The weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Lindsay was called to order by President John Coxon.
We had no guests in attendance this week.
Our humorist Rohan brought a couple of good stories. Eventually, we all make a noise like a frog and go to Disneyland.
Announcements:
Next week’s speaker will be Jennifer Miles from Junior Achievement
Directors Meeting Tuesday
Club Membership fees for fiscal 2016 are due January 1, 2016
If any member has interest in serving as a board director, committee chair or committee member, please contact Al Goard A.S.A.P. for information.
We received a letter from Wally Nugent in which he voiced his appreciation for having been given the Vocational Service award.
Friday evening Fellowship event: dinner and a Muskies game. Please let Chief John know if you are going to attend for dinner at Boston Pizza (to reserve seats). Tickets for the game are available at the arena. ($8-senior, $10-adult, kids free). It promises to be an enjoyable evening.
Duty Roster for next week:
Sgt. at Arms: Al Cripps and Jason Willock
Thanker/Finemaster: Mark Fisher
Greeter/Prize: Teresa Fleming
Humorist: Teresa said she hopes Chief John attends.
Today’s Door prize, donated by Teresa was won by Dave Harvey
Dave was also the finemaster today and he collected many happy bucks.
Christine was happy to visit her sister donated a buck for missing meetings
Dan “Je suis Paris”
Jason has his back yard rink boards up and is ready for ice making temperatures
Lynda is happy to say that Christine finished her level 3 Rotary Leadership course
Al is happy he remembered 55th anniversary.
Rohan is unhappy... his computer crashed and he has not been able to send his ‘family of Rotary’ greetings
Carol contributed a ‘cruise’ buck
John Hunter was happy to have gone to see Mary Poppins and congratulated Ron Cork on his vocal performances. ( NO Ron did NOT play the lead role!)
John Hagarty echoed John Hunter’s comment
Ron thanked Rotarians and the 2300+ other folks who came to support the Academy.
Jill Sadler had to pay a dollar ‘cuz it was her birthday on Saturday so we sang ‘Happy Birthday’.
Yours truly won the 50/50 draw. I drew the 9 of spades so the pot grows from $60.50
President John presented the minutes of the last Directors’ Meeting
Gary Traill moved to Receive the minutes as read; the motion was seconded by Ron Cork and unanimously passed.
John Bennett presented the financial statement for the year end June 30, 2015
and moved that it be received. Motion seconded by Neil Young and passed unanimously
John Bennett presented the draft Administration Budget and draft Fundraising Budget for the year ending June 30, 2016 and moved that they be received. Motion seconded by Al Goard and passed unanimously.
Program:
Dave Harvey presented a program to re/acquaint us with the Rotary Foundation.
The Mission Statement of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to support the efforts of Rotary International in the fulfillment of the Object of Rotary, Rotary's mission, and the achievement of world understanding and peace through local, national, and international humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs.
There are several ways to support the Foundation. The Every Rotarian, Every Year initiative encourages every member to donate $100 US to the Annual fund. In addition there are opportunities to become a Paul Harris Fellow, or a Sustaining member; to join the Paul Harris Society and eventually become an Arch Klumph Society member.
Donations may be made by cheque at the club level, by mail, on line and even by wire transfer. See Dave for information.
Our club sets aside $2500 to be used to match donations made by individual members over the course of the year. The benefit is that the donor gets the tax advantage of both his/her donation as well as the amount given by the club (varies according to the total amount given by members).
If you make a donation by any means other than at the club level, let Dave know so that you can be included in the matching program.
Since Dave’s duties today included being finemaster and thanker as well as speaker, those present showed their appreciation for the program by a round of applause.
There being nothing further for the good of Rotary, the meeting was adjourned.
Scribe: Jim Mackey
