Rotary Meeting November 1, 2012
A full house....26 members and guests! President Dennis introduced District Governor Doug Everett and his wife Jackie from the Chase Club and ADG Dennis Jacobsen and his wife Jean from Penticton. Pres Dennis reminded us of upcoming dates including the Christmas Party on Dec 6, fireside on Nov 29th and to join him in the wreath laying ceremony Nov 11, Remembrance Day.
ADG Dennis introduced DG Doug who spoke to us as he does to all 59 clubs in 5060 this year...an impressive task! DG Doug is from Chase where he retired as school principal, having also served as Chamber of Commerce President. His talk focussed on the Power of Partnerships, a theme that will extend into the District Conference May 2-3 next year in Kamloops. He cited the partnerships that led us to where we are in the successful fight to eradicate polio, the partnerships with that led to Rotaract being successful with 8400 clubs in 74 countries in suggesting that only successful partnerships will enable us to succeed in the Peace Through Service objectives of RI President Tanaka. He challenged us to avoid 'fixed mindsets', to keep a progressive culture and to continually renew our visioning process.
DG Doug also was also asked to participate in the presentation of two popular awards. The first was a Paul Harris award to Past Pres Cheryle in recognition of all of her tremendous contributions in leading our club to such a positive year in 2011-12. The second was to accept Judy Sloan as an Honorary Member, joining Peter Steele and Jason Bartsch, for all that she has contributed since being a charter member back in 2003 in championing so many fundraising and service projects. Well done to you both! Neat!
Isadora tried to help us in pronouncing the first of the Four Way Test in Portugese, 'Is it the Truth' ....'E a Verdada'...ok, you try to find the 's' and z's' in that! We will work on that and the ensuing Three Tests and she will work on O Canada. Cheryle very appropriately won the 50/50 and donated it to offset Isa's piano lessons.
An great evening Board Meeting broke out later over dinner with our guests.