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OCTOBER 2020 YOUR OFFICIAL COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
VIBRANT, CARING, CONNECTED
CRIB TOURNAMENT
Friday October 30 • Hand Sanitizer at all tables
• Only 1 team member will peg
7:00pm to 10:00pm • Masks are required anytime
Main Hall you're not seated at your table
• New deck of card for each
new game
$30 per Team • Tables will be safely spaced
No Singles • We want you to have fun and
Cash Bar – Table Service Only be safe
Call 403-246-8218 or email info@myglamorgan.ca to register
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SENIORS’
February 4, CORNER
Mark your
Calendars
Pub Night October 2
7:00 pm | Main Hall
See Ad for Details The first Tuesday of every month
Crib Tournament October 30 1 – 3 pm at the Community Centre
7:00 to 10:00 pm 4207 - 41 Avenue SW
See Ad for Details Phone: 403-246-8218
Email: info@myglamorgan.ca
Website: www.myglamorgan.ca
Come out and enjoy an afternoon
with your neighbours!
Different activities each month
$5 includes light lunch and refreshments
For more information, contact the
Glamorgan Community Association
New Dates to be Determined
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the opinions of the author and should not be considered
For the most up to date information on
to reflect the opinions of Great News Media (GNM) and
what’s going on in Glamorgan, please
the Glamorgan Community Association. The information
check our website
contained in this magazine is believed to be accurate but is www.myglamorgan.ca
not warranted to be so. GNM and GCA do not endorse any regularly and like
person(s) advertising in this newsletter. Advertisements are Glamorgan community
not an endorsement of any goods or services. association on Facebook.
GLAMORGAN I O C T O B E R 2020 3
MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION FORM
Downloadable version at www.myglamorgan.ca
Downloadable
Enclose version
this form along at www.myglamorgan.ca
with your membership fee & drop-off or mail to:
Enclose this form along with your membership fee & drop-off or
mail to: GLAMORGAN COMMUNITY CENTRE Membership
4207 –GLAMORGAN
41 Ave SW Calgary AB T3E 1G2
COMMUNITY CENTRE expires
Note: Do not send4207 – 41 Ave
cash through theSW
mail.Calgary AB T3E
Make cheque 1G2 to August 31
payable
Note: Do not “Glamorgan Community
send cash through the mail.Association”
Make cheque payable to
“Glamorgan
MembershipsCommunity
can alsoAssociation”
be purchased online at www.myglamorgan.ca
4207 - 41 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T3E 1G2
Phone: 403-246-8218 • Fax: 403-240-1394 Please choose your desired type and length of membership:
Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10:0am – 4:30pm Membership Type 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year
Office is Closed Mondays
Resident Family $20 $50 $75
Website: www.myglamorgan.ca • email: info@myglamorgan.ca
Resident Adult $10 $25 $40
BOARD MEMBERS
Resident Senior $7 $15 $25
President Frode Skjolingstad
Vice President Vacant Associate * $20 $50 $75
Secretary Danielle Southern * Choose if you do not reside within the Glamorgan Community Boundaries
Treasurer Nicole Liesemer Please list the member(s) of your household to be included on this
Director At Large Sara Haney membership: A/Y = Adult or Youth
Director At Large Alanna Redding
Director At Large April Meyer First Name Last Name A/Y
Director At Large Shaida Scott
Past President Beryl Ostrom
LIAISONS
Calgary Police Service Community Resource Office 403-428-6200
Community Partnerships Coordinator – Keith Magill 403-476-7185CMCOM-
MUNITY ACTIVITIES
Adult Fitness Linda Court 403-931-7539
Brownie, Guides & Sparks 403-283-8348
Calgary Minor Softball Assn John Keith 403-266-9559
Children’s Centre Director Heather Eastgaard 403-217-6677
Gaming Manager Bonnie Ladner 403-246-8218
Girl Guide Centre 403-283-8348 Address:
Glamorgan Community ECS Louise Hardy 403-242-8694
Karate Todd Johnson 403-850-1845
Outdoor Soccer 403-246-8218 Postal Code:
Paddle Tennis Barry McDonald 403-246-1411 Primary Phone #:
Trails West Hockey Jim Moriarty 403-246-3757
Triwest Soccer Gerry Conaty 403-240-1014 Alternate Phone #:
Youth Bowling Council Shirley Hession 403-242-9933 Primary E-mail:
STAFF
General Manager Sara Polzen 403-246-8218 Total Amount Enclosed: Receipt #
Yes, I would like to receive information by email from the Glamorgan
Board Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Community Community Association
members are welcome to attend. Call 403-246-8218 for more information. Visa/Mastercard__________________ Exp. Date __________
4 O C T O B E R 2020 I Call 403-720-0762 for advertising opportunities
Things look a little different this year, but there’s
no reason not to carry on with Wine Survivor!
To register yourself for the Glamorgan Community
Wine
Association’s Wine Survivor Fundraiser, you can
drop off your $10 entry fee plus one $15 gift card
from your choice of wine shop.
Survivor!
Participants are eliminated each month until the
final draw, December 4. To increase your odds,
“payout” will be to the top three. First place wins
50% of the gift cards, second place wins 35% of
the gift cards, and third place wins the remaining
15% of the gift cards.
Expulsion draws will be held monthly with
number of eliminations being determined based
on the number of participants.
Eliminated participants will be able to buy back
into the competition with $10 and another $15
gift card.
No cash prizes will be rewarded.
You must be 18 years or older to participate in
Wine Survivor.
Starting September 1, you can drop your entry
fee and gift card in the mail box at the Community
Association.
Please fill out and include this form in your
envelope.
Entry closes September 30th.
WINE SURVIVOR ENTRY FORM
Name: _________________________________________________________________________________
Email: _________________________________________________________________________________
Payment Method: _ ______________________________________________________________________
Cash Enclosed OR
Credit Card (Visa or Mastercard): Card Number _____________________ Expiration __________________
Welcome, 2020
Board Members!
Thank you to everyone that joined us for our Annual BOSTON PIZZA
Bounce Back Program
General Meeting. A huge thank you to all of our new
and returning Board Members. We look forward to an
exciting year!
RICHMOND ROAD LOCATION
Every time you eat at Boston Pizza Richmond Road
let your server know that you support the Glamorgan
Calgary Public Libraries may be Community Association and your server will stamp your
closed for now, but there are sev- receipt for you. Drop your stamped receipt oaff in the
eral Little Library’s around Glam- Community Association mailbox (by the front doors).
organ that are open for business! Boston Pizza will give the Glamorgan Community
Association 10% back of the receipt total!
Stop by one of the many in our
Community and take a picture.
Please send them to info@
myglamorgan.ca or post them
on our Facebook page.
Glamorgan Community Memberships
ExpiredAugust 31st
There are 3 easy ways to purchase your membership
1. Online at www.myglamorgan.ca
2. Come into the office at 4207-41 Avenue SW
3. Fill out the form in our newsletter and mail to the hall with
payment
Purchasing a Glamorgan Communicty Association (GCA)
membership is an excellent way to support your community
Membership fees collected help to support:
• Community facilities such as the Rink, GlamShack and Hall
• Children’s Outdoor Soccer
• Special events to bring residents together and build
community
Please purchase or renew your membership today!
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GLAMORGAN I O C T O B E R 2020 7GLAMORGAN GREATS
Caren presents a calm Forces turned out to be a teaching job in base schools,
demeanour that be- for which she felt ill-prepared. As she says, “I had no ex-
lies her busy life first perience with young children; I dreamt about kids liter-
as a teacher and a sin- ally hanging off my body.” Caren showed her true mettle
gle parent, and now when the interviewer for her next job expressed initial
as an active retiree. doubt about hiring her. “He said, ‘You’re really small—
She gives the impres- are you sure you can handle this?’ and I answered, ‘Yes,
sion that there’s little I can.’” She proved that she was more than capable, and
she could not accom- “absolutely loved” her position in a vocational high
plish if she set her school, which she held for a total of nine years.
mind to it. She quotes her dad’s favourite saying, “Get
In 1979, when Bryon was offered a teaching position in
off the pot”, as a motivator in her life.
Calgary, the family, which now included daughter Neeki,
Caren grew up as an only child on a mixed farm, mostly sold their home in Kingston for $53,000, and purchased
grain, in Kipling, Saskatchewan. She speaks proudly of their home in Glamorgan for what seemed to Caren like
her father, who “farmed with one arm.” He lost his right a high price at the time of $89,9000. Both Neeki and son
arm to a swather when he was about three years old and Cheyne attended Glamorgan Community ECS (kinder-
fell asleep in the field. “Dad would swing heavy bales of garten) and Glamorgan Elementary School. Neeki went
hay with one arm, drenched in sweat from the effort. I to A.E. Cross Junior High, while Cheyne was in the fine
remember him driving down the highway rolling a ciga- arts program at Milton Williams, then they both attend-
rette on his knee, holding the steering wheel with his ed Central Memorial High School. The walls of Caren’s
stomach.” By a tragic twist of fate, her dad’s brother lost living room are lined with original art created by her,
his left arm during World War II. “So, when they bought and Neeki and Cheyne. Although neither of her children
a pair of gloves, each of them could wear one.” Prairie has pursued a career in art, it is apparent that Caren’s
practicality! talent has been passed on to them.
Caren’s mother also worked hard on the farm. In order Caren taught in several Calgary schools over the years,
to get as much grain as possible into the limited num- with her longest tenure at Balmoral School. Her expe-
ber of granaries, “she climbed into the granary to push riences of moving from part time to full time to being
the wheat into all the corners. That’s probably what led declared surplus reflect the uncertainty and turbulence
to her later lung cancer, from all the dust flying around.” that impact teachers right to the present day.
When it came time after high school to decide what
When her children were attending school in Glamorgan,
to do, Caren ruled out farming as too much work, and
she volunteered in the classroom and on parent fund-
chose to pursue a teaching career.
raising efforts. Some of you will remember the fabulous
She entered first year in a fine arts program at the Uni- 1988 Olympics commemoration mural that adorned
versity of Winnipeg, as she liked to draw and was good the main hallway of Glamorgan Elementary School for
at it. But there was a surprise in store for her. “Here I was, many years. It was Caren who co-ordinated this school-
a naïve country girl, and in my first life drawing class, I wide project. Ten art submissions were selected from
gasped when a nude male model walked in. I just kept each classroom and painted on the wall by those stu-
saying to myself, ‘apples, oranges, bananas’ over and dents, and the remaining students all participated in
over, until I forced myself to look!” Caren subsequently painting the background. It was a truly collaborative ef-
completed a degree in art education at the University fort, and each student could point to their contribution
of Regina. on the mural.
Caren met her former husband Bryon, now deceased, at Since Caren’s retirement in 2006, she has taken yearly
a friend’s wedding in their hometown, and they moved hiking trips in Europe. Her favourite destination was
to Kingston, Ontario for her first job after graduation. to Morocco, which she pronounced as “amazing”, fol-
The posting for “art consultant” for the Canadian Armed lowed by Turkey. Her paintings, mainly in watercolour
8 O C T O B E R 2020 I Call 403-720-0762 for advertising opportunitiesor acrylic, as well as her quilts, are displayed at the Re-
tired Teachers art shows, and she has sold some pieces
privately. She volunteers as social convenor for the Cal-
gary Board of Education Retired Educators Association, COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
and ushers at Westside King’s Church. She enjoys cross-
ADULT FITNESS – Adult Fitness – Mon, Wed, Fri
country skiing, swimming, and hiking in Invermere. Mornings. Call Linda at 403-931-7539.
Caren has an extensive perennial garden which fills most BROWNIES / GUIDES / SPARKS – Programs are offered
of her front yard. It is a testament to her green thumb Tuesdays at the community hall. Please call 403-283-8348.
that on her front porch she has an enormous geranium
PATHFINDERS – Program is offered Sundays. Please
from her mother from 1988! She has recently been re-
call 403-283-8348.
fining her skill in hydroponic gardening. She fell into
this hobby by chance; after getting lost in Queensland INTEGRATED WELLNESS WITH RHONDA – Body
on her way to a party three years ago, she decided she Sculpting Exercise Program on Monday, Wednesday
finally needed a cell phone. “The first thing that came and Friday mornings.
up on the phone was a YouTube video on hydroponic Call Rhonda at 403-681-3439.
gardening, he called it pop bottle gardening.” Caren www.wellnesswithrhonda.com.
has planted tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans and ALL LEVELS YOGA - Tuesday nights 8:00pm. For
carrots in boxes or inverted 2-litre pop bottles with a information or to register email
wicking material above a water reservoir. She shared a leena.markatchev@gmail.com
couple of ripe cherry tomatoes that were a burst of fla- GLAMORGAN CHILDREN’S CENTRE – Before & After
vour in my mouth. School Care Program. Supervised Lunch Program. Call
Caren considers Glamorgan “fantastic, with great neigh- 403-217-6677 for info. Now accepting Kindergarten.
bours and great fellowship.” She has no intention of KARATE & KICKBOXING – Tue & Thur from
moving, and jokes that “I’ll have to be dragged out of my 6:30 – 7:30 pm. Call Todd at 403-850-1845 with the
house.” She is fortunate to have her children living near- Provincial Martial Arts Assn.
by, her son in Glamorgan and her daughter in Lakeview, TAURUS TAEKWON-DO
so she is able to spend time with her three grandsons. Ages 4+
When I asked Caren how she was faring during the CO- Monday and Wednesday Evenings
VID-19 pandemic, she says she appreciated that she had 403-708-7199
more concentrated time to work on projects. “I keep www.taurustkd.com
fit.tkd@gmail.com
busy. I organized stuff. I made four beaded Christmas
tree skirts.” Lately she has been making masks in various SIGNAL HILL LIBRARY – There is something for
sizes for sale. everyone at the Library! Mon to Thur 10:00 am – 9:00pm,
Fri and Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm. Sundays 12:00-
Caren’s faith is a cornerstone of her life. She asserts that 5:00pm. www.calgarypubliclibrary.com
“the Lord is good. I wouldn’t be where I am if it weren’t 403-221-2000.
for the Lord.”
WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE
Caren, you have been and continue to be a great asset Access computers, crisis support and more at the
to our wonderful community of Glamorgan. WCCRC, located at 3507A 17th Ave SW. Other programs
include: Parenting Support, Women’s Group, Summer
Do you know an individual or organization that you would
Camp and more. Call 403-543-0555 or visit
like to see in this feature? www.closertohome.com for more information.
Contact Loretta Biasutti at biasutti@shaw.ca or 403-249- Do you have a program to offer or want to see a program
5945 or drop off a suggestion at the community centre. We come to our community? Contact Sara Polzen our
need your input! assistant General Manager.
GLAMORGAN I O C T O B E R 2020 9Thank You, Len!
The Glamorgan Community Association would like to
thank Len Simon for Chairing our AGM. We appreciate
the time and effort you gave.
BOOK YOUR EVENT
Book your Family or Corporate Party here at
Glamorgan Bakery the Glamorgan Community Association!
www.glamorganbakery.com
3919 Richmond Road SW We offer a full bar service,
403-242-2800 commercial kitchen and much more.
Call the office for pricingand availability.
Our Specialties
• Cheese Buns • Birthday Cakes • Pizza Buns
Open Monday to Saturday
Event
8 am - 6 pm
Cancellations
We are very sorry to announce the following
2020 event cancellations:
• Kids Halloween Party
• Christmas Craft Fair
• Volunteer Appreciation Party
We hope so much that these events will run
again in 2021!
We moved!
Come visit us at our new location at
the London Place West mall near London Drugs.
440, 5255 Richmond Road SW
403.246.1774
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