We enjoyed lunching with Rotary eclub member Sue Croft.
Mr. Joe England arrived for lunch as a club guest as he said he was interested in Rotary.
We hosted Jennika Patterson and her mother Cheryl . I believe Jennika rec'd some funding from us while at Georgian College.
We had student of the month guests:
From Patrick Fogarty: parents Mr and Mrs White and and Mr. Geen and their children Megan and Morgan White and Eric Geen with teachers M. Lewis and B. Bazinet.
From Od/Park : parents Maryanne Geed and also Mr and Mrs. Gibson and their children Jessie Gleed and Mackenzie Gibson with teachers T. Johnson and J Castellani
From Twin Lakes: parents K and P Traycheff with stduents Arlana Bickell and Jessica Traycheff with teacher Randy Kitchen
Mary Asselstine has a birthday on February 14th--ain't she a lovable darling with a birthday on Valentine's day.
Catherine Russell, wife of Rusty, has a birthday today Feb 11th. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADIES
Club anniversaries: Roman Martium and Brian Petersen celebrate 1 yr membership with this Rotary club. John Hammill has been with us for 5 years and Chuck Beeton has been with our Club for 27 years. Congrats to all.
Announcements
Chuck Beeton was in hospital but is home now. Don Whitfield was home from hospital after his fall but has been rehospitalized as he fell again.
Kevin Vennard said that elections for the Board of Directors are coming up and nominations are called but none came in. We need 1 nomination as Kevin is leaving the Board. It is a 2 year commitment so pls send Kevin an email if you are interested or feel someone should be interested.
Wine and Cheese this evening 5-7 pm at Highwayman Inn, members and spouses and potential members are invited.
If you have not done your classification talk, please get in touch with John Mattinson.
Student weekend is February 21-23 with Saturday morning chili fest lunch and XC skiing and snow shoeing at Tony Telfords.
There is NO LUNCH meeting Feb 25th as we will be at Fern Resort on Saturday February 22nd for those involved in Student weekend. There are sign up sheets being circulated for members/spouses and their kids.
50/50 winners --there was only one pize of $20 won by Ken Boyd. Total collected was $43.25 so $23.25 goes to Foundation.
Sargeant at arms was "I'm richer than you think Greg Parker"
Roman "racing" Martiuk was fined 2 bucks for questionable driving skills. John H. avoided sitting next to Greg despite Greg practising excellent hygiene routine, cost hin $1. No Birthday bodies were here so instead anyone not having a student or parent sitting with them was fined. Keith McAllister's table were fined for providing incorrect number of medals won by Canada thus far ( turns out Greg was having trouble with his math addition skills and Canada had less than 10 medals at that point......hmmm, don't worry ScotiaBank has calculators).
Happy bucks:
Cynthia the French exchange student is now living at the Vennards and Kevin is happy to the amount of $2
Roman is happy as he is going south on vacation.....wait for it, wait for it .....to Niagara Falls.
Jule is happy as she is going South--to New York City for the long weekend to enjoy Family Day
Ralph thanked Keith and Roman and the City of Orillia re: building reno.
Today Keith McAllister did his classification speech. He was born in New Brunswick, dad was also an Engineer and mom a teacher . The family moved to Peterborough . Keith went to Queens. Then began work at ONtario Hydro. He is married and has 2 kids. They lived in North Bay then New Liskard then Peterborough as VP of Utilities then Enbridge electric. He turned that company around in 3 years --way to go Keith. Keith saw an ad for the OWLP position in Orillia and here is he, with a house here and still the one in Peterborough. Keith enjoys competitive rifle shooting and fishing ( and story telling too I'm guessing). He set the bar high for Valentines' day as he rented Singer Castle for his 20th wedding anniversary. Keith likes to build things, and build 2 house in Peterborough.
One day he really hopes he'll get his Camaro
Great to get to know you better Keith--thanks for the presentation and glad to have you in the Club.
Monday: Gravenhurst 12:15 - Opera House, 295 Muskoka Rd. South Wasaga Beach 12:15 - RecPlex - Oakview Room, 1724 Mosley Street
Tuesday:
Barrie-Huronia 12:15 - Lakeshore Community Centre Collingwood 12:00 - Temple Bdlg, Hurontario St. Penetanguishene 12:15 - La Cle d'la Baie (restaurant main street)
Wednesday:
Barrie Kempenfelt 7:15 a.m. - Barrie Country Club, 635 St. Vincent St. North Washago-Centennial 7:15 a.m. - Washago Community Centre. First Wednesday Northland Restaurant Hwy #11 N at Sparrow Lake Rd. Huntsville 1st Monday of month 6:30 p.m. - balance of month 12:15 - Holiday Inn Express Midland: 12:15 - Best Western Highland Hotel
Thursday: Orillia Lake Country7:00 a.m. Mariposa Inn Collingwood - SGB 7:15 a.m. Atoka Club, Cranberry Resort, Collingwood Barrie 12:15 - Lakeshore Community Centre
