March 13, 2012 Bulletin Reported by Rod Sim

President Joan (Peggs) presiding.

“Literacy” is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.

O Canada with Tom Lidkea.

Grace by Vicky Pitt.

Visiting Rotarians (none) and Guests (Graeme Kilshaw, Guest Speaker) by George Pritchard.

Bill Burns reminiscing on reading to children and grandchildren and having fun with “Bert” & “Ernie”

Peter Lawrie on tickets (perhaps to briefly)

Oak Bay Rotary Presents Opera Excerpts

Music from Spain & Italy

St Mary the Virgin Church

1701 Elgin Road

2:30 PM, Sunday, March 24, 2012

General Admission $25.00

Heather Aked on tickets (perhaps more vigorously).

Heather Aked on Thrifty Smile Cards and achieving this year’s fundraising goal.

Anne Sims selling bottles of Italian wine to Members to donate to the Tuscan Dinner scheduled for April 28, 2012.

Leslie Rogers-Warnock on raising funds by mentioning Rotary when making a purchase at Cobbs Bakery located at 2178 Oak Bay Avenue.

Neil Rawnsley as SAA/CB with mentions including Tom Croft, Lynne Murray, David Sills (follicular infraction of some sort), and Dallas Chapple (perhaps for vanity).

Mention of the pre-eminent status of the United Kingdom in connection with “Lego” closely followed by France.

Don’t forget Lorna Curtis in Asia.

Don’t forget John Jordan in Africa.

$2 from Neil Rawnsley for his telephonic infraction.

$2 from Heather Aked because Alexander is renting and playing cello.

And $2 from Tom Lidkea and $2 from Leslie Rogers-Warnock just because.

Mary Canty is green with “happiness” (fortunately not with “envy”); apparently this is some “Irish” feeling.

Brian Lamb suggested that perhaps all past presidents of our Club should pay a fine in connection with a mis-placed past president’s pin.

A dis-oriented Perry Bamji was wakened by a confused Mark Bedford after a 44-hour travel marathon to “Inja”

Guess who was happy about a $20,000 scholarship to UVic? Sorry I missed that. I would be happy to pay up if somebody catches me up on that reporting error.

Neil Madsen introduced the Guest Speaker – Graeme Kilshaw – to talk about Friendship Cube Meditation.

Graeme talked about: learning and sharing; literacy and numeracy; how the “friendship cube” replaces the “26 alphabet cubes” of our childhood; teaching practical skills with the “friendship cube”; smartphone applications; creativity and imagination; six lessons (after all, a cube has six sides); and “service above self” and its relation to the friendship cube. This project is continuing at the UVic English Language Centre. This reporter was confused about the topic and the presentation. You can find more information about Friendship Cube and Graeme Kilshaw by searching the internet. Jim Force tried valiantly to assist the speaker and the audience to “connect” but with limited success.

David Sills had the responsibility to thank the speaker. Thank you David for your humour and wit. You made the first reference of the day to a “cube” that this writer understood. Literacy is the ability to identify and communicate and our friend David did that with great skill.

Don’t forget that the District Leadership Training Assembly is coming up on March 31^st to April 1^st here in Victoria at the Hotel Grand Pacific. All members are encouraged to attend this worthwhile training conference. Registration is $90 and the Club has funds to assist Members to attend.

President Joan ended the meeting with God Save the Queen followed by the closing bell.

This report was prepared by Rod Sim.

Orange Pear Apple Bear is a book by Emily Gravett. It is just the kind of book that promotes parent-child bonding. Literacy begins with babies. The project 1000X5 is based on the belief that if a child hears 1000 books by age 5, he or she is much better prepared to enjoy and succeed in learning. If you are interested in donating your time or finances to this project, please contact our own Jim Force.