Rotary Club of Winnipeg West

ROTARY CLUB OF WINNIPEG WEST Chartered August 27, 1951

Officers and Directors – 2011 / 2012 Meeting Place: Canad Inns Polo Park President: Dan Sutton DIRECTORS: Winnipeg, Manitoba President Elect: Gerry Spindler Membership: Terry Cooper Time : Thursday, 12:15 pm Past President: Dean Catton Service Projects: Rob Malo Executive Marg Heather Treasurer: Ernie Halligan Public Relations: David Deane Secretary: 226 Whitegates Cres. Hon. Secretary: Helen Forrest Rotary Foundation: John Melnick Club Mailing Winnipeg R3K 1L7 Address: Ph. 889-2156 R.I. President: Kalyan Banerjee (India) Email: [email protected] District Governor: Eva Vida

VOLUME 62-41 Editor: Marg Heather April 26, 2012 Webpage: www.clubrunner.ca/5550

Meeting of May 3 rd – GUEST SPEAKER:

PENNY McMILLAN: “Skills Competency” ****************************************** Upcoming Programs: MAY 1 – CHICKEN FEST DAY May 10 - TBA May 17 – Julia Wiebe: Returning Ambassadorial Scholar May 24 – Tina Holland: Vocational Chat June 7 – Debbie Pokornik

Happy Birthday to: John Hunsberger (April 21)

FAMILY OF ROTARY: 1. Congratulations to Honorary Member Garry Bolton upon receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from SMS Engineering for his almost 40-year commitment to SMS Engineering Ltd. and for his service to the engineering profession in Manitoba and Canada. Garry is also involved in service organizations; he is a regular at Chicken Fest Day and sells lots of tickets. 2. Congratulations to Mike Ludwick for completing the Boston Marathon under very trying circumstances (mainly the hot weather and terrain).

BLACK MARIAH for April 26 th : Today’s pot was $868.00 2 1st card drawn: Gord Yvon 2nd card drawn: Greg Hammond

ATTENDANCE FIGURES for Active Members for July 1st to March 31st are on page 3 of this Westwind.

DISTRICT CONFERENCE will be held June 7th to 9th in Winnipeg. A full schedule is available on the website or in the March DG Newsletter. Highlights are: Donald Mebus (R.I. Director for Zones 25 and 26 in 2006-8) will be the luncheon speaker on Friday, June 8th; Friday evening BBQ at Lower Fort Garry; Saturday noon luncheon keynote speaker will be Gani Abazi from Kosovo; Saturday evening Governor’s Banquet and closing of the Conference.

OTHER CLUBS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. Winnipeg Assiniboine Club is hosting a Golf Tournament on Thursday June 14th at Breezy Bend Country Club. They have a list of designated charities that the proceeds will be forwarded to. Bob Mondy has already offered to sponsor a hole; Dean Catton is the first club member to sign up for golfing. Further information is available from members of the Assiniboine Club or from PDG Harold Law at 888-5169. 2.Winnipeg North Club is having a Bud, Spud and Steak fundraiser on May 17th at the Canad Inns Garden City.

CHICKEN FEST REPORT from WEEK SEVEN:  Last push before the big day, next Tuesday, May 1st.  2917 luncheon deliveries have been sold as of this morning – that is 313 short of the target. Dean reminded members to check with their customers re orders.  204 Chicken For Kids tickets have been paid for to date. Goal is 255 in support of Principal Sparling School.  Dine-In events include:  Ultimate Cash Draw at 7:00pm (ticket stubs and money need to be turned in ASAP to Art Oakes to be included)  Backyard BBQ with Hal Anderson draw during the evening  John Melnick is having his Loonie draw during the evening  Silent Auction – John Hunsberger is still looking for donations to the auction

PROGRAM for APRIL 26 th: Max Goldack introduced our guest speaker Dr. John Corlett from the University of Winnipeg, Professor in the Dept. of Kinesiology. He is the University’s VP Academic and Provost. His topic today was “Sport, Development and Peace”. His team has been working on a collaborative project in El Salvador with the children there: their aim is to work on reducing violence – all the prisons and laws haven’t worked to reduce the societal violence where gang culture and drug wars are the realities kids face there. Dr. Corlett compared El Salvador and Greater Toronto Area (GTA) who both have the same population – 6 million residents. El Salvador last year reported 4000 murders; GTA had 106 murders. The Civil War in El Salvador ended years ago at great cost; now peace is needed for the country to move forward. He described two forms of peace: “Negative Peace” – indifferent relations, no overt conflict; “Positive Peace” – genuinely harmonious relations. Dr. Corlett asked the question: How do we teach values and skills to achieve and maintain Positive Peace? - The project is for all the children to play, learn games and participate in fun sports - He showed slides of these various activities and how they work - Schools are the only sources to make these long-term changes 3 - ScotiaBank El Salvador is the major sponsor of this program – the bank saw the reason why attitudes needed to be changed. If nothing is done, the bank foresaw that the country would essentially disappear as a place to thrive and do business. Max thanked Dr. Corlett and wished the team well as they journey to El Salvador for one last trip shortly, as this 7-year project is ending May 31st, 2012.

The April 26th meeting adjourned at 1:30pm with God Save the Queen. 4

Rotary Club of Winnipeg West

Attendance Percentages for the Period: July 2011 - March 2012

Name Attend. Poss. % Name Attend. Poss. % Broucher, Geoff 37 37 100% Crabbe, Brian 28 37 76% Catton, Dean 37 37 100% Kumka, Irwin 28 37 76% Chapman, George 37 37 100% Dave, Jyotsna 27 37 73% Charach, Michael 37 37 100% Walker, Bob 27 37 73% Collie, Brian 37 37 100% Wilkes, Paul 27 37 73% Deane, David 37 37 100% Dobrowolski, Dale 26 37 70% Halligan, Ernie 37 37 100% Brookes, Penny 25 37 68% Johnstone, Gordon 37 37 100% Ludwick, Mike 24 37 65% Oakes, Art 37 37 100% Malo, Rob 24 37 65% Peterson, Jack 37 37 100% Yvon, Gord 24 37 65% Sanchez, Orlando 37 37 100% Taylor, Don 23 37 62% Spindler, Gerry 37 37 100% Barker, Mike* 6 10 60% Sutton, Dan 37 37 100% Wall, Kieron 22 37 59% Unger, John 37 37 100% Nash, Keith 21 37 57% Zemla, Shawn* 1 1 100% Iannone, Ron 18 37 49% Goldack, Max 36 37 97% Tisdale, Mark 18 37 49% King, Louise (LOA) 36 37 97% Marsh, Colin 15 37 41% Mondy, Bob (LOA) 36 37 97% Rybuck, Stan 14 37 38% Cooper, Terry 34 37 92% Hammond, Greg 13 37 35% Goddard, Alan 34 37 92% Antel, Joel 12 37 32% Melnick, John 33 37 89% Farrell, Gary 12 37 32% Switek, Mary 33 37 89% Lanthier, Kathy 11 37 30% Beakley, Grant 31 37 84% Ridge, John 11 37 30% Hunsberger, John 31 37 84% Dola, Nicole* 3 11 27% McKenzie, Bruce 31 37 84% DeCorby, Gerry 9 37 24% Swan, Eloriana 31 37 84% Blandignères, Franck 8 37 22% Forrest, Helen 30 37 81% Lupien, Nicolas 3 37 8% Cove, Nancy (GA) 2 37 5% Boissoneault, Mark 1 37 3% Olin, Gerald (LOA) 0 37 0%