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March 9, 2010
The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise. Shelter Box news from Shelter Box Canada’s Executive Director Don Ohlgren – Haitian response from Canadian Rotarians Public donations are vital to ShelterBox's continuing work around the world. To make a donation please call 1 800 677 0990 or go to www.shelterbox.ca to donate on line. HOT NEWS from PolioPlus! As of March 2 RI reports we have reached $113 million of the $200 million PolioPlus Challenge. DG Alex says: “Well done to all those clubs in District 5020 who are working so hard for Polio Plus. You make us all proud to be Rotarians.” Qualicum Rotary Club hosts successful Spaghetti Dinner If you weren’t there you missed a great event. CEO Charlie Lockwood, the kitchen crew, and MC PDG Norm and Qualicum RC members were great hosts at St Stephens last Thursday night. Following dinner, District PolioPlus Chair Terry Toone and wife Joan (Joan is the Chairperson of the Provincial Post Polio Syndrome Group) provided an inspirational PolioPlus message. Terry encouraged Clubs to continue their fundraising; his message was: If you need any fundraising ideas for Polio Plus I have a ton of them gathered from clubs in our own District 5020. Rotary Club of Yelm Charter Night Celebration! Here is an invitation to attend the Rotary Club of Yelm Charter Night Celebration being held April 9, 2010, 6-9pm at Lake Lawrence Lodge, 15735 Topaz Drive SE, Yelm, WA 98597. Cost $45. This is our newest club and the 88th for District 5020! Check to see how your club can help them get started and I encourage you to send a gift and a representative to attend if you can! It will make them feel so welcome to our District and your encouragement and participation will build their excitement! Contact Sandi Hanson, 360-458-3033, or Christopher Haley, 360-790-4876, for more information. MARCH IS LITERACY MONTH The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. —Back to the Future’s Alvin Toffler Rotarians can help! We can help by providing books to schools, locally and internationally; by reading to children and volunteering to tutor students, honoring students who have increased their ability to read and thereby achieved higher grades; sponsoring students to help them attend schools in developing countries; and by providing college and technical scholarships to our young people! More on Literacy I encourage you to read, in the March Rotarian, “The Rotarian Conversation with Nicholas Negroponte”. It’s on page 30 and it features an interview with Negroponte who along with former MIT President Jerome Wiesner created OLPC One Laptop Per Child. Their theory was/is: design a $100 Laptop and put one in the hands of every child and you have begun to solve the literacy problem. You connect children with the world and you teach them how to think. There are 35 million lap tops now in the hands of children in over 40 countries speaking 19 languages. Negroponte is now beginning to see the value of involving Rotary Clubs for ongoing distribution. Also check out the OLPC website at http://www.olpcnews.com/ From the March District Newsletter: - Area 9, District Membership Committee Chair Judy Henderson suggests: HOST A MEMBERSHIP SUMMIT IN YOUR AREA Inducting new members is a goal we all share. Retaining members is high on all our club lists. Rotary Clubs working together as Rotarians can result in new and retained members for every club. For more information on this interesting idea of Membership development see the March District Newsletter. So perhaps one answer to membership development lies within the talent of the six clubs in our own Area 2A. Register on line at www.rotary5020.org for the District Conference “Fulfilling Dreams” in Longview Washington June 4,5 & 6 2010   Vocational Services Committee members George and Bob attended a Rotary Club of Parksville AM meeting last Wednesday and participated in the ongoing discussion on the shared Vocational Trades and Technology Fair scheduled for October 27th at Ballenas Secondary School.
March 16 Activity Roster
 March 9th Meeting Birthdays and Anniversaries Mike and Tammi celebrate their Anniversary today – Happy Anniversary Mike and Tammi President Ken celebrates his 39th Birthday on March 12 – Happy Birthday Ken Guests  Walter Hoogland was our guest and speaker this morning. Welcome Walter Announcements
Program  Walter Hoogland believes that the community is strengthened when that community and families in that community come together – to celebrate; to explore; and, to share. It is for that reason that Walter and his wife got involved in Family Days when that celebration was in jeopardy of being discontinued and with Fire and Ice when its future was at risk. Walter has been successfull in recruiting many new volunteers and this has revitalized both committees. Both Family Days and Fire and Ice are again alive and well. Volunteering is an incredibly rewarding experience if managed properly, as evidenced by the VANOC volunteers, and it would appear that Walter understands volunteering and volunteers. We have been invited to participate again in Family Day on May 31 and Walter has asked us to participate as “Gateway Managers” on May 1 for Fire and Ice. We’ll be there Walter.  Twenty children will be immunized for Polio in Walter’s name. Thank you Walter Hoogland for being such a valuable resource in our community and thanks for speaking to us this morning.  Spotlight on Rotary and Rotarians Our Club in 2015; What’s our Vison Last week we looked at Community Service, this week let’s look at our vision for: Vocational Service Here’s our vision for 2015:
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