Volume 92, Number 41 4,540th Meeting Friday, May 25, 2012
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 405, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5L3 — web: www.rotarynanaimo.org
Serving Our Community Since
May 1, 1920 - Charter Number 43
DIRECTORS Wayne Anderson Carey McIver Susie Walker
John Shillabeer Charles Ramos Bob Janes
President Rotary International Kalyan Banerjee, Rotary Club of Vapi, India
District Governor 5020 David Stocks, Rotary Club of West Shore, Victoria, BC
Club Meeting Friday at 12:00 p.m.
at the Coast Bastion Inn
CLUB OFFICERS
President ...................................... David Hammond
Vice President .............................. Keith McFarlane
Secretary ........................................... Janeane Coutu
Treasurer ........................................ Gordon Hubley
President Elect ......................................... Joan Ryan
Immediate Past President .............. John Heisterman
Students who spoke to the club May 18th are, left to right, RYLA Students: Kenda Chang-Swanson, Jaeda Drexhage, Rotary Exchange Students: Luisa Athayde, Lucas Le Goareguer and Interact Vice President: T.J. Andjelkovic.
May 18th Meeting Notes By John Shillabeer
President Dave Hammond opened
the meeting and led the national anthem.
Chris Pogson gave the invocation.
Dave Connolly called for visiting
Rotarians and guests. Kathy Smith in-
troduced Bob Lasota from Nanaimo
North, who had brought two of our guest
speakers; Wayne Anderson introduced
Glenn Molson, a Nanaimo resident and
prospective member.
On behalf of the whole club, Presi-
dent Dave welcomed Lucie Gosselin
back after her surgery.
Ross White, who will be celebrating
his twenty-fifth club anniversary on May
22, spoke to us about a malaria net fund
raising project for Ghana. Ross’ wife,
Pam, and friends are donating four sets
of place mats and a table runner hand-
made from beautiful African fabric to the
Nanaimo clubs. The plan is that each
club will devise a way to use them to
raise funds, such as a raffle; the proceeds
of which will be presented to our Sun-
yani visitors when they attend installa-
tion.
President Dave reminded members of
the upcoming Golf Tournament on June
6 at the Nanaimo Golf and Country
Club. Tickets are $25 for golf and $25
for dinner. He also reminded us of the
get together at Longwood at 6:30 for
7:00 pm Wednesday 23 May for those
potentially interested in attending next
year’s world conference in Lisbon.
Announcements :
Bob Fenty: the Upper Island Music
Festival requires more drivers to pick up
judges and adjudicators from the airport
on May 27 and to return them later in the
week.
Joan
Ryan: distrib-
uted sign-
up sheets
for mem-
bers to
indicate
their preferences for committee work
next year. Joan asked that we prioritise
our interests.
Wayne Anderson asked for volun-
teers to help load and transport surplus
books from the downtown library on
Sunday May 27 at 12:30 pm.
There will be a going-away party for
our visiting students and general get to-
gether on May 30 at 5:00 pm at Ocean-
side Club.
Sgt- at- Arms Mike Herold admonished
President Dave for his less than gallant
complements to Susan Gerrand about
this week’s hat compared to last week’s
model. However, instead of fining us for
doubtful misdemeanors, Sgt Mike
quizzed us on Victoria Day and its sig-
nificance. Susan Gerrand was the most
knowledgeable
and saved many
of us from em-
barrassment!
Happy and Sad
Bucks:
Ian Williams was ecstatic that
we had made as
much money on
the book sales as
Chiliwack, even
though they have
160 members and
can barely get
enough people to
support one sale a
year.
John Heister-
man was happy
to be back from his Panama cruise and
reported his surprise and pleasure at see-
ing Al Smith in a white dinner jacket on
the cruise. By the way, for those who
like to knock BC Ferries, John told us it
costs his cruise ship US $25,000 to re-
serve a passage through the canal and
$400,000 for the actual transit.
Debbie Narver was both happy and
sad that her son has landed a job, leaving
Debbie and her husband empty nesters.
Joan Ryan congratulated TJ (a
speaker) for selling a whole box of
chocolates in a good cause.
There then followed by-play among
the Sgt-at-arms, President and others
about the quality of leadership that cul-
minated in Douglas Anderson singing
(?) a line from the Pirates of Penzance
“I am the very model of a modern major
- general…..”
Table Stakes were won by John Heis-
terman and the card draw was picked by
Gord Hubley ,but without success. So
the pot will continue to grow for another
week.
Exchange Student
Program By Mike Herold
Our program today was introduced by
club member Kathy Smith and included
a talk by the Vice-President of our local
Interact Club, another by two of our re-
cent Rotary Youth Assembly Team
members who just finished their RYLA
training in Washington State, and a third
by three of our Rotary Exchange Stu-
dents.
Kathy mentioned that Nanaimo North
members Bob Lasota and Don Bonner
recently transported and chaperoned five
To raise funds to purchase mosquito nets to be sent to
Sunyani, a special fundraiser has been created with
tickets to be sold for a (1) set of 4 hand quilted place-
mats and (2) a table runner. The tickets are $5 each or
3 for $10. They will be available until installation night
at which time the draws will be made.
local students from our area to the
RYLA Conference in Washington. Bob
was visiting our club today and noted
that there were 136 students at the event,
plus many leaders and chaperones. The
total attendance was about 160 people.
Bob noted that the students were all well
versed and could easily stand up in front
of the 160 people and talk for some time
without any problems.
Our two RYLA students were Kenda
Chang-Swanson and Jaeda Drexhage,
both NDSS students. Kenda said that she
is very involved at school and partici-
pates in the environmental committee
and food drives and volunteers at the
hospital along with many other areas of
involvement. She said that she had a
fantastic time at RYLA. She shared ideas
with many other students and gained a
lot of confidence and experience during
the event.
Jaeda is also at NDSS and on the stu-
dent council, environmental committee
and youth choir and volunteers with Big
Brothers and Sisters. Jaeda said that she
met many positive people at RYLA and
that the whole event was extremely posi-
tive.
Club members Kathy Smith and
Douglas Anderson asked both students
to comment further and Kenda said that
she attended numerous workshops at the
event and each speaker spoke on a dif-
ferent topic. A main theme of the confer-
ence is that if you all work together, you
can make a difference.
Jaeda said they did a lot of trust exer-
cises where you would fall and trust that
someone would catch you. Jaeda also
said that she was going to Poland next
year to teach English.
Our Interact member was TJ Andjelk-
ovic who is currently Vice-President of
the local Interact club. She has been in
the club for one year and it has been a
life changing experience for her. She is a
16 year old, grade 11 Woodlands Secon-
dary student who is involved in the Stu-
dent Council and school volleyball team
and is the sports director.
She is running for Miss Nanaimo this
year and will participate in the Empire
Day and Victoria Day Parades as well as
the Bathtub races. She is looking for
Rotarians who are willing to donate
some of their time for worthy local com-
munity programs. She was recently in-
volved in giving out hygiene bags con-
taining razors, toothpaste and brushes to
local homeless men.
The Interact club recently donated
$1,100 which was raised by garage sales,
bottle drives and car washes to the
Mercy Ship program.
Our inbound Rotary Exchange stu-
dents will be going home soon and Lu-
cas Le Goaregner from France and
Luisa Athayde from Brazil were at the
club to thank us for our hospitality and
support and to say that they really en-
joyed their stay.
Lucas said that he helped raise $1200
for the Child Development Centre and he
grew up a lot. He explained the differ-
ence between Nanaimo and his home
town with Nanaimo being much smaller,
cars and houses much bigger in Canada,
and the weather being much colder in
Nanaimo.
Luisa said that she learned a lot about
herself. She is more confi-
dent now and she really
improved her English. She
said she wants to learn more
about the Canadian culture.
Kathy Smith thanked all
our speakers and she reiter-
ated Rotary's mandate to
promote peace and under-
standing throughout the
world. Rotary programs
such as RYLA, Youth Ex-
change and Interact are true
testimonies to this mandate.
Interact garbage cleanup - L - R, Kiran, Saman-tha and T.J. with the bags they filled with garbage collected from Brechin Lanes to the bridge near
the bottom of Westwood Road, wow!
ATTENDANCE By Janeane Coutu
We missed these Rotarians;
Blackmore, Blinston, Buchanan,
Currie, Grice, Hais, Hobbs, Jag-
gers, Hrabowych, King, Knutsson,
McIver, Malcolm, Patrick, Raedler,
Ramos, J. Smith, Tanner, Troje,
Valsangkar, Welch, Wilson
Visiting Rotarians;
Bob Lasota, Nanaimo North
Guests;
Exchange students Lucas of
France and Luisa of Brazil
RYLA students Kenda Chang-
Swanson and Jaeda Drexhage
Interact student TJ Andjelkovic
Glenn Molson, guest of Wayne
Anderson
Make-ups;
Al & Kathy Smith, Princess
cruise
DATES TO REMEMBER Wednesday, June 6th - Rotary Golf at Nanaimo Golf & Country Club. Nine and Dine for $50./ dinner only $25. Tee off 3:30 pm, Texas scramble, Dinner at 7:00. Prizes!
Friday, June 8 - Past Presidents Day at Nanaimo Rotary Club.
Friday , June 15 - Rotary Installation at the Coast, Fellowship at 6:00, Dinner at 7:00. No cost to Rotarians and their spouses.
June 22 & 24 - District Conference at the Victoria Conference Centre.
Friday, June 29 - Board of Directors Re-port and PHF recognition. All PHF’s are asked to wear their medals.
Sunday, August 12 - Rotary Summer Picnic at the home of Donna and Robert Hais. More info to come.
Other upcoming events to look for … possibility of a Poker Night, the Family Christmas Breakfast, and our Rotary Christmas Dinner.
WEEKLY CLUB PROGRAMS
GREETERS
CASHIERS
SGT-AT-ARMS
INVOCATION
HEAD TABLE
INTRODUCE GUESTS
INTRODUCE SPEAKER
THANK SPEAKER
PROGRAM
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GREETERS
CASHIERS
SGT-AT-ARMS
INVOCATION
HEAD TABLE
INTRODUCE GUESTS
INTRODUCE SPEAKER
THANK SPEAKER
PROGRAM
May 25th
Douglas Anderson,
Lila Tanner, Susan Gerrand
Lila Tanner
Yvan Gosselin
Guenter Raedler
Pres Dave, Ralph Nilson, Wahid
Ali, Kathy Smith, Lila Tanner,
Susan Gerrand, Douglas Anderson
Karl Hauer
Wahid Ali
V. I. UNIVERSITY
Ralph Nilson
Kathy Smith
June 8th
Helen Blackmore,
Neil Valsangkar, Karl Hauer
Al Smith
Yvan Gosselin
Joan Ryan
Pres Dave, Harry Cicconi, Helen
Blackmore, Neil Valsangkar, Karl
Hauer, Yvan Gosselin, Al Smith
Carmen Henderson
President Dave
PAST PRESIDENTS DAY
Paul Harris Fellowship Recognition
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GREETERS
CASHIERS
SGT-AT-ARMS
INVOCATION
HEAD TABLE
INTRODUCE GUESTS
INTRODUCE SPEAKER
THANK SPEAKER
PROGRAM
June 1st
Wayne Anderson,
Bruce Gordon, Carmen Troje
Al Smith
Bob Fenty
Charles Ramos
Pres Dave, Mike Hooper, Bob
Buchanan, Keith McFarlane, Wayne
Anderson, Zack Smith, Ray Sabourin
John Heisterman
Bob Buchanan
NANAIMO AIRPORT - Mike Hooper
Adventure in Forestry - Zack Smith
Bob Wilson
Impassable road can’t stop malaria fighters The Rotarian, May 2012
Physician Michael W. Felz spent several years with his wife and
children in Papua New Guinea as a medical missionary in the late 1980s.
“Malaria was rampant, and severe disease was not unusual,” recalls
Felz, a member of the Rotary Club of Augusta-West, Georgia, USA.
Since 1997, Rotarians Against Malaria in Papua New Guinea (RAM-
PNG) has been responsible for the nationwide program to distribute long-
lasting insecticidal nets. In addition to providing a physical barrier, the
nets thwart malaria by poisoning mosquitoes, which are killed on contact
by the insecticide embedded in the fibers.
In May, working with RAM-PNG and with financial support from his
club, Felz and a local friend, Andrew Pine, delivered 900 nets to the vil-
lage of Mamuane in an epic journey that almost ended when a rocky, rut-
ted mountain road became impassable.
“We were fully stuck – in the middle of nowhere, in the dark and
chilly downpour, with 100-pound bales of nets that no man could carry
on foot to Mamuane in that slick, sticky mud,” Felz says.
Pine sent word to his friend Luke Wembi, principal of the nearby
Tunda Primary School, and soon after daybreak, a chattering company of
80 barefoot students arrived. Each child shouldered several individual
nets wrapped in plastic.
“And off they went, carrying lifesaving mosquito nets up the slopes,
over the ridges, between the tall weeds, down the valleys, and through
the mud, on the two-hour trek to Mamuane.” In December, Pine reported
back about the village: “We don’t have malaria anymore.”