Reporter: Sabrina Corraini
Photos: Jack Petrie
The meeting started with President Heather reminding us that
March is water and sanitation month, and providing a few statistics about
access (or lack thereof) of clean water and sanitation around the world.
Brian Lamb gave the invocation.
Guests:
Jack introduced guests and visiting Rotarians, of which
there were many:
Stewart and Gilda Graham from the Regina club (banker and
lawyer)
Charlie Scobie from the Sackville, New Brunswick club
Rotaractors: Sophie Gloy and Clara Bradley
Interactors: Annette Barclay (previous teacher sponsor),
Lesley Cobus (teacher sponsor), Isabella Lee, Tara Mathews, Nicole Quast, Lu
Cheng, Misha Hasan, Alice Zhang, James Ashwell, Isaac Harper, Ruby Tang, and
Janet Welham (Oak Bay Rec Interact Liaison)
Alyx Valdal, guest of Janna and Ryan
Jim Force left his wife, Colleen, off the guest list for the
2nd time in a row, and fined himself for doing so!
Announcements:
- Mary Canty had nothing to report regarding health of the club.
- President Heather thanked Mandy, Jenny, and Pablo for their concert fundraising efforts. The concert on the weekend was a great success!
- Jack announced that on March 12 there will be a tropical-themed social at his home. Cost is $25 a head (it’s not a pot-luck), and a sign-up sheet is going around. If they don’t get more people signed up ASAP the event will be cancelled, and we don’t want that!
- Perry announced that April 21 is the Paul Harris Fellow dinner. There are 3 awardees: Bob MacDonald (host of CBC Quirks and Quarks show), Tania Miller (Music Director of the Victoria Symphony, and Hazel Braithwaite (Oak Bay Councillor). Tickets are available through Perry or Mandy (cash/cheque), or at the hotel front desk (credit card) - ask for Sue. You can also buy tickets over the phone by calling the hotel front desk.
- Clara from Rotaract announced that their club is hosting a beer and burger night at Maude Hunter’s Pub on March 10th starting at 6 PM. Cost is $15 for beer and burger (you can make substitutions if you don’t like beer), and $5 will go to the Out of the Rain youth shelter. There will also be a raffle.
There was no celebrations master today, but President
Heather issued some fines anyway.
We sang Happy birthday to Anne Sims.
Happy/sad dollars:
- Jack very proud of Pablo for rising up this weekend for his concert.
- Lori is happy because she’s still the incoming president after being at PETS recently. She also told us it's Embrace Aging Month and on March 22nd there’s a lifestyle expo at Pearkes.
- Vicki had some happy and sad dollars because her mom is now here visiting, but her flight was very late and her luggage has still not arrived!
- Wendy had a happy dollar because she recently shopped at Sass Shoes on Douglas (it’s owned by a Rotarian and Rotaractor Lance Shaver works there), and got a Rotary discount.
- Pablo donated a happy dollar and let us know that all the money earmarked for expenses from the concert went to cover all other costs, but not to Pablo himself - he generously donated his time
- Lorna had some happy dollars because she was recently in the airport and the flight she was on was overbooked. She offered to take the next one and they gave her a $400 voucher for doing so. Later the same day, the same thing happened on the next flight! She volunteered again, but ended up getting on the flight, as they didn’t need her seat after all.
Sandy won the 50/50 draw ($10 winnings) but there were no
marbles to choose from today. Sandy can pick a marble next week if he’s
at the meeting.
President Heather and Jim presented a cheque for $100 to
Ruby Tang as a representative of the Interact Club in thanks for their
involvement in planning/working the Merrython.
Jim then called Clara Bradley to the front and presented her
with a Paul Harris Fellow on behalf of Oak Bay Rotary Foundation.
Clara is a past president of the Interact Club, a current president
of the Rotaract Club, and has been involved with Katimavik. She’s
graduating this year from UVic with a degree in environmental studies.
Our presenter today was Jim Force, and he spoke about the
history of Interact club and their many accomplishments over their 25 years as
a chartered club. (Here are some great pics from the day's meeting, including several of the Interactors from Oak Bay High).
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