Waneta Sunshine Rotary

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

what the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant.

link to the Castlegar Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held on zoom at 7.15am with 5 members present and guests Viktor Cytra and Gus Lott

Music: Sunshine Go Away today, by Jonathon Edwards

• 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. We are booked for the market in Trail to make beaver tails on October 22nd. Trail club?
• 6th October Thursday evening we met to learn how to make beaver tails.
• Thanksgiving food drive was successful on October 1st at Liberty foods in Fruitvale. about $2000 in food and cash was collected. Thank you from the Beaver Valley Food bank.
• Betty Boateng sent a list of items they need for their outreach in Ghana. Pat will price them out.
• 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. Breakfast with Santa Dec 3rd in Fruitvale needs dishwasher volunteers.
• Tree planting at Fort Shepherd: tomorrow October 15th.
• Juris has been in contact with Carol and will get a financial report out.
• Members need foodsafe and serve it right if we do fundraisers with food like Beaver tails. Pat has started it. Monse has it.
• We helped with the Fruitvale All Candidates forum on October 4th.
• Sunday November 6th is tentatively set for Road clean up.
• Program – Juris introduced Gus Lott, who has a phd in biophysics from Cornell University, and a Masters in divinity in Austin Texas.
• The past 300 years of science. In 1717 Isaac newton wrote about the formation of the universe and had God as part of the equation. 100 years later a mathematician LaPlace, came up with an equation without God in it. Uranus seemed to be breaking the law. Model was accurate in the middle but at extremes God had to be involved. 1886 Neptune was discovered. Mercury did not follow the law. Gravitational distortions. Named a hypothetical planet vulcan. 1915 Einstein’s general theory of relativity. No need for Vulcan. Einsteins theory explained it all.
• Coming to understand the absence of free will, no need for God to explain anything, leads to a different sort of compassion. Science does not judge. To know all is to forgive all. Who deserves punishment? Einstein wrote that his lack of free will makes him more compassionate around others. You love your enemy because they are perfect as they are. not because it is the right thing to do. If we pull someone out of the water, we also need to see why people are falling in upstream (Desmond Tutu).
• Questions about sentences for multiple murderers. Death penalty is not a deterrent. Looking at what people deserve gets us stuck. Discussion on prison system. comments about how we are programmed in our life. Restorative justice is about fixing something and that something is out of balance. No, the universe is fine as it is.
• Upcoming speakers -Jo Campagn to talk about her farm, date tba.
• happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.15am