October 16 Bingo Dedication

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Brunch only tickets available


Rotary Brunch at the Fleck

Our tickets to the play Oklahoma are closed; however we still have room at the Fleck for brunch guests. For $30.00 you can experience a wonderful brunch catered by the Queens Inn. Enjoy good company and learn about Rotary's latest ventures. There are many items up for the silent auction. Doors are open at 11:00 am with brunch served at 11:30 am on Sunday October 14.

For ticket information contact Jack West at 519-273-1005 or Carolyn Bart-Riedstra at 519-271-6761.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

El Salvador- Rotary Club of Cuidad Merliot Ovens Project

Our Partner Club in El Salvador has sent us some photos of their improved ovens project. They have built 142 of these are are this weekend training the parents of the Family we have supported in the building of these ovens.

Each oven is designed to fully utilize spcial stones that help keep the heat hence using less wood and protecting the environment. The Chamber under the iron is filled with these stones and only part is used for firewood. Each stove is built so as not to burn any one near them and has piping to take any smoke to the out of doors. This keeps this stove similar to the traditional one and more culturally acceptable and low cost.

The Old Way of Cooking





The New Way of Cooking




Rotary of Cuidad Merliot Members



Soya Project News from Colombia


The Rotary Club of Duitama Boyaca Colombia has advised us they have now received the matching funds from The Rotary Foundation for the Soya Equipment Project for four communities.

The Rotary Club of Duitama Colombia has contracted a consultant to help them in learning how to multiply small businesses; they have had some TV coverage of the project; they are active in the communities orienting the people; the four communities are cleaning the 4 processing plant locations, and they have ordered the equipment and this equipment firm is preparing the training in equipment use.

The Duitama Boyaca Club will work with another Rotary club in Bogota Colombia where the educating and monitoring nutritionists are members and are in the stage of timetabling their involvement.

The club President Francisco Berrio Zafra and The Executive Director of the Club Foundation state in their letter to you:

"We would like to express through The Rotary Club of Festival City (Stratford) our most sincere appreciation for all your help in order to make a reality this very breathtaking program benefiting the people with nutritional deficiency in our region.

The development of this project has given us the opportunity to establish a permanent communication with you, that we value as an opening from our club to people of a generous heart and commitment to the world community.

We will remember with gratitude this opportunity that you have given to our Rotary Club and we will be in permanent contact with you in order that you will be informed about the unfolding of the project.

Please receive on behalf of those benefiting from this project a committed, Cordial and Rotarian embrace. Thank you for making this nutritional supplement possible for over 300 people in each community and the development of four ongoing soy processing plants, one in each community."


As well, by doing it this way, each donor club Stratford Rotary Club, Goderich Rotary Club and Duitama Rotary Club will be credited with Paul Harris credits for their contribution.



Thursday, September 6, 2007

We have a Winner!


The "Name the Club Mascot" Poll has closed and the winning name is:

"Mr. Rab-bit"


Thanks to Laura Pogson for suggesting the name and everyone who voted in the poll.

"Small but Mighty!" (with big pointy teeth to boot).

Monday, September 3, 2007

Upcoming Matinee Bingo on Saturday September 8


Celebrate Surveyor 5's 40th birthday with a matinee bingo



We could not have had the Apollo moon landings later in the sixties and seventies if science and reconnaissance were not performed by unmanned space craft cabable of landing on the moon. Neil Armstrong may have stolen the show with his " a small step for man, a giant leep for mankind" but lets not forget those unsung Surveyor space craft, in particular Surveyor 5 which was launched September 8, 1967. Our bingo celebrates Surveyor 5's 40th birthday. It sits on the moon now having accomplished its mission largely ignored and forgotton (much like modern surveyors today).

Come on out and celebrate Surveyor 5's Birthday by working the Saturday, September 8 , Matinee Bingo starting at 1:00 pm and going to 5:00 pm. We will need more people in the first half of the bingo than the second half.


The following is from the NSSDC website: "Surveyor 5 was the third spacecraft in the Surveyor series to achieve a successful lunar soft landing and the first mission to obtain on-site compositional data on the Moon. The primary objectives of the Surveyor program, a series of seven robotic lunar softlanding flights, were to support the coming crewed Apollo landings by: (1) developing and validating the technology for landing softly on the Moon; (2) providing data on the compatibility of the Apollo design with conditions encountered on the lunar surface; and (3) adding to the scientific knowledge of the Moon. The specific objectives for this mission were to perform a soft landing on the Moon in Mare Tranquillitatis and obtain postlanding television pictures of the lunar surface. The secondary objectives were to conduct a vernier engine erosion experiment, determine the relative abundances of the chemical elements in the lunar soil by operation of the alpha-scattering instrument, obtain touchdown dynamics data, and obtain thermal and radar reflectivity data. "