June meeting: A breakfast meeting held at the Bronte Quality Inn. Food and service was good but attendance was down. Our speaker, Dave Taylor gave a very interesting slide show covering animal life in two parks where he is a regular visitor: Yellowstone Park in the United States and Serengetti Park in Tanzania Africa. Wonderful photos and great commentary.

July meeting: A disturbing bit of news reported at the meeting was that the church had raised our meeting rent to $200 from $75 formerly. Several options are being looked at to cope with this big change. Also announced was a change in the 50/50 draw so that the club would now receive half the draw. Profiler was Trevor Dandy who centred his comments on two important times in his life. First, time spent in South Africa where his family had immigrated in 1947. After the University where he taught was nationalised and all the staff fired, he immigrated to Canada. The other event he talked about was the troubled teen-age life of a foster girl he and his wife had taken in. Fortunately things are now going better. Amanda is living in Winnipeg, engaged and much happier.

Our main speaker was Adam Chapnick, a professor at the Royal Military College. He displayed an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything pertaining to the United Nations. He took us through the trials of its history, the successes and the failures and, while there are low prospects for any reform, the UN still serves usefully as a place where all the countries of the world can meet and discuss, and sometimes resolve, problems facing the world.