2023 Aug 31 Minutes

Rotary Meeting
Rotary Club of Vermilion
7:00 AM – August 31, 2023
Co-Op Admin Building – Hosted by Kory and Jordan Pryor
 
Meeting:
Members:
Mike W, Bruce, Chris, Kory, Loretta, Laurel, Kirby, Bevin, Mike B, Darlene, Lorne, Scott, MaryLee, Jean, Corey, Darlene, Dave, Rebekah, Dawn
 
Agenda
 
  1. O Canada/Four Way Test
  2. Introduction of Guests – Bruce’s Guest Boden Rogers
  3. Breakfast – Thank you to The Co-Op Team.
  4. Birthday/Anniversary
  5. Kory and Jordan – discussed the Co-Op and the developments over the last several years. Amalgamation of EastAlta to form Cornerstone. Finance Team is in St. Paul. HR and Marketing is based in Vermilion. They have been adding positions to fill various rolls. Co-Op has 130 employees in the Vermilion Area alone. Cornerstone Co-Op currently has around 450 employees.  Kory is the Director of Operations. Jordan is heading up marketing, one of her current projects has been to work sponsoring new 4H members locally and this has led to a partnership with 4H Alberta. She is also raising money with mental Health Alberta with their Hearts campaign. Those funds stay local, last year they raised 20K, this year in bringing 4 ot   her Co-Ops to the project and the group raised over 90K.
  6. Birthdays and Anniversaries – Scott Webb Sept 1st.                             
  7. Note that the Sea Can is full and the Club may need to look into additional space for storage.
  8. Focus is having a street Jamboree on Friday the 8th evening on the street in front of the Copper Cork. The event will be 6:00 PM to 12:30 AM.
  9. Adjournment.
Upcoming Events / Reminders
Aug 31 Offsite Meeting at the Co-Op Admin Building.
Sept 6th Executive meeting 6:00 PM Christina’s Home Furnishing.
Sept 7 Rotary Partnership Presentation
Sept 9 Art in the Park
Sept. 14th Business Meeting
Sept 20th Social Event with Brent Collingwood at the Heritage Park Seniors Centre. BYOB, Kirby is going to do a Shrimp Boil for the main course.
Sept 21st Brent Collingwood (District Governor) Meeting.
Sept 28 Vermilion Minor Ball Presentation and Ella to do her Adventures in Human Rights.
Nov 4th Harvest Gala.