Our pre-meeting conversations are always enjoyable, and tonight we were having such a good time that we delayed the start of the meeting to allow more social interaction. President Veronica called meeting #10 to order and reminded everyone of our theme, “Rotary Opens Opportunities.”
Leon played a version of O Canada from the Stanley Cup Playoffs to lead our singing of our anthem.
Announcements: Rotary is moving to seven areas of focus; Veronica presented a video showing “Rotary Supports Education;” facemasks with Rotary imprinting are available for purchase; our 50/50 Mega Draw tickets will officially go on sale online on September 8, and members are encouraged to buy early; and DG Carol Tichelman will be visiting us next week.
Foundation chair Wayne read the Rotary Foundation announcement for the week. Click What is a Paul Harris Society Member? to read the short article. Club members were reminded that the District’s offer to match recognition points for any donations of $250 US or more has been extended to the end of September. As neither the Social Committee nor the Tip ‘n Taste Committee has met, neither reported to our meeting tonight.
We welcomed Kim Houlind from Ishtar Women’s Resource Society as our special guest and speaker. Kim will send her powerpoint presentation to Secretary Trisha so you may be able to review it here soon. Langley has two transition houses, Ishtar and Libra, to help women and families when needed.
Anthony collected credit card payments, Wayne recorded happy and sad dollar pledges, some donated straight to their own collection containers, and we closed with a toast to Canada. For more photos please visit September 3, 2020.
