Submitted by Gerry Tilmans
Now that the most recent snowsquall activity has moved on, the New Year is past us and things have started their normal routine, we can talk about 2025.
We have taken a number of orders for the planters we are selling to raise money for Golden Dawn Senior Citizen Home. Thank you to Kara and Kyle Hellyer of Lion’s Head Foodland for allowing us to place a planter in their store to help. Thank you also Sandra Wilson at Wilson’s Home Hardware and to Jeremy McMillen at RONA Miller Lake for allowing us to place one at each of their stores.
In October we applied for a grant from the Municipality of North Bruce Peninsula and just before Christmas we were informed that we have been awarded $2,000.00 based on our funding request. This is excellent news as we have plans to build bird feeders, bird houses, possibly flying squirrel nesting boxes and a number of other things with this money.
Shifting gears, there is a great series of professionally made videos about another Ontario Men’s Shed. If you go to the Lee Valley Canada website, type in Men’s Shed in the search bar, you will find a few short videos that you can watch.
At that Shed there is a lot of wood carving among their members, and it turns out our guys are interested too. Member Lee Brown brought in his carving tools and some projects that he has been working on. He is interested in sharing his knowledge with others and if you or someone you know is interested in this please drop me a line.
Lion’s Head Fire Chief Jack Burt recently visited our group on a coffee morning to go over the use and operation of the Legion’s defibrillator. Step one is to call 911. Only use it if they advise that a defibrillator is needed – it is good to have a little familiarity with it. Essentially the heart has stopped beating at this point, and there is nothing you can do to harm the victim. The machine speaks loudly as it walks you through the steps of applying the pads and warns you to stand back if it will shock the person. There’s more to it in terms of doing chest compressions and breathing for the person, so read, understand and follow the instructions, it could save someone’s life.
Monday mornings, weather permitting, we will have a hiking or snowshoeing group that leaves from the legion after 10 or 10:30 am. This week was snowshoeing at Jackson’s cove.
Every Monday morning we meet for coffee 9am-11am, and our monthly meetings are the third Saturday morning of the month, same time. You don’t need to be a member to drop in for coffee. Both are held at Canadian Legion Branch 202 on Highway 6 just north of Ferndale. Doors open at 8:45 all are welcome. If you would like further information on how to get involved with the Men’s Shed movement, please contact us at brucemensshed@gmail.com or call Gerry at (519) 793–3005. There are no membership fees.
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