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| October 20-22, 2009 | Victoria, British Columbia | Canada |
Gala Dinner at the Wardroom
Venue
Also known as the Officer's Mess, the Wardroom is located at CFB Esquimalt, home of Canada's Pacific Fleet. The building was opened in April 2000 at 1586 Esquimalt Road. and overlooks beautiful Esquimalt Harbour with Juan de Fuca Strait and the Olympic Mountains in the background.
Program
| 6:00 – 6:30pm | Cocktails in the Gunroom Lounge (cash bar) |
| 6:30 – 6:40pm | Dinner Seating |
| 6:40 – 7:00pm | Welcoming Address by Commodore CFB Esquimalt "Merging mandates" |
| 7:00 – 7:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 – 8:00pm | Dessert and British Entertainment |
| 8:00 – 8:30pm | Featured Speaker (Dr. Rick Kool, Royal Roads University) "Living like we plan on staying" |
Menu
Greener Ships Banquet
October 21, 2009
19:00hrs
Caesar Salad
Tabouleh Salad
Classic Spinach Salad with Smoked Bacon Bits, Red Onion, Sliced Mushrooms, Hard Boiled Eggs & Creamy Vinaigrette
Oriental Coleslaw, Crisp Red Cabbage, Mushrooms, Toasted Almonds, Bean Sprouts in a Soy Ginger Sauce
Rosemary & Dijon Marinated Lamb Sirloin
Chicken Coq Au Vin – Bone in Chicken Breast & Thighs in a Pearl Onion, Mushroom Cognac & Red Wine Sauce
Blackened Salmon Filet topped with a Mango Salsa
Vegetarian Strudel, Julienne of Carrot, Leeks, Red Onion, Field Mushrooms, Roasted Red Peppers & Squash with Phyllo Pastry, Drizzled with Basil Oil
Roasted Baby Potatoes
Rice Pilaf
Seasonal Vegetables
Dinner Rolls & Butter
Assorted Desserts
Fresh Fruit Platter
Fresh Brewed Coffee and Assorted Teas
Feature Speaker
Dr. Richard (Rick) Kool
As a young person, Rick had strong interests in music, nature, and the range of human thought. He took these interests to the University of New Hampshire, where he majored in zoology while fighting back a strong interest in philosophy and other humanities subjects. Later he obtained his M.Sc. in Zoology at the University of British Columbia, where he studied the ecology of small things that live in lake mud.
Despite muddy fingers, he still plays the string bass.
Eventually, his interest in philosophy got the better of him, and Rick received a doctorate from Brigham Young University with a dissertation that looked at the relationships between what we think we know, and what we do with what we think we know.
During his adult life Rick was never far away from water's edge. Whether as a secondary school science teacher in Ucluelet Secondary School on the wild west coast of Vancouver Island; a biology and ecology instructor at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia; a post-secondary instructor at the University of Victoria; or now as an Associate Professor at Royal Roads University – he never lost his affinity to the ocean.
Outside the formal education system, Rick managed the public programs department at the Royal British Columbia Museum and developed environmental education and park interpretation programs for the BC Government.
