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June 15, 2010
The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise. Rotary First Harvest networks throughout Oregon and northern California to form partnerships with commercial food growers, donors, trucking companies, food distribution centers, Rotary clubs, volunteers and others to locate and move fresh produce to those who need it. RFH uses the power and network of Rotary to identify food sources, arrange transportation, and work with local organizations to get food that would otherwise be wasted to the existing distribution centers. Rotary First Harvest networks to achieve the mission of alleviating hunger in their district by providing fresh produce, meat and other staples to existing food banks. RFH collects and coordinates distribution of food that will not make it to market and gets it to the children, their families, the elderly and disabled who need it. Rotary First Harvest is a nonprofit, non-partisan corporation established for charitable and educational purposes. Fresh food is collected and distributed without cost to community food banks, feeding program operators, and other similar organizations. Its mission is to feed the hungry with freshly grown and/or surplus, nutritious produce and to use existing distribution and transportation systems while maintaining minimal operating overhead. RFH Projects include:
 This Week in Rotary
 June 15th Meeting Guests     This morning we welcomed 4 guests; our speaker Ronine Sharp; PDG Norm Watts; Bill Duckenfield, a guest of Bob’s; and Bob Michaelson a guest of Stuart’s.Welcome Ronine, Norm, Bill and Bob Announcements Norm and the Evening club are looking for help in hosting their Rotary Student Exchange Student who will be arriving just prior to the start of the school term in late August or early September. She will be attending KSS for one school year.The student is Taiwanese and comes from Bangkok. Typically the student is with the Host Family/Parent for 3 months. If this is something you’d like to consider please contact Norm at 250-752-0929.  Show and Shine happens Sunday June 20th. Allen requested the set up crew be at Rotary House by 8 am in order to get set up by 10. We have purchased 2 BBQ’s and will have two cooking teams operating throughout the day. preparing hot dogs, hamburgers and smokies.  Ron announced the installation of our 2010-11 Board and our recognition of people and events from this Rotary year goes on Monday night June 21st at Giovanni’s Restorante. The cost is $30 per person and things start at 5:30 pm  Our Club Foundation Chair David reminded us that contributions to the Rotary Foundation need to be submitted by June 15th to be credited to your account during this Rotary year. David also indicated that 21 of our 27 members qualify for EREY and 10 of us are Sustaining Members. Trivia  BP Ad, vintage 1997; prophetic eh! Program Ageing and Dementia Ronine Sharp R. N. describes herself as a “Memory Nurse” and spoke to us this morning about dementia and Alzheimer’s. Qualicum Beach and Parksville are one and two as having the oldest average age of any community in Canada; and Sidney is number three. In these Island communities and across Canada people now are expecting to live well into their 80’s and 90’s. So what do we need to do to maintain our memory because Ronine says, “when you lose your memory you lose your life”. Our memory is our identity, it’s who we are. Ronine says, we can't change the fact that we’re all aging and will probably live well into our 80’s and 90’s but we can learn to age well. So how do we age well?
 David presents our PolioPlus Certificate to Ronine
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A Senior Moment
A Senior Moment .....
Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he d idn't need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.'- thanks Kim
Taiwan or Thialand?
Derek emailed to gently remind me that Bangkok is in Thailand not Taiwan and that's where the exchange student who arrives for a year at KSS is from - could my error have been caused by another senior moment?