Past District Gov. Jim Goit passed away on Sunday.
3) Rotary Minute
4) Visiting Rotarians
Jack D'Orsay - from the Sydney Sunrise Rotary Club
5) Visiting Rotaract / Interact Students
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6) Guests of Rotarians
N/A
7) Happy Fines / Sad Fines
Happy/Sad Fine: John's final day of work is June 30, 2020! Then he is retiring!
8) Committee Reports
Garden at Cenotaph on Kings Road
Bob:
Change of plans in timing. Assisting with gardening after lunch today. There will be no activity this Saturday as it will all be completed by then
Breakfast Club
Bob:
Bob was speaking to Debbie Madore, Chair of the school board School Breakfast Program
Bob asked whether our club has paid the check yet for this past year of the breakfast club. It is usually paid in June.
Bob also asked if we are committing to the program once again for next year.
Going forward, Bob will ask Alister for information on the payment, and if necessary, he can also bring the check to Debbie Madore.
Bob believes this payment was approved in the budget for this year.
Our Club's AGM
Brandon:
The Annual General Meeting for our club is Tuesday, June 30 at 12:15 PM.
There will be the option to attend at Boston Pizza for an in-person meeting, there will also be the option to attend by Zoom.
At Boston Pizza, there will be space for two tables of 10 people
it is very important that everyone attend the AGM so that we have quorum
Public Image Chair
Brandon:
We got a call from the District looking for a Public Image Chair for our club, the District is looking for us to name such a Chair by June 28.
Darren volun-told Keith to be this Chair for our Club
Scholarship Update
Scott:
Our $1,000 scholarship to the Eskasoni High School has gone to three students. There was one prize of $500 given out, and two prizes of $250 each given out
Bob:
He's going to follow up with RHS to get pictures of the scholarship winners. John is going to follow up with Sydney Academy to get pictures of their scholarship winners, and Scott will follow-up with Eskasoni to get pictures of their scholarship winners
perhaps the Public Image Chair could arrange to put those photographs in the newspaper and/or on Facebook
Chicken Barbecue
Scott:
We should begin thinking about August or September for our Club's annual Chicken Barbecue
Potential Guest Speakers
Bob:
As a result of COVID-19, the Breakfast Club has been doing a modified program and so it might be nice to have Debbie Madore come in and tell us more about it.
9) Other Business
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10) Secretary's Report
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11) Area Governor's Report
N/A
12) President's Report
N/A
13) Guest Speaker
Jack D'Orsay:
In his last presentation to our club, he discussed past work they have done in Armenia. Last year, there were $16,000 contributed by the three local clubs to the Joint Committee, and because of that, the Foundation sent approximately $57,200 USD to Clubs in Armenia to buy material and equipment and deliver them to a hospital
In today's presentation, he is going to speak about what's to come for projects in Armenia.
For 2022-2021, they are working on a smaller version of the hospital project they did last year, for a different hospital. The equipment for this project's costs approximately $41,000 USD. He does not expect they will be able to get government grants to match the funding like they did last time.
He is asking the three local clubs to donate at least $3500 each. This will give them enough to finance this hospital project. They are still going to approach other District clubs for money which will be used to go toward Ian's humanitarian project which will be in Armenia in 2021 - 2022.
he is going to forward our club the list of the medical equipment they plan on purchasing so we can see the breakdown of the $41,000. The breakdown includes a 10% contingency. There will be no trips to Armenia for this 2020-2021 project
another request: Lebanon is a country that really needs help. He has been talking to Father Maroun and is looking for someone that will take on a project(s) in Lebanon. His looking to obtain funding for such a project from various Cedars Clubs across Canada.
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