Conversations about driver’s licenses and temporary ones and variations on the theme interested early arrivers. Seven o’clock arrived and conversations continued. Then, from one of the Hollywood Squares zoom windows a voice stated, “Veronica, I think it’s about time.” Our president called the meeting to order and asked Leon to share his latest version of O Canada for us. This week Revv 52 entertained us, and you can click O Canada to see the beautiful photos that were shown. It was easy to sing along to this version, too.
Announcements: Rotary Opens Opportunities (Veronica hopes we have this memorized); we’ve had the opportunity to meet international visitors; we donated $5000 to go towards the purchase of a special microscope for a hospital in Brazil; at the Foundation Gala our club was recognized with several awards, including for 100% giving, EREY, End Polio Now, and being #1 in the district for per capita AP giving and #3 in the district for Polio Plus. We can be proud of our generosity shown last year.
Following Past President Wayne’s third call for nominations for executive positions, the following Rotarians were elected to serve in the 2021-2022 Rotary year: Past President Veronica Lopez, President Leon Jensen, President-Elect Stephen Richardson, Vice-President Claudia Trigo, Secretary Bob Lukie, Treasurer Anthony Ball, and Directors Allan Richmond, Jim See, Nora Truman, Les Clay, Wayne Wiebe and Rudy Storteboom.
Foundation Chair Wayne read The Rotary Foundation moment for this week and you can check it for yourself by clicking What is The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisors.
Our guest speaker was Lilianne Fuller, speaking about the Nicomekl lunch program. In 2010 five students needed lunches provided, and now that number has reached twenty and is going up. Details about the program and Lilianne’s presentation can be found December 10, 2020. Lilianne would like ten more volunteers to make two lunches at their homes and deliver them to the school once a month, as per these suggestions. We enjoyed the Q&A following her presentation.
We again discussed ideas for our social meeting to be held on the 17th. The Social Committee plans to meet to put the finishing touches on the program.
We pledged happy and sad dollars to Polio Plus, and raised our glasses in a toast to Canada to end our meeting.