Proposed Member, Second Notice: Richard Hebert, CEO of YMCA

November 18, 2002

The Vasilator is at the podium, Elizabeth Jong at the Piano and Mark is Greeter

On this special Rotary reunion day, past Rotarians and partners of departed Rotarians grace our meeting.  Thanks to Ollie Ramage for organising this day and inviting all those folks.

Guests:

• Edna Jacobson

• Pauline McLean

• Edna Lakie

• Rita Anderson

• Islay Arnold

• Ethel Higgins

• Mary Miller

• Cy and Gladys Redfern

• Duncan and Nancy Rand

• Bill and Marg Girdwood

• Jim and Audree Gough

• Bob and Marilyn Giesbrecht

• Rae and Enid Pepper

• Don Young

• Eddie and Gert Cairns

• Joanne Wutzke (Megan's Mom)

• Bev LaBlanc

• Stephanie Sanderson -Sunrise Club

• Vic Brown - Cranbrook Club

New Interact Club

Last week, the CCH club chartered.  See more details and pictures on their webpage. 

Interact Club of Lethbridge Catholic Central High School

 Please Support

Santa's Anonymous

Toy Drop

 Saturday, November 23, From 9:00 - 3:00 p.m.

At Catholic Central High front doors

405-18 St. South

New or Used Unwrapped Gifts For Ages 2-10

The Toys will Benefit Needy Families in Our Community

 

President Frank presents Duncan Rand with a Paul Harris Fellowship in appreciation for his 28 years in Rotary during which time he exemplified "Service above Self." Duncan wrote The Whoop~Up Bulletin, occasionally resorting to writing the truth.  He is our district and local archivist and makes sure the Library Bookmobile goes out.

Next Year's Executive

David Hughes has been lining up Rotarians for next year's exec positions.  Thanks to Darryl Alexander who  agreed to being President Elect.  David says it only took 5 cups of tea and a locked bathroom door to get him to agree. 

Rotary Foundation

Incoming President Bernie Carriere reminds us the club will match your $100 donation with $50 USD.  The Foundation is targeting 2005 as the year we eradicate polio,  Rotary has committed $80 Million to the cause.

Hockey Afternoon In Calgary

December 28, at 1:00 p.m., the Rotary Club of Lethbridge team will commence to whupping the Calgary team in Calgary.  Call Bernie for details.

December 3, Seniors Dinner

Tom DeJager has 600 people coming, and needs a bit of help.  He also requests small wrapped gifts.

Megan's Mom

Joanne Wutzke tells us Megan's trip began in August, by trying to pack everything she owns and then finding out at the airport that a 72 pound bag is too heavy.  Thankfully Mom's worst fears about safety in Belgium were soon allayed by Megan's first host family.  The father is a policeman who set down the rules.  The family has three kids 20, 17 and 12.  The youngest is a soccer playing son.  Megan booted the ball from the back yard right into the river, much to the surprise of Papa, who immediately signed her up with the women's soccer team. 

The host mother is Italian and a great cook.  Megan also gets to cook.  In school, Megan is learning French and joined the boys phys-ed class.  She also attends Rotary, but says our Lethbridge Club is more fun.

Joanne says many thanks to our club for this great opportunity and says that Megan is maturing rapidly, learning valuable life lessons that will make her a better world resident. 

Hanski Report

See the pictures of Hanski on her webpage.  Hanski has been acting in the play "Pinocchio," fourteen times in 6 days, attended a Hurricanes hockey game and two university games.  On November 11, Pat Killoran took her to a pow-wow on the reserve.  She got to see "Bye-Bye Birdie" with Dale Merchant, had supper at Austin Fennell's home, attended the Black Tie Bingo wrap-up party at Jamie Torry's, watched her first-ever football game at Joe Montpetit's, and helped at the Interact club charter. 

Sergeant At Arms

Kendall reminds us the Seniors Dinner is a lot of fun.  Want to wager that he fines those who do not attend?  He extracted happy bucks from Jeff who watched the wrong team win on Sunday.  Other happy bucks from Dennis Chinner, Joe Montpetit, Helen Henderson, Chris Yauck, Darrell (President Elect) Alexander, Wayne H, Nestor and Linda BabyDoc Storoz. David Hughes paid to admit he had a riot playing bridge, Peter Green paid for winning the booby prize, Ollie Ramage was happy so many guests appeared.  Duncan Rand was happy he's only taken the library van out twice in the last year.  Bill Glover is happy his new heart has 60,000 miles and six years on the clock.  Partner-less Rotarians paid up on this Partner's Day.

Guest Speaker

Myles Bourke snuck in a free happy announcement that the 35th anniversary scholarships evening brought in $26,000.  He then introduced Faron Ellis, son of Ellis Autodrome owner. Faron teaches political science at the LCC.

Faron tells us that he came up with the acronym ARTS for the Applied Research & Teaching Strategies group, but it was stolen by the college for the umbrella group.  He was determined to come up with a second, less likely to be stolen acronym.  BabyDoc thought FARTS would be appropriate, being it is Faron's group...  However, he settled for second place with Citizen-Society Research Lab. 

His website at http://www.telusplanet.net/public/fellis/ contains writings and opinions.  Faron presented graphs of polls his students have conducted in and around Lethbridge.  Photo Radar garnered a 53% approval rating.  Red light cameras got 59% to 71% approval in polls taken over different city areas. 

The Lethbridge Herald contracted the group to poll shoppers on the frequency of downtown purchases.  Results: 32% shop weekly, and 35% shop a few times a month.  Malls get 55% of shoppers and downtown (non-malls) gets only 21% of shoppers.

Shoppers were asked if moving the homeless shelter out of the downtown would convince them to patronise the area; 12.8% said yes, but 25% said yes if free parking was provided.  Of the people polled, 75.6% think the homeless issue is serious, while 61% think council handled it poorly.

Faron also gave statistics on a privately contracted poll of the likelihood that people would patronise a restaurant at the old water tower. 

Can polls be skewed?  Yes.  If you asked the question, "Since global warming is likely to cause the earth to burn up in the next year, should we ratify Kyoto?"  we know what the response would be.  Likewise if we asked, "Should we sign Kyoto, the second National Energy Plan?", we also know the response.

What are you doing for New Years?

Joe Montpetit suggested you attend: New Year's at Pincher Creek

Rotary Draw

Doug McArthur takes home $10, and Linda BabyDoc won $5.00

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