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Happy New Year, everyone! Though it may sound strange to hear that in the middle of summer, July 1^st marks the New Fiscal Year for Rotary Clubs around the world. To find out why, we’ll need to delve into the history of the organization.

Thank You to our Outgoing President

A Special Thank you to our outgoing President CiCi Yim. Under her leadership the club hit most of the goals including Fundraising and the # of new members. It has been a fun and productive year in spite of COVID 19. CiCi thank you for your service, looking forward to having you as Immediate Past President for 2020/21.

@ New Paul Harris Fellows

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2 New Paul Harris Fellows at the Fraserview Club;

Haranto Tjoa - Was Presented his Paul Harris Award for his work in supporting the club through fundraising.

Angela Kang - was presented a Paul Harris as Voted by the members for her work as Treasurer of the Club through 2 years in 2017/18

Congrats to both of them and thank you for your service.

Donation "Beyond the Conversation Canada"

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At the June meeting we presented a Cheque for $1,614.50 to the "Beyond the Conversation Canada" here in Vancouver. The money was raised at a dinner in February. https://beyondtheconversation.ca/

'Beyond the Conversation is a movement that want to address the gap of social connectedness, loneliness and mental health for all peoples. If anyone who is seeking to build their community support, contact@beyondtheconversation.ca.'

2 Amazing Awards for our club

At the district Conference the Rotary Club of Vancouver Fraserview was presented with 2 awards from District 5040

The first was a joint award for growth of the club, adding 9 members this year, an award we share with the Rotary club of vVncouver Mountainview.

The second award was presented to our own Nigel Bullers who was presented with the DON EVANS PEOPLE OF ACTION AWARD, for his work in the club.

Our Giving ...Last year

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Our Giving Goals

Here are our giving goals and progress for last year 2019/20, in Total we have raised/ Donated almost $14,000 !

Rotary World Help $400.00

Rotary Foundation $1,300.00 - Barbeque fundraiser

Autism Burma - $1,000.00

Beyond the Conversation Society - $2,027

Rotary Foundation - $700.00

Polio Fund - $1,390.00

Rotary Foundation Giving Tuesday - $2,015.00

CNIB - $2,019.75

Alzhiemers - 1,009.88

Rotary Foundation - Donate your lunch - $687.00

Educating Girls of Rural China - $1,200.00

Making Meetings safe

COVID 19 – Safety Plan Rotary Club of Vancouver Fraserview

As our club returns to regular lunch meetings we have worked through exactly how it will work to keep our members safe and the facility. Following are the steps people will need to take when attending the lunch meeting:

We have a private room for our use at Seasons in the Park, only our members and 1 server from the restaurant will be in this space.
Our server will be wearing a face mask
Table will be limited to the number of people allowed under the restaurant guidelines, we will simply use more tables.
When arriving and parking, we strongly suggest for you to use a mobile app as a touch free way to park
Note there will be no valet available to park cars in the foreseeable future.
If you need to use the parking meter, then please use tap rather than slide in credit card, there is no longer coin options an the meter, and please clean hands after the transaction.
Each person needs to wear a mask when arriving at the facility, we will provide one if you do not have.
When entering each person needs to use the hand sanitizer that we will have at the entrance, please be mindful of not lining up closely when entering.
Once you are in the restaurant masks do not have to be worn with the following exceptions:
- Any Speaker at the front or in the room must wear a mask when addressing the entire group (projection re louder voices)
- Anyone at a table who either asks a question of the entire room, or is asked to speak to the entire room, will have to raise the volume of their voice and we ask that you put on the mask before speaking.
- O Canada – because this is singing in a group, all people that sing need to place on a mask before starting, anyone not wearing a mask is asked to simply to stand and not sing.
We will not be able to shake hands or hug, and polite, brief elbow touch is okay.
Items that are handed out like pins, will be handed out in a plastic baggie, and not pinned on the person. The same with any kind of certificate etc.
We would like to keep the meetings as short and timely as possible to reduce the amount of time we are in the facility, but for the safety of members, but also for the safety of the staff and facility.
For paying dues, lunch fees etc, we will not be able to accept cash for the foreseeable future, please sign up and pay online, we will leave the payment portal open for 2 days after the event so that you can pay after the fact if you forget and show up with cash. Or you can use credit cards at the lunch to pay. BUT NO CASH WILL ACCEPTED.
Business cards CANNOT be exchanged.
These protocols are for all members and guests. If you are bringing or inviting a guest then please ensure that they have read these protocols. You are responsible for your guest.
This is posted on our website and will be updated from time to time.

Thank you

CiCi Yim & Erin Shum

Donations during the lockdown

$687 raised from our members during the COVID 19 Lockdown.

While members of our club could not physically get together during the recent lockdown, we were able to hold a virtual meeting live on social media and then members could log in and see the news, and exchange of ideas, complete with the Rotary Bell, and oh Canada, although you had to read and sing it yourself.

In addition members donated money in liu of meeting in total $687.00 was raised for the Rotary Foundation and 19 members donated throughout the events, the events were as follows:

Week 1 - Donate your Lunch

Week 2 - Donate your Lunch

Week 3 - Donate half your lunch

Week 4 - Donate your parking

Week 5 - Donate your Buns

Thank you to everyone for making a difference!

$1200 Donation EGRC

Rotary Club of Fraserview has sent a cheque and will present a photoshoot cheque of $1,200 to Educating Girls of Rural China this group came in and presented to us at our lunch in February.

“Educating Girls of Rural China makes a real difference in the lives of young women who would otherwise be left behind and forgotten. It also helps to identify and support the future leaders that China needs. What impresses me most about the organization is its patient attention to each individual girl through every step of her advanced education.”

David Mulroney, Former Canadian Ambassador to China

Guojuan Ren is an orphan who was raised by her grandmother. She is currently in her first year at Liaoning University of Science and Technology. After meeting Canadian Ambassador John McCallum in August, she met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in December 2017.

https://egrc.ca/

Alzheimer's Donation

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Rotary Club of Fraserview presented a cheque of $1,000 to the Alzheimer's Society of BC at our February meeting. The funds were raised during the Recent Blue Martini Gala and fundraiser Christmas event. Thank you everyone for helping to raise the money for such a worthy cause.

CNIB Donation - $2,000

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The Rotary Club of Fraserview presented a cheque for just over $2,000 to the CNIB of BC. These funds were raised at the holiday gal and fundraiser in early December. Thank to everyone that helped make this event a success and raise funds for this cause.

Rotary in the future VR

https://www.rotary.org/en/virtual-reality

Rotary Continues to reinvent what it is and how people move through the world of Rotary. So it should come as no surprise that the organization is innovative. How innovative.. well check out the all new Rotary VR web Page and new VR app.

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