Tonight's meeting was held at Longwood Brew Pub and hosted by President Elect Rob Waine.

 

 

Our students Daniel and Saeko attended their last meeting at our club as they are headed home shortly.

 

 

At tonights meeting Rob was asking for feedback on The Community Breakfast.  Was there enough people helping out thru the peak times?

If you have any thoughts on this please forward them to Rob!  Thanks.

 

Reminder that we are at Loaves and Fishes next week and this does start at 6!  Please attend if you are available.

 

District Conference is this weekend in Olympia and our members Paul Geneau and Derek Rickwood are attending.  Hopefully they will share some highlights at one of our meetings.

 

Saeko presented our club with a Banner from her club and Pres Rob presented her with a Banner to take back to her Club.

 

This was Daniel and Saeko's last meeting with us and they shared that they have both really loved their year and have great memories to take home with them.  They were very grateful that Rotary offered this wonderful opportunity to them and hoped this program will continue.  Having them at the meetings this year certainly added a lot of enjoyment.  They are both wonderful ambassadors for their Clubs and we will certainly miss them.

 

Jim mentioned that Bill Robinson won't be doing the 50/50 Draw organizing for the Dragon Boat Festival, so unless someone else volunteers it won't be happening.  The person that takes out the license is required to be there most of the time and also at draw time.  If you are interested please let Jim know. These funds are under the restricted funds guidelines, so the monies can only be used for specific donations.

 

Jim also spoke of the Gaming funds and the $20,000 grant that we received and must be spent.  He is reviewing a few organizations that we have donated to in the past, such as Mental Health, the Food Share Lunch Program, Boys and Girls Summer Camp and Big Brothers and Sisters Mentoring Program.  Thru the evening discussion he will also look at the Kids Symphony  and the Equestrian Disability's Programs.  These are all great community programs so we will wait for the final decision. 

 

We received an email from the Child Development Centre that there is an Annual Meeting that they would love people to attend. Its June 29th and runs from 5-7, although if you are not a member already, please arrive at 4:30 to register. 

 

 

 

Pres Elect Rob reviewed the Club Vision Summary.  Which was interesting to see where we were in the process for achieving preset goals. We reviewed, Club Characteristics, Club Size and Attributes , Club Service, Vocational Service, New Generation Service , Community Service, International Service Foundation, and Public Relations.  The members enjoyed some great discussions with regard to such items as in the next 3-5 years, what size we would like to see the membership grow.  We heard information around a new Ryla event coming to Vancouver Island.  Doug updated us on our very successful Ghana Project and our partnership with DayBreak Club on this. We also had discussions other projects locally such as the Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Beban Park.  Looks and sounds like we are going to have a wonderful Rotary Year!!!

 

We also had the Inventory of Interests to complete .  What Topics interest you? Don't forget to fill it out and return to Rob!

 

Ian Thompson was last week!  We have Suzanne's this week and Greg's on July 2nd. Wishing all three of you a Very Happy Birthday.