Rotary Club of Vermilion
Meeting Minutes, December 13, 2018
7:00am-Club Room, Vermilion Regional Centre
Call to order
O Canada
Rotary Grace
Four Way Test
Introduction of Guests
Pat Calyniuk-Vermilion Wellness Coalition
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Laurel Wynnychuk-December 14
D’arcy White-December 17
Announcements
Thank you to Team 2 for Breakfast
Sign-up sheets being circulated:
Dec 20th Breakfast & Fellowship
Foundation: 13 club members took advantage of the foundation matching challenge and over $4200 was donated to the Rotary Foundation from club members in the months of October and November.
Christmas meeting: Next week is our annual Christmas meeting, which will be an opportunity to bring your spouse or a guest to come socialize and celebrate with us. The sign-up sheet is being circulated for the breakfast and set-up team to know approximate numbers coming
Border City Visit: We are planning a visit to the Border City Rotary Club on January 29th. This is a great opportunity to foster and develop connections with other Rotarians. We will have no regular meeting that week, and instead we will travel on the Tuesday morning to join their meeting.
Vermilion Wellness Coalition Cheque Presentation: Pat Calyniuk
Cheque presented to Pat Calyniuk for $400 to support two swimming events to be help in 2019.
Executive Elections 2019-2020: MaryLee announced executive for 2019-2020 year.
President: MaryLee Prior
President Elect: Mike Webb
Treasurer and Executive Secretary: Eugene Wasylik
Co-secretary: Lisa Beveridge and Jean Vidal
Foundation Chair: Robin Sherwood
Membership Chair: Janine Lange
New Generations Chair: Laurel Wynnychuk
Sergeant at Arms: Erwin Warkentin
MOTION by MaryLee, second by Dawn: To accept those members to executive for 2019-2020 Rotary year. Motion Carried.
Project Review-Hot Lunch: Dawn Riley
VES Hot Lunch program provided meals Tues-Thurs each week. Between 150-220 students are served each lunch. Rotary has been helping with VES Hot Lunch program for almost three years. We volunteer every third Tuesday of the month, which coincides with a day that Dawn is at VES. Hot Lunch requires 3-4 volunteers for about 1 ½ hour (11:30-1:00pm), for a total of about 36 hours per year. The volunteers serve lunch and help with clean-up of trays, carts, and kitchen. The greatest success is Rotarian and child engagement. It is also a good community service project. The kids love it and the volunteers have fun. It can be a challenge to get volunteers signed up but the shifts always get filled. Viability of the project is not a concern.
Vermilion Wellness Coalition: Pat Calyniuk
The Vermilion Wellness Coalition was created in 2011 to promote healthy community-socially, emotionally, and physically. In addition to non-instructional day activities, the Coalition also has activities on Family Day and Canada Day. Other activities are cooking club, outreach cooking with seniors, golf lessons, mini-golf, geocaching, coming soon will be a Block party kit. The Vermilion Wellness Coalition advertises on the town website. For non-instructional day activities reminders are entered into student agenda (VES), there are posters in schools, it is also added to the Info TV at the high school.
Sargent Report: A past project: From 2005-2011 we held the Adventures in Firefighting. Fines: Any fines you give today will go to Santa’s Anonymous-another project that Pat is involved with. In the next three seconds-- “9” ??, in the 12 Days of Christmas.
Meeting Adjourned