Va2015

Chelsea Gardens’
Volunteer Appreciation Day
2015

We’d like to give a great big
THANKS TO EACH OF
YOU
Once again you’ve given
so much of your time and talents
to make Chelsea Gardens
the vibrant community it is.

So what have they been doing since then?
Our Volunteers from last year.

Fatima Abt
•Fatima did kitchen clean up and
dishes after our Greek night.
•She frequently contributes baking
and plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.
•She is one of the new members of the
social committee.

Terry Alscher
•Terry did the reminder calls to all of our July 1st
volunteers.
•She collected tickets for our Greek night and also
for our spring dinner.

Diane Anderson
•Diane is a member of the social committee.
•She is in charge of our bar. She applies for the
liquor licenses and purchases all the stock. She also
acts as bartender at most of our pub nights and
special events.
•She helped with set up for our volunteer
appreciation last year and she ordered and served
the wine.
•She, Rosa Steinbronn and Ann Brokop are in charge
of decorating for all our events.
•Again this year, Diane organized the New Years’
dinner and the party that followed it. She booked
the musicians and hired the caterers. She did set up and decorating
and supervised the clean up that followed.
•She and Rosa did the table settings and decorations for our Oscar
night and for the spring dinner.
•She was also one of those who plated desserts for the spring
dinner.

•Diane has also helped plan and
serve dinners for the wind up of
each of our many snooker
tournaments.
•She brought baking and helped with
set up for our Christmas coffee.
•She also acted as hostess for our
regular Wednesday morning coffee.
•She has delivered newsletters in the
Kensington.
•She also collected the donations
that Kensington residents made to
the food bank and to our Halloween
at the gate and delivered those to
the club house.
More on Diane:

Lloyd Anderson
•Lloyd is a member of the crew that
maintains and services our sprinkler
system.
•This past year, he and other members
of that group were recruited to install
new receivers in the garages of all of
the town houses.
•He was involved in putting up the
outdoor Christmas lights at the front
of the clubhouse and along the entry
boulevard.
•He decorated Chelsea’s entrance and
put up the tent for our Halloween at
the gate.
•He distributed candy to the youngsters who came by.
•He helped cleaning the koi pond.
•Lloyd along with Dave Pritchard has organized our snooker
tournaments.
•He helps Diane when she is restocking the bar.

More about Lloyd:
•Lloyd helped with both the set up and the
clean for our Halloween party and for New
Year’s eve.
•He did set up for the Robbie Burns’
supper.
•He sold 50/50 tickets at the spring dinner.
•He has made the coffee for out Wednesday
morning coffee gathering.

Evelyn Baillie
•Evelyn helped clean up after our last
year’s volunteer appreciation party.
•She cut up chickens for our July 1st box
dinners.
•She did kitchen clean up after our
Halloween party.
•She scrambled eggs for the breakfast
after the polar bear swim.
•She sorted the recycling for our Greek
night dinner and again for our spring
dinner. (Some people just get all the
glamorous jobs.)

Carole Lazar, Evelyn Baillie, Elaine Saunders, and Anna
Razny making breakfast for our polar bear swimmers.

Dale Bauer
•Dale swept up after last year’s
volunteer appreciation party.
•He helped take down canopies and
put away furniture after our July 1st
celebration.
•He barbecued the smokies for our
September chuck wagon dinner.
•He helped put up the outside
Christmas lighting.
•He did dishes and kitchen clean up
after the Robbie Burns’ supper and
after our spring dinner.

Gary Beirns
•Gary is the treasurer of our Strata Council.
•Once a week he attends at Crossroads
Management and signs cheques.
•He receives a detailed accounting of the
month’s financial transactions from
Crossroads and summarizes those on a
spreadsheet.
•He then presents this summary together with
any required explanations to Council.
•He prepares the annual budget for Chelsea
Gardens and this is provided to residents
prior to the AGM each year.

Gladys Bittner
•Gladys is one of our most faithful
bartenders and it is a rare month when
she is not on duty for at least one
evening.
•She regularly brings baking and plays
hostess at our Wednesday morning
coffee.
•She delivered newsletters.

Dave Brennan
•Dave worked on the set up
for out Christmas concert.
This involved putting up the
stage as well as setting up
electronic equipment.
•He was also the emcee for
our spring dinner.

Yvonne Brennan
•Yvonne is our very patient and proficient choir
director. She ordered music and made practise
CD’s for choir members so they could start
learning their parts before she returned from
holidays.
•From October through to early December she
oversaw the weekly practises.
•She directed the choir at our Christmas concert
and also performed herself.
•She and a few others led the carol singing at our
Christmas coffee.
•At our Canada Day celebration she helped
decorate and serve the cupcakes.
•She sold 50/50 tickets at our spring dinner and
at some of our Friday pub nights.
•She regularly contributes baking and plays
hostess at our Wednesday morning coffee.

Ann Brokop
•Ann is a member of the social committee.
•She looks after all of the snacks for our pub nights.
•She plays accordion and is one of the musicians
that leads our sing-alongs. She played at the
Christmas concert and the hymn sing.
•She did clean up after last year’s volunteer
appreciation party and after the spring dinner.
•She acted as custodian of the museum exhibits on
July 1st, gathering them up and securing them in a
locked storage cupboard so the owners could pick
them up later.
•Ann was one of those who organized and worked on the Christmas
decorating.
•She did set up for the New Years dinner.
•She along with Agnes bought and planted the planters for our pool deck.
•She delivers the newsletter at the Kensington.
•She contributed baking and helped set up Christmas coffee.
•She also takes her turn baking and playing hostess at our weekly coffee.

Reinhart Brust
•Reinhart organized the crew that put
up the exterior lighting at Christmas
time.
•He comes in Saturday mornings to
clean up after the Friday pub nights.
•He makes the coffee for our
Wednesday morning coffee for a
month at a time.
•He said grace for our spring dinner.
•He participated in the Christmas
Prelude.

Reinhart stringing Christmas lights.

Kevin Morin, Phil Smith and Mike Kiverago
Barry Miller and Ken Thorburn

Ray Smith and Barry Jones
Dale Bauer and Bill Troughton

Kay Buckley
•Kay is one of the founding
members of Chelsea’s Adopt-a-
Street contribution and she has
been regularly picking up litter on
the streets of our neighbourhood
for about twenty years.
•She and Elaine Scott organize the
popular Ladies’ Lunches each
month.
•She handed out dinners at our July
1st celebration.
•She collected tickets and gave out
plates at our Robbie Burns’ supper.
•She took tickets at the second
sitting of the spring dinner.
•Kay regularly brings baking and
plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Bea and Bill Callagan
•Bill was in charge of cooking corn for our chuck wagon
barbecue in September.
•He also supervised the making and plating of the trifle
•He comes in Saturday mornings to sweep up the pub
and empty the dishwasher.
•He has made coffee for Wednesday morning.
•Bea regularly brings baking and takes a turn playing

Donna Carlaw
•Donna is a member of the social committee.
•She helped with setting up the food for last
year’s volunteer appreciation event.
•She then greeted guests and provided them
with name tags and drink tickets.
•She helped set up the “museum” for our July
1st celebration and supervised the displays.
•She brought baking for our Christmas coffee
and helped with setting the tables for that
event.
•She sold tickets for our Robbie Burns’
dinner.
•She served chicken skewers at our Greek
dinner.
•She cooked potatoes for the spring dinner and added condiments to
the table settings.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.
•She often sells 50/50 tickets on pub night.

Bernadette Casavant
•Bernadette performed in the skit
at the Christmas Prelude.
•She brought refreshments to
serve to guests at that event.
•She worked in the kitchen
serving at our spring dinner.

Renata Cheetham
With fellow Adopt-a-Block
volunteer, Kay Buckley,
recovering from a broken hip and
Brian Coates, taking some
extended holidays this year,
Renate has stepped into the role
of our number one litter control
officer on the streets around
Chelsea Gardens.

Brian Coates and Veronica Shandler
•Brian is one of the Adopt-a-Block volunteers who picks up litter from
the streets around Chelsea.
•He and Veronica regularly stay after coffee to put away chairs and
tables.
•He worked on the set up for our Greek night.

Bill O’Sullivan and Barry Jones barbecuing chicken
skewers for our Greek night dinner.

Lois Degryp
•Lois served at our September chuck wagon
barbecue. Though it wasn’t a job she’d been
assigned, she stayed and was actively involved
in the clean up as well.
•She served sausages at the polar bear dip
breakfast.
•She skewered chicken and vegetable for our
Greek night dinner.
•She has also delivered newsletters.

Judy Doner
•Judy sold tickets for our September 5th
chuck wagon barbecue.
•She served potatoes at our Greek night.

Joyce Doyle
•Joyce helped organize the Windsor’s
carolers’ welcome. She contributed
handsomely to this party.
•She also brings baking and plays hostess
at our regular Wednesday morning coffee.

Adrienne Dresser
•Adrienne cleared tables and served
desserts and coffee at our spring
dinner.
•She regularly plays hostess to the
monthly coffee mornings at the
Kensington.

Al and Gerry Dyck
•Al helped set up canopies for our July 1st celebration.
•Gerry sang in the choir at the Christmas concert.
•Al and Gerry did kitchen clean up and washed dishes after our
spring dinner.

Meredith Engen
•Meredith, along with Kathy Rozek, baked
and iced cup cakes for the 160 guests at
our Canada Day celebration.
•On July 1st the final touch was added.
She put flags on the cupcakes and then
was one of those who brought them
around to all the guests.
•She did dishes and kitchen clean up
after both the Robbie Burns’ dinner and
the spring dinner.

Maria Forintos
•Maria leads the osteo and bands exercise programs any time
that Lorraine or Simone is away.
•During the summer she brings the CD player to the pool and
sets it up to guide participants through their aquasize.

Elaine Galley
•Elaine is the treasurer of the social
committee. She pays our bills and
maintains our financial records. She
prepares the year end report that is
presented at council’s AGM.
•She helped setting out food for last
year’s volunteer appreciation.
•She supervised the packing of the
dinner boxes for our July 1st event.
•She helped decorate for Halloween.
•She sold 50/50 tickets at our
Halloween party.
•She picked up the treats that were
donated and helped distribute them to the kids who came to our gates.
•She brought baking and did set up for the Christmas coffee.
•She served the coffee and tea at that event.
•She was one of those who organized and served the appetisers and baking
that guests brought to share after our Christmas concert.
•She did clean up after the polar bear swim.
She was one of the organizers for the Robbie Burns supper

More about Elaine:
•Elaine purchased and served the scotch for
Robbie Burns night.
•She made apple crisp.
•She supervised the set up for our Greek dinner
and she served dessert and ouzo.
•She supervised set up for the spring dinner.
•She cooked the green beans.
•Elaine frequently sells 50/50 tickets on pub
nights.
•She goes in each Saturday morning to make
sure the dishwashers have been emptied and to do that chore if need be.
•She was one of the committee members who worked on assessing our
need for new deck furniture around the pool and checking out suppliers
and prices.
•She delivers newsletters.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our
Wednesday morning coffee.

See how much fun it is to move furniture and do set up!
Tim Major, Ray Smith, Elaine Galley, Bill O’Sullivan, Charlie Sweet
and Randy Maxwell.

Anne and Will Gorrill
•Anne and Will organized the delivery of
the hay bales and the use of the flat deck
for our Christmas caroling.

Carol Greenidge
•Carol worked in the kitchen getting food ready
for our Halloween party.
•She was one of the servers at our Robbie Burns
dinner.
•She served desserts and coffee at our spring
dinner.
•Carol is a new member of our social committee.

Barbara Gregg
•Barb took and edited the photos for
many of our events. She provided
pictures for the newsletter.
•She set up the screen and projector for
the slide show on our last volunteer
appreciation day.
•She also lent us her chocolate fountain
and set that up for us.
•She operated the projector at our AGM.
• She organized and enrolled the Chelsea
Walkers in the Sun Run.
•Barb made the arrangements to get us a
piper for our Robbie Burns’ supper.
•She cooked turnips for that event.
•She regularly takes her turn acting as
hostess for our Wednesday morning
coffee.
•She is a new member of the Social
Committee.

Dorie Hadders
•Dorie performed in the skit at the
Christmas Prelude.
•She brought and served refreshments
for the guests who attended.

Bruce and Gerry Helmer
•Bruce is our sound man and
manages the microphone
volumes and mixes for our big
July 1st celebration as well as
the Christmas concert. With
some help from friends, he
does his own set up.
•Gerry is one of our more
accomplished photographers.
•She is a member of the
Chelsea Singers choir that
performs at Christmas.
•More significantly, it is she who works with Yvonne Brennan to
pre-record the various parts to each of the songs that will be
sung. She then burns disks so that choir members can practise
learning their parts at home.
•Gerry sold 50/50 tickets for our spring dinner.

Chester Henderson
•Chester helped with set up of
the museum that we had as part
of our July 1st celebration.
•He did set up and managed
props for our Christmas concert.
•He is a member of the choir that
performed for that event.
•He used his own truck and
hauled the flat deck we used for
our caroling.
•He helped set up the sound
system for our Robbie Burns’
night supper.

Barb Herndier
•Barb cleared tables and served coffee and dessert at our
spring dinner.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our
Wednesday morning coffee

Jerry Horne
•Jerry looks after our woodworking
shop and gives an orientation for new
users.
•He looks after getting tools and
machinery repaired or replaced if that
becomes necessary.
•He moved furniture and helped with
set up for last year’s volunteer
appreciation party.
•He picked up food for our Canada Day
meal.
•He made the brownies for our
Halloween dinner.

Pearl Hurd
•Pearl regularly brings baking and acts as hostess for
our Wednesday morning coffee.

Bob Hurley
•Bob serves on the Strata Council.
•He responds to issues related to the
Windsor apartments.
•He looks after the koi pond.
•He works on the irrigation team.
•He installed new receptors in townhouse
garages when we changed or security
system last summer.
•He helped put away furniture after last
year’s volunteer appreciation party and
after our July 1st celebration.

Thanks to Bob Hurley’s hard work, our koi pond is a lovely site that
attracts many visitors.

Kathy Hurley
•Kathy was one of last year’s volunteers who stayed behind after our
volunteer appreciation event to put away furniture and clean up.
•She helped pack the dinner boxes for July 1st.
•She worked in the kitchen preparing the meals for our Halloween party.
•She took photographs at our spring dinner.

Bernice Hutton
•Bernice is the chair of our Strata
Council.
•She sets the agenda and calls the
meetings to order.
•In addition to chairing the Council
meetings which take place at least once
a month and last 3-4 hours, she
regularly meets with Ross Ruddick and
staff about matters of concern to
residents.
•She, along with Gary Beirns and Garry
Kirkland, attend a weekly meeting with
Crossroads Management.
•She helped organize and prepared food
for the meal that followed last summer’s
golf tournament.
She was involved in distributing and programming new fobs and
cards for the security system that was installed this past
summer.

Bob Hyde
•Bob moved furniture to make room for our
volunteer appreciation party last year.
•He picked up extra tables that we needed for
July 1st and returned them at the end of the
day.
•He and Jerry Horne picked up the chicken,
salad and buns for our July 1st dinner.
•He took down canopies and put away furniture
at the end of that event.
•He video recorded our Christmas concert and
made DVD’s for those who wanted to buy
them.
•He did clean up after our New Year’s eve party.
• He worked on set up for our Robbie Burns event.
•On our Oscar night he served us all in style.

Terry Hyde
•Terry is the chair of the social committee.
•She prepares our agendas, chairs our
meetings and acts as one of our liaisons
with council and Crossroads.
•She worked on the set up for last year’s
volunteer appreciation event and helped
arrange the food platters.
•She helped plan the meal served at our July
1st celebration.
•She supervised the packing of the dinner boxes and arranged to have
them all delivered to refrigerators until it was time to serve them.
•She was on the organizing committee for our September chuck wagon
barbecue and helped with the food preparation.
•She was on the organizing committee for our Halloween party. She
made and served chilli and stayed after the event to do clean up.
•She made soup for the workers who were at the gate on Halloween
evening.
•She helped with the Christmas decorating
•She did set up for our Christmas coffee and also contributed baking.
• She did clean up after our New Year’s eve party.

More about Terry:
•She planned the polar bear swim
breakfast and cooked the sausages and
a pan of the potatoes.
• She helped with set up for the Robbie
Burns supper and then along with
Agnes supervised the serving of the
meal.
•She organized our Oscar night.
•She made appetisers for that event and
worked in the kitchen.
•She was on the planning committee for
our Greek night.
•She helped organize our spring dinner.
• She sold tickets.
•She acted as kitchen supervisor for the
second sitting. She packaged leftover food and helped with clean up.
•Terry proof reads and delivers newsletters.
•She has worked with Patti cleaning and organizing kitchen cupboards and
the closet upstairs.

Coffee is on, so Terry starts setting up the grill for our
polar bear swim breakfast.

Margy and Zenon Jalbert
•Margy and Zenon are newcomers but they have been
quick to become involved. They served desserts and
coffee at the second sitting of our spring dinner.
•Zenon also helped with set up for Greek night.
•He has started helping on the irrigation crew.

Lorraine Job
•Lorraine looked after beverage service
•She served vegetables at our spring
dinner.
•She brings baking and plays hostess
at our Wednesday morning coffee.

Barry Jones
•Barry sorted recycling at our July 1st
celebration last year.
•He did dishes and kitchen clean up
after our Robbie Burns’ supper.
•He barbecued chicken skewers for
our Greek night dinner.
•He helped put up the outdoor
lighting at Christmas.
•He often stays behind after events to
put away tables and chairs and sweep
up the floor.

Sonja Jones
Sonja has played hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Garry Kirkland
•Garry is a member of the Strata
Council.
•He has assumed responsibility
for the maintenance matters
relating to the townhouses.
•He also monitors and provides
direction with respect to
landscaping.
•He, Gary Beirns and Bernice
Hutton meet with Crossroads
Management on a weekly basis.
•He was one of the organizers for the golf tournament.
•He was busy at the barbecue doing the steaks after that event last
summer.

Mike Kiverago
•In the summer of 2013, Mike and Phil
Smith began the job of repairing and
replacing the latticework dividers and
fencing between the townhouses. This is a
huge project but they continue making
progress on it.
•He was also part of the crew that put up
all our outdoor Christmas lights along the
main entrance way and in the front of the
club house.

Jozef and Eileen Krukowski
•Jozef helped put up canopies for our July 1st
celebrations.
•Eileen and Jozef both helped with set up and
decorating for our New Year’s party.
•Jozef emceed that evening.
•At our Robbie Burns’ supper, Jozef brought in the
haggis and provided guidance for our young piper.
•Eileen was a whiskey wench and served up the scotch.
•She also proposed the toast to the lassies.

Don McKenzie and Jozef Krukowski with our young piper.
We appreciate the considerable effort volunteers make coming
up with costumes to add to the mood of an event.

Carole Lazar
•Carole is the secretary of the social committee.
•She also acts as volunteer coordinator.
•She is the editor of the newsletter.
•She was the emcee for last year’s volunteer
appreciation event.
•She worked on set up.
•She prepared a slide presentation for that party
and later uploaded it so that it could be
accessed on the Internet.
•She organized the scavenger hunt for Canada
Day and, along with Donna Carlaw, set up the
“museum.”
•She served as emcee for that event.
•She shucked corn for our September barbecue.
•She took photos at the September barbecue, the Halloween party and the
ugly Christmas sweater party.
•She made up new song books for our caroling at Christmas.
•She helped with set up and brought baking for our Christmas coffee.
•She collected the donations from the Christmas food bank boxes and
delivered them to the food bank.

More on Carole:
•She cooked potatoes and helped with set up
and serving breakfast after our polar bear
swim on January 1st.
•She chaired the organizing committee for
the Robbie Burns supper. She did the haggis
and shepherds’ pie, supervised set up and
emceed the event.
•She interviewed red carpet guests at our
night at the Oscars.
•She did dishes and kitchen clean up after
our Greek night.
•She sorted out the recycling for the first sitting of the spring
dinner.
•She orders the prints of photographs taken at our events. She
uploads the pictures to a website so residents can take digital
copies.
•She maintains the photograph albums in the library.
•She takes her turn at bringing baking and playing hostess at
coffee.

Dan Lazar
•Dan shucked corn for our September barbecue.
•He helped with planning the program for our Robbie Burns’
supper.
•He researched, wrote and presented the traditional “immortal
memory.”

Tim Major
•Tim is a member of the social committee
•He usually get stuck with the heavy
lifting and is there to help as long as he’s
not tied up with a prior commitment to
the North Delta Lions Club.
•He did set up for our Halloween party
and for New Year’s eve.
•He also put away furniture after the New
Years party.
•He acted as a consultant for our Robbie
Burns’ supper when we had trouble
finding a haggis.
•He did set up for our spring dinner.
•He has delivered newsletters in the
Windsor.

Clare McFadyen
•Clare helped with the serving at our spring dinner.
•She regularly contributes baking and plays hostess
at our Wednesday morning coffee.

At our Robbie Burns’ supper, Elaine Galley and Eileen Krukowski
were our whiskey wenches.

Saroj Manhas
•Saroj helped with the recycling
after our July 1st dinner.
•She served turnips for our Robbie
Burns’ supper.
•She collected the tickets for our
Halloween dinner.
•Saroj takes her turn bringing
baking and playing hostess for our
Wednesday morning coffee but she
goes a step further and acts as back
up if a hostess finds at the last
minute that she cannot do the job
or if on a given date we have no
volunteers to serve.

Don McKenzie
•Don is a multitalented fellow who plays
many roles.
•He acted as the Laird of the manor at
our Robbie Burns dinner, stabbing the
haggis and then saying the Celtic grace.
•At Christmas he wears a different hat,
playing Santa for the little kids on the
night we go caroling.
•He also plays Santa for the big kids at
our Christmas coffee where he
distributes the libations.

Maureen McKenzie
•Maureen assembled boxes for our
July 1st box dinner.
•She helped gather decorative
Scottish items for our Robbie Burns’
supper.
•She also served dessert that evening.
•She worked in the kitchen serving
ham for our spring dinner.

Barry Miller
•Barry is one of the most involved members of our irrigation crew and
works tirelessly keeping our sprinkler system in working order.
•He was one of those who programmed receivers for the garages of all
townhouse owners when our security system was updated last fall.
•He helped put up the outdoor Christmas lights.
•Barry, along with his wife Dawn and
other members of the Bible study
group, host our annual Christmas
Prelude contributing to both the
entertainment, the message and the
wonderful spread of food.
•Barry is one of the few men who has
broken the gender barrier and played
host at our Wednesday morning
coffee.
•He takes regular turns at actually
making the coffee.
•He served the ham at the second
sitting of our spring dinner.
•He serves on the workshop
committee.

Dawn Miller
•Dawn, along with husband, Barry
and the rest of the Bible study
group organized and planned the
Christmas Prelude. Dawn acted as
emcee and directed the choir.
•Dawn also sang with the Chelsea
Singers’ choir at our Christmas
concert.
•She wrapped cutlery for our Greek
dinner.
•She served potatoes for our spring
dinner.
•Dawn regularly brings baking and
plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

We caught only a rear view of Dawn but here she is leading the choir

Lorraine Myers
•Lorraine leads the osteo exercise classes
on Tuesdays and Fridays.
•She sends out welcoming letters to all new
residents.
•She prepared the song books for our Hymn
Sings.
•She performed in a skit for the Christmas
concert.
•She served pita and tzatziki at our Greek
night.
•She has delivered newsletters.

Kay Oldman
•Kay organizes our Wednesday
morning coffee. She buys and
stores the supplies, posts the
list of volunteers and gives
lessons and reminder calls.
•Perhaps she’s been type cast
because she has made the
coffee for July 1st and our
Greek night too.
•For the spring dinner she
prepared buns and set out
creamers and butter.
•Of course, Kay takes her turn playing hostess and bringing goodies for

Marty Olsen
•Marty made the coffee the morning of our polar bear
swim.
•He made the coffee for our Robbie Burns’ supper.
•And for our spring dinner.
•Of course he also takes a turn making the coffee for our
Wednesday morning get-togethers for a month at a time.
•He did set up for our Halloween party and our Greek
dinner.

Agnes O’Sullivan
•Agnes is one of the newer members of the
social committee.
•She cut up chickens for the box dinner we
served on July 1st.
•She served for our Halloween dinner and then
stayed and did clean up.
•She was on the planning committee for the
Robbie Burns’ dinner. She helped with the
shopping, made the gravy and half of the apple
crumble and then worked in the kitchen and
supervised service.
•She was one of the organizers for the Greek
dinner. She peeled and roasted potatoes for
about 100 guests. She also made all the honey
cake.
•She made scalloped potatoes for the spring
dinner.
She and Ann Brokop did the planters for our
pool deck.

Bill O’Sulivan
•Agnes tells us that Bill peeled a lot
of the apples she needed when she
was making desserts for our Robbie
Burns night.
•He manned the barbecue for Greek
night.
•He worked on set up for our spring
dinner.
•Bill has recently been recruited to
work on the sprinkler crew.

Dave Pritchard
Where do we begin?
•Let’s start with the music. Dave plays keyboard and
clarinet. He also sings and does the set up of
speakers, microphones, music stands and goodness
know what all else.
•He did this for each of our monthly pub night sing-
alongs.
•He provided background music for our Canada Day
celebration.
•He led us when we went around caroling at Christmas.
•He played for Christmas coffee.
•He accompanied the singers at the Christmas Prelude.
•He was one of organizers for the Christmas concert.
•He accompanied the choir and individual singers there as well as
performing himself.
•He did the sound system set up for our Robbie Burns’ supper and led a
sing-along after.
•He ran the karaoke at our Greek night and through an oversight was left
to put away all the furniture after it was over.
He and wife Lois host the Hymn Sings.

More about Dave:
•He has made up song sheets and assured that
the music needed for our sing-alongs was
available.
•A couple of years ago, he and Lloyd Anderson
organized a pool tournament. It was so popular
that many other competitions have followed.
Dave remains actively involved as an organiser
and score keeper.
•He has given snooker lessons to some of our
new players.
•He plays bridge on Tuesday nights and along
with a few of the other players, he stays
afterwards to move furniture and set up tables
and chairs for the Wednesday morning coffee.

Verna Saundison, Kathy Rozek, Ann Brokop, Phil Smith and Al Rozek
performing at out Christmas concert.

Lois Pritchard
•Lois is in charge of the displays on the
social committee’s bulletin board in the
clubhouse. She makes up all the
headers and puts up the frequently
changing photo collections.
•She sold 50/50 tickets at our
September barbecue and on a number
of our regular pub nights.
•She was one of the organizers for the
Christmas concert and wrote and
directed a skit for that show.
•She designed the programs.
•She does the sign up sheets for coffee.
•She does set up for Wednesday
morning coffee after bridge each
Tuesday night.
•She regularly plays hostess at coffee.

Marlene Purdy
•Marlene sang in the choir that
provided part of our
entertainment at the Christmas
concert and in the choir that
performed for the Christmas
prelude.
•She has also helped clean up
after pub night.
•(She’s seen here at our Greek
night.)

Anna Razny
•Anna moved to Chelsea just a year
ago but got involved immediately.
•She put up the tree and decorated
the lobby of the Mayfair for
Christmas.
•She helped serve the breakfast that
followed our polar bear swim.
•She served haggis at our Robbie
Burns’ supper.
•At our Greek night dinner, she
served the salad and she can be seen
in the accompanying picture serving
up desserts at our spring dinner.
•She has delivered newsletters.
•Anna is a brand new member of the
social committee.

Verna Sandison
•Verna maintains a telephone list of
Chelsea Gardens’ residents and
makes this available to them at cost.
•She also plays keyboard and
accompanied the singers and other
musicians at our Christmas concert.

Elaine Saunders
•Elaine scrambled eggs for
our polar bear swim
breakfast.
•She did shepherds’ pie for
our Robbie Burns’ supper.
•She has sold 50/50 tickets.
•Every week she and the other
Tuesday night bridge players
set up the furniture for

Ted Saunders
Ted plays bridge every Tuesday evening and when he finishes his
game, he and others in the group, rearrange the furniture in the
Fireside Lounge and set up all the tables and chairs for the

Elaine scrambling up the eggs for our
January 1st breakfast.

Elaine Scott
•Elaine, along with Kay Buckley, organizes the ladies’ lunches.
•She makes the posters and sign up sheets for those.
•She made posters and signs for our July 1st museum display.
•She worked with Donna Carlaw on completing the table settings
for our spring dinner by adding the condiments.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Elaine Scott and Donna Carlaw add the finishing touches to
the table settings for the spring dinner.

Patti Scott
•Patti is the co-chair of the social committee.
•She organized last year’s volunteer appreciation event,
purchased all of the food and supervised set up.
•She was also on the planning committee for our July 1st
party and ordered the food and supervised the making up
of the boxed dinners.
•She organized the food for the September chuck wagon
barbecue and was one of those who cooked beans for that
dinner.
•For our Halloween party she made chili and plated
desserts. She was also involved in planning and
supervising that meal.
•She did the advance set up for our Christmas coffee.
•She made and served appetisers for our Oscar night.
•She chaired the planning committee for our Greek night.
•She prepared the chicken and vegetables for the chicken skewers and then
helped assemble them.
•She made the salad and supervised the serving of the entrée.
•She was one of the organizers for the spring dinner.
She made scalloped potatoes and also acted as kitchen supervisor for
the first sitting.

More about Patti:
•Patti along with Elaine Galley and a
representative from council spent a lot of
time this past year assessing the condition
of the pool deck furniture and determining
how to bring this up to standard. They
checked and priced out various replacement
options and reported back to the social
committee and also to council.
•Once the new furniture was purchased, residents were invited to the
pool reopening to see it. Patti and Rosa Steinbronn set up
refreshments for that morning. Patti made the muffins.
•Patti and Terry Hyde clean and reorganize the kitchen cupboards and
the storage closet upstairs from time to time.
•Patti also delivers the newsletter.

Elsie Scully
•Elsie has brought baking and
played hostess for our
Wednesday coffee.
•She is one of the Tuesday
night bridge players who stays
and does set up for the coffee.
•She took registrations at the
AGM.
•She has sold 50/50 tickets at
several events.

Phil Smith
•Phil is a regular performer at our
monthly sing-alongs and also played
his saxophone at our Christmas
concert.
•He helped put up the outside
Christmas lights this year.
•He and Mike Kiverago have continued
their work repairing and replacing the
latticework fencing on the townhouses.

Ray Smith
•Ray is another of our
bartenders.
•He often helps when
furniture needs to be
moved.
•He assisted with
Christmas decorations
inside and helped put up
the outdoor lighting.

Harry Steele
•Harry assisted wife, Barb, with setting
up the chocolate fountain and the
screen and projector for last year’s
volunteer appreciation party.
•He took pictures of the polar bear
swim.
•He said grace at the spring dinner.

Rosa Steinbronn
•Rosa is a member of the social committee.
•She and Patti planned the volunteer
appreciation party last year.
•She also was one of those organizing the
chuck wagon barbecue in September.
•She plated desserts at our Halloween party.
•Rosa acted as one of our decorating
coordinators and worked with Ann and Diane
to make sure the clubhouse was ready for
Christmas.
•She baked and brought goodies for the
Christmas coffee.
•During the Christmas concert, she and a few
others stayed in the bar area organizing the
various appetizers and desserts that had been
contributed by guest.
•She decorated for our Robbie Burns supper.
•She decorated for our Oscar night. She also
made appetizers and served them
throughout the evening.

More about Rosa:
•As part of her responsibility for
decorating, Rosa has spent many hours
hunting down decorations, material and
theme related napkins, table cloths and
the like.
•Rosa decorated and did table settings
•She made salads for both sittings.
coffee.
Karl Steinbronn
Rosa’s husband and the maker
of those marvelous cheese
scones she is noted for. He
helps when she does

Naomi Sweet, Elaine Galley, Anna Razny and Rosa Steinbronn
arranged food donations for the guests to enjoy after the
Christmas concert.

Jules Sureau
•Jules is one of our most
frequent coffee makers on
Wednesday mornings.
•He has also worked on the
lattice work fences of the
townhouses.

Carolyn Swayze
•Carolyn is a member of the social
committee.
•She hosted our first newcomers’ event
last year and is hard at work planning
another for this September.
•She handled recycling at our July 1st,
celebration.
•She sold dinner tickets for our chuck
wagon barbecue.
•She did dishes and kitchen clean up after our Robbie Burns’
night supper.
•She was one of the organizers for our Greek night. She
threaded the chicken and veggies onto skewers in preparation
for that.
•Carolyn often sells 50/50 tickets on our regular pub nights.
•She can also be counted on to pitch in and help clean up
after any event.
•Carolyn takes her turn playing hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Charlie Sweet
•Charlie serves on our strata council.
•Along with Rick Vael he is in charge of
security issues.
•He also acts as council’s liaison with the
social committee.
•He is on the irrigation crew that fixes our
sprinklers and makes seasonal preparations.
•He helped with clean up after our volunteer
appreciation event last year.
• He set up canopies and seating for July 1st.
•Charlie served at our chuck wagon barbecue in September.
•He helped clean up after our Halloween party.
•He collected food bank contributions and Halloween candy from the
Windsor and brought these to the clubhouse.
•He helped with set up for the spring dinner.
•He has delivered newsletters in the Windsor.
•He worked with representatives of the social committee to assess our
needs for pool deck furniture and find the best product.

Naomi Sweet
•Naomi is a member of the social committee.
•Along with Patti and Elaine, she worked with
council on determining what we needed to do
to address the problems with the furniture on
our pool deck.
•She helped setting up the food for our
volunteer appreciation event last year.
•She also welcomed guest and assured that
each had a name tag and tickets for their
drinks.
•She assembled boxes for the boxed dinner on July 1st.
•She served at the September 5th barbecue.
•She served at our Halloween party.
•She set out the food for after our Christmas concert.
•She and Patti did the advance preparation for our Christmas coffee. She
brought baking for that event and helped serve and clean up.
•She decorated and set tables for the spring dinner and then made
salads for 150 guests.

Lorraine Thompson
•Lorraine helped with our July 1st
set up by making arrangements
for us to borrow more tables.
•She also served coffee and
desserts at the spring dinner.

Debbie Thorburn
•Debbie helped pack dinner boxes for our July 1st event.
•She cooked turnips for our Robbie Burns’ day supper.
•She served salads for both sittings at our spring dinner.
•She helped unwrap and arrange our new pool furniture.

Ken Thorburn
•Ken is a member of our sprinkler crew and
devotes hours each year to repairing sprinkler
heads and assuring that the system is working
properly.
•This same group of men went around this past
summer and installed receivers for our new
security system in all 236 town houses.
•He helped with maintenance on the koi pond.
•He put up outdoor lights at Christmas time.
•He set up canopies and seating for our July 1st
•celebration.
•He served salads at our spring dinner.
•He has made coffee on Wednesday mornings.
•He often puts away furniture after coffee.
•He helped unwrap and set up the new furniture
for the pool deck.

Bill Troughton
•Bill is one of the volunteers that looks after
maintaining and repairing our sprinkler
system.
•He helped with the installation of receivers
in the town house garages when we got our
new security system last year.
•He put up Christmas lights along the
entrance road and in front of the club
house.

Wade Martin, Bill Troughton, Barry Miller and Lloyd
Anderson out installing receivers in the garages of all
our townhouses.

Art Trudeau
•Art is a member of the irrigation crew and helps keep our
1,600 odd head sprinkler system up and running.
•This past year he was one of those who installed new
receptors in the garages of the townhomes.
•He helped set up the canopies for our July 1st celebrations.

Rick Vael
•Rick is a member of our strata
council.
•He keeps and eye on the
clubhouse and deals with
concerns about the workshop
and exercise room.
•He and Charlie Sweet deal
with security issues.
•Once again this past year, he
was one of the cooks for the
barbecue that followed the golf
game that council and
Crossroads hosted.

Bert and Anne Van Hove
•Bert and Anne both worked on assembling the box
dinners that we served on July 1st last year.
•They worked at the spring dinner clearing tables and
serving coffee and desserts.
•Anne brings baking and acts as hostess at our

Lucie Walker
•Lucie is one of our hard working bar
tenders.
•She was also one of the hostesses who
planned for and served at the reception
the Windsor residents gave for our
Christmas carolers.
•Lucie along with Simone Tait, sends
out cards on behalf of all residents to
any of our neighbours if they are
seriously ill or have suffered a loss
•She also regularly plays hostess at our

Spring dinner-the bar is open for business.
Gladys Bittner, Lucie Walker and Ray Smith.

Dorothy Williams
•Dorothy worked on setting up
the museum for our July 1st
celebration.
•She brought baking and played
hostess for our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Wally Willmann
Wally brings baking and plays
coffee

Nancy Wright
•Nancy is one of our enthusiastic
snooker players and has organized the
ladies’ tournaments this past year.
•She helps lead the sing-along each
month and she performs at the
Christmas Concert and at our
Christmas coffee party.
•She does the 50/50 at some of our
events.
•She cooked turnips for our Robbie
Burns’ night supper.
•She also takes her turn playing hostess
at our regular Wednesday morning
coffee.

Gordon Yamashita
•Gordon is a member of our strata
council.
•Along with Gary Kirkland, he deals
with any concerns relating to the
Mayfair or the Kensington.
•He is on the committee that manages
the RV parking lot.
•He helped clean up and put away
tables and chairs after last year’s
volunteer appreciation party and after
several other events.

OUR THANKS TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU.
GIVE YOURSELF A HAND!

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