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Today’s meeting began with grace by Rick Merritt. Don Shaw started O Canada followed by a toast to Her Majesty The Queen and to Canada. President Tom Arkell introduced the head table which included Art Wing, speaker Keith Lindberg, President Tom, Bill Cole, Angus Adams and Stuart Butler.
Guests
Stuart introduced the following guests: Visiting Rotarian Aimee Ellerbusch from the South Club and our exchange student Kenj Matsumoto from Japan. John Chabot guest of Earl Alton, Uli Krach guest of Juergen Knof, Aurora Tancock and Ann Bangham guests of Chris Bangham, Bruce Binch guest of John Lehnen, Alexis De Wolfe guest of Roger Segalin, Scott Crocco guest of Ryan Carson and Carol Henderson guest of Betty Lou Souter.
Member in the Spotlight - Dr. Angus Adams
Stuart then introduced Dr. Angus Adams as our member in the spotlight for today. Angus did post-graduate studies in Botany and Microbiology at McMaster University. He worked in the Horticultural Products Laboratory at the Experiment Station in Vineland. He retired as Head of the Laboratory in 1981. Angus has been married to Gaye for 65 years and they have one daughter. Angus joined our Rotary club in 1971.His particular interests have been in World Community Service and Rotary Foundation. He has worked on projects in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Antigua and Malawi. He was honoured in 1986 with a Paul Harris Award for his work with the District Malawi Orthopedic Training project. He also received 3 Rotary Foundation District Service awards. Angus has been in Rotary for 37 years and in 26 of those years he has had 100% attendance. Well done Angus.
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Dr. Adams with Africa Photo |
Birthdays –
Bill Finley and George Park celebrated birthdays this week.
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George Park & Bill Finley |
Announcements:
- Art Wing as chair of the Awards and Recognition Committee gave out several awards. First Art gave out a Rotary Foundation award to Ann and Chris Bangham for their work in South Africa. Second Art and Rick Merritt gave out pins to 62 of our members recognizing contributors to the every Rotarian every year campaign.
- The Nominating Committee has put forth 8 names of people for next years Board of Directors. If anyone else wants to nominate others please contact Joyce this week. Elections will be held in December.
- The Board met and accepted the resignations of Ron Fast and Dutch Erling. The Board put forth Dutch for an honorary member status to recognize all of his contributions.
- Chris Blake wants to make sure that all the people who signed up for the auction desk in this weekends TV auction know who and what they are doing.
- John Snowling – The membership committee would like all new members (those who have joined since January 2005) to contact Alex McKee at 905-684-8278. The committee would like to hear some feed back on what our club is doing right or wrong. John also announced a Long Range Planning meeting for Dec 6th at 11:30 in the Board Room of the golf club.
- Ross Burns presented a banner to our club that he received will visiting Christ Church New Zealand.
- Sam Walters brought us an auction update. Kelly‘s “Buckley’s Mixture” team placed 1st in the team auction drive with over $21000 retail value in goods brought in. Members should wear appropriate attire at this week’s auction depending if you are on camera, in sight of the camera or off camera.
- Vicky Rudachuk announced that we had 8 applications for exchange students. The field has been narrowed down to 4 students for the next home visit portion.
50/50
Ann Bangham had the opportunity but was unsuccessful in drawing the winning card.
Happy Dollars:
Happy Dollars was postponed to next week.
Guest Speaker: Keith Lindberg
Art Wing introduced Keith Lindberg as our guest speaker today. Keith’s topic was his recent GSE trip to East Africa. Keith has worked at the Manager of Media Services at Niagara College and now operates his own media production company called Peninsula Media. He is Past-President of the Niagara Falls Rotary Club and currently a member of his club’s Foundation Board. Keith has been married to Mary for 40 years and has traveled extensively including his recent trip to East Africa as the Group Study Exchange leader.
The highlights of Keith’s trip to Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda was the people they met and the opportunity to see where and how the money that is raised at the club level here can make a huge difference with foundation matching around the world.
Joining Keith today where fellow team members Shari Virtue and Marty Mako. Marty works for Niagara Regional Public Health with a focus on disease prevention. While in Africa he got to see more of a focus on treatment. He enjoyed getting to know the people and seeing how people from different parts of the world do share similar common interests. Shari is an instructor in International Languages at Niagara College. The impact of seeing how local people deal with the challenge and issues that our country is exposed to only through images on TV has given Shari more empathy of what her students back home go through.
The team presented a video which showed them helping in an orphanage and building a new school. The team was also able to attend the 9200 District Conference in Kampala Uganda.
Roger Segalin thanked our speakers for today.
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Keith Lindberg and President Tom |
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President Tom and Keith Lindberg |
Gregory Bodogh-Darte announced that the Family of Rotary Committee is inviting all Rotarians to Cat’s Caboose on December 5 at 6 pm for a fellowship reception and TV auction wind down.
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