Happy Volunteer Week to all of our amazing, hard working Rotary volunteers! Thank you for the countless ways you support our community and share the incredible spirit of Rotary—bringing good to our world through inclusion, kindness, and service above self.
And all the work our volunteers do in our international communities!
Our guests these morning are 2 potential Members of our Club:
Devon Wilson – International Development Project Manager/Passionate Humanitarian Leader for Climate Change Resilience, Female Empowerment, & Poverty Reduction
AND Lisa Rae Simons, Musician/Performer/Teacher/Financial Design Planner
Our club would be so very proud to have you both as part of our Rotary family!
Alan Schmelzel, one of our chartered members, gave his Classification Talk this morning for all of us who hadn’t heard his first talk many years ago. Thank you again Al!
Another proud moment for our club this morning with President Alison & PE Darrell awarding Brian Dunne his Paul Harris +2 Saphire pin. This pin is awarded by Rotary International and is symbol of recognition that Brian has made significant contributions to the Rotary Foundation Annual Fund, PolioPlus, or an approved Rotary Foundation grant. Congratulations Brian!
Cleone popped in thru Teams this morning from Belize talking about the toys that were donated by our Rotary clubs distributed out to awaiting excited children!
Congrats to Max - this week’s wine draw winner!
Fun time at the City of Port Moody Volunteer Appreciation Dinner - it was nice seeing a lot of our friends celebrating together!
Letter from Addie Doyle, our club’s exchange student to Brazil:
"Hello Port Moody Rotary Club! :) I know I haven't been the most actively involved with Rotary back in Canada, but I assure you it's because I'm having lots of fun here! I'm so eternally grateful for this amazing opportunity to experience a new country and culture even if I don't tell you as often as I should! :D One thing that's been the most fun about being here is really seeing all the cultural differences in comparison to Canada. Since I arrived about 7 months ago I've seen many differences between Canadian and Brazilian culture, some of the ones I've found most interesting though are the food, school, and community here. The food in Brazil is actually pretty similar to what I expected when I arrived; rice, beans, red meat (bbq), potatoes, fresh salads, and the occasional grilled fish. I do love the food here, but I still find myself missing the variety of foods we have in Canada, especially in a big city like Vancouver. So, what was really interesting to me was the things Brazil had taken from other cultures and made their own! At all three of my host families my host parents have made chicken stroganoff. When I told my Grandma on facetime a few months ago, she told me she makes it too, only with beef. Which is apparently what most of the rest of the world does. Brazilians call it Estroganofe and use chicken, tomato sauce, and heavy cream in replacement to Beef, mustard, and sour cream. I did some research because I love it so much! My second favourite food Brazil has adopted and changed is their fried sushi. Fried sushi is so beloved in Brazil I could swear you find it more often than regular sushi, and multiple of my friends at school only eat the fried version. Sushi and Japanese food are so popular here as well that they have sushi day for lunch 2 days a week in my school's cafeteria, which I have no complaints about ;). Of course they also have their own amazing stand out foods like Feijoada, Churrasco, Moqueca, and their Picanha. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a meat eater and don't enjoy Brazil's most famous foods as much as most others would. School was another huge culture shock for me. It starts at 7 in the morning and students can be at the school until as late as 7 pm in classes. In the morning at my school, we do the regular curriculum (which is the same for everyone in the grade), but after that in the afternoon (after a lunch break at around 1:30) students can choose a variety of classes such as specialized science classes ( anatomy, mixed focus, advanced chemistry, etc), history classes like history of war or in-depth Brazilian history, and even classes like mixed history and geography, or the literature, science, history class Prof. Gabriel and Prof. Aluisio are teaching (no, I don't know how those subjects fit together). Then, in the evenings (after 4pm) students participate in a sports or athletic class such as weight lifting, pilates, futsal, and volleyball. I'm personally of the opinion that this is much to long a day for students. And I'm grateful the afternoon and evening classes are only on specific days! My last cultural shock/difference was the community here. Brazilians are probably the nicest people I've ever met, and I've been to quite a few countries. I remember being so terrified to be here when I first arrived. Then, everyone ended up being so kind and inclusive. They welcomed me into their homes, helped me with assignments for school, taught me the customs and culture, and showed me the city and its people. Everyone here has helped me grow as a person over my time here so far, and I can't wait to see what else they have to teach me (I'm tearing up over my laptop as I write this). And I can't wait to show everyone back home who I've become when I get back! :) With so much thankfulness and happiness wished to you all, Addie"
Who are these beautiful, young people?
Congratulations to 60 years of Marriage Hazel & Gary – still young and in love!!
A huge Thank You to our Neil Nyberg, shown here with our great security detail. Neil did a superb job organizing and managing our Beer Gardens at the Inlet Spring Regatta Dragon Boating. And a big Thank You for all the volunteers who came out to help in any way you could - all your hard work helped make this another fun, successful event !
And a huge shout out goes out to all the gentlemen who showed up from the Innervisions Recovery Society who helped us with the set up our tents, equipment, etc.
Another great community event and lots of fun - thanks to all the paddlers who participated in this year's Inlet Spring Regatta out there giving it their all!
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Wednesday, April 30th DEADLINE for Sign Up to Kids Camp - First Week of July! Please contact George Broderick for more details.
Please get out to the Inlet Centre Fire Hall to give blood – Tuesday, May 5th! Donating blood can be a life saving event.
Looking for volunteers for our Shred-A- Thon, June 6th. Event starts at 9:00 and ends at 3:00. Organizer: Linda
Thank you President Alison for another great club meeting!
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