Edna Staebler, shown here in 1996 cutting into a birthday cake in Kitchener, Ont., author of several Mennonite cookbooks including Food That Really Schmecks, celebrates her 95th birthday this week. She admits she isn’t as lively as she was five years ago, but she still lives alone in a cottage by a lake in Waterloo County, drives her car and spends a great deal of time with her many friends. (CP PHOTO/Judy Creighton)