Favorite meetings

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Oct 04, 2018

Fall has arrived !!!

Guests this week were:

Mayor Mike Clay

Yolanda Broderick who is not only the wife of our member George, but a Soroptomist and a member of the All Saints Women

Kay Wu (Kay’s 2^nd meeting. She is a chess coach and a friend of our Steve Witiuk),

Ryan Edginton did a fantastic job with his Classification talk. Ryan is a fairly new member, and because of his talk, we all got to know him a lot better. GREAT JOB RYAN!!!!

Introduced to us by Past President Mike. Ryan is an “only” child and was born in Maple Ridge. He has always been entrepreneurial even as a child. He used to build computers out of old parts. He chose to go to University in Prince George (UNBC), attended for 2 years, and moved to UVIC for his final 2 years (he was told when he couldn’t smell the pulp mills in PG it was time to move on). On his summer holidays during his time at Universities he spent his time in the lumber industry learning how to be a lumber broker. This involved a lot of traveling within BC checking availability and quality from different mills around the Province and selling to countries around the world like Japan and England. He and his wife to be, Ashley, met on a blind date were married (12 years ago) and have 2 kids (Mia and Nolan). When the amount of travel in the lumber brokerage business became too much he looked for another career and settled on Financial Planning. It has given him an opportunity to grow and provide for the family balanced with time to have fun and enjoy his young family. Outside of work he is a Scout Leader, in Toastmasters, trains for marathons and extended bike riding for fund raising and traveling whenever they can. His daughter, Mia, is taking up Irish Dancing and his son, Nolan, is learning the fiddle.

It is great to have Ryan part of our Club and we heartily welcome you and your family.

This week we presented a Community grant cheque for $500.00 to Yolanda Broderick to help with the All Saints Catholic Women’s League Thanksgiving Day Dinner serving 500 people From the Coquitlam and TriCities area. Thank you, Yolanda, for all the good work your ladies do in our communities.

Birthday Wishes to PP Alan and PP Linda......-Alan S’s birthday October 5^th and Linda’s the 'new 50th' birthday October 9^th

We had a great turnout of Rotarians for Oktoberfest and we all celebrated the Birthday's.

Thanks to everyone who came.

-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Peter is organizing this year’s event for Friday November 2^nd. Thanks for all your work on this evening event Peter.

-Brian gave a short report on the Rotary RIPS event held Saturday, September 22^nd. It was the wettest day yet for this event so our volunteer attendance was down this year. Once again our volunteers worked in an area just east of the inlet and the path where we cleared 8 cu. meters of invasive plants to open up the area for planting more native plants. Thanks to Ryan and his family (more on them later) for coming out and helping us along with Yvonne, Coreen and Michael, Bill & Cleone.