Guests: Molly Miller and Mandy Chan from U-bicycle, Brent Murphy from the Port Moody Dragon Boat Regatta and Brian Wormold (3rd meeting) who has been forwarded by Steve Witiuk for membership.
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Birthdays this week—Brian Dunne and Danne Dunlop—were serenaded with the added special ending for our members.
We presented Brent with a cheque for just over $2900.00 from the beer garden we ran for them last weekend. Their Regatta had 36 teams with almost 1,000 paddlers, supporters, Physios plus there were lots of spectators—kids and adults—enjoying the weather and the racing. The money will be used to support their charity of choice which will be giving some at risk kids 6 lessons on paddling and team work then sponsor them in a regatta on Burnaby Lake.
Cleone gave a recap of the Kid’s Zone plans for Ribfest and requested help for painting 2500 blocks so the kids in the Kid’s Zone can paint their patterns on them PLUS we are going to build a wooden FoosBall court. The only available dates are the Saturday (May 19) and Sunday (May20) as there will be new container shipments going out May 12th and May 26th so the area we need will not be available.
Firefit Games was this weekend April 28-29th at Inlet park. We ran the Beer Tent again for both days.
Search For the Perfect Pint (SFPP) is 2 weeks away. Need to get busy and sell, sell, sell. We will have a ticket sales drive this Friday April 27th on Brewer’s Row. Meet at Moody Ale at 7:00 and we will canvass for ticket buyers at each Brewer.
Remember June 14th is our Installation Night. 5:30 at St. Street Grill. More info to follow.
Thursday, May 31st there will be a full day seminar (8:15-4:30) at Coquitlam City Hall. It will have experts (police, child services, welfare department, etc.) to discuss issues around “Child Exploitation” Looking for attendees from our Club.
John Crowther presented with pin for a “Rotarian Making a Difference”. John will be leading the team managing the VIP tent (Lexus VIP Zone) at this Year’s RibFest. Ian handed out sample Table cards for sponsored tables that we can use as sales tools for potential sponsors.
Molly Miller spoke about the potential new program, U-bicycle, Port Moody Council is looking to try out this summer. Their program is “dock less” removing all the space required for bike racks and which removes the need for returning bikes to a station which may not be close to the rider’s destination. Bike rentals started in Amsterdam in 1965. By 1998 all of Europe had some type of bike program. 2008-2013 the bike rental concept spread to almost all large major cities around the world but almost all with fixed “docks”. In 2015 China led the “dockless” movement which is now started to spread (Sign that it will be part of the future going forward is that UBER has just purchased JUMP a Bike share program company—they want to be part of every trip you take. Initially all bikes were traditional pedal type but now some companies are featuring electric assist bikes, now some have electric scooters.
Interesting fact—in many cities 80% of the public spaces are roads. This means in most large cities for 2-4 hours twice every day most of the public space is covered with a traffic jam. U-bicycle started in China and now has moved to Canada. They started in Victoria City in the Fall of 2017 and have now expanded to cover Oak Bay, Saanich (Uvic) and Esquimalt. Bikes feature GPS, 3 speeds, integrated bells, carbon belt drive, and foam flat free tires on the wheels and all come with helmets. They have presented a proposal to both Richmond and Port Moody councils. Bikes can be left where your trip ends and the GPS on the bike will show it’s location so the next rider can find the closest bike to where they are. Plan for PoMo would be main stations in Suter Brook and at Rocky Point Park. Fees—pay as you go $1.00 for 30 minutes, --day pass $10.00 for 24 hours, unlimited rides, --annual pass $150.00 (no hourly or daily additions)best deal for locals (add a $50.00 refundable deposit to start).
50/50 draw—Brian Wormold’s ticket was drawn. His pull was not the ACE of SPADES—tooo bad Brian