ Plant tender veggies after the frostfree
date (usually after Victoria
Day) such as tomatoes, peppers,
cucumber and melons.
❏ Water vegetables and fruit regularly
for continued growth.
❏ In June, start to reap the rewards by
picking early crops like leafy greens,
radishes, and strawberries.
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1. Is gold considered an element or a compound?
2. What did Sir John Harrington invent in 1589?
a] The flushing toilet b] Microscope
c] Lead pencil d] Thermometer
3. Which of the following is the medical term for jet lag?
a] Rhinorrhea b] Epistaxis
c] Xerostomiath d] Circadian desynchronosis
4. What is the study of electronic systems that can perform the
functions of living beings?
5. What was the average length of a Beatles concert on their first
American tour?
a] 28 mins b] 45 mins c] 56 mins d] 1 hr 15 mins
6. In 1994, what OHL franchise moved to Sarnia and became the Sarnia
Sting?
7. In an interview at Harvard University, Bill Gates admitted that
CTRL-ALT-DELETE was a ___________?
8. What head of government was the first to give birth in office?
a] Isabel Martinez de Perón, Argentina b] Agatha Barbara, Malta
c] Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan d] Mary Robinson, Ireland
9. What nationality was Erno Rubik, the inventor of the 80s craze, the
Rubik’s Cube?
a] Hungarian b] Polish
c] Slovenian d] Austrian
10. A verruca is:
a] A type of rock b] A type of wind or a musical instrument
c] A type of physical maladie (a wart)
11. Name of one of the three angels mentioned by name in the Bible.
12. Who beat Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open final match?
13. True or False: The sheep is the source of most catgut, a material used
for the strings of some musical instruments.
ANSWERS:
1. Element; 2. The flushing toilet; 3. Circadian desynchronosis; 4. Bionics;
5. 28 mins; 6. Newmarket Royals; 7. mistake; 8. Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan;
9. Hungarian; 10. A type of physical maladie (a wart);
11. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer; 12. Naomi Osaka; 13. True.
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1) Salt has more uses than seasoning
for food. Silk handkerchiefs, scarves
and ribbons washed in salt and water
and ironed wet obtains the best
results. I’ve tried this and it works
well. Put salt in the water for washing
glass bottles and you will be amazed
at how it makes them shine. Everyone
probably knows that rubbing salt on
cups takes off the tea stains. Use salt
and water to clean willow furniture.
Apply with a brush and rub dry. Set
the colour in fabric by washing with
salt and cold water. Salt mixed with
lemon juice removes iron rust.
Sprinkle salt on a soiled carpet and
then vacuum it. It eliminates musty
odour and helps remove some of the
soil. An old homemaker’s book states
that mildew can be removed by
rubbing a green tomato and salt on
the spot and then exposing to the
sunlight.
2) Lemons should be considered a
valuable fruit in any kitchen. Of
course you can use them for making
lemonade, but there are many other
uses. The juice of a lemon removes
stains from your hands. After you
have cleaned silver rub with a piece of
lemon, wash and dry the item. The
item will have a white brilliancy and
remain clean much longer. Copper
utensils and cookware are easily
cleaned with a piece of lemon that
has been dipped in salt. Rub the
salted lemon over the entire surface to
be cleaned. Rinse in cold water and
polish dry with a soft cloth. There is
nothing more satisfying than standing
back and observing the gleaming
results.
3) I received an email from a lady
who had candle wax drippings on a
cherished black silk table runner. I did
some research and found this remedy
in an old reference book. Scrape off
all the wax possible. Wet the wax
marks with alcohol and dry with a
soft rag. I cautioned her that this may
bleach the colour from the silk but
she was prepared to try it anyway.
Thankfully she contacted me again
saying that this worked wonderfully.
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By Mary Jane MacVicar Leamington • From Daytripping March-April 2011
I N F O R M
FRIENDLY
When I was very young, we’re talking going, not even beginning to stop. Dad
F A M I L Y
the early 1950’s, living on a farm made had neglected to tell me that one had
it easy to learn how to drive. I started to pump the brakes for them to catch,
R E M I N D
out on the tractor and then graduated and started hollering “Pump it, pump
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O N T A R I O
most vehicles came with standard Well I had no idea what he was
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to learn the horrors of using the clutch, straight into the side of the barn! I was
The Dementia-Friendly Canada project is a partnership between
brake and gas pedal, in unison. quite upset but Dad took it in stride,
Alzheimer Societies across the country. Providing free tools and When I was about 12 years old, and the only damage was a little dent
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include people affected by dementia to live well in our community. town from our farm out in the country. headlights to turn outward.
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Since I was getting pretty proficient It was actually funny because
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the outskirts of town and finally the Ah the trials and tribulations of
pleading paid off. God rest his soul that
learning how
poor Dad didn’t suffer whiplash with
to drive!
my ongoing learning on how to have a
smooth clutch release.
On our return home one
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
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An iron rod bends while it is hot.
An open enemy is better than a false friend.
Before you can score you must first have a goal.
Character is habit long continued.
Death is never at a loss for occasions.
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16 Petrolia Chicken to Go Dinner (pre order) at St. Paul’s United 519-383-9085 or Facebook
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16 Alvinston Alvinston Optimists Trivia Night 519-381-8914 or Facebook
16 Sarnia Easter in the Park www.sarnia.ca
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20 Corunna Lambton Elderly Outreach Diner’s Club, Wellings of Corunna 519-845-1353 ext.301
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20 Sarnia Horticultural Soc meeting - Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening 519-332-5837
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20-21 Sarnia Donovan Woods in concert at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
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22 Wyoming Wyoming Lions Fish Fry Facebook
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29-30 Sarnia This is Me at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
29-30 Petrolia Town Wide Yard Sale 519-882-2350
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7 Sarnia Sarnia School of Irish Dance presents a Celtic Evening www.imperialtheatre.net
7 Petrolia Sisters of Choice in Concert at St. Paul’s United 519-882-1390 or Facebook
7 Petrolia Ham & Scalloped Potato Take Out, St. Paul’s United (pre order) 519-882-1390 or FB
7 Point Edward Seaway Sounds Annual Garage Sale, 723 Houser St. 8 til Noon mayerp21@gmail.com
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7 Wyoming Wyoming Legion Craft Show Facebook
7 Wyoming Mother’s Day Craft Sale, 5504 London Line 519-845-3680
10-22 Petrolia Victoria Playhouse Petrolia - The Roaring Twenties www.thevpp.ca
11 Sarnia Sinfonia Toronto at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
12 Zoom Lambton County Branch Ontario Ancestors meeting 7 pm www.lambton.ogs.on.ca
13 Sarnia Jeff Leeson: The non virtual Comedy Tour www.imperialtheatre.net
13 Sarnia Kentucky Derby Party @ Sarnia Golf - proceeds to Alzheimer’s 226-932-0699
14 Petrolia Optimist Club Spring Craft & Gift Show www.lcpetroliaoptimist.org
20-28 Sarnia Something Rotten” at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
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23 Watford/Alvin Watford Alvinston Road Race 226-402-3787
27-29 Forest Lambton Film and Food Festival, Kineto Theatre www.kineto.ca
28 Courtright Town Wide yard Sale Facebook
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11 Sarnia Kids Funfest www.sarnia.ca
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12 Sarnia Bluewater Chordsmen Annual Show at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
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13 Sarnia Lunch at Allen’s concert at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
14 Zoom Lambton County Branch Ontario Ancestors meeting 7 pm www.lambton.ogs.on.ca
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18 Petrolia Time & Talent Auction at St. Paul’s United Church See our Facebook Page
23-25 Sarnia Bluewater BorderFest - Canadian Music Concert www.bluewaterborderfest.ca
23-26 Sarnia Barefoot in the Park at Imperial Theatre www.imperialtheatre.net
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Kids and Kites
By: Kenneth Lapointe, Ottawa • From Daytripping July-Aug 2009
When I was a kid, kites
were a neverending source
of fun. Every kid had a
kite in the neighbourhood
and kite-flying season
would begin on the first
warm, sunny, and windy
day in March or April. We
had the perfect place for
it. Our backyard bordered
on Superior Park, a very
large field area where we
also had our very own homemade ball
diamond.
Our kites were the triangle-shaped
ones. Yellow plastic with a spaceman on
the front, two wooden stick crosspieces
and a tail you created out of bits of
cloth and rags. It had to be just the right
amount to give it the proper weight. Too
much tail and the kite wouldn’t ‘get up’
into the air very well, too little and it
would just swoop around and around in
dizzying circles and eventually ‘bang!’,
into the ever present, ever waiting
ground below.
Someone had a ‘box kite’ once. To
me it seemed incomprehensible how
they could fly. I mean a couple of square
‘boxes’ of plastic on some long sticks?
But fly they did, though to me they were
simply weird and not ‘really’ a kite.
Having four brothers, each one with a
kite, made for some interesting and fun
launches into space.
My older brothers Jim and Gary got
the idea of putting somebody’s hamster
in an empty toilet paper cardboard
tube, sealing the ends and sending him
aloft. It worked! After the mission, kite
came back down to earth with hamster
emerging unscathed and victorious. Oh
the glory and fame!
Another time Gary decided to hook
up a couple of lightweight batteries to
some tiny bulbs around the edge of the
kite, and voila, a successful period of
night flying was born. Well, theoretically
anyway.
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the crosspieces of the
kite, and then when it
was way up high, yank
the string hard enough
to dislodge it and there he’d be, floating
happily and slowly through the air back
down to the ground. Sometimes for
pretty great distances too. I thought that
was the neatest thing in the world.
I put myself in that little man. I was
way up there in the limitless sky, then
floating, floating safely back down. And
no matter how ripped that parachute
became or how many strings came loose
from it, a little plastic and Scotch tape
fixed it right back up. It was one of the
most favorite toys.
One time I tried a much smaller
parachute and man version. But it was
so light that the wind simply carried it
up, up...up, and it never came down!
It simply drifted clear out of sight. Bye!
Have a nice voyage!
And of course being brothers we tried
to have ‘kite fights’ but being hard to
control, it was almost impossible to get
them to smash together. Besides, you
never wanted the dreaded ‘tangled-up
kite string’ scenario. That was death!
Another bad thing to happen when
kite-flying was if the string broke and
your kite was like WAY, WAY up there.
Then you had to run like blazes after it,
so scared you’d lose it or it might land on
someone’s roof or in a mean stranger’s
backyard.
Eventually I got a new ‘eagle’ kite that
was sort of fan-shaped with an eagle on
the front. But it never lived up to the fun
I had with just the regular old-fashioned
spaceman kites.
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Noise: Having a train yard 20 feet from your backyard.
Oxymoron: One who has used too much acne goo.
Paradox: Two physicians.
Paranoid: Someone who just figured out what's going on.
Parking Space: An area that vanishes as you make a U -Turn.
Pessimist: An optimist with experience.
Pharmacist: A helper on a farm.
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Jayne lives in Bright's Grove, and is past president of the Sarnia
Photographic Club. She has been interested in photography since
she began work in a Toronto Camera Shop in her early twenties.
Her photo of a Great Egret shot in Canatara Park won the grand
prize in the Cottage Life 2020 magazine's photo contest. Wildlife
photography is her passion.
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came across a box marked “Old
Papers.” As I sorted through various
paper clippings and invitations
to weddings and anniversaries,
I came across some old letters
with familiar handwriting and
“Via Airmail” stickers on the
envelopes. Putting all good
intentions for cleaning out cupboards
on hold, I sat down and started reading.
Holding the thin paper pages and rereading
the experiences of relatives
in the Netherlands more than half a
century ago brought back memories of
how these precious letters arrived in my
parental rural home in the Sarnia area.
The mailman drove a car that must
have been one of the first automobiles
made by Henry Ford. It was at least
twenty-five years old but as dependable
as its driver, for we could count on the
mailman to be at our mailbox at coffee
time every weekday morning. Hearing
the sound of gears shifting down and
the car coming to a stop made us drop
whatever we were doing and run to the
mailbox.
For us new immigrants, mail meant
not only a link to our old country, but
also a window into the new world we
were living in, as advertising flyers and
seed catalogues arrived by mail. The
Eaton’s catalogue (or book as we called
it) always received a royal welcome in
our home. It was like a textbook for
us, for it had pictures showing us what
we could buy. When we discovered
we could order by mail, the mailman
became even more popular. We didn’t
have to leave home to buy a new dress!
We didn’t have to leave home to buy
groceries either. Mother simply filled in
the list of supplies needed, mailed it to
the grocer who five days later delivered
the groceries along with a friendly
chat and a list to fill in and mail for the
next delivery. The grocer, who was a
Second World War veteran, spoke and
understood some Dutch, so we thanked
him in our native language for not only
bringing us the groceries but also for
being instrumental in bringing freedom
to our fatherland.
When cameras became more
affordable and easier to operate, we
discovered that even films could be
mailed to be developed into pictures
which we’d find two weeks later in
the mailbox, complete with the bill
and correct change from the paper
money we had sent. That brought new
opportunities, for now we could show
family and friends where and how we
...slightly less cool than the
Cover of the Rolling Stone,
but we’re working on that!.
By Jacoba Bos, Strathroy
From Daytripping, March-April 2015
lived. Soon, pictures of the house we
lived in, with us smiling from ear to
ear in front of it, the church we
attended, and the car that
brought our family of eight
to that church, were flying
across the ocean one or two
at a time so as not to exceed
the allotted weight and price of a
15 cent stamp for airmail.
Because of all the conveniences
Canada Post brought to our mailbox,
we hardly ever saw the inside of the
post office, except for finding out where
people whom we knew who had moved
or were new to the country were living.
Phones were few and far between in
those days and so were phone books, so
before we’d set out to visit a newcomer
who lived on a rural road in the area
we’d stop at the post office. Our request
for help was always met in the typical
Canadian patient and polite manner,
as the postal employee would give us
directions better than any GPS can do
now, for I have yet to hear a GPS say,
“when you come to that church, you’ve
gone too far.”
Many things have changed at Canada
Post since 1851. That was the year
that Britain transferred control of the
colonial postal system to Canada.
Post offices were then established in
places where settlers had formed a
community. The newcomers welcomed
this communication link to the country
and people they had left behind, and
appreciated the contact with their
new neighbours who lived miles away
through the post office.
Gone are the days when we ran to
the mailbox to find the dress we’d
ordered from the catalogue, the family
allowance cheque from the government
or postcards from friends vacationing
in far away places. Technology has
made great improvements, making
life better for everyone. We now have
instant communication with people
across the ocean and beyond, via
email and Skype. These inventions
that we could not have even dreamt of
half a century ago are not only fast and
easy ways to stay in touch, they are
also less costly than communication
via Canada Post. But thanks to this
old Canadian institution I will still be
receiving mail, delivered to my rural
mailbox. Even though it’s becoming
more costly, I will keep in touch with
friends and relatives in Canada and
Europe via the written word (and
maybe a few pictures) sending them
letters via Canada Post.
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Jock, a 70 year old
extremely wealthy widower,
shows up at the Country
Club with a breathtakingly
beautiful and very sexy 25
year old who knocks
everyone’s socks off with
her youthful appeal and
outright charm while
hanging over Jock’s arm
and listening intently to his
every word. His buddies at
the club are all aghast.
They corner him and ask,
“Jock, How did you get the
trophy girlfriend?” He
replies, “Girlfriend? She’s my
wife!” They’re knocked over,
but continue to ask. “So, how
did you persuade her to
marry you?” Jock says, “I
lied about my age.” His
friends respond, “What do
you mean? Did you tell her
you were only 50?”
Jock smiles and says,
“No, I told her I was 90.”
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SIPKENS FAMILY ALL ABOUT GROWTH
By Cathy Dobson
“Years ago, I never would have
said I’d get into hard goods or
boutique stuff,” said Ken. “But
that’s where the market is going.”
The nursery business has
changed dramatically since he and
Jennifer started Sipkens Garden
Centre 34 years ago. They found
acreage on London Line near
Wyoming where Jennifer grew up
and had one small greenhouse
that first year. Ken was working
for another nursery at the time
and with their know-how, work
ethic and a sense that market
The Sipkens family celebrate their 34th year in business
demand was in perennials, the
with the opening of a large retail addition.
Sipkens found success.
From left are: Brian, Alyssa, Ken and Jennifer Sipkens.
Missing are Mark, Chris and Brad.
The second year, Ken quit his
other job and the couple devoted
of (garden centre sales) is hard goods,” all their time to their new venture and
said Ken.
their five small children.
“People are interested in staying home “We went into the business about the
and they want to make their outdoor time that perennials like hostas, ferns and
living space really nice,” said Jennifer, grasses were becoming popular,” said
adding that’s there’s also been a recent Ken. “We saw that as an opportunity.”
explosion in bird watching.
That’s why Sipkens’ new addition is
filled with a wide variety of hard goods
like pottery, planters, bird houses, bird
baths, and more. The new addition,
which is adjacent to the garden
centre’s boutique, makes room in the
greenhouses for more plants.
The addition is spacious, cheery
and air-conditioned, all to attract more
shoppers and make going to Sipkens
more of an outing, said Jennifer.
A refreshment counter and café
Artist’s concept of the garden
tables are set up just inside an archway
centre’s new addition
attaching the addition to the original
boutique area.
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If a business isn’t growing,
it’s stagnating and slipping
backwards, says Ken Sipkens.
That’s why he and his
family have built an enormous,
24,000-square-foot addition to
their garden centre this spring
and invested in extensive
recycling and water reuse
systems in recent years.
“We reinvest on a regular
basis,” Ken said. “A lot of mom
and pop garden centres don’t do
that and they are struggling. Here,
we are always looking ahead and
researching the newest trends.”
When the pandemic hit, for
instance, Sipkens immediately
set up an online store that
ultimately outstripped their prepandemic
sales.
“Every day during Covid, we had 60
to 70 carts full and ready for pickup or
delivery. It was go, go, go, go,” said Ken’s
wife Jennifer Sipkens. “The pandemic
was good for business.”
The Sipkens, who run their garden
centre with their five children, Mark,
Chris, Brian, Brad and Alyssa, make sure
they know about industry trends around
the world and apply the best ones to
their own business.
They have stayed on top of things by
going on regular trips across the globe
with the International Garden Centre
Association. A trip to Windsor, England
a few years ago convinced them that
the sale of hard goods like pots, trellises,
garden supplies and yard accessories
was about to take off in North America.
“If you go to Europe now, about 85%
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over
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Today Sipkens grows at least 1,000
varieties of perennials. Their garden
centre covers about 10 acres and
employs 20 people year-round and 55
seasonal workers.
On top of watching consumer
trends and reinvesting, the Sipkens are
also environmentally conscious and
started an aggressive on-site recycling
program eight years ago. About 90%
of greenhouse plastic, cardboard,
discarded pots and other waste
produced by the business is recycled or
composted.
Four years ago, Sipkens began recycling
the runoff from their greenhouses and
irrigation by channelling the water into a
reservoir of tanks, treating it and reusing
it for plant growth.
Ken estimates that his five kids run
about 70% of the business these days but
he and Jennifer remain very involved.
“We keep very busy and it’s a
challenging business,” she said. “But we
enjoy this kind of life.”
Sipkens Garden Centre at 3261 London
Line plans a Grand Opening for the new
addition Saturday, April 30; 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

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A Father's Love
Author
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Fathers seldom say “I Love You”
Though the feeling's always there,
But somehow those three little words
Are the hardest ones to share.
And fathers say "I love you"
In ways that words can't match
With tender bedtime stories
Or a friendly game of catch!
You can see the words "I love you"
In a father's boyish eyeses
When he runs home, all excited,
With a poorly wrapped surprise.
A father says "I love you"
With his strong helping hands
With a smile when you're in trouble
With the way he understands.
ds.
He says "I love you" haltingly, ly
With awkward tenderness
(It's hard to help a four-year-old old into a party dress!)
He speaks his love unselfishly
By giving all l he can
To make some secret dream come true,
Or follow through a plan.
A father's seldom-spoken love
Sounds clearly through the years
Sometimes in peals of laughter,
Sometimes through happy tears.
Perhaps they have to speak their love
In a fashion all their own.
Because the love that fathers feel
Is too big for words alone!
One Liners
A fine is a tax for
doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for
doing well.
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Announcing the long awaited
24-bed, permanent Withdrawal
Management Facility at
Bluewater Health.
Joining the Minister of Long-Term
Care to announce new Long-Term
Care beds at Sumac Lodge.
BOB BAILEY
Sarnia-Lambton
Building A Better Sarnia-Lambton
At OWS Rail Car Inc. learning
about their expansion project,
supported in part through an
investment by the Southwestern
Ontario Development Fund.
At Sarnia Arena celebrating
Ontario’s investment in youth
sports to help with their
recovery from the pandemic
and create opportunities for
the next generation.
Hello again to all the fans and followers of The Club. Spring is
always my favourite season in Sarnia-Lambton. After the
long, cold winter, we are experiencing all the renewal and
energy in the community that comes with longer days and
warmer temperatures. That is a welcome change and great
for the spirit! Whether it’s sitting on the back patio or going for
a long walk, I try to take every opportunity to get outside and
enjoy the fresh air. This spring will bring even more outside
time as candidates like myself in the 2022 Provincial Election
hit the campaign trail before the June 2nd vote.
The past four years have been very busy working to make
things better in Sarnia-Lambton. Every day, I have been
working to ensure Sarnia-Lambton’s issues are front and
centre at Queen’s Park. That’s why I’m pleased to see that so
many important investments have been made in our
community by the Ford Government.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges
in our community, and across the province, our government
never hesitated to do what was necessary to protect the
health and safety of Ontarians. I continue to feel very
optimistic about our future.
It has been my honour to serve at Queen’s Park on behalf of
the people of Sarnia-Lambton over the last four years. Each
day I wake up with a sense of excitement for what the future
holds for the residents of Sarnia-Lambton. With your support,
I can’t wait to continue getting things done for our
community. Stay safe and be well!
Discussing Red Tape Reduction
and Small Business Support with
the Associate Minister of Small
Business (right) and local
business owner Manjit Singh
(left) at Sitara Indian Cuisine.
At St. Joseph’s Hospice to
announce funding support to
help with the important services
they provide in our community.
Horsing around on the job.
With MP Gladu and Mayor
Loosley attending the Vigil for
Ukraine at Royal Canadian
Legion Branch 216 in Petrolia.
Contact Bob Bailey
Sarnia-Lambton Progressive Conservative Riding Association
Website: sarnialambton.ontariopc.ca
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
"If you don’t see
what you’re looking for,
you’re in the right place."
A man and a woman had been
married for more than 60 years.
They had shared everything. They
had talked about everything. They
had kept no secrets from each
other except for the little box that
sat up in the closet.
For all of these years he had
never thought about the box, but
one day the little old women got
very sick and the doctor said she
would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs,
the little old man took down the
shoebox and took it to his wife's
bedside.
She agreed that it was time that
he should know what was in the
box. When he opened it, he found
two crocheted dolls and a stack of
money totalling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents.
"When we were to be married,"
she said, "my Grandmother told me
the secret of a happy marriage was
to never argue. She told me that if
I ever got angry with you, I should
just keep quiet and crochet a doll."
The little old man was so moved
that he had to fight back tears. Only
two precious dolls were in the box.
She had only been angry with him
two times in all those years of living
and loving.
"Honey," he said, " that explains
the dolls, but what about all this
money? Where did it come from?"
"Oh," she said, "that's the money
I made from selling the dolls."
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RESOURCE NAME SERVICES OFFERED PHONE WEB/EMAIL
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Bayshore Home Care Solutions Assistance with Housekeeping, Errands & Meal Prep 519-383-6979 bayshore.ca
Canadian Red Cross Grocery Pickup & Transportation Services 519-332-6380 redcross.ca
Care-A-Van Door-to-Door Public Transportation - lift equipped vehicles 519-336-3789
Habitat for Humanity Low-Cost Home Reno Services 519-339-7957 habitatsarnia.org
Heart to Home Meals Pre-Made Frozen Meal Delivery to 60+ 877-404-4246 hearttohomemeals.ca
Instacart Delivery from several local stores 888-246-7822 instacart.ca
Lambton Elderly Outreach Home & Yard Maintenance, Meals, Various Resources 800-265-0203 lambtonelderlyoutreach.org
Lambton Public Health Individual, Agency and Cargiver help 226-254-8222 lambtonpublichealth.ca
Neighbourlink Household Chores, Transportation, Shopping, Companionship 519-336-5465 neighbourlinksarnia.org
Sarnia Blessings Free Meals for Seniors & Vulnerable People 519-402-9093 sarniablessings@outlook.com
Shine at Home Transportation, 24 hr Housekeeping, Shopping, Meal Prep 519-336-9898 shineathome.com
Strangway Community Centre Recreational, Social & Educational Programs & Activities 519-332-0656 strangway@sarnia.ca
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60 might be the new 40, but 9 pm is the new midnight.
Ah, Spring
Yes your mother and
grandmother were onto
something when they took
advantage of a fine early spring
day to hang rugs, blankets and
quilts to air on the porch. Today
Feng Shui (wind and water) tells
us that stagnant air can be a
health hazard and that to open
your windows and keep them
clean is a real boon to your overall
health and well being.
Feng Shui has been around for over
four thousand years and has recently
been rediscovered in North America.
It started in China when people
believed that an invisible energy
called ch’i was instrumental in making
certain locations sought after.
Farmers believed that land, with the
protection of tall mountains behind
it would shield crops from wind and
water in the front and so would yield a
great harvest. Today Feng Shui is used
to help you identify how ch’i flows
through your work or living space.
Now getting back to spring cleaning, in
Feng Shui the belief is that everything
by Rita Veel, London
From Daytripping May-June 2006
you own is attached to you
by invisible threads.
This includes stuff hidden
behind doors, under beds
and in your garage, I am
not talking about well
organized collections,
strictly things that have
no purpose in your life
today. Unless you rid
yourself of the old stuff,
no new things will enter your life. This
spring, it is time to let go of clutter and
once and for all take control of your
environment. Less is more.
Take a walk through your rooms and
check the amount of space around the
different pieces of furniture in your
house.
You should have a clear path, with
no obstructions from room to room. If
you are having a difficult time moving
around your home comfortably, you
will have a hard time negotiating
certain aspects of your life as well.
Open your windows, play music,
clear your clutter and ch’i will bring
positive spring energy into your life.
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using the equity in your home
can be a lower cost way to borrow
the money than taking out a traditional loan.
For example, you can use your home equity to:
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By Cathy Dobson
We asked some notable folks in Sarnia-Lambton to have a little fun with us and
answer some not-so-pressing questions, In A Few Words. Here’s what they said:
Leona Holland
Volunteer extraordinaire, mother of six and
grandmother of 17
Name one positive thing that surprises you about being over the age of 55.
“Being over 55 tends to make other people more helpful and friendly.”
If you won $1 billion, what would you do with your time?
“I would work with the Department of Education to establish trade workshops in all
Ontario high schools. Many non-academic students would benefit as we always need
more trades people.”
What do you love most about living in Sarnia?
“I like the people, the lake, the bridges and the fries.”
Did anything positive arise for you during the pandemic?
“I had time to interact with family and friends as no volunteer time was available.”
What’s your favourite day of the year and why?
“My favourite day is Ground Hog Day as I always hope for an early spring.”
Do you have a favourite place in Sarnia-Lambton? Where is it?
“My favourite place is under the bridges.”
Name one local store that everyone should visit.
“Russell Street Home Hardware store is my favourite business in Sarnia.”
Describe your perfect day.
“My perfect day is anytime I can volunteer. I love people.”
Name one person you think should run for office in Sarnia-Lambton even if they never will.
“Anne Marie Gillis because she’s a great organizer with a clear vision for the future.”
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
“The Beatles. Rolling Stones are too far out there for me.”
Who has had the greatest influence on your life, not counting your spouse or children?
“My father. He was a teacher and a volunteer.”
What’s your favourite restaurant in Sarnia-Lambton?
“Olives Restaurant. Great people, great food and fun to visit.”
What’s your favourite movie or book and why?
“I couldn’t put down the book by Douglas Brinkley called The Great Deluge - Hurricane
Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The fact that no one was prepared
for Katrina even though they had warning was just unbelievable.”
Name a bucket list item you intend to achieve, and one you probably won’t ever get to.
“I never had a bucket list. I live day by day.”
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Charlie Fairbank
of Oil Springs, operates North American’s oldest
oilfield and produces about 24,000 barrels of oil a
year at Fairbank Oil in Oil Springs. He is a fourth
generation oil man and uses only 19th century technology, including the jerker line
system his great-grandfather developed in 1863. Charlie is a teacher by vocation and a
passionate historian.
You have never retired. What are you working on?
“Working with an amazing team, (locally, nationally and internationally) toward our next
application to obtain a UNESCO World Heritage designation for Oil Springs.”
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
“Mozart easily trumps these “boy bands.”
What do you love most about living in Oil Springs?
“I love the diverse landscape of open fields, woodlands, and wetlands with Black Creek
meandering through it. It creates habitats for a rich assortment of wildlife and birds.”
Name one local store that everyone should visit.
“The Book Keeper (in Sarnia) has my vote. Great reads, great staff and they will order
any book for you. I also like The Ice Creamery on Front Street for a delicious treat.”
What car have you owned that you like the best?
“For me, cars and trucks are tied to fond memories. I had a Ford truck with a very chewed
dashboard thanks to my wonderful border collie that often sat in the passenger seat.”
Who has had the greatest influence on your life, not counting your spouse or children?
“Both my parents, Charles and Jean Fairbank, were hard working compassionate people
who cared about people and integrity. My father instilled me with immense respect
for the early oilmen here and their ingenuity. My mother gave me a lifelong interest in
singing and listening to music.”
What’s your favourite restaurant in Sarnia-Lambton?
“Hmmm. The question is too difficult. I’d have to name five.”
Name one positive thing that surprises you about being over the age of 55.
“I don’t have to think about my boyhood interest in headstands. I never could do them.”
Name a bucket list item you intend to achieve, and one you probably won’t ever get to.“I
likely will not ride a helicopter over our oil field but my wife and I once had a terrific hot
air balloon ride over it. And I just might be able to grow some really fantastic tomatoes
this summer.”
What are people most surprised to learn about you?
“I’ve been interviewed on national television for Much Music and by Jonny Harris for
CBC’s series Still Standing.”
Do you have a guilty pleasure?
“Yes, sweet chili pistachios. I have to limit myself.”
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If this brings back good memories, send us some of your own.
DELIVERY MONDAY THRU SATURDAY
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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE
TO BE WHAT YOU
WANT TO BE. UNLESS
YOU WANT TO BE
YOUNGER. THEN
YOU'RE SCREWED.
Making Home Care Affordable
During Tax Season
Aging at home, or “aging
in place” is everyone’s
desire. The issue for many
is the cost. When paying for
home care and housekeeping
out of pocket the cost may
be less than you think. The
“how” you can achieve this is
what I will be demonstrating
in this article.
If you, or a loved one, need
services to stay independent
there are many options
available to you. I will be
speaking about private home care.
Now the Local Health Integration
Network, or LHIN, provides some
home care, it usually isn’t enough.
According to our clients the help is
great, they just wish there was more.
So how can I afford a service that cost
$30 an hour and up?
From the CRA:
Disability tax credit - The
disability tax credit (DTC) is a nonrefundable
tax credit that helps
persons with disabilities or their
supporting family members reduce
the amount of income tax they
may have to pay. A person with a
severe and prolonged impairment
in physical or mental functions
may be eligible for the DTC. Once
an individual is eligible for the
DTC, the disability amount can be
claimed on their tax return(s) for
the applicable year(s).
This is how. It is called the Attendant
Care Claim. It is also called the
Disability Tax Credit. This is a nonrefundable
tax credit that can literally
save you thousands of dollars in
income tax.
Disclaimer: I am not a tax professional.
Your tax situation is unique and for
the appropriate and proper advice you
should consult a tax professional.
While I am not a tax professional,
I have been assisting many of my
clients in taking full advantage of
the Attendant Care Claim. Here is a
brief description of the credit. I will
give the link to the detailed Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) Guidelines in
this article, but essentially the credit
is for anyone that needs assistance in
remaining independent in their home.
The credit covers the cost of staffing,
or wages that get paid to staff by a
home care provider. The credit pays for
much more, but I will focus on staffing
costs. For my clients it is over half the
billing amount —a lot of money and I
am amazed at the number of people
that do not take advantage of this tax
credit.
By Chris Treftlin, Shine at Home, Sarnia
See link:
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/
cra-arc/formspubs/pub/rc4064/rc4064-
21e.pdf
The details in the CRA document will
fill in any blanks, but at a high level the
steps you to get the credit are easy and
as follows:
First, print a copy of the T2201 form
from the CRA website.
See link:
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenueagency/services/forms-publications/
forms/t2201.html (or Google “T2201”),
and take it to your primary medical
professional, usually your doctor. They
will fill in the form and return it to you.
In the form they answer all the CRA’s
questions regarding and confirming
your specific needs for in-home care.
With the T2201 filled out, the home
care provider writes a letter confirming
the amount that was paid to staff from
the client’s annual billing. A little bit
of homework for the service provider,
but easily done. Now, with these two
documents in hand, a claim can be
made in your tax filing. Again, multiple
thousands of dollars are available in
this credit when you qualify.
“Eligibility is not impacted by the
receipt of other federal or provincial
benefits. If you receive Canada
Pension Plan or Quebec Pension
Plan disability benefits, workers’
compensation benefits, or other
types of disability or insurance
benefits, it does not necessarily
mean you are eligible for the
DTC. These programs have other
purposes and different criteria,
such as an individual’s inability to
work.”
It is also important to note that being
on another form of support from the
government does not, repeat does
not necessarily disqualify you from
receiving the credit. (From pg 16 of
Information guide.)
There it is, get home care and save
money on your taxes. I have to go
now and write more letters for my
clients.
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the rest of these jingles?
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2) “I don’t wanna grow up”
3) “Gimme a break, gimme a break”
4) “The best part of waking up”
5) “Sometimes you feel like a nut”
6) “I’d like to teach the world to sing”
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8) “If you dare wear short shorts”
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11) “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is”
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... and how many of you sang them?
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These were found on signs outside of churches.
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