Speaker: President Alana Hirtle was the speaker for the day. This was the first of the Quarterly Club meetings that the board had decided to do rather than the monthly updates.

 

She presented highlights of the Directors’ meeting held on March 6.

• Rotary Week – tree planting with Scouts in May will be announced at Farm market on Saturday of Rotary Week April 16-22
• 2^nd version Org Chart was circulated last week, Lech will see about creating a large version for meeting room.
• Many Community Asks this month:
  • We declined MADD sponsorship, as it’s another charity
  • Wheelchair replacement (we helped this individual 20+ years ago), we agreed to pay last $500
  • People First NS, ask to assist getting delegate and helper to conference in UK, paid Reg fees for both +/- $630
  • Dal AC Student whom we supported with a $300 gift card in January came back looking for more. We declined.
  • Coldest Night of the Year – there was a suggestion that the Club should make a donation as we didn’t have a team. The board decided to suggest to all members that they may make a donation online, to support either Audrie-Jo’s kids on the Nook and Cranny team, or the CEC Interact team.
  • We passed a motion for $723.15 for an iPad for a person challenged person; someone else is buying the software for it.
  • We passed a motion for $700 for a wheelchair for a Hospice client, with the intention that the Hospice would own the equipment after this gentleman no longer needs it
• Youth, Barb filled us in on the Short Term Exchange Program (STEP) and suggested we create a committee of interested members to look at future options. Also suggested we ask Michael Craig, District Youth Chair, to come speak to the club.
• Vocational, Tom has done much work on this portfolio! We will now look at doing vocational visits every other month, so this month, March 29, we’ll have a Sherlock’s cocktail hour social event, and in April we will visit Maritime Auto Supply.
• For the NSCC mentor program, 4 people were interviewed.
• We supported Water for Life with a $500 donation.

The Club Recognition Committee report on the recognitions that will be presented at our April 19^th Charter Night was give by chair Wayne Gillis.

 

There are 7 Paul Harris Fellow Recognitions to recognize Rotarians (or others) who have made a $1,000 US contribution, or an additional $1000 US contribution to the Rotary Foundation.  They are:

Our Community Service Citation honours non-Rotarians who have contributed volunteer hours and/or financial donations to our community.  This year’s recipient is:

Our Rotarian of the Year Award recognizes a Rotarian who has contributed to the Club in a meaningful and above average way over the past year.  This year this recognition goes to:

We also have a recognition for a Rotarian who has contributed to our Club and Rotary over multiple years – sometimes referred to as our lifetime achievement award.  We encountered an issue this year as we had an outstanding person that we wanted to honour, but RI has temporarily suspended the “Avenues of Service Citation” until at least this summer pending a review of the criteria.  Our Committee wanted to honour a Rotarian, and we wanted to do it this year.  Undeterred we created a “Rotarian Service Citation” to temporarily or permanently replace the “Avenues of Service Citation”.  This year’s recipient of the “Rotarian Service Citation” is an outstanding Rotarian:

Congratulation to the recognition recipients.

Happy Mug: There were a number of happy Rotarians this week including.

50/50: Ted Jordan had the right ticket but he missed the joker and the $35 pot builds.

 

New Member Proposal:  Steven Barteaux, Certified Financial Planner with Credential Financial Strategies has been proposed for membership by Rotarian Wayne Gillis.  The Membership committee has reviewed this proposal and the Board has approved. Induction will occur at a future meeting.