- Meeting commenced at 11:00 a.m. with the Lord’s Prayer
- PRESENT: Bill and Mary
Plotnikoff, Bill
Loukianow, Alex Wishlow,
Anne Stormes, Marion Verigin.
- Guest: Mary Loukianow
- Moved by Anne Stormes, seconded Mary Plotnikoff, that the
minutes be accepted as presented. CARRIED
- Bursary acknowledgments have been received from Salmo
Secondary
School, Prince Charles School in Creston and Christopher Woykin from
Nelson. Still waiting for acknowledgment from Stanley Humphries
Secondary School in Castlegar.
- CORRESPONDENCE:
- Letter received from Koozma Tarasoff telling us about his
open heart
surgery. His message is that peace begins with each of us.
- Our Agenda is on Andy Cavaloff’s website:
www.spirit-wrestlers.com. [Correction: this website is owned by Koozma
J. Tarasoff, and Andy Conovaloff is the web master.]
- TREASURER'S REPORT:
- Chequing account at December 31, 2006: $2,701.41;
shares:
$25.00.
- We have three new members.
- SHEAF:
- Print a small thank you reminder in Sheaf for
membership donations of
$25. Life members are exempt. A donation of any amount is gratefully
accepted. With this support we are able to have the Day of Love,
bursaries, Peter’s Day and Christmas Party.
- Have the Board of Directors printed in Sheaf as follows:
President – Alex Wishlow
Recording Secretary – Marion Verigin
Treasurer – Anne Stormes
Directors:
Directors At Large:
Director and Sheaf editor – Mae
Popoff (Saskatoon)
- Anne Stormes will send a thank you to Mae Popoff for
doing a good job
with Sheaf.
- AGM Debriefing
- December 2006 Christmas party was a great success.
- 14th Annual Day of Love is February 11, 2007 at 10 a.m.
- Phoning committee for entertainers: Bill
Plotnikoff, Bill
Loukianow, Alex Wishlow, Marion Verigin
- Entertainers:
Mike and Mary Perepolkin
Nick and Lola Sherstobitoff
John and Anne Makave
Harry and Lesley Verigin (Marion)
Basil and Florence Zackordonski
Arishenkoffs
Tom Lewis (Marion)
Lucy and Andy Tarasoff
Tim and Anne Faminoff
Krestova Choir
- Invitations:
Anne and Florence
- OTHER:
- Website: Moved by Anne Stormes, seconded by Mary
Plotnikoff, that, the Canadian Doukhobor Society contact information be
posted on
the Spirit-Wrestler website. CARRIED
- PETER’S DAY: Bill Plotnikoff will contact Lawrence
Chernoff concerning grounds and
tent charges at the Doukhobor Village. If too expensive,
alternate sites might be the Salmo Doukhobor hall and grounds, or the
Salmo K.P. park.
- Next meeting is in Creston on
March 3, 2007 at 11 a.m.
- Meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
The Speech
Your
Invitation from Mae Popoff
January 25, 2007
Happy New Year 2007. We hope your year will be filled with health,
happiness and many positives. We hope the light of the God within each
one of us displaces any darkness (of winter) and brings love, peace and
hope for the future.
Love brings spiritual awareness, mutual respect and a sense of peace
through our connected-ness, dialogue and song as we are one human
family. More than ever, in 2006, the Doukhobor family gathered in
celebration: Day of Love, Brilliant Youth Festival and social, World
Peace Forum, heritage days, Koozma Tarasoff and Alexei tours, Petrov
Dien in many locations, CDC, and others.
Let’s use the Day of LOVE to share memories and made new
memories. The CDS was a historic vehicle in the journey towards
unity and commUNITY amongst Doukhobors and the global contemporary
community.
For the CDS to continue translating their VISION of LOVE into
current practice I propose calling on our talents and offering the
following sponsorships: golf classic, writers workshops, choral
sessions, song writing workshops, “learn how to” sessions, woodwork
sessions, storytelling, fashion shows (historic), fine arts creations
(badges, peace slogans, handiwork) and other creativity.
Mae
Popoff, SHEAF editor, invites comments about our sponsorships.
Saskatoon, Sk
The book
100
Ways
to
Say
I
Love
You, by Jane LaFerla, has patterns and
ideas
for gifts to make. With your time and talents — you can give an extra
measure of love to your special people.
A
"Day
of
Love"
with
Love
and
Gratitude
Alex Wishlow
Chairman of The Day of Love
on February 11th, 2007
Salmo Doukhobor Dom
Salmo, British Columbia
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Spirit:
The renowned Japanese scholar Masaru Emoto has discovered that LOVE and
GRATITUDE have the highest positive vibrations in our lives. These
words and actions somehow affect our cell structure and have the
potential to make us happy and to heal our ills and sorrows.
That wisdom tells us that we need to be careful in not just our
behavior, but how we use our words. The truncated word ‘Douk’, for
example, has the connotation of ‘you fool’ with bad vibrations and this
reflects negatively on all Doukhobors.
Expressions of love and gratitude to others and other things have shown
to produce good vibrations. Because we are made of
approximately 80 percent water, water is our most important substance.
It is a vital part of our genealogy.
Dr. Emoto advises us that the configuration of water that we drink will
be better if we thank it with gratitude for giving use life and health.
By using that same logic, we have the potential to improve our life and
our environment manifold by our good words and deeds.
So, on this Day of Love, let’s embrace the secret of life contained in
Love and Gratitude. That secret provides hope for peace and opens
a way for a new relationship with people and the world.
With Love and Gratitude,
Koozma J. Tarasoff
Ottawa, Ontario
Email: Tarasoff@spirit-wrestlers.com
or k.kristova@sympatico.ca
Website:
www.spirit-wrestlers.com
The 14th Annual
DAY of LOVE
—
Salmo Doukhobor Hall,
Airport Road
1227, Salmo BC V0G 1Z0 — After prayer service starting at 10 a.m.,
there will also be a guest speaker, potluck lunch, congregational
singing, music, vocal entertainment and prizes. Come to enjoy a day of
fellowship, food and fun.
Peter's Day, Brilliant BC
— Sun. June 28, 2009
- 10 am — Verigin Memorial Park —
Prayer
- 11
am — Doukhobor Discovery Centre — Fellowship, Potluck
Lunch, Program of
Rememberance: "The Role of Peter V. Verigin in the Burning of Arms"
The prayer service at Verigin’s Memorial Park in Brilliant, B.C. was
reverent, devout, extremely spiritual. The participation, psalms,
prayers, hymns, devotional expressions and
multi-generational attendance was impressive.
President Alex
Wishlow stated:
Peter’s Day, Petrov Dien is when
we come together, united as brothers and sisters, to commemorate and
thank our forefathers for their gift of peace. Today, let us remember
and honor our ancestors for their achievements and sacrifices. We are
not alone. As we pray, let us also think of our brothers and
sisters who are commemorating Petrov Dien in Lundbreck and Calgary in
Alberta, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and in Verigin, June 29.
Mike Kanigan also welcomed the participants. As part of the Sunday
service, Alex Wishlow also read parts of a letter that Peter V. Verigin
wrote to Leo Tolstoy in May, 1909 regarding Doukhobors in Canada.
A potluck banquet followed on the grounds of the Doukhobor Discovery
Centre. We appreciated all the networking efforts that made the food
and program events memorable treasures at the Discovery Centre. Many
folks visited and lingered in the various heritage buildings to
rekindle fond memories of the past.
Alex Wishlow introduced the outdoor afternoon program. What a splendid
array of solos and duets, a trio, a quartet, a choir, speakers,
greetings, guests, musical instruments and release of the Psalmist
Project DVD.
Koozma J. Tarasoff sent greetings from Ottawa. Mae Popoff
delivered greetings from Saskatchewan in person. Bob Ewashen, Larry
Ewashen, Fred Makortoff, Ron and AJ Mahonin, Alex Atamenenko conveyed
information.
Johnny Popoff and the many members of newly formed All
Canadian Doukhobor Choir were present to sing
a psalm, hymn and spirited folk song. All the entertainers brought joy,
either in the English or Russian language. The Doukhobor family
celebrated TOGETHER.
Our sincere gratitude to Matvei Lebedev and Peter V. Verigin and all
the brothers and sisters and families who were involved in the past
ordeals but still persisted in their Doukhobor lifestyles to survive,
migrate and adapt to Canadian living conditions. In 1895, our ancestors
left a legacy of PEACE. Peace should be the choice of current day
practices to become a future global outcome. Peace must replace
the ancient warrior model. Peace is the fashion of the future. I am
confident that Doukhobors will also thrive in the future, with the God
within, with faith, with love for humanity and the hope for a peaceful,
global community of brothers and sisters. Empowered with change,
technology, marketing, local, provincial, national and
international communications, we will continue our ancestors’ Legacy
of Peace. LOVE and PEACE flourishes in our global Doukhobor
family.
Mae Popoff
Canadian Doukhobor Society, ACDC
member,
Saskatoon, and Saskatchewan Doukhobor Societies
2009 CDS Bursary Fund Awards
to Anna Plotnikoff and Sarah Verigin
by Alex Wishlow and Mae Popoff. September 7, 2009
CANADIAN DOUKHOBOR SOCIETY BURSARY FUND is awarded to graduating high
school students with Doukhobor heritage who continue their studies and
education.
The students have the opportunity to develop their potential
capabilities and gain related experiences which can be communicated and
integrated within comtemporay lifestyles.
Contributions by our membership to the Bursary Fund are gratefully
appreciated.
——————————
CRESTON Prince Charles Secondary
School Recipient 2009
Thank you so much for choosing me as the recipient for the Canadian
Doukhobor Society Bursary. It is an honour to receive this award. The
money will help me a long way to ease the pressure of my schooling in
the future. I will be attending the University of Alberta in the fall
2009 to take specialization in the faculty of science, and I will go to
medical school in the future.
Sincerely,
Anna Plotnikoff
———————————
SALMO Secondary School Recipient
2009
I would like to thank the Canadian Doukhobor Society for presenting me
with this very helpful bursary. Throughout my high school career I have
been highly interested in art. I plan to attend the University of
Victoria in the fall of 2010 to receive my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
(a four year program). I then plan to further my education by
adding another year to work towards a teaching degree, allowing me to
teach my passion. I will need to apply for an extension on this bursary
because I have chosen to take a year off before entering into
University so that I can work and strengthen my portfolio. Once again,
thank you so much for your generosity and support.
Sarah Verigin
SASKATOON DOUKHOBOR
SOCIETY
Annual Meeting, December 12, 2009
ELDERS REPORT
The elders maintain an advisory role as well as positions in conducting
weddings, funerals and prayer services which were held weekly from
January to June and September to December in 2009. Christmas, Life
memberships Easter, Mothers Day and Fathers Day and Petrov
Dien/ Peter’s Day/ Peace Day were also commemorated.
Locally, elders, trustees and others cooperate to bring about the
BREADBAKING at the exhibition in August 09. The Doukhobor pamphlet was
updated from the original black and white
version. Provincially, some elders are members of the National Heritage
Board.
As well, some elders are associated with the Doukhobor Cultural Society
of Saskatchewan and publish the
DOVE. Saskatoon elders were involved in the season opening of the
Verigin Prayer Home and Museum in May,
2009 as well as the season opening at the Doukhobor DugOut House in
June. Saskatoon elders were also present
at the Commemoration of Doukhobors at Verigin, July 18, 2009.
Elders also participate in multifaith , multicultural and peace
organizations.
Nationally, elders are involved in the CCUB. Elders participated in the
Council of Doukhobors in Canada and the Canadian Doukhobor Society as
members. There was opportunity to
practice singing and to perform with the on line choir the All Canadian
Doukhobor Choir ACDC . Elders were involved in the Department of Peace
Intiative to support the C-477 Bill towards establishing a
national department of peace .
With PRIDE we can say our elders are involved locally, provincially and
nationally.
We are making a difference in the global community.
FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
- Do we wish to continue having weekly prayer services from
September
to June in 2010?
- Is 11 am agreeable for a time for weekly prayer
services?
- Do we continue to sing 8 hymns: 3 hymns before and after
the Lord’s
Prayer, plus a concluding hymn(s)?
- More elders and/or more persons willing to offer the
message in the
prayer services?
- How can we increase attendance:
- would a local monthly newsletter with upcoming
events be helpful to reach the public?
- would a Saskatoon Doukhobor website be
useful for current communications?
- media awareness and marketing for our
Doukhobor events
- YOUTH. How can we involve the youth?
- Can we involve other peace groups and/or involve them to
participate
as speakers, guests,choirs?
- Staff for administration and management to supplement the
numerous
volunteer involvements.
- A library and museum on site are essential for providing
resources
and displaying our artifacts for future generations. Doukhobor
heritage and history must be preserved in the current museum mode
for displaying the products from
immigration , pioneering, early settlement and current lifestyles.
- Nursing home, care home, living facility on the present
land
allocation. We deserve Doukhobor consideration and long range
planning to accommodate our
aging population. Our hope is for FUTURE expansions on site!
- What are our priorities for 2010 ? What are we going to do
to MAKE
THEM HAPPEN?
We extend a sincere appreciation to the chairperson, the board of
trustees, the elders, the ladies organizations, the participants and
all the Doukhobor brothers and sisters who
actively encourage the Doukhobor way of life.
ELDERS 2009
- Delphine
Fedosoff
- Bill
Kalmakoff
- Mitch
Ozeroff
|
- Mae Popoff
- Jeanette
Stringer
- Polly Tokaryk
|
Tarrys
Doukhobor
Hall (Highway 3A, at Tarrys Road, 10 km north of
Castlegar)
- Guest speakers
- Russian and English singers and musicians
- Potluck lunch. Bring food dish ready to serve
- Donations requested
- Contact Alex Wishlow 250-428-4419
Peter's
Day, Brilliant BC
— Sun. June 27, 2010 — 11 am
Brothers and Sisters,
Yes, it is that time of year when we make a special effort
to recall the actions of our Grandfathers and Grandmothers 115 years
ago in the Caucuses mountains. They said, "No more
killing." And, destroyed their weapons.
Please join us in a special prayers at the Verigin Memorial
Park on Sunday, the 27th of June at 11:00 am.
We will also reconvene at the Museum at 12:00 for lunch and a programme.
If you are unable to be with us, please say a prayer of
gratitude to our Grandmothers and Grandfathers.
With brotherly love,
Alex Wishlow
Next CDS
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