Meeting of August 21 2012
Posted by Ralph Montesanto
on Aug 21, 2012
The club welcomed Bill Lawrence from the Rotary Club of Dundas and Shelley Hall, mother of Emily our outbound Youth Exchange student who is in Denmark. Shelley accompanied Lisa Krammerer our inbound Youth Exchange student from Krems Austria. Krems is about an hours drive from Vienna. Lisa arrived last Friday and stayed with Kathy Starodub over the weekend. She will be staying with Shelley Hall for the next two months. We also welcomed Sandra Antoniani our guest speaker.
Bruce Eccles filled in as Sergeant At Arms for vacationing Bill Armstrong. He indicated that his mother had recovered from her stay in hospital. He also could not understand why there was braille at drive through ATMs. Happy dollars were received from Shirley Molloy who attended the Burlington Lakeside Rotary club fundraiser and won a bar fridge and 16 bottles of wine. Bob Morrow dropped in on the Burlington Central Rotary Club to give a gift certificate to Mike Molloy for stepping in at the last minute as guest speaker at our Paul Harris Dinner. Bob Bell made it through a week of camping with his family. His wife did not really want to camp and even though there was some rain she suggested a different packing method for next year - there is still hope.
Phil Wood celebrated another birthday on the weekend and was happy that the town put on the Cactus Festival for him. He also attended Fieldcote and heard Dundasian Ian Thomas perform. Wayne Massey's oldest child turned 45 on Saturday and Jan Southall and a group of 25 spent several days in Montreal. Jan also reminded everyone of the Ways and Means meeting on August 22 and to let her know if anyone wanted to attend.
Fred updated us on Wayne Migus' condition after his recent stomach operation. Things are not good in that Wayne developed a severe infection and is still in hospital.
Rob Reid's son Andy is happy the movie he starred in last year has been picked up by the Toronto Film Festival. Andy is already counting the money he expects to earn from, "I Declare War".
Barbara Busing heard from her son who just arrived in China to begin a teaching stint. The two rats in his classroom did not go over well. Neither did the frogs he saw caught in the street that went straight into a restaurant.
President Joe handed out perfect attendance pins to Shirley Molloy, Harold Gruneburg, George Gould, Bob Morrow and himself. Bob has now taken over from past Rotarian Ken Turner as the member with the longest perfect attendance - 22 years.
Following a presentation of a club banner from Lisa to Joe, David Carson introduced guest speaker, Sandra Antoniani.
Bruce Eccles filled in as Sergeant At Arms for vacationing Bill Armstrong. He indicated that his mother had recovered from her stay in hospital. He also could not understand why there was braille at drive through ATMs. Happy dollars were received from Shirley Molloy who attended the Burlington Lakeside Rotary club fundraiser and won a bar fridge and 16 bottles of wine. Bob Morrow dropped in on the Burlington Central Rotary Club to give a gift certificate to Mike Molloy for stepping in at the last minute as guest speaker at our Paul Harris Dinner. Bob Bell made it through a week of camping with his family. His wife did not really want to camp and even though there was some rain she suggested a different packing method for next year - there is still hope.
Phil Wood celebrated another birthday on the weekend and was happy that the town put on the Cactus Festival for him. He also attended Fieldcote and heard Dundasian Ian Thomas perform. Wayne Massey's oldest child turned 45 on Saturday and Jan Southall and a group of 25 spent several days in Montreal. Jan also reminded everyone of the Ways and Means meeting on August 22 and to let her know if anyone wanted to attend.
Fred updated us on Wayne Migus' condition after his recent stomach operation. Things are not good in that Wayne developed a severe infection and is still in hospital.
Rob Reid's son Andy is happy the movie he starred in last year has been picked up by the Toronto Film Festival. Andy is already counting the money he expects to earn from, "I Declare War".
Barbara Busing heard from her son who just arrived in China to begin a teaching stint. The two rats in his classroom did not go over well. Neither did the frogs he saw caught in the street that went straight into a restaurant.
President Joe handed out perfect attendance pins to Shirley Molloy, Harold Gruneburg, George Gould, Bob Morrow and himself. Bob has now taken over from past Rotarian Ken Turner as the member with the longest perfect attendance - 22 years.
Following a presentation of a club banner from Lisa to Joe, David Carson introduced guest speaker, Sandra Antoniani.