Bulletin - May 24, 2012

Posted by David McKellar

on May 24, 2012

Bulletin of the
Sackville Rotary Club,
Thursday May 24, 2012
Ken Draper, President
Editors: David M & Susan F

Thursday, May 31, 2012
Chairperson: Sandy
Greeter: Darren
Speaker :Jeff Martin
“Move of the 0ctogon House to Boultenhouse”
Introducer: George Thanker: Marita

CHAIRPERSON Darren
• Greeter was Dale
• O’Canada
• Irish Blessing
• Breakfast
• Positive thought for the day: must have missed it [Ed]

VISITORS
None

GUESTS
Scott Yorke guest of Josh C

MAKE-UPS
Administrative Committee

BIRTHDAYS
None

ANNIVERSARIES None

PIN PAL Pam: On a recent trip to Newfoundland where she was doing some interviews, one of the candidates had a Paul Harris Fellow pin on and he was hired – the fix was in! Dale: his son-in-law Tony is a member of Bowmanville Rotary Club and they recently raised $76K on a ribfest fund raiser.

50/50 DRAW
Won by Sue P

HAPPY DOLLARS Sue P: happy she won the 50/50 and that the Cape Jourmaine AGM is next Sunday, 27th Jun at 130pm, all are welcome and come earlier for lunch, there will be a roadside clean-up
Ove: had their daughter and her family visiting on the weekend
Dale: good trip to Hamilton and a visit with his daughter and family and got to see a Blue Jay game where they won
Trish: good week in Ontario and her father was welcomed as a new member of the Picton Rotary Club
Ken: spent the week talking to his new ‘best friend’ Anne from CRA and trying to answer all her questions while Trish was away
Wynn: speaker last week reminded him of his experience on radio in 71-73, programme was a music show called ‘My Call’ – something to do with square dancing!
Scott Y (visiter): had a lovely weekend in Fredericton with his girlfriend and attending an art auction fundraiser in Moncton
Marita: happy that Barb J is back

COMMITTEE REPORTS None

UPCOMING MEETINGS
Kathy: Bursary Committee meets next Monday to do the interviews.
Andy: Membership Committee meeting today
Wayne: Administration Committee – BBQ 21st June (location TBD), 28th June is the handover and presentation of awards.

PRESIDENT’S TIME Ken mentioned that Executive Committee meets tomorrow at Pattersons. He also reminded the club of the Rotary District Conference in Houton, Maine next weekend and encouraged as many people to attend as possible. Sue F and David M will be attending [Ed]

GUEST SPEAKER
David introduced our speaker Ron Aiken who was going to speak to us on the recent municipal election.
- First thing Ron asked us was that he doesn’t want to be mistakened as Steve Eppworth
- Steve told Ron that he was tired of being congratulated on his win
- Ron took us through the multiple steps a candidate must undertake
o File your nomination, only needs 10 but he had 15 and 4 ended up not being on the voter list
o File papers with Elections NB, now have to do it in Dieppe, woman there said she was slow because she hadn’t been trained
o Try to figure out a handout leaflet that isn’t too short or too long, too superficial etc
o Getting lawn signs made and trying to figure out the right picture to put on it
o Put signs up, Sackville has the hardest soil and our renowned winds blow them down
o The dreaded public forum where candidates would rather be dead then try to do public speaking
o Next is all the door to door work, Ron didn’t bother the last time as people said don’t worry and he lost, this time he looked at what parts of the city didn’t vote for him and he concentrated on them, he said that 95% of the homes seemed to have small aggressive dogs, also not good to canvas past 830pm as its bedtime for kids
o Final step is to wait for the results, apparently Elections NB didn’t fare too well this year with their new web page
o
- Ron had lots of questions from members and replied that he preferred working on economic development and parks & rec committees, but please no finance committee; pressing issue for council is finding a CAO, long term downtown revitalization similar to Wolfville, NS and keep an eye on the new
regional services
Speaker thanked by Louise
Darren adjourned us with the stating of the 4-Way Test.

UPCOMING MEETINGS
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Chairperson: Sue C Greeter: Dianne
Speaker: Heart & Stroke Foundation “Defibulators”
Introducer: John Thanker: Mary
Bulletin Editors: David M & Sue F