OCTOBER 2016
Augustine House Resident Council Meeting
MINUTES of Resident Council Meeting held September 20, 2016
Attendance: Sheila, Tom, Irene, Phyllis, Carla, Reg...regrets Jane.
Called to Order: at 9:56am
Agenda: Approved… Irene/Carla…Carried.
Minutes of last Meeting: Approved…Reg/Irene…Carried.
Treasurer's Report: (Irene) Balance of $277.20 after disbursements of $20.00 on behalf of
deceased Residents. Most current recycling assets amounted to $62.55 (included in current
balance). Approved: Irene/Phyllis…Carried.
Food and Dining: (Carla) Discussion on Menu items...their description and contents for
information of Residents with any allergies etc. Servers to be familiar with such content if
queried.
Fire and Safety: (Reg) Thorough, all-inclusive testing of all aspects in corridors, individual
accommodations, etc. done. Potential Safety issue noted by the absence of Alert/Help facility
'cord' in 2 Corridor Washrooms 2 North.....whereas they do exist in other Corridor
Washrooms.
Hospitality: (Phyllis/Jane) Phyllis reports "caught up".
Haven House: (Tom) No Report… Lighting issue taken up with Management...no detail on
resolving same. Some movement of furnishings being attended to.
Old Business: (Sheila)… some 'dead' shrubbery removed…further consideration to others.
New Business: (Sheila/Council) Pleased to have a Volunteer come forward to attend to
recycling....very much appreciated. Potential location for Memorial Garden discussed and no
doubt to be brought up at Resident's Forum for total input. Donations from Resident's
Treasury discussed and to be made by majority vote of Council of 'ideas' put forward.
Residents are urged to make any suggestions to a Council Member if desired for discussion at
a Council Meeting or feel free to attend such a Meeting.
Next Meeting Tuesday, Oct. 25th at 10am
Adjourned: (Irene/Reg) 10:45am
RESIDENT FORUM MINUTES
Held Thursday September 22, 2016 @ 3pm
Present:
Tanya, Joy, Anne, Lorette, Joanne, Tim, and 45 residents attended
Tanya welcomed everyone
Introduced Robert Chan from Remedy RX to speak to residents:
ROBERT: (Remedy RX)
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Has been working in a retail setting in pharmaceutical for 20 years
Located in Vancouver and provides service to 50 different care homes…will be returning in October for
a more formal introduction to Remedy RX and specific lectures on pain management, depression, etc…
Remedy RX delivers medication in pouches, docets and vials
Nurse on board – talks on wellness, chronic diseases and pain management
One on one support at no extra charge…residents welcome to stay with their current pharmacy if they
wish.
TANYA:
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Please complete and return Satisfaction Survey. Fraser Health Residents received an additional
survey, complete both if possible. Privacy issue raised – Tanya will empty box. Any questions, please
ask.
Trees surrounding AH, Arborist here Sept 21, addressed many issues. We will trim, thin and maintain
trees that need care and prove to be a safety hazard. Now is the time of year to prune, as it will not
disturb Eagles (no babies) – we will be working to remove leaves…wet weather on the way, main
objective is a safe environment/clear pathways.
Dining room tables and chairs – work continuing on installing wheels. Choosing new placemats &
napkins…process in the works.
Chef Gareth resigning – last day October 7... All wish him best of luck; he has created an amazing
team. We will be posting for position of Culinary Manager, feel free to forward names of possible
candidates.
TIM:
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Bus update: if we have less than 6 people we will still do a bus trip. Reminder - sign up for bus trips if
you’d like to go. Please take name off the list if you will not attend.
Lots happening in October - Erica is back October 2nd.
October 1st is National Seniors Day – Open House/Art Show here from 2-4 pm that will showcase our
talented residents.
Upcoming Trips:
- October 4th – bus trip to Squamish/Shady Tree Pub
- October 12th - bus trip to new Shopping Centre: Tsawwassen Mills: 10:00am
- October 17th - bus trip to new Shopping Centre: Tsawwassen Mills: 2:15pm
- October 18th - Oktoberfest Celebration with Franz & Angela: German music and food
- October 26th - Ladies Lunch at Kings Links
- October 31st - Halloween Party: Live music... prizes for creative costumes
Please check calendar during the month for more dates/events coming up
Osteofit too easy? Talk to Tim about the right instructor/class
Thanks to Nellie for recycling of the juice cups…please rinse cups out.
Garden – fresh tomatoes, zucchini...help yourself to tomatoes – Ernie’s garden is free, all garden areas
open except Wanda’s.
WHO’S NEW IN THE HOUSE
JOAN
Joan was born in Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau). She lived in Quebec until she married at 24.
Joan attended Notre Dame Convent and St. Patricks college in Ottawa to study english
literature, and went on to attend Willis business college where she studied to become a
secretary.
Joan was secretary to an army general in Ottawa, (Fighting Frank Worthington) until Joan
married Rodney Irving. Rodney brought Joan to Vancouver where he was residency in surgery
at St. Vincents hospital. They also lived in Detroit where he finished his residency.
Joan has 4 children , 11 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Her hobbies include discussing
politics and most sports.
RESIDENTS GARDENS FALL CLEANUP
Just a reminder to clean up your flower beds
before the weather suddenly changes
NAME: KAREN
POSITION: DINING ROOM SERVER
WHAT IS YOUR BASIC PHILOSOPHY IN LIFE: WHAT
COMES AROUND GOES AROUND, KARMA
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS/MOVIES:
HARRY POTTER (ALL OF THEM)
WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE GROWING UP: AN
ARCHEOLOGIST
WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU LIKE: RAP, HIP HOP
AND R&B
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN: LISTENING TO MUSIC AND WORD SEARCH PUZZLES
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COCKTAIL: GREY GOOSE VODKA AND LIME JUICE
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY: MUSIC
WHO WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO MEET: ADOLF HITLER (TO FIND OUT WHY HE DID WHAT HE
DID)
WHAT IS YOUR PERFECT VACATION: MEXICO
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE: THEIR EYES
WHAT IS YOUR IDEAL DATE NIGHT: DINNER AND DRINKS
WHAT WERE YOUR SCHOOL GRADES LIKE: NOT GREAT
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD: PASTA
WHEN DID YOU LAST LAUGH SO MUCH IT HURT: FAMILY PLAYED A JOKE ON ME
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO A 12 YEAR OLD : STAY IN SCHOOL
WHEN DID YOU LAST RETURN A PURCHASE: LAST MONTH, SHOES (TOO SMALL)
PARTING WORDS TO THE MASSES ARE…: TREAT PEOPLE HOW YOU WANT TO BE TREATED.
Franzl and Angela will be here once again for an afternoon
of Music, Dancing, Beer, and Sausage.
Tuesday Oktober 18th
3:30
Main Lounge.
Richard and Mary enjoying a picnic before our recent tour of
Van Dusen gardens.
DID YOU KNOW……………
We have a website – check it out at
We have a Facebook Page – just go to www.facebook.com and search
Augustine House Society and “Like” us or Google Facebook Augustine House
Society
We even have a Twitter page! Our name is
@AugustineHouse
We also have areas in the building that have wireless access, so if
grandkids are visiting and they want to play on their electronic devices,
they can connect to the internet for free! Get the passwords from Reception.
ERICA IS RETURNING TO WORK ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 2ND.
WELCOME BACK ERICA!
TERRY FOX PANCAKE BREAKFAST
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN OUR
SEPTEMBER PANCAKE BREAKFAST.
YOU ALL RAISED
$346.00
WELL DONE AND THANK YOU.
THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving, is an annual Canadian holiday, occurring on the second Monday in
October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year.
Thanksgiving has been officially celebrated as an annual holiday in Canada since
November 6, 1879, when Parliament declared a national day of thanksgiving.[1] The
date, however, was not fixed, and moved earlier and later in the year, though it was
commonly the third Monday in October.
On Thursday, January 31, 1957, the Parliament of Canada made
a proclamation stating: "A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the
bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed – to be observed on the 2nd
Monday in October.
Statutory holiday
Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in most of Canada, contestably, for religious
reason, with the exceptions being the Atlantic provinces of Prince Edward
Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, where it is an
optional holiday. Companies that are regulated by the federal government (such as
those in the telecommunications and banking sectors) recognize the holiday regardless
of its provincial status.
Traditional celebration
As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving corresponds to the English and continental
European harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn,
wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty. English and European harvest hymns are
sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.
While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians may gather for their
Thanksgiving feast on any day during the long weekend. Foods traditionally served at
Thanksgiving include roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet
potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various fall vegetables (mainly various kinds
of squashes but also Brussels sprouts), and pumpkin pie. Baked ham and apple pie
are also commonly served, as well as regional dishes such as salmon or wild game.
Traditions such as parades can be a part of Thanksgiving in Canada, such as
the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest parade, although they are not that common.
The Canadian Football League holds a nationally televised doubleheader,
the Thanksgiving Day Classic. It is one of two weeks in which the league plays on
Monday afternoons, the other being the Labour Day Classic. Unlike the Labour Day
games, the teams that play on the Thanksgiving Day Classic vary each year.
Canadian Thanksgiving coincides with the observance in the United States (US)
of Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day and has done so since the US
implemented the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971 (most countries in the Western
Hemisphere fix Columbus Day to October 12). As such, American towns with high
levels of Canadian tourism will often hold their fall festivals over
Thanksgiving/Columbus Day weekend, in part to draw and accommodate Canadian
tourists.[9] Border towns also often experience an uptick in shoppers at grocery stores,
as Canadian shoppers take advantage of lower sales taxes and commodity prices in
the United States over the long holiday.[10] The U.S. also has its own Thanksgiving, but
on the fourth Thursday in November.
History
Canadian troops attend a Thanksgiving service in the bombed-out Cambrai Cathedral,
in France in October 1918
According to some historians, the first celebration of Thanksgiving in North America
occurred during the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England, in search of
the Northwest Passage.[1] His third voyage, to the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island in
the present Canadian Territory of Nunavut, set out with the intention of starting a small
settlement. His fleet of fifteen ships was outfitted with men, materials, and provisions.
However, the loss of one of his ships through contact with ice, along with many of the
building materials, was to prevent him from doing so. The expedition was plagued by
ice and freak storms, which at times scattered the fleet; on meeting again at their
anchorage in Frobisher Bay, "... Mayster Wolfall, a learned man, appointed by her
Majesties Counsel to be their minister and preacher, made unto them a godly sermon,
exhorting them especially to be thankful to God for their strange and miraculous
deliverance in those so dangerous places ...". They celebrated Communion and "The
celebration of divine mystery was the first sign, scale, and confirmation of Christ's
name, death and passion ever known in all these quarters."[11]
Years later, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with
explorer Samuel de Champlain, from 1604, also held feasts of thanks. They even
formed the Order of Good Cheer and held feasts with their First Nations neighbors, at
which food was shared.
After the Seven Years' War ended in 1763, with New France handed over to the
British, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving days
were observed beginning in 1799 but did not occur every year.[12]
During and after the American Revolution, American refugees who remained
loyal to Great Britain moved from the newly independent United States to Canada.
They brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada,
such as the turkey, pumpkin, and squash.
Lower Canada and Upper Canada observed Thanksgiving on different dates; for
example, in 1816 both celebrated Thanksgiving for the termination of the war between
France and Great Britain, the former on May 21 and the latter on June 18.] In 1838,
Lower Canada used Thanksgiving to celebrate the end of the Lower Canada
Rebellion. Following the rebellions, the two Canadas were merged into a
united Province of Canada, which observed Thanksgiving six times from 1850 to 1865.
The first Thanksgiving Day after Canadian Confederation was observed as a civic
holiday on April 5, 1872, to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales (later
King Edward VII) from a serious illness.[14]
For many years before it was declared a national holiday in 1879, Thanksgiving was
celebrated in either late October or early November. From 1879 onward, Thanksgiving
Day has been observed every year, the date initially being a Thursday in November
After World War I, an amendment to the Armistice Day Act established that Armistice
Day and Thanksgiving would, starting in 1921, both be celebrated on the Monday of
the week in which November 11 occurred.[14] Ten years later, in 1931, the two days
became separate holidays, and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day. From
1931 to 1957, the date was set by proclamation, generally falling on the second
Monday in October, except for 1935, when it was moved due to a general election. In
1957, Parliament fixed Thanksgiving as the second Monday in October.[14] The theme
of the Thanksgiving holiday also changed each year to reflect an important event to be
thankful for. In its early years it was for an abundant harvest and occasionally for a
special anniversary.
HALLOWEEN WITH MUSIC BY
SINCERELY YOURS
MONDAY OCTOBER 31ST
MAIN LOUNGE
7:30 PM
PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUMES
OLD GEEZER
An old geezer named Chuck became very bored in retirement and decided to
open a medical clinic.
He put a sign up outside that said: "Dr. Chuck Geezer's clinic. Get your
treatment for $500, if not cured, I'll pay you $1,000."
Doctor "Young," who was positive that this old geezer didn't know beans
about medicine, thought this would be a great opportunity to get $1,000. So
he went to Dr. Geezer's clinic.
Dr. Young: "Dr. Geezer, I have lost all taste in my mouth. Can you please
help me ??"
Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in
Dr. Young's mouth."
Dr. Young: Aaagh !! -- "This is Gasoline!"
Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations!
You've got your taste back. That will be $500.
Dr. Young gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days figuring to
recover his money.
Dr. Young: "I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything."
Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in
the patient's mouth."
Dr. Young: "Oh, no you don't, -- that is Gasoline!"
Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back . That will be
$500."
Dr. Young (after having lost $1000) leaves angrily and comes back after
several more days.
Dr. Young: "My eyesight has become weak --- I can hardly see anything!!!!"
Dr. Geezer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that so," Here's your
$1000." (giving him a $10 bill)
Dr. Young: "But this is only $10!"
Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You got your eyesight back! That will be
$500."
Moral of story -- Just because you're "Young" doesn't mean that you can
outsmart an "old Geezer"
Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first
place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off.
====ENJOY YOUR DAY!====
Dr. Chuck Geezer
ANSWERS TO OUR BC DAY QUIZ
1. FORMER QUEEN = VICTORIA
25.
BEES BUM = ENDERBY
2. FISH APPENDAGE = SALMON ARM
26.
BILL’S POND = WILLIAMS LAKE
27.
ICE CREAM BAR = BOSTON BAR
28.
CHOCOLATE DESSERT = NANAIMO
3. TO WOO A JOINT = COURTNEY
4. 2,000 LB MONARCH = PRINCETON
5. PURSUE = CHASE
29. SET FIRE TO WATER = BURNS LAKE
6. SEA DROPS = OCEAN FALLS
7. BETWEEN FAITH & CHARITY = HOPE
8. HORSE DRAWN BUGGY = SURREY
30. OVERCOOK A HONEY MAKER = BURNABY
31. SHELTER FOR A PANEL TRUCK = VANCOUVER
9. CENTURY HOUSE = 100 MILE HOUSE
32.
GRITTY SALIVA = SANDSPIT
10.
BIG UTENSILS = GRAND FORKS
33.
RECENT PREACHER HERE FROM
EAST = NEW WESTMINSTER
11.
AWARD = MERRITT
34.
FELINE’S COVE = LIONS BAY
AWARE COVER = ALERT BAY
12. MASSACHUSETTS TAVERN = BOSTON BAR
13.
OPEN PASTURE = FIELD
35.
14.
PATH = TRAIL
15.
BLOCKADE = BARRIER
36. ATTACK A LARGE ANIMAL =
SICAMOUS
16.
COLOURED STONE = WHITE ROCK
17.
NOISY DOG TOWN = BARKERVILLE
37.
38.
PREMIERS FOOT = VANDERHOOF
FAMOUS MOM IN ROCKING CHAIR =
WHISTLER
18. COSTELLO’S CHEVY AND = ABBOTSFORD
19. TRANSPARENT FLUID = CLEARWATER
39.
DICKENS CHARACTER = OLIVER
20.
COOL HIT = CHILLIWACK
40.
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET = NELSON
21.
MONEY RIVER= CACHE CREEK
41.
CAT’S RUG = KITIMAT
22.
MINERAL CREEK = SALTSPRING
42.
BALCONY = TERRACE
23.
TOUGH LIMB = ARMSTRONG
43.
SOUP STREAM = CAMPBELL RIVER
24.
DEVIL’S ENTRANCE = HELL’S GATE
44.
RUGGED HARBOUR = PORT HARDY
45. RINGER’S COVE = HORSESHOE
BAY
Augustine House
3820 Arthur Drive
Delta, B.C.
V4K 5E6
Telephone: (604) 940-6005
Fax: (604) 940-6015
Email: [email protected]
Website: augustinehouse.ca