" BUILDING A BRIDGE " AS SMUG HAS 10TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY

With 10 more Smuggers than last year, SMUG once again returned to Razzy's Roadhouse for the Annual Christmas Sing-Along and Dinner . The picture taking area seemed to have shrunk as we tried to squeeze 31 Smuggers into the small end of the room, but we did succeed and some are only seen as peeking through heads. So, I printed all of the photos. As usual Dennis did the honours of directing the sing-song of carols for about an hour, after which the food was ordered and very quickly brought to the tables close to the noon hour.

President Maurice and Vice-President Leah performed the annual year-end ritual of embarrassing the director with their kind words and very generous gift from the whole group. Diane and I sincerely thank you for your thoughtfulness, and wish you all well as SMUG moves in to the second decade. Maurice also read a poem "Building a Bridge" by W.A. Dromdool, a most appropriate listen for us all......well thought out Maurice!  Treasurer Mary had counted the Toonie Bin and a report on the contents was passed on to the group. As our numbers increase it is hoped the Toonie Bin will hold a bit more to cover what are really only small costs, but of course growing each year.

Yesterday SMUG played at 501 Queen Street under the direction of Kelly Galloway.We were introduced by Cindy Murnaghan, the resident organizer, and yours truly was the fill-in bass player for the afternoon, and being totally absorbed in the music, forgot to take photos. But my thanks to the many who turned up for the concert(22), especially Kelly for taking over directing for the day when we know it is a busy time for her. SMUG had the largest turnout of residents and friends we have ever seen there. Even asked for and received an encore. All because of Kelly's fine directing, I would say.

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