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Join us for dinner!
Service Above Self
usually 1st & 3rd Tuesdays @6:10 PM
Longwood Brew Pub
5775 Turner Rd.
Nanaimo, BC  V9T 6L8
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Speakers
Jun 14, 2016
Rob Waine's Installation!!
spousal night. at the Golf Club..more details to come!
 
Jun 21, 2016
TBA
@ Longwood
 
Jun 28, 2016
Community Service @ Food Bank
sorting food, Milton & Fry Streets
 
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Upcoming Events
District 5020 Conference
Red Lion Hotel
Jun 24, 2016 – Jun 26, 2016
 
Sponsors

Craig Clarke, Independent Distributor for USANA Health Sciences

Eye Care Nanaimo

Mosaic Information Technologies

Turley's Florist

Millstone Manor B and B

Newcastle Engineering Ltd

Ian Thompson

Frank Allen Financial

Woodgrove Chrysler Dodge Jeep

Tonights meeting was held at the Longwood Brew Pub and hosted by President Elect Rob Waine.
 
 
Guests
Our speakers this evening Patrick Maguire and Ron Blank, who are both from the Nanaimo Daybreak Rotary Club.
Also Larry's guest Denise who is a Communications Consultant.
 
Foundation Minute
Thanks to Colin for sharing "What kind of Service Awards for a club to receive"  Which are District Awards, Distinguished Awards and Polio Plus World Awards.
 
News and Updates
 
Beer and Burger -- Thanks to all that attended and Congrats to our winner Lindsay Clark whom won $6,285.00!
Community Breakfast on this saturday June 11th.  Rob was looking for a few more volunteers. Looking forward to it!
 
Rotary Dues --To help cover the costs of guests meals, this year dues are $280.00.  Dues Deadline is coming up!  Please pay your dues by June 20th.  
 
This Saturday June 11th, there is an Appreciation Dinner at Rewsters.  A Tribute to Drs. Cameron, Smith and Seltenrich. If you are interested in attending please contact Bev Hilton at 250-667-2497.
 
Youth Officers Training in Qualicum Beach on June 13th.  Paul Geneau is our rep for this, but as he mentioned we can always use a back up.
If anyone is interested please contact Paul.
 
If you are interested in hosting a couple of Ghanian Rotarians from June 13th for a week or two, please let Rob know.
 
District 5020 Conference- June 24 and 25th, 2016. Olympia WA.  You  are invited!  Paul is going and looking to car pool, so please contact him if you are interested.
 
May 28th Coupon Day results-- Jim gave an update that the net proceeds from this fundraiser was $270.71.  So not a lot of money was raised but lots was learned!  The downtown shops gave back positive feedback and we can see this expanding next year to even all of Nanaimo and maybe be for more than one day.  Stay tuned for more info to come in the fall.
 
Jim shared that we need a 50/50 ticket organizer for the Dragon Boat Weekend as Ed can't be there some of the time this year.  Bill Robinson stepped forward and offered to do this.  It was also noted that we will need atleast 4 alternates also for things like counting cash etc.
 
Jim also shared that he is doing the fund allocation at this time.  He has received two requests for funds that he shared will the club and they have been reviewed and turned down at this time.
 
Dragon Boat Weekend-- This is coming up quickly. Please reply to Gill if you haven't!  July 8th,9th and 10th, 2016.
 
Tonights Speakers - Patrick Maguire and Ron Blank  P.A.R.T.Y
 
 
P.A.R.T.Y -- A very interesting and powerful presentation!   PARTY stands for Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth.
This program started out in Sunnybrook Medical Centre in Ontario and is now all over the world.  It has been presented to over a million teens and is about trauma and mostly motor vehicle collisions.  Its administered by Island Health and presented to student in Grade 10, whom spend half a day at the hospital. The students will go thru 5 different presentations that go from a crashed car to the emergency to the morgue. Their main take home message is "Drive Sober". Buckle Up, Wear the Gear, Get Trained, Look First."
They have had great success and in the last 3 years there has been no collisions during Grad Week! This is such an eye opening experience for students to go thru and big thanks to Patrick and Ron from DayBreak Club for sharing this with our Club.  They are also looking for volunteers to help take the students to the different presentations at the hospital.  If you are interested, please don't hesitate to contact them!
 
See you June 14th at the Installation for Rob Waine and his Executive at the Nanaimo Golf Club!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stories
Exchange students prom night
Posted by Craig Clarke on Jun 12, 2016
   photo by Don Dempson 
Daniel and Saeko attended the Dover Bay prom.  They will finish school, attend the District Convention  later this month and return home in July.
Global movement needed to reverse water crisis
Posted on Jun 02, 2016
by Ryan Hyland 27-May-2016
 
This year's World Water Summit on 27 May in Seoul highlighted the progress being made:
  • Over the last 25 years, more than 2.5 billion people gained access to improved drinking water, and 2 billion who didn't have adequate sanitation now do.
  • Child deaths from water-related diseases dropped from 1.5 million to just over 600,000.
  • The UN Millennium Development Goals' target for clean drinking water was met five years ahead of schedule.
But for the 1.8 billion people whose drinking water remains contaminated and the 2.4 billion without access to proper sanitation, progress is still too slow, said Vanessa Tobin, director of water and sanitation for Catholic Relief Services and one of the event's main speakers.

Mirroring the polio eradication movement

"We need a movement," Tobin declared, saying it should follow Rotary's polio eradication model. "Polio was universal and everyone had one aim: eliminate every case in the world. We need to set a goal that by 2030 every child has safe water and sanitation for life.
"Water and sanitation must be at the top of each country's development agenda," she said.
Gary White, chief executive and co-founder of Water.org, agreed and told attendees that charity alone won't solve the global water crisis. White said that it would take five years and $1 trillion to provide and maintain safe water access for all, but international aid totals only $8 billion each year. His organization is making it possible for people in need to help pay for their own clean water and sanitation.
"People who live in poverty or are coming out of it in developing countries want to pay for water security, not just for practical purposes, but for social and financial purposes," White said.
His organization established WaterCredit, a microfinance program that offers loans to families in need of water connections or toilets. The program's repayment rates exceed 99 percent.
"Giving people the capital to ensure water security gives them the dignity they want and need," he added.

Matching expertise with action

The water summit, the eighth convened by the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, seeks to match industry expertise with Rotary service projects.
Francis Barram, a member of the Rotary Club of Centurion in South Africa, came to the water summit to find partners for a project to clean up sewage-filled rivers in Johannesburg.
"People here [at the water summit] are passionate about finding solutions for clean water. And more importantly, they know what they're doing," said Barram, who joined the Rotarian Action Group last year. "Our club found the need, and we can pull together the support, but we need the technical know-how. This event can help me find that."
Breakout sessions focused on sustainable strategies for getting clean water and sanitation in schools, partnerships, financing, climate change, and safe drinking water systems. Other speakers included Deuk-Mo Chung, director general of the Seoul Water Institute, and Sanjay Wijesekera, chief of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for UNICEF.
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