On Monday, April 11, Ed Lawlor, one of the Founders of Island Advance will be speaking to our Club. Island Advance is a task force created to identify key areas to help promote economic growth in Prince Edward Island. This task force completed a report titled “Advancing our Economic Future” which outlined recommendations aimed to create a vibrant entrepreneurial community in the province in 2014.
The Island Advance Initiative seeks to foster economic growth in Prince Edward Island by:
Embracing entrepreneurship
Improving access to capital
Attracting and retaining entrepreneurial immigrants.
President Bush Dumville & Chief Superindent Joanne Crampton are taking the Polar Plunge this Sunday! The Polar Plunge, is in support of Special Olympics, and will be in the parking lot of RCMP HQ in Charlottetown at 1 pm (registration at 11:30 am). Bush & Joanne want to thank everyone for helping them raise funds for Special Olympics. If you you want to make a contribution there is still time.
Special Olympics is the main charity of choice for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the PEI Association of Chiefs of Police & the RCMP is a supporter of the same. Funds raised by Special Olympics stays in PEI to help support our athletes locally as they engage in activities and compete in games.
On April 4th, we Inducted 4 additional New Members: Andy Richardson - immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of Chatham, Charlottetown Fire Chief, Randy MacDonald, Brian Younker, & Dr. Najam Chishti. This brings our total Active Membership to 109. We started at 61 Active Members in the first week of December. President Bush wants to thank those for their continued efforts to attract new Members.
The below is an updated list of Volounteer Needs over the next month for the Easter Seals Campaign. If you would like to volounteer, contact Paul Crant by email at paul.crant@bmo.com.
Tim Horton's School Tour - occurs from April 12-20. The Queens County leg of the tour is on Tuesday, April 12th, and on Monday, April 18th. We have at least one person from our Club for the Queens County leg of the tour. However, if you would like to be on the School Tour for a day, there is still room or if you would like to be on the Kings or Prince County legs, we welcome you.
Island Storm Game - April 29 at 7:00PM. We still need 2 people to work the Donation Table & 6 people to sell 50/50 Tickets at the game.
On Monday, we had Fred Hyndman speak to our Rotary Club. Fred spoke about the history of a his great Island company, past & present. We thank Fred for filling in at the last minute.
The Club observed a moment of silence for the victims of the Belgium Terror attacks at our April 4th meeting. Our Rotary Youth Exchange student, Thomas Madessis, is from Belgium. Thankfully, his family was in New York at the time of the attacks. Thomas is pictured below standing by the Belgium flag at our meeting.