THE WHIP
SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS #4
April 15, 2020
Newsletter for the Rotary Club of Kelowna Capri
Edited by John Mullock
President Jack Degruchy President Elect Ron Becker Secretary Carola Spek Treasurer Lockie Bracken
All meetings cancelled until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic Jun 18 Installation Night – Sunset Ranch Nov 26 Cottonwoods Christmas Party Dec 17 RC Capri Christmas Party at Kelowna Golf and Country Club
ROTARY THEME FOR 2020-2021
RAMBLING Not doing much rambling.
Downtown Kelowna
Orchard Park Mall – only 5 stores open
Yup, doing a lot of reading and playing on my tablet between sleeping.
SIGNS SIGNS EVERYWHERE THERE’S SIGNS
Club Activity – The Executive are all
in isolation but meet on the internet using Zoom. We did manage to sing “O Canada” but it was painful.
EAST KELOWNA HALL – our district
grant has been approved by The Foundation. A few of the necessary items needed to get started are underway including funds from the two Rotary Clubs involved and setting up bank accounts and signers. The organizers at East Kelowna Hall have broken the work down into nine phases with phase one being some drywalling.
We are doing a Virtual Conference on Zoom! This is admittedly experimental for us, and it might just be amazing! You must Register for this Zoom event, attendance will be limited to 500. All of the details are on the District Website (rotary5060.org) under “Events”. To register...
• You are invited to the District 5060 Zoom "DisCon-2020" meeting.
• Saturday April 25, 2020 1:00-5:30pm PT
• Meeting "live" at 12:30pm for sign-in
• Social chat to follow 5:30-6:30pm
• Register in advance for this meeting:
• https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuduqspzIsgHQiNZwZCRThjgD7hsDU-g
• After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
DISTRICT VIDEO SITE - The District has
a Vimeo Pro subscription with many videos for training and inspiration.
https://vimeo.com/rotary5060
HUMOUR
GUEST SPEAKER There was no guest speaker (surprise!) but President Jack did speak to everyone attending our Zoom meeting as to how they are doing. It was a nice way to stay in touch.
GALLERY
BC Wildfires April 14, 2019. Red ones are
new this date. Remainder are out or under-
control. All are person caused.
Full moon over mountains near Chilliwack
Photo by Stephen
Yes, he’s my brother which makes this
nepotism
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