Northwind template (Oct 05, 2022)

Meeting: 4th October, 2022

Colin's Club History:

2007/08: Rod Smith was president; Ed Poli Rotarian of the Year

Our fundraisers included: Dragon Boat and other bars, Art Calendars, Club Auction, Bingo, Vegas Draw, Christmas Ornaments for Zimbabwe water project, Citrus for Charity and The Heart and Stroke Golf Tournament

We sent 5 Shelter Boxes to Kenya and donated dictionaries to Dufferin’s grade 2 & 3 classes.

For fellowship we had a pub night at the Dinghy Dock, toured the Conference Centre construction, helped collect donations at the V.I. Symphony in the Harbour and had a theatre night at the Bailey Studio.

The Group Study Exchange teams were from Mexico and Norway.

Our District Conference was held in Parksville and Qualicum Beach and the Rotary International Convention was in Los Angeles.

2008/09: Suzanne Benoit was president, Susan Mielke Rotarian of the Year.

For Fundraisers we had: Art Calendars, Dragon Boat and other bars, Club Auction, Heart and Stroke Golf Tournament, Citrus for Charity, Vegas Draw and Bingo

Fellowship included: Helping to collect donations at the V.I. Symphony in the Harbour, BBQ with Chemainus club at Country Maples Campground after golf at Mt. Brenton Golf Course.

The GSE team was from Australia

Guests: Anne Northwood and Kalila Wilkinson

Announcements:

Ticket sales for our 50th Anniversary Celebration are slow! More non-members have paid than members - Rob urged everyone to pay by e-transfer as soon as possible as the Golf Club needs to knowhow many are attending.
The Sally-Ann breakfast is this coming Saturday - Rob has enough volunteers.
The Lions Club is no longer doing the Santa Parade - general feeling was it is too late for us to organize it now.
The DG is collecting donations for the hurricane recovery in Florida - perhaps we should be helping Eastern Canada?
Youth Exchange Interviews will be held on October 12th - for details contact Paul Geneau.
Sue reported that as usual there was no snail mail. Discussion followed about cancelling our P.O.Box Issue was tabled to a future date.

Anniversaries: Ed and Anne Marie - 43 Years!

Program: The Men's Centre.

Cresswell Walker and Yonas Jongkind gave a passionate talk about the efforts to address men in crisis. The Men's Centre was founded in 2001 and provides services to men including coaching, counselling and navigating legal and family matters. The Centre offers a variety of courses including how to deal with violence, lack of control, thoughts of suicide and others. For more information visit their website: www.the menscentre.ca