Meeting Minutes March 16/05
Presided by Incoming President Peter Stam
Guests Roger Labrash (proposed new member)
Renan Barrios (inbound exchange student)
Tom Hemsworth (from Calgary Rotary)
Comments:
In recognition of Rotary Centennial Peter talked about Paul Harris and his legacy and accomplisments of Rotary around the world and in the century to come.
Suggested we all read February issue of The Rotarian.
Renan enjoyed the Raptors game and the sights.
Reminder that the club is still looking for host families for Renan.
Fines:
Keith S. for bathing in his water glass.
Michael and Coral, Paul B., for having extra time in Dominican because of Jetsgo.
Byron and Gary H. for not having name tag on.
Happy Bucks:
Nelson for filing nomination papers for seat for city county council.
Rama for Raptors game and Potluck dinner.
Erik T. because he survived being a bachelor for a week and wife is back after being away.
Paul B. fined Rama for avoiding carrying boxes but Paul fined back because Rama was doing other Rotary work.
Program:
Speaker Erik Tremblay did his classification talk and was introduced by Nelson.
Erik gave us insight into his personal and business life. He was born in Quebec and is bilingual with French being his first language. He grew up in Quebec, B.C. and Alberta. As a boy he enjoyed air cadets, soccer and skiing. He graduated from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT). His mother and father live in the west and still work and he has a brother who is a geologist.
Erik is now married to Manon and has two lovely daughters. He still enjoys skiing, golf, camping, cars and pond swimming. Recently he has done lots of house renovation for stress relief and home improvement.
His career is in sales and he works for Unisource which distributes food service supplies and paper products. He travels in southern Ontario and spends much time the GTA. He has won awards for sales success and volume increase. He left toilet paper goods for us to take home.
Erik is happy to be a Rotary member and have an opportunity to give back to the local and global community.
Rama thanked Erik for his talk.
Closing Comments:
Fish Fry: talk to people so they know about it, 25 members need to sell an avg of
28 tickets each to reach a 700 target.
Wingfield on Ice tickets also were given out.
Rama and Steve gave a presentation to the Homebuilders Assoc. and they (Homebuilders) donated $5,000 to the Tsunami Relief through Rotary Foundation.
Fish Fry meeting right after this meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 7.30 P.M.