Welcome to The Club v2.2 April 2022

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Have a Look and Have Your Say!
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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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 • SPRING 2022
Trivia 22
Discount List 23
Word Search 13
Postcards from the Past 12
Recipes 14
Crossword 29
Milestones & Memories 25
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SPRING 2022 …do you think the tasks on our bottom borders are obsolete?
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