Chair: Phyllis Jarvis

 

 

Blessing: Wally Jarvis led an individual blessing

 

O Canada: Susan Ueffing

 

Guests and Visiting Rotarians: Guest – Barbara Pierce (Bill), Visiting Rotarians – Russ Sanche, Peter Smith and Peter Akote.

 

Illness Report: Greg let the club know that unfortunately Fred Falconer is in the hospital for some testing – please don’t get in touch with his family, Greg will update the club as things proceed.

 

Matthew: Thanks to the wonderful medical system for taking care of him during this difficult time! Also, he was able to talk to Alan Syliboy at his mural unveiling and invited him to speak to the Kentville Rotary Club and got a signed copy of his book to raffle off and raise money for the club.

Sue: Happy to have gone to Ottawa to visit the grandkids!

 

Bill welcomed everyone on Zoom and the guests, visiting Rotarians and that it was good to see Randy at the meeting. He mentioned that it was a good crowd of Rotarians at Nat James’s service on Sunday and they got to hear lots of lovely stories about Nat. Including that at one time they had a bird sanctuary in their house! Finally, Bill reminded the club that this was the last regular meeting before Christmas, so Happy Holidays!!

 

Bill then presented our Christmas gift to Jackie and Jade for all of their hard work all year!

 

 

Phyllis then presented Russ Sanche with a cheque from the Rotary Foundation of Kings County for $15,000 to help with the Portal’s transitional housing project.

 

 

Peter Smith introduced Peter Akote, from the Rotary Club of Limbe.

 

Peter Akote gave the club an update on the project. He explained that the project is to give access to clean and potable water to the students, staff and community around a high school in Soppo. This will allow the students, staff and community to have clean drinking water, as well as water for hygiene consistently throughout the day.

The challenges were a shortage of water, low water pressure and a decaying infrastructure. This could be solved with a large capacity water tower so that gravity would power the water through the campus.

 

 

Peter then explained that once the project was finished the maintenance/upkeep would be the responsibility of the school, but it may be necessary for the Rotary Club to help with this.

 

 

Lastly, Peter talked about the Rotary Club of Limbe and some of their other projects including a water project for an orphanage in Ombe, two water well projects, and a potable water project in a village by Mount Cameroon in Buea.

 

Wally thanked Peter Akote for his presentation and his ongoing hard work.

 

Rotary Exchange – Trish - Gave an update that the exchange committee’s first choice applicant for exchange next year had to pull out of the program, so they were moving onto the next applicant and meeting their family soon. She will provide another update next meeting.

Special Events – Sue – Reminded the club to sign up ASAP for the Christmas party.

 

 

During the past 100 years, the Foundation has spent over $3 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. With your help, we can make lives better in your community and around the world. The Rotary Foundation impacts communities through our grants program, which offers four opportunities for funding. Let’s look at the first two grant options:

 

District Grants – fund small-scale, short-term activities that address needs in your community and communities abroad. Each district chooses which activities it will fund with these grants.  How it works: Districts may use up to 50 percent of their District Designated Fund, based on the amount of DDF generated from a District’s Annual Fund giving three years prior, including Endowment Fund earnings.

 

Global Grants – fund large-scale international activities with sustainable and measurable results that support Rotary’s areas of focus. Activities include humanitarian projects, scholarships and vocational training teams.  How it works: Global grants have a minimum budget of $30,000 and a maximum World Fund award of $400,000. Grant sponsors can use a combination of District Designated Funds (DDF), cash, and/or directed gifts and endowment earnings to fund a global grant. The Foundation will provide an 80 percent World Fund match for all DDF contributions. There is no minimum World Fund match.

Learn about our other two grant opportunities next week!

 

Katie (me!!) won the lucky ticket… and no luck!!! So it’s a roll over!!

 

Phyllis and the club read the 4-Way Test and adjourned.

 

See you next week!