Rotary: Meeting January 30th
President Al opened the meeting and introduced this week’s guests.
Ken Holland and Keisha Rosario from the Haney Club - guest speakers
Jordan Birch – Nature life coach
Beata Zaleska - Darrell’s guest and prospective member
Alison Windsor – Rotaracter
Ron Baker pitched the Search for the Perfect Pint fundraiser – May 9th
Each member is asked to commit to sell a minimum of 10 tickets, 20 would be better. Ron will be allocating tickets next week.
So far 5 breweries on board – 14 expected
St James Well committed for the BBQ and expected that Thrifty’s, Onyx, The Boathouse, Mr. Mike’s will commit.
Al advised that Feb. 23rd is the Rotary Peace Forum – register at the District 5050 website
Event being held at the Sheraton YVR hotel
March 9th is the next Rotary Leadership Institute – members are encouraged to attend
Jordan Birch spoke about his business – Nature Life Coach – conducts his business on the local nature trails. He started the Ugly Sweater event with another friend, 12 years ago, it has become an annual event that has raised over 50,000.00 for charity
Rotary Fall Classic golf tournament - Scott Masse is this year’s chair.
Alison Windsor is heading up this year’s Hike for Hospice and is looking for volunteers for 3 hour shifts at Coquitlam Centre on the 27th and 28th April to advertise the event. We are partnering with the Poco club this year due to the construction at Port Moody City Hall.
Eat Your Heart Out Fundraising tickets - Al has purchased all the tickets so if you have committed he is looking for payment if you haven’t already done so please get your money to Al and he will give you the tickets.
Vida auctioned off two tickets for the Wearable Art show, tickets include dinner for two at Pasta Polo’s, select seating at the event and champagne. Gary “won” – it cost him 75.00. Good for you Gary.
Peter advised expected to have 12 participants in the Hockey Pool this year – if you haven’t done so already please get your 25.00 to Peter. 60% to the winner and 40% to the club.
Peter introduced our guest speakers - Ken Holland and Keisha Rosario from the Haney Club who talked to us about their recent trip to Guatemala.
They participated in a very interesting programme with the Burlington Club sponsoring students to travel to Guatemala to work with the Hands for Peacemaking organization to install properly vented wood burning stoves into homes a village.
The group consisted of 7 students, sponsored by the Rotary Clubs, 3 Rotarians who combined with local people in Guatemala. In order to be included in the trip the students had to commit to 80 hours of community service in the communities served by their sponsoring clubs. The clubs paid $1000.00 towards each students expenses, the students had to raise $1500.00 each to be able to participate.
Once in Guatemala the group was split into three groups and each group was joined by an elder from the Village and a member of the Hands for Peacemaking. Each group was then taught how to assemble and install the stoves. Once trained they went into the village and went into the homes and installed the stoves and venting required. The showed an interesting slide show which explained how the stoves were installed and the problems encountered.
They spent 5 days in the village interacting with the children and families in the community and found it very hard to leave at the end of the week. In all they installed 75 stoves, each family committed to pay 25.00 per stove, payable over 5 years.
This truly sounds like a great project.
Peter’s ticket was pulled at the 50/50 draw but he did not find the elusive Ace of Clubs……sorry Peter better luck next time.
All in all a great meeting.
Submitted by Isy