Meeting of February 26th

Today we welcomed two visitors, our speaker April Morganti and George Stuart, from Orlando Florida, who shares father-in-law duties with Art Sampson.

Club Announcements; Wayne Massey reminded everyone about the District Assembly, which is to take place on Saturday May 4th. Wayne asked particularly that prospective Board members attend for training so that they can properly support Jan Southall when she assumes the Presidency next year. We were also reminded of the Peace Forum taking place in Toronto this weekend. Dave gave early notice of a Rain Barrel sale taking place at St Mark's Church on April 6th - proceeds to support the Church and the Community Garden there.

Happy Dollars: Pictured below is the stand-in Sargent-at-Arms Bruce Eccles collecting today's Happy Dollars.  No fines were collected by Bruce for people who still had their Christmas lights up. We heard from Barb, who was back from a cold week in Arizona and Roger back from his winter sojourn in New Brunswick where he had a rare sighting of a bobcat (the animal sort), a picture of which he had published in the local paper. Phil Wood's grand-daughter celebrated her 4th birthday. Both Paul and Art were very pleased with the turnout at their galas - Paul with more than 400 at the St.Matthew's Gala and Art with 200 for the Routes Gala. Steve Palmer - who likes handling money - had his first taste of desk duty.