NORM MOSS, President

INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE PROBUS TEA CONNOISSEUR’S GROUP

Probus Club of KamlooPsNewsletter No: 33, February/March 2016

The inaugural meeting of the Probus Tea Connois-seur’s Group, was held on February 5th at the home of Sheila Collier. In addition to the tasting, ideas were discussed for future gatherings, for example, identifying and exploring the many varieties of tea, the history of tea, etiquette related to tea tasting,

and possible guest speakers. In the first meeting, the members sampled three teas. Most importantly, we had a lot of fun, which we believe will be our main focus. Our group is currently oversubscribed, regretfully no new members can be considered at this time.

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From the left: Elaine Woods, Midge King, Anne Churchley, Sheila Collier, Joan Lyons, Ingrid Heeley, Joan Tolnai, Deidre Zacharias, Nonie Miles, Shane Haywood. Missing from photo: Lois Cutler, Debra and Peter Allik-Petersenn

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President: Norm Moss 250-579-8738 normanmoss@telus.netVice President: Peter Allik-Petersenn 250-374-7117 pdap@shaw.caPast President: Barbara Steinke 250-578-7503 bjnoble@telus.netSecretary: Pat Petley 250-828-0075 plpetley@telus.net Jan Petrar 250-319-8590 jan.petrar@gmail.com Treasurer: Peter Baron 250-371-7774 p.baron@live.ca Membership: Beatrice McAteer 250-376-4087 beatricemmc@gmail.com Hospitality: Tom Walton 250-578-7367 ltwalton@telus.netSpeakers: Ron Haywood 250-573-5029 ronhaywood@shaw.caNewsletter/Web: Howard Glossop 250-374-9808 hglossop@shaw.caSocial Convenor: Joan Lyons 250-374-4871 joanyvonne@telus.netHistorian: Shane Haywood 250-573-5029 shaywood@shaw.ca Special Interest Groups: Annette Noel 250-377-0866 ranoel43@gmail.com Donna Cassidy 778-471-3937 djcassidy@shaw.caMember At Large: Jim Browne 250-371-4900 jamesbrowne@telus.net

Back row, left to right: Howard Glossop, Ron Haywood, Shane Haywood, Pat Petley, Donna Cassidy, Annette Noel, Norm MossFront row, left to right: Jan Petrar, Tom Walton, Joan Lyons, Peter Allik-Petersenn, Barbara Steinke, Beatrice McAteer

Missing from photograph: Peter Baron, Jim Browne

Probus Club of KamloopsManagement Committee, 2015 –16

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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS: COORDINATORS CONTACT LIST

Special Interest Group Coordinator Telephone Email

Ladies Fun Golf Caroline Laitinen 250-374-9091 budcar@shaw.caWalk in the Park Nonie Miles 250-579-2474 gnmiles@telus.netTaster’s Choice Ron Haywood 250-573-5029 ronhaywood@shaw.caChapter 1 Book Club Sheila Collier 250-374-7483 scollier@live.caLadies Wednesday Morning Coffee Beatrice McAteer 250-376-4087 beatricemmc@gmail.comSnow Shoeing Group Cherryl Rice 250-573-5719 cher-rice@telus.netTopical Issues Discussion Group Peter Tilt 250-573-1940 pjkam@shaw.caMen’s Golf Bob Hunter 250-374-7228 rbh3@live.caMen’s Cooking Group John Crowe 250-573-4264 jcrowe@telus.netPage Turner’s Book Club Heather Johnson 250-320-7623 hmjohnson@telus.netProbus Hiking Group Jim Sherb and 250-579-2148 jdsherb@shaw.ca Colin James 250-573-5373 tenbycol@hotmail.comProbus Tea Connoisseurs’s Group Sheila Collier 250-374-7483 scollier@live.caLazy Lunch Group Shirley Smith 250-377-8317 saexpat8@shaw.caMen’s Coffee Dale Merrett 250-828-0469 dmerrett@live.ca

Robert Atwood (right), with his business partner Richard Sullivan gave an energetic and upbeat talk to the members of the Probus Club of Kamloops on 28th of January, 2016. Robert explained how Hum-mingbird Drones was given life during a long drive to Smithers from Northern BC. They explained the services their company provides to a range of users. Services include infrared scanning, visible map-ping and real-time information services for wildfire agencies, emergency responders and the natural

resource sector. Based in Kamloops, BC, Humming-bird specializes in real-time data acquisition and post-processing services. They provide in-the-field mapping solutions; provision of up to date informa-tion and data analysis; and the digital infrastructure for province-wide data distribution to managers and strategists. This presentation generated a mass of questions from an electrified audience. Most members agree, it was a compelling talk.

The story behind HummingbirdDronesgets told to The ProbusClub ofKamloops.(and the members loved it)

Robert Atwood (right) and Richard Sullivan of Hummingbird Drones, who made the presentation

The story behind freelance photography, told by Allen Douglas

Chapter 1 Book Club: A useful list of recommended books . . .

OUR NEXT GENERAL MEETINGwill be on Thursday, 31st March, 2016

Coffee at 9:30. Meeting at 10:00

Lunch at Citrus Restaurant and Lounge

339 St Paul Street, Kamloops. Phone: (250) 851-0066

Our Guest Speaker isSAM LONGIARU

Our Club Speaker isMEL JOHNSON

Title AuthorDigging to America Anne TylerThree Cups of Tea Greg MortensonMy Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya GowaThe Red Tent Anita DiamantThe Help Kathryn StockettThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Ann ShafferThe Cats Table Michael OndatjeTo Kill a Mockingbird Harper LeeVirgin Cure Ami McKayThe Best Laid Plans Terri Fallis

Title AuthorSarah’s Key Tatiana de RosnayHalf Blood Blues Esi EdugyanGood to a Fault Marina EndicottThe Brain that Changes Itself Norman DoidgeAny by author: Ayn RandA New Leaf Merilyn SimondsUnless Carol SheildsWater for Elephants Sara Gruen100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window Jonas Jonasson

These books were read by this club in the first two years!

On February 25th, Allen Douglas provided a fact-filled presentation regarding his approach to photography, an interest he developed at age fifteen. He gave his audience an insight into the many facets that are involved in the art and craft. First of all, weight. Just how much equipment can one person carry and yet remain available for swift response action. A quick glance at some specially designed gear provided the answer. One necessary support suspended several cameras, with varying focal length lenses. As non-professional photographers know only too well, equipped with a single camera body, it’s always the wrong lens for a particular shot. By the time the lens has been changed, the subject has waltzed out of sight! While Allen was showing his vast bag of equipment, slides of his variety of images were being projected, sports, landscape and nature, which generted many positive reactions from the audience. A few days later, a striking photo appeared on the cover page of KTW, with the photo credit (you guessed it), Allen Douglas/KTW.

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Here endeth the ‘Snowshoe Season’After many email exchanges and phone discussions, six hardy enthusiasts met up for a last ‘Snowshoe’ event. Two members joined us from the ‘other club’. However, on Bob’s recommendation, we all brought ‘Grip-ons’, Yaktracks’ or some form of over-boot traction devices because, of course, the snow is no longer fluffy! . . . Firm, or icy, were the descriptive

words! Only one of us actually used snowshoes!Glorious sunshine, so it warmed up very nicely! It was great to go out on new terrain, and see the Basalt Bluffs, although Bob had been there a few times already, checking it out, just for us! Thanks Bob!Here endeth the Snowshoe Season, as coordinated by ‘moi’ . . . on a beautiful note! Cherryl

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A Probus member confesses!

Ed Baron joins the editorial team!

Probus Dining Group

About our Guest Speaker, Sam LongiaruSam Longiaru’s career path has been as winding as some of the roads he’s motorcycled. After receiving a Ph.D in geology from the Uni-versity of California at Santa Cruz, Sam moved to London, Ontario where he joined the geology faculty at the University of Western Ontario. Finding that universities are not always the best places to teach, Sam left the university scene to combine his two loves, teaching and flying, and spent four years as a flight instructor at the London Flying Club. In 1995 Sam and his wife Diane moved to Kam-loops where he built and operated Flight Discovery, a

flight training school at Kamloops Airport. In 2005, Sam sold the school and entered a brief period of semi-retirement. Today, Sam is “the computer guy” at Aberdeen Veterinary Hospital where he thoroughly enjoys working within his Linux-based computer network. In 2009, Sam began what ultimately became a six-year project . . . to solo circumnavigate the globe on a vintage BMW motorcycle. Having completed his “Twilight Project” last summer, Sam is here to tell us about his most recent adventures.

It is alleged that Joan Lyons, when giving her compelling ‘Club Speaker’s Talk’, made a statistical error in some of the data she presented. It would seem that in the early years of the telephone industry, men did all the work. It was later discovered that women were more effective telephone operators. Management (in its infinite wisdom), realized they could pay women consider-ably less money to perform the same work previously undertaken by men. In 1942, female operators were paid approximately $2.25 per day for at least 8 hours of work. Not $2.25 per hour as Joan stated in her talk.(Joan is currently under house arrest, enjoying a diet of bread and water, for wilfully distributing misinformation).

Howard Glossop, the current editor of the newsletter, ‘Probe’, is planning to relocate to Maple Ridge in late April, 2016. Of course, a relocation was not envisaged at the time of my first Probus Club newsletter, published in September 2014. During the past several weeks, Ed Baron and I have been working together on this edition of the ‘Probe’, (Selecting photos, editing stories, where required and generally organising content). Fortunately, Ed and I use similar page-design software, so exchanging ‘Newsletter’ files via the internet, is relatively problem free. When I first undertook the role of editor of the ‘Probe’, it was for a two year period. Irrespective of my location, this can continue if required, but now working in close association with Ed Baron. So welcome to the editorial team Ed! Ed

Katy and Colin James had anticipated holding the Dining Group’s latest dinner on 14th February as a truly hearty affair, but the date had to be resched-uled to the 7th, resulting in a half-hearty occasion! However, Katy and Colin were not broken hearted. The dinner was by no means half-hearted for everyone contributed whole-heartedly. The neat thing about all of these dinners is that everyone creates scrumptious and heart-warming soups, appies, desserts and main courses. This dinner was no exception, and as you can see from the photo, Peter is delicately cutting into the heart-shaped dessert while Tom looks anxiously on in this heart-stopping moment.

Peter cuts into the heart-shaped dessert delicately, while Tom displays anxiety during this heart-stopping moment!