Rotary Club of Sackville Bulletin January 28, 2016

 

   George was in the Chair today, just hours before he heads to Florida for 2 months.  George was born in that other center of the universe - Toronto and actually went to school with today's speaker - Doug Key.  Who says it's not a small world.  George followed high school with degrees at Waterloo University and University of Western Ontario.  His career started in Oakville ON but in 1997 he saw the error of his ways and moved to the real center of the universe - Sackville.  Here he was the Director of Engineering, retiring in 2014.

 

Today's guest was Susan Bour who attended for a short time and collected the Sackville Food Banks Gold Mine charity funds from the draw of January 4th.........  Our guest Rotarian was former District Governor Pat Perry........  With meetings this week for the Gold Mine, Fundraising and Club Administration Committees, there were lots of make ups.  Committee Chairs passed on the names to Edna............Sue F. will celebrate a birthday next week.........In the "I've got no Pinpal Story Department", George recalled wearing his Rotary T-shirt on his last tip to La Vegas and no-one acknowledged him as a Rotarian.

 

      The 50-50 draw saw John's ticket drawn for the second week-in-a-row.  Going for the Jack of Clubs, the outcome was the same as last week, he lost, drawing the Queen of Clubs and missed the $48 in the pot.......Dale was happy that the Square System was working for the Grocery card program this week.  We exceeded the goal of $1,000 this week............

    John was happy that Dale was happy as last week Dale was not happy.........Bill was happy that he attended a talk at MTA last evening given by Mariatu Kamara, a refugee who lost both hands when she was a teenager.  Bill was awestruck at the accomplishments of this girl.

 

The Duty Roster Next Weeks is:

 

Susan Bour accepted a cheque on behalf of the Sackville Food Bank.  They were the charity of the week for the January 4th Draw.

 

On behalf of Club Administration, John indicated that one person will be going to the Food safety Course this weekend.  Wayne has now added the list of charities and the places to play the Gold Mine Draw to the web site.   A social evening is in the infancy planning stage and it is necessary to buy more Club Banners.  John moved that "the Club spend up to $700 to buy banners".  The motion was seconded by Trish and Carried.

 

In President's Time, Dianne reminded the Board that there is a Board meeting next Wednesday at Goya's.  She reminded members of the Strategic Planning session scheduled for this Saturday morning at 9 pm at the United Church.  All members are encouraged to attend.

 

     Louise introduced our guest speaker - Doug Key, who is the husband of Rotarian Gayle.  Doug lived briefly in the '70's in Sackville, moved to Guelph for 20 years than to Penn State College in State College PA and retired in 2008 and moved back to Sackville.  Doug's passion is model railroading.  He was introduced to trains at an early age as his grandfather was an engineer.  The hobby today dates back a hundred years to the height of toy trains as the toy of choice for young lads.  Many famous people are model railroaders, where the basis is sharing knowledge.  This knowledge today, is easily shared thanks to books, magazines, internet, videos, even U-tube channels specializing in model trains.  Hobbyists love to meet at shows, malls and conventions to check out the next best thing.  As well, many of us will remember our train days where to move a train and it's speed were performed using a transformer.  Today a remote accomplishes this using small circuit boards.  Layouts are limited to the users imagination and the space they have.  Doug acknowledges that the hobby today is dominated by the older generation, so getting the word out to younger individuals is paramount if the hobby is to continue.

 

    Sue F. thanked Doug with the presentation of a book which will donated to a local library in his name.

 

    At the end of the meeting, the Family Resource Centre picked up their cheque for $477.  They were the charity-of-the-week for the draw of January 25th.  Here Rotarian Gayle presents the cheque.