Larry B presided over the meeting, Dr. Tom said Grace for Christ sake and Murray led the club in a the best O Canada I have heard...at our club. Must be all the new members.

Brian Waddell was our Sargeant at Arms - we had 19 members and four guests.  It felt like the early 90's as there was only two ladies(and Dennis) present at the meeting....????

 

George S. mentioned that Bill Mitchell seems to be a bit better. He is able to drive which is great - so don't forget when you are going out to send along an invite.

Dennis had some good news -  as he was the in charge of 50/50 tickets and picked his own ticket.....??

Isn't that a conflict of interest??

Good News Started off with Paul T inviting everyone to the Mill for buck a shuck oysters...ohh no sorry it was for the Social Committee meeting. We should have a weekly Social meeting at the Mill on Thursday's for Buck a shuck oysters!!

Mike Thomas is trying out Kite Surfing on his trip to Florida next week - sounds like lots of fun

Larry has two birthday's one is 59 and holding and the other is an awesome 18 years!!!!!

 

There were lots of announcements  once again -

Fun RUN - get those pledges, get some sponsorship $$$ we really need to get this event out there and build more momentum. Make sure you sign up to volunteer for the day, run ( you don't have to be good or fast - Murray and I run it)or get some sponsorship. GREAT cause - Kidsability. Sunday May 24th

Club Leadership - great event to learn more about Rotary - Saturday in Cambridge

Paul T. spoke of the President's Ball occuring June 19th at the Mill Restaurant. It is $60 / person.( not sure who pays and who doesn't but Paul will sort that out) We are inviting other Rotary Clubs. The band is Innuendo. More planning happened last Thursday at the Mill - see good news.

Best Bites Meeting - Next meeting is May please mark your calendars for Sunday September 13th - Theme is Wild Wild West....should be a fabulous afternoon!!!

Dr. Tom - Run mainly by Rotaract. We need some Chauffeurs and some folks to volunteer and stay overnight for Camp Enterprise - May 5th is the date - its a great way to bring back fun memories of Residence and feel like you are 18 again.......

Larry thanked everyone who came out for trail clean up on Saturday - thanks to Marcia for organizing.

Mike announced that we need to make the website a little richer in content so please update your information on member side and if we can creat more information on our events such as Best Bites etc. it will benefit all members and potential members.

Patrick Campbell spoke of the Fun Run Challenge. There will be a Link on our website so you can volunteer, join the race or simply offer your financial support to support the Club Challenge. Go to Our site, then click on team support pick PHespeler and then sign up ---very easy to do!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Rating (see scale below)A/R

• G – General Audience – Suitable for all ages.
• PG – Parental Guidance – Parental guidance advised. There is no age restriction but some material may not be suitable for all children.
• 14A – 14 Accompaniment – Persons under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
• 18A – 18 Accompaniment – Persons under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. In the Maritimes & Manitoba, children under the age of 14 are prohibited from listening to the joke.
• R – Restricted – Exposure to this joke is restricted to people 18 years of age or older.
• A – Adult – Admittance restricted to people 18 years of age or older. Sole purpose of the joke is the portrayal of sexually explicit activity and/or explicit violence.

Neil introduced our Guest Speakers - our honourary member Bill Barlow and the other gentleman Murray Mills. Both from our local Probus club. Murray started of with a joke that involved a hearing aid and a "napkin"...he must be the joke teller at Probus as it was almost as good as Paul's!!

There are two groups of ladies and one group of men....three clubs in town. In the boys club, there are 120 members and the two ladies clubs.  The clubs meet monthly. The first Probus club was started in Caterham England in 1966 and the first club in North America in our time zone,started in 1987 was Cambridge, Ontario.  A few founding members are still part of their group today. Unlike Rotary and our club they are not a service organization so there is no fundraising involved and their annual fee is $75.00. (Dee we would miss you)  They are strictly a social club. It seems like a great organization for those that have retired as its certainly a great way to meet new, like minded people. It sounds like they have wonderful socials events with their spouses, and interesting excursions. They accept members who are retired, they don't promote any particular political or religious opinions (Jim J you may have a hard time...), and rather than a fine for having their ringing cell phone devices they get fined for not bringing their hearing aids. They certainly sound like they have lots of fun. The Probus club does support one very worthy program - The Veteran's program.

It was so nice to see their enthusiasm and would be great to make one of their meetings!

 

Have a fantstic week - hoping I didn't offend anyone....its my terrible sense of humour...or lack there of....just let Ben know if you were offended and he can fire me.

Directors and committee chairs are encouraged to add their content to our website, and I'm happy to point them to online training.  It's not so tough once you get into it.

A lot of the stuff that gets send around by email would really be more useful on our website, where members, prospective members, and the community can see what we do.