Serving Burlington - Oakville - Milton - Mississauga
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Serving Burlington - Oakville - Milton - Mississauga
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WELCOME Bill Hughes President Oakville Retiree's Club 2008 - 2009
Become active in our Club. Invite your fellow Telephone Retiree's to Join. Get Involved as part of the Executive or on one of the Committees Did you know that our Fellowship Committee sent Easter Cards to our 109 Members who are over 80 years of age.
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See the Coming Events page for details 29 October, 2008 - Sixty-three members, partners and guests enjoyed the outing to "Splendido Teatro" at Carmans. 08 October, 2008 - Twenty members and partners of the Oakville Club attended the Annual TCV Meeting held at the Novatel Hotel in North York. A delicious meal was provided and a most enjoyable and interesting presentation of "Toronto Then and Now" was given by the noted Toronto author Mike Filey. Syd McKay of our club was the lucky draw winner of a fine blanket. 28 September, 2008 - The September 2008 Issue of the "Retirement Rag" is now available on the Retirement Rag page. (telephone numbers are not included in the web version) 25 September, 2008 - Fifty-six members and partners enjoyed the Credit Valley Explorer Train ride from Orangeville to Snelgrove. 08 September, 2008
- The 17th Annual Golf Tournament was held at the
30 June, 2008 - Dave Warren, AVP Participation reports that for the Club year 01 July, 2007 - 30 June, 2008 our members contributed 7380 hours to community services. The majority of these hours (52%) were made by our volunteers with Crafters Who Care and Connect Care. Congratulations to all who have participated in the Club program, and to those unknowns doing good unreported community work please notify Dave so we can add your hours to our records.
06 June, 2008 - Approximately 90 members and partners enjoyed the perfect weather, change of venue, and the Annual Barb-e-cue at the Port Credit Yacht Club. On the same day Ray Burrell, Bill Check and Doug Kirkwood made the sacrifice and spent several hours at Appleby College, Oakville, assisting the Oakville Branch of the Cancer Society setting up for their annual "Walk For Life." This included placing event street signs, more than 150 lot signs, various other signs and a number of heavy picnic tables and garbage barrels at strategic locations. 29 May, 2008 - The 24 members and partners of the Euchre Club wrapped up their season at the Club Room with their annual pizza party. 03 May, 2008 - Despite the cool rainy weather, 47 members and partners enjoyed the 14th Annual Pancake Breakfast at the Club Room. Thanks to all who assisted and to Ron Knisley for providing real maple syrup, Bea Medland for providing the eggs and Rose Marie Grinton for the flowers. 21 April, 2008 - AVP Community Services, Bill Check, and members, Ray Burrell, Bill Hughes, Doug Kirkwood and Roy Warmington spent their Saturday morning at the Main Branch of the Oakville Public Library, packing and loading surplus books being donated to the Salvation Army. 15 April, 2008 - Forty-two members and partners enjoyed the luncheon and the show at the "Famous People Players" in Toronto. 28 February, 2008
04 December, 2007
Friendships were renewed when 146 members enjoyed Following the Luncheon Christmas Carols were sung accompanied by Bill Hamel and Isobel Varty who also sang a solo. A number of door prizes were handed out. David Young won the 50/50 draw and Margaret Bessant, pictured to the right, won the blanket made as a fundraiser by the "Crafters Who Care". Margaret is a Crafter herself and has put in many volunteer hours for the Crafters charitable projects. A total of 18 boxes of food was collected and distributed to the Salvation Army in Oakville, Milton and Mississauga. November, 2007
Way to go Lorna ! Lorna Maj is pictured presenting her 7th annual "Helping Hands" cheque for $500 to Luisa Parente of the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. Lorna is also a working member of our Club's Social Committee that assists with the luncheons at our General Meetings.
Congratulations to Joan Gibb who earned a "Helping Hands" $500 cheque for the Oakville Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society. Everyone doing volunteer work should be reporting their hours to Dave Warren AVP Participation. Photos are welcome too. 27 October, 2006; Bill Check and his Telco volunteers were again assisting the Oakville Salvation Army with their annual food drive. In total our volunteers contributed 82 hours of community service. 10 October, 2007 Thank You, Gino's Pizza, Hopedale Mall, Oakville for continuing to collect the pop tabs for our Club's charity activities! You can now connect to our fellow Retiree Clubs and other sites through the links on the Link page. If you have any comments or suggestions please contact us by
Last Update 10 November, 2008
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WE NEED YOU!
Don't forget to send in your cheque for our Annual Christmas Luncheon on Dec.
2nd.
Deerfield
Golf Course with 52 participants enjoying a day of golf and fellowship. Low
Gross; Wally Pollock and Bonnie Parsons. Low net; Ron Bryant and Shirley Ross. A sumptuous meal
and awards presentation followed with 54 members, partners and guests present.
Bill Bowyer and Bill Hughes presented a cheque for $2500.00 to Sharon
Millard of the Cawthra Salvation Army on behalf of our Club and Bell Canada.
This is the 8th year our club has made this donation for a total of
$20,000. The following members contributed time and effort to reach the 500
hours required to obtain the grant. Bill Bowyer, Bob Grinton, Rosemarie Grinton,
Marg Clarke, Tom Brown, Pat Holway, Kay Lee, Yvonne Seaton, Gordon Beeton, Ian
Ross, Shirley Ross, Carol Hall, Pat Vincent, Norma Dalton and Bill Hughes. In
November of this year we will be looking for assistance again for the Army’s
Xmas Bureau to help the needy.
the Annual Oakville Retiree's Club Christmas Luncheon at the Oakville Holliday
Inn.
