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This week we had a Club Assembly by Past President Mary. Projects to date are: Sleep With The Whales $4000 Nov. 14th, RYLA North $425, RYLA South $1700, Nootka Elementary $3000 CALS, $1700 Digital Library, St. John Ambulance $4124, Bus for Inner City schools to visit VanDusen $4800, and we will do 5 school bursaries $5000. This will leave an approximate balance in our Gaming Account of $22,000. For social events we did Pasta for Polio in Oct - raised $1000, visited the Honey Bee Center, Christmas Party at Hycroft, Thai Night Out, and Chartered our Prince of Wales Interact Club. Future events will be a Fireside/Wine Tasting at Bills on May 26th and the Shoreline Clean up on Sept. 27th. All of our hands on events come from our members ideas so if you see something we should consider please let us know! Membership: we started at 20 and are still at 20. Member retention is an area of concern for our club and this could be helped with having a "Sunshine Person" that keeps track of where members are when they don't attend our regular lunch meeting. It was suggested that a phone call to a missing member would be more effective than an email. For new members Mary suggested we target those in the 55+ age group - around retirement age. Retired people don't mind 2 hour weekday lunches, aren't looking for a club to join for networking for future business and have the time, money and willingness to give back to their communities. We need to consider advertising through Social Media to try to attract this age group.