CURRENTS January 2024

CURRENTS is the official newsletter of the Credit River PROBUS Club. It is published monthly and emailed to members to keep them abreast of club activities and to promote the club’s central objectives. Submissions are welcome as are new ideas and should be emailed to Lydia Koop, lydia4@cogeco.ca.

President’s Message

By the time you read this, the celebration of Christmas will be over – a most unusual Christmas, with no snow. I could not help thinking that something was missing. I am writing this a few days before the New Year and the temperatures are still hovering around 6° or 7° Celsius.

Brian and I took a side trip to Sarnia right after Christmas where it was even a little milder, although we had to cope with torrential rain much of the way down and back. There was no snow to be seen even when passing through what can be the very snowy area west of London that the weather man sometimes calls the “snow belt”. Given the amount of rain, if the temperature had been a little lower, we would have been buried up to our necks in the snow. Its absence is however unfortunate for those planning winter sports to burn off the extra weight from eating too much turkey and too many mincemeat pies. The local polar bear swimmers will have no ice to break this year before they jump into Lake Ontario, nevertheless I am not tempted to join them.

Weather permitting, our Club has a trip coming up on January 4 to the Cambridge Fashion History Museum, currently featuring a travelling exhibit of the clothes worn by Cher during her time in the spotlight. For interested participants there is also an additional stop at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory, with free flying tropical butterflies and displays of exotic bugs. In February, we have another event coming up, to the Peel Art Museum and Archives in Brampton where we will have a guided tour. This visit was suggested from the floor during the discussion at our last AGM. The Management Committee really does listen, so please continue to suggest visits and activities that would interest you. Please read “Currents” carefully for news of “activities” and “events” being planned.

When wishing friends and family well for the New Year, I remember that for so many the prospects for 2024 are bleak. The war in the Ukraine drags on, and the war in Gaza is one of the most bitter conflicts in living memory. So, in wishing club members, their families and friends “Happy New Year” I do it with profound thanks for the relative safety and humanity of our country, province and community. We are not problem free, but there is nowhere else I would rather be.

I hope to see you at our next meeting on January 25, 2024.

Ada Dixon

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