Sunrise Rotary Bulletin October 19, 2016

Visitors and guests –

Sam Clark

Marlena Sculthorpe

Cathy Lees

 

President Bob Clark’s report:

Saying of the day: Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu

Oct. 21 and 22 – is the District Conference and Nico is coming – special Sunday morning presentation on Oct. 21 – The Rotary of Club of Toronto will host guest speaker, the Right Honourable Paul Martin for their lunch at 12:15 p.m. at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto

Oct. 24 – World Polio Day

Oct. 25 – Webinar on Government of Canada and Rotary Matching Grant Partnership

Nov. 12 – Rotary Day at the United Nations

Nov. 16 – District Foundation Dinner, Oshawa Golf Club Paul Racine and Dave Houston attending on our behalf.

June 8 – 15 – Rotary International Convention, Atlanta – there is a flight being organized by Rotary Club of Peterborough Kawartha – 130 seats from Peterborough Airport – ask President Bob if you are interested

 

Club Announcements:

Next week club assembly – looking at criteria for new projects, also a focus on attendance and membership

Mel – Scotch tasting – 12 tickets left – would really like to sell out, it is going be great night – three course meal, there will be one scotch you cannot get all – one time only deal, need three more sponsorships – would like to sell all those a well

Kevin – sold about 12 tickets for the VOS White Christmas – we have five weeks so we really need to sell our tickets – make some calls, strong arm your friends

Dave – Foundation dinner

The dinner is Nov. 19, there is a roast beef or chicken choice and let Dave know about any dietary issues – cost for spouses is $40, members are already covered, working on a guest speaker with two possible in mind– both global grant scholarship winners – next week Dave plans to start a list of who will be attending.

 

Board Announcements:

Larry – Community Services committee

We received a thank you letter from Rhonda about a $3,000 donation for the garden, she also said how much the garden is enjoyed

There was also a thank you from the Port Hope Health Care Foundation for the $500 we contributed

There was a request from the Salvation Army to host one of the kettles for a couple of days – Larry will say yes.

There will be a Community Services meeting after next week’s meeting.

 

Karen O – the Men Who Cook committee meeting is Dec. 7

 

Happy Bucks:

Kevin – found a retirement home for his father but then a long term care bed came up

Linda G. – sorry I haven’t seen you in while, busy fall, travelled to Tofino, late Blue Jays games

Elaine -- went to France with family

Karen O. – she went to Casino Rama and as she loves old country music, really enjoyed the Charlie Pride concert he is 78 years old but never missed a beat

Louanne – wore purple for prevent child abuse day, her niece, the skier may come next week

Nico – is happy to have a soccer match against Port Hope

Bob – pleased to have Marlena and Sam here who came to talk about VOS and White Christmas

 

Guest speaker:

Marlena and Sam started out with a beautiful rendition of the song ‘Sisters’ from White Christmas. Marlena plays Betty Haines and Sam plays her little sister Judy in the production.

VOS is kicking off the season with White Christmas. In 2010 White Christmas sold out six weeks before the show. It was going to be VOS’s last blow out but it was a huge success. People request the show to be put on again. This time there are new cast members, the cast is larger and there will be snow in the theatre.

The next VOS show is A Certain Singing Teacher by local author Linda Hutsell-Manning.

They normally do a spring show but this year decided instead to bring summer theatre to Victoria Hall. They are bringing Anne of Green Gables because of Canada’s 150^th anniversary. Tickets are already selling.

The show will involve students and they hope to get a grant to pay students.

VOS show proceeds go to bursaries to local high schools. There is also a scholarship created in 2014  to commemorate Ruth Harcort, the founder of VOS.

As it costs about $55,000 to $60,000 to put on production VOS usually doesn’t make a profit so they offer rentals of costumes and sets. They have interest from all over the world on the rentals because they offer great quality costumes.

 

50/50 draw

President Bob said the playing cards were lost so we have new cards substituting the king of spades as the winning card.

Paul, Dave, and Elaine were picked but no winners this week.