Bulletin - August 30, 2012

Posted by Wayne Harper 
on Aug 30, 2012
 
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Bulletin of the
Sackville Rotary Club,
Thursday August 30th, 2012
Trish Edwards, President
Editor: Wayne


NEXT WEEK
Thursday, September 6, 2012 
Chairperson :  Beth
Greeter: Pam H.
Introducer:  Patricia
Thanker:  Ove
Speaker: Bob Lemieux - Violence in Hockey

THIS WEEK
Chairperson:  Gayle
Greeter:  Ove
Introducer:  Pam H.
Thanker:  Scott
Speaker: Chloe MacIsaac - RYE Year

Chairperson Gayle brought the meeting to order with the singing of the National Anthem and a prayer of grace.Image 

VISITING ROTARIANS

Image Husband Image and wife Dwayne Mann & Debora Nowlan from Comax BC were guests this morning.

GUESTS OF ROTARIANS

Louise Hicks Image joined us for the second time.  I think we have a potential new member.  
                                                Future Rotarian Image Miriah Inglis was mommy Louise's guest today.
                                            Attending  their first Sackville Rotary Meeting was

 Image Coralie Magonet from Belgium and
Thomas  Auchet from France, our RYE students for this year.  

MAKEUPS

Patricia had a makeup at the airport as she picked up our RYE students.

BIRTHDAYS

Beth had a birthday today, while Charlie will have one on the 3rd.  Neither were at the meeting to wear the coveted candle hat.

ANNIVERSARIES

None this upcoming week.

PIN PAL STORIES

Seems Louise was in a car dealer's office recently where lo-and-behold, there was a Rotary credo on the wall.  Image   It turns out that his daughter was an outbound RYE student.  

50/50 DRAW

This week the big bucks went to Ove (again)!  Image

HAPPY DOLLARS

Ove was happy to win and he seems good at it..  He's always happy to win.  He was also happy that Sayaka Image our RYE student from 2003-2004 was in North America to visit her sister in New York and came and spent the weekend with Ove & Pat.........Sue P. was happy that she had tickets for a Nautical Quilt. Image .......Scott had golf ball drop tickets to sell, but you have to get up pretty early to fool this crowd.  He was also happy to participate in the Corn Boil this weekend. Image ........ Ken was really, really happy to be going on vacation. Image  All that work watching his bank buy ING Canada sapped all his energy.  He's "saved his money" now he's about to part with some of it.........Kathy was Image sort of happy - happy to be back in Sackville after attending to her mother's passing in BC.  The sympathy of the entire Club goes out to Kathy.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Membership - Andy advised members that our newest members will be inducted on September 13th at the regular weekly meeting.........The next Fireside Chat  will take place on October 5th.  Image The location will be at Ove's house........Look for the next "Club within a Club" new member recruitment event to be on November 8th.  More details later.
 Image Pam H. was encouraging members to print and sign the letter to your MP.  The letter was forwarded to each member earlier this week.
Administration - Wayne advised members that the Lobster Party, originally scheduled for September 9th has been Image rescheduled for Sunday, September 16th at anytime after 4 pm at his house......
RYE -   Image  Patricia read a letter from former RYE student Katrin (you may remember that she recently visited us). Image  In it she recanted what the program meant to her, in particular how our Club and Town has affected her view of the world and the people in it.  There was nary a dry eye in the house.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Membership meets immediately after this meeting.

PRESIDENTS TIME

With Prez Trish enjoying the continent of Africa, Vice Prez Gayle read a letter of thanks from Logan Turner for the support that our Club gave that allowed him to attend Camp Tidnish..........Gayle reminded members of the next Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) meeting will be held on October 13th in Truro.  If your interested, see Gayle.........Former Prez and now Assistant DG Ken reminded members of the District Conference to be  held in Moncton on the 20th - 23rd of September.  He encouraged members to at least attend some of the events to show support for our DG, besides which it is a good networking event to meet other Rotarians from the District.

GUEST SPEAKER

                           RYE-2c-c 

Pam H. introduced our outbound RYE student from 2011-2012 Chloe  MacIsaac. Pam indicated that the Rotary Youth Exchange program was started in 1920 because the RI President of the time wanted to encourage peace.  92 years later we are still trying to achieve worldwide peace.

Image  Chloe spent her Rotary year in Bruge, Belgium.  She was initially inspired by her sister who was an outbound student a few years ago.  At the time she met many foreign students who visited her sister at their house.  She vowed to have the same experience.

Her Town of Bruge gave her a sense of wonderment when looking at the architecture.  Bruge is a very old Town that wasn't decimated during WW 2.  In particular there was a bridge she loved to visit when she was down.

She described her first host family in a way that one might interpret as her favourite.  The Haygens were very welcoming, always included her in family conversations, took her on a family trip to London, taught her downhill skiing and made sure she was comfortable with going through the toughest part of the year - Christmas.  Her second host family, the LeClerq's was a family of all males.
Hence the mother "adopted" Chloe as a daughter to do typical daughter things like shopping and for a change of pace, more shopping.  They also contributed to her favourite adventure of the year.  Her third family, the Keppens had all daughters and they treated her like sister.  The parents were separated, but the father created an environment that was never boring and very artistic.  They took her to Rome for a visit.

One of the highlights for Chloe was the visit of her parents.  It gave her the opportunity to share her experiences with them.  Her host families made her parent's visit very memorable.Image

Chloe got to go to school, where she was enrolled in a language and science program. Technically she was not a student, hence couldn't get a graduation certificate.  Instead, however, she receive an attendance certificate.

Chloe attend her host's weekly club meetings every two weeks.  She eluded that our meeting are more fun than the Belgium's all male host club.  She did however get to meet our Rotary International President and two other girls from New Brunswick who were also in the area.

Chloe finished with a big thank you Image to all the Club members who made it possible for her to experience this year. 
Image  Scott thanked Chloe for her interesting talk with the donation of a book in her name to the library.


UPCOMING WEEKs
Thursday, September 13, 2012 
Chairperson :  Ken
Greeter: Pam N.
Introducer:  
Thanker: 
Speaker: Club Assembly

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