Rotary Weekly News - September 12, 2022 (Sep 12, 2022)

On Monday August 29, 2022 members met at the Medicine Hat Lodge for our regular noon meeting. Club President Melanie Harty was in charge and she began the meeting by recognizing the significant loss to the world the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II. A moment of silence was held in her honor.

President Melanie began by balance of the meeting by thanking the club for the outstanding participation in cooking breakfast at Ken Sauer School. We should thank Davis GMC Buick for the use of their BBQ.

Community Service Director Mike Christie and Dan Kammerer provided an update (unfortunately the visuals were missing because of the failure of the club laptop) on the design and cost of signage at Rotary Centennial Park in Dunmore and on the Cypress County side of the Rotary Centennial Trail. Hopefully we'll be able to arrange for those signs to be shown at the next meeting

Rotary Club "What-z New":

A few more meeting helpers are required to run cameras and sound during our hybrid meetings. We are all learning to adapt to this new reality. Anyone wishing to help should contact Mike Christie 403 878 3311.

Rotary Club Membership Update:

Would you like to join the membership team? Check out a meeting of this team and see how exciting it is! The committee meets on the second Thursday of each month at 5:00 pm. Contact Mike Christie to join in.

Rotary Club Information:

Housekeeping:
- If you have a Meeting Minute, please phone or email the President and it will be included in the next Newsletter.
- Board minutes can be found on ClubRunner, under Club Documents.

Upcoming Club Program, Activities and Meetings:

Saturday September 17th - Evening Rotary Bingo
Monday September 19th - (ZOOM MEETING) - NGSE Participant presentation.
Monday September 19th - Evening Partners meeting at Connaught Golf Club.
Monday September 26th - Reclassification talk by Rotarian Doug Fleming.

Upcoming Rotary District and International Events

Next District Learning webinar is Wednesday September 21 and is titled, "Beyond Seagull Development", it will show opportunities for Rotarians to build beyond charity and into sustainability and capacity. An entire relevant topic, given our noon hour discussion. Register on the District 5360 website with this link. https://rotary5360.ca/event/september-club-learning-ebinar . In this session the audience will learn these 3 things:
 The difference between charity and development
 Strategies for mobilizing community members and building their capacity for development action
 The power of the local economy and how to use “quick-win” projects to spark entrepreneurship
Next District Conference: Lethbridge: May 5th and 6th, 2023.
The next Peace Park Assembly is being held in Great Falls, on Sept 16 - 18, 2022.

Future Programs:

The Rotary Club's Program Committee members are: Jillian Koch (jkoch@jmhca.com), Dave Panabaker (d.panabaker@hotmail.com) and Margie Booyens (margiebooyens@gmail.com).
If you have ideas for future programs, please contact them.

BBB presentation to Rotary

The Rotary Club enjoyed a presentation by Odeta Doroftei, the Marketplace Programs coordinator for the Better Business Bureau (BBB) servicing Southern Alberta and East Kootenay.

The BBB is a non-profit organization funded by accredited businesses to offer services that foster trust in the marketplace. It was originally established in 1912, and there are now 112 BBB organizations across North America. The BBB has a Vision that "an ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other".

Odeta provided an overview of the history of the BBB, of some of the challenges facing the marketplace at this time and several of the most dangerous scams that are lurking out there. She started by saying that "Being a victim of a scam is not your fault, and not to be ashamed if this happens to you". It is incredibly important to report such problems, to keep others from being future victims.

She specifically pointed out in "How to spot a scam"

Time Constraints (it has to happen right now)
Limited Availability (of this specific good or service)
Emotional Factor (it will play on your feelings)

These are designed to keep you off balance and not thinking clearly.

The presentation ended abruptly, as she was finishing up, due to a failure of our laptop. Unfortunately no Q&A period was possible.

Pancake Breakfast at Dr Ken Sauer School

We enjoyed the EARLY morning of Friday September 2nd, 2022 which presented a great opportunity for Rotary to provide service in the community & have some fun doing it. A total of 9 Rotarians & 3 Friends of Rotary volunteered 36 hours to feed 450+ people breakfast. Many of those who participated would volunteer to do more of these kinds of projects. No or limited costs and gets our name out there.

Certainly a lot of fun, a few photos to show off our cooking skills

Meeting News

Guests:

We welcomed our guest speaker, Odeta and her co-worker Maria, from the BBB
A total of 19 took in the "in-person" meeting, with another 3 on ZOOM.

Club Draw:

The club draw this week was won by Dave Stalwick, who won a baseball signed by the 1987 Medicine Hat Blue Jays team.

MAKEUPS:

None reported

Birthdays:

Milan Vujovic Sept 4.
Dick Bide Sept 5.
Edward Lipin Sept 6.
Joe Hrankowski Sept 15.
Stan Sakamoto Sept 30.

Rotary Anniversaries: .

Dieter Brand 28 years Sept 1, 1994
Bernie Scott 38 years Sept 1, 1984.

Wedding Anniversary Rose Runner for September:

Dick Bide
Anne C and Dawn B are looking for Rose Runners for DECEMBER 2022 AND FEBRUARY 2023. If you would like to assist, please contact them.

Minutes

Saamis Immigration Movie Night

Margie Booyens sent along photos of a very successful Movie Night with the clients of Saamis Immigration. This event was partially sponsored by ourselves and Sunrise Rotary.

Bingo team

Dave Stalwick advised that the Monday evening bingo earned a profit of $615.00, and Terry Brekko was the lucky guess pot winner. He also asked for volunteers for the next bingo on Saturday evening, September 17, 2022. He got a couple from those in attendance and a further email to the club went out on Tuesday.

Golf Windup Social

Dale Stein advised that partner social, in the spirit of the late Al Garden, will be held after golf on Monday Sept 19, beginning at 5:00 pm for drinks and 6:00 for dinner. It will be a choice of steak or chicken, and the social is open to all members of the club, and a few special guests. Costs for the meals and registration has gone out, meals must be reserved by Thursday Sept 15th.

Rental of Knowles Electric Building for Project Freewheel

Terry Cooper advised on the status of our rental agreement for TEAM FREEWHEEL. He is advised that the movement of bikes, tools and parts has largely taken place and they will be kicking off work partys over the next few weeks. It will be great to have dedicated space.

Golf Invitation with MH College Executives

Terry Cooper also advised that a golf afternoon with Medicine Hat College executives, and perhaps some other guests will take place on Friday Sept 23rd, beginning at 1:30 pm. Please contact Terry if you would like to take part.

Visiting former Rotary Exchange Student

Sandy Mackay and Ken Zollner advised that a former inbound exchange student to our club, Lauri from Finland will be in Medicine Hat this weekend.

Saamis Rotary Harley raffle

The Saamis Rotary Club is holding their annual fundraising raffle this summer. Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.winningticketlottery.ca

2023 Club 1000 update

Dave Panabaker also advised that our new AGLC licence for this year's raffle has been obtained, and ticket printing is underway. Hopefully ticket packages will be available before Thanksgiving.

Upcoming Social Events:

On Monday September 19th, we will have an "Al Garden memorial" supper at the Connaught Golf Club. A partner event and an emailed signup request is now out.

Family of Rotary:

Wayne Chesley continues to recover slowly and we wish him the best on this long, tough process.

Please keep Adolf informed about members health changes so that information can be provided to the club through the Weekly News.