Rotary Meeting March 30th, 2016
Posted by Trudy Gallant
on Apr 03, 2016
Meeting notes: March 30, 2016
Guests and Visiting Rotarians: Rotarians Linda Reimer, Stan, Wylie and Al (From Edmonton) joined us.
Al mentioned how much help Al Stjernegaard has been to him as they are planning their own RibFest!
Other guests included our own Valentin (inbound Exchange Student) just back from a trip to Hawaii and
our two guest speakers from the City Bob Bell and Paul Leblanc.
No Birthdays or Anniversaries this week but continued congratulations to Gary and Hazel for their 50th!!
Announcements:
Pete and Gayle updated us on all the hard work for SFPP. Please note the next meeting on April 6th
at 5:30 at Pete's house. Gayle is going to be away so Alan has kindly taken over the ticket sales for
the next two weeks. Peter is doing an amazing job again on teh Sponsorships and can still use help
with this.
Vida has had a message from Cleone and Peru is "sparkly"!!
Trudy hopes to begin a monthly Pub night..for us to just get together had enjoy a bit of R and R!
Stay tuned for details!
Trudy also advises she has submitted some info about the Club for District Awards.
April is our turn for the TriCities Rotary Page.
May 30th is the proposed date for the Community Paul Harris Awards presentations.
District Assembly is coming up soon ..April 9th..please let Trudy know if you can come.
Anthony is willing to help organize our support for Hike for Hospice..please let Trudy know
if you can help.
PE Patty gave a summary of the March Board report: All welcome to attend any board meeting and
Minutes are also available at request. We did also pass funding of $18,000 for July 2016 Kids Camp
and $5000 for the Belize Container. One community request for funding was denied based on criteria
but Trudy advises she has suggested they consider a possible future request that would be more
capital or equipment costs based. We also approved funding for a Rotary decal on the door
at the new Comfort Lounge at the Manor.
Our Guest speakers were Bob Bell, Superintendent of Utilities, Engineering and Parks for the City
and Paul Leblanc, Utilities Maintenance Supervisor. They explained everything you could want
to know about our local water supply..where is comes from, supply management, how it is treated for
safety, and how it is delivered to our homes. It was a fascinating look behind the scenes and reminded
us, as was so fitting for Water and Sanitation month, how truly fortunate we are to have access to
a safe and secure water supply. A great presentation about an important local service.
Trudy 's weekly thanks included Brian for organizing our last Heritage Mountain Blvd clean up and
to everyone who came out to load our Belize container last Saturday..it should now be on its way
to Halifax for shipping to Belize!!