ZIEMSKI m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-02-15 published
Engagement Announcement - Ryan
ZIEMSKI and Lisa
FURTADO
Donald and Grace
ZIEMSKI and Edwardo and Lizete
FURTADO are proud
to announce the engagement of their children, Ryan
ZIEMSKI and
Lisa FURTADO.
The forthcoming wedding will take place on Saturday,
October 4, 2003 at Holy Cross Parish in London.
Congratulations and Best Wishes.
Z... Names ZI... Names Welcome Home
ZIEMSKI m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-12-23 published
ZIEMSKI /
McKENZIE -- Forthcoming Marriage
April 30, 2007
Grace and Don
ZIEMSKI of London are pleased to announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter Lori Mary Jane to Mark Ernest, son
of Blanche and Ernest
McKENZIE of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The
wedding will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. We wish them all
God's Blessings and all the Happiness that life can offer.
Z... Names ZI... Names Welcome Home
ZIEMSKI - All Categories in OGSPI
ZIMMER m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-10-29 published
MOORE /
ZIMMER
Karen and Dennis
MOORE of London, Ontario. are pleased to announce
the forthcoming marriage of their son Steve
MOORE to Alison
ZIMMER,
daughter of Gwen and Roland
ZIMMER of Tisdale, Saskatchewan.
The wedding will take place November 2005 in Canmore, Alberta.
Z... Names ZI... Names Welcome Home
ZIMMER - All Categories in OGSPI
ZION m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-28 published
Jennifer KAPLAN and Philip
CHOWN -- Match
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,
May 28, 2005, Page M6
Jennifer Mia
KAPLAN didn't make it easy on Philip
CHOWN.
Having been married once already, she was happily ensconced in
2002 with the only man of the house she was interested in: her
son, Lucius, who lived with her in her landmark Ansonia condominium
in New York.
She was wary of any relationship that would affect her family-oriented
lifestyle, or her dedication to her career as a psychotherapist,
so she resisted her Toronto relatives' matchmaking efforts. "With
the aunties calling, and set-ups by cousins, I've had so many
blind dates a friend said I should get a seeing-eye dog for free,"
Ms. KAPLAN, 41, quips.
Originally from Toronto, she'd always had her eye on New York,
and in 1981 won a wager with her father, Robert
KAPLAN, solicitor-general
in the Trudeau era, by gaining admission to Grade 12 at the Dalton
School, a prestigious private academy in Manhattan.
She went on to graduate from Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia
University, where she obtained a merit scholarship, and settled
into life in the Big Apple. She married, gave birth to Lucius,
and became a U.S. citizen.
By 2002, she was single once again, and a prime target for her
relatives, who persevered in the Yiddish matchmaking tradition
despite her reluctance to date.
Mr. CHOWN, a graduate of the University of Victoria and director
of foundations and major gifts for the University of British
Columbia, was visiting his sister at her Toronto home when Ms.
KAPLAN's brother -- dispatched by his wife
Julie on a scouting
mission -- turned up. "Jennifer's brother John came by my sister's
house to meet me for 15 minutes... kind of an old-fashioned shtetl
[Jewish community] set-up, to make sure I wasn't sinister," he
says with a laugh.
The relatives approved, but when Mr.
CHOWN visited New York in
December of 2002, a contrary Ms.
KAPLAN refused an invitation
to dinner. "It seemed crazy to begin anything with someone across
the country, and in another," she says.
A year later, her family was still trying to promote Mr.
CHOWN.
"You mean he's still single?" chirped a sarcastic Ms.
KAPLAN
to her sister-in-law. Julie
KAPLAN upped the ante, drawing on
her 14 years of marriage to Ms.
KAPLAN's brother. "You know I've
never asked you for anything, have I?" she implored. "Well, I'm
asking."
Ms. KAPLAN finally gave in and agreed to a dinner date when Mr.
CHOWN visited New York at the end of 2003.
For his part, Mr.
CHOWN, 45, didn't have high expectations for
the rendezvous either. He remembers a casual conversation with
his dean at University of British Columbia, at which he expressed
satisfaction with bachelorhood. "I'm happily a professional single.
I've got my golf, yoga, a slate of nieces and nephews nicely
distributed geographically and a social life," he recalls saying,
never dreaming that only a couple of weeks later he would consider
changing his marital status.
He suggested meeting Ms.
KAPLAN on December 29 at Pastis, which
just happened to be her favourite haunt.
"I put on my French bistro dress, got there before Phil, and
waited at the bar," Ms.
KAPLAN recalls. "I had no idea who my
sister-in-law picked for me." She expected a serious, religious
type and was pleasantly surprised by a hip Mr.
CHOWN.
With a mutual affinity for Ashtanga yoga and their view of Judaism
somewhere between sacrosanct and secular, they agreed to another
date the next night. "That was the night I gave him the talk,"
Ms. KAPLAN says. "I was a serious person, knew about life and
didn't get involved in anything that wasn't going to last."
A beguiled Mr.
CHOWN didn't analyze or strategize. "I just accepted
her," he says. " I saw the possibility of my life shifting in
a huge way."
After only three dates, "I was making plans," Ms.
KAPLAN says,
"the very thing I said I'd never do. I thought, 'Either I'm having
a psychotic break, or I'm falling in love.' "
Their transcontinental romance flourished and during Passover
in April of 2004, Ms.
KAPLAN hosted a New York cocktail party
for Friends to introduce Mr.
CHOWN.
That afternoon, when supposedly shopping for a baking sheet,
he purchased a 300-year-old, pink sapphire engagement ring for
Ms. KAPLAN.
Unexpectedly, her intuitive father had flown in.
"As the party was spinning out, I asked for his blessing," says
Mr. CHOWN, who proposed after the guests left.
They set a wedding date for that November in Toronto, but had
to stop the printing of the invitations on the presses when revised
U.S. immigration laws scuttled their plans. If they married in
Toronto, "Phil would have to stay a full year in Canada after
the wedding," Ms.
KAPLAN says. "I was ready to run into a brick
wall if he couldn't come" to New York. Three lawyers and two
pounds of paperwork corroborating their romance later, the couple
got the go-ahead for a New York ceremony.
Ms. KAPLAN, who is passionate about grandiose, early 20th-century
architecture, booked the entire first floor of the Romanesque
revival Puck Building for her child-friendly, funky-formal wedding
for 300. Six nannies stood at the ready with art supplies and
pillows for forts for about 40 little ones. "I wanted people
to enjoy what they wore, a tuxedo and jeans," she says.
On May 8, Rabbi Chezi
ZION, who once declared with certitude
that his friend Mr.
CHOWN would never marry, wed the couple in
an Orthodox service. The bride made the chuppah, the traditional
Jewish wedding canopy, by hand out of violet silk chiffon, and
many guests carried through her colour theme in their gowns as
a surprise. Ms.
KAPLAN wore a crocheted Irish gown, more than
200 years old, that she bought when she was only 19 and had stored
since then in a silk pillowcase.
Mr. CHOWN continues his employment with University of British
Columbia, telecommuting from a New York office. He has received
the stamp of approval from Mrs.
CHOWN's son Lucius, now 8, who
confided to his uncle, "I want to thank you for introducing my
mother to Philip and making her so happy."
Z... Names ZI... Names Welcome Home
ZION - All Categories in OGSPI
ZISKIN m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2003-11-15 published
MANLY /
BLACK -- Myra and Jeffrey
MANLY, and Faye and Ian
BLACK
are absolutely thrilled to announce the engagement of their children
Sara and David. Proud grandparents are Irma and Abe
ZISKIN, and
Anne BLACK.
Excited siblings are Daniel, David, Riva, Shane,
and niece Samara. Dearly missed at this time are grandparents
Fanny and Norman
MANLY,
Pearl and Louis
SCHWARTZ, and Joseph
BLACK.
Z... Names ZI... Names Welcome Home
ZISKIN - All Categories in OGSPI