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Rotary Million Dollar Hole in One - Starfish Support - One Golf Ball at a Time
Unitex Sales Keep on Supporting Abbotsford's Starfish BackPack Program
The Rotary Clubs of Abbotsford Presents Don Funk Memorial Award
WHEN A CHILD LEADS
Rotary Donates Over $33,000 to the Starfish Packs
Rotary Presents Five Community Charities with Funding
Rotary Club of Abbotsford Presents $29,000 to Abbotsford Hospice
New President for the Rotary Club of Abbotsford
Prestigious Paul Harris Fellowships Awarded
Kiwanis, Rotary & Food Bank Presented New Community Matters Award
Abbotsford Starfish Packs Earns 2nd International Recognition
Rotary Club of Abbotsford Celebrates 65 Years of Service Above Self
Prospera Gives $10,500 to Starfish Pack Program
Unitex Sales Makes Major Donation to Starfish Packs
Two More Community Charities Receive Funding from the Rotary Club of Abbotsford
Emergency Support Services Team and Rotary Club President Visit the Mobile Reception Centre
Rotary Club of Abbotsford Presents Three Community Charities with Funding
Club Information
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Abbotsford, BC  V2S 7P2
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Reminder - Meeting Location Changes
A friendly reminder that the meeting on May 10th will be held at Holmberg House.  
Please park in the hospital parking lot.  A Parking Pay Meter is available in the lobby of Holmberg House - Remember your stall number as it will be required to pay. 
 
Please be advised that the meeting for the week of May 16th has been changed. 
The meeting will be held on Wednesday May 18th at Fraser Glen Golf Course
Board Nomination - Director of Public Relations and Communications
Joanne Field has been nominated for the Director of Public Relations & Communications position on the Rotary Club of Abbotsford Board of Directors for the 2016-2017 Rotary year.
 
If you have questions about this nomination, please contact Hugh athugh.ellis@cwbank.com.
 
Club Social - May 14th in Whistler

Day Trip to Audain Art Museum and lunch in Whistler on May 14.

Please note the time change - Bus is leaving Abbotsford at 8:30am sharp. 

For those of you planning to enjoy this Club Social in Whistler, here are the details:

A bus has been arranged to leave Abbotsford from the Reach Gallery and Museum parking lot at 8:30 am sharp.  Feel free to park at the gallery or in the City of Abbotsford parking Lot.  Make sure you are on Andrea's list (will be circulated again at the meetings) and that you pay the $10 per person at the meetings coming up.  What a great deal for a day in Whistler, tour of the Audain Art Museum and lunch.  Thanks Sergeant's Fund!  

Contact Andrea at: amling1@telus.net if you need further information.

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 

 

GolFUN
Updates to our Rotary Club Directory - Those Listed Please Respond

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.ca. 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

Please be advised an error was made on last weeks bulletin - Sara Lawson did celebrate her birthday this past week - however it was on May 8th.  Happy Birthday Sara!

Happy Birthday!

Paul Tsang - May 9th

Happy Anniversary!

No Anniversaries this week
 
 
 

 

Front Desk and Marble Draw Duty Reminder

May 2016:

Team Leader: Joanne Field

Team Members:  Dan Denis and David Gamble 

Join Us on Facebook and Twitter!
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.