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Nanaimo Golf Club
2800 Highland Blvd
Nanaimo, BC  V9S 3N8
Canada
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Apr 17, 2018
Beer & Burger at Whitespot at Woodgrove
Apr 24, 2018 6:00 PM
May 01, 2018
How our club can use social media to our advantage
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Upcoming Events
Rotary Club of Nanaimo Used Book Sale
Apr 13, 2018 – Apr 22, 2018
 
District Conference 2018
May 04, 2018 – May 05, 2018
 
Nanaimo Oceanside Club James Bond Night
Coast Bastion Hotel
Jun 02, 2018 6:00 PM –
Jun 03, 2018
 
Sponsors
 March 20 2018 Meeting at Nanaimo Golf Club
 
Guests:   Bia Pilla (Brazil) and Davia Diethelm (Switzerland) (Exchange Students), Marsh Hope, former member of Comox Rotary, Jim Shore, Ann Northwood, Roger Gibb, speaker.
 
Visiting Rotarians:  none
 
Rotary Minute - Colin provided the Rotary Minute about Peace Scholarships
 
 
 
Announcements: 
        Rob Waine spoke of  the successful RYLA event the previous weekend. The five students were chauffeured and chaperoned by Graham and Vicki Calder of the Daybreak Club.
        Installation night will be June 5
        Rotary tree planting event at Beban Park next Fall; president Jim is setting up a meeting with Nanaimo Parks to work out details
        PI summit in Victoria
        May 4th and 5th District Conference  in Tacoma
        June 23 to 25th Rotary Convention in Toronto
        Upcoming Daybreak, and Lantzville Golf tournaments
        Next meeting on April 3rd at 6:10pm, same location, preceded by thirty minutes of fellowship.
        President Jim then asked for membership comments:
  1. Beer ‘n Burger night April 17th at the White Spot Restaurant, invite your friends, auction items needed, volunteers needed for setup, each member please bring a bottle of wine for auction.
  2. Perry Williams – spoke also about the Rotary Peace Scholarship and the need for qualified applicants - he also pinned Bob Moss with his third Paul Harris pin.
  3. Rod Smith, World Community Service – the club has committed to $1,000 USD to assist Daybreak with their rebuilding of a school in Nepal project. – The club has funded five filtration systems to Disaster Aid for Yemen. He also discussed an update letter from the Sunshine Coast Club regarding our club’s participation in two of their Kenyan well projects.
  4. Paul Geneau – Three outbound students are going to Victoria next week for approval interviews – Omaha, Nebraska was the centre for a Rotary Exchange Assembly (North America), 400 Rotarians attended from North and South America and Asia.
 
Program  
 
         Gill Campbell introduced our evening presenter Roger Gibb of the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron:       
        a.  Head office in Toronto, started in 1938
        b   Purpose in the main to teach safe boating in Canada
         c   20,000 members across Canada with 315 in Nanaimo
 
Next week:  Service Project at Loaves & Fishes Warehouse.
 
 
Scribe: Doug Pearson
 
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