Meeting Date: Monday, June 8th, 2026, Anglican Parish Hall. After a wonderful dinner prepared by the ACW, David B started the meeting by thanking the ladies in the kitchen.
Correspondence: None
Program: This was a business meeting with a discussion of the logistics for the Car Show, in Watson Grove Park
1. Bob & George: Car, Truck, Motorcycle and Tractor Show
- The raffle set-up is ongoing with Kees and Bob talking after the meeting
- Every car entering the west gate will get a ticket for one of the 2 door prizes
- Ron B is going to various businesses to obtain items for the 2 door prizes; some will be donated by businesses while some may be purchased with an overall value of $300.00 (donated and purchased). If anyone else can get additional gifts, that would be welcomed and give them to Ron B
- There will be 2 port-a-johns, with a sink for each, with the municipality looking after getting them (Jan Clark with C-K)
- One near the food stand and one up on top of the hill
- There will not be an RM car at this point, although someone high up in the RM food chain is looking into it
- The Face Painting Lady will have a stand and a man is bringing a Kettle Corn stand and will also have a donut-making machine
- Paul will look into getting coffee and donuts or Tim Bits from Horton: less coffee than last year
- A member is also getting a case of water
- The clean-up for the park will be at 9:00 am on Saturday, July 11, 2026
- David B will be sending a sign-up sheet by email for all of the various jobs
- A gift will be purchased for the man who now owns the West gate, with a maximum of $100
2. Kees: Summer Meetings/field trips -
- There was some discussion, with ideas to be sent to Kees
- Kees and David B will confirm
3 Paul: Ad in the Independent for Canada Day, as we have done in the past
- David B used his demonstration of AI and ChatGPT to do this discussion
Other Business
1. David B: Using AI – Demo for working with ChatGPT
- David showed how this could be used to do the wording for the ad for Independent Day
- He had sent Paul two different wordings, one for 84 words and one with 142
- Using ChatGPT, he narrowed it down to about 60 words, which Paul will send to the Independent to be inserted in this year’s ad
- It was a very interesting demonstration
- It’s easy to see how students and others can use it to do their essays, etc
Happy Bucks: Paul for his grandson Ethan who is graduating at 21 from his special-ed class in high school; Beatrice for her birthday
50-50: Jeff Geddes who donated it to the club
President David asked if there was “Anything for the good of Rotary?”
President David closed the meeting unofficially at approximately 8:05 pm
The next meeting is on: Monday, June 22, 2026: Board Change
at the Anglican Parish Hall
