May 1 Bulletin

Date:    May 1st                     Monthly Theme –  Community                          Bulletin – David Maxwell

Call To Order: 12:15 pm

Presidents welcome and comment of the day:

Community Service month

Our  National Anthem:   O Canada    

Grace:  Jacqueline Mealing

Lunch—Guests and Visitors to the head of the line.

Introduce Visiting Rotarians and Guests of the Club: Brian Lamb. Keith Wells our guest speaker and Wendy Townsend a guest of Anne Sims

Health of the Club: Mary Canty

Announcements:

1.     Mark Bedford is back form south India and presented a banner from the Club there. He gave a brief summary of the project to build 10 toilets and a sewage system. He suggested that perhaps our club could continue to support this  project and that some members might want to go there too. It was very humid and hot but a worthwhile experience. Well done Mark!!

2.     Joan recognized members of the club who were active in Community Service. Tom Croft for getting Shoes for Kelowna, Jim Force for his work with Literacy and the book drive, the Evening Tuscany  committee who has now done this event for 3 years. Joan also mentioned the other many Club members who help with the book drive and the Tuscany evening.

3.     Jim Force gave a summary of the book drive where 8000 books were added to the event which is this weekend. Jim praised John Snively for his help and asked for other to help sort books this Thursday at the curling club from 10-1

4.     Wynn Taylor asked for volunteers again to help paint the Waterpark. Always a fun event with great donut and coffee!!  Please sign up for May 12 from 9-12!!

5.     Jacquelyn was selling Guatemala bags at the meeting for 40/50$. Really great craftmenship! 

Fines master: Tom Croft was the Fines Master and Ron Cooley also thought he was. Someone should get fined!!  Tom extracted money like a pro for infractions such as no pins and not helping with the fundrasiers. Happy and sad and B-days were also noted. Phil Neroutos celebrated 35 yrs with Rotary and Joan firkins 20!!! Brian won 12$ in the draw!

Introduce the Speaker: Barry Mutter

Speaker: Keith Wells – Send to News

Keith Wells was with CHEK TV until 3 years ago where he began a new venture called “Send to News”

The concept of the business is to consolidate and aggregate video form newsworthy events sent to the “send to News” platform who then sell the videos in real time to over 100 news rooms all over north America. Much of the work they have been getting  involves video from sports events which makes its way onto such broadcasts as ESPN and CBC. The Victoria based company has 15 employees and uses the latest Technology which has been incredible successful across the world for “Send to News”. Keith offered to have Rotary set up an account for free with STN and when noteworthy video (ie the book drive or Marks trip to India) is created, we can notify news outlets and so can  STN,  and we can send the content to them which in turn would increase the visibility of Rotary events and projects on a National or Local level.

Thank the speaker:  Phil Neroutsos

God Save The Queen was said, followed by the  Closing Bell