Club Welcomes Anna Sherwin

Assistant District Governor Charlie Hammond (R) inducts Anna Sherwin (Centre) into the Festival Rotary Club of Stratford., as Laura Jean Pogson (L), her sponsor looks on.

The Club Welcomes Kevin Gormley

The Club inducted Kevin Gormley at its Club Assembly on 3 March 2009. Kevin (R) is seen here with his sponsor, President-Elect Kent Chisholm (L).

I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good

The Fearless Festival City Rotary Club Curlers displayed their skill and awesome daring at the 10th Annual Service Club Bonspiel at the Stratford Country Club on Saturday February 28th, 2009. Led by Skip Etienne "Missed it by that Much" Leushuis, Thomas "The Little Engine that Did" Leushius, Diane "The Hammer" Yundt, and David "I'd Rather be Lucky Than Good" Harvie, the team had 7 perfect scores of zero and won one end. Mrs. Etienne and the Club Standard formed the Cheerleading Squad. The Team did exceptional well at the Door Prize Draw, with David winning twice. Approximately $200 was raised for the Stratford General Hospital.

All You Can Eat Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser - 6 April 2009

The Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford and the Black Angus Restaurant located at 805 Downie Street present an "All You Can Eat Spaghetti Dinner" on Monday April 6, 2009. Proceeds from the dinner will go towards helping children attend school in El Salvador. 

Tickets are available from any Festival City Rotary Club members for $15.00 a seat.

Photo Credit: Jack's Mother

The Rotary Foundation Future Vision Pilot

In this Web video, Past RI Director and Future Vision Committee Member Mark Maloney explores what Rotarians need to know about the Future Vision Pilot, including the philosophy, grant structure, and need for pilot clubs and districts.

Watch the videos here.

Bill Gates Announces $255 Million Grant to Rotary to Fight Polio

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded US$255 million to Rotary International in the global effort to eradicate polio, bringing the total committed by Rotary and the Gates Foundation to $555 million.

Click here for the whole story.

Way to go Bill!

Festival City Rotary Club Invented Festive!

Members of Festival City Rotary Club help Santa Claus get into the holiday spirit at their XMAS meeting.

Volunteers Needed

Helping Children Start Their School Day Without Being Hungry

Children who eat breakfast are better able to focus, spend more time on tasks in the classroom, and earn better marks.

Romeo Public School plans to begin a Breakfast Program in January, two days per week. Students will drop in for a quick, simple, nutritious breakfast.

To make this possible we need you!

Support Required:

• Minimum of 2 volunteers each day of operation.
  
• A volunteer to purchase the food each week, keep track of the food being used and what needs to be ordered.
  

A criminal reference check is required. Training and support will be provided. If you can help, please contact:

Felicity at 519-275-3104 or fsutcliffe@fsph.ca

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