Last meeting

Posted by Bill Lawrie on May 20, 2018
This week our very own Mayor Mike came to the meeting.  Always great to see him.
We are happy to announce that Glen Brown will be transferring his membership from Sunshine Coast-Sechelt to our Rotary Club of Port Moody.  
 
Fire Chief Ron Coulson was our Guest Speaker
 

Our guest speakers this week was Fire Chief Ron Coulson. He started by thanking our Rotary Club for all the good work we do in the Community. He handed out, hot off the press, copies of the 2017 Community Report. It is the first time Fire-Rescue have prepared a formal report and this was given to Port Moody Council the night before. Inside there is a Department Structure graph, Mission Statement, a breakdown of 2017 by the numbers/types of incident responses (2pm is most common call time; Monday is most common day; July is the month with most calls),  hours of training, community service, and what they do. Briefly Chief Ron explained they “train like crazy so they are prepared to have their best day when a resident is having a bad day”. The new Firehall was built to be as disaster proof as possible and designed as the Emergency response Centre for the city in Times of disaster.  He will be preparing a grant request for later this year hoping to acquire portable “RAD Monitors” that allow monitoring of CO2 in the bloodstream on site.

 
Cleone was 'very' red, when she told the story of  showing Yvonne what a 'Smore' is.... Chief Ron Coulson was not impressed.....a good laugh for sure.
 
 

Birthdays: George Broderick

Events/announcements:

  1. SFPP what a great event! Serving beer at 9:05 all cleaned up and out by 9:30. Hope to have totals at next week’s meeting.
  2. Yvonne and Ian reported on the District Conference Boat cruise. Apparently the Sedro Woolley Club is claiming to be the BEST Rotary Club in the World—we know that’s not true. May require a road trip to clear up their confusion
  3. Haney Club have their Golf Tournament this week (May 23rd I think)
  4. Thursday May 17th Seaview Elementary hosted a Pancake Breakfast to thank community supporters. We also wanted to see their Nature Room.
  5. Tuesday May 22nd the 4 Tri-City Rotary Clubs are Chartering a new Interact Club. It will be held at Fairways restaurant at the Westwood Plateau Academy 12 hole golf course. These will be Rotarians of the future.
  6. Rotary World Help loads their next container for Africa on Saturday May 26th.
  7. We will be looking for volunteers to help “person” the Rotary Tent on Saturday June 23rd at the 1st ever Port Moody Community Fair. It will be an opportunity to tell people all the great things our Club does for the City. A time to celebrate our community and connect with people, services and organizations.
  8. Saturday, June 30th we will also be calling for volunteers to help us with a tent we will be setting up at the PCT facility to talk to guest visiting the Terminal as part of Golden Spike Days. Again a time to talk about Rotary, promote RibFest, sell 50/50 tickets, etc. Bill will issue a call for volunteers.

President Mike gave out 2 pins for 'Rotarians who make a difference'....Congratulations to Joanna and Ian