Glen makes us proud

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Oct 12, 2018
President Ian was away and we had our Club Secretary David “Woody” Woollven in the Chair 
Guests this week
 
 
Domino our PADS member and Happy Birthday Darrell

Darrell spoke briefly about opportunities for anyone interested in being a “raiser” for PADS dogs (like our honorary member Domino). There is going to be a huge requirement as their dogs have had 5 litters recently (1 mom had 12 pups). This means by early January there will be a great need. It is a 2 year commitment, they will do a home evaluation first to make sure you will be OK then they supply food, and support.

 
Glen Brown is a welcome addition to our Club.  

Our speaker this week was Glen Brown who joined us this year as a transferee from the Sunshine Coast. He was born in Kamloops and worked for 33 years in Corrections Services. Started in Criminology at Simon Fraser University, spent most of the 80’s as a parole officer, the 90’s as an Associate Warden mostly in intake, the 2000’s as a warden retiring in 2011. In retirement he has been teaching some courses in Criminal Justice at both SFU and Langara College. Glen joined Rotary in Abbotsford/Matsqui after becoming a warden.

Glen describes being a Prison warden as a "Jack of All Trades". There were over 50 job areas around the Prison he had to oversee and co-ordinate.
It is also like running a very large corporation as the operating budget annually is about $100,000,000 for the 3 areas he was responsible for. The 3 areas are Medium Security Men's facility, Institution for women facility and Regional treatment, Psychiatric Centre.
 

When he retired he and his wife Marcia moved to the Sunshine Coast to a place on Secret Cove, Half Moon Bay, Sechelt. 

While on the Sunshine Coast Glen was involved in community and Rotary events including sponsoring a Musical Ride event, a Dad and Me dance and a Scotch Tasting Event. 

They loved the lifestyle, the weather and their new friends but Glen was being asked to teach more courses and, most importantly, their family especially their grandkids were all back on the mainland. Glen and Marcia have 3 kids Sarah, Jordan (Amber), and Jeff (Jenna) plus 5 beautiful grandkids.  They moved back recently, Glen came to our Club as a visitor this Winter/Spring and joined us a few months ago in time to volunteer with Ribfest. He has become an active, valued member very quickly, and we are proud to have Glen as a member of the Rotary Club of Port Moody.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cleone’s 20th year in Rotary 

RLI is holding 2 Leadership forums this year—1 in Everett (October 20th) and 1 in Port Moody in Suter Brook (November 21st)

World Polio Day October 21st. See Pat Bond’s email with suggestions for informing your “followers” of all the things happening in the final days of the fight against Polio.

District Foundation seminar and dinner November 3rd 2018 in Bellingham. Seminar 10-3, drinks 5:00-6:30, dinner from 6:30

Heritage Mountain cleanup this Saturday October 13th. Meet at Gallaghers at 9 AM.

Vida’s group “Days for Girls” are aiming to produce 100,000 kits this year.

Just a reminder – our new immigrants still need help settling in to Canada.