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Rotary: Making a Difference

We meet Tuesdays at 12:00 PM

The Salvation Army - Cascade Community Church

35190 DeLair Road
Abbotsford, BC V3G 2E2
Canada

District Site

Venue Map

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families.

There will be no Rotary lunch meeting on October 10th, in place there will be a Social, see details below.

Rotarwrites will return on October 17th.

Sunday, October 15th - 3 pm, let's make it a Rotary social and meeting make-up.

Earlier this year we heard from a young entrepreneur Alexis Warmerdam from the Abbotsford Tulip Festival. Her second agriculture project is open: Abby Roadside at the same entrance to the tulip festival. It is a corn maze with a bonus! It takes about 1- 1.5 hours to go through the corn maze and there are 4 beer and wine samples included for $20 ( $18 if people buy entrance ticket online) (food trucks are available if you want to eat)

Meet you at the entrance!

http://www.abbyroadside.com/about/

Don Funk Memorial Awards Dinner

The Don Funk Awards dinner will be held on Thursday November 16 at the Phoenix Lounge.

A very deserving member from our Club will be honoured that evening! Come and celebrate with them.

Cost of Dinner: $25.00 per person for the buffet

Time of Event: Arrival at 6:00 PM, dinner at 6:30 PM

Will advise of the speaker once confirmed.

Agenda: 6 - 6:30 Fellowship

6:30 Dinner

7:15 short welcome and then intro Speaker

7:45 Ron Kelly talks about history of award and who Don Funk was

7:50 Club Presidents each will introduce their club recipient of the award

@ 815 close

Starfish Packs needs your Help

Starfish is looking for club volunteers to provide 1-2 hours every Wednesday mid day in October for the purposes of breaking down grocery supplies for Starfish. We need 4-6 volunteers each week.

This will count as community service, be tracked as a club make up and quality for the Presidential Pardon from the weekly Sgt.

Please have them contact either Bruce Beck at bbb1771@shawbiz.ca or Bev Hasenpflug at bevhasenpflug@shaw.ca to provide availability.

RI Peacebuilding Conference

For all District 5050 Rotarians –

Opportunity to attend RI Peacebuilding Conference

Greetings, Fellow Rotarians:

There is a wonderful opportunity for you to attend the Presidential Peacebuilding Conference of Rotary International in Vancouver, BC, February 9 – 11, 2018.

Rotarians in District 5050 are part of the official hosts for the Conference, along with Rotary Zones 24 and 25 - across Canada and along the West Coast from Alaska to California

The Presidential Conference on Environmental Sustainability and Peace is one of six international Peacebuilding Conferences planned for the 2017-2018 Rotary year and the only one in North America.

President Ian Riseley has made environmental sustainability a major focus for his year and we are honored to be one of the host Districts for his first Presidential Conference.

The event venue is at one of Vancouver's best hotels - the Hyatt Regency - with a specially discounted room rate of $189.

All prices are in Canadian dollars - a great deal for Canadians and an even better deal for Americans.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND TO REGISTER:

www.environmentandpeace.com

Cloverfest event - October 14th

Cloverfest is a fundraising event for the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce, and the Cloverdale Rotary.

See the link for more information and to buy tickets: https://cloverfest.ca/

Rotary International Convention 2018

INSPIRATION AROUND EVERY CORNER

Join Rotary President Ian Riseley and his wife, Juliet, at the 2018 Rotary Convention in Toronto. The cosmopolitan city of Toronto offers something for everyone and is the perfect setting for the biggest event of the Rotary year.

As a past convention attendee, you understand that every convention is an opportunity to learn. We hope you'll come to Toronto to connect with old friends, make new ones, and be a part of the best Rotary has to offer.

Share the excitement by downloading the Toronto Convention Promotion Kit from the Convention Promotion page or by showing the promotional video.

A world of opportunity awaits you in Toronto. Register today!

Sunshine Report

Happy Birthday!

January 31 - Daniel Denis

Happy Anniversary!

none to report

District News

JANUARY IS VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH

The January 2018 Peace Arch Journal is available here

DISTRICT GRANTS SEMINARS REMINDERS

February 3rd - registration deadline - January 29th

Two people from each club, one must be the President Elect, must attend and become qualified in order that the club is eligible to apply for any grant monies.

ROTARY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (RLI)

March 10, 2018 - Surrey - 5 Star Catering, 5640 188 Street, Surrey, BC V3S 4N5 Registration is now open. Please choose Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 or the Grad Program and ensure that you register for the correct part. Cost is $60.00 Canadian. Any registrations after February 28th will be $70.00 Canadian.

WELCOME

District 5050 welcomes its 58th club, the Pacific Northwest Passport Club. Charter celebration will be March 3, 2018 at Northwood Hall, Bellingham. More information on district website.

DISTRICT CONFERENCE

At our conference, we will be honouring the Rotarians who have passed away but remain with us in spirit since the 2017 conference, held in early May. Please send a headshot photo and a bio stating information about: family, Rotary induction date, Rotary positions, awards, profession, interests and other significant facts. Please send the bios and photo to Maureen Boyd maureenelizabethboyd@gmail.com by February 15, 2018.

SAVE THE DATE

March 16 & 17 - Snohomish County Rotaract chartering celebration with District 5050 Rotaract 50th year celebration. Further details to follow.

April 7, 2018 - District Training Assembly - Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey. Registration will be open soon.

Rotary Global Rewards

Rotary Global Rewards

Since the launch of Rotary Global Rewards on 1 July 2015, over 100,000 members have visited the site! We would like to thank you for supporting the program by spreading awareness of it among your district and clubs.

If you have not visited Rotary Global Rewards recently, we now have over 1,500 offers worldwide. We recommend using the member benefits program both locally and when you travel.

If you’d like to give discounts to other Rotarians, add your own company’s special offers to the growing portfolio of Rotary Global Rewards. To date, over 350 offers have been posted by Rotarians.

We have also added two new and exciting global travel offers, a hotel discount center and an airline discount center, which provide great discounts and give up to 10 percent of your purchase back to Rotary.

See www.rotary.org/globalrewards for details. Spend less, give more.

Best regards,

Rotary Global Rewards program team

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.