Bulletin Nov 2 2016
BREAKING NEWS: There are just three cards left, after this week’s draw, to win the 50/50 pot next week (estimated at $700+)
Visitors and Guests: Greg Cable
President’s Report:
Quote of the day: Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.
Thank you to Mel and Paul Racine and their team for organizing the Scotch-tasting event last week. It was a terrific night!
DISTRICT NEWS:
November 12 – Rotary Day at the United Nations
November 16 – District Foundation Dinner, Oshawa Golf Club
Rotary Club of Peterborough Kawartha – charter flight to Atlanta International Conference - June 2017 – details available.
CLUB EVENTS:
November 16 – No regular, Wednesday morning meeting
November 17 – White Christmas – Opening Night Rotary Fellowship Event. PE Kevin McAlpine urges club members to sell tickets!
November 19 – Foundation Dinner, Dalewood. Dave Houston says the club will bestow a Paul Harris Fellow on a local resident and the evening’s guest speaker is a Global Exchange Student at UOIT, on Environmental issues.
From the Board and Membership:
Larry Langdon, Community Service Chair: Distributing a sign-up sheet for December 3, 2016, to man the Salvation Army Kettles for a few hours at The Independent Grocer in Port Hope or Foodland in Cobourg. Christmas Hamper delivery is scheduled for December 19th. Doug McCann to provide further details, soon.
Community Service Committee met last week and Larry presented three Notices of Motion for voting next week. They are: That the Rotary Club of Northumberland Sunrise approve:
- 1. The donation of $1,500 to The Giving Tree program
- 2. The donation of $1,000 to the Salvation Army Christmas Hampers program
- 3. The donation of $1,000 to Community Care Northumberland
Past-chair, Linda Goldie, reminded the club that in order for us to continue to support these community programs and global projects, ongoing fundraising is required – and asked that everyone work hard to sell the White Christmas Gala tickets, our next event.
Karen O, Social Committee – Brought a beautiful birthday cake for us to help celebrate Exchange Student, Nico’s birthday. Argentina meets Canada.
Happy Bucks:
Scott A. and Connie H. – Had a great time in China the past couple of weeks.
Helen – Had a great time at the Casa Loma Legends of Horror event and the Trafalgar Castle School Haunted Night event. “Nico was good and scared” – Or maybe it was because he was staying in a pink bedroom the past few weeks, while Connie was away…
Karen O. – Went to a Hamilton Ti-Cats game and tailgate party, which was “friggin’ awesome”, made an appearance on the Jumbotron and learned that there is no penalty box in football.
Beth – Happy to make it to Rotary two weeks in a row. For once, 7:00 isn’t too early, as her new puppy has her up by 5:30 in the morning.
Stef – Had a great time in New Orleans – oh, yeah, and she’s getting married! Nice, subtle announcement…
Blake – had a great time in Stowe and Lake Placid with his childhood sweetheart (that would be his wife, Eileen) in celebration of their 37th anniversary. They did have a bit of a surprise, when they thought they booked into the Merrill Inn in Picton for a sweet $66/night deal, only to find out that that would be the Merrill Inn in New Hampshire. Add that to the $299 they paid for the real, Picton inn and they could have had a suite just about anywhere!
Ed – Great to be back and will try to be here every week. (Great to have you back, too Ed!)
Larry – Feeling a bit like a pin cushion after some vaccines and blood work this week, but wanted everyone to know that if you are between 65 and 71 years, you can get the Shingles Vaccine for free
Pres. Bob – happy to be back after missing last week. Thanks to PE Kevin for filling in.
Did we mention there are only 3 cards left in the 50/50 draw for next week?!
Guest Speakers:
Our own Dave Houston and Dan Bulger (Rotary Foundation Committee) enlightened us on all things Foundation, in honour of November being Foundation Month.
The Rotary Foundation is the largest, non-governmental foundation the world and is managed by a volunteer Board of Trustees, made up mostly of past Rotary International past-presidents.
All proceeds support Rotary projects. The Foundation manages three main funds:
The Permanent Fund, valued at over $1 billion, which is invested in perpetuity.
The Polio Fund – continuous efforts at Polio eradication.
Annual Fund – which is where our contributions go and from which Global and Community Grants are funded. District 7070 has a target of contributing $800,000 this year, and PE Kevin is hoping our club will be in a position to apply for a grant during his year. Global Grants usually involve several clubs pooling together to support large, international projects at a 3:1 matching dollar rate. Maximum allocation is $50,000 for International grants and $2,000 for local grants.
District 7070 has a list of projects that individual clubs support at any time, to help leverage dollars.
Grant applications are accepted in April and each club must have two representatives attend a Rotary Grant Seminar in advance, each year, before they can apply. The District Governor and volunteer grants committee review and award the grants.
Other Foundation initiatives/management include: Paul Harris Fellows, Bequest Society Membership, Major Donors, Arch Klump Society membership, and more.
Well done, gentlemen!
50/50 – (A baseball metaphor in honour of the current World Series, tied 3:3 between Cleveland and Chicago):
Strike One: Sue Luyendyk
Strike Two: Doug McCann
Strike Three and Yer Out: Linda Givelas
THREE CARDS LEFT FOR NEXT WEEK. GUARANTEED WINNER. Don’t miss out!
November POD, out.