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Hi Everyone,
1) Our Fall Social is this Thursday October 20th, 2016. It will be taking place at The Pour House/Wills starting at 6:30pm. Drop in for a drink and/or food for as long or as little as you like! Please RSVP to me by noon on Thursday letting me know if you can make it.
2) Shelterlink is opening their doors to us tomorrow at 1:00pm to check out the mattresses and bedding that we donated to their organization. If you are able to join, that would be great! (Sorry for the short notice). Stratford/Perth Shelterlink - 3rd floor, 130 Youngs St, Stratford, ON N5A 1J7
3) A BIG thank you goes out to all those who were able to come and volunteer at the Pub Crawl that took place on the Thanksgiving weekend. A HUGE kudos to Jonathan who took the lead coordinating the event this year.
4) If you have missed a meeting, please send your make-up to Kelly Daum, our new club Secretary. kellydaum15@gmail.com. Or if you have volunteered at a Rotaract event such as Trivia Night or sub-committee meeting, send this to Kelly and she can bank it for a future meeting you may need to miss.
5) Rotary is looking for Literacy Volunteers.
The Adult Learning Program is a community-based literacy and basic skills program that helps adults who are 19 years of age and older who want to upgrade their essential skills (reading, writing, numeracy, document use, digital technology). With the help of extra funding from the City of Stratford, we run basic skills upgrading classes at the Stratford Career Centre (partnering with Conestoga College) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-2 pm.
6) Stratford Writers Festival
The Rotary Club of Stratford is hoping to establish a short-story writers competition, as part of the soon-to-be-launched STRATFORD WRITERS FESTIVAL, the inaugural season being October 22nd and 23rd. Soon!
This year, they're inviting anyone interested to attend a celebrity reading by two very exciting writers, C C Humpreys and Gail Anderson-Dargatz, at Knox Church here in Stratford on the 23 rd from 5 to 8 pm, with a chance to meet the authors over pizza in between the readings. Our Rotary club has purchased 50 tickets which we will be giving away, free, on a first-come first-served basis. Please contact Michael Fox if you are interested. michael_fox@rogers.com
7) Below are the minutes from our previous meeting. We agreed that we would put them right in the body of the email so it is easier to read on phones/tablets.
I won't be able to make our meeting on Thursday so I will see you all at the beginning of November.
Sarah
Stratford Rotaract Meeting Minutes
Wednesday October 5, 2016 @ 6:30pm
University of Waterloo, Stratford
Members: Melissa Koert, Kelly, Sarah, Genevieve, Katelyn, Raks, Cynthia, Lauren, Allie, Jonathan, Tannille
Friends: Cate
Guest Speaker
- Diane Peacock - Executive Director of Facile Perth: Independent Facilitation
- Diane has been in the disability movement for 30 years.
- Facile: Independent Facilitation. Building Independent Facilitation and Personal Directed Planning in Perth, Huron, Grey, Oxford, and Bruce Counties.
- Facile – means “make it easy”.
- Created by local agencies coming together to separate service and planning so that they could focus on service. Facile focuses on the planning portion.
- Planning services are offered to more than 100 people.
- Individuals are included in the planning process.
- Referrals made through Developmental Services Ontario (DSL).
Standing Items
- Upcoming Guest Speakers – Remainder of 2016
- October 20 – Fall Social - Will’s Pub. See above.
- November 2 – Ideas? VIP?
- Volunteers in Perth – looking for a speaker to talk to us about Volunteer burnout.
- Sarah to follow up
- November 17 - Classifications?
- Kelly Daum Classification.
- December 7 – 2017 Event Planning
- Put some things into action for 2017 event planning.
- Board planning.
- Discuss current events we do annually.
- Let’s re-evaluate our current events – what’s working? What’s not?
- December 15 – Christmas Social – Ideas?
- Club KUDOS
- Kudos to Cynthia for doing an amazing job organizing Dragon Boat for us.
- Kudos to Kelly for great job doing minutes and keeping things organized.
- Kudos to Sarah for helping Sarah with Dragon Boat Festival.
Business Arising
- Previous Minutes – Review of Follow Up Items
- Pub Crawl Update
- Friday October 7, 2016 – THIS FRIDAY!
- 4th annual pub-crawl.
- Meet at Queens – disperse from there.
- There are 4 stops. Tickets are 30.00 – includes half pint at each stop and a snack at your first stop.
- We will evaluate the success of this year’s event.
- Tickets available at the door.
- Brainstorm Session – Next Fundraising Idea?
- Distribution of Agenda/Minutes via Bulletin
- Minutes will go right into the Bulletins instead of an attachment.
- Announcement Corner (Updates from committees, future events, round table)
- Next big Rotary Fundraiser is “Scotch Mist” for October 15th – looking for 4 volunteers that are smart serve certified to assist with this event. Sarah will send an email with the details
- Lauren on a board that is looking for new members (Legal Clinic) – please talk to her if your interested.
- Choices for change will be looking for 4 board members – talk to Raks for more information
- Trivia is next week.
- Exploring the idea of the House of Blessing family sponsorship.
- Kelly follow up with funding committee. Kelly – email Allie with something about this program.
Parking Lot Items
- In the new year, let’s think about how we can engage new members – particularly male members.
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For next year, let’s take care of our own food for Dragon Boat Festival for our volunteers. We will also provide our own gloves. Rotaract baseball caps?
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FUTURE AGENDAS: Volleyball tournament.
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FUTURE SPEAKERS: Chamber of Commerce.
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