Vancouver Report

Spring 2006

Host of the NAGCR AGM 2006

Spring. New life. We celebrated the birth of Eve and Peter's second grand daughter Elizabeth Hunter with a quarter of Grandsire Triples. Peter Munns reached the milestone of ringing 100 quarter peals. Ander and Alan have now circled the tower in ringing quarter peals. A past president of the NAGCR, Michael Batten, joined us to ring for a Tuesday evening practice. Hopefully he can take time from his local parish and family to join us again. Omer continues to progress quickly with firsts inside to Grandsire Triples and Cambridge Surprise Minor.

Omer is currently applying for jobs as a Mathematician, anywhere there is a tower in Canada. So if you know of any openings….

Even during the short days of winter, visitors come for a visit. Father Mario with friends from South Africa, John and Christine from Victoria, Gordon and Paul from Seattle were welcome guests. We can count on Rebecca Woodgate to join us, every other weekend.

We need visitors to join us as there always seems to be someone travelling to places distant. Dick Waterman is away on vacation in South America touring places such as Machu Pichu, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.

We enjoyed our annual dinner at The Vancouver Lawn and Tennis Club. Handbells, presentations and a big thank you Pam for organizing a wonderful event.

Excitement is building toward the NAGCR AGM being held in Vancouver on the weekend of September 3, 2006. Plan to attend the ringing course in Victoria on August 29 to September 1, 2006. For more details, check out the website www3.telus.net/ringer/ or at our new address www.vscr.ca. David Forsyth has been busy making these changes and keeping our website current. To spread the news, articles about the Holy Rosary Cathedral have been published in The Ringing World and the last edition of The Clapper. So do plan to come on the Labour Day Weekend and join us in our celebration of 100 years of ringing at Holy Rosary Cathedral. Spring, can the warmth of summer be far away?

Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Vogl