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VOLUME 49 - ISSUE 04 2019 SPEARHEAD BOARD OF DIRECTORS In this issue…. PRESIDENT PG 4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Robert Jeyes by Robert Jeyes VICE-PRESIDENT John Thompson SECRETARY PG 6 VICE-PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by John Thompson John Bell TREASURER PG 7 SPEARHEAD’S CANAD DAY CRUISE Ron Gullis - pictorial MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Charles MacPhee PG 14 SPEARHEAD’S PAINT-YER-BURGER OPERATIONS DIRECTOR - pictorial Dwayne Shaw PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR PG 21 MESSAGE FROM MEMBERSHIP (Vacant) - by Charles MacPhee 2018 SPEARHEAD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER AT LARGE FEATUREs…. Ross Stretton WEBMASTER PG 09 2020 NOMINATION RESULTS Charles MacPhee - by Ron Gullis ARCHIVIST Bruce Eves (Interim) PG 10 MESSAGE FROM EMPEROR 32 PAST PRESIDENT - by Emperor 32 “The Randy Emperor” Frank Mancino NOMINATIONS CHAIR Ron Gullis (Interim) PG 13 MY TRIP TO THE ARCHIVES - by Bruce Eves ALSO In this issue…. ON THE COVER PG 11 IN REMEMBRANCE Group Photo PG 24 ADVERTISE WITH PHLIA - advertising rate card Canada Day Boat Cruise PG 26 COMMUNITY EVENT CALENDAR Paint Yer Burger - contact Publication Director with your upcoming event 2019 Human Canvases - listed as space allows HELLO FELLOW BROTHERS Thanksgiving Food Drive is being planned H ere we are at the end of August and I and help will be needed to help make it a hope everyone has enjoyed the summer. success, also the final planning will be starting for our 50th anniversary which means we will need a lot of help to pull it off. T he first part the club was busy with the cruise on Canada Day and Paint yer Burger a couple weeks later and it was a great time on P lease contact our Vice-President if both events A huge Thank You to our Vice anyone is interested to helping out. President for putting on 2 successful events, everyone who attended had a great time. That was followed by our OGM in which we had L ater in November Ottawa will be having our elections and I would like to thank their annual Mr. Leather Contest which is a everyone in putting their trust in myself and all great weekend, I would love to see a lot of other returning board members to guide the members up there it. Check out their website club into our 50th anniversary. for any information. Also on October 5 The Imperial Court of Toronto will be having their annual coronation ball in which our member T he day after our OGM our Publication Randy Boyd steps down as Emperor please director sent me his resignation from the wish him well if you are unable to attend the board and from the club, I would like to thank ball. Xavier for service to the board and the club and would like to wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. In saying that we are P lease stay safe and hope to see you out now looking for someone to take on and about at our up coming events. Publications. Contact a board member if interested. In Brotherhood Robert Jeyes W ith a new month starting it means our President SAVE THE DATE SPEARHEAD’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SATURDAY NOVEMBER 02, 2019 - 519 COMMUNITY CENTER VOLUME 49 - ISSUE 04 CONTRIBUTERS Note to the Readers… Phalia is now only available in WORDS electronic format (PDF file). Robert Jeyes John Thompson Phalia is also available on our website Charles MacPhee www.spearheadtoronto.com Ron Gullis just follow the links on the home page. FEATURES Click on any Ad and you will be taken to the advertisers website or taken to a email link. Bruce Eves HMISM Emperor 32, The Randy Emperor Note all members with valid email address will receive electronic copy. PHOTOGRAPHS Ross Stretton You can also send all your articles, comments and feedback to [email protected] DESIGN, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION Ron Gullis Thank you. Director of Publications [email protected] Phalia, published six times a year (and continuously since May 1970) is the official newsletter of SPEARHEAD TORONTO LEATHER/DENIM SOCIAL CLUB INC. It is designed to reflect the opinions of its members and fellow clubs/affiliations. Original articles and artwork are welcome. Such submissions will be published at the discretion of the Publications Committee, which also reserves the right to edit all material to conform to space available. To submit material or to make advertising enquiries, contact the Publications Director or any Spearhead Board Member. Sept/October Issue Deadline for submissions - October 15, 2019 Contents are copywritten for Spearhead LDSC Inc. 473 Church Street, Suite 231, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2C5. Check our website at www.spearheadtoronto.com HELLO GENTLEMEN concise sort in the near future. But I hope this note finds you well and en- all photos and awards will be at the joying one of the hottest summers that I 50th anniversary event for everyone can remember. I didn’t get much done to see. because it was just too hot, but we did enjoy the BBQ and the cool evenings we did have outside on the patio. Big S eptember 21 – 28 will be the dates thanks go out to the volunteers for this of our official Thanksgiving food drive year’s “Paint Yer Burger”. Charles M, and I will require some volunteers to Michael H, Joe P, Scott L, Xavier T, help out on the Saturday September Syd C, Rob J, Ron G, Kevin L, Ross 28th at each of our 4 venue’s. If you S, but especially our models Andrew T would like to help out, just give me a and Jordan that bared it all for PWA shout or an email at vicepresi- Essential Food Market. We raised [email protected] or call over $750 and a good time was had by me at 416-917-0045. The Toy Drive is all that attended. Thanks go out to the Presently being scheduled for Novem- Black Eagle for supplying the food and ber 23 kick off at Flash – then the oth- the venue to help us raise much needed er 3 bars on the December 1st with the funds. majority of the events happening on the Sunday . W e finally got a bunch of Board Members together to sort through the E njoy the rest of your summer and I Archives and put together a basic list look forward to seeing all of you at the of items and contents that are in stor- next AGM. age. Big Thanks go out to Ron G, Joe P, Bruce E, Scott L, Charles M Yours in Brotherhood for giving up a Saturday afternoon to go through boxes and boxes of stuff and for Charles laptop to catalogue it John Thompson all. We will be in touch with some of Vice President the older members to help do a more PHOTOS BY ROSS STRETTON 2020 BOARD AND COMMITTEE NOMINATION RESULTS BOARD POSITIONS There were 3 nominations for the position of President that were all seconded. John Bell and Ron Gullis both declined the nomination and Robert Jeyes accepted the nomination. Since there were no other nominations for the position of President, Robert Jeyes was acclaimed. John Thompson was nominated and seconded for the position of Vice-President. John accepted the nomination and since there were no other nominations John Thompson was acclaimed to the position of Vice-President. There were 3 nominations for the position of Secretary, John Bell and Bruce Eves both declined the nomination. Mi- chael Hunt was nominated, seconded and accepted the position of Secretary. Since there were no other nominations Michael Hunt was acclaimed to the position of Secretary. Ron Gullis was nomination and seconded for the position of Treasurer. Ron accepted the nomination and since there were no other nominations Ron Gullis was acclaimed to the position of Treasurer. Xavier Thrace was nomination and seconded for the position of Publications Director. Xavier accepted the nomination and since there were no other nominations Xavier Thrace was acclaimed to the position of Publications Director. Since that date Xavier resigned his membership in Spearhead for personal reasons and therefore the position of Publications Director remains vacant at this time. There were 2 nominations for the position of Operations Director, Robert Smith declined the nomination. Dwayne Shaw was nominated, seconded and accepted the nomination. Since there were no other nominations Dwayne Shaw was acclaimed to the position of Operations Director. There were 2 nominations for the position of Membership Director, Joe Poirer declined the nomination. Charles Mac- Phee was nominated, seconded and accepted the nomination. Since there were no other nominations Charles Mac- Phee was acclaimed to the position of Membership Director. COMMITTEE POSITIONS There were 2 nominations for the position of Member-At-Large, both Ross Stretton and Humberto Couto declined the nominations at that time. Therefore, the position of Member-At-Large is vacant for the upcoming year. There were 3 nominations for the position of Archivist. Dwayne Shaw declined as he already accepted a Board position. Brian Morrison was nomination not seconded. Bruce Eves was nomination, seconded and accepted the position. Since there were no other nominations Bruce Eves was acclaimed to the position.. There were 2 nominations for the Public Relations Committee position. John Thompson declined as he had accepted Board position. Scott Leroux was nominated, seconded and accepted the position and therefore was acclaimed to the Public Relations Committee position. There were 3 nominations for the position on the Publications Committee. All 3 nominations, Xavier Thrace, Robert Jeyes and Ron Gullis declined as they had accepted Board positions. Therefore this position is vacant at this time. There were 2 nominations for the position on the Operations Committee.