Our March 7 speaker will Gary O’Brien speaking on ”Scams and Frauds in our Community”. Gary O’Brien is employed as a Reserve Constable with the Nanaimo RCMP after serving as a regular member of the RCMP for a little over 32 years. Gary is a proud Maritimer. He hails from Fredericton New Brunswick and is…
Dr. Chris Canny took us all on an illuminating crash course on how our eyes work, starting with the basic anatomy of the eye, comparing it to the structure of a house. To make sure that we got the concepts, he asked us “Can a person be legally blind yet have a visual acuity of…
‘MAiD in Nanoose, through the eyes of a practitioner’ The last time Dr. Meghan Towers made a ‘house call’ to the NW Bay Probus Club, it was October 2019. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was in its infancy. Five years later, Dr. Towers provided an update that transfixed the over-flow crowd of Probus members, and…
An insight into the Opioid crisis from a Treatment Center Director Dr. Vincent’s journey through medicine and eventually to his specialty can be seen as elaborate but tortuous, not too dissimilar to that of today’s drug and addiction crises. In an election year, this topic resonates soundly in all of today’s media as well as…
On September 6, 2024 we had an excellent presentation from Garreth Ashley on the importance of controlling the Canada geese population to protect our estuaries. Garreth is a wildlife Biologist who has work with the Guardians of the Estuaries on Vancouver Island for the last 9 years. Estuaries are where the river water from the uplands…
History Tells A Story Brett Bowen, an accomplished teacher of European history, demonstrated that history can be interesting, entertaining, and yes, even relevant. To do so, Brett took us for a whirlwind tour of the 150 years that preceded the French Revolution. At times he (literally) had us sitting on the edges of our seat…