Meeting of November 5th
Our November 5th meeting honoured Remembrance Day, which takes place next Monday. We began with the usual prayer, anthem and toasts, adding toasts to our Veterans and all who serve and have served in the Canadian Forces.
Announcements
Donations of wine are still needed for the Barrow of Wine raffle at the Dundas Stars event next Saturday; please drop them off at Art Samson's, 30 Osler, Unit 6. Tickets are still available from Alycia for the event, please keep promoting and selling tickets.
Dave Carson told members of the new Dundas Fresh Food Fund, raising funds for fresh produce at the Food Bank. Please see him for Gift Cards.
Ken Beel was honoured by the Lieutenant-Governor for his work on the upgraded Dundas Historical Museum at the opening last week.
Happy Dollars
Alycia celebrated her birthday today and members tunefully sang their congratulations. She noted how great it was to have been a Rotary Exchange student as she had greetings from all around the world for her birthday. Bruce Eccles was happy to be back from his European cruise. Paul Clifford, on a sad/happy note, remembered the difficult times had by his father and two uncles during WWII, and that they all happily survived through it all.
Club vote
President Jan reviewed the motion presented to all members last week on the donation of $30,000 cash and $30,000 in kind to the Dundas EcoPark project over the next two years. After a short discussion, the motion was carried.
Remembrance Day
In the place of the normal guest speaker, Bill Armstrong, Dave Carson, Steve Palmer and Bruce Eccles offered memories, photos, souvenirs and stories about the experiences of their parents and grandparents in the two World Wars. Paul Clifford had personal memories of his time as a young evacuee from London.
Pictured below is Steve Palmer wearing the wartime US Submarine officer's cap of his wife's grandfather.
The Remembrance Day Parade takes place next Monday in Dundas, from the Fire Station to the War Memorial at the Community Centre.
