Good news
Long time member Jag Dhillon and his wife got back to Canada on a charter flight on May 14. They are getting over their jet lag and we will soon hear more from them about their adventures in India.
More good news
Bill Bourlet will also be getting back from New Zealand where he has been boat-bound for several months. He returns at the beginning of June.
Welcome New Members
Jean Gardner and Ron Fulton will be inducted to Rotary Arbutus on May 22 Zoom Meeting. Be there to welcome them!
The stats are in: over the month of April Arbutus members put in 117 hours of Rotary work. Some of it was on Club administration and part of it was Club learning and another part was committee work. For instance the Projects Committee met to consider contributions to worthy community organizations. There were plenty of courses to take too and members took full advantage of that.
More members will have taken courses in the month of May too. Watch for Joy’s prompt in early June and keep track of all the volunteer work you have done. Rotary is one of international organizations asked by the UN to submit volunteer hours. They want to quantify the time and value of Rotary members’ efforts to effectively keep a world-changing organization like ours ticking along.
Bursary Applicant Interviews Underway
Thanks to Shail’s efficiency we now enter that special time when we interview high school students. These young people have applied to our Club to receive $1,000 bursaries for their post secondary educations. Fifteen exceptional students will receive this assistance. Five of them through our contribution to the Hoop-a-thon event and 10 of them from schools we traditionally support.
We have Even More Good News:
With only a few days left in the Hoop-a-Thon fund raising campaign Gary Chomyn says we have reached the $7,000 mark on our on line Charitable Impact page! This means we will receive a matching pledge of $5,000 from the Vancouver Basketball Foundation! This is in addition to the $38,000 already raised, This means we will be able to support kids in need with all this year’s initiatives, including scholarships, youth leadership and the Strathcona Basketball Program.
On behalf of the kids, The Rotary Clubs in Vancouver & Rotaractors, THANK YOU!
Vision Quest
Congratulations to us all! Over 2,090 pairs of used eyeglasses have been donated by Rotarians and their friends. As you will remember, the District 5040 spring conference was named the Vision Conference. It was a double entendre for the goals of the conference – to envision the future of Rotary – and to the World Eye Care Society. It shines up and repurposes our used eyeglasses and provides them to people in need. The goal was to collect 2,020; a nice nod to the year 2020.
The Arbutus Club’s collection was pretty impressive but we have not been able to get them to the Society yet as they are stuck stored in Amica, our former meeting place. There are others to come from several clubs so the goal will have been truly met.