Gary McDonald "inRefinement" by A. McPope

  In six weeks we'll have our answer dear readers. This photo has two people walking on a surface that looks like mowed Poa annua grass. Do you see them? I don't see golf clubs or caddies which makes me skeptical. We'll find out and let you know.     Let's talk about Spring Training. It happens every year for Baseball Teams; it occurs every fall for Hockey Teams and Football Teams and it happens every year in Canada for golfers, tennis players and many others.     My readers know me as having had 77 seasons of getting ready for burby, baseball, hockey, skiing, golf, tennis, squash and finally golf again for the last 40 years. My sons Greg and Rob know this and have poked fun at me while I tightened trusses and elastoplas bandages onto arms, legs, wrists, shoulders and spine to allow my passion for sports to play out on ice, snow, wood, concrete, grass and good old plain dirt. I didn't need these bands of assistance all the time, but often enough to be known as a...

  The Garfield Legacy Fund Significant Sales Experiences 1965 - 1998, May 29, 2002 -  February 08, 2023        My Significant Sales Experience (May 29, 2002)   My son Rob triggered this thought: 'What were your significant sales experience Dad?'  I answered with, 'That's a tough one Rob, let me think about that for awhile.' I immediately cracked open a new Word file and saved it on the desktop as YSSE. On a rainy day in May following several weeks of procrastination, I've considered a few of these memories for your reading enjoyment. My former partner Duncan McGregor has agreed that this paper would be a benefit to any sales person plying their trade in the lithographing business; indeed, he offered his recollection of these events and added one more horror story to my thoughts regarding the one whose itch is contained in the following material. Please read on, and know, that I have not included his comments into this report, as much as I apprecia...

  The Garfield Legacy Fund   The Rational Optimist   by Matt Ridley a book on evolving world prosperity. I completed this book January 29, 2020 and found TRO tedious at first. His opinions, I supposed, needed to review early examples of doing business, and he did that by looking at man’s pre-historic life without transactions with other men. Like animals, men ate what they killed, they wore the skins and built shelters; they did it all and relied on no one. When man realized that he did certain things well, and other men did certain other things well, they could then trade their skill sets or their products for the other man’s skills or products. Let’s say one was a good fisherman and the other was a good tool maker. They worked this by bartering fish for tools and both benefitted from the others work. When one multiplies these actions many times over, with many different skills, one’s prosperity can be greater than when one does it alone. And instead of simple bartering,...

This is where I start on this fine wintry day. My previous athletic and life pursuits have been revealed on 145 pages of a book available on Amazon. You might click and buy it here by searching for this title: 2nd Place Finishes and Bad Knees. https://youtu.be/ntDLjoJMHk8  During the last week I have clicked on this YouTube link daily and worked on exercises called 'Chair Exercise for Seniors.' The required time to completion is about 15 minutes and involve one's arms, legs, back, chest and especially our core muscles in the stomach area. I'd recommend it to any senior person.     On Monday February 23, 2026 we started a complimentary program provided by Carmen Corbasson Community Centre Fitness and Adult Program Winter 2026 on Cawthra Rd.      We  checked in for the first time and found there were additional costs associated with the use of the Therapeutic Pool. [I should have applied a world-wide theory that states "when it sounds too good to be true...