Submitted by Steve Wilson 

 

Gary Rusu was our MC.  Wayne led the singing of O Canada and Rotary Grace.

 

 

Donna Gauthier, who declared that the food cards were sold out.

 

Boris Kischuk, from the North Club, who was our guest speaker.

 

 

S - Wayne McGillivray on the passing of Jack Brodsky's mother-in-law and also Al Hatie who passed away last week.

 

H- The Raptors winning their Semi-final series. 

 

S -Vic Dubois bemoaning the top teams in the International Cup wre out, Russians, Canadians, Americans etc.

 

H- The Food Cards being sold out.

 

S- Jack said his mother-in-law was 91. He is happy about the Raptors but sad about the state of the Western Hockey league .

 

H- Jim Weber is happy with Vic's U of S. shirt. He saw Celine Dion in Vegas and she is coming to Saskatoon for a performance. The Volcanos music program was

     asked to perform for the Governor in Puerto Vallarta. It fell through, but the program started from scratch with used instruments so they were proud

     to be invited to perform.

 

S- Peter Zakreski says things are not good in Malawi. Crops are destroyed, the people are running out of food.

 

H- Gary Rusu attended the New Citizens induction evening where Peter Zakreski was a Co-presider. There were 63 new Canadians present.

 

 

The District Governor will be visiting September 23 and 24th. He is tightening his time by going to only Meewsin, Riverside and Nutana clubs and only meeting with boards by appointment.

 

LobsterFest is this Saturday, June 1st and 21 from our club are attending.

 

From our discussion at the last meeting Paul looked into members being able to discontinue getting the magazine, but Paul found that the magazine is mandatory.

 

An e-mail from November was circulated at the meeting which Paul had sent and it outlined most of the issues discussed about the Foundation.

 

The Saskatoon Public Schools have a summer reading program in August where they provide nutritional snacks and assistance in reading. They need books donated which are especially for the Grade 1 to 3 Level.

 

The President's Dinner will be on June 24th and the cost will be $60.00 per plate. Payment in advance is requested.

 

 

BORIS KISCHUK from the North Club

 

Boris was a Professional Engineer and he has written four books. His fourth book ‘Possessions’ is the subject of his talk.

 

Why do people kill each other, become angry, become envious, and become jealous is the premise of the book. 

 

Studies have shown that children are more likely to share possessions than adults –

75 % vs. 20 %.

 

We are proud of our symbols - our house, car, clothes, jewelry etc.

 

The extremes of possessiveness cause disasters such as Bernie Madoff and Bre-Ex. Wars are another example. In WWII alone there were 24 Million military casualties and 29 Million civilian casualties. Curtis Dagenais killed two RCMP because of family jealousy.

 

There have been great achievements without possessions - Louis Pasteur, Marie Currie, and Robby Burns are examples.

 

 

Adjournment