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With great gratitude we are inviting you to a celebration on Sep 7, honouring our founders Doris Larson and Carol and Bob Kavanagh. Carol and Bob have recently retired from our planning committee, and Doris is semi-retired; we thought this was a good time to express our heartfelt appreciation and love for them. And, to have a community potluck in person, which we have not done for over 3 years!
Please bring a potluck dish Sept 7 at 5:30 pm to celebrate. We will be at Leanne Brunelle’s home a few kilometres outside of Saskatoon, hopefully outside, if weather permits. Thank you so much, Leanne! Directions will be included in the confirmation email to you when you let us know you are coming.
Bring a vegetarian dish to share, along with your own cutlery, cup, and dishes.
Tea will be available.
If you have a chair, please bring that as well.
Register here:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=67360
Doris founded SIMC in 1999 by bringing our first teacher, Joanne Broatch in for a weekend retreat. She brought Joanne in for 10 years, organizing everything for every retreat. Any of us who have ever sat a retreat with SIMC have Doris to thank for the gift that she gave the community of establishing a retreat tradition here. She also began a Sunday evening peer lead sitting group which nurtured our sangha for many years. Doris has been our registrar and bookkeeper for 23 years, ever since the beginning!
Bob and Carol joined the sangha early on, and then founded the Wednesday evening sitting group with Jeanne and Allyce in 2010. They have supported and fostered all the decisions and programs and growth in the sangha for the past 12 years. Bob created our first website at that time and has made most of the posters we used to advertise retreats, which in our second decade grew to two or three times a year. Between the two of them, Bob and Carol filled all committee roles on the planning committee for about 10 years, until we grew big enough to need a bigger committee! Bob is currently the organizer and facilitator of the Dhamma Friends peer support group. Carol began and lead our Care and Connection Circle for many years. Carol was also our announcement organizer for the last three years. They nurtured Jeanne as a new teacher with encouragement and feedback, and stewarded the development of all of the current programming that we now offer.
Doris, Bob, and Carol, our gratitude to you for bringing and nurturing the gift of the dharma to us is beyond measure.