At our Friday morning breakfast meeting, we watched a pre-recorded meeting between Oksana Tjupa, President, Rotary Club of Kyiv Int'l and our district governor Harvey Bass. Our President, Jillian Gibson, shared some details on the district disaster response grant. In the early stages, only clubs in Ukraine and clubs that border Ukraine were eligible to apply for the immediate disaster response fund. The grant is now open globally. Our district has an opportunity to apply for a USD 25,000 grant that can be used locally to help displaced Ukrainians in our area. This grant is for the district, not a specific club. We also have the option to send the entire grant to a Rotary club in Ukraine. After a review of needs, the district has decided the best use for the funds would be to send the money to Ukraine. However, we can re-apply for the grant if there is an urgent need in our district. For added simplicity, our district is looking to combine with other districts to send a single large grant. Jillian will keep the club updated.

Our friends at the Rotaract Club of Halifax are hosting a few fundraisers.

Monday, October 24th is World Polio Day. The Metro Halifax Clubs are planning a fundraiser for that evening (Pint for Polio). More details to come! Please direct questions to Ashley Butt.

Beatles Fest, our club's new fundraiser, has a confirmed location. Beatles Fest will happen in Paul O'Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library on Friday, November 18th. More details to come. Please direct questions to Alex Handyside.

There has been a Rotary Bridge Club in the Halifax/Dartmouth area for 40-plus years. While COVID put a pause on the club, Bob Power is now attempting to restart it. If you are interested in playing bridge, please contact Bob Power.

At our Friday morning breakfast meeting, Louisa Horne made a motion that our club recommend our very own Doug Logan to be considered for this director role. This motion was overwhelmingly adopted!

In lieu of a regular Friday breakfast meeting on September 30th, 2022, we would like to invite members to participate in Truth and Reconciliation Day activities. If you know of any events this day, please reach out to Jillian. We will be sharing these details closer to the date. More to come!

 

To learn more about this important day, please follow this link: https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20210903008

We have updated our club’s policy of storing recorded Zoom meetings. As a result of storage limits, Zoom recordings stored in the Zoom cloud will be deleted after 3 months. If you would like a recorded meeting to be retained longer than 3 months, please reach out to info@rotaryhalifaxharbour.ca.

 

You can see our updated Zoom Recording Retention Policy here.

We have received a couple of requests for help with the temporary housing of students of Rotarians attending Halifax universities.

 

If you, or someone you know, are able to help or offer advice, please reach out to Thomas Paul.