This week we welcomed 12 members as well as visiting Rotarian Lee Ingamells from Hawaii.
 
Announcements:
 
* Project Amigo Day of the Dead dinner is canceled. 
 
*October 14th we will be serving with other volunteers, including the Salvation Army and Strathcona Youth at the Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser for Street Front. Please sign up with Abigail.
 
* Sunday October 21/18, The Yaletown Club is holding a "Bowling for Kenya" Event in Burnaby. 1pm to 4:30pm
 
The cost is $25 per person and includes 2 hours bowling, some food & refreshments, and shoe rental. Proceeds go to their water harvesting project.
 
Rotary Moment
 
October 24 is World Polio Day. The city of Vancouver had a World Polio Day proclamation with Mayor Robertson of the City of Vancouver.
 
 
 
 
 
Guest Speaker
 
Our guest speaker today was Trevor Stokes, from the Streetfront Alternative Program.
 
Streetfront is a Vancouver School Board alternative education program based out of Britannia Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Streetfront approaches education with an emphasis on physical activities and outdoor experiences. We offer classes in Math, Science, Socials and English for grades 8 -10. In addition we have Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Planning, Woodworking, and Foods classes. We run three days per week, with some students training for and participating in the Seattle and Vancouver full and half Marathons. We also spend approximately 35 days of the 190 school days in an outdoor environment – this includes the three four-day camp trips.
 
Find out more by visiting their website: https://streetfront.ca
 
 
 

Thought of the day:
 
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill 
 
Why Rotary? Read more here: https://www.rotary.org/en/why-rotary
 
About Rotary: https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary