Meeting of July 23rd 2013

Today's meeting was held on a fine morning in the Dundas Driving Park. Around 20 members were welcomed by a breakfast organized by Shirley Molloy.

Pictured below is the Driving Park statue; Ken Beel told us of the long and expensive process to get this statue placed in the Park.

President Jan Southall asked everyone to continue to promote Art in the Park on September 22nd. Colourful posters are available for posting around town. (Confusion continues with some members as to whether Art in the Park refers to a new statue in honour of our esteemed former Councillor Art Samson, or a show of artistic talent.)

Jan also asked for a strong level of attendance on August 20th as Joan Bell, from the Hamilton Conservation Foundation will be coming to present some possible projects in the new Dundas EcoPark that we may consider as a Club project. As this will involve considerable investment of effort and dollars by the Club, all members are asked to attend if possible.

A few Happy Dollars were collected along with several fines for those who forgot to wear their name badge. Dave Lowery had just returned from a vacation in Yorkshire, where the temperature was very hot for the UK. Joe Guedes also returned from his European Tour, ready to leave on a gas guzzling trip in his new motor home. Jessica Brennan informed us that younger members of the community think that she attends a fun event every Tuesday morning, the Sunrise Rodeo club. Dave Carson was happy to have power back after a three day outage, and reported on the fine crop from the Community Garden. The picture below has been submitted to the Dundas Star, and shows Aidan and Anna, the children of garden helper Jen McPherson from Dundas In Transition.