As Always the Set-up Crew was hard at work prior to our Meeting!!

 

 

Chairperson:   Phyllis Jarvis

 

 

O'Canada led by Sue     Thanksgiving prayer led by John Lohr

 

Visiting Rotarians:   Darrell Youden - New Minas Sunrise Rotary

 

Guests:   Haileigh Fletcher and Steve Broome - guest of Kate Seaman,  Nancy Kidston - guest of Heather Lohr and Chiera Galiza our inbound Exchange Student from Italy.

 

 

Sue Ueffing for all of us making it through the Hurricane with no major accidents or deaths...very thankful!!

 

John Lohr same as Sue and thanking all the NS Power crews and other community staff for the dedication and hard work!!

 

Phyllis - Thank heaven for Generators!!!

 

Ellen for the use of the Lohrs accommodation even with the power outages!!

 

Rick presented a special Rotary theme pin for this year to Pierre - supposedly there was some grumbling that the District does not supply these anymore.   This pin was inscribed with position of "Joint Secretary"    Hmmm  - this could be interpreted several ways??  but Pierre was very appreciative!!

 

Craig shared that he was the driver of a tour bus that included a Rotary District Governor from Australia - it was a pleasure talking this fellow Rotarian.

 

 

Phil shared his generator issue, his did not work - received help from his neighbour - living at Murphy Lake he will probably be one of the last to get power restored and on the way home he will pick a generator from Chris Maynard - It's all good!!

 

President Phil welcomed all our special guests and asked Heather to come forward to officially introduce Chiera Galiza, incoming Exchange student from Italy.    Valley Faces total sales to date at our new record of $143,000+.   Please mark your calendars for Sept. 21st, special walk for Chrysalis House.

 

Secretary - Rick provided an update on the funds given for the NKEC project.  The Federal Government came through with a grant and thus our commitment is not required.  Club funds have been returned and stay tuned for further information on process to redirect our monies to another project.

 

 

 

provided an introduction on today's topic along with our speakers Steve Broome and Darrell Youden.

 

 

 

The presentation is about research and a  proposal to build a future Multiplex Sports/Community Complex.  Steve shared the history and research, that the group has looked at many other facilities in different locations in Nova Scotia, PEI and even Finland.  The key is to find the right location which would accommodate a Multi Municipality Setting.  Facilities the exist presently are for the most part constructed many years ago, need upgrading or are too small.  

 

      

 

Darrell shared thoughts on how they wish to look for advocacy groups to share the planning and make it happen.  Support is crucial along with cooperation between villages, towns and even the county.

 

      

 

We had some great feed-back and questions from the club and discussion.  Shelly Phillips thanked our speakers for bringing researched information to our club, a controversial topic but a worthwhile project for sure.