COHA Members and Guests,
It’s going to be a great June with your local Humanists, before all of your head off to your summer plans. This month we have our summer solstice BBQ and have a great video presentation lined up. I’m also excited to announce that we have tentatively scheduled the rest of the year’s presentations: a Naturopathic Doctor to come in and talk to us about his industry in September, Doctor Monika Hevelka will be returning to talk about the biology of aging in October and Doctor Chris DiCarlo will be promoting his new new book on skepticism and asking tough questions. Also, out presenter from last month has given me a special message to pass on to you!
Summer Solstice BBQ
The afternoon of Sunday, June 26th we will have a BBQ dinner. Running from 2-6 and located at a new location just outside of Barrie we have fun for the family. We will provider soft drinks with burgers and hot dogs. Please bring a chair to sit on, a small appitizer, dessert or snack to share, and be prepared to pay a parking fee. RSVP by Wednesday June 22nd! For details and to RSVP please contact Lindsay: lindsay@cohumanists.ca or (705) 456-1769.
Message from last month’s presenter, Wanda
Thanks everyone for coming last night – I hope you got as much out of the session as I did! Here’s a couple of things I forgot to mention:
1. Be a DWD Ambassador!
If you’re passionate about choice in dying, we have an opening in our upcoming speaker training day (Thursday June 2nd) and I would LOVE to have someone from Barrie join us. It will be at our offices (55 Eglinton Ave. East, Yonge and Eglinton) in Toronto from 9:00 – 4:30. Anyone interested can contact me for details.
2. Watch
In case you haven’t had a chance to watch the choice in dying videos yet, you can see them on our website at http://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/watch/index.php The videos I showed for Amy Doolittle and John Alan Lee are both there, as is the video of the great choice in dying debate between Don Babey and Margaret Somerville.
3. What does an atheist play?
I also posted a blog post on the session, it’s called “What does an atheist play?” you can see it on our website at http://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/resources/blog_news.php
Thank again to everyone for coming! If you have any feedback for me on the session – or other questions or ideas, please feel free to contact me.
Warmest regards,
Wanda Morris
This month: Living without the Sacred (Video Debate)
On Wednesday, May 29th at 7PM the Central Ontario Humanists will have a video debate with Peterson and de Sousa on Living Without the Sacred. We meet at the Barre Public Library. Guests are welcome.
Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM. As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
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