Chair: Basil Dias

Anthem: Gordon Brown

Grace: Arthur Retnakaran       

Attendance: 14.     Guests:  None

Announcements: 

Alan Meredith – Announced that this year. Int’l Services Group will be collecting for the Christmas card Fund and the proceeds will be going to the Toronto City Mission for the need in the Kingston Rd. and Galloway location. With a minimum of $50 donation, club members will get a taxable donation receipt. Roland List is handling the collections and Gerd Wengler will arrange to get the Christmas cards out to the members.

Dhanni – Int’l Services group meeting next Wed, Nov 23rd at the Baton Rouge restaurant right after the luncheon meeting.

Basil – Next Board meeting at Doug Strype’s place on Mon. Nov. 28th at 6:30 pm.

Basil – Club Christmas party on Fri. Dec. 9th. Please respond whether you are attending or not. Cost is $60 per person. Gordon Brown will send out another reminder. So far the response is low.

Basil –The menu has changed recently where there is no soup or ice cream anymore in order to maintain $20 lunch cost. For those members who would like to have soup at lunch, starting next week, you can order soup at an additional cost of $5. Tax and gratuity included.

Basil: Congratulated Dave Hardy on his new role as Assistant District Governor. Congrats Dave!!

Frank Allison – Extremely worried that no one stepped up to assume the role as incoming president. The deadline is December when RI has to be informed.

Basil – There will be a club election on Dec 7th for the incoming president.

 

Marbelous Draw: Mike Mushet

Dave Hardy won the consolation prize of $5..

 

SAA – Mike Mushet

There were no fines imposed by the substitute SAA.

 

 

Happy Bucks from:

-      Dave Hardy’s grandson surgery at Sick Kids Hospital went well. However, he is still in intensive care.

-      Gerd give us another joke.  This time on “fried chicken”

-      Arthur class mate 61 years ago visited him and the meeting was fabulous.

-      Frank is just happy. Best year ever, weather wise.

-      Kevin Manuel counting the days to TV Auction….5 days to go.

-      Jim Boyko is just happy.

TV Auction was the topic today

Basil asked Kevin Manuel to speak on the administrative side of the TV Auction.

Kevin said everything is ready to go. He thanked all volunteers and members who brought in items for the auction. He indicated that the total items recorded for the auction was 921 at an estimated value of $958K. Our club brought in 228 items, value $42K. This excludes sponsorship and donations. Sponsorships for our club value $17K.

·         The Auction location is 850 Coxwell Ave. (NW corner of Mortimer & Coxwell).

·         The auction will also be streamed live on Rogers YouTube. No bidding online but there is a link to the auction website.

·         If you are on anchor desk, please arrive 1 hour earlier to prepare. All other roles, please arrive 30 mins before to get checked in and briefed.

·         Phones are randomly ring rather than order system in the prior years.

·         Job and tasks are the same as last year.

·         Food service: there are different chefs this year.

·         Parking is free after 5:00 pm on Friday and on the weekend. There is also street parking and parking is available north of the library.

·         Post mortem ideas are encouraged and welcome.

 

According to Basil….

·         This year our club is responsible to manage the phone lines and ask that we do what is expect of us.

·         Dave Hardy will be on Specialty desk as well as Anchor on air. At times, when Dave is on break, he needs to be back filled.

·         Rocco will be managing the volunteers on phone on Friday evening/night.

·         Frank and Betty Allison will be managing the volunteers on phone on Saturday.

 

Basil thanked all club members for participating. In fact, he was pleasantly surprised that we had a higher level of participation from members as compared to prior years and there were more contributions from members this year.

 

Alan Meredith thanked all members for getting the items.

 

 

 
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