Activities      

MONTHLY MEETINGS

Sept. 8.  Janet Arniel will join us   She is a traveling dental hygienist, who comes to your home, chair and all. Lunch will be served about 12 o'clock and the meeting will start at 1:00 pm.

Oct 6.  Someone will speak to us about identity theft.   Lunch will be served about 12, and the meeting will start at 1:00 pm

Nov 3.   We will have a Bring and Buy sale.   Start gathering your donations now.   Lunch will be served about 12:00 o'clock and the meeting will start at 1:00 pm.

Dec. 1.  This will be our Christmas meeting.   Each person attending the meeting will receive a small gift.   Lunch will not be served.   Bring your own sandwich and come about 12 o'clock to enjoy the fellowship.   Tea and Coffee will be provided.

 Please be sure to check the "HOTLINE" for any upcoming events for meeting start times.

Quilting Club meets the first and third Tuesday of each month in the morning. The money they bring in from their beautiful quilting goes to buy supplies for Heart Pillows etc.  Mary Austin is in charge of the Quilting Group.

Heart Pillows meet the second and fourth and fifth Tuesday of each month from 9 A.M. to approximately 1 P.M..   We send 50 pillows a month to Toronto General Hospital.   We  also make heart pillows for St. Michaels Hospital.   We notify  them when we have 25 or more and they pick them up.  

The Computer Club meets second, fourth and fifth Wednesdays of each month from approximately 9 A.M. to 2 P.M.

The Thursday Ladies Sewing Group meets the first and third Thursday of every month from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. They make comfort pillows for patients who go to rehab at Toronto Rehab and Bridgepoint Health. They also make pillows for patients who are having cancer treatment at Princess Margaret Hospital

Collectibles

We need clean used pantyhose or nylons to cut up for stuffing, to make one type of comfort pillows.

We collect Campbell Soup labels to help schools earn points to purchase badly needed school supplies.

Pop and beer can tabs are collected and taken to a centre for scrap metals. They buy the tabs from us.

Used postage stamps are collected and given to the Leprosy Mission to help with their fund raising.  

Old eyeglasses are saved for RayJon Share, who take them to third world countries.  The volunteer group goes to Haiti for one week twice a year to provide glasses for the inhabitants.   Volunteers pay all of their own expenses.    They go to other third world countries as well.  

Bring your old eyeglasses to a meeting or send to:

Bell Canada,

Telco Community Volunteers

Floor 5, 50 Eglinton Ave. E.

Toronto, On M4P 1A6

Throughout the year we have a large box waiting to be filled with personal items for the Good Neighbours Club Christmas party. Our members bring in toothpaste, tooth brushes, combs, deodorant and bars of soap.