Jim Crist about Nuclear Energy

May 11, 2010

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Around Rotary’s World


National Immunization Day in India




Rotarian Robert Hall greets children who will be vaccinated against polio during a National Immunization Day. Moradabad, India.

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Rotary District 1950 (Germany) Doing Good in the World




Kerstin Jeska-Zimmermann, 2004-05 governor of District 1950 (Germany), was vacationing with her husband in Sri Lanka's Hikkaduwa resort town in December 2004 when the powerful tsunami hit.
"All of a sudden, there was absolute silence, as if nature was holding her breath," Jeska-Zimmermann recalls. "After a few minutes, we heard people frantically screaming, 'The water is coming!' "
In the days following, as Jeska-Zimmermann and her husband tried to grasp the scope of the devastation, they joined a group of Sri Lankans attempting to discover the fate of patients at the Mahamodara Hospital in Galle, about 12 miles southeast of their resort, where 40-70 babies were born daily. Mercifully, all the patients had been evacuated to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital further inland before the second, stronger wave hit.
Seeing dozens of women in labor lying on cardboard on the floor of the overcrowded teaching hospital, Jeska-Zimmermann vowed to help. She faxed a handwritten list of urgently needed medicine and supplies, along with a plea for help, back home to be distributed to all club presidents in her district.
The first, 2-ton shipment of emergency medical supplies left the Frankfurt airport within two weeks of her appeal, followed shortly after by a second, 7-ton shipment that included sonogram equipment, operating tents, tables, and tools for the devastated hospital.
In the aftermath of the tsunami, German Rotary clubs in 12 districts raised more than €1.5 million (US$2.1 million) in donations and equipment.
Jeska-Zimmermann also met with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was vacationing on the same island, and the Kohl Foundation agreed to provide €9 million ($12.9 million) to construct a new maternity hospital about 9 miles inland of the Mahamodara facility. Workers broke ground on the project on the one-year anniversary of the tsunami, but work was subsequently delayed by Sri Lanka's civil war.
In early 2010, German clubs, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Colombo, Western Province, plan on providing about $300,000 to equip the old Mahamodara hospital building with two new delivery rooms and two operating rooms.
Jeska-Zimmermann will travel to Sri Lanka in January to oversee the effort.
"Our tsunami project in Sri Lanka -- which is only one of hundreds of Rotary recovery projects -- shows the tremendous speed, efficiency, and flexibility of the Rotarian network," she says. "This powerful sentiment was echoed by the medical staff and mothers who saw firsthand our global humanitarian network in action."

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This Week in Rotary


May 18th Activity Roster

1. Greeter – Blake Whaley
2. 50-50 – Ron Stothers
3. Rotary Moment – George Venner
4. Invocation – Ken Walker

May 11th Meeting


This Weeks Announcements




Kim, pinch hitting for Ron, announced that 27 people have signed for Burgers and Bowling this next Friday; 5:40 p.m. at Sunset Lanes in Parksville

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Last Years Rotarian of the Year recipient Ken is chairing the selection committee for this year’s selection. He asks that members submit names of nominees (email will work) to him over the next couple of weeks. Ken suggests a name and a short rationale would work best for the selection process.

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President Ken announced that next weeks meeting will be a club Assembly and will focus on the next phase of our Visioning Exercise

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Birthdays and Anniversaries




Happy Birthday Amy

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Happy 51st Allen and Marjory

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Guests




We welcomed Linda Rutledge as a guest for the last time; she’ll be inducted into our club next Tuesday – Welcome Linda

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Rotary Moment




Larry might have met a Rotarian while transiting the Panama Canal, we don’t know for sure, but that was to have been his rationale for relating his and Eleanor’s Panama experience. Anyway Larry got bumped this morning so we may never know if Larry actually did meet a Rotarian on the Cruise Ship.

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The Four Way Test




Derek ponders and successfully recites Rotary’s Four Way Test.

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Planning for the 2010-11 Rotary Year




President Elect David reviewed the first cut of Committee assignments for his Rotary year, 2010-11 which of course starts July 1. David suggested that members need to speak up if they have preferences that are different from those assigned.

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May 11th Program


The Fascinating History of Medical Imaging




Fascinating was the operative word that best describes Stuart’s presentation this morning. Who but Stuart could take a topic as seemingly mundane as XRays; Radium; glow in the dark watches; Alexander Graham Bell; Penny Lane; the mortality of radiologists; C scans; and MRI’s and turn that into a riveting 20 minute presentation.
I started to take notes but I got so interested that at the end of the presentation my note pad was virtually bare. So all I can say is “you had to be there”; and for those of you who were absent – bad choice because you missed a good one.

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Spotlight on Visioning and Goal Setting




The process of Visioning began in February at the Bradley Centre when about ten members met with Craig Gillis and the District Visioning Resource team. We were asked to describe the kind of club we wanted to be in 2015. Lists were created under each of the Service area categories and then each of the items was prioritized.

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In the second stage of this Visioning process we were fortunate to have Lauren Gannon serve as our facilitator because without Lauren’s experience and leadership we could well have floundered. What Lauren had us do in two sessions at Rotary House was to take the statements we had identified in February and develop quite global Vision Statements and then place each of the statements into a service area category.

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At next Tuesday’s Club Assembly Ken and David will use the time to bring all of the members up to speed on the first 2 phases of the Visioning Exercise and prepare us all for the June 1 – 3 hour session.

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On June 1st Lauren will take us through a Goal setting Exercise. She will ask us to take each of the Vision Statements and establish one or more goals that will have to be achieved to get us to the place we want to end up. Included in the goal setting will be an implementation time line and as well as a validation process.

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Global Networking Groups

Here is the link to the Global Networking Groups page on the Rotary International web site mentioned in my Rotary Moment this morning.

October 13, 2009

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Last Week in Rotary








Welcome back Kim- Ken and Giovanni compete to shake Kim’s hand on he and Jill’s return from a 5 month sentence in the heat and humidity of Ibiza. Kim still not recovered from Jet Lag was at Rotary House bright and early to help set up for this mornings meeting.






Membership Director Pat spent all day Oct 9th riding the Cable Cars in San Francisco looking for potential QB Sunrise new members.






Doug, pinch hitting for Ron, announces Gala Gala at Giovanni’s on November 7th
The event will coincide with the first anniversary of Giovanni’s Restorante and will feature 2 sittings at 5:00 and 7:30. The event will include a Silent Auction. Stay posted for more details as they unfold.






Roses Chair Ken tells it like it is:The Roses Fundraiser (our most important fundraising event) won’t get underway until someone steps up to take on the Supplies Portfolio. Will someone please step up to the plate and take this on, it’s not an onerous task, just needs someone who is organized and we have a club full of people like that – don’t we?

International Director Doug Sly reports that things are well underway in their efforts to solicit funding from individual Clubs in the Mid Island in support of our efforts to raise funds for the Bukati School Project in Kenya. Doug has spoken to 4 clubs receiving 3 positive responses and one no. Charles will be speaking to the 2 Alberni Clubs as well David and Doug will be speaking with several more clubs in the coming weeks. All of the dollars that can be raised by mid island clubs will be matched by the District – providing that we can get our final request in to the District before the Matching Grant funds are depleted.






Community Service Director Allan Gannon and Coats for Kids.In cooperation with Parksville AM we will be distributing warm coats and winter outer wear to needy children in Qualicum. Collection boxes are set up at local Schools and as well Allan asked club members to bring donations to Rotary House.






Peter, pinch hitting for Mike, talked up the Oct 24th Garage Sale and invited as many members who were able to come by Rotary House on Friday Oct 23 to do so to help with pick-up and with pricing.



This Week in Rotary




October 20 Activity Roster

1. Greeter – Doug Arbo
2. 50-50 – Allen Ball
3. Rotary Moment – Charles Beckingham
4. Invocation – Giovanni Belcastro

October 13 Meeting




Birthdays and Anniversaries


Doug and Dorothy celebrated their 54th Anniversary on October 8th (poor Dorothy). Congratulations Doug and Dorothy


Guests






Allan introduces Parksville AM Rotarian John O’Brien – Welcome John This was John’s second visit in as many weeks and it was suggested that John is seeking membership in our Club.

Program






David presents our own Dr. Kevin Martin with a Certificate in support of Polio Plus


Kevin’s presentation featured information on H1N1 – the term H1N1 is a descriptor of the protein that has resulted in the mutation of the virus that allows the disease to be communicated to humans.
Kevin revealed that under normal conditions 800 Canadians die each year from influenza related disease and most of these are people who were already at risk because of pre conditions that make them more susceptible. H1N1 is 30% more aggressive than the normal strains of influenza, however, here again people suffering from pre conditions are more susceptible to die from the disease.
To date in B.C. 64 cases have been reported with one death occurring.
The H1N1 Serum is available Oct 13 in Canada and immunization is free.

Spotlight on Rotary and Rotarians



Rotary Youth Exchange – Are We Missing an Opportunity?


When our Club was formed in 1997 it was the decision of the Board of the day not to sponsor a Rotary Youth Exchange Student. Their rational was that the other Clubs in Oceanside did sponsor RYEC students and our Club focus therefore could and should be elsewhere.
Yours truly thinks it’s time to rethink that decision. Rotary is after all an International organization and I believe that by sponsoring a Rotary Exchange Student and having the student attend our meetings each week it would give all of us an added international perspective. These young people bring a dimension to the sponsoring club that is truly rewarding, not just to the student but to all members of the host club. I also believe it would be a viable way to bring younger members into our club – parents who would see the benefit to their own children of participating in the hosting experience.
Perhaps someone could take this on as either a Rotary Moment presentation or as a Program presentation to get the ball rolling. (I’d volunteer)


District 5020 Class of 2009/10 Rotary Youth Exchange Students

1. From Norway, Signe-Marie (Bainbrdge Island)
2. from Hungary, MarcellPoser (Bremerton)
3. fromTaiwan, Sara Chen (Campbell Daybreak)
4. from Chile, Francisca Saldana(Courtney)
5. from Sweden, Gustov Hugoson (Duncan)
6. From France, Colin Roustan (Duncan Daybreak)
7. from Taiwan, Anita Lee( E. Jefferson)
8. fromGermany, Laura Wayand ( Hawks Prairie)
9. from Kyrgyzstan, Ermek Soronbaev (Lacey)
10. from Belgium, Melody Lecocq ( Nanaimo)
11. from France Anatole Verhaeghe (Lakewood)
12. from Thailand, Tharit Ketprapakorn(Nanaimo)
13. from Slovakia, Juraj Strananek(Nanaimo)
14. from Brazil Johanna Rodrieguez ( Olympia)
15. from Mexico, Bolio Castillo( Olympia)
16. from Norway, Rolf Ostby( Parksville)
17. from Italy, Alice Meir( Parksville AM)
18. From Switzerland, Luis Neumeier ( Port Angeles)
19. from Austria Christoph Etzlinger( Port Hardy)
20. from Finland, Merkku Neimnen (Port Hardy)
21. from Czech Republic, Bara Depefova ( Port Orchard)
22. from Spain, Ruth Almedarez (Port Townsend)
23. from Denmark, Larke Dahl Jorgenson (Port Townsend-Sunrise)
24. from India, Juhi Pawar (Poulsbo-NK)
25. from Croatia, Mirna Savic( Qualicum Beach)
26. from Poland, Krzysztof Bartkowiak (So. Puget Sound)
27. from Brazil, Naty De Souza (So. Cowichan),
28. from Japan, Azumi Ishikawa (Tacoma 8).

Club Assembly

Club Assembly & Final meeting before our Roses From Rotary event.

About the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise

Our club meets each Tuesday morning at 7 am at Rotary House.

We are a small club. Since we were chartered by Rotary International on May 16, 1997, we have always been at least 20 members and have had as many as 33 members.

Prospective members should be aware of the fact that we are a busy group. In addition to our weekly meetings we are generally engaged in several ongoing projects.

Each year we brighten the lives of many people with Roses from Rotary. This involves several weeks of selling Roses (actually they almost sell themselves) and then an evening of sorting, trimming and boxing the flowers followed by a Saturday morning of delivering them. If you have never delivered flowers, you are in for a treat. There are few things in life as sweet as the smile on the face of someone who unexpectedly receives a dozen roses. It does take some time, but it also produces significant revenue to fund our club projects. We are getting this fundraiser down to a smooth routine.

This is only one example of the kinds of things we do to raise funds and at the same time increase the profile of our club in the community.

Our weekly meetings follow a familiar format. We start sharp at 7 (or if we don't, the Sgt at Arms has an easy target for a fine!) We begin with the National Anthem and grace. Members rotate in these duties. Without much delay, we serve ourselves up a hearty breakfast. Just as the slow eaters get near the end of their meals, The club president heads back to the podium to see that our visitors and guests are properly introduced and any announcements of interest to our Rotarians are presented. That done our guest speaker is introduced.

Always the highlight of our weekly meeting, our guest speaker then has our focused attention for 20 minutes or so.

After our speaker has been properly thanked for taking the time to bring us her or his message, we usually have a 50/50 draw and our Sgt at Arms takes a round out of us. His or her fines are usually a buck and mix wit and humour with a reminder of some of the things Rotarians stand for. The Sgt usually allows those on hand to put in a Happy Buck or a Sad Buck accompanied by a BRIEF explanation.

Unless there are some closing announcements, that usually winds up the meeting. As a morning club, we know our members have the day ahead of them so we are careful to end promptly at 8 am.

We have a lot of fun. We build friendships. And in the course of it all, we follow the motto of Rotary, which is Service Above Self.

Our club, like all Rotary clubs, begins its year July 1. Each year we have a new president and a new executive. We also have a President Elect, a secretary, a treasurer and a board of directors responsible for Club Administration, Club Public Relations, Membership, Service Projects and The Rotary Foundation. We have committees for each Avenue of Service. They are Club Service, Community Service, Vocational Service and International Service.

Are you interested in Rotary? You might want to get in touch with our Membership Director, Larry Mix, if you have any questions. You could check out our Rotary Links page (see the menu above) or have a look at Joining Rotary at the Rotary International web site.

This is Rotary

There is no better way to tell someone what Rotary is all about than this short video. Our membership committee is asking each of us to think about who we might share Rotary with. Here is an easy way to get them started.

Blake Whalley

Please welcome the Sunrise club's newest member.

Club Assembly

Rst of the financials

Balance sheet and income statement for our club as of Sept 30, 2007 as well as an addendum on fund raising and donations made.

December 15, 2009

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Last Week in Rotary


Shelter Box; Did You Know?


In each of the last two years District 5020 has sponsored more ShelterBoxes in North America than any other District! For more information or to donate please go to: www.shelterbox.ca


Annual General Meeting Dec 8


The Election for our 2010-11 Board was finalized at our AGM held on Dec 8.

1. President Nominee 2011-12 – Allan Gannon
2. Officers – David Lavalley – President Elect; Ken Walker – Secretary; Peter Kellas – Treasurer; Ken Needen – Past President
3. Directors – George Venner; Bob Brown; Doug Arbo; Larry Mix; Gerry Herkel

President Ken indicated that we will need to elect one more Director and that will happen at our Dec 22 meeting.


Society Annual General Meeting


The Society AGM was also held at our Dec 8 meeting and the Society Financial Report was approved as presented.



This Week in Rotary


Board Meeting Cancelled


President Ken announced that the Board Meeting scheduled for December 22 has been canceled – too many Christmas things happening. I understand that the only piece of business that the Board will need to deal with in the next week is a report from Terry regarding the Antique Fair.


Club Assembly


Next Tuesday December 22nd is Club Assembly. Ken hopes to have the Antique Fair proposal presented and a decision made as to whether to go ahead with the Fair
December 22 Activity Roster

1. Greeter – Derek Jay
2. 50-50 – Stuart Jackson
3. Rotary Moment – David Lavalley
4. Invocation – Ed Fougner

December 15 Christmas Dinner




Kudos to Ron and Larry for planning and arranging a great Christmas Dinner and party

Pat and I arrived at Rotary House with guests Judy and Ray Marsh just after 5:30 and had a wonderful mingle with friends – much kibitzing and Christmas greetings – lots of cheek kissing happening. Tasty hors de oeuvres were served by our Galloping Gourmet Hostess; Gerry Herkel presided at the Bar. At 6:30 precisely we sat down to dinner.




Lavalley’s, Gannon’s and Herkels




Stothers, Ball’s and the Brown’s




Venner’s, Eleanor Mix, and the soon to be Lynch clan




The Kellas’s and Team Beckingham (Celyne arrived later)




The Arbo’s, Fougner’s and Marsh’s




President Ken and Dallas, the Sly’s and the Brown’s




The Williams family, Terry and Anna Horsley and John Medd

Allen delivers the Invocation


The menu included Turkey and stuffing and Ham and everything else you would expect at a Christmas Dinner catered by Galloping Gourmet – it was delicious.




Mike and Tami search for room on their plates for one more goody.




Larry thanks the staff of Galloping Gourmet to a rousing round of applause from all present.


What did we do for fun before Lauren Gannon arrived? Lauren has a never ending bag of entertaining events and the next one is always more fun than the last. Christmas Charades involved each group acting out a Christmas Carol and the Carols weren’t necessarily your old favorites.




Lauren explains the rules! – And much inventiveness and bedlam ensued!




Team Lavalley baffles us with their antics!




Team Williams - confusion reigns!




Can anyone figure these guy’s out?




Not a Wise Man in the bunch!




Pretty much a one man show here. I think George said “you guys just sit and be quiet, I’ll handle this”




Nuff said!

And the winners – lets hear it for Team Arbo

And the not so disgruntled losers – yeah Team Venner

The Panama Canal Story

Pat and I have just returned from a Holland America Cruise that took us from San Diego, through the Panama Canal, to Ft. Lauderdale. The highlight of the trip was the transit of the Canal. Prior to leaving I had read David McCullough’s “The Path Between The Seas; The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 – 1914”. The books not an easy read but its chalk full of information that makes the passage much more interesting. We were scheduled to weigh anchor at 6:00 am on the morning of Dec 7 and Pat and I were on Deck by 6:30 and remained there until just after 4 in the afternoon when we cleared the Gatun Locks and entered the Caribbean. The passage was so interesting I want to share it with all of you.






Contrary to general belief the canal does not run east to west, it does in fact run from north to south. The cities on either side are Panama City and Balboa in the south on the Pacific side and Colon in the north on the Caribbean side. The Canal stretches 65km from shoreline to shoreline, and has three sets of locks each of which has two lanes. These locks serve as lifts, elevating vessels 85 feet above sea level to Gatun Lake. – Pedro Miguel and Miraflores Locks on the Pacific side and Gatun Locks to the north on the Caribbean side. By utilizing the canal ships shorten their journey by 15000 km, compared to sailing around Cape Horn. Both Balboa and Colon are huge Container Ports with ships off loading containers which then travel either across the Isthmus by rail or south into South America and north into Central America. The cost of a single transit for a modern large Container ship exceeds $250,000 US.




On our way to the first locks we pass the very busy Container Port of Balboa




Gatun Lake


To understand the Canal it’s best to start in the middle; namely at Gatun Lake, which when it was created in about 1910 was the largest man made lake in the world. One of the major challenges for the French in their attempts to build the canal in the 19th century was to tame the Chagres River which flows from the central mountains of the continental divide north to flow into the Caribbean. Rainfall in Panama exceeds 200 inches per year and that amount falls during the rainy season from June to November. During the rainy season the Chagres becomes a mad torrent with river levels raising as much as 3 feet in a few hours. The French really never did have either an engineering plan that coped with flooding during construction nor did they ever solve how they could utilize the river as part of the Canal. The French plan was to build a sea level Canal without locks as they had done at Suez,– but Panama proved to be a very different and difficult challenge.


Another engineering challenge was breaching the 13 kilometer long continental divide which runs down the Pacific side of the Isthmus. The French, in the 18th century, had started to excavate what became known as the Gillard Cut and to excavate to sea level, a daunting task.


American interests took on the project in 1904 and they were faced with 4 major issues:

1. Should they build a lockless canal at sea level?
2. How would they tame the Chagres River?
3. How would they move and where would they deposit the hundreds of millions of cubic meters of earth excavated from the Gillard cut?
4. How could they solve the problem of disease, namely Yellow Fever and Malaria that had killed over 21,000 French Workers?

Entering the Gillard Cut


The Americans wisely discarded the idea of a sea level canal because to do so would have meant removing over 1 billion cubic meters of earth from the Gillard Cut. This was a key decision because it enabled them to solve the Chagres River dilemma – the solution was brilliant, dam up the Chagres at Gatun on the Caribbean side and let the dammed waters back up to create a giant man made lake that would extend south through the Gillard Cut.
The lake to be used as the means of transit between the Pacific locks in the south and the Caribbean locks in the north.




The Chagres Dam from Gatun Lake




The earth filled Chagres Dam stretches 1.5 miles from the spillway shown in the previous photo to the Gatun Locks. The bottom of the dam is .5 miles wide.




Panama City and the Causeway to Fuerte Amadore The 2 kilometer long Causeway was created with fill from the Gillard Cut.


The problem of earth removal from the Gillard Cut was solved when the Company hired John Stevens a railroad man as Chief Engineer. Multiple rail lines were constructed at various levels of the excavation. Locomotives pulled the empty cars past huge Steam Shovels; one scoop per car filled the car and the cars moved continuously by the Shovels, never stopping.

1. Loaded cars traveled south to dump into Panama Bay eventually forming a 2 kilometer causeway that joined the Islands now called Fuerte Amadore with the mainland. The Causeway also serves as a breakwater for Panama Bay.
2. As well a line ran north toward the mouth of the Chagres River near Gatun where fill was dumped to build the Chagres River Dam. The dam itself is 1.5 miles in length and is nearly 0.5 mile wide at its base. The construction of the dam involved constructing 2 walls along its length using the excavated rock from the Gillard Cut. The space between these 2 walls was then built up with impervious clay. This clay gradually dried and hardened into a solid mass almost equal to concrete in its water-resistant properties. This dam contains 16.9 million cubic meters of rock and clay, equivalent too about one tenth of the entire excavation of the canal.
3. Another problem faced at the Gillard Cut was landslides, during construction there were over 24 slides, several of them being major and necessitating many months delay in re-excavating. The cause of these slides was first of all the torrential rainfall during the rainy season but more serious was the clay soils they were working in which proved to be incredibly unstable as the excavations got deeper. In the end, while the bottom of the excavation was 300 meters wide the top was more than 1500 meters in width.

To stabilize the earth and prevent landslides many steel rods have been inserted into the bank


In the 19th Century it was thought that Malaria and Yellow Fever came from the overturned dirt and mud in the tropical jungles. It wasn’t until the early 20th century that the villain was identified as the mosquito. John Stevens, very soon after his appointment provided the budget and hired medical personnel that very quickly (within 1 year) focused on the breeding capability of the insects by eliminating standing water. The result was immediate and in the 10 years of construction between 1904 and 1914 - 7,000 workers lost their lives, most to accidents associated with dynamite blasting – compare that to the French losses of 21,000 and you appreciate the impact of disease on the work force.


The construction of the locks, by comparison with the other challenges was a fairly routine engineering challenge; however there are things about the Panama locks that are interesting and unique.

1. Each lock is 33.53 meters (110 feet) wide by 304.8 meters (1,000 feet) long and can accommodate ships: 32.3 meters (106 feet) in beam; 294.3 meters (965 feet) long.
2. Fed by gravity from Gatun Lake into each set of locks, the water enters the locks’ chambers through a system of drains that extends under every lock chamber from the center and side walls. An average of 55 million gallons of fresh water is used, and takes about eight minutes to fill each chamber.
3. The original giant gates are still being used and are so efficient that they were originally opened and closed by a 50 HP motor
4. Ships operate under there own power as they move through the locks but railway cars called Mules on either side of the ship and connected by cable to the ship keep the ships aligned in the locks.

Bridge of the Americas connects the Pan American Highway. As our ship sails towards the Miraflores Locks we passed under the bridge. Notice the Port and Starboard. Channel Markers that mark the passage to the first Locks and the entrance to the Canal




As we enter the second lock at Miraflores the ship ahead of us sails into Miraflores Lake on its way to the Pedro Miguel locks.




The gates open and we move into the last lock a Miraflores




As we enter the Pedro Miguel locks you can see the ship ahead of us on Gatun Lake and just entering the Gillard Cut.




On Gatun Lake entering the Gillard Cut




We pass a Container Ship in Gatun Lake. Large ships enter the locks, at either end of the Canal, in the morning moving south and north respectively. (So each morning on the Pacific side all of the traffic through the side by side locks is one way – northbound; while traffic on the Caribbean side is all southbound) This enables ships to pass in the widest part of Gatun Lake – large ships cannot pass in the Gillard Cut.




We enter the Gatun Locks as a Container Ship ahead leaves the lock and sails into the Caribbean. Notice that the lock beside us holds another ship bound for the Caribbean.




The massive gates in the locks are the original gates installed in 1914




It’s a tight fit for for the Container Ship in the adjacent Lock. Notice the 2 Mules with cables attached to the ship. With very little clearance the 60 ton Mules keep the ship on the straight and narrow but they do not pull the ship, the ship proceeds on its own power.




We are back at sea level in the Caribbean and the Pilot boat comes along side to pick up the Pilot who has been in command throughout our Canal transit.


Finally, in 2014 the Canal will celebrate its Centenary and for that occasion they will be opening up a second set of twin locks built to accommodate today’s and tomorrows larger ships. Construction is well underway as can be seen in the following 2 photos.

Rotary Links

If you come across any web sites that are useful and related to Rotary, add a comment below with a link to the page and we will add them to this page. Similarly, if you find any links that are not working, add a comment so this page will be kept up to date.

The web site that Rotary International offers is the place to start for information about Rotary. It is the official source.

Our club is in District 5020 which has an excellent web site. The district web site has a good collection of links with a lot of valuable Rotary information.

One of the most common questions is where can I do a makeup?

• For clubs in District 5020, check the district web site page about where clubs meet.
• For anywhere in the world, check the Rotary International Club Locator.
• You could even make up online at an E-Club. There are several. The first was Rotary eClub One.

There are web sites that cater to Rotarians and attempt to provide an interactive community such as http://digaria.com/, a "new Blogworking magazine allows for interaction in a virtual, polite Rotarian oriented community. This site is an example of how useful the Internet can be. It is a great way for Digarians (Digital Rotarians with profiles on this site) to keep in touch and share resources. Digarians are people who are members of Rotary clubs, or who are members of the Family of Rotary by having been a part of various Rotary programs (Rotary Youth Exchange students, Ambassadorial Scholars, Interact, Peace Center Fellows, GSE, RYLA, etc.)."

Rotary International has a database to find links to Rotary Club websites.

There are many pages that offer a collection of links. These are only a few of them:

Billo offers his own web page with many links. Rotarians on the Internet is worth a look.

Google, besides its regular search engine, has a directory service that contains many links to Rotary related sites. Just a few links that look like they would be interesting to explore from there include Rotary Global History Fellowship, Rotarians on the Internet and Rotary Fellowships.

Wikipedia also has an article about Rotary International. The Open Directory Project indexes many web pages about Rotary.

If you come across other links, go ahead, be bold and add them here yourself (if you are a member logged in) or, if you need help, just ask Ken.

Our Events

This is the place to find out about or let others know about events that involve the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise.

These shortcuts should get you started. For more information, scroll down.

• List of all future events. If you are not sure, this is probably the one you want.
• Check here for only our upcoming meeting programs.
• List future events of types you choose
• List of all past events.
• List past events of types you choose
• Add an Event

If these links don't produce what you expect, or if some other option should appear, let me know.

The things we do are what Rotary is all about and this is the place for us all to find out about what we do. Anything that can be considered an Event should be listed here and, like every part of this website, we depend on our members to add events to this record. It is not hard to do and help is available. If you are a committee chair and are having a meeting, if you are organizing a fundraiser, if you have arranged a speaker for a regular meeting or are setting up a party, add it here because this will become the place our members will come to look for that information. You can add an event with nothing more than its title, date and location but you can also add more, like a link to a speaker's web site, a link to a forum discussion here, a contact link so people can click to send a message or a query to the right person for more information.

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Classification Talk - Any Volunteers?

December 22, 2009




QB SUNRISE


SCUTTLEBUTT



The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise.



Last Week in Rotary




International Committee Announces Bukati Project Funding








Gold Medals to International Director Doug and International Committee members David, John and Charles for a job well done in acquiring the funding to build the Latrines at the Bukati School in Kenya. This is our first international project and Doug in announcing the District Grant expressed the hope that this was but the beginning of our clubs international involvement – “there’s so much poverty and need in the world, Doug said, we just have to stay involved.


Soccer Balls to Sally Ann








Jim arranged a purchase of 30 Balls, 15 footballs and 15 soccer balls which Allison and Jim presented to the Salvation Army. The balls will be included in the Family Hampers distributed by the Salvation Army. Good work also to Allan Gannon for getting the PQ News and the Oceanside Star to pick up on the story with photos and copy. The arrangement for the purchase from Northern Athletics was made through Sean Hines who was able to get Jim a very good price on the balls.






George announced that our day manning the Sally Ann Kettles at Qualicum Foods realized $546





This Week in Rotary




Next weeks meeting is cancelled; our next regular meeting will be January 5.


From our exalted Treasurer Peter announces that January 1, 2010 is the start of our third quarter of our Rotary year hence for those members who wish to prepay their meeting fees they are now due. The payment is $110.00, due January 5, 2010. The first meeting of 2010!



January 5 Activity Roster


1. Greeter – Doug Sly
2. 50-50 – Ron Stothers
3. Rotary Moment – George Venner
4. Invocation – Ken Walker





December 22nd Meeting



Guests






Santa appeared briefly but left in a hurry – was it that there weren’t any good boys and girls present, or, maybe it was because he could see nothing but good boys and girls. I think it was probably the later.






Always a pleasure to have ADG Michael in attendance






Doug completed a Membership Proposal form for Blake while Bob looked on. Welcome Blake






It’s a late arriving guest! No! It’s Jim!


Program


Today was Club Assembly and President Ken scheduled wide ranging discussion on a number of topics


1. Antique Fair










Terry is advocating a Fall 2010 Antique Fair


1. The date we had scheduled in March falls one week after the Milner Garden Antique Fair
2. The Milner people have been approached with a proposal for a joint Fair but are not interested.
3. Terry has acquired a wealth of information as well as a large data base of people in the antique business and this information can only work in our favour
4. Terry is proposing a late September or early October date this next year, 2010.
5. Terry’s proposal will go to the Board for discussion in January




2. Election of 1 Director






Stewart elected Director for 2010-11 Stewart seen here delivering his campaign speech was elected unanimously by his peers. Unfortunately Stewart was not present to savor the thrill of victory.


2. Christmas Parade Fundraiser






Doug presented a fundraising concept, a Christmas Parade which is basically an idea that would arrange with an Interior Decorator to decorate a number of homes in the Oceanside area next Christmas and then sell tickets for participants who wanted to view the homes. Great idea Doug, stay tuned.


3. Trades and Tech Vocational Fair








George and Bob will be working with Parksville AM Rotarians to plan a Vocational Fair to be held in late October 2010. Funding up to $15,000 is apparently available and the committee is looking at possible venues including Oceanside Place, Parksville Community Center; Qualicum Civic Center or one of the two High School Gymnasiums, KSS or Ballenas. Stay tuned, looks like we’ll have a busy Fall in 2010.


4. Ed receives Paul Harris Society recognition.




A fuzzy Ed (Pat took the photo)is congratulated by ADG Michael


5. Membership Reminder




Membership Director Pat reminds us to ensure, that if any of us have brought a guest to a Meeting since Sept 1, and we want to be in the running for the Membership Prize, then we need to make sure we have our Business Card in Pat’s Jar. Check it out with Pat.



Spotlight on Rotary and Rotarians


Our Membership Challenge












Membership Director Pat and committee members Allen, Doug and Ed placed before the Club in July the goal of 8 new members this Rotary year. The rationale for choosing 8 as the number of new members was determined by reviewing previous year over year Membership trends. We need 8 new members each year to hold our own and perhaps to gain one or two members each year. We will undoubtedly lose a few members this year – Doug for example is moving to Victoria sometime before June 30.


How are we doing so far? Well not great: We have 1 new member (Bob) with a second (Blake) in the process of joining. So to achieve our goal we need 6 more new members.


The committee urges everyone to be ambassadors for our club:


1. Invite a friend or business contact to attend one of our meetings
2. Talk up Rotary to your friends
3. Don’t leave it up to someone else in the Club, we each have an investment in our club, we each have a commitment to Rotary, and we each have some responsibility to keep our club viable
4. Remember, all you have to do is ask, and ask, and ask.
5. The next few years, if the ideas that people are expressing are realized, will be exciting and busy for our club – we need the people power to make those things happen.
6. Membership Matters!





Merry Christmas Everyone and Best Wishes for 2010




Rotary Friendship Exchange District 5020/District 9450

In July our club hosted 9 Australians from District 9450 in Perth, Western Australia. Dave and Sue Taggert and Rev. Des Cousins from the Scarborough Rotary Club; Jen and Jim Benson from the Rotary Club of Hillarys;John and Paula Watson from the Matilda Bay Rotary Club; and Team Leader Colin Gilbert and Colin's wife Diane both members of the Rotary Club of Heirisson.

The Australians flew into Campbell River for the first stop on their visit to our District.

After 3 days in the Campbell River area, Dave Hanna and his group delivered our guests to the base of Mt Washington where the transfer occured. We drove to the parking lot and took the chairlift to the top where the Aussies frolicked in the few remaining patches of snow. After a Pub lunch in the Chalet we drove down Island to Rotary House and the guests met their hosts.

The next morning it was an early start to get to Port Alberni in time for the 8 am sailing of the Lady Rose to Banfield. Another spectacularly sunny day with several stops at fish camps and logging shows provided a wonderful taste of life on the West Coast. A 3 hour stop in Banfield provided time for a walkabout and lunch then it was back to the Lady Rose in time for the trip back to Port. We had dinner at the dockside in Port and then joined in the festivities that were kicking off the Tall Ships Festival that was to start the next day.

The third day was a day of rest, a walkabout in Qualicum Beach, some shopping, an informal lunch then back to the hosts for some respite in preparation for our evening Bahby at Rotary Park. District Governor Brian and wife Barbara were in attendance along with a good turnout from both Qualicum Rotary Clubs. The guests were stars of the show with there rendition of Waltzing Matilda and other down under melodies.

The next morning we delivered our guests to Nanaimo, their next port of call and after some hugs and a few tears we bid them adieu.

In early November after spending 3 weeks in New South Wales and Victoria, Pat and I flew into Perth to be met by Dave and Sue Taggert, Jim and Jen Benson and our hosts from the Hillary's Rotary Club Bill and Vanessa Holman.

The first morning our 5020 outbound team of Dave Nelson from Port McNeill, Dave and Coral Hanna from Campbell River, Pat & I, Richard and Nancy Calverley from South Cowichan and Van and Carolan Van Jepmond from Lacey met at the Beach Shack Cafe at the Hillary's Marina where Jim and Jen, our tour directors outlined our itinerary for our 4 days with Hillary's RC and it included: a visit to the spectacular Hillary's Aquarium and then to Caversham Wildlife Park where we got to pet and feed Kangaroos and scratch Wombats and Koalas behind their ears; a visit to a Winery in the Swan Valley where, at lunch, Ed ordered Kangaroo steak (delicious); a visit to the State Legislature where Jim's brother, an elected member of the Upper House, treated us to a sumptuous lunch in the Legislative Dinning Room. In addition to the Hillary's itinerary, our hosts, Bill and Vanessa were also on a mission to show us everything of interest in and around north Perth, they treated us like royalty. This was to be a common theme with each of our 4 hosts, they couldn't do enough for us. We were on the go from early morning until evening usually dropping into bed dead tired but by morning looking forward to the advenures of that day.

Our next host Club was the Scarborough Rotary Club and our hosts were Dave and Sue Taggert. Our itinerary for the next 4 days was in a word "chockers". We took a day cruise aboard Rotarian Bob Phelps boat to spend a day at Rottnest Island about a 40 minute run from Freemantle Harbour to Rottnest. The boat was moored at the Royal Perth Yacht Club in Matilda Bay on the Swan River across the river from downtown Perth and the 30 minute trip down the Swan to Freemantle was beautiful. On Rottnest we took a 1 hour bus tour of the Island, saw some "Quokkas" and some migrating Whales and then came back to the boat for a freshly caught seafood lunch followed by a swim, accompanied by Sting Ray's in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. The Scarborough Rotary Club has an amazing record of both Community and International Service. They fund their Service projects with revenue from their very well endowed Foundation that has assets of more than $1 million AU. Contributions to the Foundation come from their very successful Karrinyup Swap Meet that runs every Sunday and is located in the covered parking garage of the huge Karrinyup Shopping Mall in North Perth. The Swap Meet attracts up to 100 merchants who pay for stall space and many hundreds of shoppers who pay an admission fee of $1. The Club realizes $4000 per week net and those funds in turn go into their Foundation.
The most impressive Service initiative of the Scarborough Club is their Wheelchair Factory located in East Perth. Under Rotarian and Project Director Brother Ollie Pickett and all volunteer labour (they have people on a wait list to volunteer)they can manufacture, package and ship a wheelchair for a unit cost of $100 AU. Thus far they have produced well over 20,000 wheelchairs. Our group puchased a Wheelchair as did Richard and Nancy to take home to their disabled ward.
On a lighter note we drove approximatly 2 hours east from Perth over the Escarpment and onto the great expanse of Western Australia to Toodyay a small farm (300 acres) that is owned by a Scarborough Rotarian. We toured the farm and enjoyed a traditional Aussie Bahby of steak and sausage and umpteen different kinds of salad. You havn't lived until you try and eat with flies crawling into every exposed orifice - thats why Australians wear those funny hats - anyway we tasted a wee bit of outback Australia.
Another interesting adventure was our glimpse of "Beach Culture" in Australia. Dave Taggert is a member of the Scarborough Surf Life Saving Club and we went with Dave to his Club to witness the events of a normal Sunday on the beach. The Club House itself is very upscale with a shop selling beach ware, a restaraunt, a storage shed for their competitive boats, many meeting rooms and just adjacent to the beach a huge and very comfortable covered bleacher section that would probably seat several hundred spectators. What do you watch you ask? On the beach and in the water (the surf was up) there were young people competing in a wide range of activities - races on the sand; swimmers swimming or paddling out around buoys; as well as young people receiving instruction in aspects of lifesaving. It's no wonder Australians do so well athletically because everywhere you looked on the beach young people were competing, it's truly part of their very core.

Our next hosts were John and Anne Lindsay, John is the President of the Matilda Bay Rotary Club. Paula and John Watson were our tour guides and they had created an itinerary that included a very interesting walking tour of Downtown Perth that ended at the Bell Tower which is located at the foot of Barrack Street. The Bell Tower is a part of a Park area on the Swan and after lunch we caught a tour bus that took us up to and around Kings Park the magnificent natural park that sits on a Bluff with a view of the Swan and Perth laid out before you. Kings Park reminded us a lot of Stanley Park because they have maintained the natural vegetation of the coastal plain of Western Australia. If you ever go to Perth, make sure you include a visit to King's Park.
One of the most interesting visits, arranged by Paula, was our day spent at New Norcia, a Benedictine community located 132 km north east of Perth. Founded in 1846 as a Aboriginal Mission and still somewhat active to this day, it presents an opportunity to see firsthand evidence of early Christian activity in Western Australia.

Our next host Club was the Heirisson Rotary Club. As we did with all of the Clubs we visited we attended the Heirisson RC meeting. Our agenda for these meetings was for each of us to provide a short profile of our Club's activites, something we got better at with each presentations. In each case we were the Program for that day. The Australians we met at the four Club meetings were incredibly open and friendly and you were truly made to feel welcome.
Our Heirisson hosts were Mike and Judy Fetherston, a couple that we really bonded with. Mike is a Geologist and has spent much of his working life in the northern and western reaches of Western Australia and is very familiar with the Aboriginal people and their art. Mike and Judy took us to Freemantle (another must see if you are in Perth) where we did a walkabout in this older and very trendy and interesting city. At an Aboriginal Art shop Pat and I, with Mikes help, purchased some authentic Aboriginal art to add to our native art collection.
Dianne and Colin Gilbert our official Heirisson guides arranged a day trip to Mandurah a city about 100 km south of Perth. Mandurah, the retirement capital of Western Australia, boast an incredible new and very up scale residential area developed around a network of man made canals that come off of the very large lagoon to the west of the city. We took the train from Perth to Mandurah, about a 45 minute ride, that runs down the median of the new Freeway that is under construction and when finished will link Perth with the Margaret River area in SW Australia. We were met at the station in Mandurah by Dianne who had arranged a busy day: a cruise on the Canals; a vist to the Marapana Wildlife Reserve; and at the end of the day Fish and Chips and a cool one at the Dolphin Quay in Mandurah.
The final activity of our Perth experience was a wind-up Bahby at Colin and Diannes home with everyone present. At the end of the evening there were lots of hugs, a few tears, and promises to keep in touch with a suggestion that many of us would get together in Montreal in 2010.
Rotary is all about fellowship and developing relationships and that is what the Rotary Friendship Exchange is all about. Perth was a great experience and probably our best vacation experience ever.

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Roses From Rotary

This will be the day of our annual fund raiser.

Steve Stahley

Photo Archive, Progress Report

Our club photo archive is coming along nicely. I have added my own photos and those Ed has provided. I am in the process of adding a large collection from President Elect Ken. George and Charles have given me a copy of their photos so they will be added soon.

You can see the collection so far at:
http://www.23hq.com/kwalker/album/list?album_collection_id=4015816

There are some things yet to do to complete the collection:

• I will complete the uploading of photos I have been given over the next few days
• If anyone else has digital photos, let me know and we will work out a way to get a copy of them into the archive
• The first few years of our club were before digital cameras were in widespread use. If anyone has other photos that we can scan, please let me know
• Going forward, please keep our archive in mind. I have several USB keys which are easy to copy photos to from any reasonably modern computer. If you let me know, I will come up with this gadget for your use.
• So far the only sorting we have done is to put the photos in albums by year. There are some that we don't know the vintage of. They will scroll by below if they aren't already. If you know the year the photo was taken, please let me know.
• The photos are labeled with tags. My Rotary photos are tagged "kenw", Ken Neden's are tagged "kenn". Once they are uploaded there will be some "charlesb" and some "georgev". Other tags will be added as needed. If you click on one of those tags, you will see the photos provided by that particular Rotarian. You might have to go to http://www.23hq.com/kwalker/tag/list for that to work properly.

These are the photos that we don't know the date of. If you know what year they are from, could you let me know?

January 26, 2010

QB SUNRISE


SCUTTLEBUTT

The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise.



Last Week in Rotary


Shelter Box and Haitians the winner as CIDA to match QB Sunrise Society contributions


To date Peter Reports donations of $2000 to the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise Society. With the matching CIDA Dollars that’s 4 Shelter Boxes. If you haven’t donated yet contact Peter Kellas at 250-752-8649 before Thursday morning


On January 18 ShelterBox reported that 3330 ShelterBoxes had arrived in Haiti with more to follow!

The first ShelterBoxes have arrived in Port au Prince and hundreds more are due to arrive later today.

The ShelterBox Response Team of David Eby (US), Wayne Robinson (US) and Mark Pearson (UK), who have been in Haiti’s capital since Thursday, took delivery of the first ShelterBoxes at Port au Prince airport yesterday (January 18).




The team says twelve of these boxes will be used to build an emergency field hospital at the airport.

‘We are helping build a field hospital with these tents at the airport,’ said Mark Pearson. ‘These are desperate conditions, amputations are happening every half hour. There’s an urgent need for tents at hospitals and this is our first priority.’

ShelterBox Head of Operations John Leach said: ‘The safety of our staff in Haiti is of paramount importance.

‘We are working with the agencies on the ground to ensure that ShelterBoxes are not only distributed speedily and efficiently, but that our team on the ground is able to work in a safe environment.’
Hundreds more boxes are due to arrive into Port au Prince later today from Miami on a chartered aircraft. Thousands more ShelterBoxes are being packed and shipped from ShelterBox HQ in the UK.

ShelterBox Founder and CEO Tom Henderson said: ‘The devastation in Haiti has moved everyone here. We now have our boxes on the ground and it’s a privilege to help. The scale of devastation is huge.




‘By the sheer grit and determination of our staff and volunteers we have been able to respond in record time. Our thanks go to the teams of volunteers, as well as to our donors, who have allowed us to do this.



This Week in Rotary


Tickets go on sale for Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach’s Spaghetti Dinner

1. $15 per person
2. Thursday, March 4, 6 pm
3. At St. Stephens
4. Guest Speaker David Holland
5. Tickets available from Rotary Club members

February 2nd Activity Roster

1. Greeter – Gerry Herkel
2. 50-50 – Terry Horsley
3. Rotary Moment – Stuart Jackson
4. Invocation – Derek Jay

January 26th Meeting

Guests




Janice Whaley couldn’t attend last weeks meeting to see husband Blake inducted into our club because she was busy being a grandmother. Welcome Janice, we hope to get to know you better in the future


Announcements


Visioning Session Feb 4, 5pm at the Bradley Centre in Coombs


Feb 2 Meeting will feature a Classification Talk by Blake Whaley


50/50 Draw




Allen pulls a green marble


Program


”The Final Inch” a 35 minute DVD graphically described the challenges faced by UNICEF and WHO volunteers in the battle to eliminate Polio in one of India’s poorest, most densely populated and most hygienically polluted Provinces. With scenes reminiscent of “Slum Dog Millionaire” the very dedicated volunteers took us through the day to day – house to house – child to child fight to eradicate Polio in this the remaining most infected area in the world.


For me, the thought that emerged, was that we must press on; we can’t afford to let up because if we do, Polio will return with a vengeance.Support Rotary and Polio Plus




Spotlight on Rotary and Rotarians





The January 26th Spotlight focuses on Rotary House Renovations






Rotary House Chair Peter Kellas and right hand man Allen Ball last week unveiled plans to renovate Rotary House. Your Scuttlebutt Editor caught up with these two busy Rotarians after this mornings meeting to follow up on the renovation plans. Here’s what they revealed:


We are embarking on a five year renovation plan that will see:

1. The interior repainted;
2. The exterior repainted
3. Replacement of the fluorescent Ballace in each fixture and installation of environmentally friendlier tubes
4. Eight Wall Scons with dimmer switches added
5. Replacement, and perhaps increase the size of the existing windows
6. Replacement of the window frames.
7. Repositioning of the Rotary Banners and the Photograph Frames
8. Erection of a 10 x 10 Storage Shed in the NW corner of the Parking Lot
9. Replacement of the roof in year Five.
   
   
   We have $4000 of designated funds for the project and Peter is recommending we place $1000 per year into a contingency fund earmarked for the replacement of the roof. We will be requesting a contribution from the Evening club and we are applying for a Grant from Benjamin Moore.
   
   
   
   
   Location of the shed will be on the asphalt in the NW corner of the Parking Lot
   
   
   
   
   A similar Shed, seen here at Shawnigan Lumber, is 10 ft x 10 ft, will have a sturdy door and cedar siding.
   
   

   
   
   
   
   The three wall hangings of banners will have to be relocated and the windows will be reframed, will be environmentally more friendly and will perhaps be larger

   
   

Trevor Wicks - Environmental Changes

Environmental Changes happening in Oceanside

Waiting for the Parade

This event will include seeing the Echo Players production of Waiting for the Parade and will be preceded by a Wine and Cheese hosted by Nanaimo Realty Insurance (Jim Lynch). Tickets are $20. Proceeds go to District 69 Hospice.

Wine and Cheese is at 630, the play is at 730.

Garage Sale

Our goal is to raise $2,000 for the following projects: polio, Uganda Water project and the local Hospice.
We need "saleable" items for the garage sale. Please spread the word amongst friends, neighbors and relatives.

Special Meeting - Visioning & Goal Setting 7 - 10 a.m.

Christmas Social

Details TBA