We had about 18 Zoomers - good cross section of not so new and new members- the blinding sunshine in my office made everyone look a lot younger on screen.

Our upcoming DG for 2022/2023 was our guest and guest speaker 

  50 50 draw - everyone wins this week as we are opening up Monday - cheers to seeing everyone in person soon!

 

Heidi announced that her parents are celebrating their 70th wedding Anniversary- they have 16 more years to challenge the world record of 86 years….amazing. No wonder Heidi looks so young!

 

Vanessa announced that she is exercising (no pun intended)what last week’s speaker suggested - she is doing the stairs and taking a break from sitting at her desk! Perhaps that may a challenge to us all  - get those legs moving for the Fun Run for Kidsability that will be coming up soon!

 

Paul Mc wanted to put good news in however, possibly the greatest game in NFL history- saved the Buffalo Bills from losing another Super Bowl.

 

 

Curling - March 3 - learn to curl have some fun we will have Curlers to help out starting 930am - running shoes and warm clothes is all you need! Curl for the morning and concluding with lunch fellowship meeting - spouses welcome - please email Tom if you are interested! tomeverrett@hotmail.com

Pres. Rajbir announced Feb 10 in person meetings to start- there was a little profanity by a senior - recently retired member -who was looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday!

Heidi announced that our very own Past President Larry has donated blood 115 times and he will achieve his goal of 200 in 2035 - amazing Larry!!

 

 

President Rajbir introduced our DGovenor Elect Sandhya or Rotary Club of Burlington and a Rotarian of 12 years. shortly after joining she participated in the Disricts training team as well as the visioning program helping many clubs with their strategic planning.

Sandhya works at Sun Life in the HR delivering the companies global HR technology initiatives.

She is the eldest of four siblings, dating a Rotarian and the daughter of a Rotarian.

Sandhya enjoys cooking,baking and hiding out with a good book.

As DG elect Sandhya took us through what the district is doing currently with the website assistance-club leadership training virtual and President Elect training -PPE Todd will be attending as it has been decades since he was last prez of the club- the computers were much bigger….

Sandhya is so passionate about her vision for our District in 2022/2023 - she is a true leader and is looking forward to engaging and transforming our clubs by providing them the tools of engagement, enablement and coaching.
Introduced a model entitled Agile Modern - you can google it -the wheel can be applied to business as well as rotary. It’s premise is framework - just as we have experienced through COVID one needs to pivot and adapt quick. 
The wheel had 4 key areas
make people awesome at whatever they do with products and services - what do our current Rotarians personally want and need from Rotary -how can we make it better. Know our community and demographic 

Experiment - fail fast and learn quick- think outside the box and try different things- how can we learn from what has not worked in the past
That will be the incoming DG’s focus in hopes that we build Happier Rotarians and community partners that feel valued and involved!