Buy Good Feel Good Expo

Posted by Gordon Brown on Apr 05, 2017
 
 
Attendance: 11 including 2 guests.                                            
 
President-Elect Mike opened the meeting
 
Anthem: Peter
Grace: President – Elect Mike
 
Toast to the Queen, Canada and Rotary – President-Elect Mike
 
Guests: Our guest speaker Rafik Riad and Nairy Markarian. Nairy arrived a bit late and introduced herself. She is originally from Jordan and is looking at joining our club.
 
Announcements:
  • James announced that we now have a candidate for Adventures in Citizenship. Also that we will be hosting a ‘park clean up’ on April 22nd at Milliken Park from 10.00am until noon.
  • Mike reminded us that the meeting next week will be at Park Properties office. Please respond to email invite Gordon sent as we need to know how many will be attending.
 
Marbelous Draw: Arthur conducted the draw and asked our guest speaker – Rafik Riad to draw the ticket which was claimed by Arthur(!) He was able find the mutant marble and announced that whatever the amount was that he had won he would donate back to the club.
 
Sergeant-At-Arms: Jacob was the SAA today. He told us about a couple of historical events that had happened this day (April 5th): in 1803 was the first performance of Beethoven’s 2nd symphony and in 1955 Sir Winston Churchill resigned from being Prime Minister. He then fined anyone who hadn’t introduced any ladies to the club. Happy bucks: Arthur was happy as his daughter has been appraised as the top ranking clinical research associate in her company and his son has been made a full professor of medicine at the University of Toronto.
James was happy that he was celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary this week and that his daughter had just graduated.
            
Speaker: Roland introduced our guest speaker Rafik Riad.
 
Rafik is originally from Egypt, moved to Canada about 5 ½ years ago and he is the founder of ‘Buy Good Feel Good’. The organization’s main objective is to promote Fair Trade and Social Enterprise. The weekend of May 13th and 14th there will be a ‘Buy Good Feel Good Expo’ at Exhibition Place. They work with small companies throughout the world to promote their objective. They try and encourage larger companies to deal with these ‘fair trade and socially responsible’ smaller companies as well. Rafik gave out tickets for the show on May 13th and 14th and we have more if anyone would like to go.
 
 
Presentation Recording: BGFG2017.MP3
 
If you want more information the website is: www.buygoodfeelgood.com
 
Dave Hardy thanked Rafik for his presentation and gave him an Operation Eyesight certificate restoring the eyesight of a 66 year old lady in India.     
 
There being no further business President-Elect Mike closed the meeting.
 
Sunday April 9  "Vimy Ridge Day"  100 Years.
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/vimy100/
 
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