ST THOMAS ROTARASERVER NOTES FEB 19 2020

Spring extravaganza March 21 tickets coming—14 vendors!  Save the Date! Tickets to be sold will be distributed in two weeks.

Next meeting is: March 4^th.

Grand Bend shipment – new or used backpacks still needed. 

Sue is a well-known, experienced Rotarian and as well as an experienced member of Toastmasters.  She is a member of the Rotary Club of London-Hyde Park.

Toastmasters and Rotary have formed an alliance.  Sue and her husband Rick are long time members of both.  She says that there many similarities between the two groups.  Toastmasters is a program to build confidence.  She encouraged us to check out Toastmasters.org.  Toastmasters changes peoples’  lives by having people confident in running meetings, business networking etc.  It is a peer-driven organization.  Meetings are held at least once a month or more frequently.  They have a fairly new digital program.  Toastmasters, like Rotary, is an international organization.  They are developing courses (structured paths) specific for Rotary.

Common to both clubs

In St.Thomas, Talbot Trail Toastmasters meets Thursday at 7 at the community room in the Elgin Mall. 

Sue’s club meets Monday at 7. 

 

50/50 draw winner—Gerald Vreman

Fine Master—Pat Martyn.  The first meeting of Rotary was Feb 23.  The February theme is peace and conflict prevention and resolution. 

Happy Finns

1 Gerald Music Festival

1 Stew Sue’s presentation

1 Connie Sue’s presentation

2 Mary Sue’s presentation and brother’s birthday

1 Bill Sue’s presentation

2 Pat Family Holiday and Sue’s presentation

2 Trish Sue’s presentation and Stews support and dedication to Rotary

2 Adriana nephew visit and family news

 

Gerald encouraged everyone to attend as much of the Music Festival as they are able. The contestants this year are awesome.

 

NO MEETING NEXT WEEK TO ALLOW YOU TIME TO ATTEND FESTIVAL

 

Note for Stew, our speaker from last week asked that I post the following:

Hi Barbara and Stew,

 

It was great to meet you both last Thursday – thank you again for having Kristen Bernard and I to speak to the Rotary Club group. We truly enjoyed meeting your members and chatting about conservation in Southwestern Ontario! We hope people left inspired to get outdoors and embrace the rest of winter J.

 

One of our highest priority projects in Southwestern Ontario is to build a 62-acre wetland on an NCC property on Pelee Island. This will be the biggest wetland NCC has built on the island, and will support migratory birds, turtles, salamanders and a multitude of other species. It will also provide critically important water retention, filtration and flood mitigation to the local community.

If any of your members are interested in supporting this project, we would be most grateful. I have provided the link to learn more about the project - donations can be made by clicking the “Donate Today” link on this page: http://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/ontario/featured-projects/pelee-island.html