Greta's quilt is G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S!
Now we need to get those tickets flying!!!
If you have yet to get yours, please contact:
Bonnie: bsaveall@hotmail.com
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Aids and Africa Video
Toronto Star reporter Debra Black recently went to South Africa and Swaziland to report on two Canadian grandmothers who were part of a 12-member delegation with the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Their mission: to study the impact of AIDS.
Just click on the > in the middle of the video screen to start.
Just click on the > in the middle of the video screen to start.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Hello Grannies!
Now that you know we have a blog and are letting me know you are visiting I would like to point out something.....
Below this and every post is the word "comments". If you click on that, a pop up will appear where you can leave a comment that all visitors to our blog can see. If you do not have a Google ID. just click "anonymous".
This is a great way to share ideas and update others on what is what....
Saturday, May 24, 2008
May 27th Meeting-- IMPORTANT!
The quilt raffle tickets for
"Ain't I a Woman?"
are now being printed.
They'll be ready to be handed out at the next meeting.
Hope to see a good turnout to pick up your tickets and to hear the update re the Sept. 14 event.
Next meeting:
May 27, 9:30 a.m.
at Bonnie's home - 250 Mowbray Rd (off Cty Rd 10) Picton - 613 476 5925
Directions from Picton: follow County Rd. 10 heading towards Cherry Valley. Go past Michael's Family Restaurant at the corner of Cty Rd. 10 and Cty Rd. 1. The next left is the road that goes up to Camp Picton and the airport. Don't turn there. The next road on the left is Mowbray Rd. It's at the top of a rise just past the trailer court. Turn there. It looks like the driveway to a farm because it is a dirt/gravel road between Pat Mowbray's house and his garages. Follow around the large curve until you come to the first home on your right (just over 1km). That's us at #250 Mowbray. There's a 'hidden driveway' sign just before you get to us. We are the hidden driveway. There's a turn-around spot in the driveway and you can also park on the grass if it hasn't been raining prior to the meeting.
If you can't come to the meeting please e-mail:
If you can't come to the meeting please e-mail:
Bonnie: bsaveall@hotmail.com
about how we can meet - our time is tight like yours, but one of us will try and meet you somewhere -
we need to sell tickets!!
Friday, May 23, 2008
September 14th event update
The following is an update from Susan Radecki :
This is what I know so far about the event at Picton United Church on Sun. Sept. 14th. We have a granny named Sue Cousineau from the Ottawa area . She can stay with me the night before. She will speak during the church service for 15 min. Then the ladies (and perhaps men) of the church will provide a lunch.
After the lunch we will take over. We can have the sanctuary for free. I will ask the Bay of Quinte Sweet Adelines to sing and I should know on Mon. night about that. I also belong to the county drumming circle if you want to ask them to perform. We were also thinking that Sue Cousineau should be given another opportunity to speak at this time , and perhaps Wilma as well .
All suggestions are welcome.
After the lunch we will take over. We can have the sanctuary for free. I will ask the Bay of Quinte Sweet Adelines to sing and I should know on Mon. night about that. I also belong to the county drumming circle if you want to ask them to perform. We were also thinking that Sue Cousineau should be given another opportunity to speak at this time , and perhaps Wilma as well .
All suggestions are welcome.
Sue Cousineau Information
Chelsea, Quebec
Sue is chair and founding member of the Grassroot Grannies, a granny group formed in 2006 from the Kanata – Ottawa region. In May 2007, Sue and her group members hosted three South African grandmothers from GAPA (Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS) at their Mother’s day fundraising event and potluck dinner. She was also a member of organizing committee for the September 2007 Grandparents Solidarity March in Ottawa.
Throughout her 30-year professional career, she has been a high school teacher, university professor, senior project manager with the federal government, and the Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD). Sue has also served as the Director of the Commonwealth Sport Development Program (CSDP), an international development program of the Commonwealth Games of Canada, operating in Africa and the Eastern Caribbean. She has worked and traveled extensively throughout Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean including 15 years of experience leading cycling tours in Europe. Sue is a mother of two and a granny of a 2½ year old granddaughter and an 11 month old grandson.
Sue will visit Reach One Touch One Ministries (ROTOM) in Uganda; Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust in South Africa; and will then travel on to Swaziland for a series of workshops and the International Women’s Day Grandmothers Rally and Celebration.
Chelsea, Quebec
Sue is chair and founding member of the Grassroot Grannies, a granny group formed in 2006 from the Kanata – Ottawa region. In May 2007, Sue and her group members hosted three South African grandmothers from GAPA (Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS) at their Mother’s day fundraising event and potluck dinner. She was also a member of organizing committee for the September 2007 Grandparents Solidarity March in Ottawa.
Throughout her 30-year professional career, she has been a high school teacher, university professor, senior project manager with the federal government, and the Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD). Sue has also served as the Director of the Commonwealth Sport Development Program (CSDP), an international development program of the Commonwealth Games of Canada, operating in Africa and the Eastern Caribbean. She has worked and traveled extensively throughout Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean including 15 years of experience leading cycling tours in Europe. Sue is a mother of two and a granny of a 2½ year old granddaughter and an 11 month old grandson.
Sue will visit Reach One Touch One Ministries (ROTOM) in Uganda; Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust in South Africa; and will then travel on to Swaziland for a series of workshops and the International Women’s Day Grandmothers Rally and Celebration.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
June 19th Speaker's Workshop
The Quinte Grannies Group is planning a
Speakers' Bureau Workshop
with Mary Anna Beer on the evening of
Thursday June 19th
-- venue not yet confirmed but in Belleville area--
They plan to begin with a potluck supper.
They would be very pleased if interested members of our group would join them for the evening. Mary Anna would be happy to see you.
The workshop is not solely for those who wish to give "formal" talks about the organization but also for those who are responding to questions from the public at fund-raising events.
Please contact Judith at 613 962 6022
The workshop is not solely for those who wish to give "formal" talks about the organization but also for those who are responding to questions from the public at fund-raising events.
Please contact Judith at 613 962 6022
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Kingston Event!
Let's support our Kingston friends at their concert on
May 25 at 7:30 p.m
Sydenham Street United Church
Tickets for sale in Kingston at
The Church Book Room
Novel Idea
Tara Natural Foods
Renaissance Music
and at the door.
$15 for adults $10 for students
or call Barb Fletcher at 613-546-4785
Barb writes:
As to our motivation for doing these concerts, we, like you, have been moved by the dire situation created by HIV/AIDS in Africa and by the heroic struggle of African grandmothers to raise their grandchildren on their own.
The food crisis that is spreading in the world only makes these women's struggle worse. We thus support the work of the Stephen Lewis Foundation from which 90% of the funds raised go to grassroots projects particularly in sub-saharan Africa. This year we are also supporting the work of a Kingston physician, Dr. Karen Yeates who, likewise motivated, has co-founded the Prevention Through Empowerment project, an initiative in Tanzania which has created the Pamoja Tunaweza (Swahili for 'together we can') WOMEN'S CENTRE IN TANZANIA. She has just returned from Tanzania and can report 'from the ground'.
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