Rotary Club of Sackville Bulletin January 5, 2017

 

Ove’s name was on the schedule but the chair looked remarkably like Bill.  The meeting opened with a rousing rendition of “O Canada” led by George.  Bill took the opportunity to remind members that the Duty Roster is available on the web site (including Gold Mine duties).  It is the responsibility of each member to check out when they are on duty and to arrange for a replacement if they cannot attend.

 

 

50-50 Draw:  George’s number was drawn but he failed to pick the elusive Nine of Clubs, so the pot of $220 carries forward to next week.

 

 

Roaring Rotarian:  Trish was back from Ontario with an idea for fund-raising -  a can of “Roaring Rotarian” hand-crafted, all-natural, Golden Ale, “Supporting your local Rotary Club projects”, complete with the Rotary logo on the front and the Four-Way Test on the back.

 

 

Gold Mine Presentations:  Christoph Becker was on hand to accept a cheque for $508.50 from Josh on behalf of the Port Elgin School.

 

 

Gayle received a cheque for $527 from Trish for the Sackville Food Bank.

 

Happy Dollars: Charlie set things straight regarding the Feast of Stephen which is 26^th December, not 31^st (when his younger brother Stephen was born).   Josh was happy to see Canada beat Sweden 5-2 to advance to the final of the world junior hockey championship against arch-rival the U.S.   Marita’s father was very happy to get two rabbits for Christmas.   Dianne is looking for more curlers for the Gold Mine Team in Curl for Cancer.   Bill who doesn’t get Christmas presents nevertheless got a record-player which will enable him to work through his large box of 78s.  Pam is happy that Marita has agreed to take over sale of grocery cards while she is in Portugal for the next three months.  Susan discovered that 6 years old grandkids can program a cell phone to sound an alarm early on Christmas morning.  

 

 

Pam saw the New Year in (Canada’s 150^th birthday) on Parliament Hill.  When did the fireworks start ? According to Bill at 8:17 p.m.   Why ? Because on the 24 hour clock that is 20:17.

 

Next Week:  Club Assembly.  Greeter will be Gayle.

 

President’s Time:  Josh wished everyone a Happy New Year.  He thanked Marita for showing him how to update the ClubRunner web site.  And a final appeal:  we still need a Secretary for next year.

 

Speaker:  Wayne got to introduce himself (“I’ve known today’s speaker for a very long time”) before giving a presentation on “Vocational Service.”  

 

 

This is one of the original four (now five) Rotary “Avenues of Service” and though often neglected is in fact a key part of Rotary.  Vocational Service calls every Rotarian to aspire to high ethical standards in their occupation, while recognizing the worthiness of all useful occupations.  Through the classification system all Rotarians represent their business or profession in the club, and demonstrate the high ideals of Rotary in their workplace.  The Rotary ideal is expressed in The Four-Way Test which we repeat each week, and in the longer, 8-clause Rotary Code of Conduct which was recently revised and updated.  Every Rotarian has a “Classification” and we should emphasize this aspect of Rotary more than we have done in recent years. 

 

Wayne’s talk closed with a number of suggestions for Vocational Service “Project Ideas.”

 

 

Further information on Vocational Service is available online at the RI website where one can subscribe to a free quarterly newsletter “Vocational Service Update.”

After some lively discussion David thanked the speaker (but didn’t present him with a pen).

 

 

After the meeting, which closed with the Four-Way Test, a cheque for $200 was presented to Curl for Cancer.

 

 

Carried over from last week:  a cheque for $1,017 was presented by John to the weekly winner Janet Richard.   

 

No winner this week !