Today we welcomed 14 members and our guest speaker, Gordon Johnston.
Announcements:
* We have now received the $10K district grant for the hoopathon!
* On March 12 we will be having a burger & beer get together at Red Truck Brewing. Right after the basketball practice for the hoopathon. Contact Gary Chomyn for more details.
* Reminder about the luminosity event on April 4th at Mari Kato's school.
* Our Rotary district has a number of training sessions coming up this year, please visit the official website to learn more: https://www.rotary5040.org/page/year-ahead-foundation-sessions-2019
* Save the date! Our Hoopathon this year will be on April 27.
* Our changeover dinner is coming in June.
* This Fall, likely in October, we will be having our "Guess who is coming to dinner". We will be partnering up with the West Van club for this social event.
* Our club is sponsoring 8 attendees to RYLA, this represents about 10% of the total number of participants!
Guest Speaker
Our guest speaker today was Gordon Johnston, member of the Canadian national field hockey team. He made his debut with the Canadian National Team in 2011.
He then competed with both the junior and senior national teams, helping Canada win silver at the 2012 Junior Pan American Championship before competing at the 2013 FIH Junior World Cup.
He made his international multi-sport competition debut at the 2014 Commonwealth Games after being part of Canada’s second place finish at the 2014 Champions Challenge 1 in Malaysia.
In 2015 he was a part of a team and group of players who shot in two shootout wins in the FIH World League Round 3 quarterfinal against New Zealand and in the 2015 Pan Am Games semifinal against Brazil. His performance in the shootouts was key to helping Canada qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.
Thought of the day:
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller
Why Rotary? Read more here: https://www.rotary.org/en/why-rotary