Sunrise bulletin for the week of November 7, 2012
Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise
November 7th 2012
Attendance:
It was a beautiful sunny morning in Vancouver where 9 members, 4 visitors and our speaker of the day , Alisa Chow Darcy, made it for this week’s Rotary meeting.
Visitors Steven McGrandle for his third meeting. Tita Odiardi from the Rotary Club of Coquitlam came to our club to talk about a project her Club is supporting in Nepopualco, a small town in the state of Morelos in Mexico.This is very inspirational and great job that a Vancouver fellow Rotary Club is doing in Mexico. Please take a moment to look at this video and see what a group of committed people can do together to make a community a better place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUpa149xNEE
Also Kelsey Sheddy and her friend Noemie spent the meeting with us.
Club News:
· “Whet your Appetite”. Adopt a Village, ending poverty one village at a time. This is a fund raiser that the Rotary Club of Vancouver-Arbutus is organizing on Saturday, November 17th 6:00pm at Whet kitchen-bar-patio (1517 Anderston St. Granville Island). For more info please call 604-880-7282 or e-mail bbourlet@shaw.com
· On Wednesday November 14th will be a joint meeting of all seven clubs. This meeting will take place at Seasons in the Park in Queen Elizabeth Park at 12:00pm. There are going to be two great speakers. Please let Julie Mantle know if you would like to attend.
· Jennifer Yiu from the Strathcona BasketBall Program will be playing this Friday at 6:00pm and on Saturday at 5:00pm at UBC. Hope to see you there!
· A quick reminder of the Foundation Dinner is happening on November 24th at the New Westminster Quay.
· Our Christmas dinner will be at Lawrence and Bev’s place on December 1st. Thank you Lawrence and Bev!
· And don’t forget to mark December 2 for the Seniors Christmas Luncheon at the Bayshore ( 10AM)
Speaker of this week meeting:
Cleopatra introduced our speaker, Alisa Choi Darcy, President of QuoteEndQuote, cross-cultural strategy, to talk about a very interesting topic: Multicultural Marketing.
We were very happy to have Alisa, since this was her first Rotarian club meeting.
Her company specializes in helping small, medium and large organizations and their ad agencies build relevance with Canada’s Asian and South Asian communities so that they can create culturally-relevant brands and brand experiences.
The team at QEQ share a special dream: to foster a sustainable environment where Canadian corporations and ALL their customers and stakeholders can enjoy nurturing business and social relationships based upon mutual trust, respect and understanding.
Address
Quote EndQuote Cross-Cultural Strategy
Suite 302, 1062 Homer Street
Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6B 2W9
T: 778.371.3629
E: connect[at]quoteendquote.ca
Quote of the day:
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” - Socrates.