Meeting October 4th, 2016

Guest: Christopher Kory, Causeway Work Centre

Announcements:

- Chris Kraft spoke to us about the huge amount of work that he and others did over the past weekend in cleaning out the storage lockers where the items for the rummage sale were stored.  There were six large lockers in total.  Chris described the quantity of goods as "phenomenal".  Items were given to Causeway Work Centre since they plan to hold a sale.  As well, more items were given to the Centretown United Church for their sale in May.  Many thanks to Chris and the others who worked so hard at the lockers on the weekend.

- Christopher Kory attended the meeting and explained to us about Causeway Work Centre which is in the Hintonburg neighbourhood of Ottawa.  Causeway started as an employment agency for youth with mental illness.  However, it has branched out and now runs various types of programs.  Christopher Kory runs their nutrition and wellness program.  They have a catering business, a landscaping business and an entrepreneur program.  These programs bring in funds and also provide training to their clients.

- Charter Night will be on October 25, 2016 at the Ritz Canal Restaurant.  If you have not already signed up, please be sure to do so if you are available to attend.

- our regular meeting will go ahead on October 25, 2016 (the day of Charter night) since we had already arranged for a speaker from the United States to speak to us about a Cold War Museum.  Instead, the meeting of October 18, 2016 will be cancelled.

- October 28 - 29 - the District Conference will be taking place in Ottawa.  The Youth Exchange will be presenting a murder mystery for the Conference and they are looking for volunteer actors.

- Saturday, December 17 - Running on Empties will be held at the Beer Store on Merrivale Ave. again this year.  A sign up sheet will be circulated.

- Monday, November 7 - the Board Meeting will take place in the room above Mike's store.

Speaker - Terry showed us his photos from his recent trip to Australia.  Terry is a wonderful photographer and his descriptions of the trip were very interesting.  Thank you, Terry.