Waneta Sunshine Rotary

War does not determine who is right, only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

Life is hard. After all it kills you.
Katherine Hepburn

link to the Castlegar Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held on zoom at 7.15am with 4 members present

Music: Daniel Bowder – A Bad Day

• Business
• Food drive at liberty foods in Fruitvale on April 9th. Maddy created an invite on Facebook. Please share it. She is already collecting money from people who will not be able to make it on 9th. Tax receipts are available.
• Bingo. Yesterday Greg Ehman was awarded the British Columbia Medal of Good Citizenship. Greg initiated and led many Rotary, Interact and Community projects.  During Covid, he also organized Rotary Community Online Bingo.
• We would like to nominate Stacie Martini for Rotarian of the year. Club agreed to endorse it. Maddy will send in the nomination.
• Register for the district conference. May 13 to 15th in Colville. From April 1st we do not have to have a test before crossing the border to come home.
• Fiona Martin suggested a joint change over meeting on July 9th at Redstone for our three clubs, Rossland, Trail and Waneta. We were in favour.
• Program- Maddy spoke to us on DEI
• District 5080 has a DEI task force whose job is to introduce the concepts to the clubs and help them develop programs within their clubs. RI has a DEI commitment and wants clubs to concentrate on promoting it to keep us relevant. A top priority for Rotary is growing and diversifying our membership.
• Cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture is essential to realizing our vision of a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change. She shared a message from Jennifer Jones, Rotary’s next President and first woman in the role. 69% of Rotary members worldwide are men and the average age is 61. We need to work to improve this.
• Comments; We do not want to drive away the older more conservative members. They need to be included too. We need to diversify membership or Rotary will die out.
• Road clean April 2nd. Meet at Tim’s at 7.45am for breakfast. Juris will get bags. Friday April 1st meeting moved to Saturday 2nd.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.15am