Meetings at Probus Sidney BC
The Probus Club of Sidney BC holds general speakers meetings on the second Tuesday of each month except August and December when special dinner meetings replace the speakers meetings. The monthly Probus Sidney BC meetings are held in Sidney at the Mary Winspear Center, 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney, BC . For a map showing the location of the Mary Winspear Center click here.
Sidney’s Probus BC Meetings commence informally with coffee and pastries at 9:30 am, and the formal part of the meeting begins at 10:00 comprising a short business session followed by a guest speaker. The meetings are scheduled to end at 11:00, but often a speaker will stay after the meeting to answer questions.
The speakers for Sidney Probus BC are chosen to provide meaningful insight into topical issues that are interesting, informative, thought provoking and follow our principles of being non-secretarian, non-political and not vailed advertising.
Information about upcoming speakers and events are provided in the monthly bulletins, sent to the members, and posted on the Probus Sidney BC web site. Previous speaker’s presentations can also be found on our site.
Guests of members, as well as Probus members from communities other than the Probus Club of Sidney BC, and other clubs, are welcome at the meetings.
Feb. 11th The Fantastical Story of Vaccines:
from Smallpox (1796) to Malaria (2023)
Our February speaker, Dr. Patricia Gunton, aka “Dr.Pat”, works exclusively in Long TermCare. It is a wonderful ending to a long career as a Family General Practitioner and Hospitalist.
She obtained her medical degrees graduating from St. Andrews University in Scotland (later attended by Prince William and Kate Middleton!). Residency training in Kingston,
Ontario, and decades of general practice in Calgary were followed by working as a hospitalist in Nanaimo. Dr. Pat retired several years ago and moved to the Capita
Region where she read an appeal for physicians to work in the area. She came out of retirement and is now responsible for the medical care of residents in five Long
Term Care homes in the Capital Region.
FUTURE SPEAKERS
- May 13, (provisional title) “Thoughts on the New International Trade Order.”
Speaker: DR. JEN BAGGS, Professor and Acting Dean, Gustavson School of
Business | University of Victoria. - June 10: (Topic TBA) Speaker: ADAM OLSEN, former Green Party MLA and
presently lead negotiator for WJOȽEȽP’ in conversations with federal, provincial,
regional and local governments as well as organizations operating in the region. - July 8: “More than a wing and a prayer: how birds can help us chart a sustainable
future.” Speaker: DR. AMANDA RODEWALD, Garvin Professor and Senior
Director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology.