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September is New Generations Month!

Well, as my summer months come to an end it’s time to ramp up the Rotaract year with new ideas, engaging speakers, service projects and fabulous fellowship!

Are you a Rotaractor here in District 5050 or abroad? Have you reached out to a local Rotary club, Rotarians or anyone in General to let them know about what Rotaract is or what we do? I challenge you to engage these groups and inform them of the exciting things that you and your club are doing this coming year.

Did you know that as a Rotaractor you are more than welcome to visit any Rotary club at any time? I’ll post some of my Rotary visit experiences here in following updates. Other clubs are fun to visit for a number of reasons; you get to know other Rotarians from the area who don’t make it out to the larger functions, you get to see what other clubs do to keep their meeting fresh and fun, and you get to inform everyone about us as a group. It’s all too easy. And you ususally get a meal out of it (which you will likely have to pay for, but whatever, it’s a meal out).

If you would like to attend a meeting anywhere but are a bit reserved to go it alone, just let me know. I’ll join you or rally a group of us together to make an evening out of it.

Fun, yes?

Have a great New Genereations month, I look forward to seeing everyone out and about!

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What are you doing this coming January?

As we are well aware, Rotaract and Rotary offers some pretty spectacular opportunities to travel from international conventions to immunization trips to work and fellowship exchanges. This adventure is another one for the books.

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Are you free at the end of January, 2013? Are you interested in international peace and resolution issues? Do you love Hawai’i?!

The Global Rotary Peace Forum is making three stops for the 2012-2013 Rotaract year and stop number two is in Honolulu, HI, USA. Per the Peace Forum website, the conference hopes to:

  • To encourage young adults to take a global perspective, and to believe that they can be catalysts for peace.
  • To develop community and global peace projects involving young adults.
  • To build a close working relationship between Rotary clubs and the leaders of tomorrow.
  • To establish bonds of friendship and collaboration before the peace forum which can be solidified through a weekend of working together.
  • To encourage continued participation in the projects that are developed as a result of this collaboration so that they become a springboard for change.
  • To partner with the crew of the Hokule’a Voyaging Canoe as they embark on a three-year around the world journey to enable them to share peace projects from the Honolulu Global Peace Forum at each stop along the way.

It would be a great time, and it’s over a weekend therefore more reasonable for a quick getaway.  In the Fraser Valley we are favourably situated for a short flight over.  If you are interested in making the journey please contact your club president!  For further information please check their website.

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#RACtalk on July 19th, 2012

If you are available on the morning of July 19th, 2012 between 7:30am and 8:30am, you are encouraged to head over to Twitter to check out the latest international conversation on what it takes to make great Rotaract meetings.
These are awesome opportunities to not only listen in on what others are doing to make their clubs great but you are able to engage in real-time conversations with Rotaractors from around the globe and RI itself! Many of the “major players” in Rotaract tune into these meetings, many of which have been members of very active and successful clubs for upwards of 10 years.

You do not need a Twitter account to follow along, however you will need one if you wish to engage in conversation. To follow the conversation simply go to Twitter and search #RACtalk. This will pull up any and all conversation on that subject matter. It’s as simple as that!

These meetings typically happen every couple of weeks to once a month so you’ll be able to chime into some sort of Rotaract talk through Twitter, or you can go back to old #RACtalks by looking at older posts within that search!
Hope to see you there!

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The #RACtalk chat was really great… very informative.  If you are interested in what took place in this #RACtalk or any of the previous ones hitting a vast number of topics, check out Rotaract on Storify for highlights from those discussions!

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They Told Us To Take A Hike And We Did

The District 5050 hike was this past weekend over at the Oyster Dome in Washington State roughly 10 minutes south of Blaine on the I-5.  I sat on my porch the night prior and watched a wicked lightning storm in the same area that the hike was to take place in, because of this I wasn’t entirely sure how the day was going to pan out.  By the time the morning hit, the storm had moved on but the clouds were still looming around the mountain. 

Being the particular person that I am, I wanted to ensure that I made it through the border in good time as to not miss out on the adventure (I have missed Rotary events in the States due to poor border planning on my part).  The hike was to start between 10:00am and 11:00am so I was at the border at 7:00am.  With the lightened government regulation and increased goods allowance for items coming back into Canada I know that lines have been longer than usual with people taking advantage of buying lots of cheap goods.  In retrospect, I don’t think I would have gone down quite that early.  With the NEXUS line being only one car long, I was coasting through the backwoods of Blaine at approximately 7:20am.  Nevertheless, I was on time.

Having never been to the Oyster Dome before I took my coffee and my Juke of power up the logging road through the park to check out where the event would be taking place.  To my surprise there was a rough dirt road that took you up to the lookout point, near the half-way point of the hike.  I took some pictures at the lookout and made my trek back down the mountain.  This burned off enough time for me to get back to the meeting point at the Shell gas station just opposite the highway from the road to the park enterance. 

Rotarians from the area started to roll in around 9:45am right up until 11:15am.  Hike organizer Ajay Caleb was there to add direction, Bill Toomey fed the motley crew with his packed lunches, Lynn Gray handled the second half of registration, and our own RTR Pat Bond kicked off the registration process as well as gracing us with her awesome presence.  Me, I shuttled people up the mountain, and I was fine with that.  It’s too bad the barbecue didn’t pan out, but there’s always next year.
Overall the event went off quite well.  There was between 20-25 hikers in all. 

Another district fellowship success!

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Goal Setting and the Presidential Citation

As a member of a Rotaract club we all know that there are certain goals that must be reached to maintain active club status in the eyes of Rotary International.  The goals are not difficult to obtain as long as time is taken to develop a course of action to follow during your year.

Take a moment to review the Rotaract Presidential Citation for 2012-2013 for many of the items in this document will be achieved by default through the term.  This form can also be found in the Documents section of this website.  One goal in the district this year is to have this Citation presented to all Rotaract clubs at the iRotary District Conference in June 2013.

If you require further information on the Presidential Citation please feel free to contact DRR Jen Petrichenko.  For information on district organized activities pertaining to the completion of the Citation, please check back here or contact your club President.

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A new year, a new website

Welcome to the new home of District 5050 Rotaract!  Whether you have come here to find out more about our great organization, you’re looking for contact information for a particular club, or you’ve just stumbled upon us while navigating through the vast open space that is the internet, we hope that you find what you are looking for.

Over the next couple of months we will be working feverishly to pack this space with as much information as we can to make it your one-stop-shop for Rotaract in the district and beyond.

Not only is this an information source for Rotaract but it is also the home of the District Rotaract Representative who will be updating on their findings through the 2012-2013 Rotaract year.

Please check back often as we will have updated photos of service projects and fellowship events, a calender of events outlining important Rotaract activities, and much more!