Luncheon January 28.2016

Being the fourth Thursday in the month, today's meeting format was a business update and fellowship...no speaker. In spite of that, PE Karen led a fast paced, informative fun meeting starting with one of the best O Canada's ever!  Guests included Trevor, Giselle, Marilyn, and Mike. 

Jim reported that we are 63% towards our club Foundation goal, approximately $1800 so far. EVEY...every Rotarian, every year ...gives something. He also reported that the Town fire-hall is on time and on budget but we have no idea what committee that came from. 

Lynda shared that attendance continues a club strength, in excess of 80% YTD.

ADG Cheryle had several updates. This weekend she will be attending Pre-Pets with PE Karen with the full PETS (President Elect Training Seminar) coming up at the end of Feb. The District Grand Mgmt. Seminar will be help in Omak on Feb 20 and while she and Jim will attend, anyone interested is encouraged to join them. The District Conference is May 12-15 in Yakima and there will be a bus available and the special news is that the cost of the conference will be converted to Cdn at par! 

Cheryle also shared that the LOTB (lobster on the beach) dinner on Sept. 10th will once again brag Mark Madryga as master of ceremonies. Well done!

Secretary Doug is ordering replacement name tags so let him know if you need one. He also talked about the golf tournament which will be June 11th or 25th. He needs help for our biggest fundraiser and needs a response to his recent email, either way so please email him. 

Brian gave a very positive Treasurers update with $30m in the bank and $20m set aside for our 2 major projects. 

Under Youth Exchange,  both our inbound Camille and outbound Sylvia students are off to Revelstoke the weekend after next for a fun Weekend in the Mountains event. This is the first meeting for all the outbounds together with our current students so will be a hoot. Camille is spending this next week in Whistler as a guest of Rotarians from Quincey....c'est une chance!

In other news, Trevor gave us a summary of the very successful SOAP play just concluded in Oliver...Noices Off, in which he acted (I can attest to a very fun play and an excellent lead role for him) and also shared that he is starting acting classes for both kids (10 to 14) and adults (15 to 105). There are limited spots so check out next weeks Times for more information.

There will be a SOS (Save our School) meeting on Feb 9th at the Sonora Center....lots of emotional fodder in this topic!

And that was it! Good meeting....except that Doug won the 50/50, but it will wind up in Foundation so all was good.

2 weeks to golf season!