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“Dedicated to Excellence” Vol. 10, Issue 129 December 2010
December 16, 2010
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EASTER CAMP—
(BLAST)
April 22-25, 2011
For info, visit website: turtletalk.ca
Ingredients:
1/4 cup ..............Fresh parsley, minced
1/4 cup ..............Lime juice
1/4 cup ..............Lemon juice
2 tsp ...................Low-sodium soy sauce
1 tsp ...................Red pepper flakes
1/2 tsp ...............Ginger root, peeled and grated
3 cloves..............Garlic, minced
1 lb .....................Chicken breast, skinless and boneless
2 .........................Scallions, minced
Directions:
1.In a shallow glass dish, combine parsley, lime juice, lemon juice, soy sauce, pepper, ginger and garlic (this is your marinade)
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204– 2929 Nootka Street, Vancouver, BC V5M 4K4 Canada Published every month, if possible. Contributions are always welcome. The articles should be in, not later than day 25th of every month.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in Stroke Recoverer’s Review newsletter: articles, submissions and spotlights are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Templeton Stroke Recovery or the editor of Stroke Recoverer’s Review. Editor reserves the right at any time to make changes as it deems necessary. It is the purpose of this periodical to share a variety of viewpoints mostly from stroke survivors.
Contributors: Ollie Stogrin Loy Lai Werner Stephan Karel Ley Deb Chow Carol Roycroft Jose Suganob
Production of SRR:
Jose Suganob Email: [email protected]
Printing Person: Kiyoko Akeroyd 604-434-6513
Inside this issue:
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1. “Everyone hears what you say Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.”
2. “The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.”
3. “It is better to have one person working WITH you, than three WORKING FOR you.”
4. “Success is best measured by how far you’ve come with that talents you’ve been given.”
—Submitted by Loy Lai Templeton Stroke Recovery
2.Add chicken to ingredients in dish, coating pieces with mari-nade. Cover; Let stand, marinat-ing, for a total of 30 minutes, turning pieces after 15 minutes.
3.In a large non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat, warm enough water to sauté chicken. Remove chicken from marinade, reserving the marinade, and place in frying pan.
4.Sizzle each side of chicken until cooked through, about 15-20 minutes.
5.Transfer to a platter.
Add marinade to dry pan. Boil about 30 seconds. Drizzle over the chicken. Sprinkle with scallions, and serve.
Recipe Encouragements
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Delta Branch Christmas Party 2010
2
Last Month’s Happening
3
Douglas Park Branch Christmas Party 2010
4
Slower? Faster? J-Notes
5
December 2010 Volume 10, Issue 129
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“There’s life after stroke”
RECIPE: “Bangkok Chicken”
DELTA STROKE RECOVERY—CHRISTMAS PARTY 2010
ENCOURAGEMENTS
S t r o k e R e c o v e r e r ’ s R e v i e w
Christmas cheer was shared by
members and guests of Delta Branch,
December 14, 2010. Where approxi-
mately 50 members gathered to enjoy
the party, planned by their volunteers
and served by about 10 of them.
Presentations of appreciation were
made to Joanne Vondette-SLP, Anne
Herringer-PT, Dawn Sillett-Coordinator
for year long service plus smaller
acknowledgements to our entertainers
(piano, guitar and vocals) plus singing,
dancing and piano playing by two family
grandchildren, who performed for our
pleasure. Even our EMCEE was given a
‘token of appreciation’ for handling the
order of events on the day. He is, also,
recognized as our president, Peter
McTait.
A jolly time was had by all present.
—Karel Ley
Delta Stroke Recovery
www.templetonstrokerecovery.com
Another year has gone by?
I just don’t know what
happened to this year.
Seems every year is ever so
busy, for most of us. Is it
only me that feels busy, or
is it our every day world?
There’s a saying, “The faster
I go, the slower I get,”
That’s me.
We have managed to get
through Xmas, at the
“Lion’s Den.” That all seem
to go well, again, thanks to
all the hard work of:
Valerie-cooking
Jeanie (our potato peeling lady) she’s a whizz, our Jeanie is!
Key for wrapping most of all the raffle gifts, making all the HandyDart trans-portation arranging for members.
JoAnn (our former volun-teer) helping organize the gifts at the Den and ticket sales.
Debbie for all her organiz-ing name tags and the cash, keeping all the money straight.
Laurie (Debbie’s friend)
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for being front end helper and kitchen helper.
Karen (another former volunteer) that also comes every year to help
We had all of Key’s family:
Hailey (granddaughter) and
her friend for ticket sales,
Bryan, kitchen helper (he’s
a whizz at getting the dishes
done) Brad, our spokesman,
Bryan’s friend, Sue, that
helped at the door with Deb
and JoAnn; Tak and Marika
(Key’s brother and his wife)
helping with clean-up; Olga,
volunteer that did all the
turkey slicing.
It took all these people to
be able to get a dinner on
for 65 to 70 people. To
some people, it might seem
this just happens? No, it
doesn’t just happen. It took
a lot of good people to get
it altogether. Templeton is
so lucky to have all these
people to help us for this
once a year fundraiser.
Thank you for this help.
Then, we must not forget,
the Templeton members,
their families and friends
that come to this Xmas
dinner, without them, there
would be no dinner, raffle
or friendship, that has
evolved from this Xmas
celebration. It started about
14 years ago which was
almost ended in a disaster
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December 2010 Volume 10, Issue 129
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w h e n t h e o v e n a t
Templeton Center, stopped
working and we had to run
the two turkeys between
Debbie’s house and the
center to get them cooked.
We are more experienced,
I think???
It also great that we are
supported by other groups.
Karel Ley and Blaire came
from Delta and Martha
from Douglas Park. They
came from a long distance.
It was wonderful to see
them drive the distance to
come and join us.
Karel Ley has been very
active with Debbie on
“Easter Camp” BLAST
(Building Life After Stroke
Together).
I would like to remind our
SRABC members to support
the “Easter Camp BLAST.”
As I have said, Xmas dinner
doesn’t happened, and it’s
the same with the “Easter
Camp.” Many people put a
lot of effort to get this
“Easter Camp” going again,
which is so beneficial to
new members and, of
course, older members.
Love the reunion of friends
(stroke survivors and care-
givers and friends) that they
connected with years back
at camp.
Squamish Lion’s Easter Camp
is such a beautiful area in
LAST MONTH’S HAPPENING...Ollie Stogrin
Spring. Every stroke survivor
should, at least, try to go
one time. They might find
that they can do things that
they thought they couldn’t
do, ever again! Like dancing,
swimming??? Working their
way to recovery. Try it with
other stroke survivors.
Easter Camp week-end is
full of surprises, try it!
I hope, everyone had a
great Xmas, holidays times.
Only now, its back to reality
“STROKE RECOVERY Program!
Happy New Year 2011!
—Ollie Stogrin
Templeton Stroke
Recovery
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S t r o k e R e c o v e r e r ’ s R e v i e w
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Martha Hutchinson’s says:
Blair and I attended the first
ever aphasia camp for
people with aphasia and
their caregivers. It was
similar for the most part to
other camp events we have
attended in the past
Squamish (for stroke
survivors) except it was
shorter and a different time
of year than our usual
(Easter) camp. And, there
were a lot of health
John and his wife, Mary,
live in Red Deer, Alberta.
One winter morning while
listening to the radio, they
hear the announcer say,
“We are going have 8 to 10
inches of snow today. You
must park your car on the
even numbered side of the
street, so the snow plough
can get through.”
John’s wife, Mary goes out
and moves her car.
A week later while they are
eating breakfast, the radio
announcer says, “We are
expecting 10 to 12 inches of
snow today. You must park
your car on the odd num-
bered side of the street, so
the snow plough can get
through.” John’s wife,
Mary, goes out and moves
her car again.
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The next week, they are
having breakfast again
when the radio announcer
says, “We are expecting 12
to 14 inches of snow today.
You must park…,” then, the
electric power goes out.
John’s wife, Mary, is very
upset, and with a worried
look on her face, she says,
“Honey, I don’t know what
to do. Which side of the
street do I need to park on
so the snow plough can get
through?”
With the love and under-
standing in his voice, like all
men who are married to
blondes exhibit, John says,
“Why don’t you just leave it
in OUR garage this time?” —jokeonly
—Submitted Carol Roycroft
Burnaby Stroke Recovery
Building Life-After-Stroke
Together
(April 22 to 25, 2011).
We are asking people to
SIGN UP now. We need 30
names by JAN. 20th, 2011
to keep the ball rolling. 14
people signed up the first 2
days, it’s looking good. The
price has not been set yet,
but it will be no more than
$250. SIGN UP now so we
can keep you informed.
We are limited to 80
people , so we urge you to
get your name ASAP. There
DOUGLAS PARK STROKE RECOVERY BRANCH
EASTER CAMP 2011
WINTER STORY Jokeonly
S t r o k e R e c o v e r e r ’ s R e v i e w
sciences UBC students
there, getting exposure to
people with aphasia and
completing a course credit.
So, it was a very “young
feeling” camp.
I am a member of a core
group of stroke survivors
working on re-establishing
our Easter Camp at that
same location in April 2011.
I’m reminding my fellow
strokers about signing up—
details on the website–
Turtletalk.ca. And, spread
the words, please! We still
need a few more campers
to sign up, and make a $20
deposit showing intention
to attend. And, we are
always looking for dona-
tions, so, we are able to
lower the overall cost of the
camp for everyone. This is
going to happen for sure
this year! —Martha H.
is no deadline set. It will be
on a first come basis
according to the sign up
sheet. To reserve your
place, please send us a $20
deposit.
Our camp coordinator is
Margaret Hansen.
You sign up by: Internet, go
to Turtletalk.ca and Sign up
for BLAST or by postal mail.
And, you can also call Karel
at 604-943-3206, daytime.
OR Deb, 604-253-2390,
11am-11pm. —Deb Chow,
Templeton Stroke Recovery
DOUGLAS PARK X’MAS Party 2010 had a live band!!!
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SLOWER? FASTER? — W. Stephan, NSSRC—West Vancouver Group
Remember the 60’s? It is
said that a popular mantra
then was: ‘slow down, turn
on, drop out.’ I do not know
whether or not this is true
for the whole population,
but it is claimed that the Gulf
Islands were then populated
by hippies and former
executives who did their
utmost to ‘drop out.’ They
did not want to hear about
the joys of daily stress and
the ‘rush’ of ‘chasing the
buck.’
‘Time and Motion’ studies
are all about: ‘how can we
do things faster? Experts
claim that they can deter-
mine which ones are the
fastest workers: the one
with the most efficient, but
often slower movements.
But, I digress. We should not
want to do things faster, but
better. We do not get to
‘turned on’ by stress and
speed but we want is to
understand what we do. This
approach is not very popular
with ‘business’ which wishes
for speed alone.
The philosopher, F.
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
promoted the concept of
‘slow reading’ in contrast to
‘speed reading.’ He claimed
that slow reading leads to
understanding while speed
reading reduces comprehen-
sion. The former U.S. Presi-
dent, John F. Kennedy was
famous for his ability
to speed-read (and compre-
hend) 4 or 5 news-papers
every morning, but maybe
he was an exception.
The International Business
Machine (IBM) technology
specialist, John Miedema, in
his recent book ’Slow
Reading’ (I have only read a
review) sees this as being
similar to the ‘Slow
Food’ (anti-fast food) move-
ment. It is controversial.
The ‘slow food’ movement
seems to promote the
preservation of the farming
of plants, seeds and live-
stock characteristic of local
ecosystems. The movement
based on the book, does
not claim for an increase
in comprehension and
‘absorption’ of information,
but some adherents do
that. It is therefore contro-
versial.
Does this apply to Christ-
mas, for example? In the
19th century and before;
the Christmas season-
started with Advent: tree
cutting, baking, and other
activities which promoted
anticipation (slow-down).
Now, this is compressed to
2 celebration days plus a
few days of preparation
(fast). That does not
include commercial activities
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I went to so many X’mas parties this December! Two parties, I liked were:
Templeton’s Chris tmas D inner night, Dec. 4, held at 770 Commercial Drive, Vancouver. Turkey dinner with all the trimmings! Raf-fles galore! Door prizes, booze raffle (so many wanted the booze). Balloon raffle was a big hit! We, the members, tried to be the “Entertainment.’ A skit and a song. And, everybody was laughing about the antics of some of our members. And, the dinner was a success as a fundraiser!
Then, Douglas Park Stroke Recovery Christmas party (Dec. 21) held at Langara Golf Course Restaurant. I went to Langara Golf Course by Skytrain with my electric scooter. It’s good it’s not raining but it was windy and very cold and I had to bundled myself up. We were twenty-some people and a big turkey, then the band (some are stroke survivors) started to sing Christmas carols (Blue Christmas ala Elvis!).
BLASTing away the New Year!!! SIGN UP—see the website: turtletalk.ca for more information, and inside this newsletter.
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which start almost two
months earlier and
presumably do not add to
the anticipation, only to the
frustration (Do I have to
buy this gift? Will my
finances take it?).
Some people propose a
break from computers one
day per week. Hardly practi-
cal in most jobs and, in my
opinion! Computers are
now a part of our daily
lives. Can you imagine to
have to depend on the slow
and expensive ’snail mail’?
No e-mail? All our gadgets
seem to hurry us up. Do we
really want to ‘slow down,
turn on, drop-out?’ Retire-
ment, health care (and a
stroke) are challenging
enough!
This article contribution
was written and researched
on a computer. Therefore,
I should admit to the use of
technology, in order to
research information faster.
Should I have gone to a
library and research this
essay laboriously and then
written this by hand, a slow
and error prone process?
Sometimes ‘faster’ is not
bad at all!
—by Werner Stephan,
NSSRC,
West Vancouver Group
“There’s life after stroke”
J-NOTES...Jose Suganob
S t r o k e R e c o v e r e r ’ s R e v i e w