Bulletin 18 Aug 2016
Minutes of Aug 18 Sidney Rotary meeting
Meeting called to order at 6:30
National anthem lead by Roger, Invocation by Dan
Guests were:
Don Lefever- visiting member of St Martens club, will be here for few months—welcome
Beth Dipose speaker for Boys and Girls Club services of Victoria.
Weekly Annoucements:
Food Rescue Joint project : should be started in September. Presently negotiating a lease for a CRD warehouse hope CRD board will sign off Aug 10 on 10 year lease. Mustard seed will start picking up perishable foods from area Thrifty foods who will then distribute from warehouse to food banks, 8 neighborhood houses in CRD for distributing food boxes to low income families, secondary school chef program will also use. Hope the program to be self sustaining in 2-3 years.
Rotoract Club chair—Joey has ben appointed chair for district Rotoract club
Light up night events Victoria area clubs looking into it as a fundraiser and Rotary awareness program.
District Training assembly (DLTA) will be held at the same time as the district conference –May 5-7/ 2017 in Suquamish Wash. ( @ Clearwater Casino resort) bus will be available for participants on Coho.
Ian Morley is concerned about the fall fair manpower and requests any help for the Sept long weekend. John and Roger were asked about their commitments and Don Lefever offered his assistance.
Program:
Speaker Beth Depose was introduced by Cosmo. She is a youth councilor for the Grls and Boys club services of Greater Victoria.. They work with children who have come from abusive or difficult home situations or youth who have had peer pressure to chose the wrong life path. There administrative office is 1195 Esquimalt road They have numerous programs including: Anger management, Youth outreach, Education programs for struggling youth----Roger’s cellphone education enhancement, Duke of Edinburgh program, antibullying, BiGay Lesbian support program, Youth prenatal program (YP3)- single moms (age15-21) who have had no support from their families, a history of self or family substance abuse are offered housing and guidance to avoid Fetal alcohol syndrome , drug addiction and develop a healthy environment for their newborns. Program is supported by Herway house and Ministry of Child and family development. Usually kids are helped for about a year. There are 85 clubs across the country
They are looking for help financially or offering caring suites for youth to stay(YP3 program), looking for donors for Xmas turkeys and have an annual fund raising event called the Mad Hatters Ball which will be held in March 2017. Jack Gallop thanked the speaker and presented her with a Polio donation certificate.
Fines: Jack McAulay ( Sarg) : we ran out of time so everyone gave a loonie for the betterment of the pig.
50/50 draw: there was a mad rush at the end to buy tickets increasing the pot by $5, Cosmo won the draw but did not win the blue marble.
Aug 25 Meeting duties: Greeter note taker: John Joynt, Door duty: Roger Hind, Sergeant Leta Kenney
Note: Meeting of Sept 1, 2016 is at Saanich Fall Fair grounds—set up.
Meeting adjourned at 8:10 pm
Meeting called to order at 6:30
National anthem lead by Roger, Invocation by Dan
Guests were:
Don Lefever- visiting member of St Martens club, will be here for few months—welcome
Beth Dipose speaker for Boys and Girls Club services of Victoria.
Weekly Annoucements:
Food Rescue Joint project : should be started in September. Presently negotiating a lease for a CRD warehouse hope CRD board will sign off Aug 10 on 10 year lease. Mustard seed will start picking up perishable foods from area Thrifty foods who will then distribute from warehouse to food banks, 8 neighborhood houses in CRD for distributing food boxes to low income families, secondary school chef program will also use. Hope the program to be self sustaining in 2-3 years.
Rotoract Club chair—Joey has ben appointed chair for district Rotoract club
Light up night events Victoria area clubs looking into it as a fundraiser and Rotary awareness program.
District Training assembly (DLTA) will be held at the same time as the district conference –May 5-7/ 2017 in Suquamish Wash. ( @ Clearwater Casino resort) bus will be available for participants on Coho.
Ian Morley is concerned about the fall fair manpower and requests any help for the Sept long weekend. John and Roger were asked about their commitments and Don Lefever offered his assistance.
Program:
Speaker Beth Depose was introduced by Cosmo. She is a youth councilor for the Grls and Boys club services of Greater Victoria.. They work with children who have come from abusive or difficult home situations or youth who have had peer pressure to chose the wrong life path. There administrative office is 1195 Esquimalt road They have numerous programs including: Anger management, Youth outreach, Education programs for struggling youth----Roger’s cellphone education enhancement, Duke of Edinburgh program, antibullying, BiGay Lesbian support program, Youth prenatal program (YP3)- single moms (age15-21) who have had no support from their families, a history of self or family substance abuse are offered housing and guidance to avoid Fetal alcohol syndrome , drug addiction and develop a healthy environment for their newborns. Program is supported by Herway house and Ministry of Child and family development. Usually kids are helped for about a year. There are 85 clubs across the country
They are looking for help financially or offering caring suites for youth to stay(YP3 program), looking for donors for Xmas turkeys and have an annual fund raising event called the Mad Hatters Ball which will be held in March 2017. Jack Gallop thanked the speaker and presented her with a Polio donation certificate.
Fines: Jack McAulay ( Sarg) : we ran out of time so everyone gave a loonie for the betterment of the pig.
50/50 draw: there was a mad rush at the end to buy tickets increasing the pot by $5, Cosmo won the draw but did not win the blue marble.
Aug 25 Meeting duties: Greeter note taker: John Joynt, Door duty: Roger Hind, Sergeant Leta Kenney
Note: Meeting of Sept 1, 2016 is at Saanich Fall Fair grounds—set up.
Meeting adjourned at 8:10 pm