Hello all
Just a reminder, that there is no morning meeting on Tuesday and that we will meet at Parker & Suzanne’s house for the annual Anniversary Pot Luck and dinner.
Also, we are still looking for a president elect for the term 2020/21 year, graduating eventually to President in 2021/22. If you’re interested let me and or Past President Phyo know and we will bring it to the Board.
This past Thursday, I attended the Presidents & Foundation Chair’s AGM in Oshawa. It was great to see the awards given out to many clubs for their annual Foundation donations.
As most of you recall, we lost Bill Patchet earlier this year. Bill was a real go getter and supporter of the Foundation. In fact our District is one of the highest contributors to the Foundation and we owe a lot of that to Bill.
There is a campaign going on in the District called “A Mill for Bill”. It was Bills wish that we could raise $1 million dollars in the District for the Foundation.
Each year we raise just over 800 k which is a great contribution, but we still fall short of his goal by about Two Hundred thousand. When you think about it, it really isn’t that much of a shortfall.
Through the campaign, the district is asking us each to give a little extra and then a little more on top of that.
Wouldn’t it be great if our district could help achieve Bill’s dream.
On closing the meeting on Thursday, they announced that there are 8 new Paul Harris Society members. All are from the Uxbridge club. It was learned that the club president decided that he was going to have a wine tasting event at his home. The stipulation was in order for each person to attend, they had to make at least the minimum contribution to the Paul Harris Society and 8 of their members stepped up.
I would like to see some of members also become Paul Harris Society members iin the near future.
Dave Robinet
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Pictured below: Deborah Hierlihy and Maureen Corrigan of Alzheimer Society with Rotarians Barry Davidson, Lyn McGowan, Lana Whitteker and President Dave Robinet.