Bulletin-September 21 (Sep 25, 2016)

Meeting of the Kitchener-Westmount Rotary Club Sept 21/2016

President Troy called the meeting to order and introduces guests Bill and Judy Proctor

Don Wilcox was present on Skype.

Announcements

Congratulations of various birthdays and anniversaries.
Sept 28 we have an offsite meeting at Rogers Radio with Mike Collins.
Please be sure to fill in the Crown and Anchor Sheet as there are still a few spaces that need people.
Jayne Matzig called to ask for a club rep to promote O Christmas Free (happening Dec 3) and share information about the event with the club members. Thank you to Jerome who volunteered.

50/50 Draw Pot $239 David Barth, Paul Puopolo, and Graham Gardener all drew regular marbles from the jar.

Todd Aitchison introduced the speaker – District Governor Bill Proctor.

With lots of challenges in the world it is easy to be fearful, lose hope and feel powerless but this is NOT THE CASE. There are simply not enough Rotarians in the world.
The World Needs Rotary and Rotary needs us and more like us to not only improve but at times actually save lives.
Bill talked briefly about the 100^th Anniversary of Rotary – 100 Years of Serving Humanity.
Bill talked briefly about a book by Past District Governor David Forward entitled “Doing Good In The World” This book is filled with good news and stories of the successes supported around the world by Rotary. He shared a few examples of those stories.
Currently the clubs in our district are supporting projects in Nepal, Camaroon, South Africa, the Philippines, Uganda and India.
Advancement of World Understanding and the promotion of peace underpins Rotary.
We need to remind ourselves of the Objects of Rotary along with the 4 Way test that we all recite. The Objects can be found here https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/learning-reference/about-rotary/guiding-principles
He reminded us that we CAN achieve peace through service. We just need to keep calm and change the world.
Overall the talk served to re-inspire us and increase our conviction as Rotarians.

Jim Kibble thanked not only the speaker DG Bill Proctor but his wife Judy for their hard work and support of Rotary.

Troy explained to the club how the board had decided to address the 100 for 100 Campaign which seeks to ask each and every Rotarian to contribute $100 to the Rotary Foundation in Celebration of Rotary’s 100 years of Service to Humanity. Each member will be charged an additional $33 to each of three quarterly club dues bills. Those that have already made the $100 gift (or had other concerns with this plan) were to let Troy know ASAP.

President Troy then closed the meeting.