Meeting recap for January 28 2009
President Norm was back from holidays and chaired the meeting.
This evening we had as guests: Henk Eisen, Paul Edge, Ron Archer, all from the Ingersoll Rotary Club. Tom Hemsworth, our regular guest and friend from Calgary, Bob Aykroyd and Jim Donaldson from the Tillsonburg Rotary Club and Dave Harris from the Woodstock Rotary Club. Thank you all for attending our meeting as the weather seem to havoc with our attendance.
After our meal President Norm read some thank-you letters about the Landmine clearing donations.
A letter of thanks from Ingamo Homes for our donation to their fund.
A letter from "Are you ready" asking for a donation.
V.I.P. (Values-Influences-Peers) announcement of dates of graduation which our club supports, which are:
Tuesday Feb. 10th 12:30pm @ Hillcrest Public School.
Friday Feb. 20th 9:15am @ Northdale Public School.
Monday Feb.23rd 9:40am @ Hickson Central School.
Monday March 2nd 12:50 pm @ Southside Public School.
These are graduations you can attend and get to know what impact the V.I.P. training has on young children. Thank you to the Woodstock Community Police Constable Laurie-Anne for this service.
Our fines master Erik was in good shape this week as he was able to get many people to freely donate some loonies for happy/sad bucks and fines.
Doug Vincent's father is in the hospital in Buffalo and our thoughts go out to him and his family for a hopefull recovery and return to a local hospital.
TRF Direct for Polio donations can now be made directly and/or monthly from your bank account through direct deposit. When you sign up, you have a chance to win a free registration to the Montreal R.I. Convention for next year. If you have any questions, please speak to Peter Stam.
Our speaker was not able to make it this evening, and as a back-up we viewed a video from a past Rotary International Convention featuring Jenny Horton.
Jenny, when she was 15 years of age, was selected to go on Youth Exchange from Australia to the U.S. and explained how much of an impact it had on her and how it changed the rest of her life.
After her Exchange she went on several Polio vaccination tours which included Africa and India and is now working for WHO (World Health Organization).
This video showed how youth exchange inpacted one person's life, and how it made her dreams come true. She accomplished many things in her life, and she said that her year in the United States as a Rotary Exchange Student was the start of all her accomplishments. Sometimes as Rotarians we may question Rotary's impact on our exchange students. This movie just solidifies the importance of Youth Exchange. You truly get that warm fuzzy feeling inside after watching the video.
If anyone wants to see it, please contact Peter Stam.