Rotary Club of Vermilion
Meeting Minutes - July 5, 2018
7:00 am - Club Room, Vermilion Regional Centre
Call to Order
O Canada
Rotary Grace
Four Way Test
Introduction of guests
Erwin Warkentin
Shelly Corbiere - St. Jerome’s Parent Council President
Doreen McCaw - Border City Rotary Club (Past AG)
Rod Calver - Kerikeri Rotary Club, New Zealand
Bruce Duske - Brown’s Bay Rotary Club, New Zealand
Rod and Bruce gave the club an introduction about themselves, extended greetings from their respective clubs and explained their connection to Vermilion. Rod served as the inbound counselor and Bruce was a host parent to Bryce Morrison when he was on youth exchange in New Zealand in 2002 and they are in town for Bryce’s wedding this weekend. We presented both of them with banners from our club, and received a Brown’s Bay banner from Bruce.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Ed Lee (July 5th)
Marilyn MacDuff (July 11)
Jean and Karl Vidal (Anniversary July 8th)
Announcements
Thank you to Team 1 for Breakfast
Youth Exchange - the forms were submitted, partially signed, to the district yesterday as that was the deadline and we will hear before the end of July if we have been invited to participate in youth exchange in the 2019/2020 year.
Executive Meeting Monday Night 5:30 at Prairie Place
District Governor’s Visit - District Governor Ingrid will be visiting our area and our club on July 18th in the evening and July 19th. There will be a 5pm meeting of the executive at the Pomeroy Hotel, followed by a club dessert potluck social at 7pm. Please come out if you are able and meet the district governor. The District governor will also be presenting in our regular club meeting on July 19th.
Cash Draw Tickets - If you have cash or unsold tickets, please get in touch with Dawn (780) 581-4054. We would like to see all tickets sold before the fair.
Fair Parade Float - we currently have no chairperson, and the parade is three weeks away. If you are interested in seeing this project go ahead this year and prepared to organize, please let the executive know as soon as possible as otherwise we will not be entering a float in the parade this year.
Paul Harris Presentation
Scott Webb was presented with his Paul Harris +7. Congratulations Scott!
New Member Induction
Erwin Warkentin was welcomed into membership
Presentation about St. Jerome’s Playground Project
Shelly Corbiere presented about the project to create a mobility friendly playground at St. Jerome’s. Their goal is to build a structure that has accessibility for all, including children in strollers, wheelchairs, and who have other challenges such as sensory or tactile challenges that prevent or limit them from participating on existing playground equipment. The playground will have a combination of special equipment and some more traditional playground elements and will be accessible to all children in the community outside of school hours and during the summer. The total cost of the project is $136,000 and they are looking to construct the playground in spring of 2019 as they are planning to apply for another grant in fall to assist with the surface material, on top of the grant they’ve already received from the town. The surface material is the largest cost of the project (approx $60,000) and if they receive their grants, they will need to fundraise approximately $20,000-$30,000 more to complete the project as it is currently designed. They are looking for a monetary contribution towards the project, or the purchase of a specific piece of equipment (cost $7,700). The Executive will discuss the request at our next meeting and it will come back for discussion next week at the business meeting
Cash Draw - Final draw of the year
Lynne Little - $2,000
Sadie Rochford - $250
Lorena Donkin - $100
Sargent Report
Free week for everyone because the Sargent isn’t quite organized yet!
Meeting Adjourned