Waneta Sunshine Rotary

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there’s nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don’t have the money to buy both.
Janet Evanovich

link to the Castlegar Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held on zoom with 5 members present.

Music: An ordinary day by great big C

• Skating on thin ice with your quotes Juris!
• Business
• A thank you Letter from Highways. The highway clean up program is back on so we can plan to do a clean up in the spring. We scheduled for Saturday March 26th meeting at 8.30am by the gas bar at the mall. Invite other groups and friends to help us.
• The express grant team has given us permission to use the express grant for the amended project for Webster School of a winter wonderland. They need a new form filled in. Pat will forward more details to Juris to fill in the form.
• Graham and Carol transferred our next $500 to Tennewik for Suzies sewing project in Kenya.
• Motion by Pat seconded by Graham that we donate $200 to the salvation army from money collected at Christmas. carried.
• Camp Koolaree – The request came from an individual not from Castlegar Rotary. Bill Furey was unable to come today but Juris will invite him for next week. Pat wants to see financial statements.
• Bingo – Possibility of an event to commemorate the finding of 200 graves at the Kamloops residential school. Events in each community would include first nations groups.
• Next week we will meet at Pat’s in person at 8pm to start a vision session.
• Adirondack chair project. Joan has done research and updated the spread sheet. Each chair needs to cost $160 or less to make to be viable. We want a Rotary logo on it which can be added with a laser before they are assembled. Decisions need to be made on how to raffle them. Barriers we face are the cost of production, the narrow window we have for sales, (spring and summer), marketing the raffle tickets, online sales may be needed. How much would we sell the tickets for? Possibly raffle a pair of chairs at a time. Juris wants to video each stage of the project to put on our website. This could be a membership generating project.
• Pat wants to make beaver tails as a fundraiser at Beaver Valley Maydays. Maddy will find out who the new contact person is.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.30am