Sunrise bulletin for the week of January 23, 2013
Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise
Club Newsletter
January 23, 2013
ATTENDANCE-
Carlos started the meeting, sort of reading the Four Way Test, and admitting that he has forgotten how to do it in Espagnol.,
We had 13 members in attendance as well as our Speaker, MP John Weston, and a guest of Cleo, Jan Westerdorp who designs books and one Rotarian , Michael Levitt, from the Grand Cayman Rotary Club, a club of 86 members and ten years of age( the club, that is). We exchanged banners. His passion is the young clubs, Rotaract and Interact, having started two in Grand Cayman.
ANNOUNCEMENTS-
The photograph book of the entries in our contest is now available from either Banu or Julie ( $30.00 for members) and 35.00 for non members.
The Rotary District Conference is being held in Quesnel this year in May. Check the District website for the details, ie buses from Vancouver, costs, etc.
The next meeting of the Strathcona planning members is at the Rec Centre next Tuesday at 530 PM ( January 29, 2013)
Next week we will be celebrating Robert Burns day ( a bit late, for all that, replete with bagpipes and haggis ( not the Wonton Haggis I saw advertised this week)
HAPPY DOLLARS-
Diana and Julie had to leave early today for a meeting.
Sonya will be off on her weekly?trip next week.
Banu is in the process of sorting out her Condo to get ready for the move to Coquitlam. We will arrange a Skytrain to take her to our meetings.
Dave apologized for missed meetings but he works from Vancouver and White Rock and often WR has Wednesday meetings.
Cleo is off to see her daughter in Boston next week.
Larry and Tania booked Mexico for Feb 27 for two weeks and Julie booked Mexico for Feb 20th.
GUEST SPEAKER-
Bill introduced our guest speaker, MP John Weston from West Vancouver, who has spoken previously to our club.
He is reading a book worthwhile to have a look at, On China by Henry Kissinger. John mentioned that he is a Canada- Mexico representative in his party and had attended the new President’s inauguration in Mexico.
The club was asked what it was felt was the main issue of discussion these days politically. It wasn’t health or education, but rather Chinese Foreign Investment. They received 5500 emails in this regard, with worries as to how it helps Canada, are we losing our authority, how the mechanism works, and why so little intercommunication. The agreement is not yet being enforced, but it was mentioned that there are 24 different agreements from around the world with Canada at this stage. These agreements add about 4,000 dollars in revenue for a family of four at present. Local regulations still prevail. The opposition parties had four days in parliament to debate the latest transaction but they never did.
Cam Scott thanked our speaker.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY-
If you have ten thousands regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill