The Rotary Club Of Festival City

President:  Dianne Yundt

Minutes of the meeting of April 2, 2013

Club email:  festivalcityrotary@gmail.com

Club website: www.festivalcityrotary.ca

President-Elect Bill Helmuth chaired this meeting

Guests: Roger Black is from Stratford Rotary. Leticia Figueiredo is our exchange student.

Door Prize: Anna Sherwin donated the prize won by Ron Rogers.

Club Assembly:

  1. Fish Fry and Golf Tournament: Posters advertising these events have been emailed to the membership by Bill Helmuth.
  2. Spaghetti Dinner results: Jean Aitcheson reported that 401 tickets were sold and the club netted $5679.30 plus another $1200 from coffee sales. Randy Mathews still has 179 bags of coffee for purchase. We need to put more effort into ticket sales. We should have sold 700 tickets to really make the effort worthwhile.  Ken Hansen reported that Trevor Exnor of the Black Angus was glad to help out and we should help support him by visiting his St Marys restaurant.
  3. Club Administration Committee: Brandi Gillett reported that she intends to hold a committee meeting in a couple of weeks.
  4. Membership Committee: Deb Stacey-Rivers will be holding a committee meeting in two weeks time.
  5. Vocational Committee: Carol Rock reported that Anna Staffa will be attending the Adventures in Citizenship conference in Ottawa in May.  Anna is a Central student. She is on the student council and is a student representative on the school board.  Cynthia Brown has been selected to attend the leadership conference at Western University.
  6. Youth Exchange Officer: Brian Rivers has volunteered to be the new YEO. We will be having an inbound student from Indonesia next year. Two host families are required to participate. Contact Brian if you are interested in hosting the student for a term.
  7. Dragon Boat Pancake Breakfast: Bill Helmuth reported that the Mitchell Rotary Club will not be participating in the breakfast this year. Bill has made alternate arrangements for the use of a pancake griddle. We will continue to make the coffee and sell it throughout the day. We will require whole club participation for this event to be held Saturday September 14.
  8. MS Walk: Carolyn Dingman reported that the 2013 walk will take place Sunday May 5. May is MS month.
  9. Bingo: The next Bingo is Sunday May 12. Volunteers are needed. Signup on ClubRunner or contact Vince Hill or Jack West.