Blue & Gold Bulletin

Guests

Greg Naterer (our guest speaker), Ryan Frank

Eleven members were absent or excused this week:
Steve C; Don H; Linda M; Don W; Terry W; Excused - Paul M; John R; llo Shelly A; Geoff S; Marc S; Ted W.

Make ups were provided by:
Don Gleed; Fred M (2); Wayne R (2)

"There are none this week", said Chuck to Dennis smartly and with the respect due of his office.
Make up meetings can help you achieve perfect attendance. lf you attend Rotary Committee meetings or meetings in other areas please keep track and keep Chuck informed.

There were no birthdays to celebrate this week.

Congratulations to Don and Elaine Hutton on the occasion of their wedding anniversary. All of your friends at Rotary wish you many more happy years of the same.

Ross Metcalf won this week's free breakfast as it was drawn by our guest Greg Naterer. No collusion here!

Trinity Church is having a fundraiser featuring Elvis lmpersonator Ron Moore on November 29th.

Rib Fest meeting Nov 6 Thursday at 5:30 at the Village Inn

Tickets on Sale today for the "Christmas Shopping Night". Gentleman buy your tickets. Angie is holding all of the tickets . See her for your 20.

Board of Directors Meeting on November 24 at the Village Inn. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting starts promptly at 5:15 pm. Supper following is optional and at your own expense.

Wednesday Nov 12th an Auction Meeting is being convened at 5:15 PM.

Ross Metcalf kicked in a buck

Fred M kicked in a fiver - amputees and how lucky we are; folding machine for the club; Phillies made it in 5.

Kevin A dribbled in 67 cent useless trivia birth rates in China and India. Anyhow did you that?

John C kicked in loonies for an article in the Star recognizing the work done with restorative justie by David Chisling. The fact that Rotary of Bowmanville and George Vice specifically made all of this possible by their foresight in the 60's and George's generosity coupled with both the Federal and Provincial Ministries of Justice. "Hats off again to our own group of seven"

Harry Cooke has been a Rotarian since November 1965 - 43 years. Bill Hyder has been a member since November 1995 - 13 years. Ross Metcalf has been a member since November 2006.
Gentlemen we thank you for all of your hard work and the contribution you have made to our mmmunity. Truly, you've made a difference by making it a better place in which to live. Gd bless you and your families

Dr. Greg Naterer explains how hydrogen can be cheaply produced and used as a fuel

John Craine (L), Dr. Greg Naterer (C), and Tim Funchion (R)

Our guest this week was Greg Naterer, a professor at UOIT with a list of Qualifications that made John Craine stumble when he introduced him.

Greg teaches at UOIT and Durham College in Oshawa and is a noted author, researcher and expert in the field of "hydrogen as a fuel (by capturing energy from other sources) of the future". Greg maintains that research today as well as laboratory models of practical applications of hydrogen as a fuel for trains, planes, buses and cars bears this out! With major players like GM Canada, Toyota, OPG and the Atomic Energy Canada Limited, Greg believes that 10 years down the road, transportation in the Golden Horseshoe will look a lot differently than it does now. ln fact, if all goes well we could be a model for the entire transportation industry on the globe. We all hope this happens.

As the projects and developments unfold some of the positive spin offs include:

* Utilization of spent nuclear fuel rods currently headed for burial in the Canadian Shield

* Cheap clean source of electrical power

* Fuel efficient automobiles, planes, trains and buses

* A state of the art transportation system for crowded GTA

* Creation of another type of manufacturing and industrial revolution

* Reduction in the so-called hot gases that add to global warming - greatly reducing the number of pollutants expelled into our ribbon of atmosphere surounding the earth

Get a load of some of these statistics:

* In the last decade we've gone from emitting 1 cubic km to 90 cubic kms of Carbon Dioxide. Think about how big that is!

* Each day we emit 85 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide by burning 105 trillion cubic feet of natural gas into the atmosphere

There is an altemative to burning fossil fuels. Water contains hydrogen and oxygen. By developing efficient and economical heat transfer systems we can use hydrogen gas as the fuel of the 21't century. This is a no brainer - so why don't we all get behind this and make it happen. Can you imagine if Rotary and all of the other service clubs got behind Dr. Greg's work what might happen? Why it may be as big an event as the election we're having south of the border or the eradication of polio.

Tim Funchion thanked our speaker for an informative and thought provoking talk. Greg was complimented with a hearty round of applause

The draw this week was for $900. Ross Metcalf owned the lucky ticket. He failed to draw the Ace of Diamonds but did pull a 9 of diamonds. "Can you believe that little bugger is back and his ticket gets pulled?" said one unnamed Rotarian to Fred D. To which he replied, "That can't happen if your not here!"

"The last human freedom is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances" -Victor Frankl was a noted Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist

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Prepared by Fred Mandryk