Joint Christmas Meeting - December 6th, 2017

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Dec 06, 2017
All the Tri-City Rotary Clubs met at the Boathouse for an Ugly Christmas Sweater themed breakfast, hosted by the Rotary Club of Port Moody.
All the Presidents 
 
 
 
More photos in Club Runner Photo Album - 2017 Joint Christmas 
 

Rotary Meeting December 6th—TriCities Clubs Christmas Meeting

December 6th was the annual Christmas Meeting hosted by our Port Moody Rotary Club. Our committee of Coreen and Trudy made Special arrangements with the BOATHOUSE Restaurant at Rocky Point to serve an outstanding buffet breakfast to more than 75 Rotarians. President Mike kept the meeting light and fast paced and we were finished at our normal time of 8:30. 

To begin the meeting a delegate from each of the clubs gave an overview of their Clubs’ projects from last year and upcoming for 2018.

  1. Port Moody Club:
  1. Held their Ribfest July 2017 and will hold it July 20-22 ,2018.
  2. Held their SFPP May 2017 and will hold it again May 10th,  2018
  3. Held their Shred-a-thon in June 2017 and the date this year is June 9, 2018
  1. Coquitlam Club:
  1. Their annual Turkey drive is underway. They will supply 50 families, identified as needy by district teachers, with turkeys for Christmas.
  2. Their Caledonian Night Scotch tasting event will be held in February.
  3. In May they have a Sports Dinner and a Canadian Citizenship events planned.
  4. Dr. Kathleen Ross will be leading a group to Peru again in March.

 

  1. Poco Club:
  1. All their fundraising events go toward the Starfish program in PoCo
  2. March 10th 2018 they will hold their Blues Festival fundraiser.
  3. May 12th they will hold their May Day Parade.

 

  1. TriCities Interact Club:
  1. Big fundraiser was the Port Moody Ribfest
  2. Planning a reunion get together for last years’ RYIA group

5)Coquitlam Sunrise Club:

A) They had to stop holding their Annual Golf Tournament in September 2017

B) Their big fund raiser for this year will be their Amazing Race held in September

C) December 18th will be holding their First Christmas Lights Bus Tour. $30.00 per person. There will be prizes and raffles for those on the Tour.

 

After lunch Catherine Hume from Rain City Housing was called up to give us a quick overview of the project they run out of the facility at 3030 Gordon Avenue. They have up to 90 folks at any time. Approximate breakdown is 30 in shelter, 30 are moving to a transitional stage and 30 are living in short term winter shelter. Unfortunately each year the number of Seniors (55+) grows.

Catherine thankfully received the underwear, socks and gloves donated by breakfast attendees.

During the breakfast Mike had assigned a team of elves to select the Ugliest sweaters, 2nd place ugly and honorably ugly (1 of each men’s and women’s). Winners were:

Women’s—Marie (ugliest), Trudy (Runner up), Honorable mention for hat (Jennifer)

Men’s – Hugh (Ugliest), Malcolm (Runner up), Honorable mention Brad.