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Today's meeting began in the usual fashion with Bill Orr saying grace. O Canada was started by Rick Evans, followed by the customary toast to Her Majesty the Queen and Canada.
President Larry introduced the head table as follows: Eugene Gillies, Ron Fast, President Larry Iggulden, Jim Denham and Heather Combe. Heather introduced the following guests: Terry Keller guest of Rick Merrit, Ian Ellingham guest of John Crossingham, and John Burroughs guest of Eugene Gillies.
Today's member in the spotlight was Peter Banwell. Unfortunately Peter has been unable to attend meetings while recovering from a stroke suffered on February 4, 2005. Barb reports that Peter's recovery is progressing well and he will hopefully be able to attend a meeting in the New Year. Peter was introduced to our club in 1976. He was the club president in 1995-96 and a Paul Harris Award recipient in 1996. Peter is a lawyer by vocation; he is married to Barb and has three children and many grandchildren. Peter is sadly missed and is in the thoughts of all members. We can't wait to hear all those jokes you must be working on.
Birthdays:
Ian Ladd celebrated his birthday today.
Sam Walters and Peggy Davidson conducted an impromptu auction to get rid of a few items not claimed from our TV auction. They did such a great job that Peggy might be working the auction desk for the entire length of next year's auction.
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Sam Walters and Peggy Davidson
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President Larry has tickets available for a fund raising dinner put on by the Inner Wheel Club. All proceeds will go to fund breast cancer research and kidney dialysis.
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Juergen Knof led the club in happy dollars. He was happy to announce that his daughter has started her dental practice in St Catharines.
- Doug Geddie was happy that Sir Wilfred Laurier won the Vanier Cup representing supremacy in Canadian College Football.
- Art Wing was happy to announce that the next RI President will be from Trenton Ontario. He will be the first RI President from Canada.
- Marg Jarrell announced that there will be a children's committee meeting at 5 pm Monday in the office of Sullivan Mahoney.
- Dave Butler's new found hip is on its way to Korea to visit his nephew.
- Liz Palmieri announced that her son is turning 30. He is doing surprisingly well considering Liz was only 5 at his time of birth. Liz was also happy to announce that the community foundation has given out over $1 million in grants since 2001.
- Judith Barker was happy that Hospice Niagara was the recipient of a $6000 grant from the community foundation this year.
- George Doty was happy that we recognized Peter Banwell today as the member in the spotlight.
Norm Kreger went to Jamaica man. He was happy to report that the wheel chair lift, that our club helped to donate, is working. While he was there Norm and Paula were able to deliver medicine donated through Not Just Tourists. The tourism board of Jamaica has informed me that upon Norm's departed there was a shortage of small cocktail umbrellas.
50/50 Draw:
Dave Stevenson was unsuccessful in his attempt to win the $328 pot.
Eugene introduced member Ron Fast as the guest speaker today. Ron who is a chiropractor at the corner of Lakeshore and Lake Street joined our club this past year. Ron is married to April and has 2 sons. Ron enjoys playing and coaching all sports and spending time with his family.
Ron began his classification talk by telling the club that he was born and raised in St Catharines. He studied at Brock University before attending the National Institute of Health Sciences in Chicago where he acquired his diploma in chiropractic medicine. Ron is married to April who has been a professional singer, author and currently a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company. Luke and Max are Ron's 10 and 7 year old sons.
Ron's activities in the community include coaching various levels of basketball and soccer, as well as involvement with the United Mennonite Church.
Ron has been a chiropractor for 13 years. His practice offers a wide range of services ranging from traditional chiropractic care to rehab and message therapy to personal training. Ron enlightened the club about the various aspects of the types of care offered by chiropractors. Most services are performed on neuro, muscular or skeletal pain i.e. neck and back pain. Ron addressed and dispelled many myths about chiropractic care.
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Ron Fast and Larry Iggulden
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John Crossingham thanked Ron for his classification talk.
John Burroughs is sponsored by Eugene Gillies. John has retired after a life-time of employment as an Engineer at Ontario Hydro and Ontario Power Generation. He lives in Thorold with his wife, Merilee, and they have two adult daughters, Sarah and Janet. John enjoys photography, hiking and biking.
President-Elect Rick Merritt has proposed Terry Kellar for membership. Terry is a recently retired district VP from CIBC. He has extensive community involvement when with bank, including the CIBC Run for the Cure, and in retirement, wishes to continue to contribute to the community through Rotary. Terry enjoys hunting, golf and recreational hockey. He is married to Linda, and has two children, Ryan and Amelia, currently attending Queen's University.
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