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MEETING START UP

  • Ed Lee   you are the greeter for the meeting on Mar 24
 
Greeters Coming Up:
 
 
Mar 31 Rick Lewall
 
Apr 7 Jako Krushnisky
 
Apr 14 Murray Lott
 
Apr 21 Gail McEwan
 
 
As greeter during our regular meetings please arrive at 6:45 AM, slap on the Greeter's Badge and welcome members and their guests. As greeter you are also called upon to deliver the morning's invocation.
 
If you are unable to make this assignment please arrange for your replacement and let Paul Arcand know. 
 
 
 
 

Announcemnts

The meeting began with Cindy Phillip leading the live singing of O Canada while Wayne Connorton delivered an impromtu invocation that called on us to provide help both here and to do what we can to assist those in Eastern Europe.
 
The hybrid meeting took on a new zoom system on loan and manned by Garry Shearer. It improved the sound to the Zoomers and allowed the in person participants to avoid holding a mike.
 
Visiting Rotarian: 
Sherrie Jamieson (Ladysmith)
Guest:
Shannon Fera (Speaker)
 
Special Occasions  Cindy Phillip
No anniversaries or birthdays
National day of Awesomeness (Mar 10)
Time change Saturday Night- forward an hour
 
Sunshine Report   Liz Ellis
Linda Ding's partner, Dale is now out of the hospital and on recovering from a back issue  
 
Community Services Report   Tom Smith
-going for board approval for the first purchase of as AED at Rotary Sq
-submitting the Seniors Assessment Guiding Principles for board approval
-Pulling Together (canoe group) will be presented with $7500 cheque
-Rotary parade to take place August 1
-possibly helping REACH with their Four Winds Fundraiser
-helping Deltassist with printing of their senior services handbook
 
Carts for India  Blake Cowan
Reminder that we are still active with our sister club in Chennai. Five food carts are being provided to help people disabilities earn a living.
 
Walk for Water  Yvonne Anderson
. Big Event May 14
. walk with Jerry can of water for 1.5 kms
. (In Africa the women walk +10 kms)
. our participation important
 
Social Affairs  Gail McEwan
. 2022 First wheelers at Coleen and Garry Shearer's place Friday  Mar 11 5:30PM
. social committee mtg Mar 17 5:30 PM
. wear green next Thursday's mtg
 
Chair for Charity   Leslie
New fundraiser for the hospice society; the raffling off of a decorated chair. We will be given the chair: our job is to creatively decorate and re-purpose it. Some samples;

 
 
all that is needed is our creativity
 
International Update    Peter Edwards
The purchase of a shelter box to assist Ukrainian refugees has been approved. Donations by individual members are welcomed: the club will make up the difference of the $1200 cost.
Rural Kenya washing stations are now operational and a sort video was shown
 
Wonders of Rotary   President Greg
Ignite your Passion for Rotary  May conference in Prince George
 
Coming up
Breakfast next week Mar 17
Wear Green
Speaker David Hoar
The wonders of Haida Gwaii
 
Social Committee Mar 17 5:30 PM Zoom
 
  
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Travel Dollars

Joan Hansen $5 for a week in the Cancun sun
 
Keith D. $5 for being prey to the Ides of March when selected for a random check when slipping across the border for gas
 
Graham Mallett  $5 for the cataract surgery that went well. He thanked Liz for the get-well card and Benno for subbing in as Sgt at Arms
 
Cindy Phillip $5 for also crossing into the US  and avoiding the rapid test although her husband Ron was selected
 
Linda Ding $5 for the recognition by the club of her birthday
 
John Anderson $5 for claiming that he "discovered" that he is 49% Irish
 
Dave Anderson $2 to welcome visitor Dale who left the hospital in order to visit with us
 
Garry Shearer sad $5 in memory of his dad's passing four years ago the day after St Patrick's day  
 
 
 
Programme...
Start Me Up!
St John Ambulance
 
Leanne Strachan
 
 
Anna Boekhoven
 
After a career in sales and marketing Leanne Strachan is now leading St John Ambulance's programme designed to provide publicly accessible AED's (Automated External Defribillators) across BC and the Yukon. She is assisted by Anna Boekhoven who manages the sponsorship and fund development arm of SJA.
 
Cardiac arrest can occur at anytime and in any place and without quick intervention the survival rate is a mere 5%. By making use of a defribillator along with CPR the chance of being kept alive is dramatically increased. Many communities throughout North America are now installing AEDS (Automated External Defibrillators) in high traffic areas of the major cities. St John Ambulance has taken on an ambitious progamme of placing 1000 AEDS throughout BC and Yukon.
 
Anna described the AED as a device that analyzes the heart's rhythm and delivers an electric shock known as defribillation to help restore the rhythm. The device is kept in a weatherproof stand that is lit and highly visible while automatically triggering a 911 call upon use. The stand also holds a cabinet containing naloxone and first aid kits. Its cost of $7500 per unit is borne by the local community usually through fundraising efforts.
 
After showing a video that described the experience of an amateur hockey player whose life was saved thanks to the use of an AED Leanne answered a number of questions concerning the use of AEDs; where they are usually located and the companion app that goes along with the programme. In the discussion it was emphasized that the actual location of the AEDs on the app would be beneficial. Tom Smith then thanked Leanne and Anna for their presentation and for making us aware of the importance of this life-saving device.  
 
 

Sergeant at Arms .

Substitute Sergeant-at-arms Benno Bucher concluded the meeting with a limerick:
 
"Today we celebrated St Patrick
 Wearing green and acting dramatic
 Greg and Garry worked on Zoom
 Including an echo in the room
 The rest behaved well - not too erratic"
 
Anyone not wearing green suffered a fine
 
ATTENDANCE   20 In person      17 Zoom