3) Rotary Minute

Scott shared a story about his wife Cheryl's participation in the 1976 Rotary show. He passed around a scrapbook that she made during that time with autographs and photos of some of the cast of the show. Something from our past...

4) Visiting Rotarians

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5) Visiting Rotaract / Interact Students

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6) Guests of Rotarians

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7) Happy Fines / Sad Fines- Fletcher shared with us that his daughter graduated with her Masters in Education from Mount St. Vincent University! Congratulations from our club!

 

8) Committee Reports

• Eskasoni Interact Club- There will be a soup kitchen and coat drive hosted by the club. They recently had a bake sale. They are fundraising to support all of their ideas for helping others in their community. They certain lead by example with establish first their goals and then fundraising with a purpose in mind. Some members of the club would like to donate coats, hats, and other winter wear. Laurianne and Scott will deliver them to the high school. Laurianne asked about how to report on the Interact activities. Bob will send her a link.
• 50/50 Alfred picked the 2 of diamonds
• Breakfast Program- Marlene and Keven T will volunteer this Friday. Keven will do every Friday so we will only have to get one more volunteer each week.
• Loaves and Fishes- The building is all spruced up and welcoming. They feed approximately 100 people per day. Marco is the contact person. If you can spare any time at all, please volunteer. They have a 2 page form for volunteers to fill out.

9) Other Business

The Holocaust Display is set up at the Armoury at Victoria Park. The Sunrise Club and Kiwanis are involved in some capacity possibly as volunteers. There are examples of different types of genocides of the world including some in Canada. Suggestion from our President Scott is for our club to go after next week's meeting on November 13th at 1:00.

10) Secretary's Report

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11) Area Governor's Report

The Rotaract group met last Friday. Melissa Campbell is the lead person. For World Polio Day, they shared facts about Polio on their website to bring awareness to Polio.

The group contacted the Horizon Achievement centre to sell Fab Fall tickets in their cafeteria. Money raised will go to the Every Women's centre to help/adopt families for Christmas.

They are planning a bake sale and collecting coats. There may be an opportunity for the Interact and Rotaract to collaborate on similar drives/community events.

They are looking at some international projects. CBU contributes $900 to the Rotaract club for supplies such as t-shirts and other swag for Rotaract. We would like to encourage some of the Rotaract members to attend our Rotary meetings. (potential Rotarians).

President's Council will be meeting this Thursday at 7:00 at BP.

Ribfest is looking for a chair. 

Gina is continuing the discussion with the Centre of Education (formerly Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board) on the Youth event (Mitch Dorge).Waiting to hear back from the school principals. They are on the organizing committee. Mitch does one talk per day. Possibly have him visit Eskasoni to reach the Mi'kmaw students. This is for grades 9-12 and possibly some junior high students. This will be held in late spring. If there are other costs to bring him to Eskasoni such as venue costs, Laurianne said that her organization will cover them.

Bob raised a concern about the AG's travel expenses which should be discussed at the President's meeting.

12) President's Report

We will be having our Christmas Party on December 5 (7:00) at Breton Brewing. It will be $10 per person. Mark will be preparing finger foods. This will be a good spot to bring potential Rotarians or spouses.

An email will be sent out for someone to volunteer to host our next directors' meeting. Gord said his house and the restaurant are available if needed.

Crossroads is looking for volunteers to drive their vans to transport clients. If interested, please contact Colleen MacKenzie. Every February, Crossroads has an appreciation dinner for employees. The next will be held on February 27, 2019.  Our club will likely sponsor the event and volunteer to serve.  The kitchen will come up with a cost and get back to us with the cost.

The Rotary Foundation is being acknowledged as the best charitable in the world. More information will be shared at a later date.

13) Toast to RI 

 

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