Summer has just started but our committee has been hard at it since January.
The Awards Night is set for October 25th.2018 at Surrey Arts.
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INSTALLATION NIGHT 2018
Guildford Golf & Country ClubJul 05, 2018
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
President
President Elect
Past President
Director
Secretary
Treasurer
chairman
chairman
Chairman
Welcome to our club!
Service Above Self
First & 3rd Thursday. First 6:15 PM, Third 7:15 AM
Ricky's All Day Grill
Ricky's All Day Grill
8958 152 Street
Surrey, BC V3R 4E4
Canada
Surrey, BC V3R 4E4
Canada
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Thursday March 22nd 2018 will be noted as a significant date in the history of the Rotary Club of Surrey.
The night representatives from the Rotary Club of Surrey and the the Rotary Club of Surrey-Guildford got together to explore a joint relationship.
A total of 10 Rotarians met.Four from Surrey (John Edwards,Bryce McElroy,Deane Gurney and Dick Wareham)and 6 ,members from Surrey-Guildford. (Norman Gluck -President,Art Claxton,Ashok Bhagnari
We exchanged notes on our current club projects ,Active Membership numbers and meeting schedules.
The group concluded it would be in both clubs best interest to proceed to explore a joint relationship and between now and July 1st work in tandem meeting together and working on projects as One. A 6 person committee three members of each club would continue to flesh out a meeting Schedule and programs for the balance of this Rotary year. John Edwards,Bryce McElroy,Deane Gurney would represent our club.
It was agreed that initially we would hold all general and business meetings at Ricky's All day Grill 8958 152nd Street. It was further agreed that we would have 3 scheduled meetings a month. One Dinner,One Breakfast and One Social event.
The initial schedule is as follows:
Social Night Thursday March 29th. 6:30 pm at the Big Ridge Brewing Co. 5580 152 St, Surrey
Joint Business meeting Thursday April 5th. 6:15 pm at Ricky's All day Grill 8958 152nd Street,Surrey
General Meeting Thursday April 19th. 7;15 am at Ricky's All day Grill 8958 152nd Street,Surrey
More to come from the committee.. Stay tuned.
We have now re-structured our Meeting schedule to better fit our membership.
First phase in December we moved to Thursday Night Meetings as Noon tuesdays were
not working.
Final phase at our last Board meeting January 11th.2018 we set 2 fixed meetings per month
with other meetings to be called as needed for Socials or Projects and Special events.
First Thursday of the month will be a joint Board/Business meeting.
The 3rd Thursday of the month will be General Club meeting with Speaker/Presenter
Since we last reported Starfish is back in full form with 25 packs being distributed to 2 schools
Lena Shaw and KB Woodward. We will be expanding to 35 packs this month.
Our Christmas Social on December 19th.was a resounding success with great member participation Good food at
Vlassis Greek Taverna
Several of our members attended the Guildford Rotary Club Seniors Dinner .. A tremendous event very well supported by North Surrey Secondary School.
Now preparing for our Annual Grade 3 Dictionary project (ROTARY CARES) to take place in February
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Polio this week as of 10 APRIL 2018
Year-to-date 2018 | Year-to-date 2017 | Total in 2017 | ||||
WPV | cVDPV | WPV | cVDPV | WPV | cVDPV | |
Globally | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 96 |
- in endemic countries100 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 22 | |
- in non-endemic countries | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 096 | |
Case Breakdown by Country
2018 2017
WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV
Afganistan 6 0 14 0 Last Onset (WPV) 2 March 2018
Pakistan 1 0 8 0 Last Onset (WPV) 7 March 2018
DR Congo 0 3 0 22 Last Onset (cVDPV) 30 January 2018
Syrian Arab Republic 0 0 0 74 Last Onset (cVDPV) 20 September 2017
Afghanistan
No new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in the past week,Onset was Dec 28 2017
The total number of WPV1 cases for 2018 is seven
Nigeria
No new case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases reported in the past week.The total number of WPV1 cases for 2018 was 0. Total for 2016 was 4
No new cases since 2016
Pakistan
No new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in the past week. The total number of WPV1 cases for 2018 is One.
Central Africa
No new cases of cVDPV2 in the past week .Total number of cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC) is 3 for 2018
The Middle East
In Syria- No new cases of cVDPV2 in the past week. No cases reported in 2018. Total for 2017 was 74
We are now into our 2017-18 Rotary year. Many thanks to Ed Landry for stepping in and guiding us through 2016-17
New Board was installed on July 4th. Our Governor Lynda Gene Coyle did the honours. Nice event at the Guildford Golf Club
So now under the leadership of President John Edwards I understand this year may have a caribbean flavour!
We have two new active members to our club Yeen Chin and Frances Logan. Yep no longer an all male club.
The two ladies bring a breadth of experience and new abilities to enhance our club.
Yeen will be completing a make over of our Marketing and Social Media presence.We need to let others know the opportunities that Rotary provides.
Frances will be replacing John on the IEA(Inclusive Employer Awards ) committee and bring her knowledge from the
employment and enabling area to add to the abilities of the committee. We have taken the past year to re evaluate
the scope of the group with a Strategy and Visioning exercise hence the Awards are in Hiatus for 2017 but will return bigger and better for 2018.
We have had guests visit the club most recent was July 11th.when we had a group from Amritsar India.
We have now added a monthly social/net working event to our calendar .On July 18th we visited the Central City Brewers and were given a tour and learned how they made their Beers. See happy members in the Keg room getting ready for the tasting.
Coming events - Yep Caribbean night August 22nd at the Caribbean Spoon..
On Wednesday May 10th.we had an official presentation of a check for $6650.00 from the Co-operators . Fellow Rotarian Ray Moschuk Started the ball rolling by initiating a call to his district and National Offices and just like the Rotary Foundation Grants leveraged his donation to Provide funding for 10 backpacs for One year. We had representatives from 3 Clubs - Surrey, Surrey-Guidford and Surrey-Newton, The Principal from Lena Shaw Elementary who receive the Backpacs, Serg the captain from the Salvation Army who provide storage for the groceries
Here are some photo's from the event.Watch for article in the Now-Leader and more photo's to come .
Monday March 20th we hosted a multi-club Social meeting at the Knight & Day.
WhiteRock -Semiahmoo and Central City joined us to Socialize and finalize plans for our Earth Day Project set for April 22nd.
A great success we had 37 in attendance. 7 members of Central City,12 members of White Rock-Semiahmoo,6 from our Club
12 Guests including ADG Lynn Spence,DG Elect Lindagene Coyle,Past ADG Pat Bond and Lesley England from Serpentine Hatchery.
John Koropatnisky footed the bill for the food.(Many thanks John) Ray Pacquet provided the dessert (Yummy Cup cakes)
Ray Pacquet from WhiteRock Semiahmoo will co-ordinate the program and advises all is under control program and Duty list to
be sent out shortly.
Bryce McElroy Presented a check for $2,000.00 to Lesley England (Serpentine Hatchery) from Gaming funds to assist with upgrades at the hatchery.
Lindagene Coyle (DG Elect) Inducted 3 new members into Rotary. 2 for Central City and one for White Rock-Semiahmoo.
Bryce presenting check to Lesley England
Lindagene Coyle (DG Elect) Inducting 3 new Rotarians
Some of the group
Planning started last July when contact was made with the School District to confirm we were good to go for 2016. In September I confirmed the enrollment and proceeded to order the Dictionaries. Unforeseen printing delays pushed our usual pre-Halloween delivery to February. This year we delivered 408 dictionaries. in the 6 years we have completed this project we have given out 1576 books.This year we expanded the number of schools to 8 . A total of 6 members(42% of the club) formed the teams for the presentations.
Special thanks to Duane Buchanan and John Campbell who attended 7 of the 8 schools.
On January 31st. Our featured presented was Paul Linza from the ACT Foundation.
He told us about a program working in partnership with BC Emergency Health Services to bring a high school CPR and defibrillator training program to all of the public secondary schools in BC. With the support of community partners, they donate the training mannequins and automated external defibrillator (AED) training units to the schools and the Gr. 10 P. E. Teachers are trained as CPR and AED Instructors for their students and in turn teach CPR to all of their students.
He demonstrated how the AED works. The cost is $3000.00 per school for the set up. Unfortunately our funding has been determined for this Rotary Year.So we will review the request again in the 2017-18 year.
We have confirmed with Gaming that we cannot qualify it under Gaming
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Just reminders.
Please register or decline for Meetings and Events so we can plan for numbers.
You may not receive an invitation/reminder but log into our Webpage and you can see the schedule
in right hand column and respond by selecting date. Good Practice is check at the start of the month
and match with your personal calendar.
Coming up in February is ROTARY CARES dictionary project. I will need help in deliveries
Dates will be posted shortly but look at 2nd and/or 3rd week of February. Each presentation
completes in an hour and I try to schedule 2 per day over 4 days.We have 8 schools
Part of our annual project is Lunch at the Round up Cafe Opened in 1949 True old Diner.
Bridgeview 12834-115a Avenue
Kirkbride 12150-92nd Avenue
Old Yale 10135-132nd.Street
Kennedy Trail 8305-122a Street
Prince Charles 12405-100th.Avenue
Forsyth Road 10730-139th.Street
KB Woodward 13130-106th Avenue
James Ardiel 13751-112th.Avenue
ROTARY FOUNDATION NAMED WORLD'S OUTSTANDING FOUNDATION FOR 2016
The Association of Fundraising Professionals has recognized The Rotary Foundation with its annual Award for Outstanding Foundation.
The award honors organizations that show philanthropic commitment and leadership through financial support, innovation, encouragement of others, and involvement in public affairs. Some of the boldest names in American giving — Kellogg, Komen, and MacArthur, among others —are past honorees.
“We are honored to receive this recognition from the AFP, which gives us even more reason to celebrate during our Foundation’s centennial year,” says Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Kalyan Banerjee. “The continued strong support of Rotary members will help us keep our promise of a polio-free world for all children and enable the Foundation to carry out its mission of advancing world understanding, goodwill, and peace. We look forward to another 100 years of Rotary members taking action to make communities better around the world.” At our Meeting on November 8th.We had the pleasure of being educated in the Myths and Facts of Mental Health. ADG Lynn Spence gave us the benefit of her wealth of knowledge from her years in the Mental Health Field. This is another one of the Benefits of being a Rotarian the access to information and knowledge from the presenters at our weekly meetings.
Dennis fierbach is wrapping up our Benin Water Well project and has prepared a DVD of the events at each well that he will be placing on line for members to view. In addition a shorter version will be placed on of FaceBook. At todays meeting he presented president Ed with a plaque from Gain(who actually installed the wells and provided the training) thanking the Rotary Club of Surrey for our Funding of 5 water wells.
At our Inclusive Employer Awards Night Sept 29th. we presented the MC Marco Pasqua with a Paul Harris Fellowship.
He is a great role model to persons with disabilities showing that they have many abilities and can be included.
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President Lakhjit Sarang presented a truly worthy Paul Harris Fellow.
Great turnout attendance 91%
We have now elected our board for 2017-18 and shored up our current board filling the vacancy left by Jaret st.Andrassy.
Past president John Edwards will join the current board as president elect 2017-18 and director community services 2016-17 Welcome back to the board John
The 2017-18 Board will be:
John Edwards - President
lakhjit Sarang - Past President
Dennis Fierbach - President Elect 2018-19
Bryce McElroy - director Rotary Foundation
Ed Landry - Director Memberhip & PR
Ten Tran. - Treasurer
Dick Wareham - Secretary
As a result of increased business pressures President Lakhjit Sarang has stepped down from position of President of the Rotary Club of Surrey.
Stepping back into the position of President is past president Ed Landry.
An on line vote by the board approved unanimously the interim presidency of Ed Landry to complete our 2016-17 Rotary year for the Rotary Club of Surrey
We wish to thank Lakhjit for his dedication during the first 6 months of his term and for spearheading our clubs involvement in the Starfish backpack program.
When investing in a Charitable Foundation . Key question to ask .. Is my money getting to the people being supported
or is it eaten up with marketing and paid employees?
The Rotary Foundation has a high rating with Charity Navigator for prudent investment and cost containment. Check it out.
FOUR STAR rating.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4553#.VzCVDRUrKV4
The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation funded solely by voluntary contributions from members and friends of Rotary who support its mission to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace. Using Rotary Foundation grants, Rotary's 34,000 clubs across the globe develop and carry out sustainable humanitarian projects and provide scholarships and professional training opportunities that promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, sustain mothers and children, improve education, and strengthen local economies. The Foundation is a worldwide leader in the efforts to eradicate polio through its partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. When Rotary launched its PolioPlus program in 1985, more than 350,000 people were afflicted with polio each year, and the disease was endemic in more than 125 countries. Since 1988, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have immunized over 2.5 billion children, reducing the incidence of polio by 99 percent and eradicating it from all but three countries. Rotary has contributed more than $1 billion and many thousands of hours to eradication effort. The Foundation also funds the training of hundreds of peacemakers through the Rotary Peace Center program, which enables fellows to pursue a master's degree or professional certificate at one of Rotary's partner universities. Through academic training, study, and practice, the fellows become leaders who promote peace and aid conflict resolution in their communities and around the world.
Christina Grammenos the Community Engagement Coordinator with Aunt Leah's Place attended our Meeting May 24th to tell us about a new program under the Aunt Leah's Place umbrella. FRIENDLY LANDLORD NETWORK
The focus of the Friendly Landlord Network is to Connect youth who are aging out of government care programs to Safe and affordable Rental Housing that will enable them to maximize their potential. Individual single bedroom units are what is needed so the Youth has a space that is theirs that they can call home. Having spent the first 19 years of their lives bouncing from Group homes to foster care they need to get some balance in their life so they can work on their futures.
Safe affordable housing is the key to providing a solid base so that they can focus on education and employment and not on finding a place to sleep.
This program has pulled together 10 other agencies to provide a holistic approach to assisting these youths that have been set adrift to find their way with no financial or emotional support and very little in life skills.
The Friendly Landlord Network will work with the youth to find Educational and or Employment opportunities and appropriate life skills programs to set the individual on the path to success.
Without programs such as this the now displaced youth will flounder and become part of the homeless community with little opportunity to reach their real potential.
How can you help ?
Spread the word ... Find contacts that can assist....Find single bedroom units available for rent.
Here is the link to the webpage for the program and many other programs offered by Aunt Leah's Place
http://auntleahs.org https://friendlylandlordnetwork.com
President Elect Lahkjit Sarang presenting Christina with a token of our appreciation for taking time to inform
us of this program and raising our awareness of the needs of youth aging out of govt supported care.
Finally a break in the weather and John Campbell organized a Clean up on our Adopted street.
It is a pity these programs are required and all residents cannot have pride in their City.. Here are some photos showing the volume we picked up in our section of
100th. Avenue between 140th Street and 152nd Street.
CLEAN UP CREW
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