Rita Kalmbach

Port Dover Board of Trade

Citizen of the Year 2010

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Spring 2010 Issue 42

RTO/ERO Norfolk District 12

Highlights Our President’s Message 2 Keith Quigg Finds Our Schools 3 Travel Report 4-5 Health Services Report 6-7 Clem Wolfer, What Made Him Choose Teaching? 8-9 Rita Kalmbach, Port Dover Citizen of the Year 2010 10-11 Egerton Ryerson Bell Award Recipients 12-14 Spring Luncheon Announcement 15 Musings On Our Health Services 16-17 Membership Report 17 District 12 Annual Financial Statement 18 Norfolk District 12 Directory 19-20

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Our President’s

Message

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Time flies. The adventure of retirement continues! Year three for me has included seeking out joys and challenges that I hadn't experienced in decades. I'm playing an alto saxophone solo with the Brantford Memorial Band at the end of this month. What amazes me is that if the music is in your head, your body can still find a way of expressing it and sharing it with others. Our District 12 presidency is another source of pride and inspiration. The industry and kindness of my fellow members is remarkable. Mary Antoniolli has been a wonderful Vice President, filling in for me occasionally, planning the spring and fall banquets, and acting as head of the membership committee. Kudos go to Stu Ross and Don Gardner for their expert handling of the Health and Financial posts. Compliments and thanks to Peter Scovil and Hazel Andrews for their work in selecting and facilitating the application process for this year's applicant for the Project Service to Others grant, the Silver Lake Rowing Club. We all appreciate the hours others district members put in on our behalf; Tony Dekeukelaere as Webmaster, Virginia Birnie as head of the Travel Committee and of course Fred Guidolin for this informative newsletter. I want to welcome this year’s new members and thank Kathy Addison and Barb Luchka for stepping into the positions of Secretary and Goodwill Chair. We still need volunteers for the positions of second Vice President and Membership Committee chair. I would encourage you to get involved. It is a nice way to keep in touch with former colleagues and to form friendships with new ones.

Copies of Readin’, Ritin’ and Rithmetic can be found at our local Norfolk County libraries. The book begins with a rather surprising welcome for Mr. Frank Cook, School Inspector, moving his way along the rows at SS#9 Egypt. Hilarious!

Keith Quigg Finds Our Schools (and Their Stories!) Alfred Guidolin Trust the sharp eye and mind of Keith Quigg to answer our big question from last issue… “Where Have All Our Schools Gone?” Faithful readers will recall how I had lamented the continuing closures of our smaller and older Norfolk schools and the associated loss of the stories and memories they held. To my very pleasant surprise, I found a copy of Readin’, Ritin’, and Rithmetic in Rural Ontario in my mail slot with a note from Keith. He and Jean Church had complied “a history of educational development in Ontario’s Old Windham Township 1791-1969.” In the Appreciation page Jean wrote, This book is in memory of the dedication of many of the teachers, trustees, and inspectors and their diligent work to improve education and the facilities for the children of Windham Township. At the end of the preface, Keith stated, After having read this book, it is hoped that the information and the anecdotal wanderings contained herein will provide the reader with a light-hearted perspective with which to use in evaluating the status of today’s school systems and living styles. The book will serve as an interesting look back into the days “When You and I Were Young, Maggie!” If our readers find other such treasures about our local schools, please let us know as they can be featured articles in our upcoming Prime Time issues.

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Travel Report Virginia Birnie Early in January, with the help of Betty Chanyi and Theresa Cullimore, Nancy Smiley and I stuffed 500 envelopes with the 2010 RTO Travel brochures which were then sent to our members of Norfolk RTO. It was decided at an Executive meeting in the fall of 2009 that a flyer announcing the dates of the Spring and Fall Luncheon would be included with the mailing to give our retirees the chance to mark the dates on their calendars early in the year with the hope that the information would reach the snowbirds prior to them leaving for the winter. We hope that this did help with your spring and fall planning as your executive is hoping to see you at these events. Three trips have been planned for this year’s travel schedule. I book the tickets for the productions early in January in order to get the best selection of orchestra seating available for group purchase. This of course, means that we must make down payments for the tickets eight weeks in advance of the production. This is the reason for our request to you for advance payment so far ahead of the departure date. Although the cost is higher, we have also made the decision to use a luxury coach with an onboard washroom, and to travel in the pleasant weather of the spring/summer season. Grease, Canon Theatre Toronto Our trip to see Grease produced by Mirvish Productions at the Canon Theatre in Toronto on April 8 will have taken place by the time you receive this newsletter. We did not have a full bus. Unfortunately, 13 tickets were not spoken for and refunds are not given.

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Walters Family Anniversary Show Our second trip is to The Walters Family Theatre to enjoy a buffet lunch and the Walters Family Anniversary Show on Monday May 31, a show with fiddling, comedies and great harmonies. Our first pick up is in Waterford at 10:30 am with Simcoe and Delhi pickups following as outlined in the brochure you received in the January mailing. Evita, Avon Theatre, Stratford Our third choice is to travel to the Avon Theatre, Stratford to see the musical Evita, Friday, June 25. The lyrics for Evita are by Andrew Lloyd Weber. Eva Duarte rises from poverty in rural Argentina to become the wife of the wildly popular President Juan Peron. This blending of the personal with the political in this modern musical theatre paints a dazzling portrait of a woman who helped shape history. We do have several seats available for Evita. Call Virginia Birnie: 519-426-5162. Our first departure is from Waterford Plaza at 9:15 am with subsequent stops in Simcoe and Delhi. We will arrive in Stratford with enough time for you to have lunch prior to the 2:00 pm performance. Nancy and I look forward to seeing you on our trips this spring.

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We remain the only plan for teachers that

is run not-for-profit and has

no age-banded premiums.

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Health Services Report Stu Ross Where we have been? At this time last year, my annual report was full of ominous warnings about H1N1. However, RTO members seem to be a conscientious lot, (they got their swine flu shot), and our Extended Health Care Plan was not financially challenged by the tsunami of claims that might have been expected. This is not to say that our premiums could remain the same, because our plan did run a deficit last year. Where are we now? Notwithstanding the increase in our premiums, our plan continues to offer the most comprehensive coverage for the lowest premiums when compared to competing plans. Perhaps this explains why our plan now has over 67,000 people receiving insurance coverage in one form or another. This number is about 10 times larger than the closest competing plan and includes an annual increase of some several thousand participants. We remain the only plan for teachers that is run not-for-profit and has no age-banded premiums, (All participants pay the same premium regardless of age). For this we should thank the dedicated and highly-trained members that form the Provincial Health Services and Insurance Committee. However, the world of health insurance is dynamic. Last year I referred to a new category of drug that can cost thousands of dollars per month. Any RTO member would quickly consume the $2400 annual limit if they were to avail themselves of one of these biologic drugs. To say that this has caught the attention of the Provincial Committee would be an understatement. They are currently looking at potential changes to the plan that would accommodate coverage for such drugs. However, such a change would likely come with a substantial increase in premiums.

What does the future hold? I expect that I will hear more about ‘catastrophic coverage’, (for such drugs), when I attend the annual District Health Representative workshop this June. Hopefully I will have something more definitive for our fall Prime Time newsletter. Another matter that has concerned some members is the recently-introduced 5 day health coverage extension that can be purchased to add to the 62 days of automatic out-of-country, out-of-province coverage that comes as part of the basic health care package. Unfortunately, this 5 day extension cannot be tacked onto a 15 day extension that can be purchased separately. It can only be used to extend the 62 day basic coverage. This was not the intent when the 5 day option was conceived, but a miscommunication between RTO and Johnson Insurance has produced this wording in the contract. This may be remedied in 2010; we’ll see. In conclusion, may I remind members that money cannot buy the best health care coverage available. Diet, exercise and lifestyle are still the best insurance policy for good health and these are not available from RTO. In that sense, we each write our own insurance policy.

Diet, exercise and lifestyle are still the best insurance policy for good health and these are not available from RTO.

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Last year Clem Wolfer of Delhi, received an Egerton Ryerson Bell award in honour of his twenty-five years of membership in RTO/ERO. Ginger Pullen asked him what made him choose teaching as a career. This was his answer! I hadn’t given teaching any thought until after graduation when I found the world in which I would be living depended on money for survival! A two-week job on a tobacco planter convinced me there had to be a better way to earn a living. A job in a men’s clothing store gave me some spare time to read the Globe and Mail, which appeared in the mail slot daily. I saw there was a shortage of teachers in Canada and five pages of ads invited almost anyone to apply for a teaching position. A high school principal told me that Ontario had one Teachers’ College in Toronto, and that he was certain I would find teaching interesting. I went to Toronto and located the College. While a receptionist gathered the application forms for me, I scanned the bulletin board. There were some rooming houses in the vicinity that were taking deposits for the September session. I was a bit startled by a large warning to proceed with caution since some of these establishments had bedbugs! I didn’t. I knew what bedbugs were, but not in detail. With a trip to a bookstore, I located an illustrated dictionary. It not only described the bug, but also had a picture of one and pointed out that its favourite lunch was human blood. Off I went to find a room and pay my deposit. Five dollars got me a room – sheets would be changed every week, and a lock on the door would keep my few belongings safe. Before I left I did what the bulletin board had advised; I checked for bedbugs. To my horror I found what looked like the picture in the dictionary! I took my suitcase and left, afraid to ask for the return of my deposit.

Clem Wolfer DDSS 1982

A two-week job on a tobacco planter

convinced me there had to be a better

way to earn a living.

I was a bit startled by a

large warning to proceed

with caution since some of

these establishments had bedbugs!

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I priced a hotel room but didn’t want to spend that much for one night in Toronto, so I rode the Queen streetcar from Longbranch to Kingston Road all night catching what sleep I could. In the morning I had a student number at the College, a streetcar ticket and a bus ticket back to Delhi. The bus didn’t leave until 11:30 so I had time to hunt for another place to live. I had much better luck here: the place was clean and smelled of lavender. I accepted a small room on the third floor with a cot, a desk and chest of drawers, which suited my needs. It was three dollars a week. I left them my student number and a twenty dollar deposit. That meant that I would have to wait until I got back to Delhi for something to eat, but that didn’t seem to matter – I was delighted. My last streetcar ticket took me to the bus station on Bay. Though I had no money for lunch I had enough dreams to keep my stomach from growling for a long time. The next day at home I bought a Globe and Mail and phoned a school board that was advertising that it would take applications from students attending Teachers’ College. The job was Latin, all grades. The principal answered my call and asked me to accept the position right then and there. My pay would be twelve two hundred payments – one per month until June when I would receive three paycheques. I was amazed to find I would be making more a week than I would working in the tobacco fields, and young people are far more exciting than tobacco leaves. A bus trip to the school the following week made final all that I had agreed to on the telephone, with one exception. To fill my timetable I would also teach grade 12 English. That principal said there was “lots” they didn’t know, for he had taught them in grade 11. He promised to help set up a course of study for them. What could I say? I left Belle River wondering what I had managed to arrange for my life’s work.

I left Belle River wondering what I had managed to arrange for my life’s work.

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Editor’s Note And how did Clem arrive at the doors of Delhi District Secondary School? Well, that’ll have to wait for another issue of Prime Time!

Rita Kalmbach - Port Dover Board of Trade 2010 Citizen of the Year

Virginia Birnie

My first association with Rita came when we were taking University courses together in the early 1970’s while Rita and I were working towards completing our B.A. We were teaching during the day and were students in the evenings. Emil would bring her dinner to the classroom…my first introduction to Emil….her quiet and supportive husband behind the scenes. Some of you may remember Charo who was an entertainer in the 1970’s. That’s who I thought of when I saw Rita to in our early years together… always a big smile, big hair, high heels, leather suits and lots of gold!!! Rita and I taught for the Norfolk Board of Education and became involved in the provincial FWTAO and local NWTA organizations. Both organizations provided excellent opportunities for Rita to further demonstrate the leadership skills she had first honed as a classroom teacher. Rita continued to use these skills when she decided to leave teaching to enter politics and become councilor for the city of Nanticoke. When Rita decided to run for the position of mayor in the new Norfolk County, long time friends and teaching colleagues, Mary Lou Norman and Karen Anderson Rowell, organized her campaign and helped to rally the network of teaching colleagues along with many other supporters. She was successful in her bid for two successive terms beginning in the year 2000. I was one of her many campaigners who gladly pounded the pavement to distribute leaflets to the constituents in Simcoe.

At the heart and soul of every good community lies the simple and often overlooked premise of connection. During her years as Mayor of Norfolk County, Rita knew the importance of the human connection and reached out to people with a personal touch, sending handwritten notes and words of encouragement… imagine – hand written notes! - long before email, Facebook and Twitter were available for instant communication.

She spent many evenings and Saturday and Sunday afternoons meeting the people of Norfolk, participating in events that showcased the unique and varied aspects of Norfolk County to continually promote that sense of community.

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Early in her tenure as Mayor, Rita and Emil - as part of the Norfolk County delegation - went to China to investigate the possibility of twinning the city of Dongtai with Norfolk County. This visit was instrumental in bringing a variety of Chinese programs to our area. Rita, as Mayor, provided the official support for the Chinese programs and many members of the Port Dover community took the visiting teachers into their lives, homes and churches in a manner no larger community could ever consider doing. I was one of the many people involved with these programs and events to show the Chinese teachers the wonders of Norfolk County ... Bird Studies Canada, Norfolk museums, early architecture and the beautiful landscape of Long Point. Rita welcomed the Chinese teachers to the Mayor’s office at our request, and gave them a tour of the Mayor’s chambers. This access to governmental offices was an unprecedented experience for them, and contributed further to establishing that important human connection. John Wallace, a former Principal of Port Dover Composite School, and leader of the Chinese programs in this community asked me to convey a very big thank you to Rita from the ‘hearts and minds in China’ of those who have been touched by her. Another organization Rita enjoyed was the Canadian Federation of University Women - Norfolk. In 2003, Rita was named as an honorary local member of the Canadian Federation of University Women - Norfolk. The focus of the club is the pursuit of knowledge, the promotion of education, the improvement of the status of women and girls and active participation in public affairs. Rita’s educational and political careers have included all these traits. No description of who Rita is and what she has accomplished is complete without more about Emil, her husband. From the beginning of their time together Emil was “the wind beneath her wings” and her strongest supporter. He was always there for her as she confidently completed the duties required of her by the office of councilor of Nanticoke, as Mayor of Nanticoke and finally as Mayor of Norfolk County.

Excerpts from Virginia Birnie’s address to the Port Dover Board of Trade Citizen of the Year Dinner, March 31, 2010

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Gladys E. Todd introduced by Melanie Douglas It is my pleasure to introduce Gladys Todd to you as she receives this award. Gladys lives in Nova Scotia now, about thirty minutes south of Peggy’s Cove, in a home over-looking the Atlantic Ocean. She moved there nine years ago after the death of her husband, Charlie. In speaking with Gladys, she asked me not to give a flowery speech. She did say that after twenty-five years of retirement, she is happy to be active in mind, if not in body. She has appreciated receiving the local RTO newsletters, Prime Time, with the familiar names of those teachers and colleagues still busy organizing events and keeping people in touch with each other.

Gladys was the librarian at SCS. She is amazed by the tremendous changes that technology has wrought in the last twenty-five years with regards to book publishing. We talked about ’Kindle’, Amazon’s new e-book, and books published on-line with small videos embedded in them. She hopes that books as we know them will never be completely replaced, but for many, she knows that carrying books will become a thing of the past. That’s a shame for someone like Gladys, who still buys and reads most of the current books.

Gladys is my go-to person to find out what’s out there that’s interesting to read. She recently recommended a book by Barak Obama to me, which I am presently enjoying. She also reads the Globe and Mail, front to back, every day.

Gladys has been my friend for over twenty-five years, and I am constantly delighted by her positive take on life, her intelligence and her wit. Please join me in wishing her good health and happiness, as she accepts the Egerton Ryerson Bell. And on her behalf, thank you,

Mary Antoniolli presents The Egerton Ryerson Bell Award to Melanie Douglas for Gladys Todd

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Evelyn Tummon-Deacon Introduced by Nancy Baldock We are from a family of teachers. Our sister Sally taught at SCS in the early 60's, and after teaching in Toronto for seven years, I spent the next twenty-six years supply teaching in Norfolk. Evie taught eighteeen years in Toronto before returning to Simcoe in 1984 after the death of her first husband. The majority of Evie’s teaching years was at Northern Secondary School at Eglington and Mount Pleasant. She and her husband team-taught vocal music with a unique method unlike any other in the Toronto board. At Northern, vocal music was scheduled every period and students from grades 9 to 13 slotted themselves into whatever music period was available to suit their timetable. As a result, the classes were made up on average of 50 to 70 students from all grades! It was strictly a practical vocal training class with no history or theory. Evie and her husband taught in the auditorium, back to back, each with a grand piano in front of them, Evie facing the girls, Bill facing the boys. These kids learned what it was to make great notes using their diaphragms!! Many of their students continued in music education or became involved in the music entertainment field. Every year, their total of 300+ students would perform at Massey Hall in a concert fund-raiser called ‘Youth Helping Youth’. Evie has three children, two of whom are also teachers, one with the Peel Board and one in North York. Since returning to Simcoe, music continues to be a major part of Evie’s life. Her ability to conduct and arrange choirs brings joy to herself and those who sing for her. For about ten years she has led a group of fifty young singers ages 4 to 12 years called the ‘Tummon Troupers’. They sang with actions and looked great in their red long skirts, white tops and red cummerbunds for the boys! Evie married retired neonatologist, John Deacon, in 1994 and they became very involved in barbershop singing. She was the creator and first director of the ‘Carillon Belles’ in Simcoe. She also sang and arranged music for a female quartet called ‘The Lollipops’ (who performed at this luncheon a few years ago) and presently she conducts a happy group of retired gentlemen on Thursday afternoons, in which John is a performer and co-arranger. So thanks for sharing your musical talent, Evie, with young and old, and thanks for giving me the opportunity to introduce you today as a recipient of the Egerton Ryerson Bell. We wish you continued happiness in your retirement!

Evelyn Tummon Deacon and Nancy Baldock

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Genevra Campbell Introduced by Rose Pettit Genevra, or DeeDee, and her twin sister Georgina, or Dodie, were born in Otterville, where their father was the station agent. When they were ten, he was transferred to Port Dover, where the girls continued their schooling at Port Dover PS and then the high school. DeeDee did her grade 13 in Simcoe. Having decided to become a teacher, DeeDee attended Hamilton Normal School, where she boarded nearby. Teachers were badly needed at home, so she taught for two years at PDPS. Her husband-to-be, Colin Campbell, returned from WW II where he had spent six years in Europe, England and Italy. He was mighty happy to sip a cup of tea in DeeDee’s parents’ English home farm. DeeDee and Colin were married in 1946. They lived in Simcoe until Colin became the CNR station agent in Port Dover, where Colin’s dad built them a new house. And along came a son and a daughter. Although he learned no French in class, Colin remembers the teacher, Miss Napp, who intercepted his ‘Je vous aime’ note to DeeDee and then made him sit beside her. He thinks this must have been his plan all along! In 1954 DeeDee began to teach grades 3-4 at North School for Les Fairbairn. While teaching, she earned her BA from Waterloo University, taking courses on weekends and in the summer. As a librarian, DeeDee needed a typewriter from the office, so finally Mr. Fairbairn relented and gave her one. The female students all wanted to ‘help’ Mrs. Campbell so that they could use that typewriter. Today, each of them would have their own computer! In the last five years of her career, DeeDee taught special education. Then, after twenty-eight years, she retired in 1974. DeeDee believes that RTO unites all teachers and helps build good leaders in our community. She mentioned how proud she was of the late Mary Lou Norman. DeeDee and Colin have just finished eleven years of volunteer work at the Norfolk General Hospital. They now live in the Victoria Street condos, after thirteen years on the Harmony Road. Congratulations DeeDee on your twenty-five wonderful years of retirement, and here’s to many more!

Rose Pettit and DeeDee Campbell

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NORFOLK DISTRICT 12 SPRING LUNCHEON

Wednesday May 5, 2010

Vittoria Community Centre Catered by Ruth Reimer

11:30 am Social 12:00 noon Luncheon

* Grandma’s Favourite Chicken

Braided Bread Vegetables Apple Juice

Buffet Desserts Coffee & Tea

* 1:00 pm Musical Interlude with Dave Garner 1:30 pm Committee Updates & Questions

Cost $15

RSVP to GINGER PULLEN by May 1, 2010 78 First Ave.

Delhi, ON N4B 1G3

519-582-2661 pullenging@yahoo.ca

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These drugs can cost thousands of dollars per month and can leave some of our members with very real and impossible decisions to make.

Musings On Our Health Services Stu Ross Occasionally I get the urge to wax philosophical on matters pertaining to our health insurance. Usually I am able to overcome this urge, but on this occasion I must warn the reader that I have failed. Insurance is not usually a hotbed of moral dilemma; however there is one fundamental issue that needs examination. When Marco Polo first brought the concept of insurance from the Orient, the basic tenant was that by having each member of a large group contributing a small amount, a fund could be established that would mediate a calamity that might befall any one unlucky member of that group. It was sort of a lottery of the unlucky. The residuals of that concept remain today in our policies for house insurance. However, health insurance has strayed from that tenant. The assumption underlying current health care insurance is that we are all going to be unlucky at some point and need financial assistance. The group cannot afford an unlimited number of claims for unlimited sums, so percentage payouts, conditional benefits and annual maxima were introduced. This means that health insurance has made most of us winners of that lottery, but in the process has reduced our protection from a serious or unusual disaster. Our annual drug benefit, for example, maxes out at $2400; enough to make some difference, but hardly enough to pay for a catastrophic drug bill. A new type of drug called ‘biologics’ is increasingly available to treat conditions such as cancer and arthritis. These drugs can cost thousands of dollars per month and can leave some of our members with very real and impossible decisions to make. “Should I just live out my remaining days and conserve my financial resources, or should I sell my house and buy the drugs that my health plan cannot pay for?” Morbidity and the loss of one’s residence were among the disasters for which insurance was originally conceived. So, to provide small benefits to a large number of lottery winners, we have gone back to the days when the big loser suffers a catastrophe.

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So, what can be done? The provincial HS&IC, (Health Services and Insurance Committee) is looking at the possibility of offering ‘catastrophic’ drug coverage. But it is not a simple option. Should it be a compulsory part of the plan, or should it be an optional add-on? Can the claim costs be accurately projected, for if not the financial stability of our plan could be jeopardized? Do we need a minimum level of subscription, to spread the risk over a large enough population to keep claims within the bounds of statistical projection? These are the questions that the HS&IC are grappling with currently. They have been at it for over a year now, so one hopes that something will fall out soon, perhaps by the time I attend the annual District Health Rep. Workshop in June. Time will tell, and when it does, I will tell you. Read your Prime Time! Oh … And thank you for obliging me in these musings. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT Mary Antoniolli By the time you read this, the committee will have polled Norfolk schools for prospective retirees and new members to RTO. We hope we have all the names, but please call me or someone on the committee if you know someone who is retiring this June. At present, we have 512 full members and 59 associate members in District 12 Norfolk. RTO has broadened its member base to include other people who have worked in the education system. If you know any secretaries, custodians, bus drivers or child support workers who are considering retirement, please make them aware that they may become members of RTO too. This year’s RTO/ERO information meeting for prospective members will be held locally in the Muriel Bridge Room at St. James United Church in Simcoe, from 4:00 to 5:00 pm on Wednesday April 28th This is an excellent opportunity to learn about what our organization has to offer, and to have any questions answered regarding membership, fees, travel, health plans and political advocacy.

For more information or names that may have been missed please contact me, Mary Antoniolli, at 519-443-5858 or rayantoniolli@yahoo.ca

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District 12 Norfolk Consolidated Financial Statement

for the Period January 1- December 31, 2009

2009 2008 Assets at January 1 $ 3604.59 $ 2473.49 General Ledger Balance Investments Other Assets Total Assets 3604.59 2473.49 Revenue Grants Annual 11,169.00 10,697.00 Bilingual Services Project – Service to Others 4000.00 Retirement Planning Workshops Donation 100.00 Interest on Bank Balance and Investments Other - Meals 2304.00 2415.00 Total Revenue 13,513.00 17,112.00 Total Assets and Revenue 17,177.59 19,585.49 Expenses District Goodwill 200.00 Bilingual Services Project - Service to Others 4000.00 Recruitment Meetings Executive 20.44 333.15 District 4046.80 4299.83 Senate 2730.17 2277.58 Newsletter (mailings, printing, postage) 2967.87 4009.89 Office Expenses (bank charges, faxes, photocopies, stamps, stationary, telephone etc.)

252.24 406.75

Retiree Receptions Retirement Planning Workshops Transportation Website 252.00 252.00 Unit Grants Other Expenses (Travel Committee) 2500.00 Total Expenses 12,869.52 15,980.90 Assets at December 31 General Ledger Balance 4308.07 3604.59 Investments Other Assets Total Assets 4308.07 3604.59

$ubmitted by Don Gardner

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March 15

Fall Issue August 15

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Norfolk District 12 Directory DISTRICT EXECUTIVE 2009-2010 President Ginger Pullen 582-2661 Past President Beth Wheatley 426-8480 Vice-President Mary Antoniolli 443-5858 Secretary Kathy Addison 446 1830 Treasurer Don Gardner 426-2381 DISTRICT BOARD (Includes District Executive, Committee Chairs, Newsletter Editor, Provincial Officers, and others as needed) COMMITTEE CHAIRS Archives Diana Moir 583-0225 Goodwill Barb Luchka 428 6346 Health Services Stuart Ross 586-7681 Membership Mary Antoniolli (acting) 443-5858 Newsletter Fred Guidolin 582-2945 Pension Concerns Peter Wheatley 426-1905 Political Advocacy Doug Thompson 426-1063 Project Service To Others Peter Scovil 443-7297 Travel Virginia Birnie 426-5162 Webmaster Tony Dekeukelaere 426-3541 DIRECTORS Jack Beamer 428-1537 Howard Clark 426-1605 Muriel Dennis 586-7418 Sandy Honsberger 426-9478 GOODWILL COMMITTEE Mary Frances Bergen 429-3639 Cynthia Burroughs 443-8753 Ella Eecloo 582-0575 Rose Pettit 582-1274 MaryAnne MacDonald 426-9636 Nina Robinson 586-2494 Donna Woodcock 428-4031

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Norfolk District 12 Directory MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Sheila Evans 583-3094 Margie Ridzon 582-3952 Jo Anne Barber 426-4496 Mary Antoniolli 443-5858 POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Lee Buffin 583-0429 Howard Clark 426-1605 Donna Hudson 443-5354 Andy Putoczki 582-1952 COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE Rose Pettit 582-1274 TRAVEL COMMITTEE Nancy Smiley 426-2847 PROJECT SERVICE TO OTHERS Muriel Dennis 586-7418 Hazel Andrews 428-0551 David Walker 426-3834 ARCHIVES Diana Moir 583-0225 Emergency Funds The Provincial RTO/ERO provides financial assistance for members who are in dire financial need. Applications may be obtained from Pauline Duquette-Newman at the provincial office (1 800 361 9888). This is done in the strictest confidence. Each case is numbered and any reference to the case is by number. It is important to understand that only those members who prove to be in dire need will be granted funds. This is not a loan. There is no expectation of repayment. This is not considered as earned income and is not to be declared as a taxable income on your yearly tax return. Often the situation can be resolved with assistance other than financial.

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Alfred Guidolin 36 Melody Drive

Delhi, Ontario N4B 3E1

519 582 2945

alfredguidolin@

sympatico.ca

Norfolk District 12 RTO/ERO Website If you have news or photos for our website relating to the activities of retired educators in Norfolk, please contact our webmaster, Tony Dekeukelaere at 519 426 3541 or email him at rembrandt@kwic.com Our webpage can be found at norfolkrto-ero.on.ca You’ll also be able to view this newsletter there as well as finding many other useful links.