Waneta Sunshine Rotary

Folks, don’t trust children. they’re here to replace us.
Steven Colbert

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

Steve Irwin

The meeting was held on Zoom at 7.15am with 3 members present

Music: Come together: Beatles

• Business
• RI and district dues have been paid.
• We are now using Maddy’s zoom account for meetings. New link until Christmas. Juris and Graham tested a Teams meeting and it works. We can use it as a backup if needed.
• We received a thank you letter from the Hospital Foundation for the $2000 we donated towards the memory garden at Columbia View Lodge. A second letter letter gave an overview of the project which is nearing completion.
• More of us need to have Foodsafe so that we do not have to rely on just one person every time we make beaver tails. Foodsafe is available online.
• The road clean-up was successful on July 22nd despite the heat.
• Juris will investigate us doing more tree planting in the fall at Fort Shepherd. We may be able to use Bingo money to do more planting.
• We have about $3500 of Bingo money to use before the end of October. Juris will let us know how much. Suggested we try Communities in Bloom. fort Shepherd, Food bank.
• We may be able to get an express grant again from the district. We need ideas to apply and use this. Maddy will check the amount.
• What we want to do this year, as a club, especially to attract new members. Come up with ideas.
• Social tomorrow Saturday, August 12th at 4pm. Invite friends and past members and someone new to Rotary. So far we have 15 people coming.
• August 4th was in person at the Bridgeview.
• August 18th and 25th regular Zoom meetings.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. The meeting adjourned at 7.45am