Meeting of January 8 2013

Happy New Year from President Joe. Club members were in fine spirits this morning as they greeted everyone with a Happy New Year. Besides guest speaker Jelaine Foster, we welcomed Kanwal Shankardass from the Dundas Rotary Club and Norm Read from the Waterdown club. Norm invited members to attend his club's Robbie Burns supper on January 25 at the RBG. Tickets are $60 each and you can contact him if interested in attending.

It looked like Fred Amalfi was starting a new tradition this morning as he held court from his special chair. Some of us were prepared to kneel before him and kiss his ring.

Dave Matchett invited everyone to the monthly social at East Side Marios for Friday January 11 at 5:00 PM; Glen Mumberson thanked everyone for their support with Entertainment Books saying the club made around $1600; and, Derek Price reminded everyone that dues are due. Following these announcements it was happy dollar time. Shirley Molloy was glad to be back. Joe had 22 days on holidays and was only able to contribute pennies rather than dollars since he spent too much. Bob Morrow is off to Florida for a couple weeks.

This was the first meeting since the two week break for Christmas and if your "buddy" was absent you might want to follow up with him or her.

Following Happy Dollars, Program Chair Dave Carson introduced guest speaker Jelaine Foster.