Thanks to everyone who joined us for our morning breakfast meeting on Tuesday, February 27th. The "Rotary Moment" was provided by Rotarian, Karl Seidel. Brenda Hamilton, let the group know about the week's birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions. Inbound Rotary Exchange Student, David Wu, spoke about his week in review. Miss Rotary, Jessica O'Gorman, provided an update on participation in this year's Summerland Blossom Pageant. Rotarian, LeeAnna Binder, spoke to the Club about the new Rotary NOW event the she and the rest of the Membership Committee has been organizing to take place on Thursday, April 12th, from 5-7 pm at the Summerland Waterfront Resort. Stay tuned for more details on this shortly.
President-Elect, Mirjana Komljenovic, spoke to the Club about her experience from the past weekend in Seattle. Mirjana attended the Pacific Northwest President-Elects Training Seminar (PETS) at the end of February, which is a joint effort of the nine Rotary districts in the Northwest area of North America (and eastern Russia). This large area includes the states of Alaska, Oregon, Washington, parts of Idaho and California, the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Pacific Northwest PETS is managed, prepared and conducted by a PETS Operating Committee composed of the District Governor-elect and a Past District Governor representative from each participating District. Consisting of well known exceptional speakers, informative workshops, detailed district training sessions, fellowship and networking, the basic purpose of our PETS is to have the best prepared, most enthusiastic club presidents in the Rotary world. Annually, the over 550 Presidents-elect attending leave well prepared to carry out their Rotary duties.
Director of Youth Services, Bob Van Balkom, spoke about the upcoming Rotary District 5060 Youth Exchange Bus Trip. Ellen Walker-Matthews introduced our guest speaker Ann Jackson, Landscape Designer at BENCH Site Design from Kelowna. Ann provided the Club with an update regarding the Giants Head Trail Re-Development Plan. Later on in the morning, Ellen thanked Ann Jackson and Lori Mullin, Manager of Parks & Recreation at the District of Summerland, for attending our meeting and presented them with Rotary Club of Summerland mugs.
Additional photos from our breakfast meeting can be found on our Facebook page here.