Chairperson: Doug Hill

 

 

O’Canada led by Sue Ueffing

 

Blessing led by Marian Cameron

 

Guests: Michel Faizandier (Phyllis & Wally), Fred Ueffing (Sue & Joe), Myles Sweet (Julie), Stephen McBrine (Heather Henniger) & Constance and Cliaira (our exchange students).

Visiting Rotarians: Roger (St. Pierre & Miquelon), Heather Hennigar & Holy Thompson (New Minas)

 

Doug: put in his dollar for a nice card from Mary Walsh - that he had for a few weeks ;)

Wally: gave a happy $5 for the great day he had at Ride for Refuge with his team the “Rotary Riders” (himself, Phil, John, Roger and Greg). Their team raised $3,000, and the total raised was approximately 18 or 19 thousand. There were 13 teams, 74 participants and 38 volunteers who made it an exceptional day!

Sue: had happy dollars for going away for three weeks soon, and for her nephew Fred visiting for a week.

Al: for Jade (one of the wonderful Paddy’s staff) who was an outgoing Rotary exchange student in 2015.

Randy: gave his happy dollars for a great meeting last week… the great times with our Australian friends and the wonderful staff at Paddy’s.

Phil echoed Randy’s comments about the wonderful friendship exchange and a special thank you to Sue and Joe for hosting the potluck. Phil also welcomed our guests and visiting rotarians and reminded the club of a few dates:

October 30^th – International Student Dinner
October 12^th – Harvest Marathon (they need volunteers if you can help)
October 24^th – World Polio Day –  Click here to watch the video!
November 13^th – Foundation meeting at Ken – Wo – presentations for funding and 5:30pm for 6pm dinner.

 

 

 

Heather presented the club with District Governor Louisa’s video on making change in Rotary Clubs all over our District – continuing the flamingo metaphor she presented to our club during her visit. In this video we met the area governors and all of our district resources, valuable resources for our club and members.

 

After the video, the club was reminded of Convention in May (the last weekend), in Sydney.

Craig asked if any clubs are using Google Analytics for their websites, and explained how useful analytics can be for understanding our audience.

Randy asked if the presentation is available online, which it is and also that Phil has a lot of the information and Heather is available as a resource too.

 

Karen told everyone that there will be a Rural Urban social on October 26^th at Wilmar Farms & VanMeekeren’s and dinner will be at the Lakeville Community Center. The cost is $15. An invite will be sent out through Clubrunner.

Bill reminded the club that there will no meeting this Monday because of Thanksgiving, but there is going to be a Rotary meet up dinner on October 16^th where Rick Ramsay will give his Classification Talk.

 

Peter won the draw for the beautiful veggie basket from Vermeulen Farms! (Everyone was jealous!)