NOVEMBER 22, 2024 – Beek Lindsay Seniors Residence held a Food Drive to benefit Centre 105. A big thank you to all the residents who donated and a big big thank you to Claudette Quesnel for all her work.
Centre 105, located in the hall of Trinity Anglican Church, 105 Second Street West, offers a free ready to eat breakfast for those in need from Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 12 noon. They offer a safe social space, and referrals to community programs. They also offer a a Recovery Care Mobile Clinic which brings a nurse and addictions counselor every Friday. For more information on their programs or to make a donation please go to www.centre105.ca , info @centre105.ca or call 343-585-4360.
Photo courtesy of Penny Potash
From left to right: Shayla Brush, Property manager of Beek Lindsay, Claudette Quesnel, resident, Taylor Sequin, Executive Director of Centre 105 and Leslie Cruden, Centre 105’s new Full time Kitchen Coordinator.
Some seniors were talking about years gone by,. One lady mentioned the cafeteria on the Second Floor in Sears Store at the Cornwall Square Shopping Mall. She liked to eat in the Sears cafeteria. She said that the food was so good and she would sit in a booth which overlooked the river. It was very relaxing after a day’s work. Too bad we lost it.
Another lady mentioned Sears catalogue office. It was great to have their catalogues. You could order whatever you choose from it by phone and when it arrived at the store, go and pick it up. If it wasn’t all you wanted you could return it to the catalogue office and get your money back or reorder. No problem.
One lady mentioned the fact that Eaton’s had a catalogue office on Pitt Street many moons ago. It too was handy. Wish we still had one of them.
Ahhh, those were the days.
I received some Christmas Cards from the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists organization. So beautiful. If you are interested in getting any please call 1-416-362-9992 or email at : mfpa@ mfpacanada.com.
Must have been a beautiful boat to see. This old photo was in a newspaper some years ago.
My first attempt at writing a Limeric:
‘Jacques wanted to go to Hawaii
And wander the beaches of Maui.
So, to not go alone,
He bugged his love on the phone
‘Till she finally sighed, “Ahhh…Oui. Oui.” ‘
Well, I tried.
LOL
The Alzheimer Society of Ontario has launched the inaugural ASO
Advocacy College which, according to the web site, is a four part education and training course through ALZeducate . The four part course is designed apparently to help concerned staff, clients and members and It states it will help for a more dementia-friendly Ontario by enhancing participants’ skills and knowledge with practical and how-to instruction on advocacy techniques and how to best navigate the political system. For more information go to : policyy@alzon.ca.
A few funny lines from a friend:
1) I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2) ) Borrow money from a pessimist- they don’t expect it back.
3) A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory.
4) If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain.
5) A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
6) If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
7) Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
8) As the year comes to an end, I urge you to take care of yourself and avoid accidents because spare parts for old models like us are hard to find.
Have a good week, Dawn