Rotary Club of Lethbridge - Bulletin Sept 23 (Sep 16, 2019)

Pres Sherry and Pres Elect Allan attended The Zone 24-32 Conf in Niagara Falls. Sherry shared some of the energy from this gathering of leaders from more than 30 districts

Past Pres Murray, Kim Davis and Joanna Kappel will spend three weeks in Oct in Nepal where they will visit several of our projects including the current school project. Our Interact Club sponsored a $10,000 computer lab.

Widespread Polio vaccinations such as this continue in dozens of countries. Since it began the campaign has provided vaccine for 2.5 billion children.

September Literacy Month - October Economic and Community Development

Coming Events

Sept 28 - Black and Gold

Sept 30 - Partners Day, Birds of Prey, Colin Weir

Matt Furukawa Vocational talk

Oct 7 - Club, Lindsey Holt Neuroscience Presentation

Oct 14 - Thanksgiving NO MEETING

Oct 16 - Board Meeting

Oct 24 - WORLD POLIO DAY

Club News and Views

Black Tie Dinner - Saturday September 28 -Tickets by Tuesday. 120 sold. We'd love to see you there!

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100 Yr Trees in Nicholas Sheran Park. Several of you have noted a number of the trees are dead. The city will be replacing these at the appropriate time of year.

Chase the Ace - $684 Dale Merchant No winner

O Canada - ".........in all of OUR command...."

Name the Newsletter - Last week to suggest a name for this newsletter. Have you got a suggestion? Email me killoran.rotary@shaw.ca

So far...."The Informant", "Rotabull", "Rotabuzz", "Rotadope". Can you do better?

World Polio Day (Oct 24) - Jerry and Steve are planning several activities to support this campaign. Stay tuned.

The Rotarian Magazine October Edition- Arrived last week. Great information/articles on the Polio story and the eradication campaign. Have a read!

Rotary Roses - last opportunity to have roses delivered to the person(s) of your choice. Lethbridge East is offering a dozen roses for $30 delivered on October 10. Contact Fran fdragonleth@gmail.com

Costa Rica Friendship Exchange for next February has been cancelled due to insufficient numbers.