Kevin’s Kaleidoscope January 2007
Early in
December we visited
Tsawwassen
We joined o
I was
accorded
(DG Kevin’s
speech for the award dinner can be viewed from the District website at http://www.clubrunner.ca/data/5040/html/14748/DG%20Kevin%20Volunteer%20are%20stars.pdf
Smithers & Smithers Alpine Clubs
On December 15 DGE Dean and I traveled to Smi
Just before
Christmas,
Tsawwassen
The
Tsawwassen Rotary club Thursday breakfast
meeting gave up its weekly business to celebrate with a special Christmas family ga
Join in the Christmas Spirit
The Saturday before Christmas we joined fellow
Rotarians and volunteers from o
On Christmas day, because
On New Year’s Eve we joined Joan Hansen
from
And so to
It has been
a wonderful year, and Jen and I applaud all
Happy New Year!
From the 8 Prince George North Rotary Clubs, we hope that
2007 brings you and the Rotary family, health and happiness.
January is Rotary Awareness Month and this is a topic that is gaining
more attention in recent years. The principles of Rotary and a “service above
self” attitude lead to a group that is naturally humble and reluctant to blow
their own horn. However, we now recognize that Rotary awareness is key to
maintaining and growing membership and is also key to future support and
sponsorship of the many projects in the world of Rotary. The Prince George
North clubs each have a plan for awareness in their communities.
One of the
advantages of being a smaller community is that your activities are often
obvious and well publicized. In
The
smallest Rotary community of the 8 in Prince George North area, Fort St. James
also benefits from the familiarity associated with a close-knit community. It
would be hard to live in this small remote town and not know the dedicated
group of individuals that have completed so many local projects. As you enter
Fort St. James, a huge wooden sign that prominently displays the Rotary wheel
in the centre welcomes you. As with many Rotary clubs, it is part of the Fort
St. James awareness plan to ensure that the Rotary wheel and presence is front
and centre in the community.
As you
enter Vanderhoof you will encounter the same huge sign and prominent Rotary wheel
that you saw in Fort St. James. This is no surprise when you learn that these 2
communities have partnered on a number of projects including their annual
successful radio auction. Also a small community and also benefiting from the
small town local knowledge syndrome, Vanderhoof has a number of public parks
and facilities that carry the Rotary name and wheel that make the community
aware of Rotary’s presence.
The fourth
small community and the furthest north of the 8, Mackenzie has a similar
recognition and community presence. It may be a result of having local media
representation in the membership but Mackenzie can probably boast the highest
per member media coverage of any Rotary club in the District. Everything they
do seem to end up in the paper. Way to go gang!
As we enter
a new year, we all must challenge our humble nature and ensure that we take
every opportunity to brag about the good deeds of Rotary. In the north we do
good job of making our local communities aware of our local service but could
do more to raise awareness of the global good works and impact that Rotary has
on our planet.
Again from
the Prince George North region and especially from the Assistant Governor, we
wish you health, happiness and success in your Rotary awareness efforts in
2007.
Harold
Spensley
Assistant
Governor District 5040
Proud to be a Rotarian? Spread the
Words!
What is the best way to let others know about Rotary?
How do you let others know that you are proud to be a Rotarian?
Consider these Rotary PR Tips During January Rotary
Awareness Month:
Have your answer ready when being asked “What is Rotary?” You’ve been asked this question before, but did you have
a good response? Even though there are over 32,000 Rotary clubs in the world,
many people still don’t know what Rotary stands for. Who better to share what
Rotary is, than its 1.2 million members in almost 170 countries. Visit RI
Website for Rotary’s key messages at http://www.rotary.org/support/prtools/messages/general.html
Watch for the Rotary Ads in
The district has received a grant
from RI to run a series of ads started January 4th. The ads will be
similar to the one shown here, with different photo each time. The district web
address also appear on the ad to direct readers to check us out. An article targeted for non-Rotarians has
been posted by PDG Chris Offer at the District website homepage at
www.rotary5040.org Consider adding a
similar message at your club website for visitors.
Foundation of Hope, Are you a part of it?
“Foundation of Hope” is the title of Chapter 10 of the David
Forward's definitive history of Rotary, 'A Century of Service.' The question I pose to you is “Are you a
part of it? !”
In 1917, Past Rotary International President Arch
Klumph stated “. . . it seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments
for the purpose of doing good in the world.” That was the spark that ignited
the amazing, life changing Rotary International Foundation engine that would
start its inspiring and challenging journey of improving the lives of millions
of people in every country in our fast changing world! This journey has been
interrupted by two world wars, many smaller wars, civil wars and economic
depressions. Yet, Rotarians have continued to Build Bridges with community,
governmental, and business groups to magnify their Power of One as we share the
Magic of Rotary. - By DG Frank T. Sargent, MD, D5450 (article
appeared on Foundation Newsletter)
2008-2010 Rotary World Peace
Scholars
Would your Rotary Club like to
nominate someone at no cost to your club? Here’s your chance!
Nomination
Start looking . . . for that young committed person in your community
who should receive a two-year fully funded scholarship to a leading University
to study peace and conflict resolution.
For nomination information, please contact PDG Dave Ker at dker@telus.net or phone 604-261-8561 and
read information from RI
Website.
Timeline
The scholar selected will be
advised and his/her application sent to The Rotary Foundation in May 2007.
War
cannot go on forever
“War cannot go on forever.
Peace must and shall come. The years ahead reserve for Rotary a most difficult
and arduous task. To heal the wounds of a war-ravished world; to substitute for
hate, mutual understanding and tolerance; to create affection where rancour
exists; to change enemies into friends and replace excited passion and armed
struggle by goodwill and international peace.” Paul P Harris - The Rotarian
1942
On the eleventh hour of the
eleventh month in 1918 the armistice was declared ending the Great War or, as
it was known then, “The war to end all wars”. Sadly that was not the case and
still, nearly 90 years on, our world still sees warfare and conflict.
Rotary’s weapons against warfare are all
contained within The Rotary Foundation: - Peace Scholarships; Local and
International Service Projects; Educational and Cultural Exchanges.- Calum
Thomson, Rotary Global History Fellowship Chairman
Rotary
PEACE Centers Major Gifts Initiative
To raise $95 million to
completely endow the Rotary Peace Centers by 2015. Today we already raised $15
million.
Chair Eddie Blender and Vice-Chair John Germ
have asked Rotary leaders to help by compiling a list of those they know who
could, if asked, give $500,000 and higher to our Permanent Fund to endow World
Peace Fellows for The Rotary Foundation’s Rotary Centers for International
Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution and to share those names with Eddie
and John.
How to
get more people involved? Ask RI President. Bill Boyd
Service
is central to a successful club, and for me, it is one of the most important
aspects of Rotary. The starting point must be to involve all new members in a
service activity so they are built into the fellowship of the club and come to
understand the joy of serving others.
Individual
committees may target a specific Avenue
of Service, but this focus may not motivate nonparticipating members to
join in. Here are some ways to get everyone to take part in a project:
Many
clubs now participate in ongoing service projects that can motivate club
members for years to come.
Read
about project resources and ideas in Interactive’s Toolkit.
President Boyd would like to
hear your questions. Please send them to website@rotary.org,
and he will try to respond in an upcoming edition of Interactive.
Provisional Rotary Club of
We have made arrangements to hold the first meeting of interest for this
proposed Club on Wednesday January 24th at the Roundhouse in Yaletown.
Inexpensive parking is available under the Roundhouse with elevator access into
the lobby of the facilities. It is anticipated that the meeting will start at
5.00 pm and be over by 6.00 pm.
We need your help to invite
prospective members to join us at this meeting. Perhaps you know individuals
who left a Rotary Club but would find this location and time for a Club to be
more to their liking. If you have any leads of names to share with us, send me
their names and contact numbers. Look forward to hearing from you. - Henry
Fetigan, District Membership Chair, (Email: hfetigan@shaw.ca or call
604-277-0193)
Fri.
Jan 19, 2007 - PolioPlus Celebration Dinner
Sat. Jan 20,
2007 - Regional Rotary Foundation Seminar
Two
Unique Rotary Events
Two
Outstanding Opportunities
Join
fellow Rotarians, family and friends from Zone 22 for a fantastic
Sun.
Jun 17, 2007
Zone
22 Northern Nights Breakfast
Registration Information
Leo’s
Literacy and Numeracy Page
Ketchikan – A local service organization, First City Rotary, is
distributing dictionaries to every third-grader in the city.
Rotary members started passing out American Education Publishing dictionaries
to all public and private schools as well as home-schooled students at the
start of the month, said Rotary president Mary Kowalczyk. The distribution continued last week.
“We ordered 102 dictionaries and we should have a few leftover,” she said.
The Rotary worked through The Dictionary Project, a national
organization with a goal of helping students be good writers, active readers
and creative thinkers by providing them with their own dictionaries.
The Dictionary Project recommends that third-grade students receive the
dictionaries, Kowalczyk said.
“It’s an age when kids have begun to write and are getting better at
reading,” she said, “They’ve found at that age that students are ready to take
on the dictionary.”
Kowalczyk helped pass out dictionaries at
“We asked them what their mascot was,” she said. “It was a killer whale,
so we had them look up ‘whale’ and found what it was. We showed them the book and how it was
divided up into different categories.
“One of the kids came up with a word, ‘samurai’. That took them a while to find, but they were
raising their hands when they found the word.”
Rotary member Tom Thompson helped pass out dictionaries at three
schools.
Students immediately started leafing through them, he said. Rotary members showed students how to look up
words and showed them other features of the book, such as a listing of
“They really liked the idea that the book was theirs to keep forever,”
he said. “At Houghtaling, the kids took
(the dictionaries) out to recess with them.”
Thompson said he remembers getting his first dictionary when he was
about that age. He still has it. Some other Rotarians said the same
thing. “It was one of the reasons we
wanted to do the project,” he said.
Article from
ZONE 22 (WEST) LITERACY WEBSITE
PDG Leo Nimsick,
District 5040 Literacy Resource,
Nimsick@telus.net , 604-542-0989
Rotary Fellowships &
Rotary Action Groups
The International Fellowship of Rotarian
Musicians
The
mission of The International Fellowship of
Rotarian Musicians is:
to promote Rotary
fellowship by encouraging clubs to sing, to organize musical activities for
performance at all levels of Rotary functions, and to support community musical
organization and school music programs.
Since 1972
the officers and members of this fellowship have taken a leading role in
inspiring the cultural and educational use of music in Rotary, including group
singing, musical entertainment, and the fostering of music projects.
IFRM serves
as a link between special needs requests and organizations and individuals who
could respond to such needs. The Music Fellowship acts as a clearinghouse in
receiving requests ranging from scholarships for talented musicians to
providing instruments for schools and music for libraries. Finding resources
and organizations that can respond to these requests is one of the goals of
IFRM.
As an IFRM
member, you and your club can help this Fellowship match your resources
with their project needs.
Going to
the RI Convention in
Need more
information? E-mail Susan DuPree at Chair@IFRM.org. or Lee Denlinger at Secretary@IFRM.org.
Visit their website at: www.ifrm.org/ifrm/index.php
For information about Rotary
Fellowships and Rotary Action Groupswww.rotaryfellowships.org
District
5040 Fellowships Chair
Member, International Travel and Hosting Fellowship
Friendship Exchange
Rotary Friendship Exchange is Rotary's international
exchange program for Rotarians and their families. Friendship Exchange provides
participants the opportunity to experience other cultures by staying in the
homes of Rotarians in other countries. The program aims to advance
international understanding and peace through personal contact across borders
while developing interclub relationships for fellowship and service projects.
District 5580 Friendship Exchange Chair Betty Opheim has
expressed great interest in an exchange with Rotary clubs in our District.
District 5580 comprises all of
They are open for an exchange in 2007. The summer months are
the best time to travel there. Normally, they send out a team one year and
receive a team the following. However, they are flexible and can do inbound and
outbound the same year.
Betty is
looking forward to hear from us, please contact her at Betty.Opheim@ndsu.edu for details.
Can you believe it, our newly chartered club is already into their 2nd
year. PDG Sonia who chartered the club a year ago joined this special
Anniversary celebration with members and their family. It was a night full of exciting events that
included "Trivial Rotary" and special gift exchange among the
members. The club also raised over $700 from Happy dollars, auction of gifts
donated by members and 50/50 draw.
Club Pres. Wells Hsu was
presented with the Paul Harris Fellowship from PDG Del Paterson and Rotarian PK
Chan was officially inducted into the club.
To celebrate Family month,
the club also Invited club members and their family to an afternoon of
hands-on “Arts”, hosted by Rotary Family committee Chair - David and wife
Rosa. Everyone had fun painting mugs and plates and fellowship.
Have your valid passport ready
When travelling to and from
Rotarians show their Community how
much they care
Members, family and friends volunteered to serve the Annual Christmas
dinner to over 100 people at the
Breakfast with Santa at the
GIBSONS
The club donated $500 to
Roberts Creek Community School for supporting The Missoula Children’s Theatre on
the performance of Jungle Book at Heritage Playhouse (Pic - Club Pres. Don
Stuart and Director Lynne Geikie presented the check to Allyson Hatherill,
parent volunteer of the school)
On Dec 14, all 3 clubs donated a total of $5,600 to the
Congratulation
to Richmond Sunset Club, they are the winner of the 2006 “Volunteer are
Stars” Award in Constellation Award-Group. The Volunteer Richmond Information Services “Volunteers are Stars” Awards
celebrate the tremendous contribution made each and every day by thousands of
volunteers in the
Xmalts and skyhi - a community project the club did in coordination with
the City of
Volunteer for Stars Awards- The club was one of the award sponsors and gave out two awards to two
Shining Stars (under 21 years old.)
SMITHERS ALPINE
On Dec. 15th, the club donated $3,371 to Operation Keyhole,
a local fundraising drive to bring surgical equipment up-to-date at
The club also donated recently
to the Science Fair and the Smithers Soup Kitchen.
On Dec 13th, the club held a Christmas
Charity Breakfast, $1,732.00 raised from the Charity Auction went to the
Salvation Army for the homeless and the Purpose Society towards their Christmas
Hamper Drive. Also, essential supplies were purchased and distributed to the 16
residences at the Stevenson House, a temporary residence run by Salvation Army
for men with addictions and problems.
Nearly 200 Rotarians and friends of Rotary attended
the club’s annual Christmas luncheon with the Salvation Army - Harbour Lights.
More than $10,000 was donated to support the work of the Salvation Army in
the Downtown Eastside. In addition a variety of toys and clothing was donated.
STEVESTON
On Dec 23, club members served a delicious luncheon to 124 people at the Steveston Seniors Community
Centre
On Dec 22nd, club members volunteered to cook and serve a
Santa breakfast at the
WEST VANC
Operation Red Nose - Over
Christmas and New Year, 208 volunteers provided 295 rides over 9 evenings, 7196
km driven, over $7,000 in donation. All proceeds go towards supporting Youth
programs on the
Operation Red Nose is hosted provincially by the BC Crime Prevention
Association. On the
Rotarians also care internationally – where the people are in need
Canadian troops in
There was a report on the wheelchairs on the CBC national news on Jan 7,
visit District
website homepage for the story.
A total of 554,830 wheelchairs
have been committed or delivered in 147 countries. To find out more, visit Wheelchair Foundation website.
(Pic: Presentation of the
first chair in
JOINT SUNSHINE COAST CHRISTMAS PARTY
Besides gathering for
fellowship, the clubs also raised fund to support the Rotary project for the
needy children in
Rotarian Mary Bittroff
delivered the wine and the cake as well as the Chinese Hacky-sack to the Pasadena
Rose Bowl Parade for decorating the Rotary Float “Lead the Way”. Check out
the 2007 Rotary Rose Parade Flat website.
GUNG HAY FAT CHOY
Annual Chinese New Year’s Dinner - The Rotary Club of Vanc Chinatown
Celebrating the year of the Boar on Friday, March 9, 2007
Floata Chinese Seafood Restaurant,
Tickets $75/person or Tables of 10 for $750.00 (proceeds help fund
Community Rotary Projects)
Contact any Vanc Chinatown member for tickets
6pm No Host Bar -7pm Gourmet Chinese Dinner, Lion Dance, Entertainment,
Fabulous Food,
Silent Auction, Dancing and Raffle Draws
Rotary
Club of
My
Subject: What are the things
in
Criteria: Open to youth
living in
Prizes: Cameras, photographic
equipment, software and more!
Proceeds will be applied to
Rotary projects
Richmond
Club is asking for your support in the form of prizes or advertising spots on
the flyer. Posters and flyers are being distributed through Rich School Board.
Contact Pres. Keith ktsukishima@hotmail.com
or 604-207-3168.
Terrace
Rotaract Update – Way to go, keep it up!
MEMBERSHIP: Grown from 15 to 17 members since chartered in
September and going strong.
FIRST COMMUNITY PROJECT: “
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT:
The club had contacted
Rotaract Club of Mella in
UPCOMING EVENTS:
So long, farewell
. . . Fraser McDonald
Before leaving on December 30th to return to
his home in
Editor’s corner:
Are you proud of your club’s project
accomplishment? Here’s a chance to showcase your club signature projects in
2007 May District Conference
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2007
Submitted to: Editor Becky editor5040@hotmail.com
Service Projects: Community and
International projects (2 to max. 3 in total per club)
Joint Club Projects: Designate one club to
send submission
Requirements: Name of Project;
Project Period; pictures in high resolution; accomplishment and work involved Suggestions: list everything in point
form and be brief and precise, also check out last year’s PowerPoint
Presentation for reference).
Club Presidents: please advise ASAP
whether your club will be participating and approximate date of submission.
RI Service Projects
Resources:
Download
the newly revised Communities in Action: A Guide to Effective Projects (605A-EN)
at http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/605a_en.pdf
and its companion, A Menu of Service Opportunities (605B-EN), http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/605b_en.pdf
from RI website. They have been updated with recent
statistics, relevant examples, and useful tips, these publications help readers
create, plan, and implement successful service projects.