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Feb 04, 2021
Annette Borrows
Rotary at Work BC
Feb 11, 2021
Mayor George Harvie
Delta Directions
Feb 18, 2021
Carolyn Daley
Women in Policing
Feb 25, 2021
Linda Ding and Tom Smith
Share the Love
Mar 11, 2021
Dylan Krueger
Youth in Politics
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RIP Shekhar Mehta
Apr 15, 2021
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
 
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MEETING START UP
Murray Lott
 
You are the greeter for the meeting on Jan 28
 
 
Greeters Coming Up:
 
 
Feb 4 Ginny Lowood
 
Feb 11 Graham Mallett
 
Feb 18 Gail McEwan
 
Feb 25 Judy McLeod
 
 
 
 
Until we finally get together for an actual breakfast the greeter is asked to deliver the invocation only..
 
If you are unable to make this assignment please arrange for a replacement and let secretary Joan know. 
 
 
 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A recording of O Canada played by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on the Vancouver waterfront opened the meeting .
A poetic invocation was delivered by Ian Bourhill
 
Visiting Rotarians:
Norm Brown (Salmon Arm president)
Diane Forward (Honourary Member)
Guests 
Kamiil Kanji (Calgary)
Lee Chapman (Delta Police)
Mike McEwan (Gail McEwan)
Special Occasions:
Birthdays:
Sara Kirby and Pam Sarkissian  (Aug 8)
John C. (Aug 12)
No Anniversaries
 
Work Party Update    Leslie A
 
 
 
Cut outs by cut-ups. Christmas is four months away but the work goes on in preparation for our upcoming display in the park. Thanks to the work put in by John C, Aart S-H, Henk V, Paul vW, Dave A, Leslie A,  Jeff P  and Ulrich P with children 
 
Here and There           President Laureen
This week the president attended a Toastmasters meeting featuring the topic: Humour and the Work Culture
 
Guess Who's Coming to Wheelers      Past President Gail
Next Wheelers on Friday Aug 14. Let Gail know the day before if you plan on attending
 
Next week's programme   Tom Smith
Wondering what a notary public actually does? We are fortunate to have Dan Boisvert from Notaries at Northgate  who will be outlining the many services that they provide. 
 
TRAVEL AND HAPPY DOLLARS
Past President Keith for being able to score a reservation on a weekend ferry, for recognizing the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima bringing an end to WWII and to recognize one of our helpers from the bathtub days, John Horton who recently received the Order of British Columbia
 
Joan Hansen to say hello all the way from Winnipeg and looking forward to her return home today
 
Wayne Connorton for announcing the solving of the mystery of the missing Rotary wheel and for having his grandkids visiting him this week
 
President Laureen not to be outdone, having her two grandchildren arriving today  
 
Jill Moore for greeting from rainy Victoria before moving on to Nanaimo to celebrate a friend's birthday
 
Honourary member Diane Forward just happy to be able to attend our meeting without driving
 
 
 
PROGRAMME
As We Age So Do Our Eyes
 
 
Joan Hansen
 
Opthomologist (Ret)
Founder of Tsawwassen Optometry
 
Jill Moore introduced Rotary member Joan who hails from Manitoba, born in a small farming town before moving to Transcona, a suburb of Winnipeg. After graduating from secondary school she picked up the travel bug and bummed around for three years before attending Waterloo university to study optometry. She moved to Tsawwassen opening up her own practice in 1982. Now retired she had planned some extensive travel but has instead devoted her energy to the optometry association. She thinks back with fondness of her conversations and contacts with her patients over the years.
 
Joan's introduced her theme of age and eyeballs by informing that it is normal for our vision to be affected as we get older; usually in the form of experiencing difficulty with the small font in print or on our cell phones. This is often easily corrected with eye glasses either bifocals (two stage lenses) or progressives (no line lenses). The thrust of her presentation spoke to the more serious eye conditions:
 
Cataracts occur when the lens in our eye become yellow or cloudy resulting in vision difficulties in low light and experiencing dull colours. This is remedied by a procedure that breaks up the the lens material, removes the cataract and  a inserts a new artificial lens. This lens can also be designed to remedy some of the common eye problems (distances -long and short ) as well.
 
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) occurs when the macula, the central part of the retina that is responsible for detailed central vision is damaged. The result is a blurring of the center of our vision while leaving the periphery unaffected. There are two types of AMD; dry is the most common and can be the result of age, race, gender and family history and/or modifiable activities such as diet, smoking and UV exposure: wet AMD results from weeping or leakage in blood vessels that can be treated with injections, vitamins and lasers to stop these vessels from growing.
 
Glaucoma is caused by a compression on the optic nerve that carries messages to the brain. The result is a loss of vision starting with the periphery and eventually working towards the centre. This is a gradual development that can be detected through regular eye examinations. While the process cannot be reversed it is treated through taking daily eye drops.
 
Joan's comprehensive presentation was followed with a lively Q-A session. Dave Kalinovich thanked Joan for enlightening us to the age-related vision conditions that most of us face or will be facing eventually. He appreciated  her optimistic and clearly explained  approach to the way that healthy eye care can be maintained.
 
  
SERGEANT AT ARMS REPORT
Talk about double duty! Not only did Joan enlighten us with her presentation she also served as the meeting's Sergeant at Arms as well.
She was gentle on her audience however and only fined herself for missing out not recognizing all of our guests.
 
She ended the meeting with a Winston Churchill quote:
 
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on
 
ATTENDANCE   28
GREETERS
Posted on Sep 05, 2020
 
 
 
 
Sept 17 Wayne Connorton
 
Sept 24 Blake Cowan
 
Oct 1 Linda Ding
 
Oct 8 Keith D