The meeting’s opening was slightly delayed by ‘Ziploc Issues’ (MPres Trudy) but the effort to provide beverages and cake was deeply appreciated. Barry joined by Zoom with three other members plus 24 present at the Legion. The main program was classification speeches from Linda Donville and Bill Hurst.

Bill began his speech with an explanation of his family background in Winnipeg with a sister and parents who were all lovers of classical music, especially the WSO. After meeting his wife at university, he settled in Toronto and had two boys. Bill built his career in architecture in Ontario, especially the design of the Seneca College campus and buildings. Also an accomplished artist (acrylic), Bill and his wife Karen have travelled all over the world. He and his companies are responsible for a multitude of buildings of all types. Fifteen years ago, Bill & Karen bought property in the County, and moved here full-time upon retirement. They now own a home with Lake Ontario waterfront in Wellington. He is a director of the Baxter Arts Centre in Bloomfield and a member of Probus as well as Rotary.

Linda was born in rural Etobicoke to parents who had immigrated from Ukraine and with four siblings. She attended Catholic schools at the junior level but went to a public high school, the principal of which gave her a demeaning personal assessment that both hurt and angered her also stimulating her to pursue higher education to an extraordinary extent at the University of Toronto, Brock, Cambridge (UK) and in Michigan. With this depth of scholarship and experience she has been able to excel at a number of different jobs and in her career, including running the graduate degree program in Sustainable Business at Centennial College. Her life experiences have included supporting a husband, raising two very successful daughters, caring for her mother for six years, discovering and falling in love with the County and buying a home in Consecon where she now lives, full-time.

After MPres Trudy’s Nobel and Pullitzer joke, the meeting proceeded to Club Business with Bill filling vacancies at the bottle return and Colin and Ken updating the Club on the Golf Tournament. The committee is hoping for a further 19 prizes so that every golfer goes home with something on the 30th. Volunteer needs for the day of the tournament were filled. The Foundation Walk will include the whole District. PPres Howard is continuing to work on the two up-coming events (FoR celebration and Memorial Garden). After wishing Liz a happy birthday, five couples were congratulated on their anniversaries - Yvonne & Chris, the Whittekers, the Cutlers, the Lattners and the Tellings. The meeting closed at 8.15.
 

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