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Member Karen McDiarmid spoke to us about her advisory work with the Sts'ailes Development Project. There is a small tourism initiative already in place; a 9 bedroom eco lodge, conference centre, and eco tours of the Agassiz. Karen's business plan includes techniques for self sustaining food production, healthy eating, and workshops for the Band members. Keep up the great work!
We had an amazing time celebrating Lunar New Year with a 10-course Chinese dinner! John enlightened us about the history of the Lunar New Year such as zodiac animals, foods, and traditions. We were also joined by incoming Assistant District Governor, Wayne Fraser, other Rotarians, family, and friends. Michelle Cooper-Iversen, Chief Operating Officer at Co-operative Housing Group of Social Purpose Entities gave a brief but interesting talk about the importance of Co-operative Housing.
Our most recent FDU Scholarship recipient, Payal Anand, shared her story of the amazing things she did in Rotaract in India. Her presentation was full of pictures and experiences. Congratulations on your achievements!
The FDU Scholarship, sponsored by our Club, is an annual award given to graduate and undergraduate students attending Fairleigh Dickinson University Vancouver Campus to recognize outstanding student achievement in the area of community service.
Our Rotarians are back helping Aunt Leah's Place with their annual Christmas Tree Sale! It's rainy but still super busy as we helped with moving, sawing, and tying Christmas trees up to 8 feet tall. What a great way to give back in the season of giving! 100% of profits go to foster youth who are at risk of homelessness and mothers in need.
We're back at REVS Bowling for a Halloween themed bowling fundraiser! Congrats to our winners for the best costumes, best bowling team, and "most improvement needed" bowling team! Proceeds go towards our Water Harvesting Project in Kenya.
Our Rotarians are back at Admiral Seymour School to host the annual Pumpkin Patch event! Smiles all around as many of the elementary school students are experiencing Halloween and pumpkin fun for the first time. Our club sponsors the pumpkins and help with the pumpkin carving every year.
It’s a wrap! Our second Shredathon event this Oct 2023! Thank you so much for all the members, volunteers and our loving community who took their time to drop their unwanted papers to be shredded and donated for a cause. We would love to see you all again next year!
For World Polio Day on October 24th, Rotarians, Rotaracts, Interacts, family and friends join Vancouver and area Rotary Clubs for the 2nd Annual World Polio Day Walk, starting 4:30 pm at the North Entrance of Vancouver City Hall. As part of that event the City of Vancouver will present Rotary a World Polio Proclamation.
At 5:00 pm the walk will make its way to Science World where the exterior lights on the dome will turn red to honour our global campaign to end polio. Join us in celebrating the end of this horrible disease!
Bring your “End Polio" T-Shirts or your red shirts, good walking shoes, banners, noise makers, and your loud voices!
Steve Rutledge, Rotarian with the Whitby Sunrise Club in Ontario presented on the Adopt A Village in Laos (AAVIL) organization. They provide rural villagers of Laos with permanent water supplies, water filtration, toilets, and educational support. To date, they have raised over 6,300 water filters, servicing almost 32,000 rural villagers, constructed permanent water supplies to 21 villages, completed 12 school construction projects, built over 40 banks of toilets and provided education support to students who could not afford to go to school. There is still a lot of work to be done in a country still recovering from the deadly "secret war" of the 60's and early 70's.
We also congratulated club member Nancy Tan on her next Paul Harris Fellow recognition!
Haille Dau, Former RCVY club member, presented her doctoral project "The impact of cervical cancer on families in Uganda". An insightful presentation on a serious topic that relates to many developing areas of the world.
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