1973 - 1977, by Bill Harris

1973-74. The President was Dennis Stainer, Vice President Neil Mann, Secretary Don Halliday, Treasurer John Hissink and Directors Bev Cook, Chris Hart, Colin Robertson and Cam Smith. The meeting night was changed to Tuesday night at the Honey Pot Ski Lodge for a short while and then to The Black Hawk Motor Inn. Major fund raising projects were the Travelogues, net proceeds were $853, Christmas Tree sales at $2,135 and a Dance at the Summit Golf and Country Club that raised $769. Support was given to one child through the Foster Parents Plan, Big Brothers of York received $500, the York Centre for the Mentally Retarded $300 and for some strange reason the Townsmen Drum Corps of Leamington received $700. It must have seemed a good idea at the time!

1974-75. The President was Neil Mann, Vice-President Joe Horvat, Secretary Ken Rintoul, Treasurer Bev Cook and Directors Len Jones, Bruce Lloyd, Dale Kenzie and Dave Hay. Meetings were still held on Tuesdays at 6.30pm at The Black Hawk Motor Inn. Travelogues were still a major fund raiser. There were six programmes over the winter months, held in the auditorium of Bayview Secondary School and the price was $6 per person for the season, a pretty good deal, even in 1974. The programmes were illustrated with slides and some of the multi projector shows with sound track were quite spectacular and very professional. Ticket selling was a chore that consumed a lot of members time. The profit for the 1974-75 season was $1,122 and Christmas Tree sales brought in $2,135. The Club donated $300 to Co-ordinated Welfare, a plan that combined all the various service clubs in the town at that time. $1,500 was donated to York Central Hospital and various other organizations received smaller amounts.

1975-76. The President was Joe Horvat, Vice-President Bruce Lloyd, Secretary Ken Rintoul, Treasurer Bev Cook and the Directors were Dave Dyson, Len Jones, Don Halliday and Buster Vermeulen. Christmas Trees were still the major fund raiser at $1,660 although trees were getting expensive at a cost of $6 and it was a concern whether people would pay $8 for a tree! The club continued to support co-ordinated welfare, the Foster Parents Plan and the York Central Hospital. ($1,500)

1976-77. The President was Bruce Lloyd, Vice-President Len Jones, Secretary Gerry Crack, Treasurer Bev Cook and Directors Bill Harris, Dave Dyson, Bill Cook and Don Halliday. The first Tuesday Meeting of each month was devoted to club business only, a good way to keep members informed with what was going on behind the scenes. This was a busy year with the 25th. anniversary of the club celebrated with a Dinner Dance at the Thornhill Golf and Country Club on Saturday, February 26th.. Mayor David Schiller, Alf Stong, M.P.P. and many other prominent members of the community joined District Governor Norman Guild, PDG. Geoff King and Rotarians from surrounding clubs joined us in celebrating 25 years of ''Service above Self''. The main fund raising projects were the Travelogues $1,714, Christmas Tree sales $2,048, Christmas Nuts $625 and bench rentals $340. The latter were wooden benches with concrete supports, emblazoned with the Rotary emblem, that were rented to businesses for advertising purposes. The name of the business was painted on to the back rest and the benches were placed at strategic places round the town. They weighed a ton and required a lot of maintenance, re-painting etc. and collecting the rental was sometimes time consuming.