Vancouver Sunrise Bulletin 08/22/2012
12 members joined on Wednesday morning and our president Julie Matle started our meeting on time, as always, at 7.30am. Banu Tulumen read the Four Way Test and we proceeded to have a nice and hearty breakfast.
Larry Belsito welcomed Gary who will nbe joining our Vancouver Sunrise club! Way to go Gary, and welcome to this great club! We are very happy to have you in club. Also, Larry welcomed another “stranger”, Banu, who looked very happy after her honey moon in Turkey, France, and many different places. Welcome back, it is great to have you back.
Rotary Moment:
This time was Carlos Obregon to share his personal Rotary Moment. Carlos gave us some background on how he became a Rotarian. Everything started about 67 years ago, when his great uncle founded one of the clubs that he Carlos later joined. It seems Rotary runs on his blood. His grand father was a Rotarian, his dad and some of his uncles were also Rotarians. Carlos decided to join Rotary back in 1997 before he came to Canada, where he joined this club in 2005. Great decision Carlos! Carlos has played an important role in inviting new members to join this club. He has invited a total of 5 people who has joined our club!
Announcements:
- A fund raiser event happening in December which is the Harlem Ambassadors show basketball team who perform different shows. There are a lot of thing going on at our club happening during that date, but we will see if we can do something to support this event.
- Arbutus Clubs meets on Fridays at 12:15pm and they are inviting fellow Rotarians to participate in their meeting on September 7th, where Wally Oppal (Canadian lawyer, former judge and provincial politician) is going to be the speaker. They need a rough count by late August and a final count at the latest on September 5th so tey can organize a bigger space.
- Guess who is coming for dinner: Please email Ann Shirley if you are planning to participate in this social event. Remember, this is happening on October 20th, it will be fun!
Speaker:
Our speaker was Bill Sheddy, who shared his “Experience in the Caribbean”
After graduating from Law School, Bill wanted to explore new horizons. After thinking too much where to go, he decided to go to the Caribbean to one of the offshore law firms. Once he landed to the airport, he immediately realized that going through customs there was a joke. After a fun ride from the airport to the place he was going to stay while in the Caribbean, his landlady invited him to go on cruise for free, the Contiki, which is a glass bottom boat, and of course, being an explorer Bill said yes! So next morning he was up and ready to go on this big adventure on the Contiki with another 30 german tourist who were all excited to explore and dive in one of the best reef areas in the world.
What it was suppose to be a very enjoyable cruise, ended up of being a gong show wenh Captain Jack took over piloting the boat. Captain Jake was a little bit tipsy, or maybe very drunk?
The Contiki boat, or better known as the Can-Sinky, broke down before getting to the reef they were going. All the tourists started to get anxious and frustrated with the situation, that some of them decided to start swimming to the eef they were originally going but it was still quite far where they anchored the boat.
Captian Jack left the boat to look for some help, so Mr. Jack let everybody on the boat until the owner of the Can-Sinky came to look for them after 6 hours. On the mean time, they were having lots of fun having some beer.
We bet this is a story that Bill will never forget.
Thought for the week:
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. “
Sir Winston Churchill