Waneta Sunshine Rotary

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Fred Allen

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

The meeting was held on Teams at 7.15 am with 5 members present.

Music:

• Business
• On Saturday in the lobby of the Bailey Theatre, we will promote Rotary together with Trail Rotary members from 11am to 3pm.
• Thanksgiving Roses fundraiser: Dustin Ford from the Castlegar club will come and talk to us about it. We will make a list of questions.
• DG Steve Roberge will visit at the November 6th meeting at Bridgeview at 8am.
• Salvation Army meal: Juris will contact them to find a date in January 2027.
• Our Christmas lunch is Friday, December 4th. Kootenay Kebab at 1pm. We will have our annual book exchange. We will personally contact inactive members to invite them to the Christmas lunch.
• Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on Fridays. Our last meeting of the year is December 18th. Our first meeting of 2027 will be in-person on January 8th
• Monthly meeting format: Week one: in-person social; week two: YouTube video; week three: speakers; week four: more detailed business meeting; week five: an item from the Rotary magazine.
• Happy and sad bucks (not collected)
• Upcoming meetings
• October 30th – Rotary magazine article. Graham
• November 4th – DG visit at 8 a.m. at Bridgeview.
• November 20th – Sheila Adcock on homelessness in Trail.
• December 4th, 1 p.m., lunch at Kootenay Kebab.
• December 18th: last meeting of the year online
• January 8th: first meeting of 2027.

Meeting adjourned at 8:15 am