Last weeks meeting
Susan Introduced our speaker Tom Morley. Tom is a teacher-librarian at Palmer Secondary school. He was a member of the 2019 Rotary Vocational Training Team that visited Kenya in March. He told us about the project and some of the challenges faced by the education system in Kenya. A returning group are coming to Canada later this year. Tom said that they are trying to figure out a way to give them the kind of enthusiastic welcome that our team received upon their arrival in Kenya! The program was funded with a Global grant from the Rotary Foundation. The Grant was supported by District 9212 Kenya and District 5040 BC as well as 24 Rotary clubs (including Richmond Sunrise) from our District 5040. Gordon thanked Tom for his presentation. For more (and excellent) information just google kenyavtt2019 ........
31 members in attendance plus lots of visitors made a very full house
Visitors
- Ralph
- Nicolas Glenham Hill
- Ryan Busnardo
- Pritpal Saini
- Kamaljit Bynet
- Cathy Thorncraft
- Ken Hamaguchi
- My Smedburg
- Lisa Saether
- Sue Halaba
Sergeant At Arms Tidbits
( Judy SAA)
- Lots of comments/kudos about the auction. Another very successful event according to the comments.
- Dick and Barb missed the auction but enjoyed a WestJet flight to Honolulu and a Holland America cruise to Vancouver....
- Wedding congratulations to PE Sam (and Justin)....
- Larry is sporting a cast on his broken arm. Accidents do happen but should not be happening to our President - don't you agree?
Meanderings
- Next bulletin on May 21 (oh, that is today!)
- Did you know? The Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of 35,797 feet (almost 11 KM or 7 miles). AND Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain. Its peak is 29,029 Ft (almost 9 KM or 5.5 miles) above sea level.
Upcoming Events
(new items in bold)
May 26 (Sun) - District 5040 Polio Walk for 2019, Sunday May 26th, at the River Market, New Westminster. Registration at 9am, walk begins at 10am.
May 30th - Windup party for the Rotarian guests from the Philippines
June 1 (Sat) - President's dinner at RCC. Confirmed. 5 to 9 PM $65
June 6 (Thurs) - Auction windup 6:30 - 8:30 at Kal and Lavina's
Committee Updates
From Johnny AC:
We now have a final date for the Auction Wind Up Thursday June 6, 2019 6:30 - 8:30. It will be at Kal & Lavina Mahals at 16551 Westminster Highway. Thankyou Kal & Lavina. Dinner will not be served but if people could bring some appies. I think we have enough left over wine from the Auction. I will set up a registration on Club Runner and send out an invitation later.
Today's Chuckle(s)
- There are two kinds of people. Some wash their dishes because they just ate; the others wash their dishes because they are just about to eat.
- If you’re waiting to be served in a restaurant, shouldn’t you be called the waiter?
- Babysitters are teenagers who behave like grown-ups so that grown-ups can go out and behave like teenagers.
