Flash - December 17, 2012 Christmas Luncheon Notes
Special Christmas Luncheon
Rotary Club of Red Deer - Downtown
Monday, December 17, 2012
12:00 Noon, Quality Inn
Visiting Guests: (about 20 spouses)
Visiting Rotarians: Annie Kamarainen, Trish MacSween, Sharon Lampard
The Happy/Sad Bucks program was dispensed with, and replaced by President Terry with a series of Christmas gifts (donations).
It began with gifts donated by club members: Grant Edmonds, Brenda Johnson and Morris Flewwelling. Prizes were based on 50/50 draws, and were won by Leroy Ehnes, Don Lindsay, Glen Labuc, Annie Kamarainen (x3), Elaine McFadden, and Gerry Winia. Gerry squeezed in a happy buck, to say last week his son was married, together with his daughter.
Sergeant Newton read another chapter from his “spankies” book of principles. It was full of humour.
Program: Annie Kamarainen played a Swedish Christmas carol, which has been translated into Finnish – perfectly. Melody McKnight played “What Child is This” on her oboe. Blaine Dushanek recited his somewhat irreverent 12 days of Christmas with apologies to anyone with a Ukrainian background.
Christmas Gifts: President Terry gave out the following Christmas gifts on behalf of the club.
|
Gift |
Representative |
Recipient |
Club Presenter |
|
$1,000 |
Ian Whittiker |
Women’s Shelter |
Nadine Arendt |
|
$1,000 |
Alice Kolisnyk |
Food Bank (served 18,000 this year) |
Robert Mitchum |
|
$1,000 |
Pat Haggerty |
Safe Harbor Society (801 served last year) |
M.R. Wilms |
|
$1,000 |
Beth Haynes |
Christmas Bureau (51 years in existence, 1,000 families served, moving to a new site) |
Shelley Gagnon |
|
$20,000 |
Darcy Oullette |
Central Alberta Outreach Program (operates Juliette House). Darcy asked for adopt a family help. Gift will help reduce their mortgage) |
Phil Hyde |
|
$40,000 |
David Murphy |
Camp Alexo (started in 1984 by the club, same year Bill Olafson joined it), 10,000 kids have attended. The estimated cost to upgrade Alexo is $4M. BTB raised another $12-14,000 from the floor to send children to the camp) |
Bill Olafson |
Next Meeting: January 7