President Cayley broke tradition and we did not sing O' Canada. However Luke Szymura read us the 4 way test. Tyrone Matheson then said grace. Pres Cayley did toast the Queen .
22 Rotarions out including one pay as you go. There was one guest Louise Kaiser who was our speaker..
Annual Pig Roast - Paul T and his committee are now organizing the summer picnic and pool party at Marcia's place on Aug.13 in place of our regular meeting. Let Paul know if you're coming and if you're bringing a guest so he will know numbers for food and drinks. He also has some belly dancers lined up, so needs numbers to make sure the dancers don't outnumber the guests.
Best Bites is Sunday September 13 . Please save the date. and dress appropriately .
John Jonas informed myself that we do have two Oktoberfest princesses. He thought they would be at Marcia's party.
Board meeting at Noah's office July 20th I think.
Roseanne Jonas sent a thank you for her Paul Harris award.
Paul M was back today with a tale about a man going to a busy barber.
Laugh Factor: 8/10
Appropriateness Rating (see scale below): 14A
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R – Restricted – Exposure to this joke is restricted to people 18 years of age or older.
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Senior Advisor Larry B introduced Lousis Kaiser who is the project leader for Aecon doing the ION LRT.
ION name was approved in 2011. Stage 1 is Bus from Cambridge to KW. LRT from KW to Waterloo. This is to be done by 2017. Stage 2 would be Cambridge to KW LRT. GrandLinq is the company that is doing this which is majority owned by Aecon. ION project is really a massive utility project with a train on top of it. ION wil travel every 10 -15 minutes from Fairview Mall to Conestoga Mall. (Think of the malls as a place to park rather than a destination.) There wil be 19 KM of track laid. 56 km off pipe laid and 76 Km of fibre optic laid.
In theory when this is done we could take ION to Go Train and link up to Pearson Airport and then the rest of the TTC in Toronto.
Brian Waddell thanked her for speaking to us and Pres Cayley gave the official thanks.
