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DG comes to visit

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Sep 22, 2017

Visitors today were:

Khayanga Wasike - Kenya - We only have one more meeting with Khayanga and then she returns to Kenya. She has such a beautiful spirit.

Karen Rockwell -We found out today that she was a former exchange Student

DG Lindagene Coyle and AG Preet Paul

Lindagene wants us all to join her on the Cruise for District Conference. 'I'm on Board' May 8-12....Sign up today. go to the website: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/50004/SitePage/district-conference-1

President Mike presented Dan Gallant with a new attendance bar for his name badge—37 years of 100% attendance. Way to go Dan!

Rotary RIPS 9 am Saturday October 14^th. Tree Planting 10 am Saturday October 21^st.

Special meeting for us—District Governor, Lindagene Coyle, was our guest speaker. Our 5050 district has 57 clubs and she will meet with all of them in her year as D/G. Port Moody Rotary Club was 1 of only a few in the District to receive the Presidential Citation this year.

Rotary International President 2017/18 is Ian Riseley and his Theme is “Rotary Making a Difference” which is what we really do as Rotarians. President sets his priorities for the year—Tree Planting is one of his initiatives for this year.

District Vision is revisited every 5 years —to be THE Service Club of choice in our community. Clubs to work collaboratively within the District; Club membership growth is #1 priority; Support the Foundation; Leadership development and training; Youth programs; public image; and be sure Rotary brand is a consistent message.

Training events upcoming:

Vision to Plan September 30^th, Grants seminar, Rotary Learning Institute March 10^th 2018, District Training Day April 7^th 2018.

Communication tools—Read monthly Peace Arch Journal, go to the website, have a “my Rotary” account to access info at Rotary.org, post on Rotary District 50/50 Facebook account, post your business on networking plus—where possible do business with Rotarians.

District Conference May 8-12 2018. Cruise from Seattle to Victoria/Vancouver and back. Fun, Fellowship, and Family

President’s Peace Building Conference February 9-11 2018.

2018 International Convention will be in Toronto June 23-27.

Two amazing Rotarians were picked by President Mike for the 'Rotarian Who Makes a Difference' pin.....presented by DG Lindagene

Cleone & Trudy......very well deserved.

DID YOU?

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 24, 2017

DID YOU?

YOU STILL CAN ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2017

Wear Purple

Posted by Cleone Todgham on Sep 20, 2017

Wear or doing anything #purple to increase mental health and awareness on October 10th is important.

If you go to the Light Up Purple website, you can see all the supporters we have for the 2017 Light Up campaign.

www.lightuppurple.com

Terry Fox Run

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 17, 2017

Port Moody Terry Fox Run was excellent this year. Thank you Rotary Club of Port Moody for taking on the REGISTRATION once again and for Claire for taking the 'lead'. Big turnout from our Club for sure.

Rotary Meeting on September 13th. 2017

Posted by Terry Miller on Sep 16, 2017

Terry is now into 'trick photography' ....Great job.

Oktoberfest

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 16, 2017

Come join us at Port Moody OKTOBERFEST Friday, October 22nd, 2017 at 5:30- 6:00 pm.

It is so much fun.

We have a reserved table in the tented Beer Garden....

BEER

Port Moody Oktoberfest 2017 is pleased to serve Original "München Oktoberfest" beers, Paulaner, and Hacker-Pschorr.

FUN

Our mission is to bring an authentic Bavarian Oktoberfest to Port Moody. Giant Jenga, Cornhole, Baloons for families, hockeypucks, facepainting and much more.

FOOD

Original Munich Pork Hock, From South Tyrol; Schnitzel, Original Munich Oktoberfest Bratwurst; also Pretzels, Corn, Lederhosen und much much more...

BANDS

Featuring: Oktoberators, Rheinlander Band, and Special Guest: Billy Jones Live!

Mosiac

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 16, 2017

Make Your Mark on Canada’s History with the “Canada 150 Mosaic”.

On Culture Days - September 29, 30 and October 1st - residents, neighbours, friends and community organizations in Port Moody are invited to express their patriotism as part of the continued celebration of Canada’s 150 Sesquicentennial by creating a large-scale Mosaic.

Conceived in collaboration with the City of Port Moody, and the Mural Mosaic team, this community project creates a unique opportunity for Port Moody residents to make your mark on Canada’s history through the painting of art tiles.

You, your neighbours, friends and associates are invited to paint mosaic tiles at the Port Moody Station Museum (2734 Murray St, Port Moody). Participants of all ages and skills will have the opportunity to paint their own 4” by 4” aluminum primer-coated panel. Port Moody’s mural will be comprised of over 725 tiles. Tile painting will take place on:

- September 29: 3:00pm - 7:00pm

- September 30: 10:00am - 6:00pm

- October 1: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Each tile will fit into its place in the unique overall mural concept specially designed for Port Moody’s portion of the commemorative national mosaic. Upon assembly, these smaller works of art are joined together into one large unified mosaic.

The Port Moody Mosaic will be installed at the Port Moody Recreation Complex once the current renovations have been completed.

Clean Up Heritage Mtn. Blvd. September

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 09, 2017

Yes we did it.....not much rain while we were cleaning up BUT we did collect 7 bags of trash. Well done everyone who came to help.

Our Little Lending Library Lady

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 06, 2017

Thank you Gayle for 'stamping' all the children's books to go into our Little Lending Library. I hope that people will now get the message that we would like them to 'Take a Book and Leave a Book'.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 08, 2017

And we are off !!!

and the Party began

Dan's back

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 06, 2017

Another great day for Rotary.....

Dan is back and we are all very happy. Terry photo bombing ;o)

Sara Arthur from Rotaract joined us today.

Sara was presented with a cheque to Rotaract for all the work they did in the CORN HUT for RibFest.

Marilyn & Wade who helped us 'in the Parking' for RibFest came and talked about the TreeFest at Riverview grounds.

Gayle was thrilled with our new 'STAMP' for our Little Lending Library....and Jeannie & Peter photo bombing !!

President Mike gave Dave Stone the 'Rotarian who makes a Difference' pin today for starting off his year as the MC

Jerome Bouvier from Access for Youth was our guest speaker today and today he brought us up to date on the Youth in Our Community.

They have many programs for our YOUTH and "THE BUS" is their signature one. They service the Youth between the ages of 12-23 and the bus is out in our Community Friday and Saturday nights from 7-12PM.

Access also has a "Mall-Based outreach' when 2 workers are at our mall Thursday and Friday from 3 - 8PM. They are dressed in their purple shirts and connect with youth and provide any support they may need.

for more information go to: admin@accessyouth.org or call 604-525-1888.

Jerome gave us all a challenge.....When you see youth anywhere, say HI !!! Ask them how they are and you will be letting them know that you CARE.

Access is having a 'fun' fundraiser on October 1st. at Poirier Arena tickets will be $10.00 each.

CANUCKS ALUMNI vs COQUITLAM FIREFIGHTERS

Mark your calendar

December 1, 2017

Poirier Arena

Doors Open: 6pm

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW.

TO become a sponsor, donate a silent auction item, or volunteer for the event, contact Vishad for more details … events@accessyouth.org

You thought he was kidding

Posted by Linda Balzer on Sep 01, 2017

Peter helped serve beer on Car Free Day and when he told the 'mermaid story' we thought he was kidding. Guess What? He wasn't.

Great Day

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 30, 2017

Another Great Day at Rotary today. Guests this week were:

Khayanga Wasike from Kenya - Always love her huge big smile....

President Mike's lovely wife Christine

and guest of President Mike was Gary Yick [with Dave Stone photo bombing in the back]

Reminders:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.......September 8th, 2017 -

Meet at St. James' Well at 6:00pm AND please remember NOT to open your envelope until you get into the car. ;o)

Terry Fox Run - September 17

Port Moody Council presentation: - September 19th, at 6:45pm - Come one and all in your RIB FEST shirts

Tree Planting - October 21st at Dawes Hill Park 10 -1 All 4 Clubs

September 23^rd RLT program in Mt. Vernon Washington from 8:30-2:30

September 9^th at 2pm there will be a meeting for the Pass Port Club members in Surrey—info to follow—This is for members who can’t attend meeting regularly but want to stay within the Rotary family.

September 30^th Coquitlam is sponsoring an “Amazing Race” event. Go to the Coquitlam Sunrise website for more details.

October 14^th Rotary will be sponsoring RIPS at Noons Creek hatchery from 9am till noon. This where teams of volunteers will help staff remove invasive plants from selected areas of the paths and foreshore. Some teams may be asked to help with doing replanting in cleared areas.

Sponsorship Committee will be set up for RibFest 2018 - If you are interested in being on this committee, please let Alan know.

One of my favourite programs is 'Classification Talks' and today was no exception. Paul Mitchell Banks did his Classification and 'oh my gosh' if you want to talk to someone who knows his way around academia ......Paul is your guy. He is very engaging....if you missed today's meeting, please get to know Paul.....he is a very, very interesting man.

And then there was Peter......he can tell a very 'mean' story about the Golden Spike that we give to all our Guest Speakers. Excellent job Peter.

AND because Paul at the very last minute said he would be our Guest Speaker and do his Classification, President Mike game him a pin showing that Paul is a 'Rotarian who is making a difference'.

Notes from August 23rd meeting

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Aug 29, 2017

--Saturday October 7^th will be RIPS Day (Remove Invasive Plant Species) at the Noon’s Creek Hatchery site. Looking for volunteers. I did it last year and had a great time!!

--Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner will be held Friday evening

September 8^th. Meet at the St. James Well at 6-6:15 to get your directions to your hosts.

--Dues are due NOW

--Presidential Peace Conference will be held in Vancouver February 9^th 2018 at the Hyatt Regency.

--the 2018 Rotary International Conference will be held in June in Toronto. We will try to get a group together to attend. More info to come.

Guest speaker today was Karen Tyrell who is well known as a Dementia Consultant, Educator, Speaker and Author on Dementia. Karen spoke to us about her 20 years of frontline service and her passion for working with patients and their families to help understand the disease and some hints/clues on avoiding confrontation. Her first Dementia Tip was: “we can’t change them. We have to be the ones who change”. And the corollary: would you rather be right or be at peace? Karen writes a monthly newsletter for the CARP national Website each month called “Dear Dementia Solutions” answering questions submitted from family members. She is the author of “Cracking the Dementia Code” Creative Solutions to Cope With Changed Behaviour” and she is the co-creator of an iOS App “Dementia Caregiver Solutions”

Port Moody Terry Fox Run

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 29, 2017

September 17th, 2017 is the Port Moody TERRY FOX run. Our Rotary Club has always done the Registration for this event and this year will be no exception. Please sign up when you get the events page. It is a fun morning and only takes a couple of hours. We live in such a great Community and would be great to have our Club show up once again with our Rotary Shirts on, letting everyone know that we care.

Rotary Meeting August 23, 2017

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 25, 2017

Great to have so many guests again.

'Ador' was 'adorable' and everyone enjoyed his wonderful personality. He is from the Philippines

Karen Tyrell was our guest speaker and she was speaking about her passion.... Dementia......everyone was looking around and thinking 'not me' !!!

Karen is sweet and kind and if you know of anyone who is dealing with Dementia call Personalized Dementia Solutions Inc. She is the one to help!!

Les Schwertz who won the 50/50 at RibFest came to thank us.

Kyayanga from Helping Hearts was with us with her amazing smile and warm heart

Brenda Chenosky talked with Trudy at Car Free Day and joined us for breakfast

PP Al received the 'Rotarian who makes a Difference' pin for all his work organizing the Beer Garden on Car Free Day.

Area 'D' picnic and Car Free Day with President Mike

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 22, 2017

Photos from Area 'D' picnic and Car Free Day with President Mike & Christine

First ever 'CAR FREE DAY'

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 22, 2017

We had our 1st every CAR FREE DAY and it was amazing. Thank you to PP Al S for organizing our Rotary Club to help at the Brewery Row beer garden. Lots of volunteers and lots of fun had by all. We live in a GREAT community.....

This is what our Mayor Mike Clay said about CAR FREE DAY.

"First ever Car-Free Day Port Moody has to go down as an unbelievable success... so great to see the community out on St Johns Street celebrating with our local businesses and having a great time. Young and old, great food, entertainment, activities and just general fun for everyone. Our amazing staff at the City did a great job and I had the amazing privilege of receiving hundreds of complements. "This is amazing, what a great idea" "This is the best event ever in Port Moody" "The organization was terrific, great job" "We should do this every (week, month, year)" "Why haven't we done this before"

"YOU MUST BE SO PROUD!!" - You bet I am !! Proud of our local businesses for REALLY stepping up and bringing an excitement and positive energy to the event that made it far better than we could have imagined.. over 100 of them !! Proud of our very own local talents like Julia Montgomery, Clavinova Nights, and Greg Drummond ! (among others, they were all amazing all day long) Proud of our Council for having the courage to try something new and support our community desire for more fun and free events for families ! Proud of our four local breweries working together as always to promote the City and bring visitors. Proud and grateful to our sponsors Jack FM, Global TV, Hard Rock Casino, Open Road Group, and Westwood Cycle - the support was amazing. And the title sponsors, Onni Group and Bold Development - giving back to the community and stepping up late in the process when we needed them, making this event possible.

So happy that despite the 20+ thousand visitors to Car Free Day, Summer Sundays still had another amazing day at Rocky Point, and the local eateries outside of St Johns also had a great day.

SOOOOO Proud of our great staff and volunteers that made this possible. They all worked a long , hot day in the sun, fueled by Panago pizza and their love of our community and the volunteer spirit was overflowing.. we simply cannot have amazing events without the volunteers and many of the City staff were also volunteering their Sunday to support the event !

But mostly just proud of the amazing community I am luck to be Mayor for...very humbling the residents responded in the most positive way, gathering to have a good time responsibly and safely and so great to see people making new friends and learning about businesses in our City. Businesses that are owned and operated by our friends and neighbours, our kids school mates. Businesses owned by our soccer, hockey, baseball, etc. coaches.

Anyone that says Port Moody has lost our small town character wasn't at car free day - proof once again that the people make the community and our people are the greatest anywhere !

Thank you Port Moody for a great day.. one of the best ever for sure :)

Thanks Wilhelmina Martin for the great photo

Rotary Meeting August 16th, 2017

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 16, 2017

Great meeting today.....2 Birthdays to Celebrate.....Ian & Mike

We had a few guests today.....

Mayor Mike came to visit... Alan mentioned for us all to mark our Calendars for September 17th, for 7:00PM for Council meeting to present to them RIBFEST 2017.....Let's have a good turnout at that meeting. Let's wear our RIBFEST shirts....

Love is in the air today at Rotary

Guests Andy and Michael Berrisford came to Rotary again this week. Michael is visiting from NZ and looks like he may be immigrating.....

Tasha Evans, guest of Patty's came a spoke about the new 'Welcome Post Project' in Port Moody' We will have her come back and speak to us more formally in the future.

Brett Stenner - came to RibFest and wanted to 'check us out'.....Nice to see him

Robert Dubois was back for a second visit......and both our Guests have signed up for GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER....

Speaking of that, Peter is organizing a GUESS WHO's COMING TO DINNER and will be announcing the date very soon.

We had 33 people sign up for this, so will be a wonderful night to get to know our fellow Rotarians & guests better.

No guest speaker this morning, but Darrell asked us what type of programs we would like moving forward. He was given all kinds of suggestions and we are all grateful that Darrell is once again, willing to be the Program Director for our Club. He does a great job, thank you Darrell.....He received a pin today from President Mike for being a Rotarian that is 'MAKING A DIFFERENCE'.....

Guess who

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 10, 2017

Guess who is a new GRANDMA ?

So sweet.....We wish little Alena HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND LOTS OF LOVE

Rotary meeting August 9th, 2017

Posted by Gary Wiggins on Aug 09, 2017

Rotary Speakers Corner - Wednesday August 9, 2017

New View Society – Tiffany Melius and her Board member Aram Askarian

The New View Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 to help people with mental illness. Their motto is “Community Health Through Mental Health”. They offer

young adult transition into society
young adult programming (movie night, pitch in kitchen)
peer support (wellness recovery action plan, recovery support training)
1:1 staff ratio
housing support
social recreation programs
support employment
sports teams/activities (exercise therapy)
first aid training.

Some of the Society statistics are:

600 members are ministered to yearly
staff of 27
20 different programs
9 special member events yearly
40 members attend club house everyday
100 referrals yearly
45 members employed through supported employment social enterprises (Crazy Cookies, Suds in a Bucket)
56 hours/week vocational support t residents
6 residential buildings in Port Coquitlam
51 residents housed
161 are served/month in community living support

Strategic priorities are:

Internal Systems
- Board development
- Information technologist
- Human Resources
- Risk management
- Records management
- Process documentation management
- Financial stability
Funding
- Maintain funds & expand
- Hire a fundraiser

Immediate needs:

funding
IT Infrastructure
peer support
potential partnerships

At New View Society we understand the challenges our people face in finding meaningful employment. Our Social Enterprises (operated directly through our Clubhouse) provide our members with flexible and inclusive employment in a caring and supported environment.

We also had lots of guest this week.

Yvonne had her husband and brother visiting

Andy & Michael Berrisford

Robert Dubois visited us after volunteering at Ribfest

Clive Evans came to talk about the Fall Classic on September 14th, 2017. [sorry Clive forgot to take your photo]

Don't forget about Car Free Day on August 20th, 2017. We are helping in the Beer Garden.

Guests August 2nd, 2017

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 07, 2017

Lauren Hinnon was our Guest Speaker from Canuck place.

Severin Wolf came to the meeting after he volunteered for RibFest.

Janet found us on the RI website and we were happy to meet her also. Janet is a past Rotarian from Uganda.

Summer Sundays picnic in the Park

Posted by Linda Balzer on Aug 07, 2017

Summer Sunday's picnic in the park was a huge success. Thank you to Trudy for organizing....We had a great turnout, the food was plentiful and the MUSIC was FANTASTIC.!!! The biggest crowd ever !!!

Great to see so many Rotarians with their families and friends.

Jackie and Bill were there with Bill in a 'sling'.....Hope he heals quickly !!!

Peter.....you were there.....See I did get your photo......

More thank you's

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Aug 03, 2017

Hi Bill!

So sorry for the late reply! We are still glowing from the event!

First off, thank you for hosting Ribfest and giving us the opportunity to help out! It was ran very well, and we can't wait to be back for next summer! It's not just coming from me. I'm hearing it from all our scouts who went, and from the volunteers that we met at the event! Thanks for bringing together so many dedicated volunteers from the community, and managing us so well!

We are so happy to hear that the event recycled 20% more this year!! This must have been because you managed your team so well! 😉 Thank you again for a wonderful weekend!

This is what was recycled.:

We are very proud of our past recycling efforts for the big event at Rocky Point Park and we were again committed to this important initiative and element of the event in 2017! Below are some highlights from this year's event:

Organic Recycling

We filled and tipped 194 wheeled 240 L green waste carts - that's as much as 46,560 L of green waste! This is an increase from 2016 as we filled 160 carts last year!
5,000 KG or 11,000 pounds of organic waste was diverted from landfills into compost at RibFest this past!

We also processed Mixed Single Stream Recycling, Cardboard Recycling, Park Garbage, and Ribber's Garbage in addition to:

Plastic Outer Wraps and Bags

All 4 stations had large clear plastic bags we used to collect any and all plastic outer wraps and the bags were taken to the Encorp Return It Depot each day for handling.

Recyclable Bottles and Cans

All 4 stations also had large clear plastic bags where we collected all the plastic bottles, Aluminum cans, etc, and consolidated them for daily pick up by a recycling company we contracted.

From past member and PP Ron Baker who came over from the Island

It's a great event for the community and for all the clubs involved. And by the way, I think the organization of the event was good last year and better this year.

And I was also very impressed by the music this year. George did a great job!

Ron

Kids Zone

Posted by Cleone Todgham on Aug 02, 2017

Thank-you soooooo much everyone for making the Kid Zone at our Ribfest so much fun!

Vida for organizing the facepainting team and making everyone smile with her wonderful works of art.
Patty, Don, Carly and Gene for working with the Interactors and helping them rock the kid zone with the human foosball, tot zone, and Youth in Action Tents.
Trudy and Linda for providing us with such AMAZING volunteers!
Al and Scott for fetching all of our stuff! I know we are a pain with blocks and pool noodles etc.
Ian for the tables, electricity, maps and all the other logistics.
Bill for having a recycling station in just the perfect spot.
George for the great music to foosball, paint, gaga ball, climb and play by.
Alan for negotiating, organizing and just making it happen.
And everyone else that just made it happen and encouraged us along the way!!!

Yay Team!!!

Cleone and Danne

A Special Thanks to my Bro!

Danne, is always there quietly behind the scenes. He is the creative and practical one that built the foosball with my brother Paul, knew where to put the salmon to best advantage, cut, painted and sets the block art with flair. He is the responsible one that hangs onto cheques, contracts, keeps the sponsors connected and sets them up. He is the chauffeur, the music guy, the sounding board, the calm one and My Bro!

We are so lucky to have him.

Cleone

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CANUCKS ALUMNI vs COQUITLAM FIREFIGHTERS