President Jim opened the meeting.

Gary Dyke said the 4 way test from memory. Jarrod read grace and Prez Jim asked us to toast the Queen and Canada.

 

Attendance was 17 Rotarions ,one visiting Rotarion  Sean from Cambridge North, and 5 guests Robert, Paul, Lisa ,Russ, And guest speaker Doug Hunt

Chris ran the show today, with a pot over $1000.  Mike drew the first ticket and of our guests, Mary, lost.

Then Graham, an immigrant, tried to steal the pot with the ace of clubs.  Sad!

 

 George reported John Jonas has had a recent infection in his bionic knee.  George also reported that Prez Jim's future son in law was in a car accident on the weekend. Both daughter and  future son in law are OK.

Mike lost his car keys on a beach in Panama - then got them back after someone else found them.
Dr. Tom is going to Whitehorse to see his 1-year-old grandson.

Our speaker was full of laughs today.

Linda - Golf tourney at GCC is on May 15, $175 per golfer.  Sponsorships going OK at the mid level, but we need more top level sponsorships and more players. Let Linda know if you are for sure going to get a foursome together...better yet just sign up online to reserve your spot.
Matt - Contact Cayley for curling at our annual club bonspiel on May 20, or sign up on our website.  Talk to Matt if you have prizes for the prize table.

Pres Paul - April 12 is a fireside meeting for new members at the wrinkle walk clubhouse.
Pres Paul - April 9 meeting is at Kidsability in Waterloo.

Heidi introduced Doug Hunt.  Doug aka known as Doug the Great is a multi talented motivational speaker that grew up in Glen Morris.  Doug also works at Participation House in Brantford as Director of Marketing.  Doug is very entertaining. He enjoys working with grade 4 and grade 10 students.  His main message is to Fail Forward and never give up.  Doug is known though out North America has one of the best stilt walkers.  Some where  along the line he injured himself and his doctor told him that he need to change his name to Doug( you probably needed to be there)  Anyway after some soul searching and some failed attempts he recovered and set a Guinness world record for walking 25 steps on the world tallest stilts.  In the meantime he raised over 100K for Participation House.

 

Doug interest in magic came from watching Ed Sullivan show.    He was lucky to meet his hero that he watched as a child in a  Hamilton Club several years ago. Unfortunately  I can't describe some of his magic tricks even when he  tried to show us  how he did it

 Chris Ainsworth thanked the speaker and Prez Jim gave the official club thanks.

 

On a personal note we should thank Heidi for bringing out such a entertaining guest.