BRAMALEA BULL-A-TON, HAPPY NEW YEAR, JAN. 8, 2014
GUESTS:
NATASHA VERWEY, Programs Manager, and SUSAN BUTLER, Administrative Assistant, both with Habitat For Humanity, Brampton, today’s speakers.
TERRY PALMAY: former member and good friend of the clubs.
GLENN GIBSON, Ray’s driver and who knows, perhaps a member some day.
HAPPY BUCKS:
DWAC: He had a great time at the Christmas Auction and thanked Jack, for organizing it, and Russ and Randy for making it work.
DMAC: Was afraid that we would never find a replacement for Terry Palmay, who did a great job for 20 years or however long out Christmas Auctions have been going, but we did and David Harvey, aka DWAC did a great job, we had a lot of fun, and raised some serious money for R I.
RANDY: We rounded up the monies raised at the Auction and sent $2,000. to Rotary International, great job to everyone.
JACK: Presented Gyan with the 2 fantastic Bar Lights he bought at the Auction for $50.00, he asked me to keep them for next years auction, but then he looked at them and said he better take them home for his wife to look at, she might let him keep them they look so good.
PS Spoke with DON WHITE over the holidays, he is improving and starting to walk around a bit, and speaking much better, we all wish him well.
MARTIN: Watch out, 2 days before New Years, he got his license back.
DMAC; Happy to see his friend Susan here, knows her from another life.
RANDY: Happy Birthday to WAYNE WOOD.
WAYNE: He is Happy, Freedom 55 starts today. He should be able to retire in 40 years.
THE DRAW:
BIRTHDAY BOY WAYNE WON, he can retire now!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
RUSS: Because of the storm we missed Dec. 22 Bingo, they gave us Jan. 26, 9:30 team 3 in its place. Also misprint on schedule, Thur.Feb. 12, is wrong, it should be Thur. Feb. 20, please correct your list.
POD 1 CO-LEADER WAYNE: Our program for next week, 15th is someone from the City of Brampton Parks and Rec. to tell us about the storm cleanup. The following week, is what we have been waiting for, He and Terry will be showing pictures and telling us about their trip to Africa and the school project. Put Jan 22 in your calendars and invite guests.. Jan 29th, will be an evening Club Assembly meeting. This is when you get to say what you like, dislike, want, or don’t want, in our club. Come prepared. 6:00 for dinner.
GUEST SPEAKERS:
WAYNE introduced our speakers by reminding us that former member Thomas Fischer, executive director of Habitat, and leader of the Frosty Fischers raised some $3500 by participating in the Polar Bear Dip, Jan. 1st. Habitat has been in operation since 1976 and their mission is to eradicate poverty in housing. Their motto is “it’s a hand up not a hand out”. Natasha spoke about the new projects and how we can get involved by volunteering and Susan ran the power point. Very interesting and it looks like a very busy few years coming up and a great chance for some of us to volunteer to work on a building project.
(I did it last year and it was a great experience, very educational and a lot of fun.)