Where Age Doesn’t Keep Us From Thinking Young!

Please find following the notice of the general meeting of Probus club of Collingwood on Thurs. March 2, 2023

Earlier start time on March 2: Please note that due to the requirements of our Speaker, our meeting on Thursday, March 2, 2023 will start at 9:45 AM (rather than the usual 10:00 AM start). We will still be having social time for coffee and conversation from 9 AM to 9:45 AM. Please synchronize your watches, as they say in the spy movies. Of course, we are still at the Collingwood Legion.

Health and Welfare Alert:

As you are no doubt aware, Covid remains a serious health threat, particularly for our demographic. Therefore, we recommend:

General and Continuing Covid precautions :
- please stay home if feeling unwell.
– we request, and recommend that members wear a mask in common areas and while moving about the Legio. Once seated, eating or drinking, masks may be removed.
- Try to maintain social distancing (6 feet apart) at our meetings. Your friends will thank you for avoiding intimacy.

March Speaker:
Our March Speaker is Ted Barris. Mr. Barris is a Canadian writer, journalist, professor and broadcaster. He is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail and the National Post. His nonfiction works focus on Canada's military heritage, including his most recent, "Battle of the Atlantic" which he will be discussing with us.

Terry Billo
Past President

Meeting begins at 09:45

Please see Speakers Page

On Dec. 29, 2022, the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, announced 99 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including Ted Barris, C.M., “For advancing our understanding of Canadian military history as an acclaimed historical author, journalist and broadcaster.” Ted’s father, Alex Barris, was also appointed Member of the Order in 1998.