Last Tuesday we had 26 members in Attendance, with 3 online Barry Davidson, Lyn McGowan and Christine.
We were honoured to have Steve Rutledge (Rotary Whitby Sunrise Club) as our guest while Trudy, Mike, and Phyo presented their experience in Laos. Steve is the Rotary Leader of the International "Adopt a Village in Laos" that is bringing drinking water and sanitation facilities to many of the villages in Laos.
Trudy and Phyo along with Mike and Liz Latner travelled to Laos as part of a vacation. They spent time in Laos with Steve and his project team. They had an opportunity to personally present water filters that were recently donated by the Rotary Club of Wellington.
Their slide show included highlight of their visit, meeting with local villagers, sharing in their traditions, enjoying some local delights and what sound like some great Laos beer.
Special thanks to them all taking the effort to visit Steve's Adopt a Village in Laos Project and to give us a first hand explaination of this wonderful operation in the poorly serviced villages in Laos.
Members of our Club were sad to hear of the passing of past Rotarian David Baldwin. David joined the Rotary Club in 2012 and was a Rotarian until 2019, when he and wife Nancy decided on extended travels with their newly acquired RV. Tim Cox reminded us all of what a wonderful man he was and how he helped in projects like the installation of the Scoreboard at the Field of Dreams ball field.
There was discussion about supporting the Canada Day Parade that has been such a big part of the annual holiday celebration in Wellington. It was agreed that the Rotary Club would support this event this year. We will repeat our participation in the Parade with a Float (Christine/Shawn) and we will have our Ribfest in the park following the parade. Yvonne and Roger have offered to coordinate this event with some help from our former Ribfest leader Lana.
A motion by Mike Lattner, That the Rotary Club of Wellington Donate $1000 to the Canada Day Committee to offset the cost (Security/Bands Etc) of the Canada Day Parade. Seconder David Robinet Carried: Unanimously.
Reminders went out to volunteers for the Beach Clean-up on Saturday and the BQ that would follow. Hopefully it will take place rain or shine but if rain is heavy we will do it Sunday.
After happy bucks and 50/50 ticket draw, the ace of spades was still not drawn. The meeting adjourned with the four way test.