President Tom called our meeting to order today at The St. Catharines Golf & Country Club.

Joining the President at the head table:

• Speaker Introducer: Brian Stewart
  

Brian Stewart

• Speaker: Kate Cassidy – Youth University
• Sgt-at-Arms: Larry Iggulden
• Member: Serge Paquin
• Registrar: Ross MacDonald

Grace: Ralph Watters

O Canada: Don Shaw

Toast to the Queen and Canada: President Tom

Introduction of Guests: Ross MacDonald

Ross MacDonald

Guest included:

• Visiting Rotarian Ian Forbes from Rotary of St. Catharines South
• Paul McDonald, guest of Doug Foss

Birthdays: Neither were present; ergo, no singing – Happy Birthday guys!

August 1: Gregory Bodough-Darte
August 4: Bob Gosselin

Announcements:

Pene Hutton, District 7090 Communications, wants you to have a look at http://www.rotary7090.org/pdfs/districtnews/DN0707.pdf

George Doty received a financial report from Easter Seals. They sold Lakewood Camp last year for $2.7M.

President Tom announced that Sangeeta and Avi have a new baby girl named Nina.

Rachel told us about the new tent on the Rib Fest site this year dedicated to “The Family of Rotary”. The Chamber of Commerce will use the tent on Friday and then all of the Rotary Clubs will use it for the rest of the long weekend.  Our Club’s time will be from noon thru 11:00 pm on Saturday. District Governor Bob will be presented with a Rib Fest apron (courtesy of Peter Kudreikis) at 4:00 pm on Saturday in the tent. Lots of club members at the presentation would be appreciated – bring any old Rotary magazines that you may have to leave in the tent. Wear your pin.

Rachel Delaney

Judith Barker announced that this was a banner year for sponsorship – thanks to all for their help by either finding sponsors or by being sponsors.

Judith Barker

Oraine announced that she would be leading all of the rib contests this year.  She would like us all to be sure and vote and it would be nice if we could attend the announcements of the winners at 4:45 on Monday.

Oraine DeRosa

Liz Palmieri is still short of help on Sunday. When you report for duty, please do so at your workstation.

Liz Palmieri

‘Brewer’ Bangham reported that this year there would be 50/50 draws going on every day. Each of Rotary Club of St. Catharines South, Bethlehem Projects, Hospice Niagara and Community Care will have a day of sales and will be performing the sales on site.

'Brewer' Bangham

50/50 Draw:

$459.50 on the block.

Paul McDonald, guest of Doug Foss has had the number twice now but drew the 9 Spades this time.

Happy Dollars: Collected by Kim Widdicombe

Kim Widdicombe

Jagdish paid $10 to confirm his new grand daughter. He also recounted how he reminded Sangeeta that when his grandfather was Jagdish’s age he already had 40 grandchildren!

Betty-Lou was happy to report on her successful 1-year anniversary of having two new knees! She also reported that Dutch Erling was outside walking with a walker and would have an appointment in Hamilton tomorrow with his neurologist to discuss a course of treatment.

Chief Wendy was delighted that she will be able to report to her staff that Sgt. Larry Iggulden forgot to post the banner, did not have the mike in working order and erected the German flag in error.

Bob Thomson and John Snowling reported on a successful cruise.

Ian Forbes paid $5 to confirm Ross MacDonald’s tip that Ian is now selling at Performance Lexus.

Rachel is happy to be accompanying her niece to University of Tennessee where she will be starting her university career on a soccer scholarship.

Rob Reid used a happy $ to remark on the atrocious and unfair cover story about the law profession in the current issue.  He felt that the article was so bad that in comparison lawyers were not that bad after all.

Eugene Gillies reported that he had a successful trip but that his daughter took 1,200 pictures!

George Park related a story about a mother of two foul-mouthed lads. She asked her friend what to do about it and she replied, “Just give them a solid whack across the mouth whenever they swear.” The next morning when she asked her son what he wanted for breakfast, he said, “some God damn corn flakes”. Much to his surprise she whacked him across the mouth. She then asked the second son what he wanted and he replied, “I don’t know but it sure as hell won’t be corn flakes”.

Program:

Brock Youth University

Introduction: Brian Stewart

Kate Cassidy is the Executive Director for Youth University at Brock University. She holds a Bachelors degree from Queens University, a Masters from Brock and is currently a doctoral student in education at Brock. She has 14 years of experience in the educational field as a professional. She is from Quebec and has lived in Haliburton, Kingston and Fredericton. Brock has employed her for the past 5 years. Kate has a yellow lab named Aspen and enjoys, canoeing, kayaking, painting, camping and X-country skiing.

Kate and President Tom

Kate began by asking, “What will the world be like in the future?”

• By 2015 most of the population of the world will live in cities.
• By 2020 our population will be 8B (Today it is 6.6B)
• The countries with the highest populations will also be the poorest and least stable.
• An ability to change will be critical.
• Currently between 2 and 3 million emigrate each year to Canada, Australia, Germany and the USA.
• By 2017 20% 0f our population will be visible minorities.
• By 2026 20% will be over 65.

Is it better to teach for a knowledge-based economy or for interdependence?
Brock’s Youth University serves approximately 7,000 pre-university students each year with on-campus activities through:

• Spring residence programs
• Summer enrichment programs
• Saturday and after-school programs
• Field trips.

All of these programs are based in Science, Technology, Engineering, Business and Humanities and Social Science.

Their mandate is to foster the love of learning, Brock student enrichment, community service and research and education (publication of articles and presentations at conferences).

Each year they hire 50 to 60 students to staff their programs and give each 50 hours of training.

Thanks to the Speaker: Ian Elmes

Ian expressed our thanks to Kate for her presentation today and made a solid connection between her work and our focus on youth programs within Rotary.

Great Club Moments:

President Tom recalled our Rib Fest with the following:

It began in 2001 so this is the 6th annual. It has earned $8K, $30K, $57K and $80K in the past two years. Including this year, it will have generated close to $400K. The founding Boss Hog is Rick Merritt who was followed by Boss Hogs Rachel and Ross. Have a great Rib Fest in 2007!

President Tom and Rachel Delaney

Next Week: Terry Kellar - Classification

Other Announcements:

•  ROTARY District Newsletter for June is now available at http://www.rotary7090.org/pdfs/districtnews/DN0706.pdf

•  The 9th annual FACS Fall Gala is being held at White Oaks on Friday October 12th . For more info, or to book tickets, call 905 937-7731 ext 3304

•  The annual MS Bike Tour takes place in Niagara on August 26th. There are 40 and 75km routes along the Niagara Parkway. Call 1 800 268-7582 for more details, or register at msbiketours.com