Another event has been added to our 2024 social calendar. September 4 is set as the date for a Dinner Theater date at Jubilations Dinner Theater, WEM! The show is entitled “FREINDS, A PARODY WITH ACE VENTURA”
DETAILS:
COST: $30.00 per person
LOCATION: Jubilations Dinner Theater, West Edmonton Mall
DATE: Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The date has been set for our annual PICNIC IN THE PARK event!
July 12, 2024 is the day, Emily Murphy Park is the place.
Stay tuned for full details!
Our next event will be ‘Seniors Celebrating Seniors’ on May 31. It will be at the Legion in St. Albert with a lunch of soup, sandwiches, dessert and tea or coffee, followed by a performance by an intergenerational theatre troupe called the GeriActors & Friends.
The cost is $5.00 per per member and $20.00 for non-members. All are welcome!
Stay tuned for more details.
The AGM for the year 2022-2023 was held on Friday, April 19, 2024 at the St. Albert Legion #271.
Registration was at 11:30 and lunch was served, buffet style, at 12:00. Thanks to the staff at Diner 271 for once again putting on a very delicious lunch and dessert!
On the business side of things, of note was that the Board of Directors, consisting of 10 chairs, lost one member. Jonathan Smethurst has decided to step down. All eight of the remaining directors have agreed to remain for another term. No new nominations were received so the bord will operate with 8 filled chairs and 2 vacancies. If anyone from our membership is interested in serving and becoming more involved in the operation of our society, please contact Pat in the office (780-428-8842) or any of the current directors. We thank Jonathan for his service!
After serving as WPSS Events Coordinator for many years, Rick Meunier has decided to step down. Thank you, Rick, for the great work you have done over the years! Rick is remaining on the board as a director. Sandra Mooney will be assuming the position of Events Coordinator. We look forward to her bringing new ideas and fresh energy to the position!
All committee reports, including the Financial Statements, were presented in the AGM Booklet you were given at registration. In case you did not keep this and wish to review the reports, you can link to the AGM Booklet here.
Once again please note that we have 3 vacancies on the Board of Directors and help with the Newsletter/Website would be very much appreciated!
Please consider stepping up and contributing your creative talents to the operation of your society.
“Many hands make light work”
WPSS has a number of events upcoming.
Friday, April 19th – AGM – see the details on our Home Page
Friday, May 31 – GeriActors
Their vision is as follows: To be an intergenerational theatre company that engages and challenges audiences by sharing stories that are meaningful and authentic, and that advances public understanding of creative aging.”
Check them out at https://geriactors.ca
We will be hosting them at the St. Albert Legion. Registration is at 11:30, Lunch (Soup and Sandwich, dessert) at 12:00, entertainment at 1:30
Confirmation of time, full details, cost will be posted as soon as available
EVERYONE WELCOME!!
Annual summer “Picnic in The Park” will happen sometime in July or August. Details as soon as they become available.
Saturday, September 28 25th Anniversary Celebration
WPSS will be celebrating its 25th year! Please plan to join us for this great event featuring recognition of “Caregivers” – those dedicated souls who support and encourage us polio survivors and others afflicted with a variety of disabilities.
Full details when available
This event may interest some of you. The date is April 27 at 3:00 PM
All the details are on the poster – click on the link below, then click on the poster to see a full page version.
The June Social has been approved for Friday, June 2, 2023. Click for details
Well, the 2022 AGM is now in the history books. We had a very successful meeting, beginning with registration at the St. Albert Legion around 11:30 AM. We had had some nice socialization and visiting time, followed by a great hot lunch buffet. The meeting started just after 1:30 PM and we adjourned around 2:10 PM. The highlights of the meeting included the election by acclamation of Sandra Mooney to the Board of Directors, brief commentary on the reports found in the AGM booklet and some excellent feedback from the floor on future social events. A copy of the booklet with all reports is available through the link below.
There will be a B of D meeting on Monday, April 24 where items arising from the AGM will be discussed.
June 2nd, just prior to the start of SENIORS’ WEEK, will be the date of our next WPSS social event. This lunch meeting will be centered around a talk by a representative of the Alzheimer’s Society! Seeing we are all getting a wee bit up in years this should be very interesting for us all.
Nothing has been confirmed as of April 14 but I thought I’d give you a heads up as to where we are going with our social events. The next Board meeting will be April 24th and more details will be forthcoming after that. There will be another notice on this page and full details under Future Events!
Please, feel free to comment on this tentative event
Our annual Picnic in the Park event has been officially booked! We will be meeting at Emily Murphy Park, Picnic Site #1, from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM on Friday, August 11!
I’ll be posting these details along with a park map in the Events section in the next little while. Keep checking for updates.
The society AGM will be held on April 21, 2023. Go to EVENTS/FUTURE EVENTS for details
On Friday, March 3 WPSS hosted a lunch and movie social at the St. Albert Legion featuring the film “Warm Springs”. The afternoon began with registration at 11:00 AM, followed by an excellent light lunch of soup and sandwiches catered by the legion kitchen.
Half way through the film we had a half hour intermission during which a dessert of fruit and baked goods was served.
After polio threatens his political career in the early 1920s, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Sir Kenneth Branagh) desperately searches for a cure to his newly acquired disease, hoping to regain the use of his legs. He learns of a promising spa in Warm Springs, Georgia, and travels there, only to find it dilapidated. Determined to overcome polio, Roosevelt invests in the spa’s revitalization, and sets about recovering, aided by the support of his wife and his physical therapist.
This real-life story is a tremendous example of perseverance, determination and overcoming some of the obstacles which polio survivors and post polio syndrome sufferers have to deal with on a daily basis. The courage displayed by these people provides inspiration and hope for us all as we struggle with the burden of our daily challenges.
This lunch time event was attended by 30 members and guests. Hopefully you had an enjoyable time and find some inspiration in the FDR story.
Let the office know how you feel about this event and if you would like more of the same in the future! PHOTOS