Wednesday is Alison's Scott's birthday (I hope you are at the meeting Alison, so we can bless you with a song).
 
Don and Anne Wilcox will be celebrating their 51st wedding anniversary on Friday.
 
Friday will also mark Todd Aitchison's 19th year as a member of our club!
 
The first 2022/23 board meeting will be held on Tuesday the 19th - Hosted by yours truly.

 

Kitchener Panthers- Aug 4th Rotary Night

 

Golf Tournament for Hockey helps the Homeless- Aug 25th- More info to come

 

Trivia Winner: Michelle Burke

 

 

 

• Houston TX
• Convention center had a four lane width sign announcing the conference
• Over 11K attendees at the conference at the George Bush Convention Center
• 18 screens to have better visibility of what is happening at the front
• Very little masks and people were so happy to see each other and be together
• Top 4 countries for attendance: US, Philippines, Japan, Canada
• More countries in Rotary than the UN
• 3 floors of the facility
• Opening Ceremony: Performance from the winner of the Voice 
• Celebrating Youth and Girls- opening performance was a dance group from India 
• Week started off with opening ceremonies and a country themed dinner/evening event. 
• Everton met Jennifer Jones (President Elect for RI) and Shaker (current President of RI)
• Everyone who Everton spoke with are facing the same challenges as our club. Drop in membership, fundraising and keeping people engaged. They shared information and ideas together.
• Day 1 speaker: Michael Collins who was part of the Apollo mission. He was the third man on the moon. He is a Rotarian and is 89 years old. 
• Main theme was focusing on youth- getting youth involved and keeping Rotary growing.
• House of Friendship had 200 exhibits to walk through
• The flag program is very large in the US and Everton found a Rotarian who has technology to run the program that has been shared.
• Week of Sept 11- Rotary is looking to have clubs have an event to celebrate the community
• Everton lost his luggage on the flight down
• District held an event at the top of a hotel
• Went to the space center and the art center
• Spent the morning at the convention center doing sessions and then the afternoon would be exploring the city
• Jennifer Jones spoke- the crowd was engaged and moved by her words. 
• Breakout group: How can we use data that we collect to improve on our projects? 
• Last Day- Astros Game
• 8 cases of Polio left in 2 countries

Graham- any statistics on the spread of covid at the conference?

Answer: Nothing has come out officially

 

Alex- What are the priorities of RI and for our club this upcoming year?

Answer: Imagine Rotary: need to reimagine what Rotary is on the world level and on our club level. How do we grow and prosper?

 

Simon- Were the meals included?

Answer: Organized but some were prepaid or most were on the Rotarian

 

Bill- We are all here by invitation- who invited you into Rotary?

*round table question to the whole club