Volume 92, Number 41 4,540th Meeting Friday, May 25, 2012

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 405, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5L3 — web: www.rotarynanaimo.org

Serving Our Community Since

May 1, 1920 - Charter Number 43

DIRECTORS Wayne Anderson Carey McIver Susie Walker

John Shillabeer Charles Ramos Bob Janes

President Rotary International Kalyan Banerjee, Rotary Club of Vapi, India

District Governor 5020 David Stocks, Rotary Club of West Shore, Victoria, BC

Club Meeting Friday at 12:00 p.m.

at the Coast Bastion Inn

CLUB OFFICERS

President ...................................... David Hammond

Vice President .............................. Keith McFarlane

Secretary ........................................... Janeane Coutu

Treasurer ........................................ Gordon Hubley

President Elect ......................................... Joan Ryan

Immediate Past President .............. John Heisterman

Students who spoke to the club May 18th are, left to right, RYLA Students: Kenda Chang-Swanson, Jaeda Drexhage, Rotary Exchange Students: Luisa Athayde, Lucas Le Goareguer and Interact Vice President: T.J. Andjelkovic.

May 18th Meeting Notes By John Shillabeer

President Dave Hammond opened

the meeting and led the national anthem.

Chris Pogson gave the invocation.

Dave Connolly called for visiting

Rotarians and guests. Kathy Smith in-

troduced Bob Lasota from Nanaimo

North, who had brought two of our guest

speakers; Wayne Anderson introduced

Glenn Molson, a Nanaimo resident and

prospective member.

On behalf of the whole club, Presi-

dent Dave welcomed Lucie Gosselin

back after her surgery.

Ross White, who will be celebrating

his twenty-fifth club anniversary on May

22, spoke to us about a malaria net fund

raising project for Ghana. Ross’ wife,

Pam, and friends are donating four sets

of place mats and a table runner hand-

made from beautiful African fabric to the

Nanaimo clubs. The plan is that each

club will devise a way to use them to

raise funds, such as a raffle; the proceeds

of which will be presented to our Sun-

yani visitors when they attend installa-

tion.

President Dave reminded members of

the upcoming Golf Tournament on June

6 at the Nanaimo Golf and Country

Club. Tickets are $25 for golf and $25

for dinner. He also reminded us of the

get together at Longwood at 6:30 for

7:00 pm Wednesday 23 May for those

potentially interested in attending next

year’s world conference in Lisbon.

Announcements :

Bob Fenty: the Upper Island Music

Festival requires more drivers to pick up

judges and adjudicators from the airport

on May 27 and to return them later in the

week.

Joan

Ryan: distrib-

uted sign-

up sheets

for mem-

bers to

indicate

their preferences for committee work

next year. Joan asked that we prioritise

our interests.

Wayne Anderson asked for volun-

teers to help load and transport surplus

books from the downtown library on

Sunday May 27 at 12:30 pm.

There will be a going-away party for

our visiting students and general get to-

gether on May 30 at 5:00 pm at Ocean-

side Club.

Sgt- at- Arms Mike Herold admonished

President Dave for his less than gallant

complements to Susan Gerrand about

this week’s hat compared to last week’s

model. However, instead of fining us for

doubtful misdemeanors, Sgt Mike

quizzed us on Victoria Day and its sig-

nificance. Susan Gerrand was the most

knowledgeable

and saved many

of us from em-

barrassment!

Happy and Sad

Bucks:

Ian Williams was ecstatic that

we had made as

much money on

the book sales as

Chiliwack, even

though they have

160 members and

can barely get

enough people to

support one sale a

year.

John Heister-

man was happy

to be back from his Panama cruise and

reported his surprise and pleasure at see-

ing Al Smith in a white dinner jacket on

the cruise. By the way, for those who

like to knock BC Ferries, John told us it

costs his cruise ship US $25,000 to re-

serve a passage through the canal and

$400,000 for the actual transit.

Debbie Narver was both happy and

sad that her son has landed a job, leaving

Debbie and her husband empty nesters.

Joan Ryan congratulated TJ (a

speaker) for selling a whole box of

chocolates in a good cause.

There then followed by-play among

the Sgt-at-arms, President and others

about the quality of leadership that cul-

minated in Douglas Anderson singing

(?) a line from the Pirates of Penzance

“I am the very model of a modern major

- general…..”

Table Stakes were won by John Heis-

terman and the card draw was picked by

Gord Hubley ,but without success. So

the pot will continue to grow for another

week.

Exchange Student

Program By Mike Herold

Our program today was introduced by

club member Kathy Smith and included

a talk by the Vice-President of our local

Interact Club, another by two of our re-

cent Rotary Youth Assembly Team

members who just finished their RYLA

training in Washington State, and a third

by three of our Rotary Exchange Stu-

dents.

Kathy mentioned that Nanaimo North

members Bob Lasota and Don Bonner

recently transported and chaperoned five

To raise funds to purchase mosquito nets to be sent to

Sunyani, a special fundraiser has been created with

tickets to be sold for a (1) set of 4 hand quilted place-

mats and (2) a table runner. The tickets are $5 each or

3 for $10. They will be available until installation night

at which time the draws will be made.

local students from our area to the

RYLA Conference in Washington. Bob

was visiting our club today and noted

that there were 136 students at the event,

plus many leaders and chaperones. The

total attendance was about 160 people.

Bob noted that the students were all well

versed and could easily stand up in front

of the 160 people and talk for some time

without any problems.

Our two RYLA students were Kenda

Chang-Swanson and Jaeda Drexhage,

both NDSS students. Kenda said that she

is very involved at school and partici-

pates in the environmental committee

and food drives and volunteers at the

hospital along with many other areas of

involvement. She said that she had a

fantastic time at RYLA. She shared ideas

with many other students and gained a

lot of confidence and experience during

the event.

Jaeda is also at NDSS and on the stu-

dent council, environmental committee

and youth choir and volunteers with Big

Brothers and Sisters. Jaeda said that she

met many positive people at RYLA and

that the whole event was extremely posi-

tive.

Club members Kathy Smith and

Douglas Anderson asked both students

to comment further and Kenda said that

she attended numerous workshops at the

event and each speaker spoke on a dif-

ferent topic. A main theme of the confer-

ence is that if you all work together, you

can make a difference.

Jaeda said they did a lot of trust exer-

cises where you would fall and trust that

someone would catch you. Jaeda also

said that she was going to Poland next

year to teach English.

Our Interact member was TJ Andjelk-

ovic who is currently Vice-President of

the local Interact club. She has been in

the club for one year and it has been a

life changing experience for her. She is a

16 year old, grade 11 Woodlands Secon-

dary student who is involved in the Stu-

dent Council and school volleyball team

and is the sports director.

She is running for Miss Nanaimo this

year and will participate in the Empire

Day and Victoria Day Parades as well as

the Bathtub races. She is looking for

Rotarians who are willing to donate

some of their time for worthy local com-

munity programs. She was recently in-

volved in giving out hygiene bags con-

taining razors, toothpaste and brushes to

local homeless men.

The Interact club recently donated

$1,100 which was raised by garage sales,

bottle drives and car washes to the

Mercy Ship program.

Our inbound Rotary Exchange stu-

dents will be going home soon and Lu-

cas Le Goaregner from France and

Luisa Athayde from Brazil were at the

club to thank us for our hospitality and

support and to say that they really en-

joyed their stay.

Lucas said that he helped raise $1200

for the Child Development Centre and he

grew up a lot. He explained the differ-

ence between Nanaimo and his home

town with Nanaimo being much smaller,

cars and houses much bigger in Canada,

and the weather being much colder in

Nanaimo.

Luisa said that she learned a lot about

herself. She is more confi-

dent now and she really

improved her English. She

said she wants to learn more

about the Canadian culture.

Kathy Smith thanked all

our speakers and she reiter-

ated Rotary's mandate to

promote peace and under-

standing throughout the

world. Rotary programs

such as RYLA, Youth Ex-

change and Interact are true

testimonies to this mandate.

Interact garbage cleanup - L - R, Kiran, Saman-tha and T.J. with the bags they filled with garbage collected from Brechin Lanes to the bridge near

the bottom of Westwood Road, wow!

ATTENDANCE By Janeane Coutu

We missed these Rotarians;

Blackmore, Blinston, Buchanan,

Currie, Grice, Hais, Hobbs, Jag-

gers, Hrabowych, King, Knutsson,

McIver, Malcolm, Patrick, Raedler,

Ramos, J. Smith, Tanner, Troje,

Valsangkar, Welch, Wilson

Visiting Rotarians;

Bob Lasota, Nanaimo North

Guests;

Exchange students Lucas of

France and Luisa of Brazil

RYLA students Kenda Chang-

Swanson and Jaeda Drexhage

Interact student TJ Andjelkovic

Glenn Molson, guest of Wayne

Anderson

Make-ups;

Al & Kathy Smith, Princess

cruise

DATES TO REMEMBER Wednesday, June 6th - Rotary Golf at Nanaimo Golf & Country Club. Nine and Dine for $50./ dinner only $25. Tee off 3:30 pm, Texas scramble, Dinner at 7:00. Prizes!

Friday, June 8 - Past Presidents Day at Nanaimo Rotary Club.

Friday , June 15 - Rotary Installation at the Coast, Fellowship at 6:00, Dinner at 7:00. No cost to Rotarians and their spouses.

June 22 & 24 - District Conference at the Victoria Conference Centre.

Friday, June 29 - Board of Directors Re-port and PHF recognition. All PHF’s are asked to wear their medals.

Sunday, August 12 - Rotary Summer Picnic at the home of Donna and Robert Hais. More info to come.

Other upcoming events to look for … possibility of a Poker Night, the Family Christmas Breakfast, and our Rotary Christmas Dinner.

WEEKLY CLUB PROGRAMS

GREETERS

CASHIERS

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

HEAD TABLE

INTRODUCE GUESTS

INTRODUCE SPEAKER

THANK SPEAKER

PROGRAM

“COGS” is the official bulletin of the Rotary Club of Nanaimo, published each

Friday by the Bulletin Committee

Winner of District 5020 Best Bulletin

Awards

Committee Chair — Ian Williams Meeting Reporter: John Shillabeer / Program Reporter: Mike Herold / Photos: Ian Williams

Editing & Production: Bruce Gordon / Web Posting: Ian Williams

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GREETERS

CASHIERS

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

HEAD TABLE

INTRODUCE GUESTS

INTRODUCE SPEAKER

THANK SPEAKER

PROGRAM

May 25th

Douglas Anderson,

Lila Tanner, Susan Gerrand

Lila Tanner

Yvan Gosselin

Guenter Raedler

Pres Dave, Ralph Nilson, Wahid

Ali, Kathy Smith, Lila Tanner,

Susan Gerrand, Douglas Anderson

Karl Hauer

Wahid Ali

V. I. UNIVERSITY

Ralph Nilson

Kathy Smith

June 8th

Helen Blackmore,

Neil Valsangkar, Karl Hauer

Al Smith

Yvan Gosselin

Joan Ryan

Pres Dave, Harry Cicconi, Helen

Blackmore, Neil Valsangkar, Karl

Hauer, Yvan Gosselin, Al Smith

Carmen Henderson

President Dave

PAST PRESIDENTS DAY

Paul Harris Fellowship Recognition

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GREETERS

CASHIERS

SGT-AT-ARMS

INVOCATION

HEAD TABLE

INTRODUCE GUESTS

INTRODUCE SPEAKER

THANK SPEAKER

PROGRAM

June 1st

Wayne Anderson,

Bruce Gordon, Carmen Troje

Al Smith

Bob Fenty

Charles Ramos

Pres Dave, Mike Hooper, Bob

Buchanan, Keith McFarlane, Wayne

Anderson, Zack Smith, Ray Sabourin

John Heisterman

Bob Buchanan

NANAIMO AIRPORT - Mike Hooper

Adventure in Forestry - Zack Smith

Bob Wilson

Impassable road can’t stop malaria fighters The Rotarian, May 2012

Physician Michael W. Felz spent several years with his wife and

children in Papua New Guinea as a medical missionary in the late 1980s.

“Malaria was rampant, and severe disease was not unusual,” recalls

Felz, a member of the Rotary Club of Augusta-West, Georgia, USA.

Since 1997, Rotarians Against Malaria in Papua New Guinea (RAM-

PNG) has been responsible for the nationwide program to distribute long-

lasting insecticidal nets. In addition to providing a physical barrier, the

nets thwart malaria by poisoning mosquitoes, which are killed on contact

by the insecticide embedded in the fibers.

In May, working with RAM-PNG and with financial support from his

club, Felz and a local friend, Andrew Pine, delivered 900 nets to the vil-

lage of Mamuane in an epic journey that almost ended when a rocky, rut-

ted mountain road became impassable.

“We were fully stuck – in the middle of nowhere, in the dark and

chilly downpour, with 100-pound bales of nets that no man could carry

on foot to Mamuane in that slick, sticky mud,” Felz says.

Pine sent word to his friend Luke Wembi, principal of the nearby

Tunda Primary School, and soon after daybreak, a chattering company of

80 barefoot students arrived. Each child shouldered several individual

nets wrapped in plastic.

“And off they went, carrying lifesaving mosquito nets up the slopes,

over the ridges, between the tall weeds, down the valleys, and through

the mud, on the two-hour trek to Mamuane.” In December, Pine reported

back about the village: “We don’t have malaria anymore.”