Thompson Association of Retired Educators (TARE

Our Chapter closed down in March and did not have an AGM. The Executive will continue in place until COVID-19 is over or until someone must step down for personal reasons.

We have our first event planned for Tuesday, August 18. “Lunch on the Lawn” will be hosted in the back yard of the Gobles where we may safely distance from one another. Each person must bring a chair or blanket to sit on and desired food and drink with no sharing except with “family." We hope to have time to catch up with one another and set some tentative plans for the fall. Currently, we have no place large enough to meet safely but that may change if the School

Board Office opens up to us. We are all safe here in Thompson and hope to stay that way. Our last planned project was the PreRetirement Seminar for prospective retirees from the School District of Mystery Lake held just before COVID-19 shut everything down.. Our school year end project of delivering Rice Krispie cookies to the classroom of a retiring teacher had to be cancelled. Our June joint venture plant project with the local Library had to be cancelled so we did not have the opportunity to work with the children. However, after the snow finally disappeared and a few plants became available for purchase, a few of us got together and filled the four large planters in front of the Library. We also weeded the side garden and the brick walkway to tidy up the area. We have plans to tackle the large front garden in a week or two. It has not been tended to in years and requires heavy maintenance. We will start by removing the unwanted Manitoba maples that have encroached on the space and finding out what else is actually in there that is worth keeping and could be encouraged to grow. By late September or early October we will have to remove all plants from the planters so that will be a project for a few of us. 