Meeting Recap - November 25th

 

Emily Welford gave a presentation on the Prince George Rotaract club. The purpose of Rotaract is to provide an opportunity for young men and women (ages 18-30ish) to enhance the skills that will assist in personal development, to address the needs of their local  communities, and to promote better relations between all people worldwide through international service.The Prince George Rotaract Club is working on 3 projects, a local project, a long-term project, and an international project including steeped tea sales in which the money will be used to fund an orphanage in South Africa and bringing a TED Talk to Prince George. There are approximately 50 members in the club, which meets bi-weekly alternating between a social meeting and business meeting. If you know anyone interested in joining Rotaract, they can email Emily at rotaractprincegeorge@gmail.com.

 

Happy Dollars $$$ Highlights included: Harold for his son's concert and his wife's play, Miracle on South Division Street, showing at ArtSpace until December 6th; Rachelle for her beautiful grandson; Barbara Peacock cancer-free for 5 years; Neil for the help on Saturday morning with the Operation Red Nose launch; Zelda for Prince George Arts Council donations; and Dolly whose client donated $500.00 to a charity of her choice.

We wish a Speedy Recovery to Bill Bateman who was in a severe car accident.

 

Lloyd presented Ken with an Award of Appreciation from the Prince George Council of Seniors for all his support and work. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Hampers: Shirley sent around sign-up sheets for the two adopted families. Ken and Lloyd are seeking volunteers to help deliver Christmas hampers for the P.G. Council of Seniors on December 21st. 

 

Rachelle is organizing the Kelly Road Interviews and needs more volunteers for the afternoon session.

 

Neil reported that there were 170 volunteers for Operation Red Nose but always room for more.

 

The Nechako Rotary club received a Certificate of Appreciation for its financial support of End Polio Now. District 5040 is the highest fundraiser in 24 West having raised approximately $60,000.00 roughly $41.00 per person. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolly received a thank you letter from the University of Northern British Columbia for our financial support of bursaries and scholarships. Thanks to Rotary, Tatiana Pacheco, Rachel Klassen, Ashley Beauchamp, Ashley Burgess, Sylvianna Peterson, Joshua Mann, Taylor Bysouth, Kristoff Illiou, Fizza Rashid, Alexis Bazinet, Andre Dube, and Carly Shaw-MacLaren received financial support to continue their post-secondary education.

 

District 5040 Conference will be April 28th to May 1st in Whistler. If there is enough interest, Nechako Club is considering chartering a bus.

 

Adventures in Tourism will be held April 3rd to 8th in Kelowna hosted by the Rotary Club of Kelowna Ogopogo. For more information, click here.  If you know a student who would benefit from this opportunity, email Gina.

 

 

Dolly, Ken, and Gina presented on the Day of Dialogue. Thank you to Loraina for putting the PowerPoint together. The day was filled with 12 mini-sessions focused on 4 areas: Building and Strengthening Membership; Energizing a New Generation; Building and Strengthening Rotary's Image; and Rotary Service: Taking it up to the Next Level. Some of the ideas that came out of the day were partnering with Rotaract on projects, telling the Rotary story and doing a better job of "patting ourselves on the back" and publicizing the good we do. Local service was cited as the #1 reason people join Rotary, the 2nd was fun and social activity - telling our story especially about the work we do could have a direct impact on our membership. Sean Hogan's presentation on Rotary's New Voice listed the 4 attributes of the Rotary story as Smart (diversity of membership), Compassionate, Preserving (Polio Plus), and Inspiring. Participants of the Day were asked "why aren't clubs accessing the benefits of the Foundation." These include district grants, international grants, and Canadian government matching for global grants. Emily Whitmer spoke about data that was collected from the Chicago Summit, which highlights some of the reasons young professionals aren't joining Rotary. These include seeking high impact for their input -- with limited time resources, their engagement needs to be meaningful -- as well as Rotary's image being outdated resulting in the perception it is uninviting. My takeaway from this was that  telling the Rotary story we can define our identity in our community and put our fresh face forward.