The meeting comprised an Assembly and featured a rather intense discussion about the Granville Gardens Quiz that will be upon us on November 1st. Equally intense was a group deliberation led by President Lydia respecting potential new members and their cultivation by our Club members. It would appear from her talk that there is a small posse of recruits lining up to apply, and our only job is to get them to come to a lunch or two to see how much goodwill and bonhomie our members generate. For that reason we were urged to keep our attendance up (today’s could, frankly, have been better) so as to ensure that we appear to others to generate some vibrancy, even after our sterling anthem has been sung. (Your correspondent recently attended another Rotary meeting - whose identity will not be revealed here - which served only to demonstrate why its membership seemed to consist only of the elderly, male and infirm; it was a very dispiriting evening and one that could not have been better planned to discourage new membership aspirants.)
The Christmas dinner has been arranged to take place on December 17th and is to be held at the University Women’s Club, located at 1489 McRae Ave. It will commence at 5:00pm and will include Artisan buns on the table, potato and leek soup, Rack of Lamb, and dark chocolate torte with cherry compote and white chocolate sauce. Coffee and tea will be included and there will be a vegetarian alternative of Butternut squash, sage and parmesan tagliatelle, and nut brown butter. The cost per person is $87, gratuities included. Parking in the forecourt is for members only, but there is always lots of space on The Crescent (about a 50 metre walk away).
Next Friday (November 1st), commencing at 6:30pm we will be attending the fund-raising Quiz, which will be master-minded by our beloved Dianna (those who have enjoyed such an experience before will know that it will be difficult, handled by Herself with masterful tautness, and doubtless humiliating for quite a few of us). There will be 6 teams whose composition is yet to be formulated. The location is Granville Gardens at 1550 W.49th, (corner of 49th and Granville) and the entry fee is $20 per person. Please email Donna (mkg.mgr.granville@verveseniorliving.com) to confirm your attendance. Captains of each team are to bring a bottle of wine.