| Lunch Meeting of 12th January 06 |
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Our Fellowship Chairman today was PP Paul and our Sergeant-at-Arms was Rtn Danny. Our Sergeant-at-Arms managed to collect $995 between the raffle and fines. President Tobias was not in town, so PE Thomas was the acting President of today. He announced that the District Conference would be held on 22-23rd of April 2006 at Regal Airport Hotel. The RI Convention, in addition, would be held on 11-14th of June 2006 at Copenhagen and Malmo. Rtn Suzanne announced to us that the Ocean Park Conservation Day would be held on 14th Jan 06 (Sat) and welcome the entire member to join. PP Gaston come with the Principal of Hong Kong Sea School, Dr. Hutchison and inviting us to attend their open day on 22nd Jan (Sun). Meanwhile, the raffle prize of today was a bottle of red wine. And today we had two birthday boys, PP Peter and PP George, to whom we were happily singing the birthday song and presented a birthday gift. Our Club is organizing the District Sports Day, and the event will be held on 19th February. While our Dinner at Atoll Reef of Ocean Park will be held on 19th January, the sign up sheet is ready for members. The speaker of today was Ms Christine Loh and her topic was "A City for 1,000 Years - Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong". Christine have brought us the PowerPoint Presentation that to provide truth and accurate information to us to have a clearer understanding and the importance in protecting the harbour. The plan of government should be make use of the limited reclaimed land to build the waterfront corridor. In order to protect our harbour, the Government should explore other alternatives to solve the traffic problem instead of reclamation, as it is not a sustainable solution. And she compares the scenery of waterfront of other countries and HK and hope that HK has a beautiful and accessible waterfront.
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