Kloosterboer, Jackie

Jackie Kloosterboer

 

Jackie Kloosterboer has been leading the way in earthquake and disaster preparedness for over 20 years. Working on the front lines of disaster supporting those impacted, Jackie has seen first-hand the difference preparedness makes to you and your family.

She presents countless Emergency Preparedness Sessions to individuals and business groups, taking them through the process of how to be prepared for whatever disaster comes their way. Various media outlets across Canada often interview her to promote the importance of disaster preparedness.

Jackie is the recipient of the Queens Jubilee Award for her dedication to helping those displaced by disaster. In addition, she was awarded the Instructor of Year for the Justice Institute of BC for teaching volunteers how to respond to disasters.

Jackie has taken this message one-step further with her book My Earthquake Preparedness Guide – Simple Steps to get You, Your Family and Pets Prepared.

 

 

Jackie Kloosterboer spoke to us in April 2022.

 

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.