Meeting Notes September 3, 2014.

Posted by Jocelynn Briggs 
on Sep 03, 2014
 

Meeting Notes September 3, 2014.

 

The meeting was called to order by President Ken at 6:30pm.

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 There were so many visitors at the night meeting this week! Jennifer Jerrett welcomed:

 

  1. Charmillia Zacal—wife of George

  2. Dave Nichols—family of George

  3. Odin and Petra Nichols—family of George

  4. Catherine Zacal---family of George

  5. Lyn Strickland—wife of Ron

  6. Bill Rashleigh—husband of Mary

  7. Suzi Jarvis—wife of John

  8. Helena Renwick—BIA

  9. Paul Rae—represented Pipefusion

  10. Mayor Claude Doughty

  11. Bob Attfield—Top Hat (House for Youth)

  12. Peter Lips

  13. Nancy Warren

  14. Gail and Louis Tusz—Parents of Rebound Student

  15. Clair Tusz—Rebound Student

  16. Marina Tusz—sister of Rebound Student

  17. Jeff Carter—HBR

  18. AJ Grooms--HBR

  19. Helmi Kivimaa—Inbound Exchange student

  20. Owen Bache—BDO

     

Announcements

Rob Saunders announced that Rotary International relies on continuous donations. Last year Rotarian's did a penny drive called the Red Cup Campaign. It is required that Rotarian's donate $100 per year. Once you donate $1000 you become a Paul Harris Fellow and earn points. These points can be used to give other Rotarian's the Paul Harris Fellow award for their service above self.

 

This week Rob Saunders congratulated Bob Gibson on his nominated Paul Harris Fellow Award.

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Rob Saunders was also awarded the Paul Harris Fellow Award as well.

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At the meeting we welcomed George Zacal and Brian Brescia into our Rotary family. These gentlemen are new to us, but they are not new to Rotary and we look forward to having them.

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Peter Redwood presented all the final Dockfest awards and monies for 2014.

 

Top Hat House for Youth was awarded $5000 from Peter Redwood and President Ken. Accepting the cheque on behalf of Top Hat was Bob Attfield, Peter Lips and Nancy Warren.  Nancy Warren thanked Rotary for its support.

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The winner of Dockfest was Helena Renwick's BIA boat driven by AJ Groomes.

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Peter's recap of the Dockfest was very generous to HBR claiming that it was a close race. Jeff Carter from HBR disagreed and claimed that the race wasn't close at all. I am sure that this will promote more strategy building and competition for next year! Peter offered Jeff first pick of the motors for 2015.

 

Claude Doughty accepted the town's cheque from the Dockfest proceeds. He let us know that the monies will be used for a sign welcoming people to River Mill Park.

 

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Accepting for best float at the Dockfest parade was Owen Bache from BDO.

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Speakers

 

This week we had our Rebound student Claire Tusz and  our Inbound student Helmi give us two short presentations.

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Claire went to Nakhon Ratchasina, Thailand. Here is a summary of experiences and interesting facts:

  • Taxi's have no seat belts and are quite scary

  • The high school has 8 floors, with 5000 students who are all girls

  • Best friend was Nook

  • Cooking and floral arrangements was an important class in their culture

  • All the food is deep fried even stuff you would never imagine is cooked that way

  • Pork, veggies and rice are staples in your diet

  • Dried Octopus tastes like cat food and chicken feet are crunchie

  • most meals are seasoned with Curry

  • She participated in the Rotary Flood work

  • responsibilities included serving rice, food and soups to people flooded out

  • She attended a Music festival with 60 thousand other guests

  • She attended LomSak Cliff, Northern Thailand enjoyed the elephants and lots of temples

  • Loa Southern Thailand relaxed and snorkeled and saw James Bond Island

  • Her last home in Thailand was a factory

  • She fluently reads and writes the language

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Claire introduced Helmi our Inbound exchange student from Finland. Here are some interesting facts about Finland:

  • has a population of 5.4 million

  • part of European Union and languages are Swedish and Finish

  • Like Canada there are 4 seasons, but the winter season there is less light

  • Finland is technologically advanced

  • created Nokia and game angry birds

  • Helsinki is 1/5 of the population of Finland

  • Education begins at 6 with preschool and all education is free and provides lunch including University

  • middle school is mandatory from 7-15 years and then students pick trade school or high school

  • Helmi's family hosted an Australia exchange student

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Julia thanked Claire and Helmi for their presentations!

Happy Bucks

(so many things to be happy about I may of missed some bucks)

 

Mary Rashleigh was happy that Claire had such a great experience on her exchange.

Bob thanked Paul Rae for the media.

Ron Strickland is happy his first granddaughter is attending University.

Rob Saunders is happy that April was the only on from Huntsville who sunk a birdie at the Golf Tournament.

Dolores Jardine enjoyed babysitting.

George Zacal is happy to be one of us!

Brandy is happy to be back!

Deb is happy that her daughter is engaged and set a wedding date for August 29th, 2015.

Jim was happy that the Golf Tournament raised $11 000.

Len was very happy and grateful for all the best wishes for his wife Nina, while she was having her hip replaced.

George Young's golf team won best score.

Brandon was happy because he had a great season and was happy to see Brandy back.

Jennifer Jerrett sold out the golf tournament for her dad.

 

Foundation Draw

Claire pulled Brian's number and the pot is still up for grabs!

 

The meeting was concluded. Bring a friend to lunch!