Rotary Club of Sackville Bulletin January 14, 2016

 

  John was subbing for Frank in the Chair today.  John was born in Plainville, NJ. an area not known for its hospitality.    John was named after his father, who was a prisoner-of-war at the time John was born.  When he was old enough to leave home for college, John chose the west -Colorado in particular.   The story will continue next time.

 

Guests Sherry Richard & Brock Grover attended our meeting today as winners of the Gold Mine Draw.  Pat Perry, former District Governor from the Miramichi Club was a visiting Rotarian.  Pat will be working in the area this winter and expects to attend many of our meetings.  Make ups were recorded from the Rotaract Committee and to those help with the breakfast at Marshview Middle school.  There were no pin pal stories this week, however Gayle will be celebrating a birthday on the 20th.

 

    George's ticket was drawn for the 50/50 draw.  Aiming for the Jack of Clubs, he drew the 6 of Diamonds, losing the $40 the pot was up to.  On the Happy Dollars front, George was happy that he will be going to Florida in 2 weeks for a 2 month holiday..........Visiting Rotarian Pat was happy that her 8-year-old granddaughter was chosen to be on the All City Girls Hockey team in Saskatoon..........Sue F. was happy that Louie now knows how to operate the snow blower - and he likes it!.........Trish was happy that she didn't set the clock for 6:15 PM.........Dianne was happy that she will be curling with the girls in Rexton.........Edna reported that Virgil says hello to the Club.........Louise was not particularly happy as daughter Mariah wasn't exactly excited with the wardrobe choice.   Those of us with daughters can relate!

 

The duty roster for next week is as follows:

Chairperson      Dianne           Greeter       John

Introducer        Kevin             Thanker       Sue P.

Gold Mine Counters   Kevin, Trish, Edna, Wayne & Marita

 

Committee reports - Fundraising's Jamie handed out 5 tickets to all members.  The idea is to get members to each sign up 5 new players for the Gold Mine Draw........Dale announced that he has grocery cards for sale and encouraged members to buy them early in the meeting as he has to leave immediately at meeting's end........    The Projects Committee Chair, Trish asked the Club to vote on another initiative.  With Margaret Tuzz-King the guest speaker last week  she chose not to include Open Sky in last weeks vote.  Therefore she (Trish) moved that "the club donate $1,000 to Open Sky Cooperative".  The motion was seconded by Sue F.   the vote passed.........    Sue F. reports that the Rotaract club will make a presentation to Jeff Schnurr on Wednesday, January 20th in room 120, Avard Dixon Building.  Members are encouraged to attend.  The Chili Cookoff will be held on February 18th with the profits earmarked for supplying knapsacks and school supplies for disadvantaged students.   The Adventures in Citizenship project is beginning to get underway with student interviews.

 

Committee Meetings in the next week include: the Club Administration Committee on January 20th at John's house and the Fundraising Committee on January 18th at Mary's house.

 

President Dianne reminded everyone of the Strategic Planning session at Wayne & Sandy's house on Saturday, January 30th @ 9:00 am.  She urged members to think about who might make new members and invite them to a meeting.

 

The last two winners of the Gold Mine Draw were presented with their cheques.

      

Winning the December 28th draw was Brock Grover who took home $2,786.  Equally happy was Sherry Richard, the winner of the January 11th draw, who received a cheque for $1,892. On the charity front, the Tantramar Learning Centre was presented a cheque for $487.    

 

Because of the snow storm, our regular speaker canceled as she was coming from Fredericton.    In her place, visiting Rotarian Pat Perry stepped in to update the membership on the Polio Plus program.  February 21st this year will mark 30 years of the Polio Plus program.    Currently Africa is now polio free, a huge undertaking.  Only 2 countries still have polio and the cases are less than 100 per year.  Over the past 30 years, 1.3 billion dollars have been raised and over 2 billion children have been immunized.  The light at the end of the tunnel can finally be seen.