Birthday

August 26: Patrick Gibson
August 26: David Rayner
August 29: Eric Germain

Wedding Anniversary

August 24: Doug and Dnna Mulholland

Club Anniversary

August 24, 1993: Bob Bentley
August 26, 1986: Fritz Koenig
August 27, 2002: Hans Pilz

Oh my, NOGermains at the next luncheon? Their annual family retreat will really affect our club. Who will now have to pay $ 20.00 to the possibly lucky Rotating Wheel Spinner? How is President Elect Heather going to perform as she will be chairing the meeting? Sadly, I will not be there to heckle as I am off to Kansas City and St. Hyacinthe, so I look forward to somebody reporting to me how the meeting goes.

Peter

The Club's Rotary Canada Flag Program will be active again

on the upcoming Labor Day weekend with the planting of the

flags for existing subscribers of about 3oo flags.  Those flags

will be planted in the subscriber's lawn by The Rotarians

responsible for the subscriptions with we hope a little help

from other Rotary club members were help is needed.

We have reached the point where the first years subscriptions

will end on the Labor Day plant 2009.  We are expecting the

Subscribers to re-subscribe for 2010 right now and we will be

expecting to pick up cheques from the existing subscribers

when we pick up the flags at the end of the Labor Day weekend.

To facilitate the pick up of the cheques for the re-subscriptions

we will be placing a letter from the Rotary Flag Program into

the mail boxes of each subscriber when we plant the Labor Day

flag.  The letter will ask them to prepare a cheque to the Rotary

Club for the re-subscription for 2010 and to have it ready when

the Rotarian calls to pick up the flag after the Labor Day weekend.

There will be a self addressed envelope attached to the letter to

mail in the advent that the Rotarian does not receive the cheque

when he calls.  With this procedure we are trying to facilitate

the re-subscription process for both the subscriber and the Rotary

Club.

Enthusiasm still exists with the subscribers.  The writer of this

article was speaking to one of his subscribers today about another

matter completely and he asked how he was expected to get his

re-subscription cheque to me.

The flag program is continuing to sell flags for the labor day

weekend, and for next year.  To facilitate that process we are

following last years success with the same formula.  The sales

formula for the sales this Labor Day is "Subscribe now for 2010"

and we will provide a free flag planting for the Labor Day Holiday

in 2009.  This will continue with our plan to have all flag subscriptions

run for the calendar year.  This program was well received by the

subscribers last fall.  Of course we complete all the subscription

documents and receive the cheque now for the 2010 subscriptions.

Then we are ready to go next year with three flag plantings.

The committee is preparing one hundred new flags for sale.

Rotarians are needed for painting poles and assembling flags.

These small groups meet at Bruce Flesher's garage to do this

work and is a great opportunity to spend some time with  your

friends from Rotary while doing some work for the Club.

The work is easy and lasts only about 2 hours at a time.  If you

have some time you would like to contribute to this project, please

call Bruce Flesher.

Lastly, September is a great time to try your hand at flag sales.

With the incentive of a free flag for Labor Day the sales are

easier to make than ever.  Those who are actively promoting

the flag subscriptions have found that once you have placed some

flags in your community and people see them, they become a

wanted item.   Salesmanship is replaced by order taking!

One lady told me she was talking to a friend from her district

while waiting in line at the bank and they were asking each other

if they knew where to get a flag.  I was welcomed when I rang

the doorbell on my route by one of these ladies who told me the

story about the discussion in the bank line up.  Those who are

actively promoting the Flag Program now have 80 flags and two at

approximately 50 flags each.  Give it a try, even if you have tried

and been unsuccessful.  The free flag and the brochure we have

prepared for sales will do it for you.  

          When Sarah arrived in India in the summer of 1992, she had expectations of billeting in a conventional sized home.  It was quite a shock to literally move into a mansion, with armed guards and barbed wire fencing for security, and a houseful of servants.  Sarah's experiences at her first host home were not so much with the host parents, but with the servants, who introduced her to the Hindi language.  Her second billet, which lasted some 7 1/2 months, was again in a larger than expected home, but of substantially more modest means than the first.

     Schooling was also a bit of a shock for Sarah.  She found out she was registered in an all-boys school, with co-ed classes being just in grades 11 and 12.  This type of institution, along with the hot, cotton school uniforms that were compulsory school garb, was a throwback to what Sarah was used to.  But, she jumped in, actively participating with the track team.  Through this school association, Sarah was befriended by a young Indian man, and they communicate and stay in touch to this day.

     Through the Rotary YEP, Sarah developed a real sense of what Rotary is about.  Working in India with children with special needs developed in Sarah a sense of service (not to mention the visits to a leprosy mission).  It also enhanced and developed her speaking skills, which have taken her a long way in life.  The exchange also instilled in Sarah a great appreciation for Canada, and all that we offer.

     Following her year in India, Sarah returrned to Edmonton, completing her grade 12, and then getting her Bachelor of English (anthropology major) at the U of A.  Shortly after graduating, she moved to Terrace, B.C., for what was to be a six month stint.  This "six month stint" has progressed to ten years, with a job in newspaper, starting her own communication company, and getting married and having two children, filling in those ten years.  In 2007 Sarah joined the Rotary Club of Terrace, and is currently President of the club.

     Sarah has immersed herself in Rotary, with Shelterbox, a Literacy project, and Polio Plus being some of her key interests/projects.  A major fundraiser, the Rubber Duck project, enables the club to do the above, and also contribute to the local community in projects such as Hockeyville.

     For Sarah, all of this would not have been possible had it not been for her involvement in the Rotary Youth Exchange.  She is a firm believer that the YEP is one of the programs that develops and drives Rotary.  Kudos to Sarah for all she has accomplished.  When we see a young lady like this so involved with Rotary, it makes you realize how critical programs such as the YEP are to the organization.  A heart-warming presentation Sarah!       

Wheelchair Delivery in Panama

End of January 2010

Let's go to a Rotary Convention......

2010                  Montreal, Canada
2011                  New Orleans, USA
2012                  Bangkok, Thailand
2013                  Lisbon, Portugal
2014                  Sydney, Australia