“Service Above Self” QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt Aug 19th, 2014 Scuttlebutt is a weekly newsletter highlighting the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise Membership Duty Roster on Aug. 26th Program – TBA Greeter – Bev Walkey Invocation – Don MacPherson Sign In Desk – Bob Brown Rotary Moment – Peter Kellas President Doug Arbo Around Rotary’s World More on our Sunrise Membership story: Allan first joined Rotary in Stony Plains Alberta, primarily as the representative of his College Campus. Allan said that he began to embrace the values of Rotary through involvement in the International Student Exchange Program. Laurie and Allan hosted International students from six different countries over a period of years and that experience cemented Allan’s commitment to Rotary. Also Allan says that he has developed lasting friendships with some of the great people who are Rotarians in the three clubs he has been involved with.
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“Service Above Self”
QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt Aug 19th, 2014
Scuttlebutt is a weekly newsletter highlighting the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach
Sunrise
Mem
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hip
Duty Roster on Aug. 26th Program – TBA Greeter – Bev Walkey Invocation – Don MacPherson Sign In Desk – Bob Brown Rotary Moment – Peter Kellas
President Doug Arbo
Around Rotary’s World
More on our Sunrise Membership story: Allan first joined Rotary in Stony Plains Alberta, primarily as the representative of his College Campus. Allan said that he began to embrace the values of Rotary through involvement in the International Student Exchange Program. Laurie and Allan hosted International students from six different countries over a period of years and that experience cemented Allan’s commitment to Rotary. Also Allan says that he has developed lasting friendships with some of the great people who are Rotarians in the three clubs he has been involved with.
August 19th Meeting
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Three guests this morning: Susan Starks back for a second look at Rotary and our club; our Speaker this morning Laurie Gannon; and Ken’s guest Dave Chatters who was here to look us over.
Welcome Susan, Laurie, and Dave.
Ø Pauline Venner celebrates her Birthday on Friday
Ø Sara and John celebrate their Anniversary on Sunday
Happy Birthday Pauline, Enjoy your special day Sara and John
“I don’t engage in acts of kindness to be rewarded later, I engage in acts of kindness because it makes me feel good to give”. - Unknown
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President Doug had a couple of announcements and one important request for a membership decision.
Ø Shurl has informed Doug that the price of Bacon has gone up; so, the question Doug had for members was:
o Three slices, or o Two o Members decided based on the
bottom line and not their stomachs; so it’ll be 2 slices of Bacon from now on.
Ø Doug has called a special meeting for tonight, 7 pm at Rotary House to discuss upcoming fundraisers, Roses and a Garage Sale
Ø A tentative date of Saturday Sept 13 has been set for the Garage Sale and Rotary House has also been reserved for Friday the 12th of Sept for preparation.
Lauren’s theme for us this morning was “Moving Forward” but the session could also have been titled “Focus” as in review the objectives that we established last year and focus on the objective(s) that Committees want to accomplish this year; then to identify the goals and then the strategies that need to be in place to accomplish the selected goal (the what, how, who, and when), for this Rotary year.
Some background for our new and prospective members regarding the history of our planning process:
Ø In 2009-10 during Ken Neden’s year as President he invited District 5020 “Visioning Facilitators” to lead members through a visioning exercise. What came out of that session was a long list of Goals and Objectives, however no focus or strategies for implementation were immediately worked through.
Ø Prior to Allan’s year as President in the Spring of 2011 Lauren helped us to focus on those visioning outcomes and a 5 year Strategic Plan was established with Goals and Objectives established for each area of Service
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ued Ø In the Spring of 2013, prior to Deb’s year as President, with the club into the
4th year of the 5 year plan, Laurie again met with us and helped us re-focus on the next 5 years. Goals and Objectives were either ticked off as achieved, or amended or eliminated altogether.
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through” – Eddie Rickenbacker
President Doug and Lauren summarized our morning session:
Ø Lauren encouraged each committee to focus on the Goal(s) and Objective(s) to be accomplished in this Rotary year and to identify the how, who and when to ensure things happens.
Ø President Doug asked Committees to meet regularly with agendas that focus on the specific Goals and Objective to be accomplished this Rotary year.
The Key words coming from this morning’s session are:
-Focus & Follow Through-
“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” – Venus Williams
