Rotary Club of Sackville Bulletin June 1, 2017

Posted by Wayne Harper on Jun 04, 2017

As spring tries to make it to the Maritimes and Canada's 150th birthday is a month away, I thought I would show a symbol of that birthday - the Canada 150 tulip. Thanks for the photo Pam!

John was in the Chair today and took a few moments to talk about Polio and Rotary's fight to eradicate it from the face of the earth. He also recalled his early youth when polio was very prevalent, telling us of the restrictions his mother put on him, in an attempt to protect him from the disease. At the time, he wasn't impressed with the restrictions.

Our guest speaker, Andrew Ollerhead, brought his dad Jeff along today. Most members know Jeff as he has been a frequent speaker. There were no other guests and no visiting Rotarians. Makeups were noted from the Gold Mine Committee (Jamie has the names), while there were no Pin Pal stories or Birthdays this week.

Edna seems to be having a great deal of difficulty in trying to give away the 50/50 draw money. This week was no exception as Joyce tried unsuccessfully to win the $428 Edna was offering. Joyce drew the King of

instead of the needed 9 of

On the happy dollar front..........Sue P. was happy that Lorne's health has improved. We were pleased to see him at the recent Paul Harris evening. Sue also advised members that the Cape Jourimain Nature Center will open for the season on June 10th. For hours and information, go to www.capejourimain.ca.............Pam was happy to see one of her photos appear on CTV's Cindy Day's weather forecast. Seems the photo did not change the weather drastically............John was happy to be back from his trip to France and Italy. That was the good news. The bad news was that he had his phone and wallet pickpocketed. Imagine not being able to call a store and tell them you can't buy anything. He has got some wallet contents back after returning home..........Wynn met some new clients who happen to be from Paradise NS, a place Wynn lived in when teaching in Digby in 1969-1970. He also announced that he has hired a new lawyer who speaks 4 languages..........Sandy was happy to have one of her old suppliers, when she had the MTA store, appear for a visit yesterday. Leslie Dub (Dubware clothing line) was in town to visit the University and left some time to visit before her flight back to TO............Bill had a sad and happy dollar. The sad news was he didn't have a dollar and the good news was that he and Heather became grandparents for the first time. Just what we need - another entry into the "best-grandkids-in-the-world-contest". You're going down Evans!!!

Duty Roster Next Week

Chairperson Josh Introducer Sandy

Greeter David Thanker Wynn

Speaker Heather Dixon (or representative from Salem School)

Upcoming Committee Meetings

Monday, June 5 - Gold Mine Committee

Tuesday June 6 - Club Administration Committee

Wednesday June 7 - Board Meeting

Committee Reports

Fundraising - Pam indicated that the Club and the Town will, once again, partner on the annual Corn Boil, to take place on September 2nd. Shucking of the corn will take place the evening before. Volunteers will be sought as the date gets closer.

Finance - Darrell urged all committees to finalize their budgets and get them to him. It will be a topic at next week's Board meeting.

President's Time

Josh reported that the international funds from our and other Clubs for the Nagpur project in India will now be diverted to another water related project. He will keep the Club up-to-date on this file.

Ove introduced our speaker - Andrew Ollerhead, a grade 12 student at TRHS who was this year's participant in the Adventures in Citizenship Program.

The program is a 5-day excursion to Ottawa for 200 students from across Canada. The students are billeted in Ottawa and Andrew's "family", while not Rotarians, did have a child in the Rotary Exchange program. Over the course of 4 days. the students listened to many speakers, including the Speaker of the House - Jeff Reagan, visited the War Museum, toured the House of Commons, visited the National Library and the National War Memorial. At the final banquet, Andrew represented the Province on the diaz. There were 15 students from New Brunswick and he met many new friends. At the beginning and end of the week the students had free time for visiting on their own.

Sue Fisher then conducted the second part of the Youth Services Program - describing the various programs the committee has enacted in the last year and going forward. They are as follows:

•Elementary

•Salem School Send Off June 17

•Dictionaries for Life Grade 3

•Middle School

•Marshview Breakfast Program

•Dorchester School

•High School

•Adventures in Citizenship

•Rotaract

•Marshview Middle School Breakfast Program

•Food Bank – Fundraising & Uploading

•Syrian Refugees – School bags and heavy lifting

•Fundraisers – Midnight Madness and Chilli Cookoff

•Wheel Chair Biking

•Dorchester School – Homework Club

•Open Sky

•Community Forests International

Sue concluded with Youth Services credo - Kids Helping Kids Empowering Kids

Wayne thanked Andrew with a presentation of a book in his name to a local library and a pen and certificate.

The meeting concluded with the 4-way-test