Rotary 11-05/2018 (Nov 07, 2018)

Meeting: November 6th, 2018

Guests:

Serena Klaver

Micheal Hanson

Visiting Rotarians: None

Announcements:

Thank you from Rotary North award. Kaitlyn Lee.
Loaves and fishes on 27th
Rotary Breakfast on Saturday. 15 Volunteers as of Tuesday night
The End Polio event has been cancelled due to poor signup
Flag raising on Thursday at 8:45 for the City of Nanaimo ‘End Polio Days’
Brechin school pancake breakfast sold out.

Birthdays:

Birthday - Serena. She said she had never heard anything like our singing!

Anniversaries: None

Line of the day:

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments

Program:

Our own Tyler Brown was the speaker tonight. He is an urban planner by training with a masters in urban planning. And of course a new city councilor. His theme was that cities are for people and they should be designed for people and lasting community prosperity.

'Tactical Urbanism' is a deliberate approach to city making that uses short term action to instigate long term change. Some examples he gave were:

Signs with the walking times between places of interest
Jane’s walks through cities
Board games in DK plaza that provide spaces for people of all walks of life to meet and talk and visit.
The Urban art gallery project to improve the vitality of downtown.
Thursday night street market

One of his closing remarks was 'Speak to why you are doing something not what you are doing. The world we get is the one we build. '

A really interesting talk. Thanks Tyler!

Burger & Beer Night

The burger and beer night at the White spot was a success. Thanks to all who came and special thanks to Barney and Jim for organizing, to Ian for Wine Draw Wizardry and to Sue for wielding the Square. We netted just over $2300 - all while having a great time.