Volume 93, Number 31 4,576th Meeting Friday, March 8, 2013

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 405, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5L3 — web: www.rotarynanaimo.org

Serving Our Community Since

May 1, 1920 - Charter Number 43

DIRECTORS Doug Cowling Brent Stetar Susie Walker

John Shillabeer Chris Pogson Susan Gerrand

President Rotary International Sakuji Tanaka, Rotary Club of Yashio, Japan

District Governor Assistant Governor Judy Byron, Sidney, BC Barry Sparkes, Lantzville, BC

Club Meeting Friday at 12:00 p.m.

at the Coast Bastion Inn

CLUB OFFICERS 2012-2013

President ....................................................... Joan Ryan

Vice President ............................................... Wahid Ali

Secretary ......................................................... Bob Janes

Treasurer .............................................. Gordon Hubley

President Elect .................................. Douglas Anderson

Immediate Past President ..................... Dave Hammond

Wary deer eye our photographer as Ian walks his dog in Planta Park. Photo by Ian Williams

Meeting Notes for March 8

President Joan opened the meet-

ing asking us to stand for the singing

of our national anthem, and Joyce

Smith gave the invocation.

Chris Pogson asked for introduc-

tion of guests and visiting Rotarians.

Yvan Gosselin gave the Health of

the Club, saying that Kay Peters,

wife of Honorary Rotarian Bob, was

in hospital after a bad fall.

Two new members joined our club

last week, as Ken Myden, a Rotar-

ian from Calgary was introduced by

Bob Fenty; and Eric Brand of

Nanaimo was introduced by Frank

Shoemaker. PP Dave Hammond handled the induction of our new

members and did an excellent job of

pointing out all the benefits and obli-

gations that membership in the

world’s largest service organization

entails.

Today was the day for our club to

vote on the amended motion to make

the largest donation in club history to

the Nanaimo & District Hospital

Foundation. The amended motion

was voted on in two steps: first, the

amendment to add $25,000 to the

original motion – after a serious dis-

cussion period at which we heard

both pros and cons, the motion

passed. The subsequent amended

motion to donate $50,000 to the

Foundation passed unanimously

without discussion. As a result, the

Rotary Club of Nanaimo will donate

$50,000 to NRGH to go toward the

purchase of equipment for the new

Emergency Department.

We had a

presentation

from two

visiting

Rotarians

from the

Oceanside

club last week. Judy Stephan and

Garth Busch came to tell us about

their upcoming James Bond Night,

asking us to consider a table of 10

members of our club for $1,250 for

the evening. James Bond Night will

be held Saturday, April 13th at the

Convention Centre.

Bob Fenty,

chair of the

Public Rela-

tions Commit-

tee, displayed

a number of

Rotary Em-

blem stickers

that members

can purchase for a nominal sum.

Wayne Anderson, reporting for

our Book Sale Committee, said that

now that we have spent so much

money we have to make it up at our

upcoming Spring Book Sale, May 3-

12 at Nanaimo North Town Centre,

so everyone was forbidden to plan

any vacations during that time as we

need all the help

we can get.

Lila Tanner

brought us up to

date on Shelter-

Box placements

around the

world.

Sgt-at-Arms Wahid Ali gave a brief

report, cut short due to the lack of

time taken up by the NRGH dona-

tion discussion. We did not hear who

won the club draw, but Wayne

Anderson won

the chance to

draw for the

Ace of Spades

in our 50-50

draw but failed

in the attempt.

EDITOR’S NOTE:

Due to an unforeseen mix-up in schedul-ing, our regular reporter was not in attendance so this report was made up from memory by a couple of old farts – and we apologize for any errors or omissions.

Food For Thought By Mike Herold

Today’s program was Vancouver

Island University’s (VIU) Culinary

Arts Program and our guest speaker

was Debbie Shire, Chief Instructor

and Chair of the Culinary Institute of

Vancouver Island.

Debbie was introduced by John

Shillabeer who noted that Debbie

was an apprentice in The Cook

Training program at then Malaspina

College in 1979.

Debbie is a local Nanaimo girl

who attended Nanaimo District Sec-

ondary School and her father was a

school teacher in the District. Debbie

joined Vancouver Island University

Eric Brand, introduced by Frank

Shoemaker.

Norm Myden, introduced by Bob

Fenty.

Guests at our meeting last week included: Mystery Woman* introduced by Bruce Samson; Garth Busch, introduced by Dave Hammond; and Judy Stephan, introduced by

Wayne Anderson. *Next time sign her in Bruce!

A little more enthusiasm Wayne!

Cooking Program over 20 years ago

and she has seen a re-branding of the

program from the original one year

Cook Training program that helped

students get lower end jobs in the

culinary industry to new levels of

apprenticeship training that are

graduating future world class chefs.

Of the four Vancouver Island Uni-

versity Campuses, three have culi-

nary programs and they are training

local students, students from other

countries and students with different

barriers. VIU Culinary students are

trained to become ambassadors rep-

resenting the excellent culinary pro-

gram at VIU.

The VIU Culinary program also

partners with Providence Farms in

Duncan which caters to special

needs people and VIU is trying to

introduce Nanaimo Students to the

food growing initiatives at Provi-

dence Farm.

As a perspective, Debbie noted

that if you took all of the grade one

students enrolled in the Nanaimo and

Parksville School Districts, they

would not be enough to fill all of the

people required to fill jobs in our

local eatery businesses.

There is a new Sell Fish Facility at

Deep Bay north of Qualicum which

was constructed two years ago. This

new facility is both a shell fish cen-

tre with wet labs and a shellfish fa-

cility open to the public to learn

about harvesting and cooking shell

fish. They have even introduced

cooking classes to the public. The

unique architectural design of the

facility emulates a clamshell and is

designed using an abundance of

wood products.

The VIU Culinary program is pro-

ducing excellent students and one

recent graduate is just getting his

second interview on the TV Series

“Chopped”.

Students get involved in numerous

competitions during their years at

VIU and the program is carried out

much like a boot camp. Students

must be clean shaven and the women

must have their hair kept short or in

braids.

The students have a busy day and

besides classes must make the food

for the students on campus to eat

from the cafeteria. They need to have

this food ready by 11:30 a.m.

Many VIU students end up in

Banff, Jasper, Fairmont Hotels, and

Vancouver Island Fishing Resorts.

Debbie is very proud of her

students and a graduate from her

program from two years ago is cur-

rently working in a Beverly Hills

Hotel earning in excess of $100,000

per year. She noted that the head

chef at the Pan Pacific in Vancouver

is currently earning $150,000 per

year.

Yvan Gosselin thanked Debbie for

her great talk and added that Debbie

is very humble and has won numer-

ous awards over the years.

Debbie donated a cookbook pre-

pared by VIU alumni students which

sold to Wahid Ali for $30.00.

DATES TO REMEMBER April 13—Rotary Club of Nanaimo

Oceanside’s big James Bond Night

at the Convention Centre. Tickets are

$150 each, or table of 10 for $1250.

March 23-24—District Leadership

Training Assembly, Hotel Grand

Pacific, Victoria, B.C.

May 3-12—Rotary Spring Book

Sale, Nanaimo North Town Centre.

ATTENDANCE Report by Janeane Coutu

Attendance for March 1st was 70%

We missed these Rotarians

D Anderson, Borisenko, Cor-

riveau, Cowling, Gerrand, Grice,

Hubley, McIver, Patrick, Ramos, Al

Smith, Kathy Smith, Welch, Wilson

Visiting Rotarians:

Judy Stephan and Garth Busch

from Oceanside

Guests:

Debbie Marshall, Debbie Shore,

and Guenter’s Mr. Lube Manager

who did not sign himself in on our

guest sheet.

Make-ups; none to report

Spouse Birthday:

Garth Narver (Debbie) March 11

Club Anniversaries:

Anderson, Douglas, 4 yrs, Mar 14

McFadden, Doug, 44 yrs, Mar 14

Speaker Debbie Shire

PROGRAM

THANK SPEAKER

INTRODUCE SPEAKER

WEEKLY CLUB PROGRAMS

GREETERS

CASHIERS

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

HEAD TABLE

INTRODUCE GUESTS

“COGS” is the official bulletin of the Rotary Club of Nanaimo, published each

Friday by the Bulletin Committee

Winner of District 5020 Best Bulletin

Awards

Bulletin Committee Chair — Lila Tanner Meeting Reporter: Bruce Gordon / Program Reporter: Mike Herold / Photos: Ian Williams

Editing, Production: Bruce Gordon / Web Posting: Ian Williams

PRINTING COURTESY OF ISLAND OFFICE EQUIPMENT NANAIMO - BOB JANES

GREETERS

CASHIERS

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

HEAD TABLE

INTRODUCE GUESTS

INTRODUCE SPEAKER

THANK SPEAKER

PROGRAM

Friday, March 8th

Janeane Coutu,

Barbara Blinston, Sharon Welch

Ed Borisenko

Bob Fenty

Kathy Smith

PP Dave Hammond, Jason Foley,

Barbara Blinston, Janeane Coutu,

Sharon Welch, Donna Hais

Guenter Raedler

Barbara Blinston

JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY

Jason Foley

Donna Hais

INTRODUCE SPEAKER

Friday, March 22nd

Bob Buchanan,

Jane Currie, Bob Wilson

Ed Borisenko

John Heisterman

Lila Tanner

Pres. Joan, Rick Searle, Bob

Patrick, Susan Gerrand, Jane Currie,

Bob Buchanan, Bob Wilson

John Salem

Bob Patrick

OCEAN FLOOR OBSERVATION

Rick Searle, Ocean Networks Can.

Susan Gerrand

GREETERS

CASHIERS

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

HEAD TABLE

INTRODUCE GUESTS

THANK SPEAKER

PROGRAM

Friday, March 15th

Doug Cowling,

Ed Borisenko, Ross White

Ed Borisenko

Wayne Anderson

Brent Stetar

Pres. Joan, David Baskin,

Bill King, Joyce Smith, Chris Pogson,

Marty Weideman, Lucie Gosselin

Charles Ramos

Bill King

FINANCIAL OUTLOOK 2013

David Baskin

Lucie Gosselin

Team of experts helps Rotarians design a sustainable project in India

By Arnold R. Grahl Rotary News -- 26 February 2013

A Rotarian-led team of hydrologists, engineers, geologists, and other experts

traveled to the Thane district of northwest India in October to help local Ro-

tarians and their international partners design a global grant project to bring

clean water and sanitation to more than 1,800 villagers.

The team, funded by The Rotary Foundation and a grant from the Annenberg

Foundation, is one of the first of its kind. It’s the product of the Project En-

hancement Process(PEP) pilot, which is designed to enlist the help of Rotari-

ans with expertise in the water and sanitation area of focus so that clubs and

districts can put together larger-scale, sustainable projects.

The PEP pilot runs through July and involves nine districts testing The Ro-

tary Foundation’s new grant model. The Foundation also collaborated with

the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG) to pro-

ducetechnical guides that walk Rotarians through planning an effective water

and sanitation project.

“This process is an excellent approach,” says Arvind Phukan, a civil engi-

neer and member of the Rotary Club of Tacoma, Washington, USA, who

served as team leader. “Sometimes districts don’t have the technical expertise

or the experience to do a larger project. This approach helps them think bigger

and promotes better projects that will have a more significant impact.”

After deciding to pursue a water, sanitation, and hygiene project in the Akre

Gram Panchayat region of India, the Rotary Club of Thane North and its inter-

national partner, the Tacoma club, requested an evaluation team through the

PEP Pilot to help them assess and plan their project. The project would benefit

about 350 households in nine villages in the Supi River watershed, where vil-

lagers are trying to eke out a living growing rice.

Needs assessment

The team met with villagers to assess their needs and determined that many

of the local wells ran dry during non-rainy seasons because the area’s shallow,

impervious rock prevents water from seeping into the ground and replenishing

the wells. In addition, some of the wells were poorly designed or damaged,

and systems intended to funnel groundwater were inadequate.

The team’s findings were the basis for recommendations that the Thane

North and Tacoma clubs will turn into a global grant application with a budget

of about US$333,000. The recommendations constitute a holistic approach to

the area’s needs that includes installing bore wells with submersible pumps

near several of the existing wells to pump water to storage tanks, with the wa-

ter flowing by gravity to the villages, where it would be treated and purified. A

variety of rainwater-harvesting structures such as check dams and surface

ponds would be built to replenish the groundwater.

More at … http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/

Pages/130226_news_pep.aspx