November 17, 2016 Meeting of West Bay Rotary
After a thought for the day from John Viehman, and then a rousing song, Sandy introduced visitors. Peter Berke introduced two visitors from the Knox County Homeless Coalition who talked about Wednesday night cookouts that they have been organizing for the residents of the Hospitality House, and that they are using glass ornaments to raise money over the 3rd and 4th and 10th of 11th of December during West Bay's Christmas tree sales. Several samples of the ornaments were available to see and buy at the meeting.
Sandy demonstrated the Club Runner site which is the local site which generates the bulletin, www.westbayrotaryofmaine.org, with a login in the upper right-hand corner. Everyone was set up on our site with a logon and password using first initial last name 1417 for both.
Once on the site, in Membership tab, you can click on Active Members and find your member profile and create and/or update it. If you complete a profile on ClubRunner, it will populate your profile on MyRotary.org.
Sandy demonstrated the way to sign up on Rotary.org at www.rotary.org/myrotary/en and the page asks you to sign in/register where you use your email and password (after you've created an account). Sandy had printed instructions available for log in.
Once you log on, if you scroll to the bottom you will find “club snapshot” which has an overview of club information, Rotary Club Central with Goals and progress on goals, club demographics, which is missing information from about 30 members of the club who have not yet registered and completed profiles.
The websites are a great way to help people learn more about West Bay Rotary and Rotary International. Peter encouraged everyone to invite people to come to Rotary to help recruit new members for the club.
Sign up sheets for Christmas Tree sales are filling fast. We will also have Tim Lawson cards to sell, 8 for $10.
Buckets on the tables are for holiday meals at Hospitality House.
Susan Dorr announced plans for the holiday party to be hosted at Jan Campbell's house, just next to Downeast Magazine, on the evening of December 14. There will be a sign up and more details at our next meeting December 1.
West Bay and Camden Rotary raised money to take the Interactors and exchange students to United Nations Day in New York for a Young Leaders Conference to talk about sustainable development in the world. Heidi Karod hopes to bring some of the young people in to talk about their experience.