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This is the weekly bulletin for
The Richmond 
Sunrise Rotary Club 
for April 26, 2025

Miscellaneous

 
 
Repeat from last week or until no longer relevant or until I delete it:  
 
 
 
 
  • May 9. Kids Play Banquet, they have offered us a table – contact Kal. 
  • May 29. Golf Tournament Richmond Firefighters – let Kal know if you want to golf or eat dinner
  • June 21-25. World Rotary Convention is in Calgary.  At least 4 are going.   
 
 
 
 
OUR THURSDAY BREAKFAST MEETING IS ACCESSED THROUGH THE LINK BELOW.
 
 
Rotary Club of Richmond Sunrise is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
 
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 or taking your turn during Sergeant at Arms.
5)Vote on Monday
Please direct any questions to the President 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.
 
 
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
 
 
From Charles de Gaulle via Sam  “Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians”.
 
 
   VISITORS     
 
Honorary member Eleanore Matthew
 
 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND 
CLUB BUSINESS
 
 
Gilmore Breakfast May 6.  Everyone welcome. Let Marg know if you can make it.
 
 
 
Speaker
 
  • Tables:  Sandra- up to 283 people, trying to fit in the single tickets.  Please pay for your ticket if you haven’t.  There are 5 tables of 12.  Where to put the singles?
  • An updated Reminder notice to our guests is coming.  The website for bidding is www.can.givergy.com/sunriseauction2025   Bidding is open online as of 9 a.m. this morning.
 
 
 
SERGEANT At Arms Tidbits
 
 
John: be careful when buying at The Bay because you might have your credit card compromised.  Sandy went to the website that said Hudson Bay Sale – and it wasn’t. 
 
Amanda: Really looking forward to her house being empty of baskets next week after the auction.
 
Dalbir says Garth is not a judge.  (not sure of context)
 
Chris M. has crows who are second generation and come to eat at her back deck every day.  Kindly, this week they brought her two lovely rat carcasses.   
 
Marg caught some mice. Generations of exchange Rotarians, her Dutch friend, Argentina and Calgary. 
 
Judy was supposed to go to Cabo, but her blood pressure was 216 over 116 so she cancelled everything and is now on blood pressure meds.  It’s coming down, but took a toll on her, but she’s back to living large!  Yay!
 
Debbie M. went to Burning Mom and doesn’t need to go to Burning Man.
 
Kal says Micheal’s son is sick so he’s not here.   Happy birthday, John.
 
Sam It’s Justin’s birthday!
 
Gordon nada
 
Lawrence’s band had a show Easter Sunday, and his wife complained, also his mother-in-law came for a surprise visit.  It was actually a memorial, as the bassist member died suddenly.  It was fun, and his brother is the lead singer.  When asked “was this the only day available?”  The answer:  “It was 4-20.! (rolllll another one, just like the other one. sure would like a hit.)
 
Jeannette says Moe is on holiday and Peachy is in the Philippines.
 
Elena says the container sent in February has arrived in the Philippines, helping seniors and children.
 
Maryam bought a bunch of rat contraptions, going for a 3-pronged system, the sound thing, sticky traps, and the zapped inside, but the sticky traps just got dirt.  The sound works really well.  No hammers.
 
Eleanore says correction to website for bidding, add sunriseauction2025 to what was already on the reminder for guests.  A follow up revised reminder is forthcoming.  
 
Sandra says her social life is busy, and she loves it.
 
Melinda is back.
 
Debbie T. saw Sense and Sensibility, well done, and different from the movie.  She is working all weekend, with Rotary and BC School Trustees Assoc.  Her granddaughter always wants to phone Nana, and her son uses Debbie as a FaceTime babysitter.
 
Pat says thanks for the burritos, and has a pest control company, the only one in the neighbourhood who does anything about the pests.
 
Bobby, just back from China, said the food was ‘interesting, exotic and different’. 
 
Peter has one rat problem under control, but a rat invaded their website, and they have been hacked.  They got into the system, not accounting thank goodness, but the future quotes section, people booking a year or two in advance, and it’s now locked, and they can’t get into the program.  The company in Portland says, ‘too bad so sad’.  The hackers are wanting payment of over $10 000 in bitcoin, so they’re working around it directly with the clients.  London Drugs ended up paying something when they were hacked. 
 
Sam took us through the quickest S @ A ever 12 minutes. 
 
Note: Legear•Pelling has Cyber insurance

MEANDERINGS    

 
Have you noticed how sturgeons have become the topic of conversation lately? No? Well fortunately for you we on the editorial board of your bulletin have noticed. According to National Geographic sturgeons have survived for 162 million years. To put that into context they are older than Gordon but not as old as Dick. They have survived climate swings, continental shifts, volcanic eruptions, and the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Humans have pushed them to the brink of extinction because of the demand for caviar and damning of migration and spawning rivers. They can live to over 100 and do not reproduce until they are 15 to 33 years old. At a sturgeon farm in Italy, a sturgeon thought to be a male, starting producing eggs at 50. Fear not, between sturgeon farms and learning to milk caviar, the fish is making a big comeback. They are likely to survive us homo sapiens as a specie. 
 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 
 
 
 
Friday May 2, 2025 Sunrise Rotary Gala Auction
 
Saturday June 14, 2025; Presidents Dinner
 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
 Richmond Country Club,
Buffet Dinner
Approximately $90.00 per person;
 
 

 TODAY'S CHUCKLEs     

 
 
 
Emoji Couple | Symbols & Emoticons
 
 
I'm finding it very difficult to parse what you are saying, but I agree; we should open the parachute.
 
A friend of mine is known for sweeping girls off their feet. He's an extremely aggressive janitor.
 
My wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was. She told me, "In the lake." 
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Joyce Alisharan
April 6
 
Garth Edwards
April 10
 
Jeannette Patacsil
April 11
 
Nancy Schick-Skinner
April 16
 
Bobby Ghirra
April 22
 
John Marquardt
April 25
 
Debbie Murphy
April 30
 
Anniversaries
Kalvinder Mahal
Lavina
April 6
 
Margaret Dixon
Don Dixon
April 21
 
Join Date
Kalvinder Mahal
April 2, 1999
26 years
 
Bobby Ghirra
April 4, 2019
6 years
 
Joyce Alisharan
April 5, 2018
7 years
 
Margaret Dixon
April 6, 1990
35 years
 
John Marquardt
April 8, 2008
17 years
 
Pat Atkinson
April 21, 2011
14 years
 
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