Meeting: April 21st, 2020
Guests: Ann Northwood
Visiting Rotarians: Libby and Greg Weir from Jasper
Rotary Minute:
Colin filled us in about Rotary grants for University teachers to teach abroad. This encourages ties between institutes of higher learning with countries that have a lower income level.
Announcements:
- We are still planning to work at Loaves and Fishes next Tuesday the 28th. Work stations have been set up for proper distancing and cleaning. We are restricted to eight volunteers.
- Since we have Loaves and Fishes next week, there will be no meeting.
- Sue had no correspondence.
- Ed reminded us that we can send contributions to the happy/sad fund using an e-transfer to treasurer@nanaimonorthrotary.ca.
- Larry reminded us to send back our 'Inventory of interest' so we can do some planning
- Serving breakfast at the Salvation Army is still on hold. We are looking at some other ways to help them out.
- Next Zoom meeting May 5th at 7 pm.
Birthdays:
Anniversaries:
Membership Anniversaries
Induction:
For the second week in a row, we welcomed a new member to our club. Homa Safeai (proposed by Jim) was originally from Iran. She has her Masters in Agriculture and is also a Certified Pharmacy Technician. She joins her sister who also lives in Nanaimo. A very welcome addition to our club!
Here is Homa (via Zoom)
Overheard:
I'm glad I didn't waste my money buying a planner for 2020.
Program:
Our regularly scheduled program did not show up but we were able to talk our visiting Rotarians Libby and Greg into telling us a bit about their Rotary activities. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Please check out the links below for more info.
- This link takes you to a project with the Rotary clubs of Jasper, Glenora and Roatan.
https://www.toolsforschools.org/
- This link takes you to a site that is working to build schools in Rwanda
https://stheleneadoptavillage.com/about
Libby and Greg from Jasper
