Bulletin July 5, 2012

Posted by David McKellar

on Jul 05, 2012

Bulletin of the
Sackville Rotary Club,
Thursday July 5th, 2012
Trish Edwards, President
Editor: Susan F

NEXT WEEKS DUTIES
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Chairperson: Trish
Greeter: George Speaker:
Club Assembly
Bulletin Editor: David M/ Sue F

THIS WEEK
CHAIRPERSON: Sue P.

• Greeter was Gayle
• O Canada
• Blessing – Pam H
• Breakfast

TODAY IN CANADIAN HISTORY

July 5

1885 - Prince Edward Island founds it’s own telephone company.

1930 - Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. His turtle survives.

1967 - Governor General Roland Michener invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the first ribbon and pendant star of the Order of Canada; founding of the Order of Canada.

1997 - Halifax, Nova Scotia singer Sarah McLachlan kicks off Lilith Fair, her all-female pop festival tour, at the George Amphitheatre with Suzanne Vega, Paula Cole and Jewel.

VISITORS: none

GUESTS: none

MAKE-UPS: none

BIRTHDAYS: none

ANNIVERSARIES: none

PIN PAL:
Trish wore both pins last Thursday as she had been pinned, her regional director noticed
Pat: Gloria Turner had decided to give a bursary in memory of her son Stephen and the person who won it is going away on a Rotary Exchange.
Pam ran into Chloe in the grocery store. Chloe was on youth exchange for the past year.

50/50 DRAW: drawn by Terry
Won by Ove

HAPPY DOLLARS:
Ove was happy he won the 50/50 and that he and Pat were laving for the cottage tomorrow.

Trish was happy because she had talked to her father (a new Rotarian) for an hour last night. He is very excited about being part of Rotary.
Pam B was happy that last Friday was an unscheduled day

and that the weather on the weekend was glorious.
Louise is happy/sad

at putting together a play set this weekend.

Marita is happy for her garden because of the rain last night and today.
Sue P is happy that she spent a week in
Toronto with her father and ended up gardening for the week.

COMMITTEE REPORTS
Pam H gave a report on the Foundation – only 78 polio cases in the world as at the latest reporting. She would like to propose a donation of $7.80 next week to celebrate.

Pat – RYE: There is an advertisement in the paper looking for host
parents. Favorable rates were obtained from the paper. There has been one favorable response already. No news from the cross Canada tour from Felix and Prenelle so the assumption is that no news is good news. Pam reported on the PR in Calgary with a half page editorial on the activities of Calgary Rotary Club.

UPCOMING MEETINGS Executive Meeting: Jul 18 with District Governor who will be attending the weekly meeting on Jul 19

PRESIDENT’S TIME:
Allan MacLellan is the new district governor and will be visiting on Jul 19
Trish welcomed Scott as a new member

Ken is going to be assistant district governor for this upcoming Rotary year.
Moncton will be hosting a district conference in the fall, Sept 21-23. District conference will be moving to the fall.

Town has approached us to assist in the corn boil on the Labour Day weekend. Pam H volunteered to head it up.

GUEST SPEAKER: Terry Wagner, Heart & Stroke Association Introduced by: Josh Restart a Heart – Restart a Life
The program is started by young Chase McEachern, who had a heart condition and he wanted to have an AED in all the arenas so that he would be able to play hockey. Unfortunately Chase died at 12 and he was unable to see the spread of AED’s into arenas in Ontario.
In Canada there are 45,000 arrests a year, in New Brunswick there were 1,200.
With CPR,

the survival rate is 5%, add a defibrillator and that rate increases to 75%.
Every minute counts in a restart. The grant is $4,000, which includes wall mounting,
training for up to 6 people and entered into the PAD

(public access defibrillator) program.
New Brunswick has the highest penetration rate per population in Canada.
Arenas, Community Centers and High Schools are the targets for the devices.
Questions included a query with who has the equipment? There is an issue with first responders. All public buildings in Sackville are equipped with AED’s and staff are trained. A possible suggestion is to have all the public AED’s registered with the program so people are aware where they are located.

Speaker thanked by: Ove

Adjournment occurred with the stating of the 4-Way Test.

UPCOMING MEETINGS
Thursday, Jul 19, 2012
Chairperson: Trish Greeter: John
Speaker: Allan MacLellan District Governor
Introducer: Karen?? Thanker: Pam B
Bulletin Editor: David M/ Sue F

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