Harbourside Stops In At Bayers Lake

Hello Everyone

Today was a great day in Rotary, some great guest and news about a new project!

Hilary's Dad, Bruce Smith, was in to visit our club today, he gave a Happy Buck for visiting his daughter.  Also visiting was Erin Martin and Donna Clarke (who as of this writing are going to be new members! Yah!).

Lots of Happy bucks to go around today, Michael was at the running challenge, Barb is going to Cape Breton this week, Vivienne had been visiting her daughter and son in law and Evelina had Thanksgiving weekend with her granddaughter.

Next week is Erin's 5th anniversary with her boyfriend and Gail spent Thanksgiving with our exchange student Natalia.

Paul announced that Sackville got its charter on October 6th.  Paul has done a fine job in the last year working with the Sackville club.

Sunday October 23rd is our Potluck for Polio, if you want to participate, please let Barb know.  There was also a reminder of the Interact barbecue that is on for next Thursday, they are doing purple pinky for polio.

Next we heard from Adam about the Rift Valley Water and Sanitation Program.  We have recently committed $2500 to this project that builds rainwater harvested water tanks for families in the Rift Valley area in Kenya.

The communities served by this project are very poor with little access to municipal or regional water supply.  The ground water is high in fluoride so shallow wells are not an option.  Without rainwater harvesting, the women and children are forced to walk long distances to contaminated streams and ponds for their daily water needs.

This project has a micro finance and reforestation component, and training on sanitation, health, hygiene, and HIV/AIDS.  It is run by women's groups in the local area and is a project that is sustainable and run by Kenyans for Kenyans.  With matching we hope that our contribution will be able to build apx. 22 tanks.

50/50 didn't go, the pot is building.