The Founder, Past President and Honorary member of our Rotary Club, Gene Vickers came to donate $5000.00 for our next Belize project. Gene is now a Rotarian in Vernon, BC and he and a couple of their members would like to join the next group going to Belize for the RI Global Grant. This is a great start, along with the $20K from our Rotary Club.
Gene presented our Rotary Club of Port Moody with the Banner from his Rotary Club the Vernon Silver Star Club. Ian MacPhail, one of the Committee members of the Legacy project spoke about Legacy and why they the committee believe we should go ahead with it. The Committee members were: Alan, Darrell, Neil, Victoria, Mike P and Ian.
He listed 3 things:
Finance, Time Line and How Rotary will be perceived.
Thank you to everyone who spoke on this motion.
On a happier note, Gary spoke about Thirsty Thursday and low and behold a couple from Germany were told by Assistant Governor Maureen that our Rotary Club was meeting at the Legion for Thirsty Thursday. They were at the Rotary International Conference in Calgary and now travelling around. Gary said they knew more about our area than he did. He said they were a lovely couple, first to arrive and last to leave. Well done everyone for being excellent hosts.
Happiest of Birthday's to Krista - Darrell's wifeAND to Monica for 1 year in Rotary.
Great to see Tom out to our Club again.
Always a good turnout to clean up Heritage Mtn Blvd., making our Community a better place to live.
Thank you to all who came to help AND to advertise Port Moody Rotary RIBFEST
Summer Sunday's knocked it out of the park again this past weekend with thousands attending. Rotary was acknowledged many times as 93.5 WAVE was 'on site' reporting live. George and I both spoke. I talked about ROTARY RIBFEST this coming weekend and asked for everyone to come on down. Mr. 50/50 Frank spoke live as well, and Gayle was there with a Share volunteer to sell tickets. The jackpot went up with all the good selling they did.
Our Rotary Club of Port Moody is getting great exposure at Summer Sunday's . This is the tent set up about 10.00 AM
And Speaking of Port Moody Rotary RIBFEST - YES IT IS THIS WEEKEND. Everyone keep track of your steps for the weekend and we will once again guess BILL'S !!!
Everyone wear comfortable shoes, bring a sweater/jacket for the evening and comfy shoes. Also a change of shirt if you want to have a beverage after your shift. We are still in need of cashiers, & ID checkers so please if you have a few hours this weekend, VOLUNTEER PLEASE !!!
Thank you to all the committee members who have worked so hard to make
2025 PORT MOODY ROTARY RIBFEST a huge success.
Alison - our fearless leader
Glen - Marketing Man
Peter Muir - the man that does it all - Volunteer co-ordinator and shhhh no one needs to know
Al - Main Bar & VIP
Alan - logistics - huge job
Ramin - IT specialist
Susan & Monica - Rotary VIP
Cleone - Family Fun Zone
Mike - Judging & the guy who talks to all guests and helps wherever he can
Clayton - Parking extraordinaire !!
Bill - the GREEN MACHINE
George - Mayor of Music - Best music at any RIBFEST
Frank - Mr. 50/50
Trish - shhhhh no one needs to know what she does
Ian - Ribbers
Joan - Counter gal
Linda - Ambassadors/Greeters - lots of donations at the gates due to great volunteers !!!
And of course there is NO way we could put on an event this size without our AMAZING volunteers!!!!
Take a deep breath and lets make this the BEST EVER !!!!