For the late edition of the Rotary RAP this week.  As some of you know, I have a small Etsy shop where I sell bags that I make.  This past weekend, Monday and Tuesday have been very busy with orders.  Which is very exciting but my time has been limited!  Anyways, accept my apologies for this coming out Tuesday evening instead of Monday morning, which is my normal goal.

 

This past week's meeting we had our Annual Silly Santa Auction to raise money for the women at Wings for Providence.  A lot of fun was had and money was spent!  Brad even managed to buy back a painting we had donated a few years ago and Tony Z. bought himself some expensive cups!  Nice to see some gifts are making the rounds a couple of times.  All for a great cause though.  No word on the total raised yet but as you can see, all the housecoats, socks, mugs have been bought and taken to the shelter for the women to enjoy.  Thanks to everyone who could stay after the meeting to help out with the packing of the gifts.

 

Here's Allan Shaw presenting his wife Rita with a Paul Harris Fellowship.  

Novemer 29th - Club Assembly

 

December 1st - Poker for Polio and Games Night at Barry's House.  See invite for details.

 

December 13th - Janine Peters: Status of the Five-Year Strategy to Reduce Poverty and Homelessness

 

December 20th - Annual Christmas Party at Porta Romana.  Share a decadent meal, followed by a fiddler and guitarist performing Christmas music.  You can then finish off the evening with a stroll through Central Park with all the beautiful lights.  If you're feeling extra brave, bring your skates!  The social committee would like to reminder everyone that for us to have the whole facility(restaurant) to ourselves, we need to have 50 people register for the event.  Please R.S.V.P to the invite sent out as soon as possible, whether you can or can't.  Thank-you.

 

 

 

Through the past year, money that our club has donated to the Spruce Grove Library has been put towards:

 

1) Osmo coding and gaming systems, virtual reality programs and tablets with new apps to the Innovation Lab

2) they have expanded children and youth programs.  Also expanding the Little Free Libraries to our neighbouring Indigenous communities. 

3) introducing doll themed literacy backpacks, Indigenous adult and children's books and the all-in-one computers to a new group of young users.

 

The library has completed a new Plan of Service in 2018 which will officially launch in January 2019.  The library's three areas of focus for the next 5 years are:

 

Visit a comfortable place: Community members of all ages will have barrier-free access to welcoming physical and virtual spaces.
Practice and Promote Inclusion: Community members of all ages will have programs and services that embrace diversity through acceptance, appreciation, and recognition of all people in our community.
Encourage Literacy: Community members of all ages will have programs and services that provide opportunity for life-long learning while helping them make sense of the world in a variety of ways.

 

Thank-you to Stephanie Kuhn (Community Services Librarian) from SGPL for coming to speak to our club about the exciting stuff happening and the plans for the future at the library.  

November is Rotary Foundation Month!  Visit www.myrotary.org to learn more and how you can donate.