Festival City Rotary Newsletter Feb 21, 2012

Posted by Vincent Hill 
on Dec 11, 2012
 

The Rotary Club Of Festival City

President:  Dianne Yundt

Minutes of the meeting of December 11, 2012

Club email:  festivalcityrotary@gmail.com

Club website: www.festivalcityrotary.ca

Chairperson: President-elect Bill Helmuth chaired the meeting.

Guests: From Stratford Rotary we welcomed Geza Wordofa. Leticia Figueiredo is our exchange student. Katia Maxwell is our guest speaker.

Draw Prize: Brian Rivers donated the prize won by Deb Stacey-Rivers who graciously consented to have another ticket drawn. Kent Chisholm was the winner.

Announcements:

  1. Dinner of the Month Tickets: Please return ticket stubs and money from sold tickets. The final draw for 2012 will take place at the Xmas meeting Monday night.
  2. Rotary Christmas Party: Monday December 17, 7 PM at the Queen’s. Cost is $10 pp and snacks will be provided as well as an open bar.  Wear something Christmassy.  Karaoke and a “12 days of Christmas” video will be shown. Optional is bringing an ornament for exchange. No dollar store ornaments but homemade or used, or re-gifting. 

Guest Speaker: Deb Stacey-Rivers introduced Katia Maxwell from Rogers Access Television. Katia is a graduate of broadcast journalism at Fanshawe College and has been with Rogers for 15 years. She works mostly behind the scenes as a producer and camera person.

The local Rogers channel has one paid staff member and about 20-25 volunteers. Volunteers can be high school coop students, retired people, or anyone who has an interest in TV broadcasting.

For the last three years Rogers has been promoting increased participation on the local TV channel. 

Today Katia focused on how to access TV time. Any service club, individual, or other local group can approach Rogers with a proposal for some air time. It could be in the form of a sixty second promotion or a half hour show. “Spotlight Stratford” is the 60 second promotion and the monthly half hour one-on-one “What’s Up Stratford” is hosted by Peter Maranger. These programs are repeated many times during the month.

Katia and her volunteers will work with the proposals in terms of writing scripts, making video footage, providing guidance where there is a lack of confidence or skill.

Announcements for events can be posted to the program “Worth Noting”.

Proposals and announcements can be made by contacting Rogers at www.rogerstv.com and login to Stratford.

Katia was thanked by Bill Helmuth