What do you do with your Bottles?
This is what our total is so far:
Here is our updated total on money earned from Empties... great support from the club
Containers returned: 10,052
All time deposit value: $1,003.65
Thank you to all who have donated.
Don't forget to go to the Port Moody Liquor Store on St. Johns Street to buy your beverages. We are doing 'very' well and we must remind you to tell them to put your 'sale' to Port Moody Rotary Club. Please make sure that happens. I have a total since May 11, 2020.....Wednesday you will find out.
Port Moody Liquor Store
4 – 2929 St. John's Street
Port Moody
Full house this week....Great to see so many out to the meeting and to have our Past DG Dennis Boyd join our meeting.
Guest speaker this week was the always dynamic Leah Coss, President of Build a Biz Kids. Leah came to tell us about the program that our Rotary Club, through a 'grant', was able to have and will continue to have not only in Port Moody, but across the country. Leah has sent us this video clip to show what the students have done. Very impressive indeed.!!!
This is the link to the Videos she was trying to play at the meeting. Now we can see a few short clips of the kids practicing and then delivering their presentations. They are short clips but hopefully it will help them see the incredible work the students were able to accomplish.
If you would like more information on the program please contact Leah at Build a Biz Kids.
604.313.9996
Build a Biz Kids
Non Profit Society - BizKids Practical Education ASSN
May 6th - Our Sold Out - Search for the Perfect Pint. If you are volunteering, please wear your Rotary Shirt.
May 9th - Grants Committee meeting at Gayle's at 5:30pm
June 4th - Shred-a-Thon - please let Linda know if you will volunteer. We will have 2 shifts.
June 9th - Installation night - if you haven't yet paid, please send via interact to our Treasurer or your visa to the meeting.
Happy Birthday to Brian
President Coreen presented President Elect Paul his Paul Harris
Rotary Foundation Report
Your Donations at Work
All donations to our Disaster Response Fund from March 3 to April 30, 2022, have been prioritized for use providing humanitarian aid to regions that are supporting Ukrainian refugees or other victims of the war. Thanks to the generosity of donors around the world, we raised more than $10.4 million in contributions that are already helping provide people with essential items such as water, food, shelter, medicine, and clothing.
So far, 64 disaster response grants totaling $1.8 million have been awarded to support people affected by the war. The Rotary Foundation will continue to use the donations for humanitarian aid in and around Ukraine, and districts can apply for these grants until June 30, 2022.
Donations made to the Disaster Response Fund after April 30 will be available to all communities around the world that need assistance recovering from disasters.
Friday night was Bat Night at the Rotary Loop trail up at Westhill.
As per Brian's invitationfrom last week.
"Karen Devitt (Rp.P.Bio.) from City of Port Moody is co-hosting an event with 'Bat Guru' John Saremba on the Rotary Loop Trail at Westhill Park.
John will show the bat box, trees that the bat might inhabit, talk about the ecology of the bat and then use his equipment to help everyone hear and discover which bats are flying about. John is an environmental scientist whose passion is to share his love and understanding of nature with others. He created the Burke Mountain Naturalist Bat Team, a citizen-science based program to promote the conservation of bats who regularly monitor bats, signs of white nose syndrome and he does bat programs as well. He had a career with the Federal and Provincial Governments working on major industrial projects and now does environmental consulting.
Karen is an Environmental Coordinator with the City and will lead people around the trail to document different species with iNaturalist - a Citizen Science based app that is generating a massive amount of environmental data from the general public who observe and report. Easy and fun to use, this mobile device app is having a dramatic and positive effect on species identification, monitoring and protection."
It was a smaller turn out but very fun and informative.
Thanks
Alan Kabatoff