Newsletter April 30 2014
ROTARY CLUB OF VANCOUVER SUNRISE
NEWSLETTER APRIL 30, 2014
ATTENDANCE-
Cleo recited a beautiful version of the Four Way Test in Spanish. It must of been perfect as no one offered any corrections.
Today we had fourteen members present and almost as many guests. Steve McGrandle and Brandi England, John Bland and his wife , Shima Alavi. Our RYLA speakers today, Luisa, Justine, Maha and Cali. David Ng from Strathcona came to represent Justine.
ROTARY MOMENT-
John Haley presented some stats from the May Rotary magazine which were presented by RI President Ron Burton. Countries with the largest membership gains, 2003-2013 1. India 2.Korea 3. Germany 4.Taiwan and 5. Brazil. Those with the greatest declines. 1. United States 2.Japan 3.England 4. Australia and 5. Canada. Rotary has allocated 3 Million dollars to create regional and support regional membership plans. The aim is to increase membership around the world. He suggested that we be sure to read the full article in the May issue.
ANNOUNCEMENTS-
Hoop-a thon- Important to get your emails out to your contacts. Larry will send a sample email with attachments as a sample to you by Friday.
For the Rotary shoot outs, we are established four team captains. Matthew, Gary, Julie and Lawrence. We need one my captain. The five captains will line up their team of themselves and three more members. Captain number five, please contact Larry. First come, first served. Let Larry know who your teams are by next Monday or Tuesday. Start bribing the good ones to be sure that you have the best players.
The one and only practice session will be on Wednesday May 28 5 PM at Strathcona and the pub after.
Be thinking about CORPORATE sponsors as well.
The event is June 14 at 10 AM at Strathcona.
Colombian Fundraiser- Sheila and Cleo will arrange a meeting soon to start planning for the event in late September or early October.
HAPPY DOLLARS-
Sheila just back from Cayman Islands.
Cleo off to San Francisco.
Lawrence is off to London.
Milie off to Kelowna.
And I forgot who is off to San Diego.
Lets make sure that everything who is not travelling will be here next week.
John happy that tax time is virtually over.
Diana lost keys, cards, wallet etc last week so will have a new identity soon.
Tina very busy at work.
Larry has laryngitis so half of ____ words _____missing.
SPEAKERS
Our four speakers were our four representatives at the RYLA Leadership Group last Weekend . There were 107 representatives at the camp. Great representations from the girls, Luisa, Justine, Maha and Cali.. They learned that you are never too young to contribute to the community. They learned about the four types of leaders, Controller, Analyser, Promoter and Supporter. They closed with a Talent Show, and the four girls sang the theme song from the conference to our club. They learned all about Rotaract, Interact and other facets of Rotary. Sessions started at 8 AM and finished at 11 PM each day.
NEXT WEEKS SPEAKER –
ZAHED LALANI- AGA KHAN FOUNDATION OF CANADA