Meeting Minutes - April 13, 2010

Members In Attendance:

Darrell Winwood, Dale Tiedemann, Dana Moody, David Crouse, Lucy Ramirez, Miranda LeClercq, Gabrielle Boulet, Chris Murray, Matt Hall

Guests In Attendance:

Amanda McKay, Heather

Meeting Called to order at 7:30 PM by Darrell Winwood.

1) Introduction of Members & Guests:
1.A.) As listed above, 2 guests were in attendance at tonight’s meeting.

2) Approval of Last Meeting’s Minutes:
2.A.) Last Meeting was the Open House, no meeting minutes to approve.

3) Approval of Meeting Agenda:
3.A.) Add T-Shirt Order to Agenda. Approved by Gabrielle, second by David.

4) Volunteer Projects:
4.A.) . School Snack Program – The Grande Prairie Public School District as well as the Catholic School District have initiated a school snack program. They require volunteers to come in and prepare the snacks at the chosen school. The snacks are donated by companies or organizations and they will often have a ‘celebrity week” where the donators prepare the snacks. Dale recently participated in this project with the City of Grande Prairie at Hillside Elementary. He thought this would be a great experience for Rotaracters, and has signed us up for April 16, 2010, 9:00-11:30am. They will require 4-5 volunteers, sign up sheet to follow.

4.B.) Greenathon – The Greenathon is fast approaching, May 1, 2010. This is a quad club event where the Rotary clubs and kids of G.P. help clean up the city. Arrive in the morning to the Rotary campground for a pancake breakfast. Go to the schools to pick up the kids, and then head to your designated section of the city. Finish up with a BBQ and Bike Draw. Take the kids back to their schools and the day is usually done at about 1:30. This is a very fun event and if you would like to sign up as a captain or co-captain, please speak with Chris Murray.

4.C.) County Fundraiser – The County of Grande Prairie is holding something very similar to the Greenathon, the County Clean up. Groups are paid $100 for every km cleaned. This money could be great as general funds for the club. 5-6 volunteers needed, we will be signing up for 5 km to clean.

4.D.) Golden Age Centre – Dora has contacted Darrell to see if the Rotaract club would like to volunteer for an event at the Golden Age Centre. Darrell would like to know if anyone would like to head this event? Please contact him if you are interested.

4.E.) Relay for Life – This event runs from 7am to 7pm in June 11, 2010. This event is a fundraiser for Cancer Research. They will need volunteers for set up/registration/preparing meals. Or we could possible put together a team and participate. Will discuss further once more details are available.

4.F.) – Service Club Expo – The Lions club of GP is hosting a service club expo at the Lions Learning Centre April 17, 2010. It will be tradeshow style and Rotaract will have a booth set up. It is to raise awareness of the different clubs available in GP, and to build community interest in service clubs. Darrell and Kyla from Sunrise Rotary to work on behalf of the GP Rotary Clubs.



5) Old Business -
5.A.) New Executive – New Executive Members will come into their position on July 1, 2010 (the beginning of the Rotary year). New Exec includes:

Dale – President
Dana – President Elect
David – Treasurer
Cate – Secretary


5.B.) – T-Shirt order – We have added this to the agenda again… There was some dispute about Rotaract having their own logo, after the Rotary clubs designed a Quad club logo to include Rotaract. Dale is to see if he can get the logo from Sportswear plus, so we can put it on our awesome bamboo t-shirts.




6) New Business
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6.A.) Lobster Fest – June 5 is lobster fest, a Quad club event. Tickets are $50.00, but the Rotary clubs are asking if we have anyone that would volunteer to work the door. Meal included with Volunteering. We have two free confirmed tickets for the club.

6.B.) District Conference 2010– District Conference will be held on May 13-16 in Drayton Valley. Darrell would like to know if anyone is able to attend. He will pass around the agenda of the speakers and events being held that weekend. Darrell is to contact gaming to see if any funds can be used from our lottery money to assist members wanting to attend the conference.

6.C.) – Grande Prairie District Conference 2012 – We will need to have a Rotaract member sit on the board for the 2012 conference. It is still in the planning stages and meetings will be fairly light (once a month) for right now. Please contact Darrell and he will put you in touch with Fletcher Bootle for more info.

7.) – Round Table


Meeting Adjourned.