The North West Bay PROBUS Digital Scavenger Hunt On Wed., June 24th sixteen club members and guests assembled in downtown Nanaimo to walk the streets. The sky was overcast which was the perfect weather for taking pictures and hiking the harbour front. Six teams participated in the Club’s first ever digital scavenger hunt. Their…
Salmon Arm will be hopping from September 15-17 with hundreds of PROBUSesians converging on the town. The PROBUS clubs of the Shuswap area are hosting a Western Canada Rendezvous with many activities and great food, wine and fellowship. They say that the “Shuswap area is “God’s Country” and (they) would be delighted to share a…
On Thursday 30 April, 42 members travelled to the Deep Bay Marine Field Station for dinner catered by VIU Culinary Arts department and a lecture by Dr. Paul Harrison, Emeritus Professor at UBC and author of one of the chapters in the recent award-winning book: “The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia“. Past President, Sharon Seibt, wrote the…
Professor Emeritus Ed Ishiguro, retired from the University of Victoria for almost ten years, gave those present at the meeting on April 10th a fascinating and entertaining description of our immune system and the vaccines designed to both protect us from, and treat diseases. A gifted scientist, Dr. Ishiguro made what could be baffling topics easy…
There’s a new face in our community. He’s a commercial pilot, but he’s in the Royal Canadian Navy; he circumnavigated the world twice, first sailing eastwards in 1991 and then heading westward via a combination of planes & ships in 2002 and he plays the trombone! He is the new Commander of the Canadian Forces Maritime…
With the humour and skill of a stand-up comedian, RCMP Staff Sgt. Scott Warren pulled in his audience, then kept us enthralled with a fascinating presentation on his year in Afghanistan. His mission, which took place in Kabul along with two other team members, was to teach basic police skills to an Afghan Special Police Unit.…