Our meeting was held via Zoom with Leon serving as host. Socializing and catching up with each other was a fun way to begin, and then President Wayne officially called to order Meeting # 36. In his welcome, he remarked, “Our Rotary theme this year is Rotary Connects the World. No-one predicted or even guessed how difficult that would become due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic. We are now meeting online, rather than in person, and all social events have been cancelled or put on hold. No club training event. No district conference at Harrison. No Rotary International Convention in Hawaii. We try to remain optimistic, reach out to each other, and do our best to stay healthy through these troubled times.”
Nine people joined in, and we sang happy birthday to Claudia. It was interesting to hear Rudy’s voice finishing each line just after many had sung the words. Oh, the beauty of technology.
Announcements were made about AG opportunities, an up-coming joint presidents meeting, scholarship applications, survey of club members, the garden wall at LCSS being finished, a possible district grant for our Area, the donation of Ribfest gloves, and that we will be making some decisions about funding requests next week. SASSY will go forward in a virtual format and we are sponsoring one of the awards.
Happy dollars were donated and will be saved for future delivery. We closed with a toast to Rotary, and a toast to Canada. Cheers!