The GlenEcho Spring 2019 A newsmagazine for the residents of Antrim Glen Advertising 22 Thank you to our wonderful Antrim Glen AG Tour Group 11 community for your participation at the Apiyuri Bee Farm 16 March 5th Shrove Tuesday Pancake Board Communication 12 Supper! Ninety-three of us sat down to a Bulletin Board Advertising 17 dinner of pancakes, sausages, peameal Cattitude 10 bacon and fruit to celebrate Shrove Coffee with the Board 3 Tuesday and enjoy the company of our Cooks’ Corner 18 fellow neighbours. Good food and good fun Emergency Planning Committee 8 had by all! Maria Content Euchre Groups 21 Events Near Here 13 Flamborough Food Bank 19 Gardening 6 Just Two Kids 15 Maria & Ron Content Meet Your Neighbour – Two of the cooks Friedrich & Ulrike Bieler 14 Milestones 4 Wayne Heffernan & New Residents 2 John Foley Pat’s Ponderings 2 The Carvers People News 8 Shrove Tuesday Dinner 1 Soup Day 5 St. Patrick’s Day 36 Thoughtful Neighbours 20 Travelling your Roots 9 Trivia & Pub Night 7 Insert Page 1 Upcoming Events Pages 2-4 Activities & Events Calendar Page 5 Contact Information 1 Glen Echo Roster gardens, clearing out spaces for the irises, rock cress, and creeping phlox to spread their cheer. Editor Emeritus Lynda McKenzie Managing Editor Pat Massier 289 679-0120 We will soon be able to get back on the golf course, out Design & Layout Beryl Cooper to the horseshoe pits, and into the pool. We have such Advertising Jo-Anne Burns 905 635-3704 beautiful spring, summer, and fall days here in southern Secretary Katherine Horak Ontario, it almost makes winter bearable. Reporter Faye Heffernan Pat Massier Photographer Frank Burgess Editor’s Note: We welcome articles and photographs. Send Photographer & Proof reader Brian Massier them to [email protected]. Submissions may be Home Delivery Milt Paczay edited for clarity, style, general interest, and space. Deadline for submission of articles for the Summer Issue of The Glen Echo is June 15, 2019. Pat’s Ponderings DISCLAIMER: The Antrim Glen Homeowners’ Association is not responsible or liable for any damages resulting from any article, photograph, opinion, I was cataloguing the contents of the statement, advertising representation, warranty expressed or implied in this publication, nor do we endorse or recommend any products or services past issues of the Glen Echo which mentioned or illustrated herein. Any opinions are solely those of the writer or brought me to the very first one – The advertiser and do not necessarily reflect the opinion, judgement, or policy of Antrim Monitor, Spring 2002. Carol Clark the Antrim Glen Homeowners Association. No reproduction of the material included in The Glen Echo is allowed without the expressed written consent of and Ernie Brook were the editors and the Editors. Norm Lindars, the publisher. The lead story for this four-page black Welcome New Residents and white publication was about the design and planning of the Recreation Centre. Events were held, for the most part, outside the community but … the Community Garage Sale was scheduled for May 11 and the annual BBQ at the Big Pond on June 1. There were 22 residents mentioned in this newsletter and some still live here, 17 years later – Lynn and Brenda Groves, Joanne Harkness, Brenda McGaughey, and Michelle and Ron Smith. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This Spring 2019 issue is our 69th, 68th under the Glen Echo banner. Lorna Bibeau was the winner for suggesting the name in 2002. Guy and Wilma Hawkshaw live at 168 Glenariff. They How different this issue is from the first one! both have lived in the area their whole lives. They have two girls and one granddaughter. Guy works at Home Jo-Anne Burns did a great job with the upgrading of so Depot Cambridge and Wilma works for Pepsi. many of our advertisers to colour. This means that all 36 pages of this issue have colour and all pages in future issues will have colour. The move to colour increases our revenue per issue which increases our financial contribution to the AGHA. Please support our advertisers as they certainly support Antrim Glen. This winter seemed to be surprisingly short. Don’t know why. Perhaps it was the above normal temperatures once in a while, like the +11C on January 1 and the few very cold days like the -16C on January 30. In any event, spring weather is just around the corner. Soon the crocuses, tulips, and daffodils will be showing their beautiful colours all around Antrim Glen and people will be busy in their 2 February 2, 2019 Coffee with the AGHA Board A good turnout of over 100 members of the AGHA gathered on Saturday morning in the Glen. Joe Jagodich (pictured below left) is the Property Manager for Parkbridge, looking after us at Antrim Glen, Beverly Hills, Martin Grove Village near Waterloo, and Tecumseh Pines near Orangeville. These are only four of the approximately 115 land lease communities owned and managed by Parkbridge, who is the leading owner, operator, and developer of land lease communities in Canada. Joe Jagodich and Christina Valentini, Property Administrator, spoke honestly and effectively about changes in our community and answered questions posed by those attending. Some of the areas that were covered: • Rent Control – There has been an application by Parkbridge for a 1.3%, one-time additional increase, above the 1.8% allowed for 2019. If the application will be heard, the AGHA will receive a copy of the application at least 30 days before the hearing date. This will be made available to members. • Terms contained in leases signed before January 1, 2019 will be honoured and grandfathered. New leases will not offer snow removal or lawn cutting in the maintenance package. New tenants can contract with a private service, sourced by Parkbridge. Properties not maintained in accordance with Parkbridge’s guidelines will be dealt with by Parkbridge management. • There is a Reserve or Maintenance Fund for upgrades and repairs. The AGHA has a copy of this report. • Water meters will be installed in all homes at Parkbridge’s cost before a house is sold. Future tenants will have the meters read and be charged at the rate in force by the City of Hamilton for sewer and water. • The well is servicing the demand for water well within its capacity and any restrictions put in place by the City of Hamilton as to water use are followed. • As there are so many different leases in place, at the end of the meeting, the Board and the Parkbridge staff took questions pertaining to specific concerns by individual home owners. In future, both are open to discussing individual concerns, one-on-one. Dave Atwell and Murray Proud 3 Three-quarters of a brought the raging fires directly toward us. We were Century evacuated for three days. We came home to experience no significant damage except for the smoke. But a few days later, the fire came close again and we were put on That sounds like a notice to evacuate upon 30 minutes notice. Thankfully very long time and it the wind shifted, the fire raced over the nearby ridge, is; but it seems to and burned itself out. It was over. have passed in a And somewhere in between, Pat and I experienced an flash. Not that it earthquake while we were near Barstow, California. We hasn’t been fulfilling were stopped on a highway to take scenic photos when or exciting. It actually we heard an explosive sound and felt the ground shake. has been both. I thought it had something to do with mining, but we Spending 43 years in later heard on the radio it was a non-damaging an interesting and earthquake common for that area. transient commercial But the most fulfilling and exciting experience was the banking career is the night I entered the Glen Hall to celebrate what I thought fulfilling part. was someone’s birthday with Antrim Glen residents. In There were lots of addition to friends from Antrim Glen, I saw family and challenges such as moving a family every three years or so friends from Ontario and Alberta singing happy birthday to a new location and settling children in new schools in a to me. What a surprise to celebrate my 75th birthday. new community. I sometimes hear people talk about having I am still puzzled as to how Pat did all this planning in lived in the same house for 25 or 30 years. For me, that is secret, but thank you. hard to imagine. In 43 years of banking, I lived in 16 cities, Brian Massier some of them twice. I have been retired for 14 years and lived in three communities. Even now, after four and a half years in one location, I seem to experience the itch to move Five Generations for the somewhere. I have experienced many exciting events not connected Higginbotham Family - Congratulations with work or retirement. In Winnipeg, I experienced the “Flood of the Century”. Pat and I were driving home from work and saw armoured vehicles loaded with Canadian Army troops that were called in to install sandbags to prevent the downtown from being flooded by the overflowing Red River. In Montreal, I was working at home and Pat was at the office. I saw a flash of lightning and heard the roll of thunder. This was a Friday in early January and that event signalled the start of the Montreal Ice Storm. We had no electricity or heat for five days in downtown Montreal where we lived.