Waneta Sunshine Rotary

As you get older three things happen. the first is your memory goes and I can’t remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom

If you must make a noise, make it quietly.
Oliver Hardy

link to the Castlegar Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held on zoom at 7.15am with 5 members present

Music:

• Business
• Saturday November 5th District fall training in Spokane valley 10 to 3pm. We need to have people trained if we want to apply for a grant.
• October 24th is World polio day. A yoga fundraiser – more information needed. Making Beaver tails at the Trail farmers market on October 22. Pat will see if Trail club want to do it with us.
• Thanksgiving food drive – Is on for October 1st at Liberty foods in Fruitvale. We need people to do shifts between 9.30 and 4.30. Joan is coming 10. graham at 12 and Pat at 2. Maddy and Juris can be there most of the day.
• Betty Boateng sent a list of items they need for their outreach in Ghana. Pat will price them out.
• Possibility of Christmas projects helping in the community. see what we can do to increase our visibility. Beaver valley food hampers are looking for help assembling hampers and wrapping gifts. Also breakfast with Santa is happening and needs volunteers. Dates not yet available.
• Tree planting: October 15th.
• We need to know how much money we have. Juris our treasurer will give us a financial update once he gets all the figures from Carol. we need to give away some bingo money soon.
• Members need foodsafe and serve it right if we do fundraisers with food like Beaver tails. Pat has started it. Monse has it.
• All Candidates forum for the elections coming up. October 4th from 6.30 onwards to help moderate discussion and questions at Fruitvale Memorial Hall. We need to be there at 6.30pm.
• Program – David Cooke – Global Warming.
• Human made climate change. Human activity and how we are affecting the climate. The Earth as it formed buried its own waste and cooled until humans were able to evolve. Our activity now causing warming and reversing the effects. Farming and agriculture on a large scale contributed. Industrial revolution built on coal and steam. Heat trapping gases released into the atmosphere by digging up the earth.
• We have half as much again as in 1980. Methane is most dangerous not just carbon dioxide. 2050 is the last chance to reverse this before it becomes irreversible. 45 billion tons of CO2 equivalent currently. (man-made). 40% China and US. EU another 10%. To turn it around we have to focus on these areas. fossil fuel industry tries to convince us otherwise.
• Can we stop this? Yes. If we move to renewable energy sources. It comes down to money. Fossil fuels are subsidized by our taxes. Stop subsidies rather than use carbon offsets.
• Wind, solar, water and hydro have started the collapse of fossil fuel industry. China has 75% of world’s wind, solar, water and hydro installations. Solar power is becoming cheaper. David is hopeful that we can reverse the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2050.
• Upcoming speakers -Jo Campagn to talk about her farm date tba. Gus Lot to talk about history of the discovery of Uranus date tba possibly October 14th.
• 6th October Thursday evening in person at Pat’s to make beaver tails at 6pm and no meeting on October 7th.
• happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.15am