We welcomed the new calendar year with Meeting # 25 of our Rotary year. Following another fine rendition of O Canada, Wayne welcomed us with “Our Rotary theme this year is Rotary Connects the World. I’d like to see our club connect with a few more people and increase our membership. How to do this will be one topic for our meeting next week.”
With the recent resignations of Jim Armstrong and Reza Mahmoodi, our club committees have been rearranged slightly as follows.
Club Committees: Membership Claudia, Les, Rudy, Wayne, Sonia
Fundraising Leon, Bob H.
Social Lana, Navnit, John
Foundation Veronica, Wayne, Brendan, Jorda,
Stephen
Scholarship Jonah, Claudia, Wayne, Bob H.,
Stephen, Veronica
Funding Requests Allan, Wayne, Claudia, Rudy,
Stephen, Veronica, Lana
Rotaract Jonah, Veronica
Arboretum Les, Navnit, Bob L.
LRCCF Brendan, Navnit, Veronica
Investment Anthony, Jonah, Allan
Ribfest Bob Hillmer, Leon Jensen
Our guest speaker was Michelle Sweeney from St. John Ambulance, who shared information about her organization. Among other things we heard about Paws 4 Stories, a therapy dog program. As people become more aware of the benefits of therapy dogs and how they help calm people, the demand for the program is increasing.
We collected happy and sad dollars for Polio Plus, then closed with a toast to Canada. For more photos please visit January 9, 2020.