Winter#1: January 22.  First Aid Vitals will be offering us a First Aid course on January 22 from 1:00 - 3:30 pm. This course will be held at 17 Major’s Path (Red Cross bldg - parking is available).  A minimum of 12 is required to offer the course, however, we have a maximum limit of 15 (we will then start a waitlist if needed). The instructor said she is open to discussing other topics that members may wish to discuss.  They need 48 hours notice regarding cancellations, so a final list of names is required by January 20th, so book now to save your spot!

Winter#2: February 26.  A tour of the Admiralty House Communications Museum (365 Old Placentia Rd, Mount Pearl).  This tour will fascinate you with artifacts and fascinating stories from the past.  This event is being held on February 26 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm.  Parking is available. 

Winter#3: March 12. Sullivan’s Songhouse at Royal Canadian Legion (Pleasantville, 930 The Boulevard) from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Enjoy an afternoon of music in the old- fashioned kitchen party style.  Parking is available.  Please indicate number attending (i.e. 1 or 2)  

Winter#4: March 27.  Our Travel Insurance talk will be in the University Centre, The Landing, (UC-3015) from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.  Effective April 1, MUN will be changing the provider for its Emergency Medical Travel Insurance to Medavie Blue Cross.  Come and learn about the plan and any changes affecting retirees.  This session is being offered by MUN HR, so come and get your questions answered!  This session will also be offered via Zoom.  If attending in person, we have been able to secure free parking in Lot 18.  Lot 18 is on the side road between the Education building and the Student Center.  The entrance to the side road is in front of the Education building, off Westerland Road.

Please indicate:

- Number attending (i.e. 1 or 2)

- In-person or Zoom (March 8 note-  in-person seats are waitlisting, but Zoom is still open)

Winter#5: April 8.  Tour of the Jag Soundhouse from 11:00 am to noon.  Come and see this beautiful new facility, purchase a coffee afterwards in the coffee bar, and socialize with your fellow retirees!  Note, we could get bumped if the JAG gets a last minute conference booking.  If this happens, we will email everyone about the cancellation.  The JAG Soundhouse is located at 115 George Street West, and parking is at your own expense.  Carpooling is recommended.

Please indicate:

- Number attending (i.e. 1 or 2)

Winter#6: April 23.  Seniors Talk at Signal Hill Campus (B1013) from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Seniors NL will be putting off a talk on fraud and scams affecting seniors, and how you can protect yourself.  This event will also be offered by Zoom.  If attending in person, please supply your vehicle plate number so we can provide it to CEP.

Please indicate:

 - Number attending (i.e. 1 or 2):

 - In-person or Zoom:

 - Plate number (if parking is required)

SPRING

Spring#1: May 4.  Literary Reading Night at Big Ben’s Pub (55 Rowan Street, Churchill Square). Parking is available.  Poet Mary Dalton will present from 7:00 - 7:45 pm, followed by author Ray Critch from 7:45 - 8:30 pm.  Then, stay around and socialize with your fellow retirees!

Mary Dalton has published six books of poetry, among them Merrybegot, Red Ledger, Hooking, and Interrobang. In January Interrobang won the 2025 WritersNL biennial poetry award, the E. J. Pratt Family Poetry Prize. The most recent of her several editing projects is an anthology, Best Canadian Poetry 2026, released by Biblioasis in November 2025.  Dalton is one of eight contemporary Canadian poets featured in the collection In the Writers' Words: Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets, published by Guernica Press in March. Dalton served as Poet Laureate of St. John's 2019-2022.  She is Professor Emerita of English at Memorial.  Mary will be reading from her new book Interrobang, which explores human quandaries as well as the natural world. It is made up of six sections.  Sections 1 and 2 focus on the communal spaces of grocery stores and beer parlours in Conception Bay in the ´fifties and ´sixties; section 3 considers plants which are now dismissed as weeds; sections 4 and 5 contain short pieces in the form of riddles and triads (a Celtic form involving sets of three); the final section, "The Alba Poems," explores some experiences of older women through a figure named Alba.

By day, Ray Critch is a lawyer practicing civil litigation with MacGillivray Injury and Insurance Law, where he has appeared at every level of court in Newfoundland and Labrador and at the Supreme Court of Canada. By night, he is a happily married father of two who, once in a while, manages to carve off some spare time to pop down to a local sports bar and do some writing.  He will be reading from his first book, The Beltane Massacre

Spring#2: June 4.  MUNPA Annual General Meeting - is on our AGM page.  Registration is via link on that page, and not our usual email address.

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