A quick note on grandmothers - they're great! Not only are they great, and not only do we all love them, but they are embarrassing the youth.

After contacting the Stephen Lewis Foundation with regard to attaining the appropriate contact information for the Grandmother's Groups in the Ottawa area, I was told that there are 24 individual and all very active Grandmother's Groups in the region. Compare this to my earlier search for youth Rotary Interact Clubs: After scowering the Ottawa-Carleton School District I found that in the entire Ottawa area there is only one youth Rotary Interact Club!

With this in mind, my message to young people is simple:

We've got to get it together! Our grandmother's are embarrassing us ;)

With light-hearted humility,

Billy Strachan

ps - For more information on the INCREDIBLY UPLIFTING Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, visit www.grandmotherscampaign.org