Luncheon Oct 23

 

A sunny October 23rd lunch meeting! Introduced guests were Rotarians Elly and Ramiro (e-club of Canada one), Trevor Leigh and guest speaker Paul McCavour and partner Julie Turner. Event reminders were of the District Training at Spirit Ridge Oct 31-Nov 2, our board meeting at 4:00 and that tomorrow is World Polio Day (everyone can join a Rotary Livestream Polio event at 4:30 tomorrow at endpolio.org)

 

Karen H. introduced speaker Paul McCavour to talk on solar energy, although some might remember Paul as the local leader on the HST protest. He spoke enthusiastically about the solar opportunity for individuals, hoping to inspire us to dot the local landscape with solar panels and help ourselves and the environment. Paul identified the environmentally damaging impacts of the alternative energy options of coal and oil and even natural gas that are absent with solar energy. Canada is way behind developed countries in conversion to solar energy and it makes $$$ sense to do so, even to consider abandoning the Site C hydro project in favor of solar! He stressed it is easy to install on our own homes and there is local expertise to connect it to Fortis (Argon Electric in Penticton will supply the panels and do as much of the installation as you need). The cost is $6-800 per panel and you can start with a few panels and add as you need/want so depending on your house design, you can spend between $10 to $20,000. The payback is in the savings on your power bill plus the option to sell unused electricity  from your panels back to Fortis, with payback time being 6-8 years. It was a thought provoking talk, worthy of our individual consideration.

Happy Bucks broke out with the best good news coming from Brian that he and Judy have found matches and sometime in the next 6 mos in Montreal, he will give a kidney and Judy will receive one...how good is that?

Remember, no lunch meeting next week in lieu of a fellowship evening of bowling...details to follow. The speaker the following week (Nov 6th) is Randy Bedard of the Coyotes. 

Also, when you are doing an online make-up, there is now a link on the website directing you to the Rotary E-Club on Canada one or use www.rotaryeclubcanada.ca. This is Elly and Ramiro's club and we will be making a contribution to them soon.

The District Development weekend is at Spirit Ridge next weekend and while we have several members and partners registered, more would be merrier, even if just for the dinner/social on Friday night. 

Have a great fall weekend everyone!