Rotary Club of Sackville Bulletin February 9, 2017

 

 

Gold Mine:  before the meeting Jocelyne Young was on hand to accept from Bill a cheque for $575 on behalf of Tantramar Regional High School.

 

Tim chaired the meeting and Wynn was back (briefly) from the sunny south to lead the singing of “O Canada.”

 

 

50-50 Draw:  David’s number was drawn but he picked the 9 of Hearts instead of the 9 of Clubs.  The pot of $265 carries forward to next week.

 

 

Makeups:  Wynn had a list of make-ups at the South Lake County club in Florida and had a document to prove it.  He gave us a rendering of their “Hello” song.  And here’s a  long-distance make-up from Portugal Pam who sent these pictures:

 

 

This Rotary club – Estoi Palace International – meets in a beautiful palace that has been converted into a hotel.  They produce this book quarterly.  They are an international club and their meetings are conducted in English.  See http://www.rotaryestoipalace.org/.

 

Birthday:  Edna was wished Happy Birthday in absentia.

 

 

Gold Mine #2:  This week’s winner Danny LeBlanc was happy to collect his $2,254 cheque from Tim.

 

Happy Dollars:   Wynn fell downstairs at a Florida night club after having two diet cokes (one over his limit) and hurt his foot.  This gave him an experience of the Florida health system.  He hopes to be back on the golf course soon.  His daughter is going as a spare on the Canadian team at the world curling championship in Korea (south, not north), and Wynn is going along too.  Dianne reported on behalf of the winning Curl for Cancer Gold Miners team.  Marita is anxious to sell you grocery cards and can now accept VISA thanks to some help from Sandy.  Ove apologized for his no-show at Gold Mine counting on Monday.   Josh apologized for his no-show as greeter this morning (too early).   Wayne thanked everyone who supported Curl for Cancer including Dianne and Tony; the amount raised was just shy of $14,000.   Skier Susan F was happy at the 40 cms of snow forecast for tonight.  John reported on an email received from Marion who hopes to be out and about again soon.

 

Next Week:   Chair:  Trish;   Greeter: Joyce;   Introducer: Darrell;   Thanker: John;  Speaker: Adam Campbell, Ducks Unlimited.

 

Rotary Foundation:  David reminded members that we are looking for suggestions of local volunteers to be recognized at the Paul Harris evening on 18 May.

 

Membership:  Gayle reported that the committee is working on ways to recruit new members.

 

President’s Time:  Josh congratulated the curlers who won on points (by beating a kids’ team 11-0).   The next breakfast is on 1 April (no kidding); we need someone to head up the breakfast.

 

 

Speaker:   Dale introduced guest speaker Christiana MacDougall who is a full-time social worker with Cumberland Mental Health Services in Amherst, a part-time lecturer in the Sociology Department at Mount A, and who is about to complete a Ph.D. at Memorial University.  Her presentation on “Can Childbirth Be Traumatic ?” was based on the research she has been doing for her doctoral thesis.  Between one third and a half of women say that their experience of childbirth was traumatic, and there are many causes of childbirth trauma.  Christiana’s research was based on in-depth interviews with 15 participants with each interview producing about 50 pages of data.  She found many examples of human rights violations.  Many women tend not to complain, but to comply.  Experiences of distress can lead to guilt and shame.  A sample interview illustrated how thanks to treatment by doctors or nurses a woman can become an object in the room rather than a person with a voice.  The study has many implications for hospitals and health authorities in such matters as informed consent, privacy and confidentiality during labour and delivery.  The findings of the study will be published as a book.

 

 

Christiana’s talk certainly gripped the attention of her audience, and was followed by a lively question period, after which she was appropriately thanked by Josh. The meeting closed with the Four-Way Test.