Hi, all.

In this week of feverish creativity leading up to next week’s Extravaganza, take a moment — if you can — to step back for three updates on our g2g communication flow.

• Within our own Oceanside group:  The current version of the Directory is now ready to download from the Membership and Directory page of the Members Only section of our website.  Also ready there is the updated list of New Members 2015, with photos of people we’ll all want to get to know. These are the final editions of the year.
• Within the Grandmothers Campaign: The November 15 edition of the Granny Bulletin is ready on the Grandmothers Campaign website of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.  As I reminded in our meeting, you can sign up to receive the free monthly Granny Bulletin via email by signing up at the bottom of our own website’s homepage, or you can sign up directly on the homepage of the Grandmothers Campaign. Click on: Bulletin.
• Within the Stephen Lewis Foundation: The Fall 2015 edition of the Grassroots magazine of the Stephen Lewis Foundation is also ready for download from the SLF website. This edition is covers the first Grandmothers Gathering in Uganda last month and has some really terrific photos and articles.  Click on: Grassroots.

Just one week to go till our biggest event of the year.  Happy creativity, everyone!

Eileen Dombrowski (website, membership/Directory)

 Oceanside Grandmothers Meeting 
                                                          Tues.,November 17th, 2015, 9:30(social) mtg 10
                                                                       Knox United Church, Pym St,
                                                                                   Parksville

Welcome: Kathy Grand

Lost and Found: Kathy

Finance: Pam Vest

Presentation: Carol Lundine

New Members: Beth Ediss

Extravaganza: Ann Tardiff

Angels: Jacquie Ostrow

December Luncheon: Kathy

Cards: Chris Clemens

Fabric Sale: Pam, Kathy

Bottle Brigade: Carolyn Dodd

SLF: Eileen Dombrowski

Publicity: Morganne Pickering

Hightlight: Kathy/Carol

Other:

Important Notices.

From Kathy Grand:

Christmas Luncheon, December 8 at the Legion Hall in Parksville. If you plan to attend the luncheon, please bring your $10 to the meeting and give it to Kathy Grand. If you cannot attend the meeting but wish to attend the luncheon, please drop your money off at Kathy’s (572 Meadow Dr, Qualicum before Dec 1).

From Jacquie Ostrow:
I will be holding an angel dressing session on Monday, Nov. 16 for all interested in making the standing angels for the Extravaganza. It’ll be at my place, 642 Hirst Ave., PV. at 1:00 – 4:00. All that needs to be done is to decorate/dress the angels so hopefully we can get quite a few finished..
Please email me at jostrow@telus.net if you are able to come.

If you have angels ready for the Extravaganza, please bring them to the meeting and give them to Jacquie Ostrow.

Reminders:
Coffee is no longer served at the meetings. Please bring a beverage if you wish.
Knox is a scent free facility.

Just seventeen (17) days to go till the Extravaganza — and Santa is getting ready.  This week, he got a sweet boost from a team of grandmothers providing him with a candy sleigh, tied up with ribbon. With characteristic creativity and cooperation, some of our members worked together Monday to make an entire fleet of Santa sleighs for sale.

Countdown to the Extravaganza: Friday November 27 10-4 and Saturday November 28 10-4, Quality Inn Bayside, Parksville.

For more on the Sleigh Making session, just click: Past Events 2015. 

The next G2G meeting is Tuesday November 17th at 9:30 at Knox United. If you have an item for the agenda, I would appreciate receiving  it by Thursday November 12.

Thanks,

Carol Lundine

Communications

What can a great group of women do to raise funds for the Grandmothers Campaign? The answer is clear: they work together, creatively and cooperatively, to prepare mountains of beautiful products for the upcoming Extravaganza!

Read more about the creative sewers and see a short slideshow, by clicking this link: Sewing Bees:  Preparing for the Extravaganza 

And make sure you’ve spread word about the Extravaganza as widely as you can! Friday, 27 November, 10-4. Saturday, 28 November, 10-4. Quality Resort Bayside, Parksville.

Hi, everyone.

The MINUTES for both September and October’s g2g meetings are now ready for download from the For members only section of our Oceanside Grandmothers website: https://oceansideg2g.org/for-members-only/  If you can’t remember the password, you can contact Eileen Dombrowski (oceansideg2g@shaw.ca) or any other member of the group.  If you missed the most recent meeting(s), you’ll really want these minutes because there is A LOT going on!

The currently up-to-date DIRECTORY is also now available for download from the For members only section.  Two versions are available for you to choose depending on your internet connection:  the compressed, low-resolution version is fast to download and adequate for consultation; the high-resolution version requires a fast internet connection for downloading but is clearer, especially if you want to print it out.  New members, you’ll definitely want this booklet. It gives pictures of people in our group, along with their contact information, and is valuable for getting to know others and getting in touch with them.

Note that I’ve also updated the NEW MEMBERS sheet for 2015, which is handy for getting to know our latest members. It is available for download from the same page as the Directory.

Last, notice that you can also download the g2g PLANNING MANUAL to which Jacquie and I made reference in our last meeting.  Did you even know that this resource exists?  It identifies 9 steps to follow in our group if you want to organize an event.  It distills a lot of the experience of the Event Committee, Publicity Committee, and Food Committee as they work together to support anyone thinking of organizing an event.

Eileen Dombrowski

website, membership committee (Directory)

Knox United Church, Pym St. Parksville

Welcome:             Carol Lundine

New Members:      Louise Maguire

Finance:               Pam Vest

Past Events:

Wellness Fair:       Carol

Upcoming Events:

Potter’s Guild :          Gail Morrison

Angels:                 Jacquie Ostrow

Extravaganza:       Ann Tardiff

Lorna Reid

Christmas Luncheon:  Kathy Grand

Fabric Sale:                  Kathy

Other:

Note: 9;30-10  social time

10:00     meeting

Knox is a scent free facility

Please print this agenda if you would like to have a copy for the meeting.

Thank you,

Carol Lundine

Communications

The next meeting of Oceanside Grandmothers is Tuesday October 20th at Knox United on Pym St. Parkville

If you have an agenda item would you please send it to me by Friday October 16th.

Thank you,

Carol Lundine

Communications

cairncroft@shaw.ca

A note from coordinator, Lorna Reid:

At the last G2G meeting concern was expressed about the VIHA food inspectors not allowing other groups to sell their preserves to the public. This has now been thoroughly checked out and samples have been sent to a lab in Sydney for PH testing to ensure that we are meeting the safety regulations. I am confident that we will meet the standards and so I would like to encourage Grannies to continue to donate preserves for our table at the Extravaganza.I just recently received the results of the testing on 10 of our products – we are well within the 4.6 limit for all of them!
I think we can all apply common sense to making preserves and use the “Guidelines for Food Preparation at Temporary Markets” from the BC Centre for Disease Control available on the internet if in doubt. For example we can only sell “low-risk” products such as jams, jellies, relishes, chutneys and pickles with a low PH score – this covers most home-made preserves but not things like pickled beans and asparagus, mixes with a lot of tomatoes, pesto or garlic spread, herb and flavoured oils and garlic spread etc.
Please makes sure that your jars are properly sealed and labeled with the name of the product and the ingredients. The regulations require that they be processed in a water bath – please do so even if your recipe does not require it. We are expanding to two tables so we need lots of selection.

Thank you,

Lorna Reid

Posted by,

Carol Lundine

Communications