Sunrise bulletin for the week of August 21, 2013
Well, you never know. We've had some recent meetings with 19 or 20 attending, but today we were only 12 members plus guest Steve McGrandle. Everyone else is vacationing in exotic and expensive places, missing the perfect summer weather in Vancouver. President Ann-Shirley Goodell wondered out loud whether her email announcing that today's program would ask many of us to speak might have frightened some people away.
Member news
Larry Belsito reports that Tania is coming home from hospital today, after several tests confirm that she's healthy. We sure hope so.
John Haley and Marni are away on their long RV trip, which has been revised due to John's mother entering hospital in Spokane. Our best to her and the family.
Jose Riga is in New York to welcome the birth of a grandson. Congratulations to all concerned!
Club announcements
The club barbecue is this Friday, August 23, starting at 6 pm at Abigail Turner's home, 2695 Cactus Court, North Vancouver. If you need a reminder of what you agreed to bring, I have a list.
Luisa Godoy arrived from Brazil last week and is now in Tweedsmuir Park, near Burns Lake, BC, with some other inbound students. We'd like her to have some time with each of our members over the next month or two, so we circulated a sign-up sheet to help with scheduling. Talk with Diana Theman to find out when Luisa's available to do something interesting with you.
Julie Mantle has collected 18 names of those who will be at Rotary Day at the Racetrack on September 8. A good chance to strike it rich by betting your RRSP on the ponies. Julie guarantees that everyone will hold a winning ticket.
No breakfast meeting next week. Board meeting on Tuesday, August 27, at 7:30 am.
Today's program
With no scheduled speaker this morning, we had a more leisurely time to visit over breakfast and then a time of talking about members' hobbies and outside activities.
Larry, who wasn't there, sent in the information that he's keeping busy in his retirement tracing his family tree back to the time of King Henry VIII in England, he plays classical piano, and is planning to write a memoir about his adventures in the hotel industry.
Steve let us know that he's just starting a new part-time job and is thinking about forming his own small business. Good luck, Steve.
Bill Sheddy has a collection of fine art, which he'll share with us at a meeting soon.
Cleo Prez is working on personal development, including a 3-month program with a group called Landmark which seeks to engage others in a worthwhile service project.
Ann-Shirley sings in a classical chorus of 170 voices which gave a performance of Verdi's Requiem last weekend.
Gary Chomyn likes to dance, bike, walk and play golf.
Matthew Lynam is a photographer and is now working on videos and even a rap song through hitrecord.org.
Sonya Orr's work and hobby are the same -- travel to interesting places.
Lawrence Bicknell spends some of his free time walking with his dogs and gardening.
Sheila Anderson likes to sing, ski and knit, and she's very active as president of a seniors' care home in Nanaimo. She'll give us a presentation on this project at a meeting soon.
Aren't we a bunch of interesting people? Ann-Shirley closed the meeting with a Paul Harris quote on friendship. Very appropriate. See you Friday at the BBQ.
Rob