Bulletin of the

Sackville Rotary Club,

Thursday,February 7, 2013

Trish Edwards, President

                       Editor:   Gayle

NEXT WEEK

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Chairperson :  Trish

Greeter:         Louise Hicks

Introducer:  

Thanker: 

Speaker:     Club Assembly

THIS WEEK

Chairperson:  Ove

Greeter:        Ken

Introducer:    John M.

Thanker:       Frank

Speaker:       Eryn Foster

TODAY IN CANADIAN HISTORY

OR

    USELESS INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW

1922 - Lila Acheson Wallace and her husband Dewitt Wallace sell the first 5, 000 copies of their new magazine, the Reader's Digest.

  1962 - Federal government cheques bilingual for the First time.

  1990 - Donald Marshall Jr. wins apology from Nova Scotia for suffering due to 11 years false imprisonment for a murder committed in 1971.

2006 - Stephen Harper's first day as Prime Minister.

2010 - CFB Trenton Base Commander Colonel Russell Williams confesses to two brutal murders, and is arrested by Ottawa police.

VISITING ROTARIANS

None

GUESTS

Pat Samuelsen 

MAKE UPS

Executive Meeting Feb. 6, 2013-02-10

      Trish and Becky GSE team planning

      SENB gala event Feb 2, 201

Pam Bowman  congrats beamed to Florida

ANNIVERSARIES

Frank and Barb  45 blissful years

PIN PAL STORIES

Wynn ran into a student associated with Rotary and discussed fundraising.

      Coralee was at a girl guide meeting with Pat B. And met a friend from abroad.

50/50 DRAW

Thomas again had a lucky number but drew the 9 clubs  no winner

Marita was the second person to draw and drew 4 hearts  no winner

John again had a lucky number but drew the 7 diamonds.  No winner. 

The 8 of hearts will now be worth approx $116.00 next week.  Buy extra tickets to improve your chances.  The deck of cards is thinner by the week.

HAPPY DOLLARS

Pat B. Won the gold medal  in the Curl for Cancer Tournament for the most money raised.

Peter was happy and proud as his daughter Katie

      sang in Italian at her grandfather’s funeral.

                                                                                Wynn also won a medal in the Curl for Cancer Tournament and

        also proud his granddaughter has been chosen to compete in the Can Winter Games.

 Pat Samuelson is happy to be at Rotary today and thanked everyone for her well wishes.

       Trish is happy her new puppy is peeing outside and also happy to have won a

  $1000.00 bottle of wine at the Rotary Gala Saturday night in Dieppe.

Josh is unhappy his girlfriend Skye was in a car accident with his car but happy she was not injured.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Andy announced the new member induction will take place next week at the club assembly and also a reminder to send in your dues for this ½ year.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

None

PRESIDENT’S TIME

Trish suggested we have our April club assembly as a dinner meeting.  The reason being to participate in a think tank for fundraising.  Trish                       reported we contributed approx. $2300.00 to the gala in Dieppe.

GUEST SPEAKER

Eryn Foster was our guest speaker this week at Rotary.  She is presently the director of the Eye Level Gallery in Halifax.  Twenty years ago she was               sponsored by Rotary for which she thanked us and proceeded to talk about her walk from Halifax to Sackville which took two weeks.  She did her fine           arts degree at Concordia and her masters degree in Guelph.  She recently worked two years for an art school in the Yukon.  Her focus is art and food           using sour dough culture as a medium.  Look further at her website.... agiftofculturedculture.com 

Frank thanked Eryn and we ended the meeting with the four way test.

UPCOMING WEEKS

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Chairperson :   Andy

Greeter:          Darren

Introducer:      Frank

Thanker:         Gayle