Waneta Sunshine Rotary

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

link to the Castlegar Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held in Subway in Fruitvale at 8am with 6 members present and guest April Huggett

Music:

• Business
• Saturday November 5th District fall training in Spokane valley 10 to 3pm. Meet at Pat’s at 6.30am to go through Patterson.
• No meeting next week November 11th as it is a stat holiday.
• Bingo is currently scheduled to finish at the end of the year. an exemption for us to get electronic delivery of cards is stopping. Last game dec 30th. An article in the Trail Times highlighted this.
• We received a card from the Kootenay Native Plant society thanking us for sponsoring the planting at fort shepherd.
• Motion Maddy seconded Joan to donate $1000 from bingo money to the Beaver Valley food bank. passed.
• Trail Rotary invited us to help with their Road clean up this sunday November 6th. Juris sent out details.
• Pat when will the wood for chairs get cut up?
• Maddy has contacted Van Helmond about Tee shirts and a tablecloth. No reply as yet.
• Program April Huggett from non profit Planet of People
• April told us how she started a non-profit society to raise money to help the people of Ukraine. She has been collecting aid to send to Ukraine. She will be going out to Ukraine in December to distribute it. More is needed but logistically better to buy goods in Poland. Nonperishable food is housed in warehouses in Poland. There is a shortage of people to get stuff where it is most needed. Logistics are difficult. She is interested in expanding to other countries possibly to help people in Pakistan. Currently we do not have money in our budget for international projects. Members can donate individually
• Her phone number and contact information is at the sidebar.
• November 18th Mandi Lunan speaker. Will talk about the Teen Chef program.
• happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.15am