Meeting of March 25, 2014

Twenty members and our guest, Andrea Buttars joined us this morning. Announcements from Glen included distribution of Lobster-Rib Dinner tickets and a call for wine to raffle for the May 31 event. Barbara informed us of the thank you letter from the Ripple Effect Program for the club's recent $2000 donation to help with the construction of the Los Tarayes school in Guatemala. The club will also be making a $1000 donation to Water Wells in Haiti at the lobster dinner. Ralph took part in the 10th Annual World Water Day Walkathon with Roy Sheldrick. The event, a partnership with The City of Hamilton and the water department raised $20 800 this year combining to a total of $190 000 since 2005. Bill, who is chairing the silent auction at the May 31 event is looking to add to the three auction items he has so far. He indicated that the club will also donate several Allan Cup Hockey tickets to Roots. And, Carl and crew removed the last remaining lights and bulbs from the tree at the skating rink. He was pleased to announce that there were no black flies or mosquitos last Saturday.

Happy dollars from Phil who won the 50/50 draw which was reintroduced this morning and a Happy Birthday to Lynne Morrow. Randy is finishing of his acting stint at the Rockton Dinner Theatre and Bill has just about seen the completion of his bathroom renovations. With that our Sergeant-at-Arms Dave announced he is now a great uncle and turned the program over to Phil who introduced guest speaker, Andrea Buttars.