Victoria’s Read

Sept 2nd 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Open discussion 
Farewell friends

Sept 9th 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Games day - game TBA

Sept 16th 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Movie and popcorn date night

Sept 23rd 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Pamper day

Sept 30th 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Walk in the park - collecting different coloured leaves for arts & crafts

North Bay Farmers Market

Harvest Festival
Saturday, September 18th

-C Denny Band performs
-Kids table with pumpkin decorating
-Guess the weight of the giant Pumpkin
-Special guests

Bring your unused cell phones and print cartridges to the market for recycling. Think Recycle is a free print cartridge and cell phone recycling program. For every 24 qualifying products collected, one tree will be planted through Tree Canada. For more info, visit www.thinkrecycle.com

Amazing Race
Saturday, September 11

21 teams registered early and our volunteer roster for this event is currently full but sponsors and spectators are welcome.

We are looking for someone who would be willing to contact the radio stations, the newspaper, update Bay Today and the Nugget and community notes on t.v. when there is an up and coming event.
If you are interested in helping out, please email volunteer@habitatnorthbay.com

Entrepreneurial Skills Training Workshop
Wednesday, Sept 22nd 1:30pm - 3:30pm 
  
The Women’s Own Resource Centre
105 Ottawa Ave,
South River, On 
  
  
Join us for this FREE 10 week workshop ~ 2 hours a week ~ Covering all subjects involved in starting and running your own business!
Call Dawna to register now! (705)386-9672

Get ready for colder days ahead.

-Replace worn wiper blades and keep plenty of washer fluid on hand.

-Replace worn tires with all-season radials or snow tires. Don’t forget to check the spare tire and the tire jack.

-Engine performance problems such as rough idling or hard starts should be corrected before cold weather sets in.

-Have a qualified auto technician check the condition of your battery, cables, radiator, hoses and belts.

-The cooling system/radiator should be completely flushed and refilled.  The coolant/antifreeze should be checked periodically.

This month we are departing from the regular how-to and tips column and focusing you on you. September is self improvement month, and with school returning and new-year’s resolutions probably forgotten, it’s a perfect time to focus on you.

So much of our time is spent selflessly giving for others, that it’s easy to forget ourselves. At some point in our lives we will find our self wanting to be a better person and measuring against some imaginary scale we create. This desire often leads us to take steps down a path of unknown difficulty. The desire and imagined fear may even stop us from taking a step, and so we stagnate.

The change we seek doesn’t happen overnight and our small steps may seem to prolong our journey, yet we still step towards the unknown because we desire to be better than we were. Though we are moving forward, the journey can seem to be taking us away from our goal or ideal. The struggle is in trusting the path and believing we are getting better.

Look at the picture of the labyrinth, and trace the path starting at the gap on the bottom. Notice how you move close to the goal, then far away only to return again, eventually getting to the destination after a journey. Unlike a maze which has wrong turns and dead ends, a labyrinth has only one true path. A journey of self improvement is much like the labyrinth in that you will often feel like you are losing ground one day, and gaining the next. The key to not losing motivation is to trust.

Trust is a powerful word, and my challenge for this month is to use it daily. Not just say it but believe it when you do. A good place to start using it is to replace the word hope with the word trust. Hope is not a bad word; it just doesn’t have the strength of belief behind it. For example “I hope you’ll have a good day” or “I trust you’ll have a good day”. In the second quote, the speaker is not on-the-fence with “hope”, but has committed to trusting you’ll have a good day. They are on your team.

Self improvement is often just that… trust. Trust in yourself, trust in your beliefs, trust in your dreams, trust in life having purpose even if you are unsure of it.

Take time for yourself, invest time in improving and caring for you and believe in yourself. The time spent in this way not only helps you, but those around you. As you grow, you can better help those on their own path in the labyrinth.
Stay well, stay strong… you deserve it.

©Darren Renaud  Natural Health Practitioner
Take time to try these tips, and I’m sure you’ll see results.

Louise Crummy McKinney. Born Frankville, On , Sept 22nd  1868. Died July 10, 1931.

One of 10 children of an Irish immigrant farmer, Louise obtained a good education graduating from the Ottawa Normal School (Teachers’ College). In 1886 she joined her sister in the west where she met and married James McKinney. The young couple started life together in Ontario but in 1903, along with their son, Willard, they settled in Claresholm Alberta. Here the couple helped organize the local Methodist Church. In 1925 they embraced church unification as the United Church of Canada.

Louise was a social activist and became an organizer of not only local and provincial but national and international Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) promoting temperance and a Christian lifestyle. She had a major role in the 1915 Alberta provincial campaign to ban alcohol which made Alberta the 2nd province to adopt prohibition.
Two years later, she was the 1st women to be elected to the Alberta Legislative Assembly. This was the 1st Alberta provincial election in which men and women could vote. Louise ran for the Non-Partisan League candidate in a hotly contested race. She believed strongly that liquor and brewing companies influenced the major political parties through their donations.  Mckinney was sworn into parliament and is therefore considered the “1st female legislator in the British Empire!”. An impressive debater, she perused prohibition and fought for laws to aid immigrants, widows, the disabled and separated women. She ran but was defeated and became semi retired. In 1929, she was the 2nd woman to sign the famous “Persons” Act which lead to women in Canada being able to be considered “persons” She is one of the group now called “The Famous Five”.

She died at Claresholm, her old legislative territory at the age of 63. Her gravestone simply reads “Mother”. Among many honours, in October 2009, the Senate voted to name McKinney and the rest of the Five Canada’s first “honorary senators. She is also one of the women in the Famous Five statue that is situated on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

By Dawn Monroe. www.famouscanadianwomen.com

Apple Dip

Ingredients:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
½ cup brown sugar
1 tbs vanilla extract

Directions:
Stir together until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is smooth. Store in refrigerator.

Peanut Butter Apple Dip

Ingredients:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup milk

Directions
Combine all ingredients; mix well. Store in refrigerator.

Caramel Apple Dip

Ingredients:
16  caramels, unwrapped
1/4 cup water
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
½ cup brown sugar

Directions:
Melt caramels. Cream together cream cheese and sugar. Fold in caramels. 

Marshmallow Apple Dip

Ingredients:
½ cup marshmallow creme
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons water

Directions:
Whisk ingredients until blended. Refrigerate 30 minutes before serving.

After delivering the August issue of Victoria’s Read, something very scary happened to me.

My husband and I were invited out to a relative’s house for an evening of socializing. The evening was going very well and I was having a wonderful time when suddenly I felt very strange and my vision got distorted. The next thing I knew, I was on the floor with everyone around me calling my name. I had fainted for the first time in my life.

After a battery of tests ordered by my doctor to rule out the ‘worst case scenarios’, since I did break a tree with my head last winter while out on my very first (and maybe my last) snowmobile ride, it was concluded that “My gas tank had run low”.

During the day of delivering my leaflets, I had failed to watch how, when and what I was eating and we all know how important it is to eat properly, especially after a gastric bypass surgery.

It was a big wake-up call for me. I had been taking good care of myself but admit that I wasn’t paying very close attention to exactly what I was nourishing my body with. Since I eat such little amounts of food in a day, I needed to make more conscious decisions on just what the nutritional value was.

For this reason, a good quality multi-vitamin is extremely important. I can’t stress this point enough. I feel that most of the over-the-counter vitamins just don’t have enough key ingredients in them to measure up to my nutritional needs. Also, I don’t particularly like the idea of filling my body with synthetic fillers like cellulose (wood pulp) or propylene glycol (anti-freeze) .

My wonderfully supportive family and I went researching for the very best multi-vitamin available and found it! So now, I am feeling great again and back on track. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the cost wasn’t outrageously more than the over-the-counter vitamins. Regardless, you get what you pay for, right!

So now, I am at the stage of maintaining my current weight. I have lost 90 pounds and feel that it is enough.  (Thank you to you all for the kind words and advice.) This was difficult in the beginning but with the assistance of my doctor in Rochester, I caught on quickly. It all comes down to eating a lot of protein. (Meat and dairy)

“Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.”
Lisa Anderson

BOBBIN
BUTTONS
DARNING
DRESSMAKER
ELASTIC
EMBROIDERY

FABRIC
MENDING
NEEDLES
PATCH
PATTERN
PINCUSHION PINS

SCISSORS
SEAM RIPPER
STITCH
TAPE MEASURE
THREAD
ZIPPER