1) Mute your microphone if you aren't already muted. Background noise is distracting.
2) If you are not engaged in the presentation, turn off your camera.
3) Chat function should only be used to address the speaker, not for Club member remarks during the presentation
4) Unmute when harassing the Sergeant at Arms or taking your turn during Sergeant at Arms.
Please direct any questions to the President or a board member of yourchoosing and we will discuss any and all questions or concerns during our board meeting. Also please refer anyone who may be interested in attending a meeting or joining the club.
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
VISITORS
Miles Timmins and Max Isemann
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND
CLUB BUSINESS
Thanks to Peter for bringing McDonald’s breakfast on his birthday!
Committee Reports
Auction Committee by Debbie M.
Letters for giving to donors will be ready next week to send out.
Givergy will be ready next week for uploading donations.
Rotarians should donate 3 bottles of wine each (for wall, baskets and fridge). You can bring wine any time to meetings and Debbie will collect them. Minimum $20 value.
We will use the photographer, Sandra Steire, with a usual charge of $2250, but she will do a 50% discount, so it will cost $1125. If anyone would like to sponsor the other 50% cost, let Debbie know.
Sam can help to upload photos to the Givergy website, as can Eleanore and Chris M.
Amanda will oversee the basket-making this year on Monday, April 17th at Richmond Funeral Home. Details to follow.
Foundation Dinner: You must go to the link to buy the tickets for Feb. 4th. We might have enough for a table, but Judy is not selling the tickets. Make sure you make a note that you are with the Richmond Sunrise Rotary when purchasing tickets.
RYLA: Rotary youth between 16 and 18 years old. We have one person going. Let Sam know if you have another candidate. Max is going. RYLA dates are Saturday March 25th to Tuesday, March 28th.
General Currie has sent in an application for Breakfast Club. We will discuss further next week.
sergeant At Arms Tidbits
Judy is busy swimming with the grandkids, had the whole family of 17 for dinner, helped friends move, has the boys a lot of the time, visited a 90 year-old dad with her friend, (and did a marathon).
Sam spent time with Dad and practised what to say this morning but has forgotten. Saturday, they had two hockey games. They are having dinner tonight with Luis, a former Rotary exchange student. Max is invited. He is going to New York for two weeks then to Colorado for skiing lessons and an engagement party.
Bill’s Saturday was a run, back-to-back hockey games, and so he rested on Sunday.
Chris B. was gone for 4 weeks, 3 of which in the rain, so she stayed longer, although not near the flooding.
Marg has a boring life – work and tennis. She is practising her decision-making skills, wondering if she should go to bed for two minutes between the end of tennis and leaving for rotary. Didn’t. She is doing well with the no drinking this month, but s going to scotch tasting tonight so will continue dry January to include Feb. 1. No weight loss noted so far.
Peter celebrated his birthday last night, at Seasons in the Park, which was spectacular, with such a beautiful view.
Pat thinks Peter is catching up to her in age. She watched volleyball and hockey at Hollyburn. The security guard at their gate was surprising. Her granddaughter was in a school dance competition and she got the best attitude award. Max now has a tennis racquet so we can invite him to play tennis any time.
Jeannette and her husband both snore. She fell asleep at 8 p.m. then woke up in middle of night and because it was silent, she was scared and woke her husband up because she thought he was done.
Elena will be gone to the Philippines on Tuesday and back March 8. She is packing two big suitcases and coordinating the dental mission with the other side. They will all be in one big Mercedes bus when she arrives. She had a call from Ascenda School in Vancouver, and during a Cactus Club lunch with the Canada Trade Mission president, she was asked to chair the Philippines Canada trade mission. Wow!
Sandra was late, but arrived! She had a boring week and is very busy at work. She is watching a Dope Sick series on Netflix.
Chris M. is eating more now that Max is at the house, and is afraid that his favourite meal so far was a Costco hot dog! So she needs lots of walking. She has a busy day today with rotary, lunch at a Chinese restaurant, a hair appointment, watching an online film documentary called “Soul of the Fraser” and then going to a Spanish wine pairing at the Buck ‘n Ear.
Max had a soccer game in Coquitlam which was not successful. He has moved to Chris M’s house and goes to Prince George tomorrow for the weekend.
Susan has had lots of meetings and is exhausted, so attended on Zoom. Nothing exciting this week.
Larry on Zoom has a good picture, but the audio is bad and he’s only catching some of our words. He had a bad fall last week, but is still working 12 hours a day. Be careful!
Amanda is happy to be here in person, her birthday is next week, and the girls are going to the Island. Her sister fairy godmother bought them floor seats to Madonna in July! She’s busy at work and Graham is back in Richmond.
Carolyn is mending and has better meds for her asthma. She thinks it will be another 3-4 weeks of this. There are interesting ChatGPT effects on KPU work and they will need to change the assessment practice. ChatGPT is worth $29billion and one of owners is Elon Musk. “Can we or should we do it?” is the question.
Gordon is happy others are working and keeping the economy going for him.
Kal is on Zoom, but not for long. ;-(
Joyce is insanely busy and thanks those who have signed up for S at A and she will send the request out again as everyone needs to help out.
Bobby has been doing several funerals and is busy and glad to be here.
Debbie M. went to Jim Gaffigan comedian on Sunday and had a great time.
Bob S. mentioned the new Canada guidelines of two-drink a week to be safe. His family has a superstition of never celebrating a birthday before the actual birthday. He was cleaning up a condo where the tenants had been living for 6 months – time seems to go by so fast. Bob knows about ChatGPT and the 0.4 will be coming out soon. Gavin has graduated and is in his first round of interviews, but now has to do homework before getting into the second round. Wells Fargo is waiting until spring when they do hiring.
Meanderings
As we listened to Miles describe his working path, and heard Bob’s comments too, we wonder how one ends up in a ‘chosen’ career. Did you have a plan, a vision, a goal, a purpose? Did you follow a straight road or a long and winding one? Did you base your choice on your strengths? What were you good at? What traits defined you? What was your level of education? What inspired you? What did you want from your career? What were your core values?
Did you make a list of professions that aligned with your strengths?
Did you shorten that list by considering working hours, job fulfillment, remuneration, opportunity for self-growth and development, geographical location, job market, risk or security or possible stress?
Did you set goals that you were able to measure, that gave you focus, that were clear and that provided direction?
And in the end, whether you are retired or continue to ‘support Gordon’ economically, we realize that, in the words of Robbie Burns, “the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ man gang aft a-gley.”
SPEAKER
Miles Timmins was the external Paul Harris winner in June.
Miles was born in Vancouver and grew up in the small fishing village of Kerrisdale. The notion of rich and poor are blurred as Miles heard rotary hard luck stories at a meeting he attended with Debbie but felt rich when he was young. Then his family’s financial problems meant they moved to poor Richmond. He still graduated from Point Grey, plagued with drinking and partying, not coming home, a scared and worried Mom and all kinds of crazy stuff. But work life was always good, so good that one September he was landscaping and didn’t go back to school, although Mom intervened. An info session about becoming a realtor led him to get his license at the age of 21. He sold three houses in his first month and got his name on the board in Block Bros. He just answered the phone to clients in need of a car and ended up selling them a house as well! He morphed into selling prebuilds and was involved in big projects. He married Debbie. ;-)
His current Disposal King business started with him buying a scrap metal business from a retired welder. He began with roll off containers and transportation then decided to do his own 15 bins and a truck business, with no identifiable plan. It was successful and kept growing, but he continued in real estate until he moved to about 90% of his time in bins and trucks. He shared his original life of answering phones, driving the trucks, and using a handwritten notebook showing bins dropped off and pickup dates for the bins. During the first year the business did $200 000 and now does 30 times that amount. This summer marks 16 years in the business and he still takes on any problem to avoid having his staff break down in tears but has known stress and sleepless nights himself. He never made a business plan and would never have done it if he had! In today’s world, it is tough to find drivers, each truck is worth $300 000 and a year’s wait. Bins now cost $18 000 each and he’ll need to add an additional 40 to the 250 he has now. This business has been a good fit because he loves trucks and machinery so much and it pretty well runs itself at this point. But he sees firsthand the amount of dumping we are doing and how the land fills up – including the Delta landfill, Ecowaste, a location in Washington State valley and the Cache Creek dump. Where will all this go? Trucking, dumping and even recycling are not good for the environment. The book “E Myth” by Michael Gerber had an impact on Miles. There are several E Myth books in the series.
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