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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE THURSDAY, MAY 2 1:00pm-5:00pm Motorcycle Ride ‘Kamloops Circle Tour Coast Kamloops through interior and on to BC Wildlife Park (dress warm).

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Rotary District 5060 Governor Sherry Chamberlain with husband Jim bringing in an early car load during the Rotary Food Drive.

District Governor wants to see communities thrive

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hen Sherry Chamberlain joined Rotary in 1999, it was only her second experience with a volunteer organization, after bring involved with Crime Stoppers.

“Before that, I didn’t know anything about volunteer work, I wasn’t even that interested in doing anything beyond things for myself and things for work,” she said.

Signing up with Rotary changed all that.

“I discovered a whole family of people and collaboration of efforts from incredible volunteers that just want to make their city better, and make their community grow and thrive, and help youth and help seniors,” Chamberlain said.

Now, 20 years later, Chamberlain is the governor for District 5060, which consists of 57 Rotary clubs in the United States and British Columbia.

“Being a district governor means being the direct repre-

sentative of the Rotary clubs, and the assistant governors, to Rotary International,” she explained.

“And Rotary International is over 330,000 rotary clubs in the world.

“And so there’s all these different levels that help manage rotary worldwide.”

Over the years Chamberlain has been involved in a number of Rotary projects, but she pointed to a few that she’s the most proud of.

“My proudest moments have been the work in Thailand helping the children of the Golden Triangle,” she said.

“They’re basically the hill tribe girls that get protected from getting taken into the sex trade. And so we were involved for many years, our club specifically with helping to build a community for these girls, to be safe, and to be educated in a safe place.”

As far as local projects, she pointed to her work getting Rotary involved with the

Family Tree Family Resource Center in Kamloops.

Looking to the future, Chamberlain said she’d like to continue working on Rotary’s youth-focused programs “I would like to get going a junior RYLA program, which is Rotary Youth Leadership Academy, and have a junior component to this where we sponsor young kids to go to a camp, and we teach them leadership skills, and teach them about rotary and help build their confidence,” she said.

Chamberlain was quick to note that it took more than her own work to bring the conference together and thanked her key conference executives Carol Tennessy, Anna Harrison, Cindy Piva and Suzanne McCloy.

“We and the rest of the committee that composes of about 30 members from all five Rotary clubs in this area will be putting on the most fantastic conference,” Chamberlain said.

5:30pm-7:00pm Social BBQ Event at the BC Wildlife Park with District 5040 and District 5060.

FRIDAY, MAY 3 7:00am-8:00am Morning Run/Walk 7:00am-2:00pm Golf Tournament at Kamloops Golf & Country Club 7:30am-8:30am Morning Yoga at the Coast 9:00am-2:30pm Lac Du Bois Grasslands Tour 10:45am-2:00pm & 1:30pm4:15pm Historical Downtown Tour with ACT Adventures 11:00am-4:00pm DiVine Wine & Craft Beer Tasting Tour 11:00am-4:00pm Kamloops Wine Trail Tour 11:30am-2:30pm Sip and Shop downtown Tour 12:30pm-3:30pm Tasty Taster Tour 4:00-5:30pm Reception at Coast Kamloops Conference & Hotel 5:45pm Home Hosting Fellowship

SATURDAY, MAY 4 7:00am Breakfast 8:00pm Opening Ceremonies • Parade of Flags Governors March • District Governor Message on Peace/Diversity 9:00am Special guest RI Director Jeffry Cadorette 9:30am Saturday Breakout Sessions plus PDG and AG meetings 9:45am - Break Out Sessions IDA - Days for Girls: International Project Salon A - Haiti Water Project: Hanwash Salon B - Rotary Grants 101: Basic Introduction Columbia - Rotary”Ask an Expert”: RI Speakers 10:45am - Break Out Sessions IDA - International Service Projects in District Salon A - Clubrunner Literacy-Level 1 Salon B - Applying for a GG, The Process Columbia - Fundraiser Ideas International Service Break Out Project Information Form 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Dean Rohrs, Rotary International Vice President 2017-2018 2:10pm - Break Out Sessions Salon A - Club Runner Literacy-Level 2 Salon B - Membership Ideas for your club Columbia - District Business Meeting: AGM

3:10pm - Break Out Sessions Salon A - Food Bank: Recovery, Food Waste, Recovery - Bernadette Siracky Salon B - Environment Preserve Planet Earth Columbia - District Leadership/AG Team Meeting 5:30pm DG Reception in Ballroom Foyer 6:00pm Dinner 7:00pm RI Director Jeffry Cadorette, Special Rotary President’s Representative Keynote Speaker: Brittany Arthur, Business Development Consultant “Rotary & Youth: the place to be.”

9:00pm Beyond Brass SUNDAY, MAY 5 7:00am Buffet Breakfast 8:00am Announcements, DG Sherry Chamberlain 8:30am Plenary Speaker: Jordan Harrison, Professional Speaker and Educator 9:00am DGE Peter Schultz – “On To Kelowna” 10:00am Youth Exchange Speakers and Presentations 10:30am Closing Ceremonies

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o, what is Rotary? That is a difficult question to answer because Rotary is involved in so many different things.

The common perception is that Rotarians are an exclusive group of Old, Rich, White, Men that own businesses, play golf, drink cognac and smoke cigars.

Rotarians actually think of themselves as beauty queen contestants that speak of world peace and solving world hunger.

And that’s actually closer to the truth, but most do not wear tiaras or formal evening gowns.

Rotarians generally are common folk that are interested in making the world a better place. Some own businesses, but that is not a requirement. They come in all colours such as white, red, brown or black. Both men and women belong and in many clubs, it’s half and half. While it’s true that many Rotarians are old, it’s only because they joined when they were younger and had so much fun they just never quit. There are lots of Rotarians in their 20s and 30s.

There are 34,000 Rotary Clubs around the world, in 200 different countries or regions with a total of 1.2 million members.

Rotarians work on local projects such as parks, food banks, helping with literacy, helping youth and many different things.

On the International front, Rotary is helping people in many countries with clean drinking water and sanitation, schooling, peace, etc. Rotary clubs around the world work with each other to ensure that the services delivered are exactly what is needed. That is, we will partner with a Rotary Club in Ethiopia to work on the clean water project their.

And we believe in sustainability. If we teach the locals how to do the work, they will be able to help themselves long after Rotary has finished the project.

Rotary is an upside down organization.

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Rotary Club of Kamloops working to change stereotypes

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rad Serl, president of the Rotary Club of Kamloops, wants to try to break some of the stigma attached to the organization.

“The big thing that that we hear all the time is some version of Rotary is male, pale and stale,” he said.

“It’s old conservative white dudes that do left wing things.

And that’s not the case anymore.”

Rotary District 5060, of which Serl’s club is a part, is certainly a testament to a more progressive Rotary — current district governor Shirley Chamberlain is the first Canadian woman to hold the position.

“Having women in leadership roles is something that’s very important to us,” Serl said. “Because we want our club to best represent the entire population. So it can’t just be one side or the other, it has to be about working together.”

So why should someone look to join a Rotary Club?

According to Serl, one big reason is that it’s fun.

“Getting involved in a good cause with good people and

Rotary members in the kitchen at NorKam secondary volunteering to cook dinner for families suffering from food insecurity at the Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinner.

having a good time doing it makes volunteering rather effortless,” he said.

It’s also a great way to give back to the community, and many of the Rotary Club of Kamloops’ projects revolve around food security.

There are the Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinners that are held at Norkam secondary every few weeks.

There’s also the Starfish Backpack Program, which provides a backpack full of food for kids with food insecurities so they have access to healthy meals over the weekend.

The club is also involved in the Food Bank food drive that takes place twice a year.

“If you’re not feeding hungry kids, you’re doing some-

thing wrong,” Serl said.

Even their fundraising projects lean toward involvement with food, like Chefs in the City, an event which showcases some of the great food and drink options available in Kamloops.

The 2019 event will host 21 local restaurants and caterers, as well as 10 local wineries and breweries.

With a current membership of 56, Serl says the Rotary Club of Kamloops is always on the lookout for new members.

Interested parties can drop by one of their lunch meetings at Storms on the River to find out more about the club.

“Come check us out,” Serl said.

“You don’t have to marry us after the first date.

“If you’re looking for new friends, new to the community and want to get a social group going, as I as I did when I got here, or want to give back, it’s an excellent venue.”

Rotary Club of Kamloops We meet Mondays at 12:00 PM Storms on the River 1502 River Street

Kamloops West is out feeding the community W ith a membership of about 70 people, the Rotary Club of Kamloops West is one of the city’s larger clubs.

“We’ve had quite a few new members over the last two years,” explained president Gwen Ginter.

“Membership was starting to go down, but it’s been pretty steady.”

And, like all Rotary clubs, Kamloops West is knee deep in projects to improve their community — regardless of what their membership numbers look like.

One of those projects is the annual Seniors’ Dinner that the club

hosts in February. Tickets to the free meal are distributed to about 300 seniors throughout the community.

“Our club cooks the food and provides a night of entertainment for seniors,” Ginter said. “We’ve been doing that for over 30 years.”

The seniors dinner is currently held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, though in the past it has taken place at Desert Gardens and the United Church.

Though they didn’t originate it, they’re also involved with the PIT Stop Program, a free dinner held at the United Church every Sunday.

Rotary West handles the dinner four times a year, which means purchasing the food, preparation and service, and then cleaning up at the end of the meal.

The club is also involved in the Boys and Girls Club Power Start program, which helps children who may be experiencing challenges with food sustainability or getting to school on time get a positive start to their day, with a nutritious breakfast and help with preparing for school.

It’s hard to do this sort of work without the funds to do it and, as such, Kamloops West has a few fun-

“As a new resident to Kamloops and a Rotary member, I’m excited to be a part of this community and to join the people who help make it great.”

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draisers that they’re known for in the community.

One is the golf and restaurant cards that they sell every year.

Cards offer two-for-one meals at local restaurants or two-for-one greens fees at local golf courses.

The club is also hosting the Iron Sommelier event this year, which they previously put together with the Rotary Club of Kamloops. It’s a tasting dinner featuring gourmet food and wine.

The Rotary Club of Kamloops West has a healthy membership but, according to Ginter, their doors are

always open to potential new members. And, she says, there’s a lot to be gained from membership.

“It’s a way of getting involved in fundraising projects,” she said.

“Events that effect the community where you get to interact with people and see the people you’re assisting, and I love to do that.”

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RibFest and CrabFest are iconic Kamloops Daybreak events

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f you’re a fan of the annual RibFest event in Kamloops, then you can thank the Rotary Club of Kamloops Daybreak for bringing it to life.

“I would say that if you asked 100 people, probably 75 of them would say it’s a City of Kamloops event,” said Lisa Lake, president of the Rotary Club of Kamloops Daybreak.

“They work in partnership with us.”

The idea was brought to Kamloops from the East Coast, and it was initially planned as a project that could involve multiple Rotary groups, but Lake explained that wasn’t in the cards.

“We tried to see if it could be an all clubs events, but it’s very, very difficult to organize all clubs,” she said.

Instead, Daybreak tackled the massive project alone because its membership numbers were the highest. And while it’s been a huge success, she also said

that it’s a lot of work.

“We did it the first year, and we were all really thrilled. And then at the end of the three days, we sat down and said, that was so great,” Lake said.

“And then our next thought was, oh no, we have to do this again.”

Of course Daybreak isn’t only known for its work on RibFest. It’s also behind CrabFest, which usually hits in February, and recently helped the SPCA get its new location built.

The club is also planning a new fundraiser called Art from the Attic, scheduled to take place the first weekend in October, where people donate pieces of art that they no longer care to display for Daybreak to clean up and sell.

The funds from this project would likely go towards the Overlander Residential Care facility.

“We’re working with Overlander right now to redo their outdoor living space,” she said.

“They’ve got a gazebo

there that needs to be condemned, people can’t even use it, it’s got to come down. The pathway needs to be fixed, because people with mobility issues couldn’t use the current pathway. There’s a four bed hospice there, none of us even knew that, there’s no outdoor space for people that are accessing hospice there.”

The club is also considering tackling an international service project in Africa.

“The last international project we did was a water project and it was in Sri Lanka,” she said.

The club, which is about 30 years old, has a current membership count of 102, so they aren’t exactly hunting for new members, though Lake did say that they’re always willing to consider new faces.

RibFest is one of the Rotary Club of Kamloops Daybreak’s signature events.

Rotary Club of Kamloops Daybreak We meet Fridays at 6:45 AM Barside Grill at Chances 1250 Halston Avenue

Kamloops North taking care of The Shore

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he Rotary Club of Kamloops North might be a small club, but according to president Bob Attfield, they’re very passionate and dedicated to the North Shore community.

“Right now we have about 17 members,” Attfield said, “and our big projects, we partnered with the school district, and our big project is McQueen Lake.”

McQueen Lake is an education centre that’s owned and operated by the school district, allowing district

students of all grades to utilize the site for many different objectives.

“Our club was instrumental in supporting the initiative to build that camp, and we continue to support it to this day.”

The club also offers scholarships and bursaries to the two high schools located on the North Shore: Norkam Secondary School and Westsyde Secondary School. They’re involved with the Salvation Army’s kettle program and they do street cleanup work along Tranquille Road

a few times a year.

And like the other Kamloops Rotary clubs, they’re involved in the Food Bank food drive.

A few years back the club also participated in international projects, like helping to build wells in Mexico. Attfield has been personally involved in eyecare projects in Africa.

“It’s about giving back to our communities,” said Attfield, in describing what Rotary means to him.

“Living in Canada, we won the lottery the day we were born, and it’s an opportunity for Rotarians, like myself, to give back to the community, to use our skills to give back to the community.”

The group is small, but Attfield hopes they can grow.

“We’re in a rebuild mode,” he said. “We’re looking for new members, and we meet the first and third Wednesday evening of every month.

“Most of our members are long time Rotarians and come from very

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diverse backgrounds.”

But, Attiflield points out, that’s where the group’s strength really lies.

“That’s the beauty of rotary, bringing their respective talents to the table, to help their community.”

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Kamloops Aurora Centennial newest club in city Rotary Club of Kamloops Aurora Centennial members hard at work at the Kamloops Hospice Garden.

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he Rotary Club of Kamloops Aurora Centennial may be Kamloops’ newest Rotary club, but it has accomplished a lot since it chartered on the 100th birthday of Rotary International in 2004.

Aurora is a Tuesday morning meeting club that started at UCC (now TRU), and presently meets at Nandi’s Flavours of India, 610 W.

Columbia Street.

Starting with 26 members in 2004, Aurora has grown to 35 active members. The Aurora club sponsored the start-up of the two junior Rotary clubs, Kamloops Hybrid Interact (14 to 18 year olds) plus the Young Professionals of Kamloops Rotaract Club (18 to 30 years old).

Both meet Tuesday evenings at 610 West Columbia. New members are

welcome.

From the beginning, the Aurora club chose to focus its service on youth, education and the environment. Aurora has purchased Smart Boards for SD73 classrooms, school jerseys for athletics, a recent robotics program for SD73, plus many others. The club also supports the Rotary Youth exchange, has set up a TRU Scholarship Fund and gives

monthly recognition to local SD73 students who exemplify leadership in their local school.

Each year Aurora sponsors a local student to participate in the Adventures in Citizenship program in Ottawa plus the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards.

The club continues to be involved with the Rotary Food Drive, the Starfish backpack program, The Pitstop Sunday meal program at Kamloops United Church, The Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinner at Norkam Secondary, plus others.

Twice a year the club members, with family and friends clean up their Adopt-a-Road along Highway 5A from Rogers Way to the Summit Drive/Hugh Allan intersection.

Aurora actively participated in and supported the Disaster Recovery Fund (a Kamloops Rotary initiative formed to deal with the 2017 Wildfires).

Club members are also regular participants in many causes like Raise a Reader program, Kamloops Spelling Bee, the Christmas shoebox campaign, Operation Red Nose and the list goes on. Aurora has supported international water and education projects in Chile,

many areas in Africa and Southeast Asia, plus Developing World Connections initiatives.

Over the years, Aurora has given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups and service projects, locally and internationally.

To do this, Aurora has had to fund raise. The club’s annual Spaghetti Western held in the fall at the Colombo Lodge is a regular sellout and lots of fun. In 2017, the Aurora club organized and hosted the Canada 150 RCMP Musical Ride tour. The club has had many other events and support other Rotary clubs events. Currently, the Aurora club is in the process of giving away $40K in local community grants.

Aurora is always looking for people who want to make a difference in the world. If you are looking for a diverse, fun group of people of action, drop by a Tuesday morning meeting and check them out.

For more information visit their website http://aurorarotary.ca/.

Rotary Club of Kamloops Aurora We meet Tuesdays at 7:00 AM Flavours of India Restaurant 610 West Columbia Street

Rotary clubs responsible for many Kamloops events R

otary is a club that unites people, across communities and across the world, towards a common goal of solving real problems. Kamloops is home to five clubs that have each had impact in the local community through volunteer work as well as creating fundraising events which have become signatures of life in Kamloops.

One project that unites all five of the local Rotary clubs is the food drive for the Kamloops Food Bank, which takes place twice a

year. People fill bags with food items they have around the house, leave them on their front step, and Rotary volunteers pick them up in the morning.

It’s an important event for the Food Bank, bringing tens of thousands of pounds through their door.

Local Rotary Clubs are also participants in Adopt-ARoad campaigns.

Rotary Club of Kamloops Daybreak is responsible for some of Kamloops’ most recognizable events. Ribfest has become a staple of sum-

mer in the city and Crabfest is just about as popular. And they’re hoping a new event — Art from the Attic — will grab people’s attention as well.

Rotary Club of Kamloops North keeps their attention on the north side of the river, with regular clean-ups along Tranquille Road and scholarships and bursaries for north shore high schools Norkam and Westsyde. They also work with the Salvation Army’s kettle program helps with the McQueen Lake Environmental Education

Centre that’s a part of School District No. 73.

Rotary Club of Kamloops continues to the focus on food-related programs with Chefs in the City, a great opportunity get a taste of some of the cuisine from local gourmet chefs.

They also help with the Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinners and the Starfish Backpack program.

Rotary Club of Kamloops Aurora Centennial is also involved in the Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinners and the Starfish

Backpack program. They also work with the United Church on the PIT Stop Sunday meals provided by the church. But their signature event is probably the Spaghetti Western held in the fall. It’s a fun event filled with great food, entertainment, and dancing.

Rotary Club of Kamloops West is another club that participates in the PIT Stop Sunday meals. They also put on a free seniors’ dinner every February and volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club Power Start program.

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Their golf and restaurant cards allow card-holders to get 50% off meals or green fees at local restaurants and golf courses. Most recently, they’ve worked to bring Brewloops to life and developed the Iron Sommelier event.

Many of the events we enjoy every year in Kamloops wouldn’t exist without local Rotary clubs. If you’ve enjoyed some of these events in the past, maybe consider joining up with one of our local groups? New faces are always welcome.

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ROTARY FEEDS THE NEED

Last weekend was the 22nd Rotary Food Drive in Kamloops and more than 50,000 pounds of non-perishable food donations were collected, according to Cassie Nolan, office co-ordinator for the Kamloops Food Bank. She said this amount would have cost the Food Bank more than $150,000 to purchase and will keep it going for the next few months. It was the third food drive with the Any Bag Will Do program.

Nearly 100 volunteers helped unload and sort donations in addition to Rotarians who gather donations from around town. Since 2008, more than 1 million pounds of food has been collected for the Food Bank.

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