--Saturday October 7th 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 8th. 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 9th 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”