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Be a Gift to the World

We meet Tuesdays at 12:00 PM

Phoenix Lounge

33780 King Road
Abbotsford, BC V2S 7P2
Canada

District Site

Venue Map

Million Dollar Hole In One

The Million Dollar Hole-in-One Contest is our biggest fundraising event of the year running Saturday May 28th to Sunday June 5th.

This year, proceeds will be used to support the Starfish Program. Hosted at the Fraserglen Golf Course, the top golfers everyday win great prizes and qualify for a chance to win a shot at $1,000,000 in the finals on Sunday, June 5th.

To our members we request three things (so far):

Prizes - many hands lighten the load! Please get your prizes in to the prize committee. If you don't have a prize to donate, we will happily receive cash!

Duty roster - Start thinking about dates and times you will be available to support our club.

Attend the Kick Off Lunch - being held on May 18th at Fraserglen

For more details please visit http://abbotsfordrotary.com/stories/rotary-million-dollar-hole-in-one-starfish-support-one-golf-ball-at-a-time/

Contact Shirley with any questions shirleypwilson@gmail.com

Invitation from Rotary Langley

The Rotary Club of Langley is hosting the following guest speaker:

Morgan Wienberg, co-founder of Little Footprints, Big Steps

She will be visiting Rotary Club of Langley as a Guest Speaker on Thursday evening March 3.

She has been honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, Governor General of Canada Academic Awards, Yukon Commissioner Award, recognized in Washington, DC as a finalist for the Berger-Marks Foundation for Young Women Impacting Social Justice and was awarded the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellowship Award for Humanitarian Impact.

She was a keynote speaker at the 2013 United Nations Youth Assembly.

The Rotary Club of Langley invites those interested to come to our meeting on March 3 for Morgan’s presentation at 6:50 p.m. Those who wish to have dinner ($25) at 6:15, please RSVP by phone at 604-635-4410.

Contact for more information: David Truman - Rotary Club of Langley

District News

District 5050 Conference:

The District 5050 "Power Up Rotary Conference" will be held at Semiahmoo Resort April 28th to May 1st. Bruce will be representing our club on the morning of April 29th. He will be speaking about the Starfish Pack Program.

If you registered at the last conference, you received a confirmation that did not include Thursday Golf and Thursday dinner. Please "edit registration" to add these options when you receive your next email confirmation.

Golf is on the Loomis Trail course and includes a round of golf, cart, and lunch. There is also an option for only the Saturday gala dinner if you have a guest wishing to come for just that event. If you have questions regarding registration you may contact Registrar Valerie Tibbetts at valtravelq@hotmail.com.

Registration may be accessed via the District 5050 website or with this link: http://www.crsadmin.com/EventPortal/Registrations/PublicFill/EventPublicFill.aspx?evtid=1cfba5ea-0e33-46f7-bd8f-67fae9cb7e84

New Membership Proposal

Posted by Stacey Irwin

The following individuals are being proposed for a corporate membership from Abbotsford Community Services:

Dave Murray

Neil Stark

Rod Santiago

Should you have questions, please contact Doris Woodman-McMillan at doris@numbersunlimited.ca

Updates to our Rotary Club Directory - Those Listed Please Respond

Posted by Stacey Irwin on Apr 20, 2015

Dear Rotarians,

We would like to update our club directory with your photo and bio as soon as possible. This is one of the ways our club can get to know you and really assists new and long-time members with who's who in our club.

Could the following Rotarians please send me a headshot photo in jpeg format:

Janet Barrie and Greg Buck

Could the following Rotarians please send me a bio about themselves via email (no more than 2000 characters and there are some great examples in our online directory to view):

Janet Barrie and Harvey Goodwin

Please send your photo and/or bio to Stacey Irwin at sirwin @prospera.c a. I will happily update the directory on your behalf.

Thank you.

Rotary Program Ideas and Suggestions

Please forward your ideas and speaker contact details to the Rotary Program Committee. Your assistance would be appreciated to help schedule upcoming programs for this Rotary year. Also, if there are suggestions to improve our programs, please let us know. Please reach out to Ingrid at iepp@thereach.ca or Marion at mmkeys@shaw.ca

Sunshine Report

Posted by Stacey Irwin on Apr 20, 2015

Happy Birthday!

Harvey Goodwin - March 14th

Happy Anniversary!

None to report

Front Desk and Marble Draw Duty Reminder

Posted by Stacey Irwin on Apr 20, 2015

March 2016:

Team Leader: Milt Walker

Team Members: Barbara Roberts, Keith Roberts and Alanna White

Join Us on Facebook and Twitter!

Posted by Stacey Irwin

Rotary International continues to work on branding and communication of our organization throughout the world. They are pushing for greater exposure within the press, radio, television and social media.

To this end, we would like to encourage all members to participate, with contribution, on our social media sites.

The link for Facebook is: http://www.facebook.com/RotaryClub.Abbotsford

The link for twitter is: https://twitter.com/AbbyRotaryClub

We look forward to those members of Rotary that currently publish a social media page to link to one or both of the sites listed above. Thank you.