Sunrise bulletin for the week of January 9, 2013
Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise
Newsletter – January 9, 2013
ATTENDANCE-
-Carlos initiated the meeting with the Four Way test.
Along with 10 members, we had 7 visitors and our speaker, Assistant District Governor Tom Smith. Visitors included Steve McGrandle, a potential member for our club, who has been coming for over three months, John Charbonneau , accompanying our speaker, and Alex Pisan, owner of La Bretagne Creperie who is also a potential member. As well we had Knut, oof the Haugesund Soer club and Kristin Rasmussen, both Rotarians in Norway in separate clubs and their two daughters, Anna , who attends UVic and Inger. A great time was had by all.
ANNOUNCEMENTS-
- Hoop-a-Thon meeting will take place at Strathcona Rec Centre on Monday January 14 at 530. All interested parties are most welcome.
- The Compilation of Photographs has been printed into a book and is available for $30.00, cheques to be passed on to Julie.
- Kick-off event for the Rotary Club of Vancouver Mentor-Network is coming on January 16. While one goal is to increase the visibility of our own club and what we're doing out in the community, of course the real objective is to promote Rotary in general and to increase membership in all our clubs.
The following link will take you to the Rotary Events Vancouver Meet up group, which has all the event information and where people can r.s.v.p. to get on the guest list.
http://www.meetup.com/Rotary-Vancouver-Events/events/95188462/
- Leadership Meetings resume at the end of January. Watch for details. The Club does subsidize part of the cost.
HAPPY DOLLARS-
- Cleo is now gainfully employed.
- happy buck for the return of the Canucks, but most people couldn’t have care less
SPEAKER-
Matthew introduced our speaker.
District Assistant Governor, Tom Smith was our speaker today. He covered many items regarding Membership; Foundation; President Citations which are coming up soon; Leadership meetings coming up at the end of January; all speakers at Pets will be recorded next year and be available to show at meetings; more advertising and PR will take place next year; Delta and Richmond clubs on January 24 which celebrate a “End Polio Day”; Joint meeting in January at the Quadra club regarding “Sexuality in the city”: Should be interesting; Rotary collaboration with CIDA, the government funding organization, to co-ordinate a common Rotary Grant ( could be 3.1 million) instead of dozens of smaller ones in Canada. Committee composed up CIDA Rep, Ecological Rep, Gender Equality Rep, a Secretary and the CEO; With Rotary Funds, this could reach $6 million dollars. Tom interspersed a deal of humour into his speech as well. Gary Chomyn thanked the speaker
- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY-
-How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank