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Nova Vita’s Hope for the Holidays
CFUW Brantford members donated $1,850 to Nova Vita on December 7th, 2022. The funds were allocated to the Hope for the Holidays initiative that supports women and children in the shelter at Nova Vita as they navigated their way through the holiday season.
Anne Ruddell, Community Development Manager, advised us that tax receipts for 2022 donations will be sent out in the first eight weeks of 2023.
The Hope for the Holidays Committee, Bev Golden, Janet Kempster, Lin Fines and Maria Timmons would like to thank our members for their generosity.
The photo of CFUW Brantford presenting the donation to Nova Vita: from left to right: Janet Kempster, Anne Ruddell, Nova Vita Community Development Manager, Maria Timmons and Bev Golden.
Trivia Night! Feb 8th, 2023
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Walking group’s last meet-up for 2022
We had a nice turnout for our final walk of the year. This is half of those who walked. Great weather, no wind and lots of interesting conversations!
Creative cooking group go out for a holiday lunch
The Creative Cooking Group enjoyed their holiday lunch at the Brantford Golf Club. While we missed a few members due to seasonal flu, we were happy to not be cooking, to enjoy the beautiful scenery over the Grand River, and to have a Cookie Exchange. It was a lovely afternoon.
Walking group and Murdoch Mysteries!
Today was the first walk of the fall and we were nearly foiled in our exercise plans because our scheduled trail was being used to film a scene for Murdoch Mysteries. The road was blocked with a flashing police car, but they did let us park further down and sneak onto the trail. It was interesting to sneak a peek of the cricket game in progress and the old cars!
The walk was fabulous. Perfect weather.
Dining out interest group
The Dining Out Group celebrated in style after 30 months of “Pandemic-caused Interest Group lock down”.
We dined at The Twisted Lemon in Cayuga. All eight of us swooned over the delicious dishes that were artistically presented complete with colorful and edible nasturtiums. We are very grateful that Chef/Owner Dan and his team weathered the last few years of Covid and maintained their standard of excellence in food, service, and ambiance.
It is important to note that Twisted Lemon is only open for dinner these days. They have an outdoor dining area, but it is good to go early if you dine inside as it gets noisy when there are large parties of people (present company excluded of course!)
We strongly recommend this restaurant as one of the very best in the area.
Here are some restaurants we’ll be exploring in the coming months:
Good Earth Food & Winery, Beamsville
Langdon Hall, Cambridge
Gran Sasso, Brantford
Olde School, Brantford
Devlin’s, Mount Pleasant
La Cantinella, St. George
Cambridge Mill, Cambridge
Weekly walking group
It’s always such a pleasure, walking with our deer friends.
Games group meets at Glenhyrst
Throughout the pandemic our games group met via zoom for some fun scavenger hunts and trivia challenges, but nothing can beat getting together in person. We took advantage of great summer weather to play some bocce!
Monday afternoon book group
Many of our participants were gone over the summer but three of us still managed to get together to talk about books. Unlike most book groups where the talk focuses on a single book, our group is made up of such avid readers that we often end up discussing half a dozen books or more. Zoom gatherings work because we can pull book images and reviews up on powerpoint to aid in the lively discussion. We are omnivorous in tastes and in a single meeting the discussion can go from memoirs, local history, historical fiction, nature, science fiction, fantasy and everything in between.
