Our guest speaker, Dave Jonsson, was introduced by Yvonne. He is a youth pastor at a church in Coquitlam and is a motivational speaker and Life Coach. His website is planecrashsurvivor@gmail.com and he stressed he is using his “second chance” at life to make a difference. Dave attended 1 of our meetings a couple of weeks ago and was inspired by the efforts we make to make a difference. Born in Reykjavik, his family moved to Port Moody. He thanked our Club for building the skate park where he spent many hours boarding with friends. After school he returned to Iceland then came back to the Pitt Meadows area with a friend who wanted to learn to fly and it was far more reasonable in Pitt Meadows. The plane crash he survived happened when he and his friend took 2 friends for a run up to the Squamish area but never made it. His friend, the pilot was killed, his 2 friends were injured and he was severely wounded but managed to survive. He has committed himself to use his 2nd chance to stress “Life is Precious—do something with it”.
The week of July 16-21 in the Tri Cities has been designated as “Love My City” week. He will be mobilizing over 200 youth from their church and with their friends to do random good deeds throughout the Tri Cities and will be promoting for more folks to join in. All 3 cities have committed to do what they can to make it a success.
Announcements: Steve thanked everyone who has contributed to his fundraising events.
Reminders—Sunday, April 22nd we will be running the Beer tent at the
Dragon Boat Regatta at Rocky Point, Saturday/Sunday
April 28/29 the FireFit Games in Inlet Park we will be running the beer tent on each day.
SFPP tickets we need to sell, sell, sell as we are behind last year’s sales at this time.
We have new giveaway cards promoting our Rotary Club plus a listing of the distribution of funds we have made in 2017/2018. The Port Moody Police Department Trailer with funding shared from our Rotary Club will be taken to events at schools, festivals, RibFest etc., in addition it will serve as an emergency office/head quarters in case of states of emergency—fires, floods, earthquake.
A 'sad announcement' for all of us—Trudy announced she will be leaving our Club as she is moving to Steveston to be close to her family and her new grand baby. This past week she’s sold her house in Coquitlam and bought a new place in Steveston. I'm not sure if everyone is aware of all the work that Trudy does, behind the scenes, but she is REALLY GOING TO BE MISSED..... We wish her the very best in this new phase of her life.
Gayle’s 50/50 ticket was drawn but no Ace of Spades—“TOOO Bad” next week it will be approximately $750.00
