Bulletin - September 1, 2011

O'Canada   Blessing  Breakfast

CHAIRMAN 

Andy chaired today's meeting opening our business portion with a quote from Mother Teresa, "Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery."

VISITORS 

Dave McKellar joins us again this morning.  Dave will be returning to his club in Ottawa after a small hiatis.

GUESTS

We were without any guests this morning.

MAKE-UPS

Barb J. joined a table of all men, over the age of 80, at the Orillia club;

Dale visited Fort St. John's club in Vancouver and attempted a meeting in Waterloo (which counts!);

Dianne played golf, Rotary hosted;

BIRTHDAYS

 Charlie celebrates this week.  Enjoy, Charlie!!

ANNIVERSARIES

None.

PIN PAL

Dale shared three pin pals.  One at the Hilton in Alberta where he met Rotarian Bruce from Calgary.  Two more when he reunited with Bruno and Joanne, now in Sherbrooke.

Chairman Andy took this time to welcome Dale and Barb J. back to Rotary after their travels over the summer. 

50/50 JACKPOT

Brian draws Ove's ticket for a $12.00 win!!

 HAPPY DOLLARS

Ove sported a big smile when he won 50/50;

 Dianne was thrilled with the results of the Kraft Celebration party last Friday night.   TSN stated that the town of Sackville cleaned up the fastest...ever!  Over 1,500 participants!  Great job, Dianne!

 Pat noted that this morning's quote was so true and how sad about the NHL player dying so young.  The role of the "Enforcer" and what comes with that (suicide and mental health issues);

 Charlie announced a PSA informing us of the St. Andrews' Church Yard Sale on Saturday, September 3, starting at 8:30am.  Proceeds to Community Forests (Jeff Schnurr) and Salem Elementary's Breakfast Program.

Barb J. is excited to see her new grand-daughter during her son's visit home.  He's also bringing along two puppies.  Now there's a housefull!

Dale...is just happy.

Andy threw in a toonie to celebrate his daughter (and her family) coming home for a visit starting tomorrow.  He's also happy that Mount Allison students are arriving (as are all the businesses in town).

Robin was happy to tell us that 44 Massie (Fall group) students and 75 International (34 countries) students arrived on Monday.  Today, another 675 students will arrive.  A bonfire (with s'mores) was hosted in Rockport last night.  Fun!

Su C. is happy to be home from Toronto where she spent two crazy, stressful weeks!   

Pam H. continues her work on water filtration systems speaking at the Rexton club.  Pam received enough support for 38 of the 100 required.  This project is in conjunction with Visions United Church.

NEXT WEEK

Next week was to be Club Assembly; however, with our President being on vacation, the Executive will not have a chance to meet.  The following are the duties for next week's meeting.  September 8th switches to September 15th:

Barb C. = Chairman;  Mary = Introducer;  Sandy = Thanker;  Cathy = Greeter

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Pam H. received information from the town for their upcoming corn boil.  Volunteers are needed Friday night at 7pm at the Civic Center to husk corn; Saturday at 9am to help set up; and Saturday at 10:45am to serve-it-up.

Gayle informed us that the time of the Golf Ball Drop will need to be changed...Hopefully to Friday night at 7pm.

Leslie sent out an email to Rotary members with regards to the "Corporate Challenge" fundraiser scheduled for September 8 @ 6:30pm in Dieppe at the Community Center (LeBlanc Arena).

Sue P. informed members that our Lobster Party would be held on Sunday, September 11, 5pm, Cape Jourimain.  She is working on the possibility of having a walk in the bridge.  Spouses/partners are welcome.  Attendance needs to be confirmed.  The cost will be $25.00 each.

Wayne mentioned that the Relay for Life team has two vacant spots if anyone is interested.  This event will be held October 18th.

Ove was unable to get anymore more Food Cards due to not having any signing authority.  Ken does but is on vacation.  In the meantime there are still Co-op cards available.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Trish will be hosting a Projects meeting at her home this evening at 5:30 pm.

PRESIDENT'S TIME

Filling in for President Ken, Vice President Trish informed us that there was nothing more to add that wasn't already mentioned.

GUEST SPEAKER

Robin introduced our guest speaker, David Lieske, informing us that he has been her neighbour, her friend, and her colleague.  David originates from Edmonton and attended University of Alberta for his Bachelors degree, University of Saskatchewan for his Masters, and University of Calgary for his Ph.D.

David is a geographer of geo systems, otherwise known as Neo-Cartography or mapping.

 David opened with a big thank you to our club for having him as our guest speaker.  Quickly moving on to having us think of a map and what we would find on one.  Us early birds didn't do too bad coming up with having a fixed scale, 2-dimentional, with a coordinate system and a legend.

Dave now says..."look beyond"... GPS/G15...computers...giving the possibilities of other dimensions...

Visualization needs to be novell with some abstraction and ambiguity.

 Communication focus for the public does not consist of much interaction but provides a framework for thinking about problems - visual database and patterns which stimulates discussion of "why?" and  "what if?".  David then provided examples with Hurricane Irene and Mount Allison in 3D with explanations.

Climate change is a spatial problem.  One of these is the rising tides and our current dyke system.  The dykes should be a community investment in order to decrease the risk involved with these rising tides.  There are currently regional predictions.  David's team's goal is to measure through the capacity of mapping to lessen these risks.  This type of mapping allows the public to 'see' what the impact will be should the dykes not be upgraded.  A web-based prototype map has been created.

Sea levels have been measured since 1939.  The animation on the map tracks this time-line and predicts future sea levels.  Sacvkille has several low areas which would end up under water.

Ending the same way he started, David left us with the following questions:  What are we going to do about it?  The dykes are maintained somewhat with a limited budget.  It is expensive to maintain the dykes and the budget will need to be reviewed.  Can we fix?  Do we need other (new) systems?

Mary thanked David for his presentation, informing him of the book that would be donated to a local library on behalf of Sackville Rotary, in his honour. 

Chairman Andy closed the meeting with Rotary's 4-Way Test.