By John Fryters

Senior's Scene

I Am Back!

Dec 1, 2020 | 9:20 AM

I never thought that I had the writers’ bug in me.

My attempt at writing goes back to my High School years. In my last year of High School, I was President of a student ornithological society (a bird watching club). Besides looking at many birds in the field, as President, I was charged with fundraising. It was a constant struggle until I came up with a brilliant idea. I decided to write my first book – a scientific adventure.

We copied it on the school stencil machine and sold many copies at an inflated price and our birdwatching club had enough money in the bank for the whole year. Sadly, I lost the original transcript in Flemish. In those days, I also wrote a lot of poetry which did not get lost. I used poetry to deal with many emotional problems I had caused by losing my parents in a terrible accident when I was a tender sixteen years old.

In the early 90’s I started writing articles for Indigenous Woman, a First Nations publication in Edmonton. In 1994, I was hired as the Silver Anniversary Coordinator for the Metis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan. One of their outreach projects was to provide a monthly article about addiction issues in a number of weekly and daily newspapers around Saskatchewan.

In 2011 I, once again, got the writers’ itch.

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I started to write my first full length book called “God and Work, Theology of Work – Marketplace Ministry 101”.

It was officially published in 2013 by Xulon Press. That same year, I started as a weekly columnist with the Prince Albert Daily Herald. I just resigned from that position after 7 years of providing a weekly column about the topic of the elderly and other age-related matters. Seven years – weekly, that is a lot of columns!!!

In 2016, I completed my second book called, “Theology of Work – Practical Applications”. It was translated in Spanish in that same year. My first book and both versions of my second (English/Spanish) are available for download at theologyofworkgrant.com -Bakke Graduate University in Dallas, Texas.

In between all of this, I was awarded for a poem I submitted to the Poetry Institute of Canada. My work was selected for publication in an Anthology which was published by the Poetry Institute of Canada.

Currently, I am writing my third book about the topic of Seniors and Seniors Care. I hope to complete it by the end of this year.

And now, I am back with you all as an Opinion Writer with paNOW and am very much looking forward to this new task.

I hope you, readers, will like my opinions and please, if you want to contribute or reach out, write me at campus@inet2000.com or through www.seniorprincealbert.com.

John Fryters is a 72-year old senior who has lived in Prince Albert for over 30 years. Originally from Belgium, John is the Founder and Director of the Prince Albert Seniors Advocacy Centre and the Prince Albert and Area Seniors Abuse Program. He and his wife Hannelore also co-Pastor the Heart of Seniors Gathering, a church solely dedicated to serve and assist the elderly.

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