Victoria’s Read

A doula is an experienced, non-medical assistant who provides physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during childbirth and during the postpartum period. In some cases, doula care can last several months or even to a year post partum - especially in cases when mothers are suffering from post partum depression, children with special needs require longer care or there are multiple infants.

TYPES OF DOULAS
Labor/birth support doulas are trained and experienced labor support persons who attend to the emotional and physical comfort needs of laboring women to smooth the labor process. They do not perform clinical tasks but rather use massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, positioning suggestions, etc., to help labor progress as well as possible.

The terms of a labor/birth doula’s responsibilities are decided between the doula and the family. In addition to emotional, physical and informational support, doulas work as advocates of their client’s wishes and may also assist in communicating with medical staff to obtain information for the client to make informed decisions regarding medical procedures.

BENEFITS
Studies have found that doulas offer numerous benefits both to the mother and child. Women supported by a doula have a reduction in the duration of labor, less use of pain relief medications, lower rates of operative vaginal delivery and in many studies a reduction in caesarian deliveries. Newborns in births supported by doulas have lower rates of fetal distress and fewer are admitted to neonatal intensive care units. In addition, one study found that 6 weeks after delivery, a greater proportion of doula-supported women, compared to a control group, were breastfeeding and these women reported greater self-esteem, less depression and a higher regard for their babies and their ability to care for them.

www.canadiandoulas.com

Canadian Doula Association™
Toll Free:
1-877-336-0333
4 Lamplight Bay,
Spruce Grove, AB
T7X 4N2

-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

-The Spanish word esposa means “wife.” The plural, esposas, means “wives,” but also “handcuffs.

-Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

-All of Queen Anne’s 17 children died before she did.

-3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.

-Men can read smaller print than women but women can hear better.

The original Heloise was born an identical twin, Heloise and Louise Bowles, in Fort Worth, Texas on May 4, 1919.

She graduated from Felt and Tarrent Business College and Draughn’s Business College in 1939. In 1946 she met and married Marshal (Mike) Holman Cruse, a captain in the Army Air Forces. Cruse was then stationed in China and Heloise moved to Nanking in 1948. They left China and moved to Waco, Texas.
In 1951, daughter Poncé Kiah Marchelle Heloise, the current Heloise, was born and the family moved to Arlington, Virginia in 1953 and on to Hawaii in 1958.

Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959. It was such a success by 1961 that Time magazine did an article on Heloise. Later in 1961, King Features Syndicate convinced Heloise to syndicate her column with a new title, Hints from Heloise. By 1962 it was running in 158 newspapers and in 1964 it was appearing 593 newspapers in America and abroad.

Col. Cruse and Heloise moved to San Antonio in 1966. Heloise’s daughter Poncé, who was majoring in math at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University), was helping her mother out with the column.

Heloise died December 28, 1977. Her tombstone read, “Heloise, Every Housewife’s Friend.” Her daughter took over the column and continues to write the Hints from Heloise column.

www.heloise.com

MOM CAKE

INGREDIENTS:
-1 pound cake
-1 box of instant pudding
-1 cup whipped topping
-Fruit
-Mint sprigs (optional)
-Chilled chocolate syrup

DIRECTIONS:
1.Slice the pound cake into several horizontal slices about an inch thick.
2.Prepare the pudding according to package directions. Mix the pudding with the whipped topping.
3.Chop up the fresh fruit you’ve chosen.
4.Layer the cake, fruit and a little less than half of the pudding mixture in a loaf pan. Top the cake with the remaining pudding.
5.Put the cake in the fridge for a couple of hours. When it’s chilled, decorate it..
6. Squeeze on a greeting with chilled chocolate syrup. Serve Mom a sweet treat on her special day.

SLIPPER COOKIES

INGREDIENTS:
-2 halves of an oval sandwich cookie
-1 doughnut hole
-Frosting
-Shredded coconut tinted with red food coloring
-pink decorators’ gel

DIRECTIONS:
1.To make a pair, first separate the 2 halves of an oval sandwich cookie and remove the filling with a butter knife.
2.Slice a doughnut hole into thirds. Coat the rounded sides of the two end pieces with frosting, then roll them in shredded coconut tinted with red food coloring to create a pair of fuzzy slipper tops.
3. Use a dab of frosting to stick each slipper top to a cookie sole, then adorn the edges of the cookies with pink decorators’ gel stitching.

ROSE BASKET CUPCAKE

INGREDIENTS:
-1 cupcake
-Chocolate frosting
-Green-tinted coconut
-5 candy or frosting roses
-3 strands red whip licorice

DIRECTIONS:
1. Unwrap the cupcake and frost in a basket-weave pattern using a basket-weave tip.
2. Add the coconut grass and the candy roses. Braid the licorice for a decorative handle.
3. You can also make your own roses with a rose tip and pink frosting.

familyfun.go.com

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24th, 1819, the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a son of King George III.

Due to the fact that the King was insane, George, the older brother of Edward served as the country’s regent. The Prince Regent and his estranged wife had just one child, Princess Charlotte of Wales. After Charlotte’s death in 1817, the people began to worry about the royal succession. Although the king had twelve living children, none of them had offspring who were eligible to inherit the throne.
After pressure from the Parliament and the public, Edward married the German princess, Victoire of Saxe-Coburg, age 31. On May 24, 1819 the Duchess of Kent gave birth to a daughter. She was christened Alexandrina Victoria.

She ascended the throne upon the death of William IV. Barely eighteen, she refused any further influence from her domineering mother and ruled in her own stead. Popular respect for the Crown was at low point at her coronation, but the modest and straightforward young Queen won the hearts of her subjects.

Victoria’s long reign witnessed an evolution in English politics and the expansion of the British Empire, which included Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, and large parts of Africa, as well as political and social reforms on the continent. France had known two dynasties and embraced Republicanism, Spain had seen three monarchs and both Italy and Germany had united their separate principalities into national coalitions. Even in her dotage, she maintained a youthful energy and optimism that infected the English population as a whole.

Despite her advanced age, Victoria continued her duties to the end - including an official visit to Dublin in 1900. The Boer War in South Africa overshadowed the end of her reign. As in the Crimean War nearly half a century earlier, Victoria reviewed her troops and visited hospitals; she remained undaunted by British reverses during the campaign.

Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, on 22 January 1901 after a reign which lasted almost 64 years, the longest in British history. She was buried at Windsor beside Prince Albert, in the Frogmore Royal Mausoleum, which she had built for their final resting place. Above the Mausoleum door are inscribed Victoria’s words: ‘farewell best beloved, here at last I shall rest with thee, with thee in Christ I shall rise again’.

www.inglewoodcarecentre.com

The first North American Mother’s Day was conceptualized with Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870. Despite having penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic 12 years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mother’s to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of their Sons killing the Sons of other Mothers. With the following, she called for an international Mother’s Day celebrating peace and motherhood:

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:

“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of
charity, mercy and patience.

“We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.

It says, “Disarm, Disarm!”
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.

Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace.

Julia Ward Howe: www.mothersdaycentral.com

The Blue Sky Sailing Club was incorporated on May 1st, 2007 as non profit corporation, to supply boats and sailing instruction to its members at cost.

The Plan was to buy 2 boats, we ended our first Season with 4 boats, two 16′ Wayfarers, one 18′ Catamaran and one Rubber Dinghy with outboard motor for patrolling during instruction on the water. Our boats are moored at the North Bay Marina.

The Club has 3 CYA approved instructors, with assistants, to teach sailing either in the Dinghy or the Keel Boat. This year, we will continue with the junior sailing program. A program that runs all summer and will focus on the training of sailors, as well as featuring some racing at the local, regional or provincial level. The club is looking forward to offering the following activities this year:
“Wind, the free and clean fuel for your boat” We offer excellent value in boat rental and sailing instruction We offer the following courses

“Basic Cruising”, sailing boats with fixed keel and auxiliary motor, usually 23 feet and up.

“Dinghy Sailing”, powerless sailboats with swing keels and usually under 20 feet in length.

“Junior Course”, same as Dinghy but for Juniors aged 9-15.

We aim to build a fleet of fast and exciting sailboats to get the attention of the junior people growing up, hopefully some in the sport of competitive racing. We have a 13′ Laser available to start with. “Catamaran course”, for graduates of the above courses, an adaptation to sailing sailboats with two hulls. This is for the sailing enthusiast that wants to go fast. 45 minutes to go from the North Bay Marina to Tillicum Bay. We use CYA approved instructors. (Can Yachting Assoc.)

We are also looking into the possibility to start a Senior sailing program, just for an afternoon sail or to provide a short course in sailing, a “pinch hitter” course. Learn the basics of sailing and know how to help as crew on a cruising sailboat. Informal and unscheduled opportunities will exist this summer, if we get the approval on our application for the “Summer Experience Program of the Ontario Government.

We belong to the Ontario Sailing Association. We operate from a boathouse in the Marina, close to the Chief Commanda II.
www.blueskysailingclub.com
Henry Van Brussel
705-476-0557

In the 1970’s, the Ministry of Natural Resources established the McConnell Lake Campgrounds.

Under the authority of the Public Lands Act, people wishing to camp in any of these townships, referred to as the McConnell Lakes Recreation Area, must do so at one of three designated campgrounds located at Little McDougall Lake, Blue Lake and Boland Lake.

These beautiful campgrounds are now under the management of the Benoit Bros of Bonfield.

They have listened to campers and are making improvements to create a clean, safe, and peaceful area so we may all enjoy the wonderful tradition of camping such as on-site Park management, overnight waterfront camping, an expanded store inventory, special events, sanitary services, clean beaches, recycling bins, improvements to the roads and fire protection.

The McConnell Lake Wilderness Area is a remarkably beautiful piece of Ontario’s precious natural resource. If you know the area, you love it. If you have never been out there, you are encouraged to go out and explore, see what you’re missing and maybe, fall in love too.

Reserve early by calling 705-892-5830 or by email at mcconnellcampgrounds@hotmail.com. www.mcconnellcampgrounds.com