April 18, 2016
Guests: Our guest speaker, Josh Feltham, and Brendan Walker, a guest of Barb Swain
Humorist: Ron Cork professed to have had the same problem as Bert had last week..... couldn’t find a clean Doctor joke so he brought some humorous coroner/lawyer quotes.
Rotanza Early Bird Draw: There were 437 tickets turned in for the draw. The early bird winner of $500 is Greg McPherson sold by John Bennett.
Duty Roster for April 25, 2016
Sgt at Arms: Derek Denson and Erin Coons
Thanks/Fine master: Dom Fox
Greeter/Prize: Michelle Gage
Humorist: Dom
Speaker: Shawn Morgan, Professor of Geomatics
Today’s Door Prize was won by: John Hunter. Thanks to Marlene
Business announcements:
-The Tri-Club Rotary Meeting will be held on May 2nd at the Peterborough Golf Club.
-The Rotary Board of Directors meets tomorrow April 19/16 at 8:30 am at Lindsay Police Services. All welcome to attend.
-Fenelon Falls Rotary Showcase will be on the 12th of May at the Fenelon Community Centre. It’s important to let them know numbers for dinner.
-Pasta a la Chiefs is at the Armoury on April 28th.
-The first Rotary meeting in May will be on Thursday May 5th at the Fair grounds. Rotarians will be there from 9:30 a.m. and work on Rotanza preparations all day. Volunteer help would be appreciated.
John Hunter is looking for volunteers to sell Rotanza raffle tickets at the Canadian Tire Big Red Weekend Spring Sale at the Lindsay store. The sale runs from Thursday 21st until Sunday 24th
Happy Bucks:
Happy Bucks were collected by Fine master Jason Willock.
-Bob Puffer sent in 10 happy bucks just because.
-Blair Bailey is happy to be back and to have spent a good weekend at the PETS weekend. Blair is also happy to congratulate President John for 28 years of perfect attendance. Apparently John neglected to mention that fact when he handed out perfect attendance pins to other members.
-Marlene had a weekend visit with her daughters
-Erin is happy with good weather and her daughter who excelled in dance last week
-Teresa is happy about her birthday present from her hubby and a couple of her table mates had to cough up a dollar each
-Barb is happy her guest Brendan Walker is here
-Lynda had happy bucks for Blair Bailey, John Hunter, John Coxon, George McFadden, Barb Swain, Mark Fisher and Anthony who all manned the phones last Thursday. The telephone blitz done by Rotarians from Polito Ford was successful and resulted in some sales.
-Dan is happy that the W.H.O has changed the polio vaccine because one of the three wild strains has been eradicated. The end is in sight.
Bernie had a happy buck for long time friend/Rotarian Bob Puffer
-Derek is happy to be back from Florida
-Bert is happy the Jays are playing again, life is good
-Ian is sad that the Jays are losing in the bottom of the 7th today.
-Sharon had a happy RYLA weekend. Charlie’s grand daughter did well.
Sharon was also impressed by Bert in a media interview about recent and on going crises in Attiwapiskat
-Charlie is glad his grand daughter had a great RYLA weekend
Ron Cork had a sad buck for the passing of Brenda Milner, wife of the late Peter Milner, a long serving and well respected Rotarian, both of whom were strong supporters of the arts and the Academy Theatre
Ron was happy that the JUNO award winning Strumbellas put on two concerts at the Academy over the weekend to virtual sell out crowds
Ian, Marlene, Greg and Michelle all put in Scooter bucks
Jason collected anniversary bucks from Jim (25) and John Hunter (32) and himself (10), and a birthday buck from Teresa.
50/50 Draw was won by Blair Bailey who pulled the Ace of Spades and donated his $5 winnings to the pot.
Program:
Professor Josh Feltham is a full time professor at the School of Environmental and Natural Resource sciences, and the coordinator of the Ecosystem Management Program. In his spare time he is working to complete his PhD in Conservation Biology at Trent University.
Josh will leave this week for Costa Rica, taking a group of SSFC students for an international field experience where they will learn about community-based approaches to resolving environmental issues. Josh and his wife lived in Costa Rica for a time before joining SSFC. This will be his eighth group of students in an ongoing environmental studies program. Students are billeted with local families visiting a village called Parismena. They learn about the street level economy, how hard it is to develop income and the affect of external forces on that income.
The academic aspect of the field trip is the student participation in preservation efforts of the locals toward the reduction of poaching of sea turtles and their eggs.
The result is that students get real life experience and begin to realize the impact their actions and decisions have in the community. Altogether, an interesting and enlightening presentation for which Jason thanked Josh on behalf of the club.
There being nothing further for the good of Rotary, the meeting was adjourned.
Your scribe,
Jim Mackey
