Miscellaneous
Repeat from last week or until no longer relevant or until I delete it:
Our Garden City Lands clean up will be on Sunday May 30th 2021 9 - 10 AM. Meet across from the Walmart Parking lot on Alderbridge Way. Thanks Amanda and the social committee. Bring gloves, garbage bags and sanitizer.
June 24th President Debbie S. Roast! Can't wait!
Saturday June 26, 2021 at 6:30 Zoom meeting with dinner lasting 1 hr. Dinner will be provided by the Ghirra’s. Pick up will be from 4:00 – 4:30 pm. More details will follow.
Zoom Meeting Rules
THE LINK TO OUR THURSDAY MEETINGS WILL NO LONGER BE EMAILED BUT ACCESSED THROUGH THE LINK BELOW.
Meeting ID: 868 5522 9058
Passcode: 473892
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.
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 and safe...
Send in your volunteer hours to Sandra
Announcements
YVR Pop Choir Oh Canada - an oleo of Canadian diversity.
Marg and Debbie M. first Bingo winners.
No honourable way to kill or destroy in war. There is nothing good from war except it's end.
The District Conference is coming up and you can attend on line. Our club has a Don Evans Award nominee. For those of you who don't know the criteria for such an award - like me - here it is.
The Don Evans People of Action Awards are presented to Rotarians in District 5040 who take action to create lasting change in their communities and the world. The nominee must have demonstrated an extra ordinary level of service, with an emphasis on personal leadership and active involvement, that resulted in specific action being taken that helped others through Rotary. This award may reflect an ongoing service or it may relate to a one time set of exceptional circumstances.
There is a virtual student exchange this year with Brazil. If you know someone who might be interested between 15 - 17.9 please have them put in an application by June 10th. The exchange will start in early August.
Visitors
Joan Toone
sergeant At Arms Tidbits
Amanda's rental home is up for sale, somewhat offset by being slower at work.
Chris B. just finished working but will start again July 5th.
Dalbir has participated in the mediators cultural competencies and learned of the plight of Indigenous communities. Dalbir has a friend looking for room and board accommodation July 1st. He is a 56 year old executive.
Danny has been busy at work and claims that watching Contagion and Outbreak are relaxing - pandemic movies anyone!
Bobby is taking his mom for a walk everyday. Is enjoying his new foam mattress. May be living in his garage. Grow op has been moved apparently.
Carolyn thanked Dalbir for his generous donation. Her daughter has a pinched nerve so is baby sitting grand daughter and making chocolate cheesecake - sounds yummy.
Pat has a tennis friend who wrote a good book called "Asked and Answered". The house being built next door is finishing but slowly.
Elena has been elected to the Board of the Rotary World Help Network - congratulations Elena.
Debbie M. is having a good time taking course and watching Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Larry deleted a lot of data from his phone including some important emails. Ooops. Busy at work with large Filipino families and East Indian families. Only 10 people per viewing and strict clean up requirements between.
Gordon had no blinds or drapes over the windows so enjoyed looking at the flowers in the court yard.
Marg is enjoying literacy sessions with tykes. Used the guidelines provided in our Peace Conversations to good effect at a recent meeting.
Peter thanked Don and Marg for letting us use the parking lot for our flower basket sale and for the therapeutic riding paper shredding fundraiser.
Dick provide some Rodney Dangerfield quips as in - My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. My wife had her drivers test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other two guys jumped out of the way.
Melinda thanked Kal for the blueberry plants. Willow will have purple lips during harvest. Loves month long birthday party as lots of friends birthdays in May.
Judy visiting with grand kids. Had dinner at Nightingales. Had best golf day ever beating grandchildren at pitch and putt at Savage Creek. There will be a retirement drive by for Chris M. on June 9th after 3:15. Judy will send out an email.
Susan enjoyed mediation beyond borders and the interaction with the Nishga Nation.
Kathy recommends watching Money Heist - as do I! Go occupy a mint and print money! Wait a minute the world's central banks are doing that already.
I demonstrated the earliest known selfie when you had to send the film away to be developed. The photo was not deleted and retaken in case you could not tell.
Sandra spelled Bougainvillea for us. Her dad loved Roger Dangerfield and is looking forward to a Birthday weekend.
Mary Lou reported that Sean has a new job as Executive Director of the Binary Project.
Kal reminded everyone of Nirmal Singh Boghal who is making Baba's BooBoo Bowls to raise money for Children's Hospital. Also a Richmond Native Arjan Bhullar who is now the world Heavy Weight MMA Champion. No that black burned out Land Rover was not Kal's.
Sam's Pantsaversary was a success after buying the ugliest pants he could find which had lines and gills with a button at the waist. The button popped which of course is what Gorilla Glue is for.
Bill's family is now getting their shots giving rise to a deep breath.
Debbie S. had no fancy pants but had a nice Italian dinner ordered in with Jon for anniversary. Training with sister for the west coast trail by climbing stairs. That is a lot of stairs.
speaKER
Video Presentation to Club meeting 20 May 2021
“A picture tells a thousand words”. So true in what we listened to and watched this morning from Joan Toone, a Rotarian and Polio Survivor. Joan introduced us to this riveting video she had narrated describing the journey that took Polio from affecting 1,000 people a day to today’s figure of only a few every year.
Joan contracted Polio at 7 years old and spent 3 months in hospital. She could not have visitors; even her favourite doll was not allowed to accompany her. Enter Rotary International……..
In 1985 Rotary made the eradication of Polio their 1st priority. They started in the Philippines, and the program spread throughout the world. It will remain our 1st priority until we eradicate it from the world. And, as the slogan says, “We’re this close to achieving our goal” .
The link to the video (on Vimeo) has been sent to everyone via Clubrunner. Even if you did see it with Joan – look at it again. It must make you proud to be just a small cog in this Global Rotary wheel. It is almost impossible to encapsulate in words what Joan showed us on screen – but a few significant things for us to do and to remember.
- It’s not over yet – Polio vaccinations need to continue. We still need to fund the campaigns in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan - the two remaining countries not yet polio-free;
- Rotary has started a Polio Plus Society – a personal commitment from Rotarians to donate $US100 a year to the Polio Eradication Initiative campaign (matched 2:1 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation);
- The campaign has prevented 1.5 million deaths and avoided 14 million infections;
- Iron Lungs were a blot on our landscape – now replaced by Ventilators in today’s COVID-19 world;
- Lessons and protocols from the Polio Plus campaign have already been used for SARS and now for the Coronavirus;
- FDR contracted polio at 39 yrs. and started the March of Dimes which collected 2.6 million dimes in just 2 weeks and he went on to become the US President;
- RI made a promise in 1985 to eradicate polio – and will honour that pledge until we have a “Polio-free World”. Rotarians keep their promises!
Last – look to, and share, the video https://vimeo.com/511397983. It says it all. You cannot help but be moved, motivated and proud of your part in getting to “every last child”.
Meanderings
Carrying on with our non Euro-centric meanderings(at least for now) Ramadan recently ended so here goes.
Ramadan, is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection and community. A commemoration of Muhammad's first revelation, the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next.
Fasting from dawn to sunset is fard(obligatory) for all adult Muslims who are not acutely of chronically ill, travelling, elderly, breastfeeding, diabetic or menstruating. The predawn meal is referred to as suhur, and the nightly feast that breaks the fast is called iftar. Although fatwas have been issued declaring that Muslims who live in regions with a midnight sun or polar night should follow the timetable of Mecca, it is common practice to follow the timetable of the closest country in which night can be distinguished from day.
The spiritual rewards (thawab) of fasting are believed to be multiplied during Ramadan. Accordingly, Muslims refrain not only from food and drink, but also tobacco, sex, and sinful behaviour, devoting themselves instead to salat(prayer) and recitation of the Quran.
Muslims hold that all scripture was revealed during Ramadan, the scrolls of Abraham, Torah, Psalms, Gospel and Quran having been handed down on the first, sixth, twelfth, thirteenth (in some sources, eighteenth) and twenty-fourth Ramadans, respectively. Muhammed is said to have received his first quranic revelation on Laylat al-Qadr, one of five odd-numbered nights that fall during the last ten days of Ramadan.
The holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of Shawwal, the next lunar month, is declared after a crescent new moon has been sighted or after completion of thirty days of fasting if no sighting of the moon is possible.
Upcoming Events
All meetings by Zoom until further notice.
Please note the new date for the Auction
Friday September 24, 2021 Auction Fundraiser with final details to be determined but anticipating live and in person.
May 30th, 2021, Garden City Lands walk and clean up. Across from Walmart Parking lot 9:00 AM. Not too late to register.
June 24th, 2021 President's Roast so heat up the oven! 😈
Saturday June 26, 2021 at 6:30 Zoom meeting with dinner lasting 1 hr. Dinner will be provided by the Ghirra’s. Pick up will be from 4:00 – 4:30 pm. More details will follow
Committee (and other) Updates
TODAYS CHUCKLEs
🤪
I love this one!
Why was the picture sent to jail?
It was framed.
Oops, sorry not that one. This one!
One day God visits St. Peter at the pearly gates and tells him heaven is too crowded and to not let so many people in and gives St Peter a quota for each day.
Later that day 3 men approach looking for entrance into heaven. Peter turns to the men and tells them that only 1 of them is able to enter into heaven. To decide which one gets in he asks them how they died. He tells them that the man with the best death story will get into heaven.
The first man steps up and tells his story. "I'm something of a fitness buff so every morning I wake up and jog on my treadmill in my apartment. Today as I was jogging some of my sweat dripped down and caused me to slip and fall out the window on my apartment. As I was falling I reached out and grabbed the balcony rail for the apartment below mine. As I was hanging there someone started hitting my hands and was trying to make me let go. After being forced to let go I fall the rest of the way and luckily I hit a pretty big bush which broke my fall and I was a okay. As I lay there catching my breath from my near death experience I look up only to see a refrigerator come smashing down on top of me and next thing I know I'm here in front of you."
As the man finishes his story St Peter nods his head saying that he had a pretty good story. He then turns to the second man to share his story.
The second man takes a deep breath and then starts. "For a while now I've known, or suspected at least, that my wife was cheating on me. So today I decided to catch her in the act. In order to not let her suspect anything I kept everything normal. I woke up got ready for the day and left for work. I waited for a bit then rushed back home. When I got inside I found my wife wrapped up in a bedsheet and looking disheveled. As soon as I saw her I knew I was right so I started searching for the man she was sleeping with as he had no time to escape. As I'm searching I see a pair of hands gripping the balcony rail. At that point I see red and rush out to the balcony and start hitting the hands. After a few hits the hands lose grip and let go. I went to the edge to see what happened and to my surprise I see the man completely fine. So I run back inside and somehow push my fridge over the balcony and smash the man but due to the exertion and anger I have heart attack and die."
At this point St Peter looks between the two men with astonishment at how the two men died. He turns to the third man and tells him that he better have a really good story as it will be hard to beat either of the first two stories.
The third man steps up and says, "So I'm in a refrigerator..."
Next week nothing but Rodney Dangerfield.
