Chewing Gum Patented Dec 28th, 1869
December 28th is Card Playing Day
Look at the Bright Side Day is Dec 21st
National Whiners Day is Dec 26th
Human Rights Day is Dec 10th
First Christmas Seals Issued, Dec 9th, 1907
12/01/1929 - Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
12/02/1952 - 1st human birth televised to public
12/07/1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
It’s time to change to winter wiper blades
Conventional wiper blades may not be able to cut it through snowfall. Designed by a protective rubber boot to prevent clogging, winter windshield wipers feature beefed-up construction to lift the heavy snow and allow you to see your way out of the winter wonderland.
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.
Women’s Own Resource Centre
Esprit Place Family Resource Centre and the Women’s Own Resource Centre invite you to take a carnation in honor of NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, December 6th at 10 am to Noon
East Parry Sound: W.O.R.C., 105 Ottawa Avenue, South River
West Parry Sound: Killbear Room, 1 Beechwood Drive, Parry Sound DSSAB. Main Building.
Refreshments, inspiring stories and more information about local programs and ways to help will be available.
Kara Mitchell. Program Manager. Kara@womensownresource.org
Habitat for Humanity North Bay Blue Sky Region
The dedication for Habitat for Humanity North Bay Blue Sky Region’s newest home will take place at our newly constructed home at 800 John Street at 2:00 pm on Sun, Dec 4, 2011. The home will be dedicated to the memory of Judy Shea, a well known North Bay Lawyer and long time Habitat supporter and Volunteer. North Bay resident Kirsten Simpson and her family, are eagerly anticipating moving into their new home built with the generous support of the local community, our Habitat contractor and countless volunteers. Light refreshments will be served.
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. Next meeting is Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 from 12-1:30pm at Best Western. 700 Lakeshore Drive. North Bay.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Christmas Wrap Fundraiser, Northgate Shopping Centre December 1st -16th
This fundraiser earns $3,000-$4,000 for the agency each year. Bring your gifts to be wrapped by Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Bay volunteers and help the children/youth of BBBS have an enjoyable Christmas. If you have questions call 474-3041. The booth is in Tower Court near the official Christmas tree
Judith Garcia Gullen has been practicing yoga for more than a decade. She moved to North Bay most recently from Toronto where she continued to upgrade her yoga practice. Hailing originally from Mexico, her warm and positive attitude struck a cord with Vijanti Ramlogan Murphy.
Together, they decided to hold a restorative yoga class on Tuesday nights at 6:30pm at the Namaste Energy Centre at 124 Main St. E. 2nd floor. They incorporate reiki along with this meditative yoga. They find that people are very open to the healing chi energy (reiki) they receive while in a restorative yoga pose. The key is staying in the pose for about a 5 minute period. This allows muscles to relax, stretch further and helps with aligning the spine for better health and well-being. Dedicated students find it a powerful class that also gives them take home tools they can use every day to help them focus their thoughts, heal themselves, re-energize their bodies and relieve stress.
The class starts with bringing the mind and body together using various techniques, one of which is controlled breathing. There is light stretching and some movements that help get the energy flowing. Finally, the class is guided through the poses with some soft music and a lovely ambiance of low light allowing participants to relax and be rejuvenated.
Vijanti Ramlogan Murphy is a reiki practioner. She has a strong connection to the earth and to the asian philosophy that aids in balancing chakras. She has attended Energy Healing Facilitator level one and incorporates pranic healing and soul counseling as needed into her work. Her educational background is in science with an Hon. BSc. in both environmental science and biology. This in fact, helps her channel compassionate energy and help people be grounded.
We hope you will permit yourself the pleasure to join us and give yourself some time to learn in a friendly environment. Gift certificates are available and the first class is free as a trial.
For more information, please visit us at www.reikiwithvi.ca or call 705-493-3984.
Written by: Vijanti Ramlogan Murphy
Born December 16, 1907.. Gadsby, Alberta. Died Palm Desert, California October 13, 2011
Barbara and her family moved from Alberta to California when she was a teenager. In 1925, she won the Miss Hollywood Beauty pageant. She has been described as gorgeous, full-figured and baby faced, exactly what movie studios were looking for! Even though she had never acted previously, she was signed up by Universal Studios. The studio gave her a few brief acting lessons before she made her debut as the only woman in the western ‘Prowlers of the Night’, batting her eyelashes as she nursed the wounded sheriff back to health.
In the landmark 1926 film ‘Flesh and the Devil’, the lovelorn Kent displayed her broken heart in an Oscar-worthy supporting performance. She starred in ‘Lonesome’, the last great silent American film in 1928 and in ‘The Shakedown’, a transition film which was mostly silent but some scenes had sound as a “special effect”. Kent’s natural voice was a bit too “tinny”. Her career in “the talkies” was in doubt. Determined to overcome the problem, she took voice lessons. Her career peaked when she played superstar Harold Lloyd’s love interest in his first two talkies, ‘Welcome Danger’ and ‘Feet First’. At 27, she was still believable as a high school student and appeared a youthful star in numerous films but her star was already fading.
In 1932, she married Harry Edington, a longtime Hollywood producer whose credits stretch back to the silent epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He tried to revive his wife’s career in the late 1930s, but her roles became smaller and her films less prestigious. Her last film was ‘Guard That Girl’ in 1935.
After her husband died in 1949, Barbara retired from show business. She retreated from public view refusing all demands for photographs and interviews. She married a second time to engineer Jack Monroe who died in 1998. She had been living in a retirement home in Sun Valley, Idaho, for many years where even her Idaho neighbors are said to be unaware that she had once graced the silver screen as an actress. At the age of 103 she was one of the last surviving silent screen actors.
By: Dawn Monroe. famouscanadianwomen.com
Instant Oatmeal Muffins
Ingredients:
Streusel Topping:
3 tbsp all-purpose flour
3 tbsp brown sugar
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tbsp butter
Muffins:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup white sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 packets instant maple and brown sugar oatmeal
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease 12 muffin cups.
Combine 3 tbsp flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Use a pastry blender or two knives to cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Reserve.
Combine 1 3/4 cup flour, white sugar, baking powder, salt and the instant oatmeal in a large bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture; pour in the egg, milk and oil. Stir just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full. Evenly sprinkle streusel topping over muffins.
Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes before serving.
Easy Oatmeal Muffins
Ingredients:
1 cup milk
1 cup quick cooking oats
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup white sugar
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
In a small bowl, combine milk and oats; let soak for 15 minutes.
In a separate bowl, beat together egg and oil; stir in oatmeal mixture. In a third bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients, just until combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups until cups are 2/3 full.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
“It’s time!” she says to me on the phone, with the sound of enthusiasm you would expect to hear from a young child. “Okay? For what?” I ask my grown daughter. “To decorate your home for Christmas, of course.” She answered, trying to hide her impatience. She has always struggled with patience, right from day one. She never could grasp the idea of waiting and Christmas time was no exception. I never could figure out who she got that trait from!
This year, Christmas is here at the homestead so she is particularly even more excited. The old traditions of Christmases past will be once again: Turning off all the lights and lighting all the candles, singing along to Christmas music while we drink our mixed eggnog concoctions.
My husband and I will listen to our children’s guesses as to what’s in the beautifully rapped boxes under the twinkling Christmas tree. “If you guess it, I’ll just have to send them back to Santa!” I warn, as I did many times before in what seems not so very long ago. They laugh and with that we bundle up and head outside for a friendly snowball fight, some fun-filled sliding or just a lovely moonlight walk.
Soon, steaming hot chocolate with a generous serving of mini-marshmallows would be on everybody’s minds. We would be greeted back in with the heat of wood burning in the stove, along with its luring smell. “I brought my Bob and Doug Christmas CD.” My son would announce. Groans from us girls would follow but secretly we kind of find it mildly amusing.
It’s time to dig out the Christmas baking from the bottom of the freezer anyways so us girls would venture into the kitchen to prepare a mouth-watering platter of goodies that we had been baking and hiding from the guys for months.
As we sing and dance around to Bob and Doug’s version of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, the boys would hover around us in anticipation, eager to sample all of our hard work. There’s nothing like Hot chocolate and Christmas goodies!
With our bellies filled and the candles low, our eye lids grow heavy and it’s time to call it an enjoyable day. All this wonderful family time and it’s only Christmas Eve!
Tomorrow, the rest of my wonderful family will be here and I will be able to make some more life-long memories over a delicious festive meal and around the Christmas tree. I can’t wait!!!!
Victoria Says….Yeap. You guessed it. Like mother, like daughter.
