ROTARY CLUB OF SASKATOON
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
WILLIAM PASCOE, HOTEL BESSBOROUGH
PRESIDENT, MARK GRYBA PRESIDING
WAYNE led O’ Canada and CLAIRE HEAGYsaid Grace
MIKE GIESBRECHT declared our Visitor and Guest to be HERB PINDER Jr., our guest speaker .
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM PRESIDENT MARK:
- Sept. 18th meeting will be a club assembly
- September 25th will be the visit from our District Governor
- There will be no regular meetings on the following dates:
Oct. 9 - Thanksgiving
Oct 30 - because we are helping at the Friendship Inn
Nov 6th - in lieu of the 5 club Nov 7th meeting about Syria
Nov 30th - because of the Foundation Dinner
- The Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) has some sessions coming up on Oct 28 in P.A., Nov 4 and Nov 25 in Saskatoon
- We need a new Director on the Board to be in charge of Membership as Joanne is stepping down
- Jack announced the November 7th luncheon which is to explain the situation in Syria . The Red Cross is organizing as well as our own club . Kay Nasser is matching any money raised up to a maximum of $ 100,000. It will be held at the Battleford Room .
- Grocery Cards can be ordered through Gary Rusu and brought the following week .
- The Kiwanis Apple Drive will be held on Saturday September 30, 2017
DAVE SUNDBY acted as Sergeant at Arms .
- Dave announced right off that anyone who will act as a Clown on September 30th doesn’t
have to pay any fines today .
- September is Basic Education and Literacy month in Rotary . Some fines were extracted for that .
- President Mark Gryba was on the cover of a newsletter .
- October 24th is the 5th annual world polio day event .
HAPPY and SAD :
- Jim Weber paid $ 5.00 because his sister survived Hurricane Irma .
- Joanne reported on a recent family vacation which included 9 days in Finland where they were with Samuli’s family .
- Heather spoke of Hoops for Hope which will be held this weekend . It is a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis . Her boys were involved with a bottle drive to help and she was proud of their effort .
- Mike Giesbrecht announced that he had turned 43 (what happened?) .
- Jim W. will be visiting family in B.C. and will get a chance to catch a Huskie football game while he is there .
HERB PINDER Jr was the guest speaker .
Dave Sundby introduced the guest speaker . I have to say, as editor of the Rotateller for the day, that I had trouble keeping up to all the accomplishments listed in that introduction .This is what I did catch:
He was born in Boston, educated in Switzerland, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and , later, Harvard . He works in a company called the Gold Group . He is a chairman on many boards, member in several golf clubs, in the Hockey Hall of Fame, is in the Canadian Olympic Association . He is an Honourary Doctor of Laws and receive a ‘125 Year Medal’.
Herb Pinder Jr’s Presentation:
He was introduced to the subject of Global Warning ten years’ ago .
It is a controversial subject so Herb determined that he would do his own research - and he did .
The thrust of Herb’s talk is to say that there is fear mongering out there . There are political agendas being put forward . It is presumed there is global warming or increased temperatures so those with the agendas then seek to find proof that backs up this point of view .
Some observations Herb gave us;
- The level of CO2 in parts per million are very low . It can be described as a trace gas .
- We need CO2 for photosynthesis in our plants and we need our plants to survive .
- In our history there have been ice ages and warm ages . We are in a warm age now . These cycles are about 10,000 years . We are now about 12,000 years into the current warm age and we are in a 300 year warm period . It is good to be warm because then our growing season can be longer . The cost of transportation is also reduced .
- reported by Steve Wilson
