Rotary Classification & Housing

i woke up painfully early this morning. Tuesday morning breakfasts are Sunrise Rotary time. Unlike other Tuesday morning meetings, today i gave my classification speech. Unlike Toastmasters first speech, which is an Ice Breaker of 3 to 5 minutes, the Rotary Classification speech is 10-15 minutes of me, and my classification, or my career & history. I didn't dwell on me for too long, and instead, after a brief history of CCL got directly into housing. Housing & Africa, two things dear to my heart. It was a small turn out, likely due to the weather, but it went well enough.
Good times.

into my discussion of housing i worked a story of homes built for the Masaii people... and i took the opportunity to highlight a fantastic Rotary initiative; Shelterbox... Well worth the research, and well worth the support.

Rotary's Questionable Selection

You might wonder how an organization so right could go so terribly wrong.
Groucho Marx once said (and i paraphrase); "i could never belong to a club that would accept me as a member."

Rotary International
wikipedia entry for Rotary.

Sunrise Rotary accepted me as a member this summer.
Sunrise Rotary accepted me as a 2009/2010 board member this tuesday.
They still have no idea what they've done.

Mayors Breakfast

The civic election is done, and tomorrow morning will be upon us soon.

The Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sunrise Rotary Club (my club) are hosting the Mayor's Breakfast.

It's almost time to have breakfast with the new mayor. Good times.

Housing Vital Signs 2007

We shared our Rotary meeting this morning with special guests. We did see most of the aldermanic candidates, as well as Mayoral candidate Bill Cocks. That was nice, but not the special guests i was referring... no, the special guests were from throughout the community, all in attendance to hear first hand how the Medicine Hat & Southeastern Alberta Community Foundation would release their Medicine Hat Vital Signs 2007 Report. (The breakfast was good, as always)

The sub heading Housing within the report had, among other things, this to say;

"Alberta has seen a 19% increase in multiple family residential building starts between 2005 and 2006. In Medicine Hat the number of similar housing starts in 2006 was 545, an increase of 43% from 2005. "

It is good to know that CCL has played a significant part in providing the multi-family answer to the housing continuum right here in Medicine Hat.