Rotary Club of The Pas
May 28/2024
Chair: Don McKay
Recording Secretary: Linda Northcott
Sergeant at Arms: Don Dunnigan
The meeting started with the land acknowledgement.
We have three birthdays, Ken, Carole and Robin, no anniversaries, no makeups, no visiting Rotarians, one guest for the last time – Val Uffelman.
CTBO – 710 tickets were sold this week. Olive Whitehead? Had her ticket drawn. She chose number 5, which revealed the seven of spades. Olive wins the consolation prize of $710.00. Next week’s jackpot starts at $18,566.00.
Ticket sellers at No Frills this week:
Thursday – John
Friday – Denis
Saturday – Don Dunnigan
Sunday/Monday – Don McKay
Sellers at the Grub Box
Wednesday – Kent
Thursday – Don Murphy and Peter
Friday – Ken
Saturday – Doug
There is no new business.
Unfinished Business – The social evening will be held on June 29th at the airport hall. Festivities will begin with games at 4 p.m. The bar will open at 5:30, and dinner will be served at 6:30. Gary has taken the reins to organize the evening.
We are in our final week of delivering Meals on Wheels, our next delivery month is November.
The radio pledge a thon for New to You will be on June 13 and 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. each day. A table will be at the uptown mall from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to issue receipts.
There is no update on the mural.
A host family is required in August for Joao, our exchange student from Brazil.
The newest Rotary member in the world, Val Uffelman, was installed. Welcome Val!!
We will take a break from selling CTBO tickets in July and August.
Kent advised that $10k has been raised for the Canada Day fireworks. He is confident that $15k will be raised and will give Ed the go ahead to order $15k worth of fireworks. The town will be hosting a meeting at the A & W at 2 p.m. to day to discuss Canada Day celebrations.
Tables at Sunset Park have been damaged.
50/50 – After trading tickets with Don D., Linda’s was drawn, no luck. She will be sgt. next week.
The meeting concluded with the four -way test.
Prepared by Linda Northcott