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This is the weekly bulletin for
The Richmond 
Sunrise Rotary Club 
for January 27, 2021 

Miscellaneous

 
Repeat from last week or until no longer relevant or until I delete it:  
 
All meetings by Zoom until further notice. 
 
Our club is joining with other clubs to award a Richmond external Paul Harris award Which has now changed to June 15th 2022. If you haven't sent in a nomination please do so to Debbie M. and resend your earlier nominations if you have.
 
The Lower Mainland Foundation dinner/event is scheduled for February 5th 2022 – is now cancelled.
 
Please fill in the Rotary DEI survey at https://tinyurl.com/DEI5040.
 
Only 50% of members have criminal record checks please get yours. 
 
Coldest night of the Year is February 26th and will now be virtual so sign up or donate at Coldest Night of the Year 2022 - Richmond (cnoy.org)
 
 
 
Zoom Meeting Rules
 
THE LINK TO OUR THURSDAY MEETINGS WILL NO LONGER BE EMAILED BUT ACCESSED THROUGH THE LINK BELOW.
 
Meeting ID: 868 5522 9058
Passcode: 473892
 
1) Mute your microphone if you aren't already muted. Background noise is distracting. 
2) If you are not engaged in the presentation, turn off your camera. 
3) Chat function should only be used to address the speaker, not for Club member remarks during the presentation
4) Unmute when harassing the Sergeant at Arms or taking your turn during Sergeant at Arms.
 
 Presidents Report and Announcements, committee news and other stuff.
 
Here is a message from Elena;
PDG Josie of Rotary club of Manila San Miguel in the Philippines is requesting to forward the attached video to our club members regarding the water project that we supported in the Philippines.
 
The Rotary club of Manila San Miguel joined the video contest in the District . The most viewed posted on Facebook on their International water supply project will win.

Here is the youtube link:https://youtu.be/7bC34_0JA9w    Watch and  post a like! 
 
The grant management course is in April.
 
February 12th is a membership conference.
 
March 8th is the next board meeting. 
 
The external Paul Harris Dinner is now scheduled for June 15th and tickets will be $100 each to subsidize the nominees and spouses dinners. 
 
The Foundation Dinner is cancelled but any donation will be matched for Paul Harris points. 
 
O' Canada (that is not to be copied or shared)
 
It's hard for someone to keep a chip on their shoulder when you let them take a bow. 
 
Please direct any questions to the President or a board member of your choosing and we will discuss any and all questions or concerns during our board meeting. Also please refer anyone who may be interested in attending a meeting or joining the club.
 
Be kind and be calm and safe...
 
 
 
 

Visitors      

 

Sherri Magson KPU's Director of Advancement

 
 

sergeant  At Arms Tidbits

 
Bobby watched a lot of sports this week with football and tennis, had a nice clean hair cut from his barber, I mean hairstylist. The difference is about $20!
 
Ron was full of apologies, particularly about sending Dalbir and Kal to Ferguson. Set up a new string of apologies by suggesting they visit the ghost towns of Granite, Coleman and Brooksmere which are all around the Princeton/Toulameen area.
 
Joyce has had a busy week with concerns over increases in Seniors with housing issues, waiting lists in every area with Chimo and a mental health tsunami. Front line services are facing a crises. The face of Richmond is changing. Enjoyed Bruno Restaurant and well worth it. 
 
Peter painted his own powder room with a paint brush in his hand for the first time in 20 years and decided it would be the last. Commended the mechanics who are volunteering to start equipment and vehicles in the farms flooded in the Sumas Prairie.
 
Carolyn is still threatening to send invoices as soon as she receives the invoice from RI. Also if you haven't contributed your S at A donation please do so. If you cannot remember if you have or have not, email Carolyn and she will let you know. Has enjoyed the football but will not bet on Kal's picks. Me neither.
 
Bob is on a 15 year plan to change and is searching for special martinis. Is there anything they don't put in Martinis now? Maybe just olives. James Bond and my parents, who were true martini drinkers are rolling in their graves. Image result for Martini Glass Emoji🍸Shaken not stirred!
 
Susan kept her modesty blind up as she was getting ready to go to work. Going  out for dinner for Graham's birthday. 
 
Christine M. had her first golf lesson from Jennifer Wyatt who says Chris will be a great golfer. Jennifer was described as a fabulous teacher. Watch out Joyce and others - FORE! . With all of her walking she is thinking of hiking the El Camino. Her boots are made for walkin' and that's just what  they'll do!👢
 
Sam reported some water damage from a leak - but that was nothing. So Moose apparently has a rash in his crotch(aka crotch rot). Sam got some ointment to treat the crotch that Moose found totally delectable. Not that dogs don't lick their crotches anyway - even without an incentive. Moose now wears the underpants in the family to protect his crotch  and stop the licking of the ointment that is meant to stop the rot in the crotch. 
 
Debbie S. is happy to be back in the gym.
 
Debbie M. wonders what babies must think when adults cheer on the fact that they have merely rolled over - by themselves. Wait till she has her first martini - recommended by Bob. It is all exciting. Checked out Luminaire - good food. 
 
Sandra recommended "The Warsaw Orphan" as a good read about the saving of 7,500 Jewish orphans during the war. Based on a real life event. Also discovered the pattern for the S at A by asking Sam. Reverse order of joining.
 
Which means I was next. Watch out for potholes on the Hope/Princeton. They are causing blowouts. 
 
Judy's 5 days in Palm Springs turned into almost a month because of a positive Covid test. Had a bit of a sore throat and survived 2.5 weeks with Chris Brodie - whom we all miss. Judy is heading back to Palm Springs at the end of this month. All of Spencer's family has covid and Spencer had pretty bad symptoms. Celebrating 28 years since Judy's brain surgery. 🥳
 
Debbie T. has organized the Coldest Night of the Year team and this year it will be virtual but maybe some in the club could still get together. Drew had some painful kidney stones once again until passed - the stones that is.
 
Elena is back to her normal walking. She is watching on zoom theatre performed in the Philippines for a fundraiser. She attended the Vancouver Sunrise club. Click on the link above and "like" the water project. Or this link https://youtu.be/7bC34_0JA9w
 
Mary Lou got to see Bill in 3D when she received her well deserved Dean Crain award. Celebrating Dad's 95th birthday with a cake and a wave on the balcony - darn lock downs.
 
Kal now says a Niners - Chiefs Super bowl. We'll see. Had dinner with some Rotarians. Disclosed Ron's birthplace as bed rock city. One of BC's(as opposed to AD) ghost towns. Wilma Flintstone was the doula. 
 
Dick hit the wrong mute button and expressed understandable concern about one of the protesting truckers suggesting we could have our own January 6th here in Canada. Really likes the recommendation for watching Yellowstone.
 
Dalbir commented on how packed the restaurants are and something about Martinis. Suggested that lock downs could be ended anytime now. Pointed out it was ex member and President, Alan Plausteiner's 70th birthday.
 
Marg has been staying up all night to watch tennis. Went to the Boundary Bay airport for breakfast and really enjoyed it. A nice high end diner and gave an open invitation to any Rotarian to join them for a meal. She is also back with in person church service. 
 
Garth remembers the Americans creating a flood plan to Canada in the past. Noah told him about it! Or maybe it was Ron? Garth has been watching too much tennis but this has not interfered with him returning to golf.
 
Gordon survived Robbie Burns day but celebrated with what he described as 2 drams of scotch (but who's counting). Off to a District strategic planning meeting. He said something about using pink panties to calm the oversexed sheep problem. I've never found pink panties to be calming. But that's just me. 
 
Bill driving out to Chilliwack and back to spend 30 minutes at his nieces wedding.
 
Pat has seen the ophthalmologist and her cataracts are too young for surgery and also was checked for glaucoma. Hopefully no news about that is good news.
 
 
 
 

speaKER

 
 
Sherri Magson is the Director of Advancement at KPU where she is responsible for major gift and award fundraising and giving. She advised that KPU has been doing well during the pandemic and pivoted with different approaches to teaching and now has classes both in person and on line. Importantly KPU suffered no covid outbreaks. In the school year 2020 - 2021, $1,540,456 was used to help 1,539 students of which $1,008,441 was given as awards and scholarships to 461 Students. There was also some emergency covid funding provided. The unmet financial needs of students has grown from $5,000,000 in 2014 to almost $12,000,000 in 2020. This is the difference between the amount of financial assistance applied for and the amount advanced. Sherri surmised that it has been the cost of living that has increased dramatically for students. Our club endowment started with a $10,000 donation in 1995 that was at the time matched by the provincial government. The criteria are community and volunteer service, financial need, work experience and educational goals and achievements. The applicant must be a mature Richmond resident and preference is intended to be given to single mothers.  There currently are awarded two $1,445 scholarships from a fund that currently stands at $51,474.16. The endowment earns 5% return per year and where the overall return is higher than 5% the surplus is held in reserve for years with poor returns. In fiscal 2021 our endowment received an additional interest allocation of $579.12. The two students who received awards this year were Natalie Caras and Ainsley Jones. Natalie has written a letter and told us that she is a single parent holding down two jobs, volunteers with the VPD, is involved in sports and maintains honour roll status. 
Sherri told us that it has been a good fundraising year with $8 million donated to the school of business which will be renamed the Melville School of Business. $5 million has been donated for Horticulture. RBC and Mytacs along with KPU are sponsoring a paid internship six month program. If you are interested or know someone who may be here is the link for applications and employer registration. :  https://www.kpu.ca/business/internships
 
 
 
 

                                    Meanderings 

 

So my mentor Dick Wagner sent me some information about a “lexophile” which is one who has a love for words, such as “You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish”, and “To write with a broken pencil is pointless”. An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best. Some of the winners will be included in "Today's Chuckles" from time to time. Thanks Dick. 

So, does humanity learn from history maybe not. Here is a news item published 150(1872) years ago in Scientific American.

"Of all the fearful diseases that scourge the human race, [small pox] is justly feared most. The disfiguring scars it leaves, upon many of those who escape death, are a lifelong sequel to a disgusting and painful sickness. Statistics show that about one half of those who have had the vaccine disease as a result of vaccination are liable to a form of smallpox called varioloid, approaching more of less in violence to malignant types of the disease. To insure safety is is necessary that revaccination be practiced. There is no fact better established in medical science than that persistent revaccination will practically exterminate smallpox. Had we a law compelling vaccination and revaccination, we should soon cease to hear of the ravages of a scourge so dreadful. As it is, it is quite doubtful such a law could be enforced if enacted."

Also, the date of our meeting was the Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

"January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, as it marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The United Nations enacted this day and it has been commemorated since 2005, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website."
 

                              Upcoming Events

 

 

External Paul Harris June 16th, 2022. 

 

 
Please note the date for the Auction
Friday May 6th 2022 Auction Fundraiser with final details to be determined but anticipating live and in person. 
 
 
 
 

TODAYS CHUCKLEs  

 
                                                                               🥸
 
 
Working in a mirror factory is something I can totally see myself doing.
 

A few years ago I got offered a job making rear view mirrors..

Looking back, I should've taken it.

 

And from the lexophile file:

 

Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes. 
 
This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I’d swear I've never met herbivore. 

I know a guy who’s addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Debbie Samsom
January 8
 
Debbie Tablotney
January 13
 
Melinda Newman
January 15
 
Peter Levelton
January 19
 
Amanda Sinclair
January 31
 
Join Date
Danilo Salcedo
January 21, 2016
6 years
 
Larry Thompson
January 23, 2003
19 years
 
Christine Marin
January 29, 2015
7 years
 
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