Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise

This may seem a bit nerdy, but here goes anyway. You may have seen codes like the one in this image. These are the next generation of the familiar bar code, they are 2d instead of 1d like a bar code. The result is that they can include a lot more information. They are also very simple to generate and to read. Any smart phone with a camera should be able to read them. There are apps for the iphone. My android phone has one called barcode scanner. If I use the phone to scan this image, it takes me immediately to the web site that this code points to, in this case, our club web site.

Thanks go out to Lauren Gannon for providing these photographs of the installation last week.

Eighteen Sunrise Rotarians, their spouses, kids and friends were out for the smoothie and burger sale and Show N Shine today. It has become a well oiled machine, everything went smoothie, er . . , I mean smoothly.

Thanks to everyone.

Here are some photos and even a video of Mr Smoothie himself making a mango smoothie. My apologies for the photo and video quality, best I could do with a cell phone.

Lauren Gannon lead a small group of our members tonight through the 3rd (or is it the 4th) Visioning session. We have canceled the evening meeting on April 27, 2010 as there are too many of our incoming executive away that evening. We are planning to extend our normal one hour meeting on the morning of June 1 to 3 hours (7 am to 10 am) to discuss, fine tune and adopt the long term plan that is being developed in these sessions.

In the meantime, here are some photos of your team at work tonight.

YouTube has many interesting bits and pieces related to Rotary. What follows are some I have found. If you come across others, please send me the links or add them as a comment to this blog post.

Dolly Parton about Montreal 2010
http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/100324_news_condeadline...

This Is Rotary - Rotary International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vVyG0TJBWM&feature=related

Rotary Minute: What Is Rotary?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbLI-vQva30&feature=related

Paul Harris 1933 Rotary International Speech

Since the PolioPlus program's inception in 1985, more than two billion children have received oral polio vaccine. But Rotary's work is not done: The disease has not yet been eradicated.

Goal
$200 million
by 30 June 2012

To see where we are now, check the thermometer.

Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge is the Rotary Foundation's response to the two grants totaling $355 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help eradicate polio. Every dollar given to PolioPlus will be counted toward the $200 million match, which must be completed by 30 June 2012.

At the Visioning session this week, we were challenged to come up with an elevator speech that answers the question, "What is Rotary anyway?"

In this high quality 3 minute video produced by Rotary International, several Rotarians from around the world, answer that question.

Facebook? Social Networking? What is this stuff all about and how does it relate to Rotary? Here are some answers to these questions.