Waneta Sunshine Rotary

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Charles Lamb

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia..
Charles M Schultz

link to the Golden Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held on zoom with 6 members and guest Sandra Roberts present.

Music – none

• Business:
• Tree project -We will discuss this next week when we have prices
• bingo- there is a car to be won on the progressive. Encourage people to sign up and support us.
• email from Bob Quay about the new vetting of Rotarians working with youth. Do we need to have someone trained in the process?
• The Green team (District environmental group) is having a meeting March 23rd and inviting interested Rotarians to attend. As we have an environmental project we may want to send someone. contact is Leslie Waters of Colville Rotary.
• The Rotary Covid 19 task force has an update meeting on March 9th. Juris sent the link if anyone is interested in attending.
• Allan Davis sent the information about grant certification training to be held in April.
• Program – Maddy introduced Sandra Roberts from the District passport club to talk about the eight pillars of peace.
• Al Jubitz started the Rotary action group for peace as it is one of the Rotary areas of focus and effects all the others.
• The Rotary vision is “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.” How does peace fit into this?
• According to past RI president Barry Rasin,”peace happens one conversation at a time.” So we need to start conversations.
• The eight pillars of peace according to the Institute of Economics and peace (IEP) for a country are;
  • well functioning government
  • low levels of corruption
  • acceptance of the rights of others
  • free flow of information
  • sound business environment
  • high levels of human capital
  • equitable distribution of resources
  • good relationships with neighbours
• IEP has developed ways to measure each how countries do in each of these pillars. Higher scoring countries are more peaceful. there are benefits to a community when we discuss peace and look at it through the lens of these pillars.
• The district Passport club is a peacebuilder club and encourages other clubs to become one too with the aim of becoming a peacebuilder district. the idea is to engage Rotarians worldwide in peacebuilding. the Rotary academy of peace has a course through IEP has a free course available. This is a place to start.
• Upcoming meetings
• March 12th club assembly
• March 19th Jake Miller, an athlete from Special olympics.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.15am