Noon Club Once Again Indebted to Festival City

Rotarian Carolyn Dingman (the blonde) with another happy customer.

Hi President Jack,

It's a pleasure to send a note of appreciation from our club for your club's recent involvement and assistance at the subject event. This is another example of how our cooperation promotes the greater good. Early reports suggest this year's show was the best ever.

Thanks again, to Festival City Club.

Stan Malcolm. R. C. of Stratford

President Jack Builds Secret Government UFO Landing Pads

Editor's Note: A secret government project will take President Jack away from the Club until Christmas. Our crack team of investigative journalists have discovered that Jack will be helping to build UFO landing pads for the coming invasion (just in time for XMAS). His letter to the Club is below. Just replace "wind turbines" with "UFO landing pads". It will make more sense that way.


Dear Rotarians


McNeil Surveying Ltd. has been engaged in the quality assurance role of the construction of 20 concrete and steel foundations for wind turbines in Kent County. This is one of my areas of expertise as I was involved with 38 of them in Bruce County last year. The concrete pours where I have to be present are scheduled for tuesdays and fridays till Christmas. We have 3 completed now with the 4th scheduled for next tuesday.

I will keep in close contact with Kent and Etienne to fill in for me when required. I do expect some cancellations due to technical problems and weather which would make me available for some meetings. At some point it may be that I will not be required on the actual concrete pours on tuesdays and only do testing after the foundations are in place. This would again open the tuesday mornings for me. It is a 200 km drive to site so we leave at 5:30 am and depending on the progress of the job, we are home around 6 or 7 in the evening. There are 8 morning meetings till Christmas. My best guess is that I may be absent for absent for 4 - 6 of these meetings.

The foundations weigh 1,035 metric tonnes. They tend to compress the earth underneath as the 405 cubic metres of concrete is poured. The connection point which is a steel cylinder weighing 15.5 tonnes balanced on jacks is maintained to a tolerance of 1.5mm of being perfectly level for connection to the future 80 meter shaft of the turbine. We have specialized equipment capable of measuring to one/tenth of a millimetre. Each turbine will generate 2 megawatts of electricity.

This will not affect the other areas of my rotary involvement, ie; board meetings, working Bingos and food vending next weekend.

I am hoping that this will not be too much of a problem as I know that we have a good team. Please feel free to contact me with any concerns or questions you may have.

kindest regards

Jack