I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.

Mitch Hedberg

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room.

President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove

The meeting was held on Zoom at 7.15am with 6 members present

Music: none

• Business
• Friday April 5th Gord was presented with his Paul Harris award at a lunch at Kootenay Kebab.
• Thanks to everyone who helped with the food drive on 23rd March. 70 bags were purchased from liberty and $715 in cash collected.
• We received a letter from KBRHF asking us to donate to the orthopedic enhancement project.
• The International conference is in Calgary in 2025. consider going to that. Singapore is this year.
• Juris talked to Mike Walker of BV Maydays and they are keen for us to make beavertails May 25th at the parade. Details to follow.
• May 4th Trail Rotary Road clean up, details sent to club members. Meet at 8am at A&W for breakfast or 9am at the Tadanac entrance.
• Changover meeting to be a joint meeting with Trail and Rossland at the end of June, date to be decided.
• Trail Rotary are interested in our helping with some projects – Silver City Day parade May 11th included.
• Club social was held April 13th with two guests present. an interesting combination of food was served reflecting Scottish, Jamaican, Latvian, Swedish and Canadian heritage.
• Program -Juris classification talk.
• His life changed when their son James died 17 years ago. He had time on his hands and began exploring philosophy. Free Will: at first he was sure we have it and then came to the conclusion that there is no free will. A lot of what we perceive is illusory. We have the ability to make choices which is not the same as free will. We seem to choose between competing “wants”. If we lose our belief in Free Will then morality changes. You can’t be moral without free will. If you could not have done otherwise how can you be moral? You have a different concept of morality. We do not choose our emotions. When we are aware of emotions we can change them. We dwell on our thoughts because we have easy access to them. We do not control our cells or brain chemistry. free will forces us to confront the certainty of things, the truth. Suggestion for homework- Keep an eye on your thoughts and see if you do things in the right order or are you confabulating (making up stories or interpretations).
• Next meeting April 26th on zoom
• May 3rd in person at Bridgeview at 8am.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. The meeting adjourned at 7.45am