The Rotary Club of Charlottetown is hosting a friendship event for club members along with their spouses/significant others on Friday, 22 September 2017 to celebrate the beginning of the fall season. The event will be held at the home of Club member Martin Ruben in Victoria by the Sea and will feature burgers and hot dogs along with sides. All you need to bring along is your favourite beverage. Food will be served from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, but come out early and enjoy a stroll through the village and savour the delights of fine chocolate at Island Chocolates or buy a piece made by one of the many artisans living in the village. There will also be a few surprises.  

 

This event will go ahead rain or shine, so come out and enjoy a fun evening in Victoria by the Sea.  The address is 12 Wanda Street and is easily located by going down Dunrovin Street next to the fire hall.

 

In order to plan accordingly, please contact Martin at allenfarm17@gmail.com and let him or Martin's wife Leslie-Ann know how many will be coming. If you have any questions, please call Martin at 902-388-7584.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An email was sent to the Club on Aug. 23rd from Committee Chair, Marilyn Lowther, requesting Club members to come forward with additional information if they are directly involved in community groups that serves youth, seniors, and poverty. These service areas were determined by the membership survey in June as areas of focus for the development of a Donations/Service Strategy Policy. Committee work is moving along quickly and members of the Committee will be in contact with those who have responded to Marilyn's email.

 

                                                        

 

 

 

 

We hope to have a fully updated set of Bylaws to placed before the Board within 1 month. Once the Board has reviewed and approved the Bylaws updates, we hope to  have the updated Bylaws before the membership within two months.

 

 

 

 

  

The Club has many openings for Guest Speakers. Please forward any suggestions to Dale Turner, Chair of Programs, at dale.turner@cibc.com with any ideas and contact information. We would really like to see some entrepreneur or business speakers versus group looking for donations. Thanks

 

                                                  

 

 

 

On Sunday Oct. 1st, we will have RI President, Ian Riseley, joining us for our Centennial Dinner. We expect about 500 people at the PEI Convention Centre for Dinner. The reception starts at 6:00PM with a Dinner at 7:00PM. Invitations have been extended to the Premier and LG, Frank Lewis. The tickets are $75 each. Please see Mary Macmillan and Ken Gillis to purchase tickets. We will have the Singing Strings and the College of Piping for entertainment. We have 75 Rotarians coming from Moncton and a contingent from our sponsoring Club in Halifax.

 

In addition to the Dinner, the President’s itinerary will include visits to Camp Gencheff, the Soup Kitchen, and the Rotary Inspire Library. There will also be a Walk for Polio on Sunday. Rotarians are invited to participate in these visits. Further details to be provided later.

 

 

 

 

At our Aug. 22nd meeting, we had District Governor, Don Sword, who brought greetings from RI President Ian Riseley and introduced the theme for 2017-18 “Rotary Making a Difference”.

 

He mentioned that although Rotary was begun on Feb 25, 1905, the need for Rotary was never greater than today.

 

Don mentioned a quote from Paul Harris 80 years ago when he said “This is a changing world and Rotary must be prepared to change with it.” We must keep our clubs vibrant, relevant and attractive. He then mentioned his 3 C’s Consistency, Continuity, and Collaboration.

 

Rotary wants to adopt a new slogan: Rotary People of Action.

 

Rotary is built on friendship.

 

The nature of training is changing, TLC or Training Leaders of Clubs means that everyone can benefit from leadership training, not just presidents and secretaries. He encouraged more Rotarians to attend these TLC training conferences.

 

Don went on to challenge all club members to introduce/induct at least one new person to Rotary each year.

 

Don went on to talk about the Rotary Foundation. There were only 8 cases of wild polio virus in the past year and only 3 countries are still considered, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Rotary Foundation is 100 years old this year and recently won an award as the best charity in the world.

 

Don then shared his vision or “P.I.P.E.” dream for District 7820 in the coming year. He plans to focus on Public Image, Peace and the Environment. For Public Image, Don encourage Club members to go to rotary.org website to make sure our Branding is current and to obtain any promotional materials with the right Branding. For Peace, he would like the Club to have one meeting this year devoted to Peace & Conflict resolution. For Environment, he is requesting that a tree be planted for every member of the Club. Since Bob would say that you already did this, try to find something else related to the environment. 

 

He also encouraged members to register for the District Conference in St. Johns as well as the International Conference in Toronto in 2018. He spoke about the International Conference being in Toronto in June, 2018 and encouraged people to attend. He also spoke of a Bus our being arranged by Rotarian, Duncan Conrad, for the International Conference. Please contact him in order to make arrangements.

 

 

On Aug. 17th, we had a Youth Exchange Reunion BBQ at Stanhope Place. We had former Youth Exchange students from all over the world from Australia to Europe who came back to visit us to get reacquainted after not seeing their host families for many years in some cases. There were several that have been back to PEI many times since they were here originally. This was an excellent event with many moving testimonials from participants of how the program impacted their lives. Many felt that their lives were greatly enriched because of the experience and some have become Rotarians and many have become involved in community service in their home countries because of this program.

 

At our Aug. 14th meeting, we had a Book Launch for the Jim Macnutt authored history of Rotary in PEI. The book includes the history and activities of all the Rotary Clubs on Prince Edward Island and as it relates to Rotary International and world events of the time. The book is a good read of events especially in the first 40 years from 1917 until the late 1950's.