Guests: Molly Miller (speaker next week)on U-bicycle program in the Tri-Cities,
Brian Wormold (2nd meeting), Ryan Edgington (being inducted into Club) and
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Preet Pall (Assistant Governor) our guest speaker on Rotary Friendship Exchange.
It's always a great day at Rotary when we induct a new member and this week was GREAT.....
President Mike presided over the very happy task of inducting a new member into our Club. Ryan Edgington works for RBC/Dominion Securities, he is married with 2 kids and we all joined in welcoming him to “the Best Rotary Club in Canada”.
Ryan Edgington was inducted and we all look forward to working with him in the coming years. Welcome Ryan
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Upcoming events:
1)Dragon Boat Regatta Sunday Apr. 22nd Rocky Point Park. We ran Beer Tent.
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2)Meadow Ridge Wine Festival April 28th
3)Fire Fit Games at Inlet Park April 28/29. We will run a small Beer Tent both days
4)Eagle Ridge Hospital Hike for Hospice May 6th morning. We have not been asked to do registration this year
5)May 10th SFPP at the Galleria. Foodies are signed up and more brewers this year than last. NEED TO SELL TICKETS
6)May 12th May Day Parade in PoCo. Our PoCo Club still needs volunteers if you are available. Times are from 8 am through 1 pm.
7) District Conference Cruise is coming up—Ian and Trish plus Yvonne are attending.
8) Gayle talked about installation dinner coming up Thursday June 14th
Directors - please bring your 'directors pins' to Rotary this week and please let Linda know if you will be attending and if you will be bringing a guest. Your guest cost will be $50.00. Thanks
9)April 24th 7pm Aria RibFest meeting featuring updates on Kid’s Zone and Volunteer recruitment [ please let Linda know how many volunteers you will need if different from our Ribfest website.
10)May 6th we will be doing the registration for the alzheimer’s walk at the Galleria. Will be from 2:30-3:15.
11)June 23rd (Saturday) we will be taking a booth/table at the 1st annual Port Moody Community Fair. A chance for residents to find out about community groups, what they do and possibly volunteering. Runs from 10am-4pm and we will be soliciting volunteers to work the booth.
12)June 30th (Saturday of Golden Spike Days) PCT will be ferrying folks from Rocky Point to their Terminals for tours and we have been offered space for a table/tent at the PCT site to talk to interested guests about our Port Moody Rotary Club and sign up volunteers for RibFest as well as possibly selling raffle tickets for RibFest prizes. Signup sheet to follow.
13)Cleone announced the Tri-Cities Rotary Clubs will be holding a joint information session on Human Trafficking. She will follow up with more info later this week.
President Mike presented Jeannie with his “Rotarian Making a Difference” pin for all she does for our Club.
President Mike presented Past President Patty with a “Make it Happen” pin and the certificate for the Club Citation our Club achieved in her Year PLUS she received her Paul Harris PLUS 5 pin—Congratulations Patty.
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Our guest speaker today is not a stranger to us, Preet Pall is our Assistant/Area Governor, and she was here to talk about this year’s District Friendship Exchange which went to a District in Thailand. Locations are established each year based on friendships that develop between District Governors. The district selects a chair whom requests volunteers and supervises the selection of travelers. It is a physically taxing trip so if you are going on one of these 2week plus trips you need to be able to walk for up to 3 hours at a time. 98% of the Thai population is Buddhist so there were lots and lots of Buddha statues, music, great food and friendships made. The Thai flag has a wide horizontal blur band in the centre with 2 smaller white bands on either side and edged with 2 red bands 1 each at the top and bottom. The Blue band stands for the Royal family (Everyone in Thailand loves the Royals), the White bands represent their Buddhist faith, and the Red bands represent the blood the citizens are willing to spill to protect their country. The trip was planned to coincide with their District Assembly so they could meet the most Rotarians so when the 12 person Thai group come here April 25th they will be centered with an American group for the 1st week then with the Mission Club for the 2nd week then will be attending our Conference on the cruise.
Our 50/50 draw is over $800.00, Ian’s ticket was drawn but no Ace of Spades! TOOO Bad Ian!!
YOU BETTER BELIZE IT !!! We are BACK
Thank you to Al & Daryl and Dan for coming to Belize. To me it was a very worthwhile trip to see all the good work that our Rotary Club of Port Moody is doing in Belize. We couldn't have had a better host than Cisco Woods and we were all very grateful for the time he spent with us. It's hard to explain the feeling you get when you actually do a 'hands on project' in an other country....Ian can attest to that also with the project we helped with in Equador. Rotary Club of Port Moody should be very proud of all the International work we do. Thank you so much on behalf of BELIZE. More to follow.....
