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Meeting Beginnings
President Larry brought the meeting to order and asked Dave Haddow to say Grace.
Don Shaw blew a middle C to get us going with Oh Canada (It should be E flat, but Don says that if he doesn't blow C, we sound like B flat - see Don for a fuller explanation), and we toasted our Queen and Canada.
President Larry introduced the Head Table - to introduce our speaker, Terry McDougall; speaker, Elizabeth Best; President, Larry Iggulden; Sergeant-at-arms, Larry Ross; Rotarian-in-the-Spotlight, Norm Kreger; Registrar, Kim Widdicombe
Kim Widdicombe introduced our Guests - Visiting Rotarian, Jean Armitage of the St. Catharines AM Club; Blair Pollard, guest of Ross MacDonald; James Foote, outgoing Youth Exchange student and Sun Sun, our in-student, guests of John Snowling; and Robert Leaker and Christina Petlichuk, guests of Wade Stayzer.
Rotarian in the Spotlight - Kim gave us the Reader's Digest version of Norm Kreger's life - Norm is married to Paula and owns Handitravel, a bus tour operation. He is an avid outdoorsman - who canoes, camps, cycles, golfs and scuba dives. Norm has served on many of our committees, but is best know as one of the Burp Brothers, dispensing copious quantities of draft beer during Ribfest.
Birthdays - Feb. 27 - John O'Connell, Feb. 28 - Dave Martineau, March 4 - Len Fenig and Ian Elmes.
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Ian Holmes, John O'Connel and Terry McDougall
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Tom Arkell came forward to re-introduce and welcome back Wade Stayzer who has returned to the head office of Meridian Credit Union in St. Catharines where he is Vice-President of Member Services, responsible for 14 branches. Wade is best known as being the other Burp Brother.
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Tom Arkell, Wade Stayzer, Larry Iggulden
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Janet Johnston came forward to introduce James Foote who is a student at Sir Winston Churchill and was just recently selected as our newest Youth Exchange Student. James will be going to Finland, the country that was his first choice. He is grateful for the opportunity and the chance to learn a new culture and language. He is just back from the Youth Exchange weekend in Temagami, which may have been a good preview for Finland.
Tom Pekar came forward to ask for our help with a project called, Smiles for Life, raising money for dental surgery by donating a chunk of the cost of having your teeth whitened to dental projects. Check out the details at www.lazerdentist.ca
Ron Sloan carried the basket and is happy about Canada's performance in the Olympics - 24 medals, and 45 people near the podium. He gave a personal re-cap of the entire games and eventually got the gong, but soldiered on, like a true Olympian.
Eventually he got to the others in the room -
Ken Taylor thanked the speaker.
Henry Becker was happy that being the Member in the Spotlight got Norm to move from his usual seat at our weekly meetings.
Vicky Rudachuk was proud to be recognized for 25 years of business in Niagara Falls and happy that her daughter is in the Ontario Winter Games, playing squash.
Peggy Davidson - happy to be home.
George Doty had a story about snowfall and parking your car.
John Snowling is happy to see Wade back.
John Nitsopoulos is happy to be back from Florida and sorry the weather forced his wife and daughter to seek refuge in the malls.
50/50 -Ian Ellingham drew a card, but not the right card.
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Elizabeth Best |
Terry McDougall introduced our speaker, Elizabeth Best, who is from the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority and coordinator of the Niagara Children's Water Festival.
Elizabeth began with a question about how much water we use individually every day and we guessed almost right at over 300 litres per day.
So what's the problem? Elizabeth pointed out that is many times more than most nationalities.
To rectify our over-use of water, the Conservation Authority has launched an education program for children about the use of water that is held in September at Ball's Falls.
The Niagara Children's Water Festival educates children about the use and abuse of water.
She ran a sound and light show that highlighted the Children's Water Festival.
Kelly Buckley thanked our speaker and President Larry added his thanks and made the donation to the Canadian Land Mine Foundation in Elizabeth's name.
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Elizabeth Best and Larry Iggulden
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President Larry told us Rotary facts about the Rotary Code of Ethics, the Four-Way Test and the Objectives of Rotary. He suggested that the Code of Ethics might have been born the morning after the night before.
Next Week: March 9 - Hospice Niagara - our own Judith Barker
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