President Mandy Kwasnica opened the meeting tonight after just adjourning the most recent club board meeting. Dave Morris was able to help the rest of us get in tune to sing a fine rendition of O Canada. We then each had a moment of silent reflection to be thankful in our own way. The meeting was handed over to our acting Sarge Darvin Jasper to introduce Dan Sutton, our only guest tonight.

 

 

The club Christmas party / dinner is booked for December 16^th. President Mandy advised that she will be putting together a video production focused on the past and future activities of the Charleswood Rotary Club. There will be no gift exchange this year. There will be games and door prizes.  Donations for the Westgrove breakfast program as well as socks and underwear will be collected at the dinner. Westgrove breakfast program items: Wow butter, cereal, granola bars (nut free), jam, fruit cups, apple sauce, Nutri-grain bars, puddings, juice boxes.

 

President Mandy advised that the board is looking for a ‘Literacy Chair’ for the club. She will be speaking to a couple of members to ask if they would be interested in taking on the position. The position would involve being a single person to collect all the emails related to literacy. The individual would then forward the emails as required and report to the club.

 

President Mandy reported that Dave and Nancy Morris will be ordering new Rotary Wheel Pins shortly. The new pins have a magnet system to hold in place. The cost per pin is $7.50. Contact Dave or Nancy to get your order placed.

 

Jack Wilson reported that the club executive decided to make a donation to the Salvation Army this year due to the loss in funding that they will see due to the cancelation of the MLCC collection sites. The one-time donation is $1,000.00 for the Salvation Army. The club will also donate to the Bear Clan in the value of $500.00 to support the work they do in the community.

 

Ed Thompson reported on a board decision made at the meeting earlier tonight. The board would like members to think about who they would each like to designate as their ‘associate member’. This ‘associate member’ would be welcome to attend meetings with the primary member but also to come to meetings when the primary member is away for any reason and unable to attend a meeting. More details below from Ed;

 

Keep current policy for members under 40 can join at half club fees of $245.00 per year.

Experimental ideas to try.

1.         Corporate membership & Family membership - Cost double the annual fee plus half the cost for each additional member currently at $125.00. Such members would be full members as proposed and supported by the corporation or family membership. Cost to club would be similar to the under 40 category. With either a corporate or family memberships the holders of such membership categories would be permitted to recommend for membership two people subject to normal club approval processes. Benefits: Allows more members to join at reduced cost or no cost dependent on the generosity of the sponsoring corporation or family membership category. Allows companies, NGOs (i.e. Salvation Army), municipalities, public institutions such as churches, schools etc. to obtain membership in Rotary at a reduced cost or no cost depending on the sponsoring entity.

2. Rotary Associate- Each current club member be given the power to name an alternate    (Rotary Associate) who could attend club meetings in his or her absence or to attend meetings from time to time with the member. The alternate would be expected to pay for the meals but not club dues. Benefits: more people supporting our weekly meetings and potential volunteers.

3.         Friends of Rotary - For receipted donations of $50.00 or more a year such persons or businesses would become a "Friend of Rotary". They would get the Rotarian, Club Meeting Minutes and two free club meeting meals a year. Benefits: More of the public would get to know us and what we are doing in the community and abroad. Very good potential for new members, or supporters of our fund raisers, and volunteers. $50.00 would cover the club’s cost of the Rotarian and most of the meal costs.

 

Paul Brault had tickets available for the Christmas dinner at Monday’s meeting. Dec. 2, 2019 was the cut off for ticket purchase and /or advising Paul that you intend to purchase tickets shortly. The total number of individuals attending is required to prepare for the seating layout and food requirements planning.

 

Ed Toews advised that Charleswood Rotary will be helping the Salvation Army Kettle Drive at Grant Park Mall starting this Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. We will also be staffing for the kettle on Dec. 14^th  and Dec. 21^st. The kettle location is in Centre Court. If you are the first person to arrive on shift, the bubble can be found in the security office. This is located down a hall beside the A&W that goes to the bathrooms. Contact Ed Toews to volunteer.

 

President Mandy reminded all of the book collection for prisoners. The Prison Libraries Committee of the Manitoba Library Association is a volunteer group that provides collections, programming and library awareness for incarcerated and reintegrating men and women in the justice system. Currently, they supply books to the Winnipeg Remand Centre, the Women’s Correction Centre (WCC) in Headingley, the Headingley Correctional Centre (HCC) for men, and The Pas Correctional Centre. Not all the prisons served have a dedicated library space, and books are not catalogued. Readers at the prisons are likely (and are welcome) to keep books that they borrow through this service. Visit www.mla.mb.ca/Committees to learn more. For a list of genres and subjects as well as authors and titles please visit:

https://mla.mb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2017-Wish-List.pdf .   Soft cover books preferred. Next week will be the last opportunity to donate to this program through the club.

 

President Mandy reported that she was able to visit Rotarian Boyd Halls in St. Boniface Hospital. She brought a plant on behalf of the Charleswood Rotary Club. Mandy has also had text contact with Boyd’s son Trevor. The mailing address for Helen Halls for anyone wanting to send their condolences: 16 - 101 Litchfield Blvd., Winnipeg, R3P 2R4.

 

Spare: Dave Morris (204) 832-6064

Nancy Morris introduced our club member Iain Scott.

 

Iain said he was going to compress nearly 60 years into 15 minutes for us.

 

Iain’s journey here began in Scotland almost 60 years ago in a town called Coatbridge, 16 kilometers from Glasgow. He has two sisters who live in the UK. One in London and one in Glasgow. They still travel back to the UK for family get togethers.

 

After High School at age 18, he began an apprenticeship in a commercial printer on a street behind Ibrox football stadium, the home of Glasgow Rangers FC. Although it was called Woodville street, it was fondly called “Wine Alley” by locals. This was a rough area but full of people with heart and he was glad that he had the opportunity to experience life there. One day on his way into the print office, he noticed that a co-worker had left a window open in his car. Iain went and advised the individual that his car might get stolen. The response was “that’s what I am hoping for!”. Iain draws comparisons as he travels the world and Iain smiles when he hears people comment on the North End of Winnipeg.

 

During his apprenticeship, he served time in each department ending up in the camera and art department. Apprenticeships in Britain are formalized and combine education with journeyman oversight.  Iain attended day release and evening classes at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing. There he won the Andrew Holmes Memorial Scholarship to study Electronic Pagination in England. Iain realised then he wanted to create a career using this equipment.

 

After his apprenticeship, Iain joined a colour separation company located in Clydebank Business Park near Glasgow which was formerly the location of the Singer Sewing machine factory. The QE II ship was built near there as well.

 

He was offered a job in Toronto and moved at age 26 in January 1986 to a whole new life.

 

Iain and his wife had to travel first to London to be interviewed at the Canadian embassy in Grosvenor Square. During the interview he was asked a direct question by the female immigration officer. “I see you are moving to Toronto to become a Film Stripper”. Her eyebrows raised a little. Iain had to remind her that if he was a stripper, he would not be able to hold an audience!

 

The title in fact refers to the prepress area of the printing process where film for catalogues or brochures etc. was laid out on a light table and assembled or stripped together. It was a craft and at that time occupied many, many people. It has been replaced by software programs running on Macintosh computers. In 1990, Iain purchased his first Macintosh computer and monitor for $10,000 and upgraded the RAM from 4MB to 8 MB! That machine ran at 40MHz. Just 3 months ago Iain purchased a Macintosh with 8 GB of RAM and having a processor running at 3 GHz.

 

In Toronto they settled into Canada. Iain worked for various colour separation companies working on many projects. One being the entire line of Kellogg’s Cartons from visual drawings to the final film that made the plates on the presses. At the same time he was working, Iain was teaching those within his industry and customers to use the software and equipment to retrain for the inevitable change that was coming. This led to his presenting PhotoShop at MacWorld in Toronto.

 

Iain has two daughters Sarah and Hannah, now 29 and 26 who were born in Toronto. His ex-wife worked for Great West Life and in 1997 they moved to Winnipeg. Iain worked for a few companies here in Winnipeg: Pollard Banknote, and latterly The Free Press before he opened his own company in 2006. That was The UPS Store in Osborne Village. In 2009 Iain joined Instant Imprints as an area developer and in 2012 he opened the first Instant Imprints in Winnipeg. There are now 3 locations.

 

Instant Imprints creates signage for outdoors and indoors. You may have seen their work along the Peak of the Market building. It has characters from Sesame Street. They also embroider in-house and that covers everything from company apparel to team uniforms. They produce a wide variety of promotional items, which includes everything from pens to bags. You may have seen the lovely bags from Peak of the Market.

 

Caroline, whom some of us have met and Iain have been together since January 2016. She has 3 children Jessica, Katy and Patrick. They are planning to go away on vacation sometime between February and March. This is a new stage for both of them. Iain’s company was sold on July 31, 2019 and they are working as managers during the transition to at least January or beyond. Iain said that the end of this phase of his career is in sight. He wants to find something that includes dealing with people. They are on the hunt for something appropriate right now.

 

Iain thanked the club for having him speak tonight and thanked us for allowing him to join Rotary.

 

Q/A

 

1.- Janet Spence asked what cultural differences that he experienced by moving to Canada.

A.- In Toronto the people are from all around the world. The job was easy. The difficult part was the math required due to the metric vs. imperial measurement. It felt like they were on vacation all the time because everything was new to them wherever they went in Canada.

 

2.- Bob Eilers asked if Charleswood Rotary is the first Rotary experience for him.

A.- Yes. A friend that was the manager at Sky Zone moved to Southern Ontario. He bought an Instant Imprints there. Ian’s friend joined a Rotary club there. When this friend came back to Winnipeg for a visit, he took Iain to a Rotary club for a meeting. Iain then decided to join a himself.

 

3.- Elaine Thompson requested clarification as to the pricing of the Mac computers.

S.A.A. Mike Dudar was away tonight. Acting Sarge Darvin Jasper took over the position.

 

 

 

Acting Sarge Darvin asked Iain Scott to pull the ticket tonight. # 222 was the one to match. Nancy Morris held that match. There were only two marbles in the bag tonight. After a great deal of marble tumbling, Nancy pulled out the blue one…win!!

 

 

Dan Sutton – for being deep in conversation while Iain Scott was beginning his presentation.