Bulletin - August 8, 2013

Bulletin of the

Sackville Rotary

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Gayle Key, President

Editor: Wayne Harper

NEXT WEEK

Thursday, August 15, 2013
Chairperson :  Wayne
Greeter: Dianne
Introducer:  Wayne
Thanker: Barb
Speaker: Kellie Mattatall - Skateboard Park

THIS WEEK
Chairperson:  Dianne
Greeter:  Darrell
Introducer: Trish
Thanker: Wynn
Speaker: Ove, Dale and Louise H. - Membership Committee

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

VISITING ROTARIANS

There were no visiting Rotarians this week.

GUESTS
 
Short Term Students (Outbound) Lindsay Trueman and Pauline Rejean (inbound from France).  

 
Summer Rotarian Mitchell Fagan returned, navigating grandma Pam's Top Down, Orange Beast.

MAKE UPS

Trish attended the District Youth Committee meeting while the Executive met yesterday (Gayle, Darrell, Dal, Mary, John, Ove, Wayne & Guest Patricia) along with the RYE committee (Dave, Patricia & Louise H.).

BIRTHDAYS

Both Sue's have birthday upcoming.  Sue P. has a birthday on the 13th while Sue F. is on the  9th.  Neither were there to wear the Kassie Hat.

ANNIVERSARIES

Dave and Sue F. share an anniversary this coming week on the 11th.

PIN PAL STORIES

Patricia was in Grand Manan this past weekend where there were many Rotarians at the RYE orientation.  

50/50 DRAW

    Ken, along with Guest Mitchell, were the big winners this week.  

Actually they only won $5 as they failed to pick the elusive 9 Diamonds, picking the 4 of Diamonds instead.

HAPPY DOLLARS

Ken was happy to introduce our newest member Susan Tower, Manager at the Scotiabank.  She has already joined the membership committee.  Ken was unhappy that his partner-in-crime (Mitchell) didn't draw the winning card.  Could this spell dissent in Shangrala?

Wynn was happy that he has become Physic as he predicted that he would not win the 50-50 draw.  Who knew?

Patricia was happy to be returning to work after her holidays. She was also pleased that she had all the Grandkids home at the same time.  No wonder she wants to return to work!

Trish was happy that she will be vacationing in Ontario the next couple of weeks.  I'll bet she's in wine country - Prince Edward County.

Charlie was real happy as his latest book on Sackville was finished and sent to the publishers. 300 books were pre-sold, against a budget of 200 pre-sales.  Looks like a success to me.

Ove was happy as he is headed for the cottage in La Belle Province for the next few weeks.

Barb was happy to see the sun.

Louise H. was happy that the RYE students will arrive over the next few weeks.  She is asking members to pick a day within a month to do something with them.  Don't forget Police checks are necessary.

Here Pam and Mitchell do the Miracle T at a Dairy Queen.  I'd be happy to anytime I'm at a DQ.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Wayne reported that the Lobster party is on August 21st at Dianne house (22 Park St.)  The District Governor, Pat Perry will be in attendance.

Patricia reported that the first RYE student (Henna) will arrive tonight from Finland.  Christoph arrives from Switzerland next week.

Short term exchange student Lindsay Trueman reported briefly on her exchange to France, thanking the Club for making it happen.

Charlie reported that Laing is feeling lonely since his transportation to and from the meetings, was curtailed due to obsolete equipment.  Members can visit him at the Drew, room # 115.  It appears that the former operator of the abilities van is in the  process of buying another.  We expect that Laing will rejoin us at that point.

 
UPCOMING MEETINGS

None scheduled for the upcoming week.

PRESIDENT’S TIME

  Gayle indicated that the envelope for Coady, passed around last week, netted $260.  Gayle then called up Past President Trish to give our service and attendance awards for members who were not at the ceremony.  

 First up was Dale who received his certificate for 5 years of being a Rotarian.

Here, Patricia receives her "get-out-of-jail-card" for perfect attendance last year.

GUEST SPEAKER

This week it was Past President Trish's job to introduce our guest speaker.  This week's speaker(s) were members of the Membership Committee to talk on, what else, membership in this, membership month.  Membership Chair introduced members of the committee - Dale, George, Louise H. Dave and Susan.  The committee's mandate is not only to recruit new members but to retain the current members.  To this end, the committee feels that all members should be engaged.  Thus all members need to be on a least one committee.

Dale show the members, a matrix indicating what committee each member was on.  Many members were on 5 - 7 committees, but there were some who were not on any. The membership committee is addressing this. Their goal is that every members is on a least two committees.  

One of the newest members on the committee, Louise H. related what it is like to be a new member, not knowing what committees interested her.  She is glad to be part of this committee, indicating that it feels good to be involved.  She believes that one learns about Rotary through being part of the committee structure.  The committee meets the second Thursday of each month at 8:30 am in Ove's office.  The committee urges all members to bring forth names of potential members.  

Wynn thanked the speakers by presenting a book to Chair Ove.  The book will be presented to a local library.

UPCOMING WEEKS
Thursday, August 22, 2013 
Chairperson : Marita
Greeter: Dave
Introducer:  Wynn
Thanker: Becky
Speaker:  Pat Perry - District Governor