Everton started off the meeting with a welcome to our newest member – Jack Miller
·         Honorary member Wayne Stevens & his wife Susan celebrated 58 years of marriage on Monday

Everton also shared a brief reminder about the back pack project with the Anishnabeg Outreach Family Center – check your email for details.  

 

Jack Kinch gave an update on  Rotary Curling. 

 

Matt was a past President of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club and had captained the 2012 Rotary tour of Canada. A passionate curler all his life, he had contributed much to the success of junior curling in Scotland and support for and funding of the Foundation is a fitting tribute to his memory.

 

The aim of the Matt Murdoch Curling Foundation is to fund two young Scottish curlers annually to receive top class coaching at the Trillium Camp in Ontario, Canada. The camp brings aspiring young curlers together from around the world giving them a chance to share training techniques, develop their own skills and establish new friendships.

 

Holly Wilke-Milne - Holly hails from Perth, and was initially selected to attend Trillium in 2020. Since then, Holly has joined the British Curling programme and has been meeting with great success, notably winning a silver medal at the Scottish Women’s Championships in 2022. Holly loves travelling, and is looking forward to making a return visit to Canada.

 

Jamie Rankin - Jamie is from Elgin, and was initially selected to attend Trillium in 2020. A career highlight (so far!) for Jamie has been competing for Team GB at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2020. He was selected as an ambassador for Team GB to sit with the IOC president during the curling final. Jamie’s other interests include Scouts and volunteering.

 

Hammy McMillan - Hammy is lead for Team Mouat, Olympic Silver Medallists (+European Champions, multiple Grand Slam of Curling Champions, the list goes on…). Hammy is also heavily involved in coaching and development in Stirling, and works with all ages and stages of curlers. Outside of curling he’s partial to a game of golf, and loves supporting Rangers FC.

 

Matt’s Widow, Marion and her partner Ian will be visiting Canada and specifically KW next Sunday through Wednesday and visiting the Camp next Tuesday.

 

 

50/50  The pot was increased to $193.50.   Karin Voisin, Bill Green and David Barth all failed to draw the black marble.  

 

 

 

 

Jack was born in Huntsville, Ontario and raised in Bracebridge

He was raised in the house his mom grew up in and both his parents grew up in Bracebridge as well

When he was younger Jack had a strong passion for soccer, guitar, reading, and around 15 he began networking with people in the business and financial sector

Around 17 or 18 is when Jack began to heavily invest his time in reading about investing and wealth management and began to set his sites on real estate investing

 

 

Jack and his partner, Jordan, have been together for almost 8 years. They met in highschool.

 

Jack’s main interests in life are finance, data analysis, real estate investing, wealth management, international development, camping, guitar, public speaking, and mental health advocacy

 

He has written 2 books which he plans on publishing in the near future.  One is on Mental health and the other is a fictional work.  

 

Jack enjoyed public speaking seminars at high school

The main passion project he’s been working on this year -  and will be investing his time in for the next few years - is his mental health YouTube Channel where he talks about his own struggles with mental health and the experiences he’s been through, lessons he’s learned, and skills or techniques he’s discovered along the way. 

 

Jack is very open about his mental health and has been struggling with multiple mental health disorders for about 8 years now. He finds that it is a very taboo topic that needs to be talked about but is usually kept in the dark so he likes to be open about it in an attempt to help others going through similar struggles with their own mental health. Statistics show that ⅓ of the population struggles with mental health issues of some sort. 

 

Santa’s Village, Northwood Gym, Muskoka Magazine, Harvey Kalles in Muskoka, TrilliumWest

 

In short, Jack wants to make a positive impact in the local community, meet new people in the city and bring more local youth to the club.

 

 

 

 

Founded in 2019 the IBL is the best and oldest amateur baseball league in Canada.  

From 2016 to 2019 the Panthers earned 4 consecutive trips to the finals against Barrie and their junior team is the current provincial champs on their way to the nationals.  

 

They are allowed only 4 international players per team  and this mas mostly been Cuban players for the Panthers.   Lots of red tape and bureaucracy getting Cuban players but the people are nice and it is definitely worth in in the end.   

They play a 42 game schedule and these are all volunteer players and staff.  There is a min age of 19 and if you still have the talent to make the team there is no upper age limit.

 

In all 45 players from the IBL have gone on to the pros (MBL) but people are involved in the IBL for their genuine love of the game.  

They generally have an attendance of 400 – 500 per game and that seems to primarily depend on the quality of the facilities.   Cities with better facilities get more people coming out to the games.  They have noticed that more kids are coming to games these days.  That’s a good thing.  

 

Bill Green also shared that improvement have been made by the city to the facilities but it has mostly been for the play on the field and we are still working with metal stands with no shade.  It is also the smallest outfield in the league which is not a good thing.  Since the City of Kitchener is really the block in getting new facilities, groups of interested parties are coming together to see about getting one new premier facility for the region for all the groups to share/use. Of course this is a slow process so we are looking at 2 – 3 years yet before new facilities could be in place.