Attendance: Gabrielle Boulet, Darrell Winwood, Miranda Leclerc, Sarah Davison, David Crouse, Kathleen Crouse, Mark Forman, Jose Magat, Dale Tiedemann.
Guest: Cedrick Leblanc
Approval of Last Meeting Minutes: Dale motion, Jose second. Passed.
Approval of Agenda: Darrell motion, David second. Passed.
Action Items:
• Open House: Had great response, potential recruits from the evening, and cheques were made up and presented. thanks to Dana again for getting the space provided and the food! A successful event all in all.
• Bottle Pick up: We reviewed the bottle pickup process, but again for those who weren't in attendance: Please sign up with Michelle or myself for weekly pickup. We have been doing pick up preferably on a Monday/Tuesday, but whatever works for you midweek. When you go into the mall food court, the bottle room is located down the hallway in between the chinese restaurant and taco time on the right hand side (this is the mall's janitorial room as well). The bottles are at the end of the room in the corner in plastic bags. We have left a red Zellers bag there containing a jiffy marker, duct tape, and the power plus account number. Please put the number on tape and attached to the front of each bag of bottles - this way, our account will be credited with the funds. You can take these bottles to either one of the depots - the one on resources is now only open Mondays and Tuesdays, and the other from Wednesdays to Saturdays. There is a drop off spot labeled "power plus" in each depot when you walk in, and you can leave the bags under this sign. So far, we do not have a volunteer for this week - any takers??? I will have a new sign up sheet ready to go at tomorrow's meeting. Thanks to Jose and Gab for last week, and Mark for the week prior. Keep it up you guys!
• Black Tie Bingo: Ah, Dale's bebe, Black tie Bingo! We need volunteers for this for working coat check. A sign up sheet was passed around last meeting, but anybody else that would like to help, please let Dale know! This event is formal, so wear your Sunday's best and come out to help, should be a very fun event. the event is April 18, please be there for 5:30pm (earlier if you can). We have been advised that we are allowed some signage at the coat check, and can keep all tips towards the club! Awesome!
• Volunteer Services breakfast luncheon: 11:30 April 22 at the GP Inn, tickets have been allocated.
Old Ongoing Business:
• Belize Scholarship Project: Gab has found out that our contributions in fact put not one, but THREE TO FOUR students through high school - quite something! We are still deciding on whether we are allocating funds for this from gaming money, or lobster fest funds ($1000 for four years).
• Shelter Box: A quick review: Shelter box is a survival kit that supplies 10 to 12 people with aid/relief though a crisis. They are $1200 CAD each. We need a spokesperson or an ambassador if you will, to go to Peace River, Grimshaw and Fairview for 12pm meetings to present this project - who can travel? Please let us know if your schedule allows, would love the help. More to come, so stay tuned.
• Duck Race: And, over to Darrell for an update: Gaming has received our application, we are just waiting on the approval from them - so the ball is rolling quickly! April 30 has been confirmed for ticket sales to commence. We still need to find and confirm locations for ticket sales - this is a 12 week campaign. Please let Darrell or a member of the Duck Race committee know if you are aware of a location we could use commencing April 30 for 12 weeks running, or even a portion of this time.
• DTBA invites: Helen Rice has extended invites to our club for the Downtown Business Association committee meetings and participation in the Canada day parade a Duck race ticket booth perhaps?..... more to come on this proposal. Also, Iskoteo festival may be somewhere we could sell tickets or participate in the events (this is an arts festival happening in June in Grande Prairie featuring many local artisans - how cool!). Again, more to come on this...
New Business:
• Social Night: April 7 wall climbing, 7pm at the college $18-$20. This event has happened, Jose you will have to fill us in on how it was! Hope it was a success
• Rotary Green-a-thon: let's clean up this city of ours! the 1st Saturday on May there will be a garbage pick up day in Grande Prairie. Kids volunteer as well from local schools, so you may be in charge of a gaggle of little ones doing their best! Gab did it last year, reported it to be very entertaining.... complete with a pancake brekkie to start, then a barbecue after. 9am-1pm approximately, May 2. Sign up sheet will be passed around again at the next meeting.
Membership Minutes:
• Kendra and Tyler coffee time.... neither were present, so we'll have to hear what they got up to and learned about eachother at next meeting...... stay tuned! Cheryl and Spencer have been paired up next for coffee time, so we'll look forward to that as well.
• There is a Swan city Poker Tournament May 7, cost is $20 to enter, with plenty of prizes..... ask Dale for the deets.... he is the poker guy....
• Another Rotaract Interest: Darrell told our club about 6 Rotaract clubs in London, Ont that are doing odd jobs in seniors centers around their community - very cool. They volunteer to do the mundane tasks that help people very much, as well as some fun stuff for the residence. The club has been featured in a few articles for their work - way to go! Also, clubs in salt Lake City are up to some goodness: they raised $51,000 for clean water projects in Cambodia, and reforestation projects in Bangkok.
Meeting Adjourned
Hope everyone had an excellent Easter, and we'll see you all really soon! Have a wonderful night.
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