Hecate Strait Rotary

A YEAR IN REVIEW

July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009

Housekeeping changes I planned to do

These are the things I set out to change/update at the beginning of the year:

Review our club’s annual activities Update the Bylaws and Constitution Update the club’s brochure Reinstate the weekly Membership Matters newsletter

Create guest speaker information sheets Create appreciation certificates Update the make-up sheet Get 24/24 CRCs done; 14/24 got done

Unplanned Changes

Changed from lunch meeting to a breakfast meeting to a coffee meeting

Changed locations from the Coast Hotel to the Crest Hotel

Got signed on to Clubrunner

NEW THINGS - Website

Street sign across from the Civic Centre

New sign on the Kaza Maru

New Members

Garry Rabel

Mike Slubowski

Bob Killbery

Dwayne MacNeill

Mike Archer

Fundraising

Golf Tournament – approx $2300 (after expenses) Joint Christmas Party - $730 for Vincent’s BC Tour Basketball Roll Off – $4176.75 Foundation Dinner & Auction - $5698.63

($237.44 per club member)

(that’s 8258 kids immunized)

Guest Speakers

Kate, Catlin and Austin – RYLA Lakelse students Christine Anoneuvo – World Youth Canada

Lyle McNish – Udder Festival Mayor Herb Pond

Vincent, Greg – RYLA South participants Mike Slubowski – Rupert Rampage

DG Bob Blacker , PR Fire Department School Superintendent

Denise and Ann – 2 World Youth Canada Students Shaun Thomas – Community in Bloom

Steve Poole and Matthew Burns, BC Ferries Nancy Wilson – Thesis

Shannon Marc – PR Archives Joy Sundin – Winterfest

Art & Leslie Erasmus – Water Project Mark Mastroianni – Credit Union

Steve Riley – Principal for Alternate Education Clarence Martin – All Native Basketball

Leanne Wright – Progressive Employment Jennifer Krawec – Great Blue Heron Project

Sandra Jones Garry Rabel – PETS

Shane Deinstadt & Steve Smith – Past GSE participants Cathy Quane – Relay for Life

Jeff Burghardt – PR Grain Gary Paulson – Port Authority

Jack Thomson – Adventures in Citizenship student Zeno Krekic & Bruce Wishart – Healthy Business Community

Who’s Who

Scott Farwell

Bill Parmar

Odd Eidsvik

Ross McNish

Marina Lamb

And then there’s Vincent!

Your energy, thoughtfulness, enthusiasm, kindness,

creativity, eagerness to try new things are just a few of the things that we have really enjoyed about you.

Thank you for allowing us to be part of your Canadian

adventure.

Projects

Apple Program as of June 8, 2009

$11,704 was spent which equates to 308 boxes

That’s 34,804 apples for 2380 students!

That averages to 14.62 apples for every student in Prince Rupert and Port Edward!

Projects

Backpack Program

Along with the Salvation Army, 350 backpacks were distributed in Prince Rupert and Port Edward.

350 packs for 1287 elementary school kids

That’s 1 pack for every 3.68 students or 27%!

Projects

Gaming donations included:

– Canada World Youth– Salvation Army– PRSS– Halloween Fest– Udder Theatre Festival– Kid’s Help Line– Canadian Cancer Society– BC Arts– Student Support– Great Blue Heron Project

For a total of $9,984

International Projects

Water Project in Lege Tafo, Ethiopia - $2,000 was contributed to the water project.

Neurosurgical Hospital Bed for the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Our club contributed $1250 towards this Matching Grant project.

Special Thanks To

My Executive/Board Members:

Gary Sheils Brian Musgrave Rob Eby Bill Parmar Mark Rudderham Ross McNish Kevin Newton Pat Smit Pinder Johal

Special thanks also goes to

Rob for chairing the 1st & 2nd RYLAs Ross for chairing the Golf Tournament Mark for co-chairing the Christmas Party Brian for chairing the Basketball Roll Off Kevin for chairing the Foundation Dinner Scott for co-chairing the RCMP Musical Ride Ross for co-chairing the Installation Dinner

As my year wraps up

Thank you so much to all of you for trusting me to guide you through the year. There were a few bumps along the way but I think, all and all, it was a success year.

I really did enjoy it!

THANK YOU