Posted by Peter Cuthbert on May 12, 2017
RAIN!! It didn't really stop our event from being a great evening of FUN and giving our paid guests a great evening of sampling many craft beers and eating some of the best food in Port Moody.
 
It also was another Record!
 
Record amount of guest.. over 600
Record amount of Breweries ..22
Record amount of Food Suppliers..... 8 including Ice Cream Truck
Record amount of Hugs by Claire.......Nearly all the guys that live in the Tr-Cities 
Record height of Dave from Genesis Security.......I still have a stiff neck just shaking his hand
Record dollar amount of Sponsors.... 
The most important RECORD.......
Rotary Made a RECORD amount of money.
Hats off to Allan for his set-up, placing all our breweries and food suppliers, cars and Cycles
all in the rain.
Hats off to Gayle for organizing the entrance tickets and collecting the monies
Hats off  to Ian McPhail in signing up 22 Breweries
Hats off to Trudy organizing the many Raffle Items
Big thanks to Danne for selling Raffle tickets for just the  Scratch & Win.... 
Big Thanks to Danne & Dan for picking up the Ice
Big Thanks to Christina for keeping the Breweries supplied with water, ice, and emptying the slops buckets!Also providing the umbrellas--Brilliant idea.
What can I say about Claire! She hugged all shapes and sizes of our male guest with a smile and a fun and positive attitude. She is a CHAMPION HUGGER! 
Thanks to Jeannie, Bill, Terry, Ian, Cleone, Ann, Dave, Mike, Allan who helped to  tear down, and
Selling Raffle Tickets and many other duties.
Big thanks to John who is our newest member
Hats Off Megan, Trish, Trudy, Joanna, for tearing up all those tickets
Hats off to Linda, Kerry, Gayle, Naomi & Cindy for setting up our guests with their wrist bands an glasses and giving them a warm welcome.
Big thank you to Megan for taking away all the 50/50 tickets and money so Trish and her friend so accurately counted up the money for the 50/50 and raffle.
Thanks to Gaetan and Al for again producing our live screen, show caseing our sponsors
 
All in all, this is a great example of Rotary Team Work,  which makes projects like this so successful and gets our Rotary Club's name better known.
 
(Forgive me if I missed someone......but I am an old geezer, who thinks he is still 19. LOL)
 
THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK, ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND ENTHUSIASM
 
PETER

 
AND a huge big THANK YOU to Peter who lead us through the 2017 SFPP......GREAT JOB