Volume 97, Number 23 4,753rd Meeting Friday, January 6, 2017

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 405, Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5L3 — Web: http://rotarynanaimo.org

Serving Our Community Since

May 1, 1920 - Charter Number 43

DIRECTORS Henry Jiang Susie Stephens Moe Lessan

Norm Myden Wayne Anderson Charles Ramos

President Rotary International John F. Germ, Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tenn., USA

District Governor Assistant Governor Joanne Croghan Bev Hilton

Bainbridge Island, Washington Nanaimo Oceanside

Club Meeting Friday at 12:00 p.m.

at the Coast Bastion Inn

CLUB OFFICERS 2016-2017

President ------------------------- Debbie Narver

Vice President -------------------- Carey McIver

Secretary ------------------------------- Bob Janes

Treasurer ------------------------ Lynne Pankratz

President Elect ----------------------- Jane Currie

Immediate Past President ---------- Lila Tanner

Santa came to visit the Rotary Family Christmas breakfast again this year at the Bowen Park complex and many family members and children enjoyed the pancakes served up by Rotary volunteers. ―Photos by Ian Williams

ROTARY

SERVING

HUMANITY

By John Shillabeer

President Debbie conducted the

meeting for our final club meeting of

the calendar year.

Guests

Joyce Smith introduced her partner

Ron Willis (both brown as berries and

recently returned from down under)

and Dave Hammond introduced

member-to-be Laurie Beinert.

Induction:

Past president Lila Tanner inducted

Laurie Beinert into the club. Laurie is

Development Officer for the Nanaimo

Foundation.

Announcements:

John Heisterman said

preparations for the Bay-

view School lunch were in

good shape and reminded members to arrive

about 10:00 am on December 21.

Joan Ryan sold tickets for the Club Christ-

mas dinner on 15 December.

Janeane Coutu announced that shaving

Ian Williams beard last week raised $2,400.

(Wow!).

Dave Hammond gave an update on the

Centennial project. The City has been in-

formed that it will not receive a federal grant,

so available funding is now known and de-

tailed planning can get underway. We can ex-

pect club action in January.

Happy and Sad Bucks

Several members were happy to thank club volunteers for

turning out to organise the Bayview lunch, plant shrubs at

Eden Gardens, host a fireside chat for new members, and

for special fund raising. Several also were looking forward

to being together with family members for Christmas.

Card Draw:

Charles Ramos won the table stakes. Ron Willis won the

card draw but did not pick the ace of spades.

Special Thanks

President Debbie awarded 100 Paul Harris points each to

Ian Williams, Bruce Gordon and Egon Holzwarth for

their outstanding support through her first half of the Rotary

year.

Brainstorming Session

After completing the formalities of the AGM, President

Debbie organised a brief brainstorming session with the

objective of encouraging ideas for worthy local projects

eligible for Rotary Community Grants. Results were

emailed to members and there will be follow-up in January.

Meeting Notes from December 9th, 2016 Family Christmas Breakfast—Dec. 11th

ATTENDANCE By Bob Janes

Attendance for December

9th was 52%

We missed the following

Rotarians

D. Anderson, Cowling,

Currie, Forghani Targhi,

Gerrand, Grice, Hais, Hen-

derson, Holzwarth, Jiang,

McIver, Parsons, Raedler,

Salem, Stetar, Tessier, Wil-

son, Wittkofski, Woodward,

Woychuk, Zhang

Guests: Ron Willis

Makeups: Joyce Smith, M.

Knutsson

Birthdays:

Bob Janes, January 9th

Spouse Birthdays:

Rita Raedler [Guenter] on

January 8th

Club Anniversary:

Bruce Gordon, 37 years

on January 11th

Allan Smith, 9 years on

January 11th E.& O.E.

DATES TO REMEMBER

April 21 to 30—Rotary Used Book Sale, Nanaimo North Town Centre

May 4, 5, 6, 2017—Spirit of Rotary DTA & Conference, Suquamish, WA. More details at www.rotary5020.org

If you have any Rotary event you would like to advertise, please contact a COGS committee member

Rotary Christmas Dinner—Dec. 15th

January 6th, 2017

Lynne Pankratz, Bob Janes, Bright Zhang

Lila Tanner

John Heisterman

Dave Connolly

Pres Debbie, Joyce Smith, John Salem, Lynne Pankratz,

Bob Janes, Bright Zhang

John Shillabeer

John Salem

Joy of Rotary Friendship Exchange Joyce Smith

Charles Ramos

GREETERS

CASHIER

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

INTRO GUESTS

INTRO SPEAKER

THANK SPEAKER

HEAD TABLE

PROGRAM

WEEKLY CLUB PROGRAMS & MEMBER DUTIES

January 13th, 2017

Christine Parsons, Henry Jiang, Wahid Ali

Lila Tanner

Brent Barootes

Janeane Coutu

Pres Debbie, Greg Brady, Brent Barootes, Ian Williams, Chris Parsons, Henry Jiang, Wahid Ali

Frank Shoemaker

Brent Barootes

God’s Hope School in Haiti Greg Brady

Lila Tanner

MEETING DATE January 20th, 2017

Douglas Anderson, Bill King, Bob Patrick

Lila Tanner

Bruce Samson

Doug Cowling

Pres Debbie, Will Chambers, Susie Stephens, Bob Patrick, Bill King, Douglas Anderson

Derek Lewis

Susie Stephens

Shuguy Project—Shoes for the Homeless … Will Chambers

Wendy Pratt

Rotary Bayview Lunch—Dec. 21st