Thought of the day
30 October 2026
Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you want.
Mark Twain
As a child, my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett
The meeting was held on Teams at 7.15 am with 5 members present and guest Rosita
Music: Some kind of wonderful. Grand Funk Railroad.
- Business
- Two of us and guest Rosita helped at the Charles Bailey event on Saturday the 25th.
- Thanksgiving Roses fundraiser: Dustin Ford from the Castlegar club will come and talk to us about it on November 27th.
- 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.
- Program – Joan
- Article from August 2026 magazine. Food as medicine. A club in India added protein powder to the medical regimen for those being treated for TB. This helped the patients gain weight. They received a grant for the project, which was very successful. We discussed TB and the BCG vaccine.
- The Ebola virus is spreading in Africa, as there is no vaccine for this particular strain. It is partly due to burial rituals in some countries where they handle the body. We moved on to Polio stories. Discussion on COVID shots
- Other information
- 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.
- Upcoming meetings
- November 6th – DG visit at 8 a.m. at Bridgeview.
- November 20th – Sheila Adcock on homelessness in Trail.
- November 27th – Dustin Ford of Castlegar Rotary to talk on the Thanksgiving Roses fundraiser.
- December 4th, 1 p.m., lunch at Kootenay Kebab.
- December 18th: last meeting of the year online
- January 8th: first meeting of 2027: in person at Bridgeview.
- Happy and sad bucks (not collected)
Meeting adjourned at 8:15 am
