ROTARY

this WEEK Rotary Club of Burlington Central

May 26, 2005

Rotary at its best, helping people around the world, was the focus of today1s speaker. It made everyone proud to be a Rotarian, as we heard David
Angas from the Rotary Club of Oakville West, talk about how his Club in partnership with the other Oakville Clubs, is undertaking a major effort to
supply potable water to a community in South Africa. The dark continent, certainly has more than its fair share of health and resource problems, and
one of the most pressing problems is the lack of good drinking water. It is estimated that around the world, 5.3 billion people are without adequate
supplies of potable water. At least 25% of those are in Africa. Since a good water supply is the first step in helping people solve their health and
nourishment problems, the Oakville Rotary Clubs decided that they could make the biggest impact on really helping people, by providing a long
term, sustainable, water treatment facility. What really impressed David, in his efforts to research the various options that their Club was
investigating, was the way in which Rotarians in Africa coordinated their efforts and provided a super experience in getting them to the possible
project sites. More about the "Water for Life" project after these commercial messages.

As most of you know, President Bernie is in Winnipeg at the funeral of his 97 year old mother, who passed away this week. In his place PP Les
Miller assumed the Chair and directed proceedings as if he never gave up the job. Bruce Maybury led us in Grace, followed by the combined efforts
of Bernie Hanna and Anthony Ford-Jones, who led us through the Anthem in the same key. Ron Lambert gave the Toast to Queen and Country,
followed by Peter Thoem1s flawless version of the 4-Way Test.
Dan Kalmats introduced the guests, who were: Terry Beddard, guest of Bob Simpson; Fran Darius, our exchange student; and guest speaker,
David Angas.

Fran1s Update
Fran seems to be very happy these days and is having a good time with several other exchange students. She visited Sarnia last week, a fact that was
met with many ooh1s and aah1s by the membership. This weekend will be the last weekend she will be getting together with the other exchange
students, so it will be a sad time for her. She is also planning to go to the Chicago conference next month and is currently waiting for a visa.

Sergeant-at Arms
Once again, Cam substituted for the absent-with-cause, Sgt. Kathy. He started by asking slight of hand expert Les Miller to cut the deck of cards
and make sure the Ace of spades was present. Of course he cut the deck at the Ace, thereby proving its existence and raising our doubts about the
veracity of future draws that might involve Les. The first fines were for members who missed last night1s Club Assembly. I trust next week1s
sergeant, will fine those who missed the Assembly and today1s meeting.
Happy dollars were contributed by Catherine Brady, in honour of her unemployed, recently graduated (Waterloo, mechanical Engineering) son, and
by Andrew Gaydon for his recently employed daughter. Chris Delaney had a happy dollar because, he was honoured recently, with a Paul Harris
Fellow by the Rotary Club of Petawawa. Congratulations Chris.
Bernie Hanna, had some more dollars for recently acquired wheels, and Bob Elstone had a dollar for recently acquired horses. Does anyone else
sense a generation gap here?

Announcement
Brian Torsney was thanked for his efforts last week in bringing John Manley to our Awards meeting. Apparently John really enjoyed the meeting.
Brian was also thanked for his efforts in getting real orange juice for breakfast. Unfortunately, the orange juice coup may be as short-lived as a poor
commercial. You may need to Play around with this one a bit, Brian.

Fred Suter reported on the Club Assembly. Although there were only 22 members present, a number of import initiatives were discussed. The two
main topics were the recommendations of the sub-committee on community needs, and the Club1s commitment to Youth Exchange. There will be
more information in the near future, but at this time, the Board wanted to get a feeling from the Club about the recommendation that we focus on
Youth related issues. This could mean addressing the critical needs for youth services, as well as the need to partner with Youth, in meeting broader
community needs.
To change the long term focus of the Club, we would probably need a by-law change, so the focus on youth is currently only a one year, or two year
commitment.

Bob Simpson spoke about the need to concentrate our efforts on Lakeside-a-la-Carte. This is now our biggest fundraiser along with the Charity
Golf, so we need the whole Club to be involved. The date this year is August 14th, and the goal is to raise $50,000. This can only be done if we get
sponsors and if we can sell about 450 tickets. Wayne Harbin followed up from Bob, saying that you can1t sell the tickets if you don1t ask people.
In response to a question about telling people what the fund raising is for, other than general Rotary charities, the suggestion was made by Fred that
we focus on the initiative of Camp Trillium. This is not only our charity partner for golf, but also represents the kind of projects we expect to be
doing more, with an emphasis Youth issues.

Thursday, June 9, is Induction Night for President Elect, Fred Suter. For the benefit of the new members of the Club, this is known as the Herb
Stoneham Memorial Induction Dinner, in honour of our first Club President. It is expected that all members will make a special effort to attend this
excellent evening, along with their spouses or significant others, to show our support for Fred. If you have not yet confirmed, please get in touch
with Bernie Hanna, or Fred Suter, IMMEDIATELY. There will be no Rotary meeting on the morning of June 9th.

The Charity Golf Tournament is taking place on Thursday, July 21st. Our partner is Camp Trillium, which is a camp for young cancer patients.
Hole sponsors, prizes, and auction items, and players, are all needed, so please do what you can to make this event another outstanding success.

Guest Speaker
George Pyle introduced David Angas, vice-president of Angas-Shick Investment Group, and a long time leader and advisor in the investment
community. He is a member of the Oakville West Rotary Club, and has lived in Oakville since 1976.

David started his presentation by noting that all Rotary projects begin at the Club level. As President elect of his Club, he met with the other
Oakville Clubs to try and decide what joint projects they could work on for Rotaries centennial year. After much deliberation, they decided that the
greatest needs were in the third world and the most fundamental need was for clean water. After approaching Xenon Corp. they found out a lot
about the problems of supplying water to other countries, and the long-term problems involved. Xenon was already involved in Water for Humanity,
but they were looking for someone they could partner with to make sure the equipment could be installed properly and maintained. This is where the
amazing network of Rotary contacts came into play, and the process of selecting a partner and a suitable project got started. After identifying what
they wanted to do, the Rotary partners called for requests and got 40 applications from interest Clubs around the world. This was narrowed down to
four, and then an intensive investigative, site selection process was undertaken to find the best one. As it turned out, there may be a way that all four
locations can be helped to some degree, but the main project is centred at Tzaneen, in the North Eastern part of South Africa. This is an area with
about 500,000 people, trying to find enough water for both farming and drinking. At present, about 1,300,000 litres of water are taken from a local
river, but about 700,000 litres are wasted because it cannot be used for drinking. The Xenon equipment can purify this water, which will then be
pumped about 2 miles to where it will be used.
A Rotary matching grant project is now being submitted to get the necessary funding. All together, the project will cost about $450,000. They hope
to get the equipment there by September. There are many benefits to the program besides just bringing potable water to about 10,000 people. One
side benefit is that the children, who are now used to transport the water manually, will be able to go to school. This will bring important long-term
benefits to the area. It also engages the whole community in a common goal. Locally, the project mobilizes the members of the Rotary Clubs
involved, and also conveys a positive image of Rotary that will make others want to join. There were a few questions from the floor about the nature
of the Xenon equipment and the pumping system. David described this equipment as a self-contained twenty-foot long package, with filters that
need to be changed every 5-7 years.
Al Minaker thanked David for an excellent presentation.

Your scribe- Dean the Wiser

Upcoming Program

June 2- Catherine Brady, Classification Talk
June 9- Annual Herb Stoneham Induction Dinner for Fred Suter
June 16- Tex Serve
June 23- Fran's long awaited presentation

Duty Roster - June 2 June 9

Captain David Porteous Randy Smallbone
Set-Up George Pyle Roy Stojanovich
Attendance Mae Radford Fred Suter
Badges Allan Ramsay Brian Torsney
Cash Randy Reeve Stu Wilkinson
Greeter David Roscoe Bill Wodhams
Grace Joe Rosenkrantz Gerry Willard
Toast Cam Rothwell David Wood
4 Way Test John Rutledge John Allinotte
Intro Guests Karmel Sakran Eric Anderson
Intro Speaker Albert Schmid David Beckett
Thank Speaker Bob Simpson Catherine Brady
Sweeper Stuart Small Kevin Brady
Scribe Dean Rutty David Dean
Website John Souvage John Souvage
SAA Kathy Thomas Kathy Thomas