Congratulations to Barry and Anne Ziegler on their 42 nd anniversary Oct 27th and a happy birthday to John Madden on Oct 25th
Lots of Announcements today:
Marilyn reminds us that our treasurer would like any members invoices which are passed due to be paid up please before the end of October. Individual reminders will be emailed out.
Laura advises us that there are now information sheets kept at the registration desk to assist anyone not sure of registration or 50/50 procedures.
Nancy Amos announced that we have now a supply of printed club business cards which everyone should help themselves to. They can be used to give out to guests or anyone interested in our club, but please put your own name on the back of the card.
Rick has photos taken during the installations of smoke detectors and passed copies around the tables for all to see. Also, Tony Telford mentioned that he had received already two thank you letters from households that had received the smoke detectors.
Tony also advised that he would not personally be leading the xmas parade Rotary Float this year but if anyone in the club is interested in keeping the project going he is ready to help them get it going.
Tony also thanked the GNO comittee and volunteers for making this years Girls Night Out a big success, Julie Scott will give us a report later on how well they did.
Sergeant at Arms today was Randy Klein and fined all GNO ladies for being good, John for not admitting his real age, Ralph for blaming his misspeak on Leanne's spelling and Leanne also just in case.
Then on another tact he fined anyone who failed to vote in our federal election and in recognition of breast cancer month, $1 to anyone not wearing pink.
Happy bucks were plentiful today, Tony Antidormi was happy and thankful for his team of GNO drivers, Cliff was happy to have made acquaintance of his guest Andrew through driving Andrews wife home from GNO, Don was happy to see so many middle aged ladies ( i don't know who he is referring to ) living it up at GNO, Anne in turn for having a hansom driver Don to drive her home , Marilyn for all the fun she had at GNO Jane for having so much fun she discovered she had , and apologized for, stolen a wine glass from GNO. GNO obviously made a lot of Rotarians happy.
Otherwise Tom was happy that having heard Rick Rimkey's talk the previous Tuesday new right away who to call when a flood at home happened, Ray was happy to have attended Rotary training weekend, Chuck was happy to see a Rotarian win in our riding, Randy was happy with his son completing his marathon under 4 hours and lastly a Rotarian who's name I missed was pleased to report being part of a team which raised $25000 for Alzheimers . last was Rick who was happy with the Blue Jays winning game 5.
Deborah Loosemore , executive director of the Simcoe Gilda's Club and Joe Givens director and also a Brrie Rotarian
Gilda's Club is named after Gilda Radner who was a popular comedian on late night Tv in the 1980's. She developed cancer and found through her own experience that although Cancer could be accurately diagnosed there was very little support for those patients and their families. The Gildas clubs today provide help to thousands of Cancer victims by providing counseling, guidance and social support so they can manage dealing with the cancer and with how it affects their lives and the lives of their families. The Barrie branch of Gilda's has helped an average of over 100 new cancer victims a month each month and about 1200 in 2014. The club relies entirely on donations and their budget for 2015 is approx $800,000. Deborah and Joe gave personal and touching accounts of situations where
Gildas club has helped some of their clients. This is very rewarding work for anyone who would like to volunteer to help the club with counseling or with fundraising. Deborah also invites anyone interested to visit. They are located at 10 Quarry Ridge Rd Barrie, very close to Royal Victoria hospital and can be found easily on the internet.
Monday... Gravenhurst: 12:15 - Opera House, 295 Muskoka Rd. South Wasaga Beach: 12:15 - RecPlex - Oakview Room, 1724 Mosley Street
Tuesday... Orillia Satellite Group: 5:30 - Mariposa Inn and Conference Centre (meet at Grape and Olive)
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 Huntsville: 1st Wednesday of month 6:30 p.m. - balance of month 12:15 - Holiday Inn Express Midland: 12:15 - Best Western Highland Hotel
Thursday... Barrie: - 12:15 - Lakeshore Community Centre
