Next meeting: Monday April 10, 2017 at 12:15 PM Guest Speaker: TBA
Our President, Steve Gallagher, opened our meeting with the playing of O’Canada and the signing of Rotary Grace.
We were pleased to welcome Habee’s Dad, Trevor Miller, Jan Lightly, Scott & Ann Oake and Art Alexander
Announcements.
On May 8th our meeting will acknowledge our Half Marathon and 5 Km run sponsors. We ask that all members mark this date on their calendar and plan to attend this meeting.
This year we will be sponsoring Divjyot Grewal for the 2017 Rotary Adventure in Citizenship Program in Ottawa.
Rotary International issued a new logo, with “Rotary Making Difference” on the logo.
We will also be sponsoring a two person team from Fort Richmond Collegiate for MUNA. The students who we will be sponsoring are Mirha Zohair and Jordyn Lafreniere.
District 5550 Conference will be held in Kenora May 25 – 28, 2017.Registriation is available on the website.
Teddy Bear picnic will be held on Sunday May 28, 2017. Volunteers will be needed.
R.I. Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 16, 2017. Registration is now available through the RI website.
Our Half Marathon and 5 KM race will take place on Sunday September 17, 2017.
Sergeant-at-Arms: Ron Miller
Happy Bucks: Bill, Russ, Roger, Ron and Jeff
The weekly accumulator draw this week was for $13.00. Jan Lightly drew the Ace of Clubs.
Guest Speaker: Constable Dan Noordman was introduced by Roger Gadd. Dan wanted everyone to know how dangerous Fentanyl can be and that taking one pill can kill you. He spoke about losing his Son in June 2015. His son wasn’t a drug user but had a cold and sinus problems that didn’t want to go away. It appears that he got a pill from someone he knew, took it before he went to bed and his father found dead in the morning. When Dan and his family found out that Fentanyl was involved they had a difficult time believing it. Dan and his family lives have now been changed forever. Dan’s son Erin loved music, worked three jobs and had a three year old son. Dan, as part of his job, goes around to schools talking about drugs and how dangerous they are, tells his story about his son and hopes that it will make a difference in the lives of some of the students so that their family does not have to deal with the death of a child like they had to. Dan, wants everyone to talk about drugs to their love ones. The more we talk about it the more people will hear the message, let’s hope that most of them listen before it is too late. Habee thanked Dan for coming to talk to us.
Up Coming Events
Teddy Bear Picnic will be held on May 28, 2017. Volunteer opportunities will be available.
Our Meeting on May 8th will be a thank you meeting for the sponsors of our Half Marathon and 5 Km run. We will invite the sponsors to come to our lunch on May 8th and we will do a short presentation about Rotary and the sponsorships that the half Marathon and 5 KM run allows us to do. We are hopeful that all of our club members will note this date and plan on attending.
We have decided to discontinue our once a month morning meeting immediately because we were not accomplishing the goals that was sat out for these morning meetings
