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A NEW VISION OF AGING ABOUT CARP: CARP is a non-partisan national organization, advocating for the fair treatment of seniors across Canada. Local chapters, staffed by volunteers, advocate for issues specific to the local community while also supporting national issues. CARP activities are fun! You will meet folks from your area, exchange ideas, discuss problems and find out what solutions others may have found for similar problems. FOR MORE INFORMATION… Contact us: E-Mail: [email protected] Mail: 23 Morgandale Cres, Scarborough M1W 1S2 Phone: 416-491-2652 Visit our website: www.carp.ca/scarborough Our Scarborough CARP Chapter #29 launched in May 2012. We are a group of concerned people, aged 30 years and up, having a wide variety of interests, experience and knowledge in the three major CARP areas of Advocacy, Benefits and Community. Future meeting topics may include issues such as: Nutrition and Wellness Caretaking at Home Financial Planning Recreation and Travel Lifelong Learning Elder Abuse Transportation Members’ issues – suggestions welcome! We usually meet every other month, at Centennial College, Progress Campus (with plenty of free parking). We also attend related community events in Scarborough and the GTA. Get to know us better – look inside… DID YOU KNOW….? If you live in Scarborough and are a CARP member, you are automatically a member of the Scarborough Chapter. If you would like to join CARP, let us know – we’d be glad to help! Why not come to a meeting or contact us with ideas, comments, suggestion, issues… whatever matters to YOU?
Transcript of A NEW VISION OF AGING
A NEW VISION OF AGING
ABOUT CARP:
CARP is a non-partisan national organization, advocating for
the fair treatment of seniors across Canada. Local chapters,
staffed by volunteers, advocate for issues specific to the local
community while also supporting national issues.
CARP activities are fun! You will meet folks from your area,
exchange ideas, discuss problems and find out what solutions
others may have found for similar problems.
FOR MORE INFORMATION…
Contact us:
E-Mail: [email protected]
Mail: 23 Morgandale Cres, Scarborough M1W 1S2
Phone: 416-491-2652
Visit our website:
www.carp.ca/scarborough
Our Scarborough CARP Chapter #29 launched in May
2012. We are a group of concerned people, aged 30
years and up, having a wide variety of interests,
experience and knowledge in the three major CARP areas of Advocacy, Benefits and Community.
Future meeting topics may include issues such as:
Nutrition and Wellness
Caretaking at Home
Financial Planning
Recreation and Travel
Lifelong Learning
Elder Abuse
Transportation Members’ issues – suggestions welcome!
We usually meet every other month, at Centennial
College, Progress Campus (with plenty of free
parking). We also attend related community events in
Scarborough and the GTA.
Get to know us better – look inside…
DID YOU KNOW….?
If you live in Scarborough and are a CARP
member, you are automatically a member of the
Scarborough Chapter.
If you would like to join CARP, let us know –
we’d be glad to help!
Why not come to a meeting or contact us with
ideas, comments, suggestion, issues… whatever matters to YOU?
= Gary Butler
Gary recently retired as Director of the Centre for Financial
Services (CFS), Seneca College, after a career spanning various
senior management positions in a wide range of businesses. Gary
and his wife, Sheila, are looking forward to his retirement, allowing
them to spend more time with their families, especially their four
grandchildren.
= Kerry McCauley
Kerry has been retired now for 6 years after a career as a
Computer Operator and Library Technician. Currently he is a
volunteer Library Technician for East Metro Youth Services and
the Heart and Stroke Foundation. His hobbies are stamp collecting,
model train railroader and world traveller.
= Shaun Kempston
Originally from Calgary, Shaun maintains a consulting
practice based in Scarborough. Between foreign multi-year
postings in Mexico, Liberia, and Nigeria he and his wife Claire
always enjoy returning to Canada. Shaun has extensive
financial and senior management experience in the chemical
and telecommunications industries.
= Margaret Williams
Margaret is the retired president of “Pearls of Wisdom”, a multimedia
training design consultancy. She volunteers teaching computers to seniors;
recording audio books at CNIB; doing income tax returns for seniors,
students and low-income Canadians; and mentoring students in the
library’s ‘Leading to Reading’ program.
= Renate Crizzle
Renate is retired after a life long career in Human Resource
Management with major responsibility for salary and benefits,
employment, policy, employee relations, payroll and employment law. She
is an active volunteer and is currently serving as President of Heron
Park Tennis Club.
= Joe Robinson
Joe is a newly retired high school teacher and
Mathematics/Computer Science department head from Loretto
College School in Toronto. He currently serves as general
manager, as well as writes two monthly columns, for the
shortwave radio club, Ontario DX Association, and records
their e-magazine for the blind.
= Colin Ramdeen
Colin is a Solution Manager in the Learning Services organization at
Huawei Technologies Inc, where he promotes and develops new
solutions for Canadian Telecommunication Operators in areas of
Knowledge Management, Consultancy and Continuous Improvement. He
also helps people through a community-driven Concierge Service.
= Marcia Miller
Marcia is currently working as a Diabetes Education Specialist in
Scarborough General Hospital. She is the proud mother of three grown
children, and involved in public speaking in relation to the impact of
poor diabetes management on quality of life (free on request).
Nadia Angai
Sheila Butler
Robert Cairns
Myra Colaco
Dorothy Feenan
Yolande Hiebert
Philestena McLeod
Tom Mitrovski
Lori Pinder
Clive Ramdeen
Wendy Robinson
Peter Thachuk
Jennifer Welshman
