Waneta Sunshine Rotary

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.

Si Robertson

The meeting was held on Zoom at 7.15am with 5 members

Music: Working through the week. Loverboy

• Business
• Juris will write the cheque for $2000 to the Memory Garden project. We would like to have signage on a bench or somewhere else appropriate.
• Pat aided by Juris made pizza at Trail YAN on 17th May. They had fun and the kids were really engaged. Monse and Theresa will cook on either the 31st of May or June 7th. Pat will make calzones on June 14th.
• Joint changeover meeting on July 4th at the old guest house in Tadanac, (Mike Patterson’s house). Pat needs to confirm the details.
• Maddy got an email asking us to help with a project in India. We will stick with our projects in Africa partnering with Colville Rotary.
• Pensioner’s picnic is June 21st. tickets are $5. at birchbank
• Maddy and Juris leaving for their trip including the RI convention in Melbourne on Saturday. Back for the meeting on June 30th. The current meeting link is good until the end of June. Maddy will send out a new link in July.
• Program – Joan part 2 of her trip to Ghana
• Joan showed a short video of attendees at a health fair near a shanty town at the Art Cantre in Accra, where Joan and David helped out. They set up chairs for clients to wait in. 240 people attended but they were expecting more like 500. Partners with the Millenium Christian Women’s Network Foundation were 3 pharmacists, 7 nurses, 7 local doctors, and 7 counselors. Prescriptions could be filled straight away. Doctors could not treat everyone but sent people to the local hospital as necessary. Some drug addicts came in. Lifestyle counseling was important for example for people with high blood pressure. Joan and David were limited in how they could help as they could not speak the language but were able to observe. Our club donated blood pressure monitors and temperature sensors and glucose test strips. The Foundation has to decide how often they will do health fairs. The government is not able to provide all health services. We could arrange for others to travel to Ghana and attend a health fair and help, observe, and help set up.
• Upcoming meetings and events
• 2nd June in-person meeting.
• July 4th joint changeover meeting hosted by Trail Club-more details to follow. Pat will confirm this.
• 7th July in-person meeting.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. The meeting adjourned at 8.15am