TempletonnewsletterDec2010

“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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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

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Last Month’s Happening

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Douglas Park Branch Christmas Party 2010

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Slower? Faster? J-Notes

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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


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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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

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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


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!!!


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!).

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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


J-NOTES...Jose Suganob


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