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May 4, 2010
The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise. From Rotary District 1130, London UK a program called Rotary Life Education Life Education is a national charity which works with local operating groups (mainly charitable trusts) in communities throughout much of the UK. Life Education recently became part of Coram, the oldest children’s charity in the UK; check www.lifeeducation.org.uk and www.coram.org.uk for more background information  From Rotary District 7210 located in the Hudson Valley, New York State Red Hook Rotary Club will host the annual Apple Blossom Festival on Saturday, May 8, 2010 from 10:00am to 4:00 pm. Entertainers include:"Nightmare for A Week:"Pajamazon""Donny Butler and his band"There will be over 30 vendors and food concessionaires. The local merchants will also be participating.The Red Hook Rotary Foundation will be selling Kielbasa sandwiches and drinks at their table. There will be application for the "Citizen of the year" at the club's table. Allen how about selling Kielbasa sandwiches at Show and Shine?  This Week in Rotary May11th Activity Roster
 May 4th Meeting Announcements President Ken announced that nomination forms for Rotarian of the Year will be distributed – stay tuned Our June 1 Meeting will be 3 hours in length to give us time to complete the goal setting, the last exercise in our Visioning Exercise. Our May 18th Meeting will be a regular meeting and not a Club Assembly as usually occurs on our third Tuesday of the month  President Elect David announced that next years Board will meet Wednesday morning May 5 at David’s home at 8 a.m. David promises that it will be a breakfast meeting David and Stuart attended the District Grant Seminar in Nanaimo last Saturday. If our club is to qualify for either a District or a Rotary Foundation Matching Grant we would be required to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the District The MOU document would spell out our responsibilities around the management of Grant Funds; David, quite rightly, wants to take the information to the Board for their review and discussion and an ultimate decision.  Club Service Director Ron has 24 Rotarians and friends signed for the Burgers and Bowling extravaganza to be held at Sunset Lanes in Parksville followed by a stop at Boston Pitza on Friday May 14th, 5:40 p.m. – Be there or be square  Ways and Means Chair Allen announced that we will again be participating in Family Days scheduled for Sunday May 30th. Allen circulated a sign up sheet but if you missed getting your name on the list you’ll have another chance next week Guests This morning we welcomed our speaker Deborah Davenport; St Stephen’s Noon Lunches Karen Vanderberg; and for the last time as guests, Amy and Pamela Hadikin;welcome all Community Service Presentation Community Service Director Allan presents Karen Vandenberg with a cheque for $500 in support of the St. Stephens Thursday Noon Meals program. Karen reports that they feed, on average, 175 people every Thursday of which approximately 100 are KSS students. New Members Inducted Program The Building learning Together Coalition of Community Partners is made up of over 180 businesses, service clubs and schools, over 20 ministries and agencies, and over 200 individuals and Deborah Davenport is the organizations prime spokesperson and advocate.   Several years ago Deborah spoke to our club and we followed up,contributing funds to purchase a generator for the WOW Bus. Since then our contributions and commitment to literacy in our community has been marginal. Our Bukati Project this year in Kenya re-focused our efforts on literacy and Deborah, this morning, provided us with a wonderful opportunity to help make a difference by supporting literacy in our community.  StoryBook Village is a wonderful concept that will have a very real impact on literacy in our community. Think about what it would be like to be able to take your young child or grandchild into StoryBook Village, what an adventure, what an opportunity. Folks we have to get involved in this project; we can help both financially and through volunteering our time and expertise; this is an opportunity that we can’t pass up. Literacy is one of the six areas of concentration for which Rotary Foundation Matching Grants may be awarded. Each year, Rotarians carry out thousands of programs to:
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