Doug and Kathy Grant Farewell to Cape Breton

CB Island Hoppers:

As promised, we would like to advise all our friends in the Islandhoppers that, as of May 13, we will be resident at 8 Stanmore Avenue, Kitchener, Ontario N2B 3W2 .


As yet, we have no new telephone number. Both Kathy's e-mail kathygrant498@msn.com and mine douglass_grant@cbu.ca will remain the same for the foreseeable future.

We thank all of our friends for the wonderful sendoff at Terry's last Saturday, and hope to have the pleasure of entertaining many of the same friends whenever they may be in the Kitchener area. Best wishes to all,

Doug Grant

Rebecca Susanna (Betty) Sutherland

Cape Breton Island Hoppers Members and Friends,


Regretfully, Our Vice President and 2010 Convention Chairperson Elsie Buck has informed us about the passing of her Mother Rebecca Susanna (Betty) Sutherland

Mom passed away on the 16 May 2010.

Visitation at Alex Morrison Funeral Home

in St. Peters on Sat 24 April 2010. 2pm - 9pm.

Funeral at a later date.

Cape Breton Post

& Chronicle Herald obituary has been posted for Tuesday, 20 April.

Take Care,

Elsie
 
 
 
Dear Rollie:

Kathy and I am sure that we join with all our members and friends in expressing our heartfelt sympathy to Elsie in the loss of her mother.

CVF Annual General Meeting And Convention 2010

CBIH Members please check your calendars for a Date Change reference the Convention General meeting and please give this message to any member you know who does not have a computer:

http://walkcapebreton.com/



GENERAL CONVENTION MEETING Will Now Be Held On:

WEDNESDAY, 21 April, 6:30

Subject: Convention 2010,

Time is beginning to catch up with us only 45 days before the big event

Cape Breton Regional Library Headquarters

McConnell Memorial Library

Meeting Room

50 Falmouth Street, Sydney, NS

For further details please contact:

President CBIH Joe MacKinnon, 562-3117

Elsie Buck, VP, Chairperson 2010 Convention

E-mail joeandelsie@ns.sympatico.ca  or bretonhoppers@hotmail.com

APRIL - UP COMING EVENTS WITH THE ISLAND HOPERS

 POT LUCK! FAREWELL! FUN, FRIENDSHIP! FOOD!

Saturday, 17 April, 4 - 7 PM

Terry Crawley tgcrawley@bellaliant.net  from Ways and Means Committee invites all members of Cape Breton Island Hoppers to attend a Pot Luck Supper on the occassion of saying our "Farewells to Kathy and Doug Grant who will be leaving Cape Breton on or about the 7th of May.
Doug and Kathy will be taking up residents in Kitchener, Ontario.
The party will take place at Terry Craley's home on "The Mira" http://www.onthemira.com/ 

35 Pledge Drive, off Hillside Road, B1K 3J6

tgcrawley@bellaliant.net

http://www.onthemira.com/

WALK EVENTS:
PRE-CONVENTION WALK

All members of CBIH are invited to walk on:

SUNDAY, 18 APRIL, 1:30 pm and step off at 2:00 pm 

Location: Ortona Drive, (off the Esplanade) meet in front of the gates at Victoria Park Armouries.

This will be a pre-walk event for the CVF Presidents Walk that will take place during the Annual General Meeting and Convention 2010.
The CBIH walk committee would like as many Island Hoppers as possible to know some or most of this route to help our visitors get around the trail as easily as possible.
There will be direction signs on the route or trail but it is still nice to have someone know the trail to be of assistance to our visitors.
The "presidents walk event" will officially take place on Saturday 29 May, 2010. Please see the convention website for more details http://www.walkcapebreton.com/

WALK EVENT:

The Walk Committe invites all members to also Walk on:
COXHEATH HILLS TRAIL, "POST CONVENTION WALK"
1330 Coxheath Rd., Coxheath Trails, CBRM – Coxheath, B1L 1B3
Saturday, 24th April 10:00 AM
5KM and 10KM, Trail Rating 3D

This walk event will be offered on the scheduled for the 2010 Convention on:
Monday 31 May; the walk committee want to have some of our members familiar with the trail before the convention.

NOTE:
Guided Walk Event through the newly developed Coxheath Trails with views of Sydney Harbour and surrounding areas; the trail extends through a pine and spruce forest area with a brook and small waterfall and there will be lots of rest stops along the way. This is a slightly more challenging walk then the previous convention walks so please be prepared with good hiking shoes or boots.

WALK EVENT:

CVF- 59 SYDNEY - YEAR ROUND OR PERMANENT WALK EVENT

The regular Calendar of Walk Events for April:
Sunday, 25th April
Registration: 1:30 pm
Start Time: 2:00 pm
Location: 380 Esplanade, Cambridge Suites, Sydney

NOTE:

The above walk event will also be offered for Friday, 28 May the 2010 Convention with a minor exception, on Friday 28 May, we will meet at the "Big Fiddle" or the kiosk nearby as you enter the Joan Harris Pavillion area, marine terminal where the cruise ships dock!
The Canadian Volkssport Federation (CVF)  has introduced a new program for volkswalkers or volkssporter who just happen to be aboard cruise ships. When their ship arrives at a participating club location dock, and have made prior arrangements with the host club the walkers aboard ship can now start their "Sydney Walk" from the docking area.

See Walk Directions (the walk directions are being modified or under construction at this time but the basic info will remain the same)

 http://cbihwalkdirections.blogspot.com/

APRIL WALK EVENT

The Island Hoppers will be in North Sydney for a 5/10k guided walk event.
Start point is 9 Baird Street, Clansman Motel parking lot.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Registration Time: 1:30pm
Walk begins promptly at 2:00pm
The walk event is our, Year Round Event, (YRE), this is our permanent year round route in North Sydney.

Come join Nip Hillier and the Island Hoppers for a fun walk in North Sydney!