Volunteer Appreciation 2016

CHELSEA GARDENS’
VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION
2016

Terry Alscher
Terry was one of the ticket takers at
our spring dinner.

Ray Arnette
•Ray has been helping Bob
Hurley in his care of the fish
pond.
•Earlier this month he was
one of those who removed
all the fish from the pond so
that dead foliage could be
trimmed and the pond could
be cleaned up.

GIVING THE FISH POND A SPRING CLEANING
Ray, Steve, Jerry, Shirley, Anna and Bob

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 and she ordered and served the wine.
•She was the driving force on the decorating crew
for our Canada Day celebration.
•She also worked on setting up the bar, serving and
then putting stock away at the end of the evening.
•Diane sliced all the onions that were served as a condiment at our
Canada Day dinner.
•She and Nancy Wright put together the dinner that was served at
the wind up to our snooker tournament.
•She served the wine at our newcomers’ welcome party in
September.
•She decorated the club house for fall and then added more for our
Oktoberfest. Took some of those decorations down and then put up
the décor for Halloween. What a month!!

More on Diane:
•Diane and Rosa headed the decorating
crew that got the Chelsea clubhouse
ready for Christmas.
•Diane brought goodies and helped with
the preparation and set up for our
Christmas coffee.
•Diane organized both the dinner and
dance for New Years. She decorated and
set tables and hired the caterers and the
band,
•She decorated for our Shrove Tuesday dinner and for our
dinner dance in March, cutting out the silhouettes, wrapping
cutlery, setting tables etc.
She and Rosa were in charge of decorating for the spring
dinner.
•She also shopped for many of the supplies needed for that
dinner.
•Oh and did I mention she runs the bar?
•This means she’s the one who at the end of the day has to
deal with the empty containers and purchase glassware if
there has been breakage.

Lloyd Anderson
•Lloyd painted the backdrop for our July 1st
murder mystery production.
•He worked on set up, erecting the stage
and building the frame to support the
backdrop.
•He also made signs and decorated the
front and side of our real bar for that day.
•He helped setting up the canopies and
then stayed way too long after the event
doing tear down and clean up.
•Lloyd is a member of the crew that
maintains and services our sprinkler
system.
•He was one of those who during the drought conditions of the past
summer watered shrubs on the common property by hand.
•Lloyd along with Dave Pritchard has organized our snooker
tournaments.
•He designed a logo for the snooker players and ordered the t-shirts that
were then given out to participants.
•He barbecued sausages for our Oktoberfest
•He supervised the tear down after that event.

More about Lloyd:
•He did the set up for the Halloween at
the gate and stayed to give out goodies.
•He was on the crew who put up
Christmas lights outside.
•Lloyd has done a lot of the heavy lifting
that is needed to allow Diane to keep the
bar well stocked.
•He’s helped her serve from time to time.
•He worked on set up for our New Year’s
party.
•He’s made the coffee for our
Wednesday morning get togethers.
•He’s delivered newsletters and flyers
door to door in the Kensington.
•He has spent hours taking down,
cleaning and replacing ceiling tiles in the
clubhouse to save us the expense of
buying new ones.
•Lloyd painted the dolphins that swim in
our reflective pond.

LLOYD PAINTING THE DOLPHINS ON THE BOTTOM OF
OUR REFLECTION POND

Danielle Bastien
•Danielle served salads at our Canada Day celebration.
•She whipped cream for our Shrove Tuesday pancakes.
•She served vegetables at our spring dinner.

Dale Bauer
•Dale barbecued the smokeys for our
July 1st dinner.
•He did set up for our Oktoberfest.
•He helped put up the outdoor
Christmas lights.
•He did recycling for the second
sitting of our spring dinner and then
stayed to help with clean up.

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 very busy bartenders.
She has served at almost all of our major
events and unless she is travelling she
works on all the sing-along pub nights too.
•She helped with setting up the canopies for
Canada Day
•She regularly brings baking and plays
hostess at our Wednesday morning coffee.

GLADYS AND RAY MIXING UP DRINKS ON CANADA DAY

Dave Brennan
•Dave, once again, was the emcee at our
spring dinner. Does he feel type cast?
He has filled this position for many years
running and does it so well we keep
asking him back.
•He also helped with set up and tear
down at our Christmas concert.

Yvonne Brennan
•Yvonne played a role in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•She helped with set up for that event.
•She sold 50/50 tickets at our Oktoberfest.
•She directs the Chelsea Singers, and started
practising with them in September so they would
be ready for their Christmas performance.
•She ordered music for the choir and arranged
for costumes for both singers and the group of
nuns who hammed it up on the side.
•Yvonne sang in the choir at the Christmas
Prelude.
•She was one of the small group that led the
singing at our Christmas coffee.
•In addition to directing the choir, she performed
at the Christmas concert.
•She sold tickets for our Shrove Tuesday dinner,
our March dinner dance and our spring dinner.
•She sold 50/50 tickets at the spring dinner.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT

Ann Brokop
•Ann is a member of the social committee.
•She planted and cared for the ornamental
containers on the pool deck this past
summer.
•She wrapped cutlery for our Oktoberfest
and then provided musical entertainment on
the evening of the event.
•She replanted the containers which had
been around the deck during the summer
and placed them in front of the club house
where the pansies provided a show of
colour throughout the fall.
•She took tickets at our March dinner dance and again at our spring
dinner.
•She made the center pieces for the tables at the spring dinner.
•Ann regularly contributes baking and plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

AL AND ANN SET THE MOOD FOR OKTOBERFEST

Reinhart Brust
•Reinhart doesn’t attend pub night but
along with Bill Callagan, he sneaks in each
Saturday morning to empty the dishwasher
and mop the floors.
•He organized the crew that put up our
outdoor Christmas lights.
•He is a member of two choirs that perform
at Christmas. In that capacity he performs
at the Christmas Concert and takes an
even larger role on at the Christmas
Prelude.
•He led us in grace at our spring dinner.

Arlene Buhler
•Arlene wrapped cutlery for our
Canada Day dinner.
•She put out buns and put the
final touches on the table
settings for our spring dinner.

Kay Buckley
•Kay played a role in our Canada Day murder
mystery.
•She collected tickets for our dinner that
afternoon.
•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.
•Kay collected the dinner tickets for our Canada Day meal and for the
Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She served vegetables at our spring dinner.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our Wednesday morning
coffee.

KAY BUCKLEY FILLING ALL THOSE LITTLE CUPS WITH
BUTTER FOR OUR MARCH DINNER

Bea and Bill Callagan
•Bill, along with Reinhart Brust, comes in Saturday mornings to
sweep up the pub and empty the dishwasher.
•He was one of those volunteers that hand watered plants
around the clubhouse during our summer drought.
•The season for that watering job was extended when we put
those charming scare crows in with our shrubs and then moved
the pots under cover so the decorations wouldn’t be ruined by
rain.
•Bea regularly brings goodies and plays hostess at our
Wednesday morning coffee.
•When we had no volunteers to do coffee on the 23rd and 30th
of December, Bill took over the job.

Donna Carlaw
•Donna was a member of the social
committee until she resigned this past
December.
•Before giving effect to her resignation she
joined with other committee members baking
goodies and setting up for our Christmas
coffee.
•She was on the planning committee for our
volunteer appreciation party last year..
•She made sandwiches for the guests and did food set up for that event.
•She then greeted guests and provided them with their name tags
•She was on the planning committee for the Canada Day murder mystery
and helped prepare the materials that were provided to the various actors
•She worked behind the scene making sure all actors were accounted for
before the murder took place.
•She had the unexpected and thankless task of distributing and collecting
ballots in between the gusts of wind towards the end of that afternoon.
•She wrapped cutlery for our Oktoberfest.

More about Donna:
•Donna is a member of the choir that
performed at our Christmas concert.
•She helped with table settings for our
New Year’s party and then stayed to do
clean up after that event.
•She cooked sausages for our polar bear
swim.
•She was so good at it we got her to do it
again for our Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She regularly takes a turn bringing goodies and playing hostess at our
•She does 50/50 sales on some of our regular pub nights.

Gail Carter
•Gail sold 50/50 tickets at our
Canada Day celebration.
•She helped prepare buns and
finalize the table settings for our
spring dinner.
•She has played hostess and
brought baking for our Wednesday
morning coffee.
•She regularly helps cleaning up and
loading the dishwasher after pub
night.

Bernadette Casavant
•Bernadette played the part of Poker Alice in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•She cleared tables and did recycling for our Oktoberfest.
•She played a part in the Christmas Prelude skit and brought
refreshments for that event.
•She helped serve at the spring dinner.

SPRING DINNER SERVERS
Kay, Dawn, Elaine and Bernadette

Renata Cheetham
•Renate is one of our three Adopt-a-Block
volunteers and patrols the streets around
Chelsea collecting litter on a regular
basis.
•She served desserts and coffee at our
spring dinner.

Brian Coates and Veronica Shandler
•Brian works as a volunteer on the Adopt a Block program and keeps the
streets around Chelsea Gardens clear of litter.
•During the drought this past summer he was one of those who watered
shrubs and trees on the common property so they would not die.
•He cleared tables and helped with clean up at our dinner/dance in
March.
•He worked on set up for our spring dinner.
•He and Veronica regularly stay after coffee to put away the tables and
chairs.

Dick Davis
•Dick, along with Leno
Zecchel and Zenon Jalbert,
replaced coach lanterns on
all the townhouses this
past summer.

Lois Degryp
•Lois prepared the buns for our
Canada Day meal.
•She did clean up and dishes after
our Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She served desserts and coffee at
the spring dinner.
•She has brought baking and played
hostess at our Wednesday morning
coffee.

Joyce Doyle
• For many years Joyce has been the
driving force behind the Windsor’s wind
up party for our carolers. She organizes
this event and makes substantial
personal contributions.
•She played a part in a skit at the
Christmas concert.
•She also brings baking and plays
hostess at our regular Wednesday
morning coffee.

Adrienne Dresser
•Adrienne prepared buns and
completed table settings for our
spring dinner.

Gary Economy
•Gary helped with set up for our Shrove
Tuesday dinner and again for our
spring dinner.
•He is also one of those who often
pitches in to take down tables and put
away chairs at the end of our events.

Meredith Engen
•Meredith helped with barbecuing all the
smokeys for our Canada Day dinner.
•She helped with clean up and did dishes
after the spring dinner. (150 guests…lots
of dishes.);
•She took the soiled dishtowels and
aprons home with her and returned them
all freshly laundered and ironed.

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 our
volunteer appreciation.
•She played a role in our Canada
Day murder mystery.
•She regularly attends the clubhouse the morning after events to
assure that the dishwasher has been emptied and that the ice maker
is working properly.
•She sells pub night 50/50 tickets.
•She assisted with set-up, food service and clean up for our
newcomers’ event.
•She was in charge of set up for Oktoberfest.
•She sold tickets for that event.
•She distributed candy to the children who attended our Halloween at
the gate.
•She organized our Ugly Christmas Sweater contest.

More about Elaine:
•She contributed baking and served coffee at
our Christmas coffee.
•She carried the banner for our carolling.
•She set up and served the appetizers and
desserts guest brought to the Christmas
concert.
•She cooked potatoes and helped serve
breakfast at our polar bear swim.
•Elaine organized our dinner/dance in March.
She hired the DJ,
•She purchased food, organized the kitchen
and supervised the moving of furniture.
•She supervised set up for our spring dinner
and also cooked all the green beans and
supervised the kitchen on the second sitting.
•She regularly takes her turn acting as
hostess and bringing baking for our
•She delivers newsletters and flyers.

CHRISTMAS COFFEE
ELAINE GALLEY SERVES WHILE PATTI SCOTT AND SANTA WAIT
TO GIVE GUESTS A WARM WELCOME

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

Carol Greenidge
•Carol is a member of the social committee.
•She helped plating food and doing clean-up
for our volunteer appreciation party last year.
•She helped with set up and did advanced
food preparation for our Canada Day dinner.
•She assisted with set up, food service and
clean up for our newcomers’ event.
•She prepared desserts for our Oktoberfest.
•She contributed baking for our Christmas
coffee and helped set up for that event, and
clean up at the end.
•She prepared the salad for the March dinner/dance.
•She cooked potatoes for the spring dinner and also stayed after the
dinner to help with clean up.
•She is on the committee that is currently planning this year’s Canada
Day celebration.
•She has done 50/50 at pub night.

Barbara Gregg
•Barb is a member of the social committee.
•When our treasurer, Elaine Galley, is away on
holiday, Barb takes over for her.
•She set up the screen and projector for the
slide show on our last volunteer appreciation
day.
•She helped with serving and clean up after that
event.
•She took portrait type photos of all of our newcomers.
•She took pictures at our Oktoberfest.
•She took pictures at our New Year’s Eve party and again at the polar
bear swim the following morning.
•She made all the fruit toppings for our Shrove Tuesday pancake
breakfast.
•She acted as our photographer for that event and also for our spring
dinner.
•Barb organizes the Chelsea Walkers group that meets 6 days a
week and she registers this team in the Sun Run.
•Barb does 50/50 at our pub nights.
•She sells tickets for events.
•She regularly plays hostess and brings baking for our Wednesday
coffee.

Kathy Greschner
•Kathy served pancakes at our Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•Along with Ken Thorburn she served salads for both
sittings of our spring dinner.
•There was a lull between the sittings so she used that
time to help us clear tables.

Madan and Roopa Gupta
•Madan takes a turn making coffee for a month at a
time for our Wednesday morning gathering.
•Roopa regularly brings goodies and plays hostess.
•She tells us that Madan sometimes help with the
behind the scene preparations.

Dorie Hadders
•Dorie performed in the Canada
Day murder mystery.
•She did recycling at our
Oktoberfest dinner.
•She played a part in the
Christmas Prelude.
•She washed dishes for 150
people after our spring dinner.

Bruce and Gerry Helmer
•Bruce is our sound man and
managed the microphone
volumes and mixes for our
big July 1st celebration.
•Both he and Gerry played
roles in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•They worked on set up the
morning of July 1st.
•Gerry is a member of the Chelsea Singers Choir and has assisted
that group by helping Yvonne record the alto and soprano parts
and leading the altos during the practises.
•Bruce attended the newcomers’ event and explained the operation
the work shop.
•Bruce did the sound mix for our Christmas concert. He helped with
set up for that event.
•Gerry sold 50/50 tickets at our spring dinner.

Chester Hendrickson
•Chester helped with stage set
up for our Canada Day
celebration and our Christmas
concert.
•At the concert he looked after
props for the skits.
•He is one of the Chelsea
Singers and in that capacity he
performed at the Christmas
concert.
•Chester picked up the flat deck
and hay that we used for our
hay wagon when we went
caroling at Christmas.
•He towed that trailer and led
the procession.

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 helped Patti make sandwiches for our
volunteer appreciation party.
•He hung the group picture we took at that
event.
•He did a presentation on the workshop for
our newcomers.
•He picked up food for our Canada Day
meal.
•He carved several pork loins for our spring
dinner.
•He helped with the clean up of the fish
pond earlier this month.

Pearl Hurd
Pearl regularly brings goodies and plays hostess at our

Bob Hurley
•Bob serves on the Strata Council.
•He responds to issues related to the
Windsor apartments and is the liaison to
the social committee.
•Bob moved furniture and covered
windows in the Fireside Lounge in
preparation for out volunteer appreciation
party last year.
•He helped with the tear down too.
•He picked up extra tables for our Canada Day party the night
before and then returned them after the festivities.
•He worked on setting up the stage and canopies that morning.
•After the meal he and wife, Kathy, collected and sorted the
recycling.
•He did set up for Oktoberfest.
•He looks after the koi pond.
•He works on the irrigation team that keeps our complex sprinkler
system up and running.
•During the drought last summer he was one of those who hand
watered the shrubs in front of the Windsor apartments.

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 sorted the recycling after our Canada Day 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.

Bob Hyde
•Bob started our Canada Day celebrations
off by making a run to pick up a load of extra
tables we had been lent.
•When the rest of us were heading home, he
was making the trip to return those tables.
•During the day he abandoned his role as a
mover and played a part in our murder
mystery.
•He has helped with tear down and clean up after many of our events.
•Bob video recorded both out Christmas Prelude and the Christmas
Concert. He edited and burned DVDs and provided them to Gerry Helmer
who made the copies which were then available to residents.
•Working behind the scenes he spent a lot of time getting the CD’s that
had been donated for our karaoke sessions organized and preparing
index sheets for them.
•When, on a couple of occasions some of our musicians were unavailable
for our pub night sing-along, Bob helped set up a Karaoke evening.

Terry Hyde
•Terry is the chair of the Chelsea
Gardens’ Social Committee. She
sets the agendas and chairs the
meetings.
•She meets with council
representatives as required to assure
smooth running of our many
cooperative endeavours.
•She worked on the set up for last year’s volunteer appreciation event
and helped assemble and arrange the food platters.
•She ordered our murder mystery for Canada Day and was involved in
planning that entertainment portion of that event.
•She helped with set up that morning.
•During our “off season” over the summer she and Patti spent hours
tidying and reorganizing cupboards.
•She worked on the set up, service and clean up for our newcomers’
event.

More about Terry:
•She oversaw the clean up after our
Oktoberfest.
•She helped with Halloween at the gate and
made soup for all the volunteers that evening.
•She brought baking and supervised the set up
for our Christmas coffee.
•She organized the carolling.
•She has sold tickets for many of the events.
•She organized the breakfast after the polar bear swim.
•And planned our Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She was involved in organizing and food purchasing for our dinner
dance in March.
•She was on the planning committee for the spring dinner.
• She cooked scalloped potatoes for that meal.
•Terry proof reads and delivers the newsletter.

Margy Jalbert
•Margy was one of the dancing girls in
our Canada Day murder mystery.
•She helped serve at Oktoberfest.
•She joined the social committee in
February and has pitched in in a major
way since then.
•She was on the organizing committee
for the spring dinner and cooked a
couple of the pork loins for that event.
•She delivered flyers.
•She served coffee and desserts to
guests at the first sitting that evening.
•She also was on the committee that
organized this volunteer appreciation
tea.

Zenon Jalbert
•This spring, Zenon was asked to fill
in as a council member, replacing
Rick Vale who had moved away.
•This appointment was confirmed
when he was elected to fill the
position at our AGM last week.
•Zenon played a role in our Canada Day murder mystery last year.
•He helped with the set up that day and stayed to put canopies and
tables away at the end of the day.
•He was one of the volunteers who put new coach lamps on all of the
townhouses this past summer.
•He worked on set up for our Oktoberfest.
•He helped put up the outside Christmas lights.
•He has worked on the sprinkler crew.
•He served desserts and coffee at our spring dinner

Lorraine Job
Lorraine has brought baking and played hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Barry Jones
•Barry helped with set up for our
Canada Day celebration.
•He played a role in our murder
mystery that day.
•He helped with set-up, food service
and clean up for the newcomers’
event.
•He helped put up Christmas lights.
•He scrambled eggs for the breakfast
following the polar bear swim.
•He sold 50/50 tickets at our March
dinner dance.
•He picked up food from the suppliers
and stood guard over Carolyn’s
cooking for our spring dinner.
•Barry is also one of those who
regularly pitches in to put take down
tables and put away chairs at the end
of events.

MAKING BREAKFAST JANUARY 1ST
Barry in the foreground, Carolyn, Saroj and Evelyn in the background

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
Over the past year, Mike and Phil Smith
have continued repairing and replacing the
lattice work dividers between the
townhouses.

Carole Lazar
•Carole is the secretary of the social
committee.
•She also acts as volunteer
coordinator.(aka telephone solicitor)
•She is the editor of the newsletter.
•She arranges to have all the photos from
our events developed and uploaded to
the Internet.
•She was the emcee for last year’s volunteer appreciation party.
•She worked on set up, decorations and food preparation.
•She prepared a slide presentation for that event and later uploaded it so
that it could be accessed on the Internet.
•She was one of the organizers for our Canada Day murder mystery
•She served as emcee for that event.
•She prepared hand outs for the newcomers’ welcome listing all the
Chelsea volunteer and social activities together with contact numbers.
•She did recycling for the Oktoberfest.
•She did posters and set out collection boxes for Halloween.

More on Carole:
•She baked and helped with the Christmas coffee.
•She collected our food contributions over the
Christmas season and delivered them to the Surrey
Food Bank.
•She blew up balloons for New Years.
•She cooked potatoes, served and did clean up for
the polar bear swim.
•She did recycling for Shrove Tuesday.
•She took photos at the March dinner/dance.
•She did recycling and helped with clean up at the
spring dinner.
•She does the social committee’s monthly events calendars.
•She does the pub night posters and orders and distributes the special
events posters.
•She maintains the photo albums of our events.
•She delivers newsletters.
•She recruits volunteers to act as hostess at our Wednesday morning
coffee and takes her turns doing that herself.

Dan Lazar
•Dan’s biggest volunteer contribution is that he does all the
grocery shopping and cooking so Carole can spend hours
doing vague and mysterious social committee things on the
computer.
•He also counted and divided the 50/50 pot from the second
sitting of the spring dinner. This allowed those who sold the
tickets to go and eat.

Ileen served buns and
cupcakes at our dinner
dance in March.

Tim Major
•Tim is a member of the social
committee.
•He was in charge of making the
pancakes for our Shrove Tuesday
dinner. He recruited a couple of his
fellow Lions Club members to help him
and the three of them provided well for
the hungry crowd.
•Tim helped with set up for our March
dinner dance.

SET UP FOR OUR MARCH DINNER DANCE
Ron, Barry and Tim

Saroj Manhas
•Saroj prepared buns for our Canada
Day dinner.
•She also served dessert at that event
•She helped with serving at our polar
bear swim breakfast.
•She cooked sausages for the Shrove
Tuesday dinner.
•She has sold 50/50 tickets on our
regular pub nights.
•She regularly takes her turn playing
hostess and providing goodies for our
•She also acts as back up at coffee,
filling in if another hostess is unable to
make it for a scheduled commitment.

OUR OKTOBERFEST SERVERS READY TO GO ON DUTY
Barbara, Kathy, Saroj, Marie and Bill

Bill and Marie McCallum
•Bill and Marie collected tickets and handed out dinner
plates at our Oktoberfest dinner.
•They served out the fruit toppings on Shrove
Tuesday.

Clare McFadyen
•Clare helped with the serving at our Canada Day
dinner.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our
•She served apple sauce at out spring dinner.

Pat McKenna
•We’d heard that Pat
sometimes pitched in to
help sell 50/50 tickets on
our regular pub nights.
•So when we needed
someone for the job at our
Shrove Tuesday dinner,
we asked her and she
said, “yes.”

Don McKenzie
•Don played a role in our Canada Day
murder mystery though his involvement
was cut short when he was shot.
•He made up for this by working overtime
during the Christmas season.
•He played Santa at our Christmas
coffee.
•Santa also made the rounds on our
caroling night making sure no one was
left out.
•He played the part of a frustrated tourist
in a skit for our Christmas concert.
•He played the part of a bus boy at our
spring dinner, clearing tables, serving
dessert and coffee and then stayed to
move furniture at the end of the evening.

Maureen McKenzie
•Maureen played the part of a saloon girl in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•She started the coffee and put out the “fixings” for it at our March
dinner dance
•She cleared tables and served coffee and desserts at our spring
dinner.

Barry Miller
•Barry is one of the most dedicated
members of our irrigation crew and
works tirelessly keeping our sprinkler
system in working order.
•He is a member of the workshop
committee.
•Barry, along with his wife Dawn and
other members of the Bible study group,
host our annual Christmas Prelude.
They provide entertainment, a message
and a wonderful spread of food.
•Barry takes his turn making coffee for
our Wednesday morning coffee.
•He also pitches in and brings baking and plays host from time to time.
•He did recycling for our Oktoberfest dinner.
•He served up pork loin for the second sitting of our spring dinner.
•He designed and installed the new water feature in our reflection pond.

SPRING DINNER
BRING ON THE CROWD
Sylvia, Barry and Kay

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 and Barry did the recycling
for our Oktoberfest dinner.
•She served at our spring dinner.
•Dawn regularly brings baking and
plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Dot Munsie
Dot was one of the Windsor hostesses who baked
goodies and greeted the Christmas carolers at the
end of their rounds.

Lorraine Myers
•Lorraine played a role in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•She regularly stays late after pub night to do
clean up and get the dishwasher started.
•She leads the osteo exercise classes on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
•She sends out welcoming letters to all new
residents.
•Lorraine sold 50/50 tickets at our spring
dinner.
•She has delivered newsletters.-
•She bakes goodies and plays hostess at our
Wednesday morning coffee on a regular
basis.

Barbara Nielson
Barbara served sauerkraut at our Oktoberfest.

Kay Oldman
•Kay organizes our Wednesday morning coffee. She buys and stores
the supplies, posts the list of volunteers and makes reminder calls.
•She also gives lessons to new volunteers.
•She set up the coffee for our dinner/dance in March.

Marty Olsen
•Marty helped with the set up for Canada Day.
•He played the part of the marshal in our murder mystery.
•He set up the coffee and tea for both sittings of the spring
dinner.

Joe and Sylvia Otrowercha
•Once again this year, Sylvia cooked all the carrots for our spring
dinner to a perfect state of tender crispness. It’s a big job, so Joe
pitches in to help.
•Sylvia also plays hostess and makes goodies for coffee on a regular
basis.

Agnes O’Sullivan
•Agnes is a member of the social
committee.
•She helped serve and clean up for our
volunteer appreciation party.
•On Canada Day she worked behind the
scenes counting ballots
•She and Ann Brokop did the planters for
our pool deck.
•They revitalized those with plants to add
colour in front of the clubhouse over the
fall.
•She served weisswurst at our
Oktoberfest.
•She helped organize the appetizers and
desserts guests brought to the Christmas
concert.
•She baked cookies for the Shrove
Tuesday dinner.
•She quartered the chickens we served at
the March dinner dance.
•She was on the planning committee for the spring dinner and cooked
and carved pork loins for that event.

Bill O’Sulivan
•Bill helped with tear down and
clean up after our Canada Day
event.
•He has recently been recruited to
work on the sprinkler crew.
•He helped with set up for our
Oktoberfest.

Barbara Parker
•Barbara served chicken at our March dinner/dance.
•She served dessert and coffee at the spring dinner and then
stayed to help with the recycling and clean up.

Ron Plankeel
•Ron isn’t a Chelsea owner yet but even as a visitor he’s made his
presence felt.
•He served sausages at the pancake breakfast after the polar bear swim.
•He helped with set up at our March dinner dance and again at our spring
dinner.
•For the spring dinner he picked up dessert for us.
•He helped deliver flyers.

Dave Pritchard
•He is one of those who organized and led our popular Christmas concert.
•He performed at that himself but also provided accompaniment for many
others. He attended practises for the choir and for those who were going to
sing either alone or as part of a small group and then he played back up
for them at the concert itself.
•He provided accompaniment for the Christmas Prelude and attended
practises for that.
•He led the caroling both when we did the rounds with the hay wagon and
during our Christmas coffee.
•Though he’s never been given a title, Dave is the
music organizer for virtually all of Chelsea’s events.
•He is the one who has taken on the responsibility
for the proper maintenance and storage of our
sound equipment. It is he who advises us when new
or replacement items are necessary.
•He is involved in setting up and tearing down for
each event where we have music.
•He plays keyboard and saxophone and sings too.
•He and Al Rozek lead the monthly pub night sing-
alongs.

More about Dave:
•On Canada Day, Dave played a role in our
murder mystery.
•Later in the day he came to our rescue when
the wind was blowing ballots all around and
tempers were fraying. He made the rounds
collecting votes and making soothing noises.
•Dave, along with Lloyd, organizes and keep
score for those involved in our snooker
tournaments.
•He organized and led hymn sings in both the
spring and fall.
•He ran a couple of karaoke nights for us.
•He was one of the bridge players who hosted a
wine and cheese party in February for any
residents who might be interested in playing
bridge.
•As part of that outreach, lessons were offered. Dave organized and taught
those on a weekly basis throughout the months of March and April.
•I don’t know if he has told the new players that one of the tasks the
Tuesday night bridge group regularly undertakes is setting for our

Lois Pritchard
•Lois played a role in our Canada Day murder
mystery.
•She 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 is one of the organizers for the
Christmas concert and wrote and directed a
skit for that. She did a reading on her own
too.
•She participated in the Christmas Prelude.
•She was one of those who organized and
put on the two hymn sings we had this year.
•After playing bridge on Tuesday nights she
helps with set up for Wednesday morning
coffee.
•She regularly brings baking and plays
hostess at coffee.
.

Marlene Purdy
•Marlene played the part of the
outlaw Jesse Wales in our Canada
Day murder mystery.
•She is a member of the Chelsea
Singers and performed in the choir
at the Christmas concert.
•She then had to do a quick change
to prepare for her second role of the
day in the humorous skit.
•She often stays behind on pub
night to clean up and load the
dishwasher.
•She whipped butter for our Shrove
Tuesday dinner.

Anna Razny
•Anna helped with set up and service for our
volunteer appreciation party last year.
•She assembled smokeys and buns for our
Canada Day dinner.
•She delivers newsletters in the Mayfair.
•Anna stayed after our Oktoberfest to help
with clean up.
•She collected the Halloween treats from
the Mayfair and delivered them to the
clubhouse for pick up.
•She decorated the Christmas tree for the
Mayfair.
•She contributed baking and helped with set
up and clean up at the Christmas coffee.
•She served the pasta salad at our March
dinner and dance.
•Anna captured fish and placed them in
holding containers so the fish pond could be
cleaned this past month.

Al Rozek
•Al, or Mr. Music, as we sometimes
call him, plays guitar and leads the
singing at our monthly pub night
sing-along.
•Along with Ann Brokop, he played
the part of a roaming minstrel and
provided dinner accompaniment at
our Oktoberfest.
•He led the caroling at our Christmas coffee.
•He is one of the organizers for the Christmas concert and acted as emcee
for that event.
•He came out to practises for the choir to help them prepare for the concert.
•He practised with singers and instrumental groups and performed almost
non stop throughout the concert.
•Al, along with Dave Pritchard, leads the carolers when they make the
rounds of Chelsea Gardens the Monday before Christmas.
•He performed at the two hymn sings.
•When Al is performing at an event, he does his own set up and tear down.
•Amplifiers, microphones, the stage itself and various props all have to be
dealt with.

CHRISTMAS COFFEE
Al, Yvonne, Gerry and Nancy

Kathy Rozek
•Kathy sold 50/50 tickets at our Oktoberfest dinner.
•She helped with the planning of the Christmas concert.
•She played clarinet and piano at that event, sang an unusually
silent “Silent Night” and also put on a nun’s habit to provide a
dramatic accompaniment for the Sister Act.
•She performed at our two hymn sing afternoons.
•She regularly takes a turn bringing baking and playing hostess
at our Wednesday morning coffee.

OUR GERMAN MISSES SELLING 50/50 TICKETS AT
OKTOBERFEST
Kathy and Yvonne

Verna Sandison
•Verna keeps a telephone list of
Chelsea residents. She updates
it regularly and makes it
available at cost .
•She also assisted with
registration of members at our
annual general meeting.

Elaine Saunders
•Elaine sold 50/50 tickets for
our Canada Day celebration.
•She is one the Tuesday night
bridge players who stays after
to help set out the tables and
chairs for our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Elaine Scott
•Elaine played a role in the Canada Day murder mystery.
•She helped develop what script there was for that improv event.
•She served dessert at our Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She plated desserts for our spring dinner.
•Elaine regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Patti Scott
•Patti is the co-chair of the social committee.
•She was one of the organizers for last year’s
volunteer appreciation event. She made
sandwiches, set up the non-alcoholic beverages,
served and helped with clean up..
•She was also on the planning committee for our
July 1st party.
• She ordered the food, made the beans and
supervised volunteers who were involved in last
minute preparation and serving.
•She was involved in set up, food service and
clean up for our newcomers’ event.
•She was on the planning committee for the Oktoberfest and then
supervised the food service.
•She also set up coffee for that event.
•She contributed baking to our Christmas coffee and helped with set up,
organization and clean up.
•She arranged service of the food donations guests made at our
Christmas concert. Again she made the coffee.

More about Patti:
•She distributed and then collected song
books for our caroling.
•She shopped for food for our polar bear swim
breakfast.
•She made the tortellini salad for our March
dinner/dance.
•She headed the organizing committee for the
spring dinner.
•She shopped for many of the supplies
needed for that event.
•She served as kitchen supervisor for the first
sitting.
•During our “off season” over the summer Patti
and Terry spent many hours tidying and
reorganizing cupboards.
•Patti regularly delivers flyers and newsletters.
•She helped with the clean up of the fish pond
earlier this month.

Elsie Scully
•Elsie is one of the Tuesday
night bridge players who
regularly sets out the chairs for
our Wednesday coffee.
•She has also done 50/50.

Carell Sinclair
•Carell is one of the Chelsea Singers and
performed at the Christmas concert.
•She also served vegetables at the first sitting of
our spring dinner.

Phil Smith
•.Phil and Mike Kiverago have been
repairing or replacing the latticework
dividers on the townhouses doing a batch
each year.
•He worked on our irrigation crew this past
summer.
•Phil performed during our Christmas
concert and regularly provides
accompaniment at our pub night sing-
alongs.
•He helped put up the outdoor Christmas
lighting.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT
Al, Phil and Jeremy

Ray Smith
•Ray is another of our bartenders.
•He helped with set up for our Canada Day event.
•He attended to pick up extra tables the night before this
event and then to take them back after we were finished
with them.
•He barbecued weisswurst for our Oktoberfest.
•He helped with set up for the spring dinner.

OKTOBERFEST CHEFS
Ray and Lloyd man the barbecue while Karl supervises.

Harry Steele
•Harry always leads us in
saying grace at our spring
dinner.
•I hear that Barb may put him to
work on some of her projects
too.

Rosa Steinbronn
•Rosa is a member of the social committee.
•She helped with decorating and setting up for our
volunteer appreciation event.
•She served and stayed to clean up after it.
•She was on the food planning committee for Canada
Day.
•She did snack trays and along with Evelyn Bailie,
made the salad.
•She also helped with setting tables and putting up
decorations for our Canada Day event.
•She stayed till the end to help with clean up.
•Rosa assisted with set-up, food service and clean-up
for our newcomers’ welcome.
•She DID the Oktoberfest.
•She organized it.
•She did the cooking, she ordered the food, she decorated.
•If we hadn’t tied her down she would have cleaned up too.
•Rosa helped organize the Halloween decorations in the
clubhouse.
•She and Diane then decorated for Remembrance Day.

More about Rosa:
•Decorating the clubhouse for Christmas was
a major project as was the tear down
afterwards.
•She and Diane inventory decorating
supplies, organize them and shop for
replacements as necessary.
•She contributed baking and helped with set
up and clean up for our Christmas coffee.
•Rosa along with Diane did the decorating
and set the tables for our March
dinner/dance.
•She was on the organizing committee for the
spring dinner. She wrapped cutlery and did
decorations.
•Rosa regularly plays hostess and brings
baking to our Wednesday morning coffee.
•She organized this volunteer appreciation
party!

Jules Sureau
•Jules is one of our most
frequent coffee makers on
Wednesday mornings.
•He helped with set up for our
Oktoberfest.
•He did coffee for Shrove
Tuesday.
•He worked on fencing for the
RV parking lot.

Carolyn Swayze
•Carolyn is a member of the social
committee.
•She helped with setting up, serving and
clean up for our volunteer appreciation
event.
•She played a role in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•She often does 50/50 on pub nights.
•She organized the newcomers’ welcome
party.
•She ordered the food and supervised set-up, service and clean up.
•She brought baking and helped with set up and clean up for our
Christmas coffee.
•She scrambled eggs for those who came for our polar bear dip.
•She sold 50/50 tickets for both the Shrove Tuesday dinner and the
March dinner dance.
•She was on the planning committee for the spring dinner and helped
with the shopping for that event.
•She cooked two pork loins, helped with the green beans and then
came up to the clubhouse to make salads.
•She regularly brings baking and plays hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.
•She delivers newsletters and flyers.

Charlie Sweet
•Charlie serves on our strata council.
•He is in charge of security issues.
•He is on the irrigation crew that fixes our
sprinklers and makes seasonal preparations.
•He moved furniture and covered windows in the
Fireside Lounge so it would be ready for our
volunteer appreciation party last year.
•He stayed to put the furniture back at the end of
the afternoon.
•Charlie helped put up the stage and the canopies for our Canada
Day celebration.
•He played a role in our murder mystery.
•He watered plants in front of the Windsor during our summer
drought.
•He delivers newsletters.
•He collected Halloween goodies and the Christmas food bank
donations from the Windsor and delivered them to the clubhouse.
•He did set up for our March dinner dance.
•He served at our spring dinner.

Patti, Rosa, Elaine, Bob, Margy, Marty, Zenon, Jules,
Charlie and Carol
Set up crew for Oktoberfest

Naomi Sweet
•Naomi is a member of the social committee.
•She was on the committee that organized
our volunteer appreciation event last year.
•She made sandwiches for the guests ,
plated them, served and then stayed to clean
up.
•Naomi played a role in our Canada Day
murder mystery.
•She delivers newsletters in the Windsor
apartments.
•She brought baking and helped set up, serve and clean up for our
Christmas coffee.
•She baked cookies for our Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She served at our March dinner/dance.
•She was on the planning committee for our spring dinner.
•She made salads for both sittings.
•She helped plan today’s event.
•She and Charlie collect the donations from the boxes at the Windsor at
Halloween and Christmas and transport those up to the central
collection area.

Simone Tait
•Simone leads the weight and bands exercise group that
meets on Monday and Thursday.
•She and Lucie Walker send cards to Chelsea residents who
are seriously ill or have lost a loved one.
•She picks up and stores the contributions of Halloween candy
that we collect each year.
•She cooked potatoes for our spring dinner.
•She has brought baking and played hostess at our

Lorraine Thompson
•Lorraine helped with our July 1st set
up by making arrangements for us
to borrow more tables.
•She also helped serve the dinner
that afternoon.
•Lorraine helped put away left over
food and then stayed to help with
dishes and clean up after our spring
dinner.

Debbie Thorburn
•Debbie played a role in our Canada Day murder mystery.
•She also served desserts that day.
•She plated desserts again for our Oktoberfest.

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.
•During the drought conditions this summer he hand
watered the trees and shrubs on the west side of the
clubhouse.
•He helped set up canopies and tables for our Canada
Day celebration.
•He played a role in our murder mystery.
•Ken served desserts at our Oktoberfest. He also
acted as a runner carrying additional batches for food
from the kitchen to the serving station in the entrance
area.
•Ken served the salads at both sittings of the spring dinner.
•He stayed afterwards to assist with putting the tables and chairs away and
returning the regular furniture.

Bill Troughton
•Bill is one of the volunteers that looks after
maintaining and repairing our sprinkler
system.
•He helped put up the stage and the canopies
for our Canada Day event and then stayed to
take them down and put them away at the
end of the evening.
•He put up Christmas lights outside the
clubhouse and down our main boulevard.

Art Trudeau
•Art is a member of the irrigation crew and helps keep our 1,600
odd head sprinkler system up and running.
•During the drought conditions this past summer when we were
not allowed to use that system, he hand watered the shrubs in the
boulevard in front of the Windsor apartments.
•He helped set up the canopies for our July 1st celebrations.
•He helped clean up the koi pond this spring.

Larry and Shirley Villeneuve
•Larry and Shirley have been here less than a year but Larry has already
been recruited to work on the irrigation crew.
•Last summer he helped Wade repair the pump for our waterfall.
•Shirley was out a few weeks ago netting goldfish and koi and placing
them in containers so they could wait safely while the fish pond was
cleaned.

Lucie Walker
•Lucie is one of our hard working bar tenders.
She serves in that capacity for most of our
special events as well as at our monthly sing-
along nights..
•She was 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 regularly plays hostess and brings goodies
for our Wednesday morning coffee.

Wally Willmann
Wally helped Lois and played hostess at our Wednesday morning
coffee.

Charlotte Wolfe
Charolotte wrapped cutlery
for our Canada Day party.

Nancy Wright
•Nancy is one of our enthusiastic snooker
players and has organized the ladies’
tournaments this past year.
•Along with Diane she has arranged for the
food for the snooker wind up parties.
•She helps lead the sing-along each month
and she performed at the Christmas Concert
and at our Christmas coffee party.
•She organized the condiment table for our
Shrove Tuesday dinner.
•She sold 50/50 tickets at our spring dinner.
•She regularly helps tidy up the kitchen area
of the bar.
•She has played hostess and brought baking
for our Wednesday morning coffee .

Gordon Yamashita
•Gordon is a member of our strata
council.
•Along with Garry 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.
•He helped with both set up and tear
down for our Canada Day event.
•I have also seen him putting away tables
and chairs after events where he had not
been scheduled to work!

Keiko Yano
•Keiko served beans for our Canada Day dinner.
•She served the sausages at our Shrove Tuesday dinners.
•She cleared tables and helped with the recycling at the dinner/dance
in March.
•She served potatoes at the first sitting of our spring dinner.
•She has brought goodies and played hostess at our Wednesday
morning coffee.

Leno Zecchel
•Leno was one of three
volunteers who installed
new coach lamps on all of
the townhouses last
summer.

Shirley and Gordon Zupp
This couple were “partners in grime.”
They did all of the dishes and kitchen clean
up after our big Oktoberfest dinner.

OUR THANKS TO ALL OF YOU. AND REMEMBER:

Volunteer Appreciation 2016

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