Bulletin February 2013

ere is YOUR Servas Canada newslett er. If you would like to be an editor or a trans- lator or submit something, please contact me. I have summarized some items in bold, followed by details for the more curious, as I did in the last issue, Feb. 2011. Suggested names for our newsletter included: Airborne,H Gazett e and Share. Please tell me if you prefer one of those to Bulleti ,n which means “news report” in both offi cial languages. For more details on any internati onal item, go to www.servas.org and click on “Latest SI Newslett er”. Please tell me how this could be a bett er publicati on. Thank you, —Michael Johnson, editor, Cambridge Ontario Show your travellers local sites when possible. Michael (left) with good Munich friends Sibylle and Bert, at the West Montrose "kissing" bridge.

• • • • • February 2013 • 1 • What's up in Servas Canada 5

3 Our new Leader: Julie 3 4 Know Your Board 6 Valuable Volunteers 8 6 Host feedback and meetings 8 Host to Host 7 9 Youth 9 10 Around the World 10 12 Travel Tales 13 Get involved and Help 13 2012 GA decisions 11 14 Retired & Remembered 15 Financial Report 12

Servas Canada is on DID YOU KNOW? facebook! Let‛s use it to share • Servas hosts in 100 countries are just an email away? stories, tips and photos from • There are Servas meeti ngs all over our experiences as travelers the world that you can att end? and hosts, and to promote our • Servas members of any age can apply for extended stays to learn a lan- region as a place for people to visit. It can guage, get into volunteer projects or be a great way to get to know each other, learn about a special interest? and for non-Canadians to learn about us. • You can make lasti ng friendships through Servas?

• 2 • Servas Canada News • • • • • New National Secretary By Julie Dotsch

Dear Servas Friends, Traveler Numbers Are Down Although the number of trav- Thanks elers coming to Canada has gone down, we hope to develop new initiatives to encourage more Good wishes for the new year. travel between Canadian Servas hosts. We also hope to increase The Servas Canada Board is a the number of new Canadian group of committ ed volunteers travelers who join Servas. We have who help with the operati on of seen how Servas enriches our lives Servas Canada. and want to share it with others. There are also dozens of Servas Perhaps you know someone who volunteers across the country who would enjoy becoming a Servas help make Servas exchanges pos- traveler. sible, not only for Canadians but for all the visitors who come to Canada. Thank you to all these volun- New Board Getting Involved teers for their work. Without their There are many ways for you help there would be no Servas in All Servas Canada members to become involved in Servas. Canada. were invited to put their names You can contact any of the Board We would like to thank Michael forward for a board position. members to off er your suggesti ons Silbert, (our outgoing national The nominati ng committ ee then or ideas, you can create or join secretary), for his leadership and recruited nominees. With four a local group to promote Servas commitment to Servas. positi ons opening up, and four in your community or you can We also thank outgoing Board nominees willing to accept the individually tell others about it. members: positi on, all the nominees were Relati ng an interesti ng Servas visit • Claude Lefrancois, acclaimed to create a board of lets others see how enjoyable the • Treasurer Elizabeth Sebestyen, nine, which is the board’s maxi- experience can be. • Host Coordinator Michele mum. Claude has since reti red. You can also become involved Doctoroff , The new board members were in one of the Servas committ ees • Youth Representative Sarena oriented to their positi ons and either within Canada or interna- Talbot and parti cipated in the last conference ti onally. When someone taps you • Sharon Bool, for their call board meeti ng in 2012. on the shoulder to do a task, just contributi ons. say “yes”!

• • • • • February 2013 • 3 • Get to know your Board...

Julie Dotsch, National Secretary Chris Brennan When I’m not singing in choirs, playing I spend my winters in tennis or canoe- Charlott etown and summers at the ing, I enjoy shore in Launching, PEI. I’ve been watching sun- a Servas host since 1991 and a far sets on the lake too infrequent traveler. Looming outside my door retirement may just provide the with friends and sort of impetus to deal with that family. I was so lack of travel. In the meanti me, I lucky to join enjoy having the world in the form Servas in 1981. of Servas travelers and others, who Over the years come through my door. I have traveled, hosted and Judy Bartel interviewed Servas members. I am also quite involved with Servas Internati onal and currently I’ve been a Servas host for nearly I chair the SI Confl ict Resoluti on Committ ee. 30 years, and hosted many visitors As Deputy Nati onal Secretary I have had a through SERVAS and other hosti ng chance to work with great Board members. programs. Since reti ring from adminis- trati ve work at a Community College in Brandon, Manitoba, I have been acti ve Alison Reid, Treasurer in boards and other volunteer work, I live in a small gardening in summer, and trying hard co-housing com- to fi t in some exercise and travel. munity just outside Cross Cultural understanding has Whitehorse, Yukon. been an abiding interest, which I I have been a have explored through hosti ng, travel, Servas host for and language study, and by producing 8 years, with an culture-related programs for campus and community radio. average of one guest family per Myrna (Cubrt) Navabi, Peace Secretary year, mostly from Europe. This is I am retired from business but my second year conti nue to work as an ESL educator. as treasurer. I’m I am a graduate of U of A (BA ‘66, Dip. a reti red accoun- Ed. ‘68) and of McMaster (MBA ‘77). tant, now enjoying Presently I volunteer as a mentor and my garden, horse, local trails and lifestyle. I tutor to new Canadians and some- recently visited my daughter who is at uni- ti mes I teach. Other acti viti es include: versity in Montreal, where I also stayed with choral singing, reading, community many lovely Servas hosts. involvement, cooking and entertaining.

• 4 • Servas Canada News • • • • • My husband and I have been both Sara Lippman Walsh Suzanne Stirling, Youth Contact hosts (Ontario & BC) and travel- I live in rural PEI on an organic I am a third-generation Servas lers for 20 years. We’ve especially fruit and vegetable farm, which I member, first travelling with my enjoyed Servas hospitality in Japan, manage with Ron, my husband. parents when I was twelve. It was Turkey and Italy. In Canada, we’ve a great way to meet kids my age travelled coast-to-coast. throughout Europe and I was left I particularly enjoy cultural with a desire to know more of the exchanges with people of dif- world. ferent backgrounds. I feel that Servas is a wonderful organiza- ti on that promotes a very eff ecti ve way of bringing diverse cultures together and contributi ng to greater understanding between nations.

Sandy Yudin, Deputy Nat. Sec., and Host List Distributor I learned about Servas while stay- ing with a host in Australia and have I am a reti red teacher and Servas been involved since 1975. Starti ng member for 20 years. I am also a as a Toronto host I then graduated weaver and texti le arti st, with three to Toronto host coordinator. When daughters and two grandchildren. the fi rst Servas Canada Board was Most recently I enjoyed the hospital- formed in the 1980s, I became ity of several Mexican Servas Hosts. a member before “temporarily” I bring to the Board my skills as a assuming the job of foreign host teacher, mother, craft sperson and list coordinator (the job I sti ll have business owner. today). I now have a degree in Hispanic While living in Toronto Studies and have lived abroad in Norm and I had Servas Mexico and Spain as part of my edu- visitors constantly; since cati on. I am 27 and just back from moving to Bracebridge, a fi ve-month bicycle trip down the fewer. I keep busy running Pacifi c Coast from BC to Mexico. I our Bed & Breakfast and am am now moving to Montreal to study involved with our local alter- French. This summer I was fortunate native cinema. Norm, our enough to parti cipate in the SERVAS Board recording secretary, Internati onal Conference in Poland, spends his time helping to where I met Servas youth from all look after Ontario’s fresh over the world. They were very water and being a Prof at inspiring and I hope to bring that Toronto’s York University. energy to Servas youth in Canada! We both enjoy the woods, walking our dog and smaller- town life.

• • • • • February 2013 • 5 • Valuable Host feedback and meetings: Volunteers Would you like to offer your services? We can always use good help. Contact: Canada “at” servas. org. (We avoid using the @ sign, to reduce SPAM.) These wonderful people, who make Servas Canada run well, deserve our praise... Our Board members (previously profi led) and ... 1. Host List Producti on team: • Penny Patti son – nati onal host coordinator • Jim Leask - Data base guru Couchsurfers A door opened by Servas • Bill Feyrer - host list layout and By Micki Sti rling, host & traveller, Victoria, BC • Gerry Staring - list producti on/ Hospitality Club [Editor’s Note: Jan. 24, 2013 I visited Micki, distributi on are Free mother of Board member, Suzanne Sti rling.] • Ted Haymond - Host Consent By Ilania Abileah, Pursuing a dream of becoming 2. Alvaro Barba, Web master Servas Canada host bilingual, I spent 3 1/2 weeks in 3. Mark Hahn and Michael France. I stayed with a new Paris Silbert, technical team In order to visit us, host, Jocelyne. Before leaving, 4. Michael Johnson, News editor the youngsters have she suggested her friend and 5. Sandy Yudin Host List Distributor to pay $50 – a lot for fellow Servas host Maryvonne in eastern Canada and young people. in Britt any. Herman Bakker, Host List I did have young I spent the only two sunny Distributor in western Canada. Servas guests days of my trip at her seaside 6. Translators: Alain Caron, Chantal who joined Servas house. I found a litt le chapel just off the road. The Jolicoeur, Denise Beauchesne, because their parents morning light streaming through the stained glass Ginett e Morneau, Jean-Guy Hamel, are involved in it in windows was a truly magic moment, which I would Marie Lafrance, Mario Leduc, Marion France. The photo have missed if it hadn’t been for the doors opened Copleston, and Odile Jalbert. att ached includes my by Servas and my kind hosts in France. WWOOF guest who Our best wishes to Sylvia spent fi ve weeks with Edmonton interviewer and me, and a couple (former) original Canada Board from France who member, Sylvia Krogh slept two days on my underwent recent couch. surgery and is having I think it is up to treatment for cancer. members to promote Servas. We wish her a fast "The fuel light's on, we're all going to die, we're all complete recovery. going to die. No, wait... it's just the intercom light."

• 6 • Servas Canada News • • • • • Ontario Meeting (Waterloo-London) Our area has two meeti ngs annually. We met May 14 2011 despite the rain. Host, Telfer, led a tour of the area which included a very impressive converted school house.

Back at Telfer’s, we met a young member, Megan, from the USA and Roberta who is applying to join in our area.

Photo of the group at a rain-free moment, including then Nat Sec, Michael Silbert (far left ).

Keeping in Touch Doctors, Any Suggestions? By Dafi Gilad A Servas host overseas wants informati on on immigrati ng to Canada. Being the same age as my twin If you have any suggesti ons for Changxian, the editor will forward them daughters, I quickly connected with to him. He recently wrote: Servas traveller, Jimena, from Uruguay. We would love to spend the rest of our life in Canada. Our impres- She spent several months in Canada, sion is really great ... the landscape, the people, the social and politi cal including over two months with us. state, the rich resources ... all make us feel very positi ve. She then went home, got married and We also hope to work in had a baby. Shown is Jimena with hus- Canada. My wife may fi nd a band Fernando and baby Maite. job as a traditi onal medical doctor (acupuncture and herbal). I may be qualifi ed to do limited clinical work as an ophthalmologist. We may choose to live in Ontario, which has more medical schools. My daugh- ter wants to study medicine. We like Vancouver but house prices are high. Best wishes, Changxian

• • • • • February 2013 • 7 • Host to Host

VISITING OTHER CANADIAN HOSTS By Julie Dotsch Remember the wonderful hosts with whom you made friends when you last traveled? Would you love to host another Servas member visiti ng your area? Canadian Servas hosts do not need a lett er of introducti on to visit other Canadian hosts - just refer to your host listi ng. I have been blessed by visits from wonderful Canadian hosts. We have shared lots of ideas and laughter. Escaping Winter Many hosts like me are waiti ng to welcome you. Servas builds peace By Michael Johnson, Editor through these shared experiences. The predicted high was -16 C on the January day that I thought, “I want to escape winter.” I chose to visit a life-long friend in Victoria, BC. I also got to see Servas hosts. Ex-Nat. Sec., Penny, was sti ll in Cambodia but I met her partner, Chris, who told me about the 2012 Servas GA as well as his career of coaching boxers. > > > Twice I went exploring with a Servas day host. I met 3 other

Servas host families. Two hosts in different homes were fi ddlers. I gladly gave up warm beaches for the warm welcome I received in Canada’s mildest city. Thanks to all my hosts for taking me into your homes and your hearts. ******************************** No ti me to travel far? Check out a local host. Some have become good friends whom we visit regularly. Thanks to Servas.

• 8 • Servas Canada News • • • • • YOUTH Hi there! Do you wish Servas had more youth involvement? Would you like to host a student or study a lan- guage abroad, through Servas? Are you interested in Servas being bett er known in Canada? If you answered yes to any of the above, we would love to hear from you! As Canada’s youth representa- ti ve, I would like to work with other Then I boarded the bus for the Servas members to encourage youth, General Assembly. At fi rst I felt a and people in general, to get more little out of place. Everyone was involved with Servas. Send me an greeti ng old friends and I was new. email and I will get you started. Soon, though, I found ways to help Thanks, Suzanne out and meet people. I joined the suzannesti rling “at” gmail.com. English-Spanish translation team, and helped Malawi representati ve, My View of the General Delemza, write a daily bulleti n. Assembly in Poland Michael Silbert, then Canada’s Nati onal Secretary, introduced the By Suzanne Sti rling, Canada hot topic of ‘The future of Servas’ highlight other differences while What an inspiring experience! with a short skit set three years in bringing people together. Another I started in Warsaw the future. It featured highlight was river kayaking. As an with a Servas family of a new Servas member experienced paddler, I was paired up three generati ons with (me), talking of join- with a middle-aged Japanese woman loud children, dogs and ing Servas and how who had never paddled before. Her a pet deer, Stephanie. the organization had English was basic but she was brave In ti me, I understood managed to stay true enough to jump into that litt le boat why a peace organiza- to its roots while adapt- with me and soon won me over with tion should hold an ing to new technology. her huge smile and by singing down assembly in Poland. Many people shared the the river, in Japanese! I didn’t grow up with desire to keep Servas By the ti me I left , I was saying any World War II stories. Poland was current. A few were threatened by goodbye to friends. The assem- in the thick of things. 85% of the the proposed changes and they let bly opened my eyes to a ‘world of city of Warsaw was destroyed. Now me know about it! people’ who share a willingness to the immaculate city centre has been High-points of my stay included communicate despite the awkward- beauti fully reconstructed. sharing a dorm room with two smart, ness of cultural diff erences. It was Throughout history, invading interesting girls my age: Vivica, beauti ful. countries have trampled Poland. from Hong Kong, and Lele, from Polish people understand the con- Botswana. Photo top: Michiyo, of Japan, sequences of war as well as peace, Sometimes having so much in sings as she paddles. and healing aft er atrociti es. I was common, like age and gender, can honoured to be hosted by them. • • • • • February 2013 • 9 • Around the World

Many Servas countries post their Canada, Mexico, USA Cameroon news online at: htt p://servas.org/. Conference: June 28-30 2013 Servas Cameroon Election: Here is a sample of what you’ll fi nd Please join us at the Tri-Nati onal December 2012 there. Servas Conference at a beautiful Doctor Rolande Hodel vis- retreat (www.serraretreat.com) in ited Servas Cameroon members. USA: Malibu, California. The theme will She spoke Servas USA has meeti ngs every be Intercultural Experiences, featur- about culture year. For details and to read their ing a keynote speaker. Mexico and related to tour- extensive newslett ers, see: usservas. Canada will tell about Servas in their ism; teaching org. countries, and there will be many human rights; interacti ve workshops. In additi on fundamental to three excellent speakers, we will freedoms; and hear about: Servas International, the environ- Servas Youth and international ment. Dr. Hodel projects. Registration is open to organized the non-members. For this conference, electi ons of the Canadian hosts may request hosti ng Servas Cameroon just before or aft er the conference assisted by several Servas members without an LOI. and government authoriti es. Elected For more informati on, visit: www. were 3 members including Alain Noel usservas.org or call 707-825-1714. Njiokem Nkwatchou as National Secretary. Belgium & Luxemburg Editor’s comment: In looking for Annually we host an autumn a good photo of Dr. Hodel I discov- light bicycle ride or walk and picnic. ered the many wonderful projects Contact: Geoff rey Godin at: Belgium she is involved in. Her photo is from: “at” servas.org. chemistswithoutborders.org.

• 10 • Servas Canada News • • • • • Israel: Big Meeting, April 2-7, 2013 Join us for 6 days at Kibbutz Sde Boker, in the Negev desert, southern Israel. Members will be happy to host you before and aft er the meeti ng.

Film Night, 14 Dec. 2012 Demelza, Nat. Sec. of Malawi, By Paschwa, Demelza’s daughter Tour our small country: runs a very active group. 16 adults and 4 kids att ended.] Contact: israel “at” servas.org. Blood Donors Wall of Fame This was our Christmas get-to- (Editor’s Note: April is a wonderful By 22-year-old Ethel Chavula gether. We talked about Servas and month to visit; average highs across (in the white polka-dot dress) the many SYLE applicants. The fi lm most of Israel are 20 to 25 C.) When I gave blood, the head [The Last King of Scotland], set in nurse was presented with photos Uganda, was about [dictator] Idi and donor testi monials to be dis- Amin and his Scotti sh doctor. First played, and also some books to be we had dinner and then watched. Spain: Camp for Everyone given to everyone who donates in It was quite sad to see this bit of African History. Towards the end Idi Summer Camp for Families and December. [Shown are donors who Amin became very nasty and the fi lm Young People. Moraira-Alicante Aug. each got a paper saying, “I’m a life- says he killed over 30,000 people; an 25 – Sept. 1, 2013 saver.”] Below: Demelza with family and friends. interesti ng fi lm but scary.

South Central West Asia Conference, October 2013. Open for all Servas members. Date: 10-12, Where: October 2013, Lahore- Hostel La Marina, Alicante. Pakistan Theme: Please contact us Interculture and Peace, with before May 15, 2013. workshops about Spanish Cuisine and Registration fee for the Spanish Lessons. You can go: wind- conference is US$120 per surfi ng, scuba diving, kayaking. person (includes 3 days Contact: Susana Martí nez, ser- accommodati on, with 3 vaspresidencia “at” gmail.com. meals a day, plus Lahore site-seeing. For more details: servaspakistan “at” yahoo.com.

• • • • • February 2013 • 11 • I Like New York in June By Michael Johnson This old song ti tle sums up the trip that my wife and I took to New York. No other USA city has even half its popula- ti on. Because New York is so unique, A Tale of Two Hosts, I have some suggestions for Servas TRAVEL TALES travellers. Israel, Sept. 2012 What to expect... by Regine and Tim, Penny Roams Tallahassee, Florida, USA S. E. Asia [This enti re story will soon be Our former Nat. posted at www.servas.org, then Sec. writes: click “SI Newslett ers”. Here are a Jan. 19, 2013: few excerpts…] My niece and I We visited two wonderful are currently in Israeli families … which helped SE Asia. We began us understand Israeli life and the with Cambodia, delicate balance between Jews and the sunset and then sunrise at and Arabs. First hosts were Alon and Angkor Wat – magical. Hosts are few and they get a lot of Inbal. Alon is a ‘sheriff ’ on con- Later in Phnom Penh, we had a travellers, especially in Manhatt an, so stant vigil. Inbal’s dad was killed fascinati ng dinner with Maurits, the they may not have a lot of ti me for you. during the 1967 war. Israeli’s Nat. Sec. and only member of Servas The pace of NYC can be dazzling. Each count ti me much as we do by war Cambodia. host gave us the house key, very handy eras: 6-day, Yom Kippur, Gulf war, We have just spent an amaz- and considerate. etc. Our second hosts were Arie ing 2 days in Hanoi, Vietnam, with Sensati onal Subway... and Mira (below). Mira coun- the National Secretary of Servas New York City has 468 subway sta- sels Holocaust victi ms. The next Vietnam, Nga, and her wonder- ti ons – confusing, yes; convenient, very. day we had a wonderful tour of ful daughters. Their warmth and Our host in Brooklyn was closer to Wall Zippori noti ng the paved Roman friendship is a treasure, and it was Street and the Statue of Liberty than our road with the groove marks from so special to be welcomed into their Manhatt an hosts. chariot wheels. home and family! The 7-day MetroPass includes travel Getti ng to know these hosts Earlier, in Hoian, Vietnam we on any bus or subway for a week. We was truly a high point of our visit spent a fabulous long weekend with used it to go to La Guardia Airport to Israel. Hisayo, a friend whom I met through and the cable car ride to Servas 25 years ago in Japan! And Roosevelt Island, praised today we had a coff ee and chat with in the New York Times as Nan, the Deputy Nati onal Secretary “the most exciti ng view in of Servas Thailand in Bangkok. New York City!” For more These personal visits gave us ideas, check: newyork. unique opportuniti es to learn about ti meout.com or see my the countries from the inside per- full arti cle at: usservas. specti ve! Isn’t Servas special! org, click “news” then —Penny Patti son “fall 2011.”

• 12 • Servas Canada News • • • • • How YOU can get SERVAS INTERNATIONAL Involved in SERVAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2012 SUMMARY OF DECISIONS Latvia, Estonia, Egypt. Togo, Senegal, Bulgaria, • off er to join a committ ee, e.g. the promoti onal committ ee. Iceland and the Philippines became national • arrange a get-together in your area with hosts and travelers. groups with 10 or more members • share a Servas experience for the newslett er. Georgia, Nepal, Ukraine, Kenya and Iran became new member groups with reliable con- • put your name forward to serve on the Board. tacts and fewer than 15 host members • tell your friends about Servas. The newly elected Internati onal Executi ve: • and say “yes” when asked to volunteer. • President, Jonny Saganger (Sweden), • Vice President, Ann Greenhough (Britain), • General Secretary, Jaime Romero Can YOU help? (Colombia), • Treasurer, Miroslav Wasilewski (Poland), CAN YOU DONATE TO SERVAS CANADA? We are a frugal group. • Peace Secretary, Danielle Serres (France) Volunteers do the work, and we keep the travel fees low. But costs There is now a SI Youth Committ ee instead of keep rising, so if we would greatly appreciate your donati on. the Youth Coordinator and Youth Development Some funds support other less wealthy Servas nati ons and Offi cer The SI Peace Secretary will build a reliable organizati ons that contribute to world peace – for example, see team of local representati ves at the UN Malawi, page 11. The ServasOnLine Project will create a well-de- One host suggested a donation equal to one hour of fi ned project with a specifi c budget to ensure well your family income. Please send what you can to treasurer: protected access of host listi ngs internati onally Alison Reid, Box 20889, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6P1. (Note: we are not Unifi ed Servas design standards to be created a charitable organizati on, thus no tax receipts.) Names of those and implemented donati ng more than $20 will be published in the next newslett er. All countries requesti ng SI funds must pass Please make your cheque payable to “Servas Canada” and the host list reliability test indicate “donati on” on the bott om of the cheque. Newslett er, Confl ict Resoluti on, Nominati on, $Thank you very much for your generosity. Job Descripti on/Statutes, Audit, and Development Alison, Chris, Judy, Julie, Myrna, Sandy, Sara, Suzanne are the committees to which persons were Your Servas Canada Board elected or acclaimed Every elected or appointed person is encour- Remember medical insurance when you travel. aged to mentor another person for their role A Servas Planning Group will be created to gather visions, acti viti es and principles about Servas and provide a collecti ve vision on where Servas is and where it is heading Servas In-depth Longer Stays are now possible for Servas members of all ages with prior approval and facilitati on through country representati ves. This can include cultural, environmental, volun- teer or language experiences The Peace Secretary shall seek volunteers to create guidelines for peaceful communicati on The next Servas Internati onal Assembly will be in 2015.

It`s pronounced `hee-la` monster. The `g` sounds like an `h`. • • • • • February 2013 • 13 • 3 Years of Serving Servas By Michael Silbert It has been an interesting, challenging and reward- Alison Reid joined the board as treasurer, (replac- ing privilege to serve as your national secretary since ing Elizabeth Sebestyen who served for many 2009. When I started only printed host lists were years). She brings her professional expertise and available. There was concern we would lose mem- is the first board member from the Yukon. We bers by putting the list online, but we found over also have two new Board members from PEI. 99% of hosts have email and the move garnered This past August, I and five other Canadians widespread support, with many downloading a actively participated in the GA (general assem- personalized list. bly) in Poland. Meeting, working and celebrating In December, your board of directors decided to with Servas members from over 50 different make our host list available to all countries but only countries was better than I had imagined. If you with high security in place. This follows the vast majority ever have a chance to attend a GA, do so. I was so of other Servas nations, while saving money and trees. proud of each Canadian member who got involved in Canadian Mark Hahn and I became solely responsible for meaningful ways. the entire ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Servas Canada is in good hands with Julie at the helm operations of Servas International. I will continue this task. supported by a strong, energetic board. With little time for Servas Canada, Julie Dotsch, did much of I hope one day our paths will cross as we continue our my work while also acting as Assistant National Secretary. Servas travels. Remembered Host from Comox, BC died Ottawa Hosts Perish on Vacation peacefully on 23 Feb 2011. Nigel and Angela Kilby Hope Spencer 1919 - 2011 By Miriam Kilby Hope, born on July 4, 1919, had a long (written April 2002) life full of travel, While vacationing in adventure and Portugal, my parents, Nigel fun. She loved and Angela Kilby, [of Kanata, good food, good a suburb of Ottawa] were wine, good beer, involved in a car accident. good music and A delivery truck was driving on the wrong side of the road. a good cause. My forever loving Mom, Angela Kilby died April 3rd 2002. Hope inher- My Mom had such a positive impact on so many lives and hear- ited a pioneering ing stories about her from friends comforts us greatly. She was so creativity from action oriented – no hesitation to love. her parents. She More from news reports: was always ahead of her time. Although Hope Three months after his wife died, Nigel Kilby, an avid dancer felt she was not always appreciated for pio- and member of the St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Kanata, died in an neering projects, she was greatly admired Ottawa hospital, (July 2012), having been airlifted from Portugal. and respected by a very large community of The couple founded the Ottawa English Country Dance club, which colleagues, friends and acquaintances. meets weekly.

• 14 • Servas Canada News • • • • • Financial Report By Treasurer Alison Reid

If you have any questions, please contact Canada “at” servas.org. Thank you.

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