NEW MAIL BOXES
These are now installed in the Centre and the first delivery date will be Feb. 17th. All mail will be switched the same day. The Mail Room is immediately to your right after entering the front door of Foxboro Centre.
If you were unable to get your new key on Feb. 14th at the Centre you may obtain your key any week day at the Sales Pavillion Snowbirds will need to get your mailbox and key from Gillian on your return.
If you have concerns please contact Gillian -634-9600
The Condominiums of Foxboro Green invite applications for a part time maintenance person ( 6- 10 hours / week) to maintain Electrical /Mechanical systems at the new �Foxboro Centre�.
Responsibilities include checking pool and spa chemicals daily, maintaining softener salt, maintaining clean filters in RO, HVAC, and HRV systems, lighting maintenace as well as general duties such as ensuring the building and grounds are kept in a clean and safe condition.
This position is open to all Foxboro residents and those who are interested and feel they are qualified should submit a resume to Marg Wendland by March 3rd. Qualified Board Members may apply, however, to avoid any conflict they muct remove themselves from the selection process. Hourly rate to be negotiated
Note from the Editors
We are pleased to be able, with the addition of a scanner, to incorporate pictures into our newsletter. Thank you for your patience as we learn our way around in desk top publishing.
Your expressions of appreciation have encouraged us over these last few months. One comment that came from new comers to our community was �It's a labour of love.� That's it! That captures exactly how we feel. You are our friends and neighbours and we prepare this paper as though it were a valentine we were giving to you personally. It's nice to know that came across.
We are new at this and so it entails lots of learning. We have a vision for Fox Talk. We want it to reflect the warm caring community we find here. Besides the necessary reports and calendar, we would like to include human interest stories concerning our community that will help us get to know one another better; salt and pepper it with a little humour and inspiration; and hopefully leave you feeling good when you finish reading Fox Talk.
But we cannot accomplish this alone We need your input and help from time to time. With this in mind we have prepared a survey to help us discern what YOU envision this paper to be, and to include any ideas and suggestions you may have. Thank you
Bill and Maureen Wills
Community Calendar
FEBRUARY 1997
20TH 7:30 p.m. Mixed Cards Foxboro Centre
25th 9:30 a.m. Christian Women's Club
For rides & reservations call 634-9865
7:00 p.m. Crafts Foxboro Centre (upstairs)
MARCH 1997
11TH 7:30 p.m. Ladies Cards Foxboro Centre
15th 8:00 p.m. St. Patrick's Party �Wearing of the Green�
REMINDER: There will be NO BOWLING in March due to March break
CRAFT CORNER
ATTENTION LADIES: Come and enjoy the fun and socializing.
This month we will be learning how to cover those old wire hangers.
DATE- Tuesday February 25th
TIME- 7:00 p.m.
PLACE- Recreation Centre
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
scissors, wire hangers, 1 or 2 balls of qualicraft which can be purchased at Walmart in the sewing-craft dept.
If you are unable to get the qualicraft please let me know and I will purchase it for you.
For any further information don't hesitate to call Rosanna at 634-9780
february 1997
Keeping In Touch
Welcome cards were sent to Adrian & Frances Schipper, and John & Anne Kraemer, as well as to Marcel Latreille & Dianne
Vanderlaan.
A plant and card was delivered to Tom Nairn on his return from hospital after suffering a heart attack.
The family of Gloria Coghill, Bob Barnhart's secretary who passed away suddenly, was sent a card expressing the sympathy of our community, and a donation made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in her memory. (see front page)
If you have any information on the community to pass on during the period of Feb. 24th through to the end of April please call Jessie Brown 634-9880 Thankyou, Joan Beveridge
More Greetings from the Sunny Florida
These come from Hugh & Phyllis Bird and Olwen Niessen in Naples, Jim & Brenda Churton , Sarasota, and from Bill & Lucille Balcomb at Cape Coral.
All the letters had one thing in common. They are glad to have escaped the shivering and shovelling we have been experiencing here. Jim and Brenda, who left the south to come and move into Foxboro Green just before Christmas, returned as quickly as possible to warmer weather. They write: �We ...don't always relish the return (to Ontario). This year we can look forward to enjoying our new home and getting to know our new friends and neighbours.�
Bill Balcomb poses this question : �Now that the excitemnt of manicuring a brand new lawn for a few months is beginning to wear off, perhaps more mower pushers might like to have their cutting done for them, (especially after a winter of snow shovelling).�
He wondered if those interested could send their names in and if there was a larger number than the 3 or 4 last year, a better price might be negotiated with whoever wins the lawn maintenance contract. To save a lot of phone calls we have made provision at the bottom of the attached survey where homeowners can answer this question and we will see that the appropriate people get the information.
Bill and Lucille conclude with �We sure enjoy Fox Talk and hope one is on it's way.� It may interest the reader to know that we send eight Fox Talks down South each month, to those who have requested it,and we know some kind neighbours are doing the same for others.
INTERESTED IN A �MEN'S CLUB�?
If you are interested in meeting once a month over coffee with other men of the community, and listening to an interesting speaker, call Jim Ainsworth 634-5272
BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY
Many have offered books for our library, and now is the time to start getting them ready. If you are only loaning them, you should write in the front, �ON LOAN� and your name. Watch for a further notice in the next Fox Talk. Meanwhile we need someone who will organize these books. Please see the end of the attached survey for your response. If you have more questions about this call Maureen Wills.
FOXBORO CENTRE UPDATE
The main floor of Foxboro Cenetre will be READY FOR USE by the end of February. The lower level, crafts, billiards etc. will be complete by the end of March with the pool area to follow by mid to late April.
If you are wanting TO BOOK ANY EVENT, you may do this through Gillian until March 4th. After that date the �Recreation Committee� will be in place and will then handle bookings of the Party Room / Kitchen.
We are planning another OPEN HOUSE FOR mid March to help residents familiarize themselves with the facilities. The Open House date will be posted on the Mail Room Bulletin Board.
Volume 3, Issue 2
�Marriage is like an army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many reenlist. �
The Forturne Cookie
REMINDER re: ZEHRS TAPES
If you shop at any of the Zehrs grocery stores your cash register receipts could help us aquire items needed for our new Foxboro Centre. It would be appreciated if you would circle the total of your food bill, and if you wish to total all your tapes before handing them in that too would be helpful. When The Centre is ready there will be a box supplied where you may deposit them. Until that time you may give any tapes to Rita Hill, Marg Wendland or Maureen Wills. Thankyou.
A TRIBUTE TO GLORIA
It was with shock and sadness that we learned of the death of Gloria Coghill who had been Bob Barnhart's secretary for 16 years. On Saturday, February the 1st, Gloria had a stroke at her home and remained on life support until the following Wednesday, the day she passed away.
Gloria was the first person most of us met when we visited the Reidco office. We will miss her warm welcome and friendly smile.
Few of us had opportunity to discover the wealth and depth that was Gloria. However, in speaking to several of her co-workers and friends we learned that Gloria was a woman of many talents and interests. She was very involved in the life of her church and especially active in the area of music. Not only did she sing in the choir and a quartette, she played the piano and organ as well. Her love for children was reflected in her work with summer Daily Vacation Bible Schools.
Gloria also had an artistic flair which was evident by her lovely home and the beautiful crafts she made. She was always ready and willing to use these talents to decorate for banquets and special occasions.
Said friends and co-workers, �Gloria was always the same, always cheerful. ...She always made time for others, it was just part of her nature. ...She was a true and good friend. ...You could never say enough good about Gloria.�
Our hearts go out to the family and to her close friends and associates at Reidco who will miss her dearly.
IN MEMORY OF GLORIA COGHILL, who had suffered from a bad heart for some years, it was deemed appropriate that a donation of $50.00 be sent to the HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION from the community of FOXBORO GREEN.
�You can give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving.�
Amy Carmichael
LOVE IS A DECISION
Contributors to this issue:
The Balcombs
� The Spaffords
� Doreen Dean
� Joan Beveridge
� Rosanna Olsson
� Bob Price
� Jeanne Malich
� Ross Fairweather
Marg Wendland
Thanks to all.
A NOTE OF GRATITUDE
The January Foxtalk encouraged us to submit Valentine stories for the Februaruy issue.
Valentine wishes come from the heart, and I would like to extend my �heartfelt� thanks to all my friends and neighbours for the beautiful plant, snow shoveling, cards, get well wishes, and especially their prayers during my recent illness.
I am improving daily.
Sincerely
Tom Nairn
We're thankful for that Tom We wish you the best in your recovery.
