Grey-Bruce Boomers Fall 2023

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Pumpkin Spice is my season. No doubt about it, there’s no time I love
more than fall. Warm September (and hopefully October!) days, cool
mornings and crisp nights – everything smells fresh but also nostalgic at the
same time. Kids are back in school (yeah!), sweaters and leggings come out
and warm comfort meals take over for barbecues. If every day could be the
ideal fall sunny September day, I would be a happy person!
This marks our ninth fall issue of Grey-Bruce Boomers! It’s hard to believe
that when we published our first fall issue, my youngest daughter was four
and is now going into Grade 8, while our oldest was in Grade 2 and now is
behind the wheel! Every once in a while, I like to re-introduce our family to
our readers (picture at right), as Grey-Bruce Boomers is a true, small, familybased
company, not a big corporation. Our family works together – from
writing, editing, selling advertising, and distribution to having the kids do
some heavy lifting by loading magazines into my SUV and running the
house at deadline time.
CONTENTS
The Bucket List • 4
Hearing health • 10
Finding purpose • 16
Mardi Gras! • 20
Alcohol and aging • 26
Recipe • 30
In this issue, the Grey Bruce Public Health shares the updated guidelines
for drinking alcohol and how the way we process alcohol changes as we
age, while ActivEars Hearing Centres provides insight into hearing health
for the entire family. Doug Archer writes about a fascinating hobby of a
Saugeen Shores resident – astrophotography. Jill Ellis-Worthington takes
us on a trip to New Orleans, with some affordable as well as luxury options
to experience Mardi Gras, and Jo Davis helps us find purpose after age 60.
Thank you to our readers, writers, advertisers
and distributors – I hope you enjoy Pumpkin
Spice season this year as much I do!
Layne, Amy, Jace and
Dwight Irwin.
Amy Irwin, Publisher
Grey-Bruce Boomers
FALL 2023
Publisher
Amy Irwin
amy@greybruceboomers.com
Magazine Design
Becky Grebenjak
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