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Cheryl Cooper was born in Toronto and spent her youth in Thornhill, Ontar-io. She presently resides in Bracebridge with her husband Randy and their two sons, Evan and Bro-die. She holds degrees in English and education from Queen’s University. Cheryl is a former teacher of the hearing-impaired and a volunteer for the Children’s Foundation of Muskoka.
Cheryl’s articles and sto-ries have appeared in nu-merous Canadian periodi-cals, and in 2010 she made her book publishing debut with Come Looking for Me, a work of histori-cal fiction set on the high seas during the War of 1812. She completed its first draft in the 2004 Huntsville Festival of the Arts “Muskoka Novel Marathon,” and earned top honours from the pan-el of judges. After several more years of research, her greatly expanded and refined novel was pub-lished by Blue Butterfly
Books. In 2014 her second novel, Second Summer of War, was published by Dundurn Press. Both books are part of the Sea-sons of War series.
When Cheryl is not at her desk writing, she is on the road speaking. In her spare time she enjoys journalizing, drawing landscapes, reading his-torical fiction, travelling and spending time at her cottage on Browning Is-land, Lake Muskoka.
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U pcoming
Speakers
July 20th—Gord Beck-
Aerial Photography In
WWI.
August 17th—Tim Bur-
rows—Tim Talks Tesla
1812 and the Age of Sail
June 2017
T he next meeting of the Probus Club
of Burlington will be held on Thursday June 15th, at 10:00AM at the Art Gallery of Burlington.
E xtending the hand
of welcome…
What better way to begin our morning than with a firm handshake and a friendly smile from our four greeters, Ron Wat-son, Ralph Gilbert, Ham Jukes, and Gar-net McCarra, guarantee this and will set the tone for the morning in true Probuscian style.
Thanks Gentlemen.
Membership Desk
On the Membership Desk this Month with Jim Alan is Reg Mechie
Guelph in 1967 with a BScAgr. He
married Sharon in Sept. of 1967
and they moved to Freeport Baha-
mas. He owned and ran a poultry
operation which was the sole sup-
plier of chicken and eggs to Free-
port. In January of 1972 they came
back to Burlington with two sons
and a third on the way. He got a
job in June of 1972 with Campbell
Soups in Listowel as poultry opera-
tions manager for them. In 1974 an
opportunity came up to buy a local
feed operation in Oakville. In Feb-
ruary of 1975 Ren's Feed and Sup-
plies was founded in Oakville. A
fire in Feb of 1980 destroyed the
mill but they rebuilt the operation
but not the mill. In 1993, they
mostly converted to pet food sales
and got out of the hardware and
lawn and garden sales. In 2002,
they built a new 10000 sq. ft. retail
store in Oakville which became the
model for more stores. Some or a
lot of you probably know the busi-
ness as Ren Pets depot. He sold his
interest in the business to his
youngest son 4 years ago and his
son has grown it to what it is today.
Ren has been retired for about 15
years. His interests are in garden-
ing, Pickleball, golf, Bocce and
horseshoes. He and his wife own a
villa in Naples FL where they
spend their winters.
Ron King was
born and raised
on a fruit farm in
Osoyoos, B.C.
located in the
southern end of
the beautiful Oka-
nagan Valley. After graduation
from Southern Okanagan Second-
ary School he attended the Okana-
gan College Campus of the Univer-
sity of British Columbia and ob-
planning a coup …. It could be good
place to begin. Many Probus snowbirds
know where his university is …. they
drive near it twice a year, and he could
easily recruit them with a Timmy’s and
a Timbit.
Oops, my thoughts wandered off into
anarchy.
Dr. Jardine, is possibly the most ac-
complished person to ever grace our
stage, with expertise in International
Relations, Internet Governance, Politi-
cal Violence, Terrorism and Insurgen-
cy. I wondered what he would ever say
that I could even understand. Bob
Lalonde’s intro to Eric dumbed down
his CV even enough for me.
Eric got to us quickly with his idea for a
Wi-Fi Pacemaker …. your pitter-patter
is monitored 24/7 by attentive comput-
ers in your hospital.
But he certainly got us to pay attention
to computer hacking by asking us how
that could screw up a pacemaker, by
introducing us to the complexity of the
Information Security Triangle. 1. Pri-
vacy 2. Security 3. Access.
All Eric has to do is figure out the an-
swer. Will he do it by the time he
speaks to us again?
Ren was born in
Hamilton but lived
on the family farm
where Fortinos is
on Plains Rd. He
lived there until he
was 9 when his par-
ents moved to
Ft Lauderdale Florida. He finished
high school there in 1960 and came
back to Burlington to get high school
so he could go to the University of
Guelph.
Ren graduated from University of
A sizeable crowd (92 Probuscans)
settled into the Lakeshore Room on
May 18, to be awed by speaker Dr.
Eric Jardine, and regaled by the
“Seven Minute Talk”, of member
Nick Olchowy.
Nick made a valiant, and entertain-
ing effort, to come in under the sev-
en-minute mark, but like most
members so far, didn’t make it. Per-
haps we should change the rule to,
“UNDER TEN MINUTES GUYS.
REALLY." Personally, I don’t feel
that seven minutes is any harder to
comprehend than, “Put Two Bucks
in The Bucket”, and on May 18 the
crowd actually exceeded it by $4.10.
Sirens, and bells please.
Did our speakers topic …. cyber-
crime…. have something to do with
this sudden surge of honesty? Or
maybe it was guilt?
And our speaker certainly informed
us about the dark web. You think a
secure government computer sys-
tem can’t be hacked? Fuggedda-
boutit. He actually told us how.
Or did he? He probably omitted a
couple of crucial details. Can’t have
geriatric Canadian Probusticans
taking over the world. Or might he?
Think about it.
Dr. Jardine has an extensive Cana-
dian educational background and
taught at our Royal Military College.
But for years now he’s been a pro-
fessor at Virginia's Polytechnic State
University, isolated deep in the Ap-
palachian Mountains …. if one were
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Ron King
Meeting Review
By Bob Chambers
Ren Job
Having taken Drafting
in High School, Don
first worked as a
Draftsman for
Canadian Westing-
house in the Electron-
ics Division, and then
transferred to the
Switchgear Division
until 1961. He then left to work at
Procter & Gamble as a Draftsman in
the Canadian Engineering Division
until he was promoted to management
as the Manager of Design Engineering
in 1976. This consisted of managing
the P&G design personnel and co-
ordination with the contract engineer-
ing consultants in Hamilton and Mon-
treal. During this time he also took
on the management of small projects
and then had the opportunity of a large
project at the Pointe Claire Plant.
Don moved to full time project man-
agement in 1984 at the Brockville Plant
when he was assigned as the acting
temporary Resident Engineer for a ma-
jor project which turned into a full
time position.
He has handled major projects as Pro-
ject Manager at the P&G Hamilton,
Belleville, Brockville and Pointe Claire
Plants.
Don finished his career as an employee
with P&G after nearly 33 years in 1994.
However this was extended another 3
years by working for P&G as a regis-
tered contractor (DJM Project Ser-
vices) . This began with a short term
project in Bangkok and then as the
Project Buyer for a major project at the
Toronto Facelle Plant with added
responsibility for project controls.
tained a diploma in business ad-
ministration.
In 1977, Ron moved to Edmonton,
Alberta where he began work for the
Bank of Nova Scotia as a consumer
credit trainee. For the next 20
years, Ron worked at a number of
branch locations in Alberta includ-
ing Innisfail, Camrose, Edson, Hin-
ton, Edmonton and Calgary eventu-
ally joining the Bank's Audit De-
partment.
In 1998, Ron was appointed Vice-
President, Audit Department re-
sponsible for auditing the retail and
commercial banking operations for
Scotiabank's Canadian Banking
function. Ron and his wife Bobbi
moved their family to Ontario and
settled in Burlington in July 1998.
In 2004 Ron was appointed Vice-
President and Chief Anti-Money
Laundering Officer for Scotiabank
and for the next 9 years he and his
team built Scotiabank's global anti-
money laundering program. He
was later appointed Senior Vice-
President, Corporate and Canadian
Banking Compliance with enter-
prise-wide responsibility for the
Bank's compliance risk manage-
ment program including ethics, pri-
vacy, consumer protection and anti-
money laundering. Ron retired in
February of 2016 after spending his
entire 39 year career with Scotia-
bank.
Ron and Bobbi have four sons, 3
grandchildren and 2 great grand-
children. They plan to spend sum-
mers in Burlington and the winter
months in Florida during their re-
tirement.
Meet members at the Squire for
lunch after our monthly meeting.
Continue the fellowship of the
meeting over a 13$ lunch which
includes a glass of beer or wine.. A
good selection is available to
tickle your palette.
One Sunday
morning, a
mother went
in to wake her
son and tell
him it was
time to get
ready for
church, to
which he replied, "I'm not going."
"Why not?" she asked.
I'll give you two good reasons," he
said. "(1), they don't like me, and
(2), I don't like them."
His mother replied, "I'll give you
two good reasons why you
SHOULD go to church:
(1) You're 59 years old, and (2)
you're the pastor!"
A Jewish Rabbi and a Catholic
Priest met at the town's annual 4th
of July picnic. Old friends, they
began their usual banter.
"This baked ham is really deli-
cious," the priest teased the rabbi.
"You really ought to try it. I know
it's against your religion, but I
can't understand why such a won-
derful food should be forbidden!
You don't know what you're miss-
ing. You just haven't lived until
you've tried Mrs. Hall's prized Vir-
ginia Baked Ham. Tell me, Rabbi,
when are you going to break down
and try it?"
The rabbi looked at the priest with
a big grin, and said, "At your
wedding."
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Squire
Don
McDougall
In 1987 the Probus Club
of Canada was formed.
That same year the Pro-
bus Club of Burlington
became the third club
formed.
This year we will cele-
brate our 30th anniver-
sary serving the commu-
nity of Burlington. The
newsletter will have in-
formation in later editions
recognizing this achieve-
ment.
Special Events
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Lunch is at the beautiful Cambridge
Mill on the river in Downtown Cam-
bridge.
Running for over 1200 per-
formances at the London’s
Whitehall Theatre, One
For The Pot has become
one of the most popular
and revived of the White-
hall farces. When a
wealthy Northern mill
owner offers £10,000 to
the son of a former busi-
ness associate provided he
is the only living relative,
Billy Hickory Wood arrives
in anticipation to collect
his money. It isn’t long be-
fore a procession of Hicko-
ry Woods follow, all claim-
ing to be the sole living re-
lation and rightful benefi-
ciaries, creating a seeming-
ly endless string of mistak-
en identities and hilarious
confusion.
Thursday July 27, 2017
Lunch 11:30 am
Play 2:00 pm
At Dunfield Theatre
Cost is $75/ person
Computer
Interest Group
Our next meeting will be on June 8th at 10am at Appleby Place.
Remember to send Robert your questions via email to
This month we will be looking at fu-ture technology related to compu-ting, plus answering your questions, so remember to bring or send them.
Interest Group Activities
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President: Brian Pattrick, 905-637-8036 Editing & Distribution: Bob Lalonde, 905-332-1383.
Probus Bridge Club
The Monday Bridge Group
Meets every week at the Ca-
nadian Legion. Join us for
lunch and friendly games of
bridge Starts at 12 Noon..