Allan Lafontaine from Satellite
Dennis Good from Satellite

 

Happy Birthday, Mario Tulipano, Jan 10th

Wedding Anniversary, 15 yrs. – Jed & Islay Levine

Joined Rotary   - Ralph Cipolla, 38 yrs.

Dean – happy to be elected as Orillia Ch. of Commerce new President

Chuck – happy to wish fellow Rotarians and their families Happy New Year

Mario – happy to have daughters home for Christmas holidays and announcement youngest daughter is getting married

Nancy – happy that she was able to see and visit many people around town over the holidays

Angela – happy and thankful that our community has Nancy whose kindness and  efforts to visit people who can’t easily get out is very appreciated by so many

Nicole – happy for 2^nd anniversary of Orillia Matters

Anne – happy for great Christmas/New Years with friends & family plus serving dinner at the Lighthouse Tuesday

Rick – happy for good family times over the holidays

Rotary Upcoming:

Jan 29^th – AGM

Feb 11^th ­- Bowling Night

Allan Lafontaine provided a  Classification speech.

Allan grew up in North Bay in a predominantly Italian neighbourhood. Music, hunting and fishing were big part of his youth. After a couple of years in Ottawa, Allan returned to North Bay where he obtained his Accounting Diploma. He later added a Marketing diploma to his education.  A large part of his career has been in tax consulting and he started a company that became the Tax Recovery Group. His tax consulting work has covered virtually all aspects of  tax recovery from execution of recovery claims to  training and education , across a wide variety of public and private sector clients.  It has taken him all over Canada including working with many First Nations communities and travelling to remote communities.

Allan is married to Tammy and they have 2 daughters.  He has been Managing Director of the Orillia Chamber of Commerce for past year. Allan inherited a love of music from his mother, is a self-taught guitarist and is still in a band today.