By-Town Heritage Club

Nominated by member Dennis Jarvis, the By-Town Heritage Club was pleased to provide Foodsharing Ottawa with a $500 donation to support their amazing community effort. Foodsharing Ottawa has been rescuing surplus food in Canada’s capital since 2015. Their mission is to reduce the amount of food that gets thrown away in the community by providing and promoting alternative uses. Most of their rescued food is donated to local charities such as food banks and shelters.

Foodsharing Ottawa told us, “When two organizations share a common interest to serve those in the community, it is always nice when one can help the other in a concrete way.  Foodsharing Ottawa is thrilled to receive this year’s community support award from the By-town chapter of the Heritage Club.  The award is deeply appreciated and will support efforts to benefit the community through food redistribution as well as education campaigns on ways to reduce food waste to benefit the environment by diverting surplus food from landfill.”

Pictured below is a Daphne Wahnon, Foodsharing Ottawa’s board chair, receiving your club’s donation from member Dennis Jarvis. Congratulations Dennis on making a difference in your community!

Please give a warm welcome to new members Chantal Paquette, Nicholas Vachon and Ross Hebert, and returning members Estelle Amyot and Wayne Huchuk. Welcome all!

Canada Post Heritage Club has teamed up with the professionals at HearingLife to provide the very best hearing care services to all its members. HearingLife and its Network Partners have over 400 clinics across the nation and form the largest network of Hearing Healthcare providers in Canada.
Your membership with the Canada Post Heritage Club makes you and your spouse/partner, children, and parents eligible to receive exclusive benefits, including an EXTRA 10% off the final purchase price of hearing aids and custom noise protection, plus more AIR MILES™ Reward Miles©*
PLUS, you’re eligible to register for the HearingLife Advantage Club Pass and receive:

• A FREE Club Pass Card
• Opportunities to collect more Air Miles™ Reward Miles©
• Access to exclusive contests and giveaways

Take Advantage now! Visit HearingLifeAdvantage.ca/CPHC to request your free Club Pass Card
Have questions? Contact the preferred partner line at 1-888-419-8727.

 
*Offers not available in Quebec.

We had a great AGM meeting with more than 50 members in attendance. We’ll provide a full report in the next newsletter. Thank you to the members who took part in the meeting. Your presence and participation at the AGM, at any event for that matter, is what makes our club strong and vibrant. We thrive (and have a lot of fun!) because of the dedication and support from our members.

Your executive is happy to announce the recipients of the chapter’s 2024 charity support. This years recipients, of $500 each, are:

• Food Sharing Ottawa: nominated by member, and group volunteer, Dennis Jarvis
• Lanark County Interval House and Community Support: nominated by member, and organization volunteer, Martin Stockton

Learn more about each group’s work on their websites. Both members expressed their appreciation to the club for enabling them to provide this great support to causes important to them. Another example of how your Heritage Club membership can bring rewards! 

Our October lunch will be held at Saint-Éloi Café Bistro on Thursday, October 3, beginning at 11:30 a.m. After lunch, if the weather allows, we’ll take a walk around Lac Lemay (about 2.5 km, easy to moderate path) to hopefully admire fall’s colour palette! Please register your attendance, via email, by September 27.
 
Our November lunch will be held at Hometown Sports Grill on Thursday, November 7 at 11:30 a.m. Please register your attendance by October 30.
 
As is our tradition, our December lunch will be held on a Santa Letter-writing day, more details to follow in the next newsletter. We will also have details for our holiday gathering in the next newsletter. Stay tuned!

We have been gifted a few stamp collectibles from Canada Post that the chapter will be raffling off to raise funds for the club. Tickets are $2.00 each or three for $5.00. We will be selling tickets at the fall lunches and Santa Letter-writing days. The winning tickets will be drawn on December 20. You can also purchase tickets (though we ask for a minimum of $10 purchase…) via email (when you send your email, we’ll provide instructions…). All proceeds will be used to support club activities (events, door prizes, charity support, etc.). These frames are perfect gifts for the NHL fan in your life, Canadian music lovers and postal memorabilia collectors. Up for grabs are:

• 1^ST PRIZE: A signed and numbered, limited edition, Bobby Orr collection frame… Arguably the NHL’s best-ever defensemen, this frame originally sold for $249 but they are now selling on eBay for upwards of $700!
• 2^ND PRIZE: A limited-edition Tommy Hunter stamp frame, celebrating the music and life of the iconic Canadian country music icon who entertained us in our living rooms for 27 years!
• 3^RD PRIZE: 2013 NHL Collectors Album: Written in association with the Hockey Hall of Fame, this richly detailed album is filled with historic images and photos recounting the history of Canada’s NHL team jerseys and some of the NHL’s most famous trophies, including the Hart Memorial Trophy.
• 4^TH PRIZE: A framed watercolour art piece by Bill Slavin from the 1996 book, Get Started: Stamp Collecting for Canadian Kids, by Elizabeth MacLeod (author) and Bill Slavin (Illustrator). A beautiful collectible for any postal history buff. This prize comes with a $25 Tim Horton’s gift card! Thank you to member Marilyn Venner for donating the watercolour frame.

If you registered for the September AGM, you will have received a confirmation email from us today. If you did not receive the email and have registered, please resend your registration request. Thanks!

Please give a warm welcome to new members Mary Lynn Adair and Bertrand Moineau and returning members Wayne Cheeseman, Frank McCarthy, and Cal Ansty. Welcome, welcome, welcome! 

The September lunch will be our AGM. It will be held on Thursday, September 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at KS on the Keys.
 
The meal will be a pizza and salad buffet (with pop/coffee/tea included). The subsidized price for this buffet will be $20 per member, cash collected at the door (please!), members will pay for their own drinks and your executive will be baking up a storm to provide home-baked treats for dessert! If you have dietary restrictions that prevent you from eating the buffet, please send a note and arrangements will be made to accommodate. Please register your attendance, ASAP, by email.
 
Our yearly elections will be held, and the president and treasurer will provide reports and are working on two special presentations… A VP position and the Treasurer’s position are up for re-election. If you are interested in either position please send an email for more information. It’s also a great time to chat with any executive member about what we’re doing right (or wrong!) and give any feedback/input you have about club activities. Please join us… 

As part of our “People helping People” objective, your chapter will be supporting two worthy charities (over and above our support for the Canada Post Community Foundation) with donations of $500 each, and we want your input. We invite you to nominate a charity that holds a special place in your heart. To nominate a charity, please send us the charity’s name, their website, a brief description of their mission, and why it is meaningful to you, by August 23. Recipients will be announced at the AGM. Thank you for helping us make a positive impact!

Though our picnic was rained out, we had a great theatre outing in June and a FABULOUS golf tournament in July. A few pictures to share…

Summer 2024 fun!

So many prizes!

Golf day prizes and food!

Golf day fun

Cool By-Town shades for all!

Solar Brewery

Theatre trip and brewery

Morrisburg and brewery

We hope you are enjoying your summer! Just a quick note to remind you to register (by Friday, July 26) if you plan to attend the August breakfast. More details here. Register via email. A full newsletter will be sent in mid-August! Stay cool! 

Get ready to golf! Due to the very positive response last year (our highest registration in many years!), we hope you will join us at Emerald Links on July 18 for our annual golf day! As always, our event is set up as a fun, fun, fun day… Come on out and join in the fun – hit (or not…) a few balls, share a few laughs, enjoy a drink and delight in a good meal – all in the name of friendship, golf silliness and fun. 

• When: Thursday, July 18 at 1:00 p.m.
• Where: Emerald Links Golf Course
• Cost: $75 (club sponsoring a part) for By-Town Heritage Club members. $95 for non-members.  

To register, please send an email ASAP so we can begin planning. Let us know if you have a foursome ready to go or if you wish to be placed with other golfers and if you will be staying for dinner. Dinner will be ordered from the menu and is not included in your golf day payment. Please register and pay by June 27. Payment information is here.
 
You are also welcome to join us just for dinner… please send us an email to let us know you’ll skip the golf but join us for dinner!  

Back by popular demand is a fall winery tour to Prince Edward County. Yeah! Our fall wine tour was a club staple for, well, forever! Stupid COVID interrupted that tradition and a few things seemed to conspire against us ever again experiencing the fun of a By-Town Wine Tour. But… we’re thrilled to bring back the fun this October. Join us from October 15 – 17 for a great tour of the PEC wine area. Included in your trip is:

• return transportation to Prince Edward County and to all wineries
• car parking at Riverside Church
• two-nights accommodation at the fabulous Huff Estates Winery and Inn
• two breakfasts
• two lunches (an all-you can eat pizza buffet and a three course meal)
• one group dinner
• tastings at 9 wineries
• afternoon snacks at 2 wineries
• bus snacks on the way to PEC and back

With this almost all-inclusive trip all you’ll pay for, once we leave Ottawa, is for one dinner, one lunch and a morning coffee/tea on the way to PEC (and, of course, any wine you purchase!). As you can see from this tour, the By-Town option is a pretty great one!
 
The cost for active members is only $675 per member (double occupancy).

To reserve a spot, please follow this procedure:

• send an email to register you and any others in your party
• PLEASE DO NOT send the deposit until you have a return email confirming your registration
• when you receive a note back that you have a spot reserved, please send your deposit of $200 per person (no later than July 3, 2024)
• complete your payment (of $475 per person) by September 5, 2024
• how to pay information here

Please note the mobility requirements for this trip require attendees to get on and off a coach bus several times per day and maybe climb one set of stairs (most wine tastings are on the main floor but there could be a need to go up one floor for a tasting…).
 
Currently, registration is open to members (and their spouse and/or room partner) only.