Chairperson: President Shelly
.jpg)
O'Canada led by Sue Ueffing
Grace by Peter Muttart
Visiting Rotarians - PDG Pete Smith and Sandy - Sydney Rotary Club
Guests: Barry and Nancy Maxner guest of PDG Pete Smith, Anya Vavrikova and Marie Ecabert our Exchange Students.
Happy $$$
PDG Pete Smith for his visit to our club today and having the opportunity to provide us with an update from his last visit to Camaroon.
Kimberley Monette glad to be back, feeling much better after a lengthy battle with virus/cold/throat infection. Kim also shared with us that her Dad is now recovering well from his heart troubles and new pace-maker. A week in Cuba took all the aches and pain away.
John Lohr shared update on John and Jaqueline Connolly - they are nicely settled in at Shannex in halifax and would certainly welcome any visitors if you are in the area. Best regards from the Connolly's to our club.
Marie & Anya - thanked all Rotarians that attended their evening event on Sunday and for donations towards Shelter Box and their upcoming trip to the USA. Greatly appreciated!! Also special thanks to the Ueffings for hosting the event!!
Heather Lohr for attending cousins wedding in the midst or all their busyness with John's campaign.
Kate Seaman provided us with an update on the donation to the "Homeless no more" campaign from the foundation, Greg Tefry will be part of the committee along with Rachel Beddingfield from the town of Kentville. Kate also commented on the wonderful waterfall and fascinating light fixtures at the Ueffings new renovation!!
Sue for seeing new buds on the trees on her way in this morning, for the Students dinner last night and looking forward to their European River Cruise on Tuesday.
Surprise guest Speaker PDG Pete Smith presented a shortened update on Cameroon before our President started the Business part of our meeting.
Pete shared that this project is his Passion and his 10th trip which has included 24 projects on behalf on our District. Support of these projects breaks down as follows: Rotary club 60% - District 10% - Corporate 20% and Friends/Individuals 10%. Examples of past projects include School Books distributed to 31 schools, containers full of medical and agricultural equipment as well as a school bus and tractor. The village has 35,000 people and each trip Pete also makes sure he does Polio Vaccinations.
We are grateful for Pete's work and this update from Cameroon.
Presidents Report:
Shelly once again thanked Rotarians that were involved with the Jay Malone evening and that the next one in May 12th. Brian has resigned as secretary due to move to Metro and Rick Graham has agreed to serve as secretary which was so moved and approved at the last board meeting. Corporate Membership guidelines were circulated to members at meeting and will be emailed as well.
Larry and Leah will represent the Club at the Kings County Volunteer event on April 28th. Evangeline Middle School will receive the Malone comedy funding for their Mental Health Day.
Valley Faces of Business: Deborah shared that we are at $48,645 - a third of the way to our goal of $150,000. To date we also have 11 contracts that are not renewing - reminder to please follow up with your existing accounts.
We need everyone to find ONE NEW CONTRACT - please give some thought to the services your use this week, check if they are on our list (as circulated) and if not drop off a VF sale kit for them to review. TIME TO SPRING INTO ACTION!!
Shelley Fleckenstein offered to be the voice for our VF of Business Radio Ads!!
Community Service: Kate shared (on behalf of Sheldon) information on the Literacy Association and the upcoming Kings Tec Leadership course on Wednesday May 16th which is free. Club will provide $500 toward the Valley Harvest Marathon!
International Committee: Elva shared with us the following update:
- Focusing on program for 2018-19
- Greater concentration on one area of the world
- Participation in Global Grant lead by RC Calgary South and RC Mbarara in Uganda. Topic- Improving care for newborn, preterm babies, at the Regional hospital in Mbarara, Uganda. This involves reconfiguration of hospital nursery & training for nurses in the intervention called Kangaroo Care.
- Support of four micro-research projects in the health care area, working with the same Rotary Club as above, as well as the Mbarara University of Science & Technology and the Mbarara regional hospital.
- I will attend the WASRAG (Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group ) workshop on June 22nd in Toronto, to look for other project possibilities.
Club Admin. & Social: Phil reported on the following:
1. the archives committee will be meeting and starting to review the information and memorabilia .The intent is to look through the material and start to sort through the info that the club should keep. The town has offered Doug MacDonald's old office as a location .More information to follow.
2. the Social committee highlighted the upcoming President's dinner on May 7 ,reported that more information will be sent out on the Theater night latter in May; and our year end lobster event will be held on July 5,
Youth Committee: Gerry Davis reported that or inbound exchange students are off to PEI for the annual District youth exchange
weekend. Both Andrew in Belgium and Suntanna in Brazil are doing great as we had feedback from both sets of parents. Also a reminder that we will not be having an outbound student for the next Rotary year.
Camp Brigadoon - request for volunteers - Tour for Kids is a two day cycling event held on July 28th & 29th put on by Coast to Coast Against cancer campaign and all funds raised will go towards Camp Brigadoon Village in-city and in-hospital programs , our Atlantic Teen Oncology Retreat and Family Oncology Retreat. The need for volunteers is great - you can go to Tour for kids online or Google Camp Brigadoon if you can help!!
Chase the Ace draw: ticket holder was Roger Sevigny - No Ace so It's a Roll Over!!