Next meeting: February 27, 2017 at 12:15 PM
Guest Speaker: Chris Lorenc, President, Manitoba Heavy Construction Assoc.
President, Steve Gallagher opened the meeting with the singing of O’ Canada and Rotary Grace.
We were pleased to welcome numerous guest to our February 13, 2017 meeting.
Announcements
We have a couple of positions that are open on the Executive Committee for 2017 - 2018, if you are interested please let Martin Coward or Steve Gallagher know. Position open are Rotary Foundation and Public relations.
District 5550 Conference will be held in Kenora May 25 – 28, 2017.Registriation is available on the website.
R.I. Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 16, 2017. Registration is now available through the RI website.
On February 13, 2017 our guest speaker will be Scott Oake. We would like to have a large attendance to listen to Scott speak about the opioid epidemic and share the story of his sons’ fatal addiction.
Interac Club at Fort Richmond school
Our next meeting will be February 27, 2017
Sergeant-at-Arms:
Happy Bucks:
The weekly accumulator draw this week – there wasn’t a draw this week because extra time was given to our guest speaker Scott Oake
Guest Speaker; Scott Oake was introduced by Ted Foreman. Scott and his wife, Anne spoke at length about their son Bruce who died of an overdose about six years ago. They spoke about his troubles and what they did to try and get him of drugs. Their message was don’t give up and if you suspect someone is doing drugs try to get them help. They speak about Bruce and his drug issues because it’s their way of making sure that Bruce’s life was worth something. Bruce was a talented rapper and boxer. Scott and Anne are setting up the Bruce Oake Foundation. They are getting final plans in place to set up a treatment centre here in Winnipeg based on Simon House in Calgary. This treatment centre will accept everyone, no one will be turned away because they do not have money. Scott and Anne were given a standing ovation by the large crowd that attended our lunch on Monday. Don Fletcher thanked Scott and Anne for coming to share their story with us.
Up Coming Events
We have a couple of positions open on the Executive Committee for 2017-2018 these positions are Rotary International and Public Relations. If anyone is interested in either of these positions please contact Martin Coward or Steve Gallagher.
Next board meeting will be at 11AM on February 27, 2017 at Holiday Inn South in the room where we have our regular 12:15 PM meetings.
On February 17, 2017 the 16th Annual Big Daddy Tazz & Friends Comedy Night in support of Childrens’ Charities will be held at Pantages Playhouse Theatre. Doors open at 6:00 PM Show starts at 7:30 PM. This event is Sponsored by The Rotary Club of Winnipeg East. Some tickets are available from our club by contacting Steve Gallagher.
We have decided to continue with our once morning a month meeting. The idea was to have the morning meeting on the third Monday of each month but because of holidays this will not always be possible. So the dates for the morning meetings for the next six months are:
Monday January 23, 2017
Monday February 27, 2017 Changed to a Noon meeting
Monday March 20, 2017
Monday April 24, 2017
Monday May 15, 2017
Monday June 19, 2017
Greeters:
February 27, 2017 Habbee Allimson and Shelley Killeen
