This was a beautiful sunny morning where 16 members and 4 guests got together to enjoy a tasty breakfast and have our regular business meeting.  Our guest were Bernardo Gonzalez Arau, Steve McGrandle, Farid Ayoubzabeh and our new member to be, Milie Taing who is become a Rotarian on May 15th! It is great to have you in our club Milie!

 

Announcements:

 

Hoopathon:

 

As you already know, Hoopathon is happening on June 15th at 10:00am at the Strathcona Community Center. I got a 100 per cent participation from members in our club.  Please continue asking your friends, family, and coworkers for sponsorships. If you are on a team, may 25th we will have our shooting practice. It is going to be lots of fun, after the practice we will meet for “refreshing” beverages.

 

Today we had our business meeting, where the following topics where discussed:

 

·      Membership: Next year plan is to have 25 members and focus on members retention which is really important.

·      Service Projects: For next year our club is planning in supporting a school in Colombia. Currently we have 2 clubs in Bucaramanga and they are looking at the grant proposal. We may host a club fundraising event in March 2014 when members of the Colombia clubs are here.

·      Strathcona Youth Leadership Program:  Everything looks very promising for this event. We have 100 percent participation from our club. Rotary shirts are here. Everybody that comes to the Hoopathon that has one of this T-shirts, please make sure to wear it. This will give the club great presence.

·      Student Exchange: Georgina, our exchange student, is finishing her school year shortly, and we are excited to have her here in Vancouver soon. As part of this, every member of the club need to have the police record checks done. Please have them done as soon as possible.

·      Fellowship: We will have our change over dinner on June 21st.  19 people already confirmed, please hurry up to sing up to this nice event. If you are planning to come, please let Matthew know or use the online option through Clubrunner.

·      Budget and planning: On June 18th we will have a strategic planning session between the outgoing board and the incoming board to review the 2014 plan.

·      Rotary foundation: Every club is encouraged to have Every Rotarian Every Year and the goal is to have a $100.00 per member.

 

Thought of the day:

“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”