The Rotary Club of Oak Bay Bulletin for April 24, 2012
The meeting was called to order at 1215 by President Joan
Peggs.
Joan’s comment of the day
concerned March being Magazine Month. Our monthly magazine, The Rotarian is
available in electronic format. Perhaps we should consider receiving the
magazine electronically.
Our national anthem was led by
Tom Lidkea who we are happy to have back.
The Johnny Appleseed invocation
was sung to us by Jim Force. That was a nice change.
Visiting Rotarians and our
guests led us to the delicious Greek style buffet.
Peter Lawrie introduced the
visiting Rotarian, Bruce Hooker from the Saanich Club and the guest of Anne
Sims, Wendy Townsend.
Eugen Bannerman announced that
David Philip is back in the Royal Jubilee Hospital. He also told us that he
will be off to Switzerland for the month of May. Tom Croft will act as the Sergeant at Arms during that time.
Jacqueline Mealing took a few
minutes to tell and show us about some of the work she did while in
Guatemala. Besides helping with
the dental work, she was involved in the health, nutrition and hygiene education of 150
new mothers. She is needing to raise an additional $1000 to buy an industrial
sewing machine for the women’s centre to enable production of marketable items
for sustainability. $1000 has
already been raised. She had a lot of bags on show that had been woven by the
Guatemalan women. The sale of the bags will add to the $1000 needed. Another
project was the opening of the new
women’s centre. There are a lot of classes on family planning. Enough money was
raised to purchase 120 energy efficient stoves. This will be an ongoing project
for ten years. In the future it is planned to build a simple latrine for the
women’s centre.
Jim Force reminded us of the
April Club in the Pub, this Thursday at the Penny Farthing at 5pm. He needs
help this weekend to take the 5,000 books to the Victoria Curling Club for the
Times Colonist Book drive.
Lorna Curtis gave us the final reminder about our Springtime in
Tuscany event on 4/28. There are still 20 tickets to sell. She then told us she
is leaving on Sunday to finish her Asian trip. She will be going to Hong Kong,
Thailand (for the RI Convention), Taiwan, China, then once again to Australia
and the USA.
Peter Lawrie announced that Oak
Bay High’s Interact Club is
holding two fundraisers on May 5th. The first will be the 1st
Annual Hunger Games starting at 10:30. Their event is called Wild Games. The
proceeds will go to Rabbits for Rwanda. The second event is Interact at the
Movies. The movie being shown is UP. Those proceeds are going to the Malawi
School for Girls.
Tav Macpherson told us of the upcoming Golf
Tournament to be held during the District Conference. Those proceeds will go to
Polio Plus. The tournament will be at Highland Pacific Golf Club at 2:30 pm on June 21st.
Next up was our favourite fines
master for April – Dallas Chapple. She was able to extract quite a few dollars from
most of us! Tom and Wolf paid for scooting. She was sorry Phil was ill but he
didn’t arrange someone to set the meeting up. She fined all those who did not donate
books, who did not bring in an
auction item or bottle of wine and who are not attending this Saturday’s
fundraiser. Last week was Ted Chambers and Tricia Timmermans' birthday. Today is Bateya Westler's birthday so we sung our rendition of Happy B’day to her. Renate Gibbs gave 2 happy $$
because she is off to India for 2 months with 14 Nursing Students. Heather Ached gave
2 happy/sad $$ since Vancouver has finished its NHL season. Eugen Bannerman also paid
happy $$ because he’s off to Switzerland. Tom Lidkea. is always happy to spend time
with his grand daughter.
Peter Lawrie won the 50/50 but
drew the black alley – better luck next time!
The speaker today, our own John
Edgell was introduced by Jerry
McLean. John very graciously stood in with 20 minutes notice - for our intended
speaker who had to cancel his talk. John’s presentation was about the La Jola
Kindergarten Project in La Penita Mexico. Last Rotary year, this project was
one of our International projects that benefited from a matching grant. Because
our Club had already received matching grants for two other international projects, Royal Oak
Centennial Club decided to get a matching grant to continue the good work
started by John last year. The project was to build a fenced, walled play area,
a proper latrine facility with 2 separate toilets and sinks with a water tank
installed on the roof plus storage space. The talk was interspersed with lots
of photos of the project underway. There was a celebration at the end of the
project. Pictures showed the happy faces of students, families and very pleased
Rotarians. John was thanked by Lori McLeod.
There being nothing further for
the good of Rotary the meeting was adjourned after the singing of God Save the
Queen.
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