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The Dutch Touch the Dutch Touch DUTCH CANADIAN CLUB (EDMONTON) 13312 142 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T5L 4T1 September 2013 Phone: 780 452 2861 Dear members: Where did our summer go? We are talking September already when you Upcoming Events are reading this. So where did we leave off in our last letter? We just celebrated the coronation of William Alexander, followed by the FALL SEASON STARTUP Market, Bloomsday, Volunteer Appreciation Day and then we continued with DATES: the Dutch Pavilion at Heritage Days. Stitch N Rip!- Sep 9 A very big compliment to Emmy Diamond and Femke de Vries who once Sewing !Club!- Sep 10 again pulled off another very successful event with the help of countless Klaverjas Club !- Sep 10 volunteers: buyers, sellers, friers, assemblers, disassemblers, runners, Windmills!- Sep 12 drivers, organ grinders, entertainers, phone callers, etc. What a fantastic Concordia Band- Sep 12 team; stressful at times for sure, but that’s when we all step up to the plate. Card Making!- Sep 14 My compliments to all of you, you are just awesome, and I really mean that. Billiard Club !- Sep 18 We set a record for food sales: $45,000.00 gross. And the kitchen just worked Dutch Classes!- Sep 19 awesome. For next year we have to find a solution for the cooling of our precious herring; our Health Inspector was checking it every hour. 2 degrees C over and in the bin they went. GARAGE SALE September 14, 2013 The hall rental is going strong; 2013 booked solid and 2014 is filling up quickly and I advise you to give me a update as soon as possible if you want CARD MAKING a date for any of your club events before all dates are gone. September 14 & 28, 2013 We also have received some sad news again. Peter van Hees passed KLAVERJAS TOURNAMENT away in July, and on August 9 Joop van Beek passed away in his sleep. They September 15, 2013 will surely be missed, and we send our condolences to the families. Our senior maintenance group, Piet Flipsen and Ted & Pat Hoeksta DUTCH LANGUAGE painted our flagpoles. Just imagine these guys on a mobile scissor lift from CLASSES Northgate Industries. Amazing. I hope, when I have reached that age, that I September 19 - November 7, can still do all these things. Having said that, I also thought that if something 2013 would have happened to them, the news people would be there in a flash. So I told myself that some of these jobs should not be done by our volunteers SCANDINAVIAN anymore due to the demographics of our membership. All good things must CHRISTMAS MARKET come to an end. Thanks a lot to our super seniors who have proved that your November - TBA age is as young as you feel. CHILDREN’S SINTERKLAAS A big thank you to Sid Braaksma who donated a beautiful Baby Grand PARTY piano for our stage. December 8, 2013 On a personal note our daughter Michelle had a little boy (9 lb) named NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY William Avery and when you get to read this Riek and I are off to Holland for 3 December 31, 2013 weeks. Hall rentals will be looked after by Rob Rietveld, phone # stays the same. Thank you all one more time. It is YOU who make this club the envy of our community, take care and look after those who need you. Frank Stolk - 780-464-4879 - [email protected] 1 ABOUT THE DUTCH TOUCH September 2013 MEMBERSHIP DUES Index Our membership fees are per calendar year: January - December at the following rates: Billiard Club 6 Family (with children under 18) $60.00 Bloomsday 15 Senior Family!! $50.00 The Dutch Touch is a publication for the Single!!! $35.00 Dutch Canadian Club (Edmonton) Senior Single!! $30.00 Calendar 20 13312 - 142 St. NW, Student!!! $20.00 Edmonton, AB T5L 4T3 Card Making Club 6 Clubroom phone: 780-452-2861 Please send your membership application or renewal with your name, Concordia Band 4 Ten monthly issues are published address, phone number and email (from September to June) address to: Contact info 19 Please submit your articles and news by the Dutch Canadian Centre Cool Cucumbers 18 20th of the month if you want them to appear attn: Membership in the next issue. 13312 - 142 St NW DCC Auxiliary News 4 Drop them off at the Club or mail them to the Edmonton, AB T5L 4T3 above address. ADVERTISING DCC Board news 3 You may also contact For any changes and additions or Jenny Smits - 780-473-0905 deletions in your monthly ads, please Dutch Language Class 12 [email protected] contact Lisa Putters - 780-466-5756 Lisa Putters - 780-466-5756 Editorial 3 [email protected] email: [email protected] Heritage Days 11 Visit our website at: ADVERTISING RATES http://www.dutchcanadiancentre.com (per issue) and “Like” us on Facebook for some Golf Poem 15 of the latest news. 1/8 page - $8.75 + GST Heritage Festival 11 The Dutch Touch is also available 1/4 page - $17.50 + GST online on our website. 1/2 page - $35.00 + GST Go to www.dutchcanadiancentre.com 1 full page - $70.00 + GST Klaverjas Club 4 and click on DCC Activities, then on Current Events. Members Page 10 MEMBERS PAGE INFORMATION You can have The Dutch Touch delivered to Mushroom Power 16-17 your email address in PDF format by Members of the Dutch Canadian Club contacting Lisa Putters with the email can place their personal Netherlands news 19 address you want it sent to. announcements and classified ads on the Members’ Page free of charge. We President’s Message 1 need your ad by the 20th of the month if you want your ad published in the next LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Quilting workshop 8 We welcome letters from our issue. If you have something for sale or are trying to find something members regarding Club or someone or if you have Sewing & Craft Circle 8 matters and concerns. something to celebrate or Letters will be edited for share with our members you Stitch N Rip Club 4 grammatical errors and will be may use the Members’ Page forwarded for comments to the to advertise at no cost to Stroke Prevention tips 17 appropriate departments. you. Anonymous letters will not be Contact: Toddler Tunes Time 12 considered for publication. Jenny Smits - 780-473-0905 Please send them to the above - [email protected] Volunteers 8 address or to Jenny Smits: Lisa Putters - 780-466-5756 - [email protected] [email protected] Windmills 6 Upcoming events 1 2 EDITORIAL September 2013 Dear readers: September already. Time to start thinking about organizing and participating in all our club events for the Fall and Winter seasons. I hope you had a good summer. My summer was pretty busy and that did not even include any vacation trips or visitors from out of town. I had a chance to spend a lot of time with our two youngest grandchildren. But I look forward to getting involved in the club events and activities again. It is always good to get connected with our members during the long winter season. Coming up at the club is the garage sale on September 14. What a great opportunity to get rid of some of your unwanted items and donate them to our club, where you then can pick up some great bargains as well. All proceeds are for the children’s St. Nick Party. We’ll be selling raffle tickets for the beautifully hand-crocheted bedspread there too for the same cause. This was made and donated by Truus de Visser (we’ll have it on display, it’s gorgeous). With the same raffle you can also win a beautiful baby quilt, made and donated by Trudy Moulyn, or a basket with an assortment of Dutch items. This summer our club received some sad news when two of our long-time members passed away and our condolences go out to the Van Hees and Van Beek families. As you can see, we revamped the Dutch Touch a little bit. Both Lisa and I are trying to learn a new program, not without some frustrations, but it’s getting easier already. We really appreciate our advertisers who make it possible to send out the Dutch Touch to our members. Please support them too when you need their goods or services. Lisa, thank you for all you do for the Dutch Touch, I’m sending out some extra hugs to you this month. Jenny Smits - 780-473-0905 - [email protected] NEWS FROM THE BOARD On behalf of the members of the Board of the Dutch Canadian Club, I welcome everyone back to the Dutch Canadian Centre for the 2013-2014 season. We hope you all had a great summer. All activities and events will be starting up again in September for everyone to attend. Please consult the Upcoming Events Calendar for dates. DCC’s board meetings will be held on the 1st Monday of every month, with Committee meetings taking place immediately before board meetings, every other month (the months with 31 days). We start with an exception: the date of the first board meeting of the season will be on September 9th due to Monday September 2nd being a statutory holiday (Labor day). The board sends best wishes and prayers to Lisa Putters as she is going through some health challenges. Take care of yourself Lisa. Truus de Visser - 780-434-4133 - [email protected] NEWS FROM THE CLUBS CARD MAKING CLUB Welcome back to the fall season of card making.
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