Stay informed with the PROBUS Club

Are you looking for something enjoyable to do once a month in your retirement or semi-retirement? The PROBUS (PROfessional and BUSiness) Club of Lethbridge is just the group for you.

With 239 PROBUS clubs made up of 34,354 active members, these clubs offer monthly educational and social opportunities for both men and women. You are cordially invited to join the Lethbridge group.

Our club meets at 9:30 a.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at Country Kitchen (lower level of The Keg). A brief business meeting is followed by a guest speaker from the community. We are fortunate to have had speakers from the University of Lethbridge, Agriculture Canada, Lethbridge College, City of Lethbridge, nonprofit groups and individual citizens who share their work and interests with the club. Following the meeting, members may select to go to visit a local restaurant for lunch and a social time together.

Recent topics included the new Legacy Ornamental Garden being built in a partnership between the City of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society. Michael Stephens of Fortis Alberta told us about the rebuilding of the electrical grid at Waterton Lakes National Park after the fire there this September. Dr. Leroy Little Bear, retired U of L professor, challenged us to consider how indigenous people contribute alternate ways of living and thinking for the future.

We look forward to the next monthly meetings in order to learn more and to challenge how we might be viewing the world around us.

If you are interested in joining the PROBUS Club of Lethbridge and participating in our group, contact president Sheila McHugh (403-381-4275 or mchugh.sheila@hotmail.com), vice-president Richard Tamkin (403-394-1666 or di.rich.tamkin@gmail.com) or past president Mary Oordt (403-329-1008 or mary.oordt@gmail.com) for further details. Yearly dues are $45 and there is a $5 door charge at each meeting.

Join us and expand your friendship group, extend your knowledge of our everchanging community and keep your brain active.

Photo submitted by the PROBUS Club of Lethbridge Directors of the PROBUS Club of Lethbridge include, back from left: Jill Kotkas, Ina Boyden, Terry Daniel, Phyllis Baskin, Beth Moyer and John Byrne; and front from left: Josephine Schneider, Sheila McHugh and Mary Oordt. Missing: Richard Tamkin.