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“Dedicated to Excellence”
Easter Long Weekend at Camp Squamish April 14 to 17, 2017 Basses and Tenors section...
Haida House Campfire Area Nootka House
Mini-train at Heritage Park Railway Museum
Dining Area
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Caregiver’s LIFE…
I so seldom look at the total cost of a cuppa but I did last Thursday when we went at an outing at Garden Works and I paid for several of our members. I wasn’t aware that a cup of coffee cost $2.73 each until I realized I didn’t have much change left and we still hadn’t even had lunch. It pains me greatly to think we are spending Templeton’s hard earned money so brainlessly eating out at such expense. 21 years ago when the Templeton group moved from Britannia, we did some frenzied fundraising. Debbie, Ollie, Helen and I are thte only ones left out of original members. Ollie, Helen and I had a blast having bake sales both at Templeton and at the malls; white elephant sales on the premises, after school hours selling hot dogs, Popsicles, pop, baking, coffee, etc from the centre’s kitchen serving hatch. The three of us did the baking.
We had members selling Senior Lottery tickets, Van Raffle tickets. Many of our former members manned tables in the malls. We used Debbie’s cell phone at the mall to phone her for her to arrange for Brad to pick up members to man the tables. Debbie had a cell phone years before Ollie and I ever considered owning one. Safeway donated hot dogs, buns and space and our members all took a turn selling them. Until Lion’s Den shut down the Senior’s Day Care program ,we held our annual Christmas dinner there. Ollie organized the entire purchase of the food and our members all had a turn at peeling, cooking, setting-up, serving and clean up. Collected items during the year were wrapped and raffled. We usually had over a hundred items to offer to usually approximately 70 dinner guests. —Key Akeroyd Templeton Stroke Recovery, Treasurer
About 100 million photons are needed to produce a light bright enough to
204– 2929 Nootka Street, Vancouver, BC V5M 4K4 Canada Published every month, if possible. Contributions are always welcome. The articles should be in, not later than day 25th day of every month. Disclaimer: The views expressed in Stroke Recoverer’s Review newsletter: articles, submissions and spotlights are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Templeton Stroke Recovery or the editor of Stroke Recoverer’s Review. Editor reserves the right at any time to make changes as it deems necessary. It is the purpose of this periodical to share a variety of viewpoints mostly from stroke survivors March 2017 Kiyoko Akeroyd Ollie Stogrin Deb Chow Jimy Walmsley Jose Suganob
Production of SRR: Jose Suganob
AURORA BOREALIS
These breathtaking displays of northern lights originate on the sun, where explosions and flares occur at frequent intervals. During explosions, large quantities of solar debris are hurled into space as plasma clouds at speeds 1000 of km/second. As the clouds near Earth, they are attracted by the magnetic fields at the Earth’s poles. The lights we see the visible effects of light particles (photons) produced when the solar particles collide with gases in Earth’s atmosphere.
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be seen by the naked eye. Unlike the sun, the aurora does not produce all colors in the spectrum. Different colors are produced by the various gases in the aurora.
Yellow-green—Oxygen
Red—High-altitude oxygen
Blue—Ionized nitrogen
Violet—Neutral nitrogen
In most regions of Canada, the northern lights usually appear yellowgreen, but on rare occasions, brilliant red or violet northern lights may appear in the sky during period of extreme solar disturbance.
Inside this issue:
Caregiver’s Life Did You Know?
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Last Month Happenings
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BLAST Never Give Up Concert
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Jokes page
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Last Month Happening…
This week, April’s Fool Day? That’s the way I feel! Somehow, I had a birthday, Feb. 14th and my life hasn’t been the same… Seems people remembered that I live here and I haven’t had an empty house since. Needless to say, I’m behind with all my chores. We also haven’t been at Templeton, as it’s their yearly maintenance clean -up time, so we had to move to Norah Davis Gardens. Thanks heaven! We have been doing that for a number of years. It’s very nice that they offer their space to us. It’s also the time that our Speech gal, Reesa, can’t attend, so, we need to fill in for her absence and our ‘Dart has to be re-routed. Things sometimes get difficult with the change. 2017 has been a challenging year! Between the snow, no volunteers, moving for clean-up. Some of our members moving ; like our editor, Jose.’ Now, another one of our regular member, Nancy, moving to where another of member lives, Lilian will be happy. The two will have the same pick-up and they both live across from the park. That will be nice for them in summer. Next month will be Easter camp time by BLAST at Camp Squamish, a time our members look forward to. Time seems to move fast, it will also be Templeton SR annual picnic. Key and I always looked after; arranging the picnic. Only that seems to be taken out of our hands… We did go the gardens (Garden Works near South Marine Drive).
Our members had lunch and had a speaker (Garden Works manager) talked on gardening plants (herbs). Maybe some of our members will be planting flowers, seeds? Something to think about. It’s always interesting plants grow on your window sill. This year with the snowy cold weather, we have been so behind with our summer plans for our annual picnic which usually takes place at the end of July. So far we don’t have a date for that. Only will in the next Stroke Recoverer’s Review issue. With our unusual winter, some of our dates have gone astray. It’s difficult to think to think of summer when one is looking out at 2 feet of snow! There has been many changes happening at Templeton; such as we can’t make lunch for our program? It’s too bad, as many of our members have a difficult making pot of soup. Only who, with two good arms could understand this?? In 21 years, I have been making soup. I haven’t NO REPORT of anyone getting sick. Only government has nothing better to do than take our lunch program because our soups and sandwiches was not a money maker but, a service for our members who are disabled and are on low income. That is only my opinion. This is not part of a coordinator’s job. I was doing lunch as a volunteer.
(They get to many free bee’s, my opinion again).
Our members enjoyed having a simple soup and sandwich. Isn’t eating a part of keeping healthy? I always understood it was. And, isn’t ‘stroke recovery’ suppose try to make people healthier? As I always understood food keeps us alive. Only our government has not figured that out yet!
OLDIES, BUT NOT GOODIES…
Many people are not with us today. Except Key, Jose, Helen and Debbie Chow, that would remember when we started Templeton Stroke Recovery group (which was Britannia). Then, our lunch (soup and sandwich) was how we managed to have volunteers. As many would help us in order to get a free lunch. That wouldn’t happen today, even with ’free lunch’ can’t seem to attract volunteers, as every one is too busy. It seems, in order to volunteer. Sooo? Who would like to offer their time for our picnic in July. When I get a date? ‘Till next month. See you all after Easter. Happy Easter! —Written by Ollie Stogrin Templeton Stroke Recovery, Co-Founder UP, UP and AWAY!
On September 29, 1962, Canada became the first country (okay, the first other than United States and Soviet Union!) to launch a satellite into space. It was named Aloutte. DIG THAT!
Early settlers on the Canadian prairie often their first homes from clumps of sod—usually 50 tonnes of the stuff! Remember, you read it here first. The Sea King helicopters owned and flown by Canada’s armed forces were state-of-the-art machines— more than 40 years ago!
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BLAST Monthly Dinner Stroke Survivors, Caregivers, and Friends!
Come, join us for dinner! May 15th, 2017 (Monday) Dinner starts at 5:30 pm
Trocadero’s
2411 Nanaimo St, Vancouver, BC (North of Broadway)
Sing Anywhere, Anytime... (filler)
There was a time when we all used to sing; we sang at church, around campfire, at school. While group singing is experiencing a resurgence, not so many of us sing anymore. At some stage in our life, someone told us to be quiet or judged our imperfect singing voice. Sophia Efthimian, UK singer, singing teacher and choir leader suggests that singing is very personal, an expression of sound coming with in us, so we cannot help but take this criticism very personally and it sticks. Yet, people who claim they cannot sing because they are tone deaf are more likely to be very unfamiliar with finding and using their singing voice. Tone deafness is comparatively rare and means that you would be unable to recognize a song. If you recognize a song, you are not tone deaf, you are just unpracticed. The science is in. “The neuroscience of singing shows that when we sing our neurotransmitters connect in new and different ways. It fires up the right temporal lobe of our brain, releasing endorphins that make us smarter, healthier, happier and more creative when we sing with other people this effect is amplified.”
March 2017
“NEVER GIVE UP” Concert…(March 29, 2017)
A Community Choir UNCONCERT last Wednesday night, March 29th, 2017, at Korean Community Center Vancouver, BC. Amazing!!! Songs: Humbly (Laurence Cole), Bambelela-Never Give Up (from South Africa’s
‘The Generics’ based on traditional Xhosa tune), In The Arms of Love (Gina Sala) Blue Yonder (David Francey, arranged by Karla Mundy) Marvellous Things (Traditional Gospel, as taught by Ysaye Barnwell) This Is Home (Sophia Ethimiou) Lil’ Liza Jane (Traditional New Orleans street band tune, 1910 and earlier) This Little Light of Mine (Henry Dixon Loes, 1920; arranged by Brian Tate) To My Old Brown Earth (Pete Seeger, arranged by Paul Halley) I Am Determined (Traditional Gospel, as taught by Y. Barnwell) The Tide is Rising (Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman & Yotam Schachter, Brooklyn, NYC)
For all of us living, it can be easy to get discouraged, to throw up our hands and get fatalistic about the continuing messiness that humanity finds itself in; racism, poverty, inequality, anti-arts budgets, housing prices, isolation, sexism, etc. We all need reminders of our abilities to think, act and be kind to one another and our old, brown Earth— that we can do marvelous things together, that if we hold on and are determined to walk in freedom
together, we can become the tide that is rising. We need not give up, if we have each other. A choir is one of the best ways of showing how possible this is, and so we sing. Join us. We are regular people who love to sing, and who do it, regardless of experience or ability—for the love of singing TOGETHER. We believe that EVERYONE can sing, and it is part of our human inheritance to get to sing together. Nothing can quite explain the feeling you get from singing harmonies in a group of people you’ve never met before. You become connected. In a sense, you come home. Choirs are led by Patti Powell, song leader, musician, and performer for 20+ years, graduate of Community Choir Leadership Training Program in Victoria, BC, Canada. Wanna raise up your voice with us? Come out on the first couple dates of a choir session, check it out, and see if you wanna stay. For information about any of our choirs, look us up at: www.pattipowellchoirs.com or contact Patti at: patpow986@gmail.com —Shared by Jose Suganob Templeton SR
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JOKES THE TWO-LETTER UP...
BODY SWITCH...
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this…
A man was sick and tired of going to work everyday, while his wife stayed home. He wanted her to see what went through, he prayed:
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and is UP. It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends. And, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And, this UP is confusing. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP.
—Joke shared by Jimy Walmsley Stroke Survivor
“Dear Lord, I go to work everyday and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through, so please allow her body to switch with mine for a day.” GOD, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man’s wish. The next morning sure enough, the man awoke as a woman. He ( as woman) arose, cooked breakfast for his mate, awakened the kids, set-out their school clothes, fed them breakfast, packed their lunches, drove them to school, came home and picked up the dry cleaning and stopped at the bank to make a deposit, went grocery shopping; then drove home to put away the groceries, paid the bills and balanced the checkbook. He cleaned the cat’s litter box and bathed the dogs. Then, it was already 1pm and he hurried to make the beds, do the laundry, vacuum, dusts and sweep and mop the kitchen floor; ran to the school to pick-up the kids and into an argument with them on the way home, set-out cookies and milk and got the kids organized
to do their homework, then set-up the ironing board and watched TV while did the ironing. At 4:30 pm, he began peeling potatoes and washing vegetables for salad, breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper. After supper, he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the kids, and put them to bed. At 9 pm, he was exhausted and, though his daily chores weren’t finished he went to bed where he was expected to make love which he managed to get through without complaint. The next morning, he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said, “Lord, I don’t knew what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my wife’s being able to stay home all day. Please, oh please, let us trade back.” The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied, “My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the way they were. You’ll just have wait nine months, though, you got pregnant last night. (Now, that’s a punch line!)
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