‘THE SENIOR Men’s Club
at North Shore
Neighbourhcod House is
organizing a Fair.

Yep, this coming Friday (Feb. 2)
and you are warmly welcome if
you are a senior man, or if you are
wife to a senior man or if you're a
man who is now age 350 and won-
dering how to handle the approach
to seniorhood. .

Those men who are already
members will be pleased to give
you a run-down on their activities
up to this point, and to tell you
what they do and plan to do about
making this new stage of iife both
interesting and useful.

::. Come around anytime between

11-a.m. and 2 p.m. Lunch is in the

program, so take that into consider-
_ ation when you're planning your
arrival time.

-” I'm going to be there because a
bunch of these club-men are regu-
:lars at my cooking classes a couple
-‘of times a month, and I'm planning
"on having a chat with you about
: food. am aiso plénning to make a
little, something for:you to sample,
‘part of my strateg for luring you

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There's lots of stuff, though,

~ that’s simple to make but tasty, and
when you've turned out a pot of the.

Best Chili In The World all by
yourself it seems to be twice as
tasty. The best part is that you tend
to want to share it, and eating good
stuff with someone can be the
quick road to solid friendship.

Dave Waugh is the Men's Club
organizer, and he and the staff at the
Neighbourhood House have spent a
lot of time hashing over the various
elements they want to emphasize at
this first ever Men’s Fair.

You are at the centre of their

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out what your particular interests
are and in this way broaden and
deepen the purposes of the club.

You understand from that that
the men gather not just for a ran-
dom weekly outing, something to
pass the time, but have real aims at -
establishing a fellowship. The men
I have encountered in my own
classes are all different shapes and
sizes and they start shy, as is to be
expected, but they soon loosen their
buttons and begin to pasticipate on
a comfortable level.

There’s another thing about your
learning’ a little cookery: if there’s
just one dish that you Jearn to make
— shepherd's pie, say, or a stir-fry
~— that effort offers a lovely
prospect to your wife, who can sit
back once in a while and admire
your skills with the grinder and
watch you bending over the hot
stove for a change.

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ing if not broad.
Besides the food thing they

- spend time learning about improv-

ing their health and degree of fit-
ness, sharing interest in each
other's hobbies, some of them are
thinking of writing their life stories
for their children. Because of that
beguiling idea we all went over to

Mike Cramond’s house a couple of :

weeks ago to get some encourage-

ment and advice on that very topic. |

He was a most interesting host and,”
held out very positive prospects. -

Those with serious hobbies talk
about them to the other guys, those
with weight problems find it easier
to be serious about exercise if they
have company in the same boat.

At the Fair, they'll be able to
hear and talk to Dr. Derek'Gellman,
a man informed about the prostate
gland. He can be helpful about the
specific concems of all mien at this
stage of retirement.

S of

There will be other authorities
to talk to about stress, and about
the importance of keeping fit, not
just physically but also keeping up
to date generally in a fascinating
but confusing world. ;

Facing the end of your working
job won't look like a deep dark pit
if you've got a few. ideas about

retirement and its freedoms.

Volunteer work is welcome ina
lot of areas, some of them yours,
but that’s just one alternative.

In my view it’s a sorry waste of
talent and psychic energy when
men retire to sit around and play .
solitaire. They’ve been selling ideas
and products and their knowledge. *
and their muscles and they sudden- :
ly let the whole thing go. - ;

It kills a lot of them.

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