Nice to see so many guests

President Ian’s quote “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘what are you doing for others?’”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Help Needed :  Al S’s trailer will be in Winnipeg this July so not available for us to use as a Cash counting office for RIBFEST. If anyone has one we can use contact Al S.

Cleone announced she was holding a cleaning, sorting, photographing, cataloguing party at her place to prepare donated toy for our Toy Lending Library.

Steve Witiuk will co-chair the New Generations committee with Patty.

Claire announced she is exploring a location for “Before I Die Wall”. Moody Ales are a possibility. Great initiative Claire.

Mike P gave an update of where we are on the Legacy project.

SFPP planning meeting January 23^rd at Alan K’s home.

We are planning a Pub Night for a Monday or Wednesday night in early February. Proceeds to go to offset costs for those going to Kenya this winter.

President Ian announced 2 recipients for his Service Award for this week—Brian Dunne for his work getting our guests presentations on our screen

and Peter Cuthbert for all his readings to the Manor residents. Thanks to both of you.

Pie Day  was last Friday at the Manor—Thank you to Danne for distributing pies on the last Friday of each month.  If anyone would like to help Danne, please let him know.

Mike Clay talked about having a preview of the new Port Moody Legion. It should open this March and Mike suggested we all join.

Guest speaker: Our own President Ian MacPhail gave us an update on our Club’s International Ecuador Project dealing with “Preventative screening program for cervical cancer and developmental hip dysplasia in infants”. It was 2 years in the planning stage and the Team is working with 3 groups representing Hospitals and Universities.

--First visit was July 2018. Introduced everyone, developed comraderie, explained new technologies and mission. The area covered covers a large area and only 6 Doctors so working with Post Graduates and Medical Students. Initially they screened 100 infants for hip dysplasia (Now over 600) and nearly 50 for cervical cancer (now over 100) the added patients with the Graduates and medical students.  They use a video conferencing system called 2-Zoom which allows for consultations with the Doctors at home in Canada. Ian explained the clinics are set up close to the churches as all residents attend church regularly so staff can reach more patients easily without travelling all over the back country.

--Next visit is scheduled for November 24-28. Mission will be to expand lectures, revisit examination techniques, patient data and ensure the project is on track to sustainability. 

 Loading a container to Equador this Saturday .