Sunrise Rotary Bulletin March 9, 2016

Visitors and guests –

Speakers – Heather Norris and Lynda Kay from United Way Northumberland

Little Madeline Racine

 

President Connie Ham’s report:

• The Rotary spring flower sale has started and Ed and Bill need volunteers. Sign up online at --http://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=s.signup&urlid=30e0a4eaeaa2da2fe3-spring&view=standard

Please sign up for a shift or two. It's a great way to spread the Rotary-word and enjoy great fellowship.

Location: 48 King Street West, Cobourg 

• RLI is coming – register online

• Rotary Belleville – changed Trump AIDS – taken out Trump and it is now April 23,

• May 14 is the district assembly

• Bob Clark has tickets Music From Stage and Screen event that the Cobourg, Port Hope and Sunrise clubs is on April 3. Featured guest soloist is member Andy Smith’s daughter, Mackenzie. See Linda Goldie or Tom Sears for advanced (required) tickets for $70 each, which includes concert and dinner. Advertising posters are also available. 

• Men who Cook tickets are on sale

• Two new members are Karen Longwell and Matt Lawrence

 

From the Board:

Karen O – Bowling for Big Brother Big Sisters was on Saturday and we had four Rotarians and seven non-Rotarians – $970 raised for the organization.

March 10 is the Irish Pot Luck at Knights of Columbus Hall in Port Hope. About 50 people are coming.

Bob – went to PETS 2 – three districts involved and he meet district governors, had a look at clubs where we to go and what we want to accomplish.

 

Happy Bucks:

Kevin – had a great drive to Florida.

Lou Anne – happy for lighter morning, radio station is being rebranded as 93.3 MyFM and it seems to be going well.

Doug – was at the ladies table but they didn’t vote him off the island

Petra – happy and sad – thanked Rotarians for the kind words about her mom’s passing.

Racine – Leafs are done, Jays are next

Dave – winter is over and he took the plow off his truck

Blake – thinking about women yesterday for Women’s Day and when the Port Hope Rotary Club made a decision to allow women in the club. There were members who quit but if that decision wasn’t made there would be four people here and nothing would get done.

Sami – Her Dad turned 50 years old, they have a family tradition of breakfast in bed. She had to stay up late to say Happy Birthday her Dad.

 

Guest speakers

Heather Norris, United Way joined in October as director of Community Impact

About United Way:

Over 100 United Ways across Canada, non-governmental organization, they raise funds locally, largest privately funded non-profit in the world

Northumberland United Way is approaching 50^th anniversary

Funds stay locally but they pay membership dues to national organization.

Historically fund member agencies but have done so much more. They support food banks, facilitate programs and partnerships. For example the - Habitat for Humanity partnership where they started a loan program to assist with home repairs for low-income residents.

They support 211 – a free confidential phone information service with 150 languages. There is information on community social, health and government services. They are adding Arabic to help new Syrians families arriving.

Started community conversations across Northumberland where residents shared hopes and aspirations.

There are three national focuses -- promoting all that kids can be building strong communities, and moving from poverty to possibility

Impacts:

The Backpacks for Kids program is more than just number. The backpacks allow children to fit in and start on the right foot.

90 per cent of children reported they felt better with the one to one Big Brothers, Big Sisters program.

Impact goal – in 2015 the goal was the number of lives touched -- 24,000 lives rather than a fundraising goal.

On March 22 the impact goal will be announced at the breakfast.

Changes:

The funding model has changed -- changing so partners could change. Funding is no longer historical. They will have to go through the new application process – the process will roll out in 2016 and 2017.

The evaluation process is very thorough.

Mynuw.org is the new website. You can subscribe to get e-mails on announcements.

Upcoming event:

April 3 – Maple Leafs Alumni Game, United Way is partnering with Habitat for Humanity for the event.

New donors: It is not easy as there are so many great causes out there. Corporately the landscape has changed. They need to continue to be out in the community.

They are looking for different ways to engage different donors.

 

50/50 draw

Kevin McCae, Stephanie, Dave drew cards but there was no winner this time.