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Slippery roads, 20 centimetres of snow, major traffic delays and pure chaos. That\u2019s what Ottawa was grappling with last Wednesday. And if you don\u2019t think it was that bad, check out\u00a0this picture<\/a> of Ottawans pushing a bus stuck in the snow.<\/p>\n But all that mayhem didn\u2019t stop dozens of Rideau Carleton Raceway members from attending their first-ever annual general meeting.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really have to congratulate these members who braved the elements to cast their votes,\u201d said National Executive Vice-President Eddie Kennedy. \u201cOver a third of the membership showed up during one heck of a snowstorm. That\u2019s pretty fantastic!\u201d<\/p>\n With quorum substantially exceeded, members of Local 71201 elected a new executive.<\/p>\n Brenda McCullough was elected President and Georard Goertz Charest was elected Treasurer.<\/p>\n The Local chose to have four vice-president positions in order to ensure that each section would have someone with the right level of familiarity to address their issues.<\/p>\n The following positions were acclaimed: Vice-President Cage and Coin, Brenda Ryan; Vice-President Slot Operations, Jesule Balmir; Vice-President Marketing, Valet, Coat Check and Shuttle Bus Drivers; Christina Brady; Vice-President of Housekeeping and Facilities Maintenance, Tomislav Mastilo; Secretary, Lynda Lalonde; Chief Steward, Heidi Sjolander.<\/p>\n Congratulations to all the newly elected officers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slippery roads, 20 centimetres of snow, major traffic delays and pure chaos. That\u2019s what Ottawa was grappling with last Wednesday. And if you don\u2019t think it was that bad, check out\u00a0this picture of Ottawans pushing a bus stuck in the snow. But all that mayhem didn\u2019t stop dozens of Rideau Carleton Raceway members from attending … <\/p>\n
![this picture<\/a> of Ottawans pushing a bus stuck in the snow.<\/p>\nBut all that mayhem didn\u2019t stop dozens of Rideau Carleton Raceway members from attending their first-ever annual general meeting.<\/p>\n\u201cWe really have to congratulate these members who braved the elements to cast their votes,\u201d said National Executive Vice-President Eddie Kennedy. \u201cOver a third of the membership showed up during one heck of a snowstorm. That\u2019s pretty fantastic!\u201d<\/p>\nWith quorum substantially exceeded, members of Local 71201 elected a new executive.<\/p>\nBrenda McCullough was elected President and Georard Goertz Charest was elected Treasurer.<\/p>\nThe Local chose to have four vice-president positions in order to ensure that each section would have someone with the right level of familiarity to address their issues.<\/p>\nThe following positions were acclaimed: Vice-President Cage and Coin, Brenda Ryan; Vice-President Slot Operations, Jesule Balmir; Vice-President Marketing, Valet, Coat Check and Shuttle Bus Drivers; Christina Brady; Vice-President of Housekeeping and Facilities Maintenance, Tomislav Mastilo; Secretary, Lynda Lalonde; Chief Steward, Heidi Sjolander.<\/p>\nCongratulations to all the newly elected officers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slippery roads, 20 centimetres of snow, major traffic delays and pure chaos. That\u2019s what Ottawa was grappling with last Wednesday. And if you don\u2019t think it was that bad, check out\u00a0this picture of Ottawans pushing a bus stuck in the snow. But all that mayhem didn\u2019t stop dozens of Rideau Carleton Raceway members from attending … <\/p>\n>> “Local 71201's First AGM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash3\/734634_624161617601298_793557065_n.jpg\"){kind=link}