P.O. Box 255,
Brockville, Ontario, Canada K6V 5V5
International District 7040 Charter 923 May 1921

President: Janet Eaton - Secretary: Bruce Leslie
E- Secretary: Ken Holliday - Scribe: Marla Gilliland
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Vol. 78 #1

Meeting - Wednesday July 19^th, 2010

Greeter

President Janet thanked everyone who helped setup today.

Grace

Bruce Leslie gave grace this week.

Rotary Minute

Ken Holiday talked about the Montreal International Convention and said that those who did not attend missed a great event.  He was particularly enthralled with the House of Friendship but everything he attended was well done.  Mary Ellen brought back a Montreal 2010 banner to add to our collection.

Attendance

Faye reported 20 people. Guests are Ted Whiteland from Vancouver as well as our guest speakers, Dave Dargie, for senior games & Virginia Glover from Community Foundation.

50/50

Sold by Ken, Visitor Dave Dargie and Chris Butler were not able to find the elusive card.

Fellowship

No fellowship today as we hope all is well with everyone.

Birthdays

No birthdays were celebrated today.

Sgt. @ Arms

Marty fined all those who did not know who won the British Open a loonie.  A toonie for all those who had not yet bought a green lottery ticket and for those who did not know what was special about today, (Marty’s wife’s birthday & only Ken knew that) another loonie.

Happy Announcements           

   Gerry, 57 years married.

    Rick happy that 1000 Islands Toyota won the Presidents prize cup for 2009.

    Faye, happy to have had Heather Howe look after our web for so many years even though she was far, far away and she has sent her a thank you letter for all the hard work she put in over the years.

     Ken happy to have in-laws moved into their new condo in Prescott.

    Jan married for 49 years last week.

     Mary Ellen has her sister and family here for a visit.

    Bruce will be away in Hilton Lac Leamy for a training trip.

Announcements

    We will attempt to do Rotary Exchange in 2011.

    We will also discuss further a possible Youth Exchange in the future.

    Dave Dargie asked for volunteers for the 55+ games being held Aug. 23 – Aug. 28^th.

    Request from Gail Abrahms for volunteers for Habitat for Humanity.

    Janet will call a directors meeting soon.

    Next club assembly to be held on Aug. 28th. at Janet’s house, just north of town.  Spouses are welcome.

    Ken talked about the golf tournament, specifically about how the silent auction went. Also he has posted the results on the web site for any member to look at. We learned a lot this year which will help make next year go reallyyyyyy smooth.

Program

Virginia Glover was introduced by Ian.

She was born in Canada and has been in Brockville since 1982.  Her husband has just been granted Canadian Citizenship at the young age of 84.

The Community Foundation will only help those organizations that have a charitable registration.  They operate with a board of directors of 12 people.

The role of the Community Foundation is “The Hub of Growth in the Community” where donations are kept in reserve and the interest accrued is distributed to small projects for the better of the community.

Community Foundations are all across Canada and has assets in excess of $2.9 billion and the Brockville Foundation was started in 1974 by Hunter Grant who looked after it for 11 years. 

In 2003 they received a Trillium grant to allow the Foundation to hire a full time ED. 

Projects in 2009 include; Brockville Community Choir, Chaffey’s locks Heritage Society, Special Olympics & Kings Kitchen.

Virginia was thanked by Mary Ellen who had acted as a director of the Foundation for many years. 

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