Club Bulletin for 28 January 2014 - 10th Anniversary of the Victoria Leadership Awards

Prepared by President-Elect, Jim Force

President Pete MC’d the meeting after being absent last week.

Tom Croft introduced visiting Rotarians and Guests: 

Stewart Adam from the Prince Albert Club. Stewart and his wife are house sitting here in Victoria while looking for a permanent place to live here. With any luck, once settled he just may join our club.

Other guests include Rotarians David Newberry from the Victoria Club;

Christopher Causton from Harbourside; 

Oak Bay Interact students, Camille van Tassel and Anna Young;

Ryan Gisler guest of Janna; 

Guest Speaker, Jack Shore, of Leadership Victoria.

Eugen reported on the health of the club indicating that David Philip is doing much better and expects to be at next week’s meeting.

Announcements

President Pete announced that Mike had been defrocked – i.e. he had gained the signatures of all club members and could now remove the red “new” tag from his name tag. Pete also awarded Joan P., Lori, Dave M., and Tom C. Igniter Pins for having sponsored new club members.

Jim F reminded folks of the upcoming Fireside on Thursday, January 30^th at the Penny Farthing.

Celebration Master, Black Jack Petrie started by showing off the beautiful bowl made by Janna at Fired Up. The bowl was used to collect fines. Next he lead the group in a rousing applause to the Hotel Staff for the fine New Orleans Luncheon they prepared for us. Not only was the food Louisiana-style, it was delicious. 

Jack offered 5 Music CDs to those who generously bought New Orleans Dinner tickets today – the waving of hands with checks in them was more than I could count. The New Orleans spirit is upon us, that’s for sure.

Tons of Happy and Sad Dollars today, unlike sometimes when there are hardly any at all. Mike, Jessica, Heather, Lorna, Batya, Jim F., and Tom C., who informed us that we have several applicants for RYLA and Adventures in Citizenship. He also indicated that Interactors will be involved in Memory Café with Seniors at Oak Bay Lodge again this year and that they plan to assist with serving the meals at the New Orleans Dinner. But best of all was Janna and Ryan’s $24, which equals the number of weeks until their baby is due. Speaking of babies, Joan F. announced that Claire had a baby boy – I think I deserve a fine for not catching the baby’s name.

Jack finished off with testing our New Orleans knowledge with a few quiz questions: Who wrote the song Jambalaya? Hank Williams. What’s a Subway Sandwich in New Orleans called? Po’ Boy. Mardi Gras means? Fat Tuesday. 

The 50/50 draw was won by Lori, after she dug through her purse and realized to her surprise that she had the winning number. Unfortunately, she drew a black marble.

Vicky introduced our Guest Speaker, Jack Shore. Jack is the Executive Director of Leadership Victoria. He has a passion for community leadership and development.

The focus of Jack’s presentation was the 10^th Anniversary of the Victoria Leadership Awards, which is Leadership Victoria’s main fundraising event. This year it will be held at the Crystal Garden on Wednesday February 26^th starting at 4:30 pm. Tickets are $65 each. Jack showed a short video highlighting past Award events and recipients.

Leadership Victoria was jointly founded in 2004 in partnership with Harbourside Rotary Club and the University of Victoria, with the first Awards event in 2005, which had 55 people in attendance. This year they expect to have close to 400 in attendance. Awards are presented in the following 8 categories: 

• Leadership Victoria Lifetime Achievement
• Victoria Foundation Community Leadership
• University of Victoria Community Leadership
• Rotary Community Leadership (presented to two individuals each year)
• United Way of Greater Victoria Award for Collaboration and Partnership
• Vancity Youth
• Royal Roads University Leadership Excellence through Coaching and Mentoring
• Leadership Victoria Alumni Award. 

Last year’s recipients of the Rotary Award were Colin Smith and Gordon Harper. Rotary Clubs donate a total of $5,000 each year for these awards.

To learn more about Leadership Victoria, please visit their website: http://www.leadershipvictoria.ca  You can email layla@leadershipvictoria.ca to purchase seats for the Awards event.

Throughout the presentation Jack thanked Rotarians for their support of Leadership Victoria.

Joan F. thanked Jack.

Editor's Note: Here is a little more info on Executive Director, Jack Shore, from the Leadership Victoria website:

Jack was born in 1949 in Saskatchewan, and after many years chasing an education, he 

enjoyed a 32 year career in the Senior Management ranks in the Financial Services 

Industry. Having enjoyed living in many parts of Canada with his Wife Gail and 2 

children, Leslie and Paul (now both adults living in Calgary and Vancouver), he and Gail 

settled in Victoria, in 2004.  Having taken early retirement from his first Career, Jack has 

since spent his time working with many charities including: Junior Achievement; 

Canadian Youth Business Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity. He recently stepped 

down as National Director and Treasurer for Habitat for Humanity Canada.  His 

interests lie in seeing our community improve and prosper through healthy Community 

organizations, and strong leadership. To this end he joined Leadership Victoria as the 

Executive Director in November 2009. 

As per usual the meeting ended with God Save The Queen, after a bit of a false start of The Saints Go Marching In.