2016 September/October meeting highlights

 

Location: Banbury Center
Date: Sunday October 16, 2016

Organizing Committee:

• Judy G.
• Gail & John H.
• Andy N. & Don R.
• Tammy R.
• Ann V.
• Mike Y.

Our September meeting, due to club house roof repair, was changed to a date in October.   That move inadvertently gave everyone a greater sense of excitement and anticipation as Halloween was just around the corner.   Fittingly, the meeting was centered around this well celebrated festival.

1. Halloween display contest
   • the rule was simple: each display must contain a Department 56 village building or accessory or Snowbaby plus either black cat(s), pumpkin(s) and/or ghostly figure(s)
   • as usual, our members met the challenge head on and came up with fantastic ideas
2. Halloween trivia
   • Judy came up 20 tough trivia questions about Halloween and its traditions
   
   
3. “Who did that job?”
   • Don hosted a “getting to know your fellow member” game where club members wrote down a short description of a job he/she currently hold or held in the past which no one in the club would know about and everyone else tried to identify the person
   • this turned out to be quite a lot of fun – little did we realize that our club members are as diverse as the jobs they held
   • here are just a few examples: a surveyor for the Ontario Department of Highways, a textile factory worker, a (rubber goods) stripper,  a top 40 radio station DJ, a Correctional Services officer, a legal secretary, a radio moose collar tester, a bicycle courier, a medical laboratory technologist, etc
   
   
4. Halloween cookie decoration