Posted by Jocelynn Briggs on Jul 17, 2017

Rotary meeting July 12th

What do you get when Katie and Suzi take on leading roles.....an event and meeting to remember!  The setup for the Avery Beach Farewell was organized well.  The Huntsville Rotary Club steps up and accomplishes so much as a team, and great leaders produce great results!  Suzi was so busy behind the scenes, there are no pictures of her.  

 

 

 

 

 

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Guests:

Tony Clement,

Bill weber,Hunter (outgoing exchange)and his mom, the Simpsons,

, Helen, Nikki, Rotary club of Guelph trillium-Michael iversem

Scott Aitchison, Maria's family Jose  and Alejandra

Wren-Debbie k grandson and first rotary meeting!

Special Guest Speaker

Yvonne Heath discussing preparing for the "unpredictable " and end of life, how to handle grief attacks, how to reconnect and get grounded during grief, and her 7 take aways (buy her book for more details/love your like to death) her "I just showed up" campaign, teaching people how to create a culture of change, show up for yourself first, if someone else needs you to show up for them, and then just show up when needed. 

Cake Cutting Ceremony 

 

Welcomed Maria's Parents

 

Julia, chair of youth committee presented gift to Maria 

A great thank you from Tony Clement and our mayor Scott to a tribute to Maria.

Maria was presented with Huntsville pins to add to her collection and Tony joined the competition by running to his car to give her an Ontario pin.

Given a beautiful pendant with our logo and Huntsville's coordinates on it (from the Hunt house)

Maria's mom wrote a nice thank you to the club which she read to us in gratitude and dad thanked us as well as Maria translated as they welcomed us back to their home in Chile.

This is the fellowship you missed if you weren't at this farewell meeting.

 

Happy Bucks 

Lou to exchange families for their ongoing support of the exchange program

Rob to take down crew of dockfest 

Brandy for CoreHealth winning dockfest and for the great team of volunteers at dockfest year after year 

Helen to our wonderful theatre and what it offers our town 

Jen got married due to unforeseen circumstances with Brent's mom's recent diagnosis the ceremony was bumped up and a beautiful ceremony at the hospital with his mom, and thanked brandy and drew 

For stepping in last minute to fill the roles in dockfest committee