The Rotary Club Of Festival City

President:  Dianne Yundt

Minutes of the meeting of March 5, 2013

Club email:  festivalcityrotary@gmail.com

Club website: www.festivalcityrotary.ca

Guests: Wallace Little and Bob Martin are from the Stratford Rotary Club. Leticia Figueiredo is our exchange student. Krista Robinson is the guest speaker and Donna Richardson is from the Your Community Foundation.

Draw Prize: Gerry Ketchum won the prize donated by Lynne Ternosky.

All You Can Eat Spaghetti Dinner: Randy Mathews has tickets to sell for this annual event. Tickets are $15 each. Everyone is encouraged to sell tickets to support international and local projects. Tickets are also available for purchase at Fanfare Books.

Announcements:

  1. Bard’s Birthday Celebration: It is with regret that this event has been cancelled.
  2. Group Study Exchange (G.S.E.) A group from South Korea will be in Stratford on May 21. If any Rotarian would like to volunteer to show one of the members of the group around their workplace please contact Dianne Yundt.
  3. Rotary Youth Exchange Program: We are in need of a volunteer to take over this program from Carol Rock. It’s mostly paperwork. If we are to continue participating in the youth exchanges we require a coordinator from our club. Contact Carol Rock.
  4. Splash Pad Project: Jack West reported that Leticia and his son Jason participated in an event which raised $641 for the splash pad. Jack also reported that members of the Stratford Area Builders Association will be contributing “in kind” work to the project to the equivalent of 50% of the cost of the splash pad.
  5. Your Community Foundation: Bonnie Richardson from the YCF presented our Rotary Foundation with a cheque for $5000 as their contribution to the splash pad.
  6. Pickup in Ruthven: Jean Aitcheson announced that Sunripe foods in Ruthven will donate the pasta sauce for the upcoming spaghetti dinner. Jean is looking for someone who will be travelling down Windsor way in the next while and can pick up the donation from Sunripe. Please contact Jean if you can help.
  7. Rotary Attendance: Please respond to Brandi Gillett’s weekly email if you are unable to attend a Tuesday meeting. She must report the breakfast requirements to the Queen’s Inn so that they can prepare enough food.
  8. Zehr’s Food Tapes: Linda Jones is collecting food tapes from Zehrs. The food market will donate a certain amount of money to the club based upon the total amount on the food bills. Donations will go to the splash pad project. You can give her your food tapes at each meeting.
  9. Premium El Salvador Coffee. Lynne Ternosky has 1lb bags of coffee for a donation of $15. Both ground coffee and beans are available. Enough coffee has been sold to date to cover the cost of the coffee and all future sales will be put towards projects.

Guest Speaker: President Dianne introduced Krista Robinson who is the new Systems Librarian at the library, a position pioneered by David Harvie. Krista is Stratford born and raised and started working at the library after she graduated from library school.

Krista’s powerpoint presentation was titled The Library in an Intelligent Community.

Starting in 1996 the SPL was the first in Canada to have a website. The website has grown from a few pages to over 100. The website allows you to view the library catalogue, download ebooks and audiobooks. There is a webpage for children, and a site for teens and events.

SPL is also on Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, Utube and Pinterest.  The bibliocommons allows patrons to find a book, place a hold, and renew books before they become overdue. There is a place where you can suggest books for the library to acquire and you can read book reviews as well

Keep in touch with the library on your smartphone. Mobile Apps are available through the online tools section of the website. The QR code attached to the front of the library allows smartphones to access the website.

For more detailed information about what the library has to offer visit www.stratford.library.on.ca

Krista was thanked by Gerry Ketchum