To wrap up the presentations, the chief of Staff at the North Bay & District Hospital, Dr. Madden, gave an enlightened talk on “Patient Centered Care – what does it mean to you?” A great ending to a great agenda. Finally the list of more than twenty prizes came to an end with our Grand Prize Winner of a pair of WestJet tickets to anywhere WestJet flies, CARP member Carolyn Andrews of Huntsville. CONGRATULATIONS Carolyn!
Following our Spring Conference, was our Annual General Meeting of the North Bay and District Chapter of CARP , attended by many of the Conference attendees and our Board of Directors.
Chair’s Report: Ron Farrell This is our fifth annual meeting and conference. This past year we have supported national office activities in advocacy, organized and sponsored two seminars locally on such subjects as new driving rules for handheld devices, alcohol limits, and exercises for healthy brains. We also cosponsored several financial seminars around the District with RBC Dominion Securities. Nationally we passed bylaw amendments to remove the age restriction for membership and locally your board of directors amended our requirement for separate chapter membership requirement. If you are a CARP member in our district you are automatically a chapter member. Lastly, this year we opened our conference to non members for the first time. The chapter has evolved over the five years since we started but one thing has not changed – we need members • to organize events • to advocate for legislative change • to track our bylaws and do our corporate reporting • to manage our finances • to manage our website • to write our newsletters and manage communications
We meet for two hours once/month and you don’t need to be a professional to help out – just be there to work with the rest of our board. Our members are all around the room and if you are prepared to help stick up your hand and someone will come get your name and address. While that is happening let me thank those retiring directors who have worked hard to make events happen and corporate reports up to date. First Madeleine & Rob Mantha, Co-Directors of Event Planning; and Jill Shields, Corporate Secretary. A huge thank you to them and all of the board for the functioning of our chapter during the past year.
Elections for Board of Directors 2010-2011: Congratulations to the elected 2010-2011 Board of Directors Ron Farrell Anne Farrell Roger Liddle Terry Martinelli Charlie Taylor Peter DeGraaf Alliston Stone Lorraine Guillmette Daniel Cole Ann Holding Hugh Stickle
In addition to the newly elected Board, we were fortunate in receiving a large list of CARP members willing to offer their time and services to the Board, in providing assistance wherever needed.
The first meeting of the new board will be at 1:30 June 7, 2010
