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Cecille DePass, PhD., C0-Chair & Joanne Middlebrook, Co-Chair Second Time Around For more information contact Irena Karshenbaum, Community Coordinator BCA: (403) 253-4232 or [email protected] Ms. Butala’s books will be available for sale.
FROM THE COMMUNITY COORDINATOR`S DESK Welcome! Braeside Community Association Office Hours: Mondays to Fridays 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Closed for lunch 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Irena Karshenbaum, Community Coordinator Phone: (403) 253-4232 • [email protected]
B R A E S I D E I A P R I L 2020 5 BRAESIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION To contact Board of Directors: Telephone: 403-253-4232 • Fax: 403-253-3528 E-mail: [email protected] Mail: 11024 Braeside Drive SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2W 6G5 Board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (ex- cept July) at 6:30 p.m. in the Lower Hall, Meeting Room 2, at the Braeside Community Centre. The meeting is open to all Braeside residents or interested parties. If you have issues or concerns and you would like to be placed on the agenda, kindly call our Com- munity Coordinator, Irena Karshenbaum, at 403-253-4232. BOARD POSITIONS: President Robert Grigg This is Braeside Vice President Scott Appleby TChoims misu Bnritaye Csiednet re Secretary Joan Byers Canodm omuurn bituys Cineenstsr ei s Treasurer Sue Wilson counter-espionage! Director of Construction Bob Byers and our business is & Maintenance counter-espionage! Director, Planning Committee Carole Oliver Director at Large Jennifer Burgess We have super-secret security cameras in places you can’t even imagine. So if Director at Large Amanda Burke you’reWe have doing super something-secret security bad, please cameras smile, Director at Large Paul Finkleman we’rein places taking you your can’t picture. even imagine. Then, we’ll So if Director at Large Mark Harper transmityou’re doing the somethingreconnaissance bad, please information smile, COMMUNITY CONTACTS: towe’re our taking secret your agents picture. who will Then,find we’ll you. transmit the reconnaissance information Community Coordinator Irena Karshenbaum 403-253-4232 Don’t say we didn’t warn you! to our secret agents who will find you.- 99 Before and After School Care Louise Whitbread 403-258-0699 Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Chinook Musical Society For Tickets 403-271-3719 - 99 City Liaison Jenna Findlater 403-476-7277 The Braeside Bulletin Girl Guides Barb Augustyn 403-251-5169 The Braeside Bulletin is published by the Braeside Community Southwest Seniors Heidi Riad 403-238-2524 Association and delivered to all Braeside homes. Articles can be SW Community Resource Centre 403-238-9222 e-mailed to [email protected]. Submission deadline is AREA SCHOOLS: the first of the month for inclusion in the following month’s Braeside Elementary 403-777-8470 publication. Space limitation may prevent some material sub- John Ware Junior School 403-777-7930 mitted from being published. Editing may be required. St. Benedict Elementary 403-253-1881 While we make every effort to ensure that all information GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES: provided and published is correct, we are not responsible Councillor, Ward 11 Jeromy Farkas 403-268-3611 for any omissions or errors. MLA, Calgary-Glenmore Whitney Issik 403-216-5421 MP, Calgary Heritage Bob Benzen 403-253-7990 Opinions expressed within these articles, reports or submis- sions are the author’s and should not be considered as reflect- ing those of the editor or Community Association. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed within any published article, report or submission reflect those of the author and should not be To place a paid advertisement in the Braeside Bulletin, contact considered to reflect those of Great News Media and the Braeside Great News Publishing, 403-263-3044, [email protected]. Community and/or Residents’ Association. The information con- “The Braeside Community Association is committed to repre- tained in this newsletter is believed to be accurate but is not war- ranted to be so. senting the community with honesty and integrity, working towards common values and goals”. Great News Media and the Braeside Community and/or Residents’ Association does not endorse any person or persons advertising in Check us out on the web at: www.calgaryarea.com (click on this newsletter. Publication of any advertisements should not be SW, Braeside). Email: [email protected]. Follow us on considered an endorsement of any goods or services. Facebook at Braeside Community Association
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March29 30 31 April 1 2 3 4 BaptistChurch Worship Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care 11:00 Seniors’ itnessF UH 9:30 Tai ChiUH 10:00 &7:00 Southwest Seniors UH 10:00 Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 Evening Fellowship 6:00 ELM Dog Obedience SchoolBaptist Church 7:00 ACKU BraesideKarate UH 5:30 UH 6:30
5 6 7 8 9 10 BCACLOSED 11 BaptistChurch Worship Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Good Friday 11:00 BCA & Area Baby Group Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 Tai ChiUH 10:00 &7:00 Southwest Seniors UH 10:00 Evening Fellowship 6:00 1:15 ELM Dog Obedience SchoolBCA Second Time Around ACKU BraesideKarate UH 5:30 with author, Sharon ButalaUH 6:30 1:15
BaptistChurch 7:00 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 BaptistChurch Worship Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Chinook Musical Society: 11:00 Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 Tai ChiUH 10:00 &7:00 Southwesteniors S UH 10:00 Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 East Coast Kitchen Party EveningFellowship 6:00 ELM Dog Obedience SchoolBaptist Church 7:00 ACKU BraesideKarate II with The Ennis Sisters UH 5:30 UH 6:30 and Dave Gunning
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 BaptistChurch Worship Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care 11:00 BCA & Area Baby Group Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 Tai ChiUH 10:00 &7:00 Southwest Seniors UH 10:00 Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 Evening Fellowship00 6: 1:15 ELM Dog Obedience SchoolBCA Second Time Around ACKU BraesideKarate UH 5:30 1:15 UH 6:30 BCA Board Meeting 6:30 BaptistChurch 7:00
Grounded Soles Yoga 7:00 26 27 28 29 30 May 1 2 BaptistChurch Worship Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Before& After School Care Chinook Musical Society: 11:00 Grounded Soles Yoga 7:00Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 Tai ChiUH 10:00 &7:00 Southwest Seniors UH 10:00 Seniors’ Fitness UH 9:30 End of season concert! Evening Fellowship 6:00 ELM Dog Obedience SchoolBaptist Church 7:00 ACKU BraesideKarate UH 5:30 UH 6:30
BRAESIDE STORIES Award-winning author (and area resident), Sharon Butala, reflects on a life well lived by Irena Karshenbaum only wanted half the book because it was so long and the second half has never been published.” As award-winning author, Sharon Butala, will be turning eighty later this year, she can’t quite believe all that has Neither being left a widow nor feeling nearly forgotten by happened to her. She is entitled to her awe and wonder, the literary world, stopped Sharon who has a tenacious having lived a remarkable life, and being so young still, spirit that has allowed her to remain faithful to her calling. she admits to having no plans to slow down. While Peter was still alive, the Butalas donated a large sec- Sharon explains, “I wouldn’t know what to do with myself, tion of their ranch to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. so I’ve decided to keep on writing. I certainly haven’t run After Peter’s passing, Sharon moved to Calgary to be close out of ideas, so why quit?” to her son and his family. She lives in a neighbourhood close to Braeside, which she describes as “my home town” Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Sharon’s life has been as and where she has written the next chapter of her life. expansive as the highways of her native province and she has used all those adventures – what author doesn’t? - as Here she wrote her latest memoir, Where I Live Now, about a source of inspiration for her more than 20 published grieving the loss of her husband and having to rebuild her works, which have included novels, short story collections life anew. and memoirs. Season of Fury and Wonder was published next. Sharon The memoir, The Perfection of the Morning, published explains, “I hadn’t written short stories for 14 years. I woke when she was 44, became a Canadian bestseller and a final- up one morning with a fully formed short story in my head ist for the Governor General’s Award. In the memoir, Sharon and followed immediately by a second and a third and I reflects on giving up her established life in Saskatoon where just kept typing until I had a full book.” The collection was she was teaching at the University of Saskatchewan to mar- short-listed for the 2019 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. ry a cattle rancher living on an isolated farm in the south- She is soft-spoken and remains accesssible despite all her west corner of the province. It was a marriage that was not remarkable achievements. Sharon Butala is an Officer in supposed to last a year, but ended up enduring 31 years the Order of Canada, invested in the Saskatchewan Order until her beloved husband, Peter, passed away in 2007. of Merit and holds 3 honorary doctorates, over 50 Cana- dian prizes for writing, including the Marion Engle Award. At the time of her husband’s passing, The Girl in Saska- She has done lectures and readings across Canada, US, toon was close to being published and with its release Mexico, Ireland and the Czech Republic and was short Sharon chose to go on a book tour because as she ex- listed three times for the Governor Generals Award and plains, “I needed to get away.” The grieving process kept once for the Commonwealth Prize. her from writing for a year, and subsequently, she did not publish for 7 years. Sharon Butala is a national treasure, and she lives in our midst. She recalls, “Magazine editors stopped asking me for Please join us as Sharon Butala reads from Season of interviews and everything started to vanish. I could see Fury and Wonder at Braeside Community Centre on how quickly I was forgotten. I decided that I would write Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 1:15 pm. Her books will the novel I wanted to write, but the publishing world had be available for purchase. changed drastically in this time period. I wrote Wild Rose, Irena Karshenbaum is the Community Coordinator for about a woman who changes her life drastically and she Braeside Community Association. She loves to tell Braeside makes her way in this horrible little town. The publisher stories. [email protected]
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