Victoria’s Read

Famous Female June Birthdays

Marilyn Monroe, June 1st 1926
June 8th:Barbara Bush, 1925
Joan Rivers, June 8th. 1933
Judy Garland, Singer, Actress - born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922
Anne Frank, June 12th. 1929
Anne Murray, June 20th, 1945
Cyndi Lauper, June 22nd 1953
Meryl Streep, June 22nd 1949
Lindsay Wagner, Actress. Born June 22, 1949
June Carter-Cash, born June 23, 1929

June Tid Bits

The melody for Happy Birthday Song was written June 27th, 1859
The toothbrush was invented June 26th, 1498
June 26th 1819, the bicycle was patented
June 23rd 1868, the typewriter was patented
June 23rd is National Pink Day and Soap Opera Day
June 21st is the First Day of Summer
June 17th is Eat Your Vegetables Day
June 15th is Power of a Smile Day
June 14th 1834, Sand Paper was invented
June 13th is Weed Your Garden Day
June 6th 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened.
June 2nd 1896, the radio Was patented
June is National Rose Month

The warmer months of the year are the halfway mark in your yearly car-care schedule. For most vehicles equipped with all-season tires, rotation every six months is required in order to balance tread wear along all four wheels. Also, banking on the traditional summer heat waves, check the coolant level when the engine is cold, keeping an eye out for any leaks.

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman and when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
Enid Bagnold- English Writer, 1889-1981

Happy Fathers Day, Dad. I love you lots.

Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre

Women are welcome to drop by, enjoy a coffee or tea and chat with other women who attend. Drop in is held every Thursday from 1:00pm-3:00pm and every woman is welcome to attend.

The Nipissing Women In Business Club

Next meeting is 12pm, Tuesday June 7th at the Best Western. 700 Lakeshore Dr. North Bay.
For more information, please visit us at  www.nipissingwomeninbusiness.com

The Nipissing Women in Business Club promotes the growth and continued success of business women through shared knowledge, networking and referral opportunities. Supporting each other by providing a venue where female professionals can meet to build relationships, inform and educate each other.

The North Bay Heritage Gardeners
Heritage Gardeners Rain Barrel Workshop

Saturday June 18, from 10:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M.
In the Parking Lot of the old Hydro Building,
1350 Fisher St.

Come support the North Bay Heritage Gardeners with a purchase of a rain barrel and learn all about rain barrel use.

Pick up you rain barrel and watch a brief information session on rain barrel set up and use.  Rain Barrel.ca and Greening Nipissing are our partners in this fundraiser. Rain barrels may be purchased online in advance of the event by visiting rainbarrle.ca or  call the Heritage Gardener Coordinator Monica McLaren at 472-4006 for more information.

To find out more about the Heritage Gardeners Organization and to check our schedule of upcoming events, please go to our

website: www.heritagenorthbay.com
e-mail:  heritage.gardeners@heritagenorthbay.com

Habitat for Humanity North Bay and Blue Sky Region

5th Annual Golf Tournament being held June 9, 2011 at Clear Springs Golf Course. Price is $85.00 per person which includes dinner and cart. We are looking for teams of 4.

If you require additional information, please contact the office at 705-495-6244, by email at info@habitatnorthbay.com or visit our website at www.habitatnorthbay.com

North Bay Farmers Market

June 18th - Father’s Day Festival
June 25th - Strawberry Festival

Pilates is a low-impact exercise system comprised of over 500 controlled exercises that engage the mind and conditions the total body. It is an ideal exercise to increase strength and flexibility allowing one’s mind and body to work better.

Pilates works several muscle groups simultaneously through smooth, continuous motion, with a particular concentration on strengthening and stabilizing the core. It focuses on precise movements, gently stretching areas of tightness to allow for greater range of motion while strengthening less developed areas; quality of movement is more important than quantity.

Created over 80 years ago by Joseph H. Pilates, some consider Pilates as “the original core-strength exercise.”

There are countless benefits to incorporating Pilates into your life. Here are just some of the advantages of practicing Pilates:

-Pilates improves over all posture
-Increase flexibility, strength, balance, coordination, and resistance
-Improves self-esteem
-Corrects faulty patterns of movements and prevents injury
-Decreases daily stress
-Pilates increases body energy
-Improves metabolism and organ functioning
-Helps ease arthritis
-Relieves joint pain
-Lowers blood pressure
-Eases back pain
-Improves cardiovascular health
-Improves the ‘look and feel’ of your body

Pilates is for all anyone and everyone, there is no age or physical limit that would prevent one from enjoying the benefits. of this practice. Pilates exercises are gentle and do not involve much bouncing around making it an ideal fitness system for all types of people;

-Individuals with inadequate posture.
-People looking for rehabilitation by way of physical therapy.
-Persons suffering from arthritis because it helps reduce muscle stiffness.
-Overweight individuals and the elderly since no bouncing, jumping or lifting is needed.
-New mothers who want to recover their body shape as it provides famous results in the abdomen.
-And anyone who wants to build a stronger, leaner, more sculpted body!

With so many wonderful benefits and reasons to try it, why shouldn’t you try Pilates?!

Namaste Pilates Studio
124-C Main Street East (second floor studio)
705-491-CORE (2673)
namastepilates@hotmail.com

“Kit Coleman” was the nom de plume of the Canadian newspaper columnist Catherine Ferguson. She was born Kathleen Blake at Castle Blakeny in May 1864 near Galway, Ireland and died in 1915 at Hamilton, Ontario.

She was educated in Dublin and Belgium. After marrying at sixteen, she emigrated to Canada in 1884. She became a journalist in 1890.

Kit of the Mail was the first female journalist to be in charge of her own section of a Canadian newspaper. In the 1890s and early 1900s, she ran a seven-column page in the Toronto Mail. Called “Woman’s Kingdom,” it came out once a week and was so outspoken that it attracted a wide following.

She was a special correspondent for Toronto Mail during the World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893; the Mid-winter Fair, San Francisco, 1894; British West Indies, 1894; Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, London, 1897, and the Cuban war, 1898. She was the first woman war correspondent in the world. Mrs. Coleman was a poet and published books of poetry. She tackled anything that interested her: political commentary and theatre criticism, as well as fashion notes and recipes.

In one of her most popular features she gave the first advice to the lovelorn.Coleman was cynical about love, for her parents had married her off at 16 to an elderly Irishman. Widowed at 20, she migrated to Canada in 1884 and worked as a secretary until she married her boss, Edward Watkins.

When Watkins died in 1889, she turned to journalism to support their two children. She worked for the Mail until 1911. Meanwhile, she married a third husband, Theobald Coleman.

Kit became the first woman in the world to be a war correspondent. This was in 1898 when she went to Cuba to report on the Spanish-American War.

After 1911 she sold “Kit’s Column” to dozens of newspapers across the country.

Coleman also served as the first president of the Canadian Women’s Press Club, an organization of women journalists who  used journalism as a means of promoting social reform to gain legal rights for women and children.

Canadian Women’s Press Club was founded in June 1904.

Source: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com

Butterscotch Applesauce Cake

Ingredients:
½ cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup applesauce
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
1 cup raisins
2 cups butterscotch chips
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup chopped pecans

Directions:
In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and applesauce; mix well. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture. Stir in raisins. Spread in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan. Sprinkle with chips, sugar and pecans. Bake at 375 degrees F for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

Chocolate Applesauce Cake

Ingredients:
½ cup butter or margarine, softened
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbsp baking cocoa
1 ½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ground cinnamon
2 cups unsweetened applesauce

TOPPING:
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup chopped pecans
2 tbsp sugar

Directions:
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine dry ingredients; add to the creamed mixture alternately with applesauce. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan. Combine topping ingredients; sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

Applesauce contains antioxidants, is a great source of fiber, is an anti-inflammatory, helps prevent lung cancer and helps protect your liver

It was a great day!

We raised $240.00 for Amelia Rising and the Mattawa Resource Centre. Thank you to all of you who stopped by and donated.

I met some new amazing business woman and got reacquainted with a few others. I was especially happy to realize that there are so many of us. Maybe, women WILL rule the world someday or do we already in our silent and discreet yet highly effective way? I’ll let you ponder that for a bit.
Anyways…

The Clarion Pinewood Park Resort provided me with the most wonderfully tasting and beautiful birthday cake ever. If you stopped by my table and had a piece, you know exactly what I’m talking about. My most sincere thank you, Clarion and your talented chef.

We looked pretty sweet in our matching pink embroidered blouses, sponsored by Promo Sports Depot. Jamie and his knowledgeable staff are always so friendly and generous. Jamie, you are the very best. Thank you.

As said earlier, we raised $240.00 and it was all due to my generous advertisers who donated some magnificent prices. It was quite humbling to know just how charitable you all are. You all make the world a better place.

Congratulations to all the winners of the prices. Your contribution to the fundraiser was greatly appreciated. I’m certain that you all enjoyed your fabulous winnings.

Mom, I know that I don’t have to say it but thank you for everything. You are my rock and I know that I can always count on you no matter what. You know exactly what it takes to be a supportive mother.

Phyllis, if it wasn’t for you giving up your time to assist me, the leaflet would not be as successful as it is. Your time is greatly cherished and I am so fortunate to have my mother-in-law on  my team.

Victoria says…Thank you for all your warmth and generosity. It will never be forgotten.