Lunch meeting was held at KS on the Keys Scribe: Joan Hunter
Guests
We welcomed the following students and guests from local high schools:
Hillcrest
Alexa Hajjar
Amar Marouf
Vice-Principal Dori-Anne Leafloor
Brookfield
Mawaia Elkbouli
St Francis Xavier
Shannon Wong and her parents
St Patrick's
Landsie Voltaire
St Joseph's
Jaebets Joseph
Suzanne Pinel (who will be speaking to our club about Canadian Citizenship on July 18th) also attended the meeting. She is well-known at area High Schools as she routinely speaks to Grade 10 classes on citizenship.
Announcements
Bernie reported on a successful golf tournament despite the rainy start - numbers are still being crunched.
Monique spoke about Polo in the Park and related upcoming events.
Ian updated on upcoming events: see list above
Joan reported that Dave Gough had tendered his resignation and is joining the club in Carleton Place and that we have made Reg Francis an honorary member. Both are invited to changeover and Dave has promised to visit us as Santa next December.
We deferred happy bucks and 50/50 to changeover night.
Speaker
Bursaries were handed out by Jonny who prefaced this with a summary of what Rotary stands for globally and what our Club does locally.
The students each spoke about their High School activities (from fundraising, to sports, to student council, drama and so on). All have very ambitious plans academically and for their future careers. We enjoyed hearing their presentations and wish them all well i their futures.
Joan and Jonny pose with our accomplished high school guests.