Pins, name badges, shirts
Please inform Ariane if you need a Rotary pin, a name badge, T-shirt, or golf shirt. We had quite a few new members join in the spring. It is easier to order a quantity than one at a time. I will be bringing shirts and T-shirts to the lunch on the Ottawa River on Saturday.
Meeting dates for makeups
Meetings have now been added to the end of the 2019-2020 year. I discovered that we were missing out on a lot of banked credits towards the end of the year. This year, all Tuesdays are marked in from July 2, 2018 to June 30, 2020. In order to get your 40 credits (see
Participation Recognition), you will need to go to the end of April 2020, but of course you can then keep going. Do not bank meetings, just keep adding them to the next available date for you, even if it is in the future. Your best bet is to go for “auto-assign” because the system will put that makeup wherever it is needed. I know that for those of you who have been Rotarians before that seems strange, but then we are not a usual club, so we do our attendance credits in an unusual way.
Question about marking attendance credits
Technically you get credit for each hour that you take part in a volunteer or Rotary activity. If you take part in an activity that runs for a day, or over several hours, you need to mark that down as “Activity Name” – Hour 1, Hour 2, and so on. The ClubRunner system does not distinguish the hours so you need to do that yourself, unless it does not really matter to you. Remember that you do need to mark down your own activities, check the Download file on our website home page.
We’ve mentioned before that for some it feels really strange or disconnected somehow not to be tied to a meeting schedule. It’s also different to do things you want to do on a schedule of your own. You may do three things in one week, and then not do anything for a month or more. It is for that reason that we do not grant a leave of absence. You do not need to worry about that, it’s the way our club is. Keep marking in your makeups and while you are there, look at what others are doing to inspire you.
Website advertising
We are asking you to reach out to advertisers. Invoices have been sent to our current advertisers because our aim is still to have enough advertisers to pay for the website hosting. May I suggest doing a mailing campaign? Each club member should send a personal letter to a non-Rotarian friend who has a business that could advertise asking for support. It works because the friend wants to help his friend.
PS-I guarantee that you won't receive any ads if you don't do the ask. There are also more documents in the Documents section that explain how to go about it.
Communication
We have a closed Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734739396840883/ but not everyone is on Facebook. We have 15 out of 32 members in the group now. During the Convention in Toronto I was able to use a Messenger group to get everyone together for a dinner. We can also use the Facebook group for discussions among ourselves. It could be more useful if we started using it more.