Meeting minutes March 23/05
After the toast to the Queen, Canada, Paraguay and Finland our guest were introduced by Keith Sherman, which were:
Wendy Jennings from The London Hyde Park Rotary Club, Renan Barrios, our inbound exchange student from Paraguay, Piers Evans, our outbound exchange student going to Finland, Tom Hemsworth from the Calgary Rotary Club and Roger Labrash ,proposed new member.
Nelson, our Sargeant at Arms asked for Happy Bucks, and these came forward:
Gary Honcoop for a new grand daughter
Pieter Stam for Edie's birthday
Keith Sherman for family coming
Norm Narancsik for the Jetsgo delay and extra time in Dominican
Paul Turner for not being alone at his table
Peter Van Wees for meeting Stevi Mae in South Africa and bringing greetings from her
Nelson for his Name on the nomination list for City/County counselor
Our speaker did not show up for his talk this evening.
Gary talked about the Fish Fry, so far when we add up possible ticket sales we are at about 500.
Rama encouraged us to solicit and bring in the silent auction items to make it successfull.
President Steve talked about the money received from the Home Builders Association($5000.00) which is to go for Tsunami relief in Sri Lanka.
A big Thank You to the Home Builders Association.
Terry Hemsworth talked about the club leadership/membership.
We had about 5 meetings in the last 5-6 weeks with the outgoing and incoming board members to reorganize some of our ways of doing things and get to the basics of running a healthy club.
At the moment our club is about half of what it has been at it's peak.
The goal is to get 10 new members in the coming year.
We printed a new flyer and folder with current info, which also talks about the reason of being a Rotary member.
We will explain the whole plan in detail at our club essembly.
Meeting adjourned at 7.45 P.M.