Our opening conversations covered being hacked on Facebook, flooring at a daughter’s place, when to start singing Christmas songs, phoning missing colleagues, and more. “Well, Veronica, the clock says seven,” reminded Les O’clock, and Veronica dutifully opened the meeting. Leon’s offering of O Canada was played by the Surrey City Orchestra. I can’t speak for the others, but the singing was great at my house. President Veronica welcomed guests Andrea and Rianna Stiller, our speakers this evening.
Announcements: Rotary Opens Opportunities; the 50/50 Mega Draw has now reached $102 840 in sales; we’ll have first call for our election; Victoria Biggs will be joining us next week, followed by Lillianne Fuller the following Thursday; remember to register all paper ticket sales for our big draw.
Past President Wayne called for nominations for all the executive positions and announced that he had already filled two: Past President Veronica and President Leon. The following nominations were made tonight, and the second call will be made next week. VP; Claudia Trigo; Sec. Bob Lukie; Treas. Anthony Ball; Director: Allan Richmond, Jim See, Nora Truman, Les Clay, Wayne Wiebe, Claudia Trigo, Rudy Storteboom, and Lana Hart. No nominations were received for President Elect.
Foundation Chair Wayne read the Foundation Moments for last week and this week, and you can read what he read by clicking What does The Rotary Foundation do with its Money? and Rotary’s Areas of Focus (Part 1 of 2). For more information please visit: Rotary Youth Exchange and its global and local impact.
Guest speakers Andrea and Rianna spoke about Rotary Youth Exchange and the many lives touched by this program. Andrea is a Chilliwack Rotarian heavily involved in the program and Rianna is a former Youth Exchange student (who went to France) who is now active in Rotaract.
Happy and sad dollars were pledged, and we raised our glasses in a toast to Canada to end our meeting.
Note: Treasurer Anthony will be collecting the happy and sad dollars pledged for Polio Plus from September 3 to November 19, 2020. For more photos please visit November 26, 2020 Cheers!