Rotary meeting October 19, 2016
Posted by Mike Poznanski on Oct 19, 2016
Guests:
Alan Stuart visited us all the way from the Rotary Club of Gateway Edmonton.
Matt Raybin and Lisa Panchenko were each guests of Peter Cuthbert. Matt works with Mountain Highway Collision and was a sponsor for SFPP. Lisa is a collision damage estimator.
Announcements:
Rotary RIPS was delayed one week because of last week’s storm. The new date will be Saturday, October 22. Meet at 930 at Noons Creek Hatchery.
We had a board meeting on Monday. Cleone updated us on some fantastic giving opportunities that we have reviewed and approved. Please encourage organizations that are looking for funding to submit a funding request; more details can be found through Cleone.
Guest Speaker: Claire Lambert
Claire was born in 1973 in London England and immigrated with her family as a young child. Over time there has been a large amount of her family come over from England but growing up family trips were always back to England to visit the remaining family there including her grandparents. Claire’s parents have since split but out of that she has gained several step-sisters and step-brothers and she has a large family now here in Canada. Her brother Mark is a firefighter with the City of Burnaby. Claire struggled early on in school but persevered and was hired at her first job at McDonalds at 15 (she claims to have done so in order to date a boy). Claire’s early jobs took her to Canada Life insurance where she was tasked with processing and paying out claims. Her supervisor at the time was very recalcitrant and uncooperative and treated Claire poorly, so much so that one day she was so upset coming home on the bus she expressed her unhappiness only to be offered an interview by the lady on the bus next to her. It turns out that lady worked with Yorkton Securities and offered her a job where Claire spent the next few years. She later worked as an RCMP constable.
In 2001, Claire met her husband and in 2003 had her first child, daughter Sophie. Although she had some rocky roads battling her husband’s substance addictions, she overcame adversity through the sunlight in her life and had a second child, son Rowen in 2006. Claire began running in 2009 and it has since changed her life in many ways. She ran her first marathon in 2010. Crossing that finish line on her own became an analogy for her moving forward, and she split from her husband in 2010 and started a new path in life. She has since taken up a huge passion in running including ultramarathons and trail running. Some highlights have been the Knee Knacker in North Vancouver and participating in the New York marathon. She is hoping to qualify for the Boston Marathon next year. Claire has started to practice as a real estate agent (teamed up with fellow Rotarian Leo Bruneau, Coquitlam) and since 2014 has continually progressed upwards. We welcome her with wide arms to our club.
Alan Stuart visited us all the way from the Rotary Club of Gateway Edmonton.
Matt Raybin and Lisa Panchenko were each guests of Peter Cuthbert. Matt works with Mountain Highway Collision and was a sponsor for SFPP. Lisa is a collision damage estimator.
Announcements:
Rotary RIPS was delayed one week because of last week’s storm. The new date will be Saturday, October 22. Meet at 930 at Noons Creek Hatchery.
We had a board meeting on Monday. Cleone updated us on some fantastic giving opportunities that we have reviewed and approved. Please encourage organizations that are looking for funding to submit a funding request; more details can be found through Cleone.
Guest Speaker: Claire Lambert
Claire was born in 1973 in London England and immigrated with her family as a young child. Over time there has been a large amount of her family come over from England but growing up family trips were always back to England to visit the remaining family there including her grandparents. Claire’s parents have since split but out of that she has gained several step-sisters and step-brothers and she has a large family now here in Canada. Her brother Mark is a firefighter with the City of Burnaby. Claire struggled early on in school but persevered and was hired at her first job at McDonalds at 15 (she claims to have done so in order to date a boy). Claire’s early jobs took her to Canada Life insurance where she was tasked with processing and paying out claims. Her supervisor at the time was very recalcitrant and uncooperative and treated Claire poorly, so much so that one day she was so upset coming home on the bus she expressed her unhappiness only to be offered an interview by the lady on the bus next to her. It turns out that lady worked with Yorkton Securities and offered her a job where Claire spent the next few years. She later worked as an RCMP constable.
In 2001, Claire met her husband and in 2003 had her first child, daughter Sophie. Although she had some rocky roads battling her husband’s substance addictions, she overcame adversity through the sunlight in her life and had a second child, son Rowen in 2006. Claire began running in 2009 and it has since changed her life in many ways. She ran her first marathon in 2010. Crossing that finish line on her own became an analogy for her moving forward, and she split from her husband in 2010 and started a new path in life. She has since taken up a huge passion in running including ultramarathons and trail running. Some highlights have been the Knee Knacker in North Vancouver and participating in the New York marathon. She is hoping to qualify for the Boston Marathon next year. Claire has started to practice as a real estate agent (teamed up with fellow Rotarian Leo Bruneau, Coquitlam) and since 2014 has continually progressed upwards. We welcome her with wide arms to our club.
CLASSIFICATION TALKS - THE FAVORITES
Thank you Claire
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