Happy New Year

QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt January 5, 2016

January is Rotary Awarness Month

Scuttlebutt is a weekly newsletter highlighting the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach

Sunrise

Duty Roster on January 12th Program – Club Assembly

Greeter – Deanna Bannerman Invocation – Kim Brown Sign In Desk – Jim Lynch Rotary Moment – Susan Stark

Rotary Matters! – Making a Difference A very generous gift of $500,000 has been made to The Rotary Foundation – PolioPlus by the late Fred and Bette Cotton. Fred was a member of the Rotary Club of Vancouver. With the Gates match and the Government of Canada match this gift means $2.5 million will be directed to polio eradication. Fred Cotton who died in 2009 was a long time member of the Rotary Club of Vancouver. His wife Bette died in 2014. “This is an exceptionally generous gift from Fred and Bette, a couple who were committed to making our community locally and internationally a better place” said Terry Gunderson, president of the Rotary Club of Vancouver and friend of Fred and Bette Cotton. “We really are almost there,” Gunderson said, referring to the worldwide polio eradication goal. “We deeply appreciate the incredible kindness of Fred and Bette. The Cottons will truly change thousands of children’s lives.”

“Whoever or whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Invocation

Special guests this morning from the Comox Rotary Club; Shannon Langevin and Joanne Coyle. Shannon and Joanne shared samples of candied smoked salmon. Used as their clubs Fundraiser the delicious salmon sells for a $20 portion of frozen smoked salmon or $100 for a package of five portions.

Welcome Shannon and Joanne!

We are thankful for this day that you have given us, for its blessings, its opportunities, it’s challenges. May we appreciate and use each day that comes to us. We pray for strength and guidance for each day as it comes, for each day’s duties, for each day’s problems. May we be challenged to give our best always, and may we be assured of your presence with us. Amen

Celebrations

Collin and Susan Gillies are celebrating their Wedding Anniversary today and Carol Haas celebrates a birthday tomorrow.

Collin & Susan and Carol, enjoy your special day!

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – President Mike Haas

Announcements

Rotary Moment

Rotary Readers

Steve’s Rotary Moment had a New Years theme. In his opener he commented that we now have 7 women members of our club and he suggested that the women members could provide leadership and a new focus for the club. He observed that greater collaboration could/would lead to a more collective approach which would in turn benefit participation and outcomes.

Arlene is away for three weeks in January, however, things get underway the week of January 11th. Unfortunately I don’t have the complete schedule and would ask members to email me with your respective assignments so I can include weekly assignments in ongoing editions of Scuttlebutt.

Ron reminded Spring Ball Committee members of the meeting tomorrow, 7 pm, at Rotary House.

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

Classification Talk

Deanna (aka Wendy) was born in 1965 in Kitchener Ontario, went to school there, and except for her travels and schooling, worked and lived in Kitchener until coming to the Island in 2015.

After high school Deanna applied for and was accepted as a volunteer with the Katimavik Program. Katimavik is a program of cultural discovery and civic engagement and Deanna volunteered in the program for nine months. Following this experience she returned to Kitchener and after working for Uniroyal/Goodrich where for five years she applied for a leave of absence and traveled down under spending five months in Oz and New Zealand. On her return she enrolled in a two year Massage Diploma Course in London Ontario. Deanna has been a health practitioner for 22 years and during that time she has upgraded her qualifications obtaining her qualification as an Osteopathic Practitioner in 2008. She presently serves as a Board Member of the Osteopathy BC Association. Deanna joined Rotary, becoming a member of the Kitchener Grand River Club in 2002. She was active in the club serving on the Board from 2006-2010. Deanna became a Paul Harris Fellow in 2011 in recognition for her years of service within the club. Not a great “ticket sales” club the Kitchener Grand Rapids club, like ours a Sunrise club, decided on a unique fundraising venture. They became sponsors of sporting events with the focus on having the participants serve as the fundraisers. To this end the club sponsors Skate 48, a one day tournament that attracts as many as 56 teams; the event nets $80 – $100,00, not bad for a club that doesn’t like to sell tickets. Deanna had visited the Island several years ago and it had felt like home so when a change in her life occurred she headed west. Deanna’s decision to settle here in Qualicum and to join QB Sunrise, our club stands to gain from her past Rotary experiences.

Twenty children will be immunized against Polio, our way of saying:

Thank you Deanna!

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and you better is best.” – St. Jerome

After our Dec 22nd special breakfast the short Scuttlebutt that followed did not include any of the photos I took that morning. Why not you ask; well when I got home to download the photos onto my computer they wouldn’t download, I tried several times but no luck. We were in a hurry to catch a Ferry that day so I published the edition without the photos. On Christmas day I mentioned the failure to download photos to my family and my 13 year old granddaughter said “restart your computer and try again, it’ll work then.” And it did.

A grandfather is a man who expects his grandchildren to be as smart a man as he meant to be. - Ed Fougner (plagiarized and then edited somewhat)