Last week's meeting
Posted by Isabella Beane
on Jan 19, 2016
Guests: Gene Vickers/ Jesse Burtenshaw/ Jessie Adcock (3rd visit) and Bill Lawrie (2nd visit)
Announcements: Cleone advised community service meeting Email her for details.
Ian advised RibFest meeting on January 14th in the meeting room of his building at 400 Capilano.
Peter will hold a SFPP meeting in February, details to come
Brian reminded everyone Heritage Mtn Blvd clean up Sat January 16th at 9:30am
Jesse Burtenshaw spoke for a few minutes about the charity he is involved with, "Do what U Luv" Creativity is essential for children , they provide after school programmes for children to encourage them to be creative in music, dance, art etc.
Trudy reminded everyone about the Coquitlam Express Hockey game on the 15th, $6.00 of every ticket goes to the Starfish Backpack programme that provides food for children on the weekends when they cannot get school meals.
Announcements: Cleone advised community service meeting Email her for details.
Ian advised RibFest meeting on January 14th in the meeting room of his building at 400 Capilano.
Peter will hold a SFPP meeting in February, details to come
Brian reminded everyone Heritage Mtn Blvd clean up Sat January 16th at 9:30am
Jesse Burtenshaw spoke for a few minutes about the charity he is involved with, "Do what U Luv" Creativity is essential for children , they provide after school programmes for children to encourage them to be creative in music, dance, art etc.
Trudy reminded everyone about the Coquitlam Express Hockey game on the 15th, $6.00 of every ticket goes to the Starfish Backpack programme that provides food for children on the weekends when they cannot get school meals.
Trudy would like company at the Chamber Gala Dinner if anyone would like to attend please contact Trudy or check the Chamber website.
March 5th is the District 50/50 annual membership event
Isy presented a cheque for $1,000.00 from one of her clients to provide two kids with the opportunity to attend Camp Jubilee this summer. This is the 5th or 6th time her client has donated this amount to kids camp. His mother was in the Manor for a few years and he always appreciated everything that Rotary did for the residents there.
Mike was the Sgt at arms.
Dave Stone introduced Gene Vickers as guest speaker, our regular speaker was taken ill so Gene kindly stepped in at short notice. He spoke about the comparison of Rotary's four way test and how that inspired him to produce a coin for Toastmasters that had a similar message of service recognizing, integrity, respect and service within that organization. He talked the District Govenor of Toastmasters into allowing him to have 2500 coins minted which were all sold very quickly and now over 100,000 coins have been made and distributed among the Toastmasters group. One day he aspires to be the International President of Toastmasters. He also talked about how Leo Nimsick talked him into joining Rotary during his days as an RCMP officer in the interior. One day he hopes to return to Rotary.