Rotary Meeting Aug 15th, 2013

 

Pres Brian introduced our 2 guests, Bill's son Bob and Tahn Towns, today's speaker to the 11 members in attendance. Reminders and updates followed on Lobster on the Beach (bring in ticket money) and upcoming meetings: next week is club day where we will hear reports from all the committees and generally share club information and the following week, August 29th is the club social. This one is at the Desert Center starting at 5:30, tour at 6 and dinner at 7. The District Govenor and Assistant DG will be there for their annual meeting with us and Ron and Brian are working on making this a fun event so plan to come. There will be a board meeting at noon that day in lieu of the normal lunch meeting - everyone is welcome to attend that one as well. 

Reminder that next week in the club reports we will be deciding on whether we will take in an exchange student in 2014 and that will be dependant on whether we have Rotary home hosting volunteers. If you think you can do some hosting of the student but won't be at the meeting, please let John, Marieze or Harold know as with no potential hosts, we will not commit to taking on an inbound. 

You may be on the recieving end phone calls from Bill....if you have caller ID, please accept the calls anyway as he is our phone committee!

Chris and Erik have been approved as potential new members so they will be approached this week to see if they will join us.

Ron introduced our guest speaker Tahn Towns. She is an 8 year resident here with a varied background covering veterinary work, carpentry, massage and holistic therapy but her topic today was her current work in helping horses through the use of Probiotics. A good speaker, Tahn explained what probiotics were, where they come from naturally and as a supplement primarily for the digestive tract of horses. Basically, they live in the horses system and support enzyme growth there that stabilizes and supports several basic animal functions. The fact of the day was that the digestive track of a horse is 95 feet long and in volume is the equivalent of a 45 gallon drum! Who knew?

The club will be helping man an aid station for the Penticton Classic Triathalon on Sunday August 25th. It will be at the Osoyoos airport and John will be sending more details for volunteers on the weekend but mark the date on your calendars now...may need as many as 30 volunteers!

Happy bucks followed and Pres Brian won the 50/50.