ZOOM ON FRIDAY, MAY 08th
Watch for your Zoom invitation to our Club’s meeting on Friday, May 08. Join the fun and bring your happy bucks stories.
YOUR PROJECTS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN BUSY
With the confirmation and receipt of our Provincial Gaming Funds, the projects committee has been busy researching worthy recipients and discussing existing programs.
At this point the committee has agreed to fund student bursaries for a total of $10,000. Club interviewers have been assigned. We will also be interviewing for $5,000 in Bursaries that will be attributed to our Hoop-A-Thon commitment. We are part of a consortium of Vancouver Clubs, District 5040, Global TV and HoopLaw in this effort.
We are confident that Rotary Youth Leadership Camp (RYLA South) will be occurring in the spring of 2021. $1,600 has been allocated to support the cost of sending 4 students to this amazing leadership training.
Coast Mental Health has set up a meal program during the COVID shut down to provide one take-away meal per day to their clients at their Support Centre. Our Club has contributed $3,500 to that program.
We have also assigned, in principal and pending further information, a contribution to the Downtown East Side Women’s Centre.
There are at least 4 other project contributions that are in the research stage. Look for details in the next Bulletin.
AND IN VOLUNTEER EFFORTS
We have a team set up and waiting for requests to do grocery shopping for seniors and shut-ins at Red Oaks Housing in Kitsilano.
AND MORE KUDOS
Members continue to be involved with all sorts of training programs being offered by the District and RI. Thanks to all those who are engaged in the learning and are bringing their up-to-date information back to the club. Well done!
THANK YOU!
To all the members who have paid their Special Assessment, following the recent financial review. Well done! Our hard working treasurer is particularly happy. 
In further financial musings: for those of you who would like to use e-transfers for your Rotary banking needs – we have a definitive answer from our bankers. Their systems cannot give access to deposits on accounts that require 2 signatures on cheques. For now the onsite “square” (and on-line billing services) for credit cards, and old fashioned cheques will have to do.