QB SUNRISE
SCUTTLEBUTT 
The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise.
Around Rotary’s World
Irish quote of the day “May those who want to join Rotary, follow through with their promise and join; and those who don't, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.”
Happy belated St. Patrick’s Day
Change the world by contributing $2 a week to The Rotary Foundation’s Annual Program Fund
Clorinda Palomina, 8, drinks from an outdoor sink in the village of Santa Rosa de Huacaria, Peru, built with the help of a District Simplified Grant. The Rotary Club of Vernon, California, USA, used grant funds to provide construction materials.
Using District Simplified Grants from The Rotary Foundation, Rotary clubs in southwest Florida, USA, distributed dictionaries to every third grader in District 6960.
With the help of a District Simplified Grant from The Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Club of Toulouse, Ovalie, France, was able to furnish a recreation center for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families. Patients and their caregivers come twice weekly to take part in games and activities focused on reinforcing memory.
The Central Rotary Club of Hong Kong was chartered in June. Just two months later, the club was awarded a Rotary Foundation District Simplified Grant of US$2,000 in support of a Make a Wish project to help children, ages 7 to 14, who have migrated from mainland China assimilate into their new culture.
“Each Rotarian: Reach One, Keep One”
Rotary’s new Membership slogan emphasizes the need for Rotarians to focus on both recruitment and retention in their membership growth efforts.
The slogan is a gentle reminder to “Reach Out”. Keep your Blackberry or IPod Touch handy to record that moment in time when the name of a potential member flashes in your thoughts.- or if your not a techy then long hand it in your Day Timer.
Each one of us became a Rotarian because someone invited us to attend a Rotary meeting; we all have a responsibility to grow our Rotary family so that we can continue to provide service to our local and international communities.
District News
Cat In The Hat Promotes reading at Tacoma 8 Rotary Club
Club members annually visit local elementary schools appropriately attired in signature Dr. Seuss hats as they read "Cat in a Hat" or other Dr. Seuss tales to students. This is just one of many activities being implemented in March by Tacoma 8 as Rotary celebrates Literacy Month.
Salt Spring Rotary Supports low cost housing
Salt Spring Rotary received $557,000 for low-cost housing at Croftonbrook from Gulf Islands MLA Murray Coell. Croftonbrook is jointly administered by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #92, Salt Spring Lions Club and Salt Spring Rotary.
The funds will be used to refurbish the twenty units that were built in 1985 and are desperately in need of repairs.
Next Week in Rotary
March 23rd Activity Roster
- Greeter – David Lavalley
- 50-50 – Jim Lynch (will Jim make it on time? Stay tuned)
- Rotary Moment – John Medd
- Invocation – Kevin Martin
March 16th Meeting
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Pat celebrated her 39th Birthday on March 15, The Ides of March; Happy Birthday Pat
Kevin and Nicole celebrate a Wedding Anniversary on March 17, St Patrick’s Day; Happy Anniversary Kevin and Nicole
Guests
When is a guest not really a guest? When its Greer and when Allen presents her with her Name Badge. Welcome back Greer, we’ve missed you
Rotary Moment
Peter chose as his Rotary Moment topic “The Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
- FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
- SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
- THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
- FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Announcements
Imagine that you get on an Elevator and someone notices your Rotary Pin and says, “I see you’re a Rotarian, what’s Rotary all about anyway? Well Doug and Bob have coined the perfect answer:
Rotary is a world wide service club made up of 1.2 million men and women. We raise money to provide humanitarian service, both locally and internationally. Our motto is Service Above Self
David will be remitting our quarterly submission to the Rotary Foundation this week Our quarterly TRF submission includes our PolioPlus contributions on behalf of our various Speakers and as well any contributions from members that David has received between mid December and today’s meeting. Your individual contributions will either be earmarked for the Annual Program’s Fund (remember our goal here is $3360) or PolioPlus (2009-10 goal is $3250). It takes TRF a couple of week after they receive our submission to process everything. Anyone who has made a contribution during this 3rd Quarter should check their RI Account sometime after the first week in April when processing is complete at RI. If you don’t know how to access your RI Account you should check with David.
Peter announces Saturday April 24th as the date of our Garage Sale Fundraiser.
- Rotary House has been booked for the Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24
- Our target is minimum $2000
- To achieve our target Peter asks each of us to donate a minimum of 2 big boxes of stuff that will sell.
- We have some storage space available in our new shed but if you can hold onto things until April 23rd
Register on line at
www.rotary5020.org for the District Conference
“Fulfilling Dreams” in Longview Washington June 4,5 & 6 2010[/b]
KSS student Samantha Rentoul has been selected by our Club to attend the RYLA Growth Leadership Conference in Tacoma this next weekend. Allan and Lauren Gannon will accompany Samantha to Tacoma and then arrangements will be made to have Samantha talk to our club later in the month or early next month.
Program
Membership was the focus at this mornings Club Assembly
Membership Director Pat Fougner presented a Proposal for a members brainstorming session; here’s what Pat asked us to consider:
- She has challenged members to recruit and induct new members into our club on or before Tuesday may 25th
- The priority is to recruit women and she proposed that 4 of the new members inducted on May 25th be women.
Pat’s rationale for the initiative is:
- The 4 new women coming into our club on May 25th would give our club a platform from which to build on, a platform that would lead to better gender balance in our club. Pat feels this cohort of 4 women plus our existing female members will have an easier time recruiting additional women in the future. We need women to recruit women.
- Pat also feels that as the club now stands with the gender imbalance that exists its challenging for women to feel “at home” in our club.
- Our Membership vision for 2015 is that we will be a club of 45 members with 45% of our members being female – That means 20 female members by 2015.
- Finally this cohort of women, Pat feels will give next years Membership Director, Larry Mix a good base to work from as we begin to work toward our 2015 Membership goals.
