Rotary Meeting Aug 2 2012

President Denis opened todays meeting introducing our guest speaker, Brock Paton, past exchange student Corina (2009-10) and outbound Tianna Smith who leaves Saturday for her year in Turku, Finland. 
Reminder that the August 16 noon meeting is cancelled in favor of the BBQ social at Cheryle and Jim's place. The Board will meet at noon instead with Denis having to promise Judy it will only be one hour! Also keep that Sept 15 date open for the Lobster Fest. Cheryle will need some volunteers and will be sending sign up sheets for the cooking and bar. 
Brock then gave us an entertaining, enthusiastic and professional presentation on the Osoyoos Traditional Archery School. This is a non profit organization that held their first class May 3 of this year at the Rod and Gun Club facility. They started with 8 members and have grown to 49 in their first 3 months, ranging in age from 5 to 77!  Brock came from a very successful culinary background on the coast to Osoyoos in 1987 for health reasons and has thrived here. He gave a history of the long bow with interesting stories of wars and hunting going back centuries, stressing that this is not the modern compound bow commonly used today for hunting and competitions but the traditional long bow, and he shared 3 of his own bows with us.  He has represented Canada in many meets but is not alone in the club with medals....Shelly has drunk the cool aid and is an avid archer along her 2 sons and is acquiring a trophy case of her own! Brock has a goal of introducing this individual sport to the schools, teaching not only the shooting skills but making the arrows themselves. They have evening classes twice a week and new archers are very welcome.
The keeper of the monies, Vaughn, won the 50/50 to shouts of 'fix, fix'.