BRAMALEA ROTARY BULL-A-TON for OCT. 9, 2013
GUESTS:
CHRIS-BETH COWIE & MELISA KERMAN, both with the Brampton Roteract and here to talk to us about a project that they are working on.
TERRY PALMAY: Former member and still a good friend of the club, ( I think?)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
RANDY: Chairing the meeting today as our President is away, reminded us that we will have a Club Assembly October 30th, so no noon meeting it will be a dinner meeting.
HAPPY BUCKS:
NORBERT.. Liz being home is not such a bad thing, supper is waiting for him every night when he gets home, life is good.
D WAC: A very good friend of his and a really great guy, had Leaf tickets and invited him to go with him, but at the last minute he cancelled and gave him the tickets and told him to take his son instead, they had a great time and he wants to thank his great friend.
TINA: It’s a girl, Piper is the name, all is well and she is some proud Grandma. Oct 6th was the date. She also took that train ride from Orangeville to Georgetown to see the fall colours and have lunch, it was a great ride with the leaves changing, especially through Bellefontaine, When they went through the Caledon Golf course one of the golfers mooned the train, She said she didn’t recognize him but he wasn’t what he was cracked up to be. Golfers are really bad actors.
D MAC: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, and he and Marg got invited to an Indian Wedding and they are really looking forward to it.
TERRY: Really upset that Russ not here today, (It’s the only reason he comes anymore, I think he loves him, he told me to tell him that!) Happy his curling season has begun.
RANDY: Happy his daughter here today, and he is going R V’ing to the states again.
RAY: Happy to see the Happy Hungarian here, (See Terry, one of us likes you.)
GYAN: His wife had a birthday last week and she probably will next year too.
WAYNE: Leaves Friday for Tanzania, will be spending Thanks Giving in a village there.
JACK: He was getting ready for bed the other night, very tired, he looked in the mirror and said to Pauline, I see an old man, my face in wrinkling, and I’m sagging all over, and look at the size of my gut, tell me something positive to make me feel better about myself. Pauline says, “Your eyesight is still great.”
SHANTA: Foundation Dance has made over $17,000 and still monies to come in. Bad news, her purse and brief case was stolen out of her car, she was with a client just 10 feet away for only a few minutes and when she got back it was gone. She had to cancel all her credit cards, license, health card, and business stuff, everything you could think of. She got it all back, but not before everything was done, she did lose some stuff, but the cost of canceling and getting new stuff was over $600. And lots of pain and suffering. Never leave valuables in your car, even for a few minutes, thieves move fast.
THE DRAW:
RANDY won again.
GUEST SPEAKERS:
MELISA AND CHRIS-BETH, gave us a brief update on the Roteract Club that meets biweekly 8pm on the 1st and 3rd Wed. of the month at the BDDC Building 76 Main St. They have 20 members and are doing a lot of things. One is called a Water Walk and it will be in March 2014 in Brampton and will have the walkers go to the river with buckets and get water, and march back with the water on their heads like the people in Uganda have to do for water. The walk will be symbolic, but it will give those who do it the idea of what these people have to do every day just to have water to drink and to live. Chris-Beth went to Uganda with a group called Tin Roof Global, and showed them how to collect and purify rain water by collecting it with Tin Roof on their schools and buildings then purifying it and storing it for drinking and other uses. It was a very interesting program and I think it would be interesting in March to see how we could do on a march with buckets of water on our heads.
P.S. please read!!
Wayne Wood is away so he won’t know I did this, On Wed, night he and I finished the job at the Perpetual Bazaar. We had to wait till they had a new front window put in, so when it was they called Wayne and said that he could finish the job. The Wood family did about 75% of the work on that project and Wayne couldn’t wait to get it done. He asked for help and I went. We moved all the shelves in the front half of the store did all the walls and finished in record time. It is done, but what you don’t know and Wayne will kill me for telling this but I think it needs to be told. Just before we started this job, his son and daughter where in a car accident, involving a few vehicles, 2 of which where Wayne’s, the car his daughter was driving was about $6,000 and Wayne’s truck was totaled. The person who hit them was charged. Wayne gets new truck, Terry’s car gets fixed. A week later his son, coming to help paint, scraped the side of the truck trying to get into the parking lot at the Bazaar. Wayne paid to get it fixed, ($2500) The other night Wayne drives into the same post that his son hit, and did another $2500 plus in damage to his truck. This job for charity has cost Wayne a lot of money and a lot of gray hairs, I think when he gets back, (from another charity thing in Tanzania, representing The Bramalea Rotary Club) we should do something real nice for him, I don’t know what, but we should as a club think of something to recognize the great job he and his family does for this club and our community.