Congratulations to President Cara on her first meeting. Well done!
Colin's Rotary Minute:
The district assembly is held to help train the new year's leaders of Rotary. Some of the most experienced Rotarians help the delegates from each club become familiar with their responsibilities for the upcoming year.
Guests:
Chelsey Marshall.
Vicky visited with Jim Turley
Jennifer Kemp (our guest speaker)
Visiting Rotarians:
None
Announcements:
Sue reported that we had a very nice thank-you from Janice Perrino for the $8000 donation to the we recently made to the hospital ICU
Ed will be sending out the coming years budget for the club members to review. We will be voting to approve the budget during an upcoming meeting
President Cara reported Ian had reached out to the Golf Club regarding returning to in person meetings. The first meeting will be September 7th. The majority of members were in favour of this although we will try to have a hybrid meeting (ie using ZOOM) for those that cannot or do not wish to attend yet.
Birthdays:
None
Anniversaries:
Don and Nancy 16th
Ian and Ruth 26th
Membership Anniversaries
Bill Grace 3 years
Carly Jeffery 2 years
Ed Poli 17 years
Rob Waine 27 years
Rod Smith 28 years
Comedy Corner:
Diet Day 1:
Removed all the bad food from the house. It was delicious.
Program:
Derek introduced Jennifer Kemp who was our guest speaker tonight. She is passionate about helping people and does this in her roll as Executive Director with Big Brothers and Big Sisters here in Nanaimo.
For those that may not know - the in-school mentoring program is something that we have supported for a number of years.
Jennifer talked about their current program - what is new and what is different, the impact of Covid and a peek into what is coming up. She is an excellent speaker and it was wonderful to hear how her organization has such an impact on our community.
