Welcome

I was installed as Bailli on September 24, 2005 and look forward to my term. We have a hard working executive who are currently working in the following areas to improve our bailliage.

• Increase our membership from 63, 26 of whom are professional members to 70 members
• Investigate an Educational Program for members
• Plan a joint dinner with the Calgary Bailliage
• Update our website

Our website continues to develop. Dorothy Jubb is assisting us along with our webmaster Ryan Bergstrom and we thank them both. I encourage you to access the website. You can connect through hot links from our site to National and International sites.

We are giving four scholarships to NAIT annually valued at $500.00 each. This includes $1000.00 provided by our Bailliage and $1000.00 as a match from the National Bialliage. The recipients for the 2005 – 2006 academic year were Rebecca Tuepah, Max Cooper, James Hartman-Higuchi and Neil Freeman. The recipients were invited to our NAIT function on June 3, 2006 to receive their award.

We have just completed our Young Commis competition and I would like to thank Peter Jackson our Vice Conseillier Culinaire and his committee made up of Simon Smotkowicz, Claude Buzon, Vinod Varsheny, Clayton Fowker, Anne Anfindsen, Leon Lubin, David Eyers and Hans Voegeli for their hard work. This years winner is Nick Vrabel from the Fairmont Macdonald and he will be competing at the nationals in Toronto on Noivember 3, 2006. Congratulations Nick.

I would like to thank Susan Green our past Bailli Regional for her dedication to the organization these past four years. I am fortunate to inherit a well managed Bailliage and look forward to the coming years as your Bailli.

- Peter Graham