President Ian’s quote of the week:
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”
Thomas Edison
Lots of visitors this week:
Mayor Mike Clay
SUCCESS: Ali Parandeh, Juliana Shek & Jackie Hong
Ali, Jackie and Julianna. Julianna have brought us countless volunteers over the last 3 years to work at our RIBFEST event. Thank you to SUCCESS.
SUCCESS: Ali is the Regional Manager for SUCCESS. They provide Immigrant Settlement and Integration Programs.—services to support immigrants in their settlement journey.
Last Year we donated $1,000 for their volunteer efforts at Rotary RIPS and RIBFEST. They used this money to secure a venue (Port Moody Inlet Centre Theatre) for their annual recognition ceremony thanking their membership for their efforts in the communities (Tri-Cities). All of their coordinating, organizing, training, etc. is done by volunteers for volunteers. Their “we volunteer here” program has over 90 active volunteers giving ove 10,700 hours of contribution which is the equivalent of $200,000+ dollars of work/time. They recognized their “Champions of SUCCESS”.
Darrell had a wonderful trip to France and talked about our past Exchange Student Pierre......would be great to have that program again in our Rotary Club.
PP Mike's Dad joined us from Sherwood Park, AB
President Ian gave out 2 pins this week for 2 Rotarians who are INSPIRATIONS...... Congratulations to Danne Dunlop and Bill Lawrie who both never say no. Apparently Danne's truck is 'always' available and Bill is our GREEN MACHINE !!! and was recognized for our Rotary Green Team’s effort with recycling at this year’s RIBFEST.
Our favourite meetings are when our members do their Classification Talk and this week we were not disappointed. Thank you to Heather for a great talk today . She met her husband when she was in grade 9 and he was in grade 13. She invited him to a Sadie Hawkins dance and he chose to take her out first and then invite her to the dance rather than be asked by a girl. When the kids came along (in Prince George) she became a Beaver Leader in their “pack and also volunteered at “Meals on Wheels”. She showed us some samples of “cross stitched pillows she has done. She worked at Toys and Wheels, a Shoe Store and the Holiday Inn (who knew Holiday Inn was where Stevie Wonder stayed whenever he traveled for concerts etc. and every one was set up with the amenities in the same place so he would be comfortable wherever he stayed. Her Mom and Dad were married for 73 years. Heather moved to Port Moody and we are so lucky to have Heather in our Rotary Club.
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Mike will facilitate discussion re: Legacy projects for the money we put aside each year from our RIBFEST earnings. By the next Board meeting the committee will have established criteria/parameters. Everyone need to think about potential projects that will keep our name front and centre in the community.
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