Presiding; President Lisa Wells
Don Stoddart started us off with Oh Canada
Convocation: Ted Beynen
Welcome guests attending
Doug Vincent - PD Governor
Nikki Van Luwen – Woodstock City Police – todays speaker
Tyler Allard – Woodstock City Police
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Bruce Cunningham – bday next week
Ron Fraser – bday next week
Hazel Powell - 10 year Rotary Anniversary today
Don – 31st Rotary Anniversary
Richard – 26th Rotary Anniversary
President Lisa asked for help with Outbound Exchange students for this Friday evening: We need to billet them at Rotarian's homes following their program Friday night. They are to be back at Fanshawe College in Sat. Morning. Please contact Lisa if you have room
Lisa Van Sommeren returned to Australia on the weekend. We are welcoming Montana from Australia on Jan 14th.
Dave Harris – update on membership meeting with Woodstock-Oxford Club. He will put together and email and send it out
50/50 – won by Richard Holmes. He pulled a Joker
Happy bucks
Lisa – she had a great Christmas
Don – he had a nice trip
Richard – update on a busy family life
Dave – neighbour helped snow blow
Ted – fined himself for forgetting to return change to Lisa
Richard introduced our guest speaker
Nikki Van Lewen from Woodstock Police Service - gave us an overview of the changes to the Racing Against Drugs Program that is now run locally by Woodstock Police Service instead of by the RCMP. They have updated it to keep pace with the changes in drugs available and cover things like vaping now as well. They see about 1,400 grade 5 students go through the program every 2 years. We also discussed the VIP program that is run in the schools and has been supported by the Woodstock-Oxford Club in the past. The Racing Against Drugs Program runs from April 30th to May 5th this year at the Oxford Auditorium. Nikki has also been on a polio vaccination trip to Africa through another organization so she was pleased to receive a certificate of immunization as a thank you.
President Lisa closed the meeting