Spring Events Reports
David Pyper - April 15th Dinner Meeting
President Dennis began the meeting by welcoming everyone in attendance. We had 61 people attending.
After the introduction of eight guests which included four ladies, we welcomed to our club our guest speaker David Pyper.
​Reports were then given on various Men’s Club updates since our last meeting, followed by a list of some upcoming activities: The Kettle Campaign, Chesley Lake Golf, and Horseshoes.
Don Riddell mentioned that we are now inviting women to attend our dinner meetings and any of the events we plan in order to help grow attendance at our events. Is there a possible club name change in our future? Don also promoted the Allenford Curling Club’s up-coming Roast Beef dinner & Pickle Ball at the curling club.
Dennis reached out to the membership to encourage anyone willing to participate on the executive to come forward, we need volunteers.
Future event details: The Pancake Breakfast, the Sauble Parkway Road Cleanup, BBQ event for the garage sale, Bocce Ball & Corn Roast and the Annual Chesley Lake Golf Tournament.
Following the blessing by Rev Gerry Hofstetter, we all enjoyed an amazing delicious Turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, corn, mixed veggies, coleslaw, buns, juice, dessert, coffee & tea. Trish & the ladies at the Hepworth Legion who prepared the savoury meal were thanked by Vic & the membership.
Our guest speaker, David Pyper, Published Author Sun, Sand and Surf, A History of Sauble Beach was introduced and later thanked by Alf Roth .
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David shared his knowledge of the history of Sauble Beach going back to native days & crafts and how businesses started at the turn of the 20th century then disappeared and when settlers started building homes & cottages. He also talked about some of the key people who were pillars of the community over the years. His presentation included some historical pictures of buildings and people on the overhead monitor. Very interesting indeed for all those history buffs with many great memories of Sauble Beach.
Pancake Breakfast
On Saturday, April 15th we served 153 hungry adults & 12 children in attendance for our delicious annual pancake breakfast.
Our volunteer members served pancakes topped off with butter & delicious maple syrup including sides of breakfast sausage plus a slice of cantaloupe. Beverages provided were apple juice, coffee tea & water.
We only had a few sausages left over, some pancake mixed batter, some butter & a cantaloup which was divided up among the volunteers. Inventory was well managed, extra dry goods will be saved for other men’s club events. Profit from the event amounting to $1012.82 will be donated to the Sauble United Church & other charities.
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The following people volunteered for the event to help make it such a great success:
Roger Barwell, Lloyd Sheridan, Vic Weitendorf, Dennis Heathers, David Masters, Don Zimmer, Alec Moore, Cecil Frank and Roseta, Rick Napper, Peter Lewko, Bill Natziger, Rick Schott, Don Riddell, Alf Roth, Ken Ferguson, Bob Rusk, Darryl Culbert, Bob Bowman, Bill Miller, George Ernst, Neil Rourke.
Some of the volunteers covered more than one assignment showing great dedication.
A reminder to all members, we need volunteers to help make events like the pancake breakfast successful.
Vic Weitendorf
