Miscellaneous
Repeat from last week and the week before and the week before and the week before, oh and the week before never mind or whatever:
Zoom meetings only until further notice.
Zoom Meeting Rules
1) Mute your microphone if you aren't already muted. Background noise is distracting.
2) If you are not engaged in the presentation, turn off your camera.
3) Chat function should only be used to address the speaker, not for Club member remarks during the presentation
4) Unmute when harassing the Sergeant at Arms
Presidents Report
All meetings will be by zoom until further notice.
Please direct any questions to me or a board member of your choosing and we will discuss any and all questions or concerns during our board meeting. Also please refer anyone who may be interested in attending a meeting or joining the club.
Be kind and be calm...
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Announcements
AGM November 19th 2020.
Reinstituting Oh Canada
Walktober 10 plus participants, 1708 km, 310 hours of exercise.
2 Gift Cards to the first World Champion Walktobers
Bill (not Rodgers) Jaffe 454 km
Pat Atkinson 71 hours
Final On Line Campaign.
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Gross Donated
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Net for Club after
Charitable Impact Fees
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Charitable Impact
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$3,370.00
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$3,275.04
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E-Transfers from Members
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$1,600.00
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$1,600.00
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Cheque Donation (Cavanaugh)
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$10,000.00
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$10,000.00
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Givergy (Deposit received)
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$10,116.12
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$14,970.00
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$24,991.00
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Auction Friday May 7th 2021 details to follow.
Little bit of good from each of us will overwhelm the world.
Visitors
Ben Baker and Claire Chandler
G(5....(898)0 deep state operative sent by QAnon!
sergeant At Arms Tidbits
Gordon attended in his PJs. Maybe just the bottoms.
Deb M. is busy at work and trying to be outside as much as she can. Advised that the district will match any $500 donation to the Foundation. You can also donate in memory of someone.
Larry is dealing with his own health challenges while his mother is not well so has been travelling back and forth to TO.
Mary Lou has adopted a 6 year old golden retriever who mistakenly got into a fight with a pig who had home field advantage on the farm. If I heard correctly the dog ended up at emergency. Went to UBC and campus is virtually empty.
Marg's kitchen is gutted. Wrote Christmas cards on Remembrance Day.
Dick did not make the auction meeting as he was stuck in an email traffic jam. Where is that zoom invite anyway?????😖 Did make it to Probus though.
Kal is expecting idiots for Diwali.
Kathy recommends watching Northshore rescue on the Knowledge network. It will be at 8 PM Tuesday and watch for Laine's Ryan. The North Van Rotary paid for their training.
Chris M. is consumed by school but managed to make it to Salt Spring to sell their yummy apples. Glad she could make it this Thursday. Remembrance Day ceremony at the school was coordinated through different parts of the school and emceed by students went very smoothly.
Joyce wants us to be safe.
Garth had ordered windows that were supposed to be delivered before the first snow but now will not be delivered until after the thaw. 😠Chor Leoni is recording a Christmas concert and performances at Wall Centre.
Bobby is looking after the garden and adopted a catch basin that did not apparently get into a fight with a pig.
Susan claimed she was out of data but appears to have joined the CIA and appeared both incognito and in the dark.
Carolyn said life is peaceful, house is clean, with arrival of grandchild and five minutes house is a train wreck. Chris has passed his practicum and ready to be a TOC. Chris M call any time.
Pat recommends watching the Bill Gates story. Will do PETS on line. Recommends playing bridge on trickster for those who are looking to play on line with others.
Melinda is enjoying Willow singing Christmas Carols and cannot wait to put up her Christmas Tree. Her new Butcher from Botswana has lots of stories from homeland including deadly snakes in the attic starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Dalbir's youngest son who is home managed to avoid the embargo and put up the Christmas lights.
Debbie S. asks us to wish her father well who underwent surgery on Friday.
speaKER
Ben Baker and Claire Chandler spoke to us about leadership styles in times of crises that have been successful in the time of covid. Management has been so focused on the here and now and not where the organization is going or what change is coming next. Company's as a result of covid had to shift focus, adjust and shrink down. Executives though had to take a long term time horizon if they were going to survive. Leaders needed resiliency and adaptability to survive the crises. As we do not know what is going to happen next leaders need to be flexible. How do you manage an organization when you suddenly are no longer face to face. Leaders recognize that everyone hears and perceives things differently and that we are all human. So leaders focus on the individual and their different needs and circumstances. You make it work for each individual by allowing them to work it our for themselves. Moral and productivity has gone up where management communicates back and forth with employees as opposed to connecting one way. Where management did not trust their employees and they focused on out put rather than out comes the companies did not pivot to the new reality because of this leadership flaw. Management focuses on whether or not the employee is busy and leaders focus on whether the employee is productive. Management was babysitting by focusing on keystrokes and hours not task and goal achievement. How do companies make new rules that fit with the goals and culture of their organizations. It is the realization that they are not perfect, need to look to the long term, measure the right things, and shift managers to leaders by understanding that employees are humans and working from home has brought this to the attention of many. The perfect/imperfect, leaders realize they do not know everything and need to engage with others to work together to deal with the issues. What do people need to be productive? How do you be a better remote leader and a better remote employee. From the floor it was pointed out that some work too hard and need to learn to take breaks to maintain their mental health and their productivity for the long term. We all need to practice self care in these time as the pandemic has exacerbated health care issues.
Meanderings
Last Wednesday was Remembrance Day and this bears repeating:
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
In WW I Canada suffered 66,000 dead and 172,000 injured. To put this into perspective the population of Canada at the time was almost 8 million. If you apply this ratio to Canada's population today of 35 million it would equate to about 290,000 dead and 753,000 wounded. During WW I about 10 % of the population was enlisted in the armed forces.
In WW II there were 45,000 deaths and 55,000 injured population 11 million.
Korean War 516 dead, 1,200 injured
Afghanistan 158 dead, 1,800 injured
Upcoming Events
All meetings by Zoom until further notice.
AGM November 19th 2020.
Friday May 7th, 2021 Auction Fundraiser On line with final details to be determined.
Committee (and other) Updates
Foundation Fund Raiser in the planning.
Next Board Meeting November 30th, 2020.
Next Auction Committee meeting December 8th 2020.
TODAYS CHUCKLEs
Wine, the glue holding this 2020 shit show together.
Two engineering students were crossing campus when one asked the other, "Where did you get such a great bike?"
The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."
The second engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit".
