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Many thanks to all who participated in this very successful event to raise money for the Irish Heritage club’s support of organ transplants at Sixth Avenue Golf & Country Club in Lively. Special thanks to Reggie White and his team for all the work they put into this very worthy cause. It was really inspiring to see money donated to worthy recipients and also to hear Sudbury Councilor Russ Thompson relate the story of his successful kidney transplant. Thanks Russ. Big thanks also to Councilor Jacques Barbeau for his great support. I can’t begin to tell you how much he contributed to this event… and always does.

Have you signed your organ donor card? I have!
Does your family know your wishes? Mine does!

None of us is in a hurry to become organ donors, but we don’t know what tomorrow holds. And maybe, just maybe, someone will live on even if I don’t. Just as a note of information, I have a sister-in-law who is a double lung transplant recipient. She is having a tough time right now, but she has survived long enough (six years) to see one of her life’s goals achieved… living long enough to see her two children grow up.

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Thanks so much for visiting. You can check out the other sections while your here, and I would be especially pleased if you visit my Fine Art gallery… it’s what I believe I do best… and I love doing it.
Garth

Figuring it out… with a little help from my friends and the online help desk.

The Anderson Farm Tree Lighting for 2009 is finally up and working. Sorry for my non-geek status… but then again, I hope I make up for the shortfall in one area with my ability to “get the picture”. Enjoy.  As they say… click here

64 years old… back to school! Just returning from five days at Niagara School of Imaging (NSI) http://www.niagaraschool.com/ . What a blast! Traveling through the fruit belt of Ontario brought back so many memories from my youth when I spent part of a summer picking fruit in the Vineland and Jordan Station area about fifty years ago. NSI was awesome. I enrolled in Marilyn Sholin’s class http://www.marilynsholin.com/

Teacher acting goofy

for digital painting. Marilyn is one of only three dozen Corel Paining Masters in the world and she deserves to be there. All NSI classes are small (7 in our case) so you get all the attention you need. Now I have to unscramble my brain and start using what I learned. The hardest part is getting my head around the idea that paintings are a representation of reality (unless you’re my magnificent artist friend Cheryl Battistelli  http://cherylbattistelli.com/ who seems to know every whisker on a cat’s face… I’m sure she counts them Anyway, made some really nice friends and am looking forward to this new expression of my artistic talents.

If you’ve seen “The Bucket List” then you might relate better to some folks I’ve met this year. In May I was camping in Killarney and met Michal and Janine from Switzerland. They travel a lot and are presently on a five month cross Canada trip by car… then there’s the Italian couple I happened to meet today in Sudbury. They are traveling Montreal to Vancouver on a bicycle built for two, and hauling a trailer. It’s longer than a lot of smaller cars on the road these days. Their blog site is http://www.salitedelvco.it/blog01/ It is written in Italian, but just by looking at the pictures, you can tell these guys travel a lot. I think they must have been born on a bicycle. Cycling across Canada isn’t part of my personal Bucket List (I do have one) but I respect these folks for their undertakings. Welcome to Canada… enjoy.