Our February 2013 speaker, Lori Amdam from Vancouver Island Health Authority, had attendees’ rapt attention as she described the differences between delirium and dementia. In her comparison of the two “Ds”, she illustrated how distinctly different the two are by highlighting the key difference: time. Delirium is a sudden change in cognition, function and behaviour,…
The graphic videos and photographs that accompanied Sgt. Toby Hinton’s presentation at the January 2013 meeting had many members covering their eyes. Striking images, many from his Odd Squad Productions, portrayed the trauma that drugs have on the physical appearance of the addicts that Toby meets daily on his beat through Vancouver’s Down Town East…
Sergeant Toby Hinton — beat cop, producer/director, judo instructor, lecturer and co-founder of Odd Squad Productions (OSP) will be speaker at the first meeting of the new year on Tuesday 2 January. His work on the Vancouver Police Department’s (VPD) Drug Education and Enforcement Team as well as leadership in OSP, a non-profit charitable organization…
If you are unfamiliar with the photo at left, you will surely recognize the distinctive voice that hosted Basic Black from 1983 to 2003 on CBC radio. According to his webpage, Arthur Black “guarantees belly laughs or your money refunded” so….get ready for a side-splitting meeting. Weird Houses and Weird Wheels, on the Life TV…
The National Director of Mercy Ships Canada, Tim Maloney, is soft-spoken but absolutely passionate about his subject. He started his talk at the October meeting by saying that he lives his life according to the following axiom: have hope, take risks and seek harmony in all things. He and Don Stephens, the founder of Mercy…
On October 18, 28 Probusians and guests drove to the Comox and spent an hour and a half in the museum exhibit area which was rich with photos, artifacts and information on the squadrons that served (and still serve) at Comox, the planes that they flew and the history that they made or were a…