MEN'S & WOMEN'S PROBUS CLUBS OF WOODSTOCK-OXFORD
Woodstock, Ontario
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Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 14, at the Woodstock Legion, 642 Dundas Street.
Plan to join us at 9:30 am !
Coffee will be provided at the break !
As a Probus member you are entitled to bring a a guest to our meetings and you can sponsor new members.
The more the merrier!
A Message from President Arie Markvoort
Who Am I - open position - Phil Thorne our vice president has relinqished his WAI position. Contact Bob McLeod, John Eacott or any management member to volunteer for this position
Arie
Special Events
A history of Woodstock walk will be held on October 25 weather permitting. Participants will be divided into two groups of 10 people guided by Murray Coulter and David Hay.
• A Christmas Social meal will occur after the General Meeting on December 9th at the Legion
September Speakers
Life Stories
Phil Dunbar - Presentation of the way Woodstock and area once looked like, mostly from up in the air.
Keynote Speaker - Local playwright Bill Butt Miss Supertest - The Bob Hayward Story
Keynote Speaker
William Thomas - a Niagara-based humour columnist whose work appears in the Niagara Dailies. ‘Including stealing shoeshine polish and dropping a snake down his sister’s back, William Thomas’s memories are filled with a childhood of troublemaking.
News from Ken Shrubsall Membership now stands at 88
Yearly dues are now overdue! see Ken
October Birthdays
Rick Bell Len Brooks
Gordon Brown Rob Byrant
Murray Coulter Brad Dunlop
Peter Harrison David Hay
Laird Norris Don Post
Paul Smith
On the sixth day, God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said, “Today I am going to create a land called Canada. It will be a land of outstanding natural beauty; it shall have tall, majestic mountains full of mountain goats and eagles, and beautiful, sparkly lakes bountiful with carp and trout. There shall be forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs overlooking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, and rivers stocked with salmon.” God continued, “I shall make the land rich in oil so to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, and they shall be known as the friendliest people on the earth.” “But Lord,” responded Gabriel, “Don't you think you are being too generous to these Canadians?” “No, not really.” God replied. “Just wait and see the neighbors I am going to give them.
This young blond decided she wanted to pay off all her bllls. She started going door to door in her neighborhood asking if anyone needed something done for a little money. She knocks on her first door. An elderly man answers. "Hello. I m trying to make some extra money to pay off bills. Do you have any odd jobs you need done" The old man replies, "Well, you can paint the porch". She jumps for joy and says 'Great! How much will you pay?" "One hundred dollars", said the old man. " The paint, rollers, and brushes are in the garage. Knock on the door when you're done and I’ll pay you". The old man goes back inside as the young blond bounds off to the garage. "Does that poor girl know our porch wraps around the whole house?", asks the old man's wife." Of course she does. You've heard too many dumb blond jokes. Just at that moment there was a knock at the door. The old man opens it to find a smiling face, "I'm done. And I had enough paint to give it two coats. By the way mister, that's a Lexus . Not a Porsche”.