Cross Border Shopping Issues

Rotary Club of North Scarborough
Rota-Teller
    September 24, 2014

Chairman- Basil Dias
O Canada- Arthur Ratnakaran
Grace- Peter Masson

Attendance- 21 including
Guests- Wayne Chih, Cheryl Meredith, Liz Fairbrass, Michael Conway and speaker Keith Pitts

Announcements-
● Basil Dias reminded us, that Camp Enterprise is a Club event and, as such, everyone should be involved in it. 
We need           - Moderators for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17-19, 2014.
                         - Chaperones for Camp Enterprise- Friday and Saturday nights Oct 17 and 18th.
                         - Bus Chaperone for Sunday Oct 19 when students return (and possibly for Friday if Maddy is unable to break free from her new job at TD Bank)

● Peter Masson reminded those concerned that the Board of Directors will meet at his home on Monday Sept 30 th at 6:30 pm.
(An e-mail will be circulated to give directions to Swan Lake Village in Markham)

● As introduction of guests took place, a special greeting was given to Tony Baker recently returned from Malaysia.

● David Seemungal advised that the Scarborough Renewal meeting (sponsored by our club) will be held Tuesday September 30th at the Malvern Presbyterian Church, 1301 Neilson Road.  Rotarians are asked to come at 5:00 pm to help set up for the meeting which starts at 6:00 pm.

Marbelous Draw- To-day Jacob pulled the marbles but only got the consolation prize of $5.00
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Sergeant at Arms-
Jacob was the S @ A to-day and for once asked for happy bucks instead of putting us through another musical quiz.
On motion by Jacob and seconded by someone, it was agreed that Doug Strype should be fined $5.00 for being AWOL (in Italy) when he was scheduled for desk duty and being the scribe to-day.
-Jack Holman was happy to put in a tooney for the fact that his newly installed generator got its trial run on the weekend when a power outage occurred at his home in Kinmount.

Program-
Basil introduced our speaker Kieth Pitts who filled us in on the many ways we can save oodles of money by cross border shopping.  All is legal and if duty and GST is required then prices stateside can save much over prices here in Ontario.  Listen to Kieth’s presentation on the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jk6gjlve2irknfm/Cross%20Border%20%20Shopping.MP3?dl=0

Next meeting: Katherine Babony will report on the upcoming District 7070 Conference. “Shaken & Stirred” It will be held at the Weston Prince Hotel October 24 to 26.