Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

Yogi Berra

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Yogi Berra

The meeting was held on Zoom at 7.15am with 6 members present

Music: Jim Croce: Time in a bottle

• Business
• We held an in person meeting on March 1st with 7 members, Assistant Governor Lynne Burch and President elect of Christina Lake Rotary present at Tim Horton’s.
• Liberty confirmed the food drive for March 23rd.
• Suggested making beaver tails at same time as food drive. but it is too much, we decided against it.
• Suggested making beaver tails during parade at Maydays at end of May. Pat will investigate possibility.
• We are asked to donate an item to the online auction for polio plus at the district conference. Discussion on donating $500 to give the winner more points. Maddy to ask Lynne Burch.
• Projects: The Land Conservancy – invite them to speak to us again with an update and plan to do more planting in the fall.
• Program seniors services
• Joan explained about the office of the Seniors Advocate in BC, started in 2014. A senior is anyone over 65. Awareness of services is spotty. Four areas of focus: Healthcare, income, housing and transportation. Rural seniors worse off economically. If you sell your house in an urban area get more to live on. It is hard to find services and more expensive in rural areas. You are more likely to have to travel for services. There are less dedicated seniors facilities in rural areas. If it was not for community action in small communities many seniors would be worse off. Transportation is really important for seniors as many services not available in every community. Canada wide service called Hope Air is available for help with medical related travel. New service for dental services available for seniors. Taxes can be done by volunteers free of charge for seniors. It can be hard to know about all the services available. Pat will talk to Jayme Fowler the BV senior advocate about talking to us about what she does.
• Is there a project we could do involving seniors?
• Club social – date Saturday April 13th, location to be decided….
• Next meeting March 15th. (Pat away next week.)
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. The meeting adjourned at 7.45am