Rotary Club of Sackville Bulletin March 31, 2016

Posted by Wayne Harper

on Apr 01, 2016

Sandy subbed in the Chairperson role today for Mary who was busy with her Sergeant-at-Arms duties. In her bio, Sandy recalled being born, at an early age, in Brockville ON. She admitted being an "army brat" and in 1966, moved from Calgary to London ON. She met Wayne at his brother's wedding and they were married in 1968. In 1974 she along Wayne and 2 children moved to Ottawa, where she did a stint at CRA, wielding the dreaded "red pen". The family moved to Sackville in 1982 where Wayne joined the Loblaw's team. She bought the struggling Pierrot Apparel chain of stores in 1991 and added the MTA clothing line later that year. Eventually all the ladies stores were closed to concentrate on the MTA business. Mount A took over in 2006 and she retired.

There were no visiting Rotarians but we were joined by guests David & Crystal Kelly, Kashe & Azi Ghandi and Teri Tower. On the makeup front, returning George admitted there were not a lot of Rotary clubs nearby in Florida. Thus no make ups. Trish had District meetings in Moncton. Only one Pin Pal story to report this week - within Susan F's ski group was a Rotarian from Moncton.

Only one birthday this week, Wayne, who hit another milestone.

Edna was puzzled as to why no one came forward in the 50/50 draw, until she discovered that she had the ticket. Unfortunately she drew the Ace of

and missed out on the $75. Several people were happy this week, including George who just returned from Florida. Given he could be golfing, on the beach or in the pool, this might be a stretch for "is it the Truth!!!"........

Joyce was happy to be back from St. Lucia (see above) but was genuinely happy that her son has joined Rotary in Halifax..........Susan F. was happy at the prospect we could be having a major snow storm next week. There must be something in her well water. Skiing is over, get over it............Gayle read a PSA advertising National Poetry Month and a meeting April 6th at Town Hall...........Dianne was happy that this was Mountie Pride Day...........Truly the happiest person this week was Edna who is taking off for Paris for two weeks. Mary will be taking over.

The Duty Roster for Next Weeks is:

Chairperson Marita Greeter Tim

Introducer Trish Thanker Darrell

Speaker Andy Marr talking on whether RRSP's are the best investment.

Committee Meetings coming up are:

Fundraising Monday, April 4th 6:00 pm at Mary's

Board Wednesday, April 6th 5:30 pm at Goya's

Club Admin Tuesday, April 12th 7:00 pm at John's

Projects Wednesday April 13th 5:30 CWS boardroom

From the Club Admin Committee, John advised members that the Town will once again offer a food handling course at Town Hall on Wednesday, April 13th. We should have another 3-4 Rotarians certified. Cost is $45, which the club may cover..........Susan F. read a letter fom Adam Noiles, our outbound student in Brazil. He is beginning to get homesick and basically finds high school there difficult. He is returning home on June 16th and will be scheduled to do a presentation to the Club during the summer............ President Dianne reminded members of the campaign launch for the Hospital Foundation at noon today in the Hospital atrium.

This week we had winners from the last two weeks Gold Mine draw collect their cheques.

In the top left photo, David Kelly collects his cheque for $1,968 from Darrel Harvey. David was the big winner in the March 21 draw. In the top right, Rotarian David McKellar presents a cheque for $509 to a representative of Salem Elementary School, as the charity-of-the-week for the March 21st draw. Bottom left sees Rotarian Bill Evans presenting Teri Tower her cheque for $940 and the winner of the March 28th draw.

Tim introduced our speaker today - Kashe Ghandi, a chemistry professor at MTA and the head of the University sponsored Centre for Green Materials. The group advocates the greening of the planet. Their future dreams are to replace fossil fuels, to turn nuclear waste into electricity, to protect natural resources by a reduction of waste and to protect lives, heritage and buildings from earthquakes.

They plan to achieve these lofty goals by turning waste into value-added products through cohesive planning methods. Ideas start in a computer lab by the students and are eventually sent to a chemistry lab. Ideas may flow back and forth until they are satisfied they have a viable plan. The ideas are taken to labs in Japan, the UK and Vancouver, where they are tested to insure viability. Plans also included moving to Generation IV reactors, which uses water under pressure instead of radiation to produce electricity. Obviously, this is much safer and produces less waste. Ideas are not just limited to what we think as "greening". Some of these ideas will eventually assist in lessening food spoilage and cancer treatments.

Kashe was thanked by Dale who presented him with a book that will be donated in his name, to a local library, along with a certificate and a Rotary pen.

The meeting adjourned with the 4-way-test.