Today we welcomed 12 members and visiting Rotarian Ros Horne from the Heighton Rotary club in Australia.

Announcements:

* Today we presented $30K in scholarships. The funds were raised with the Hoopathon.

Rotary Moment

Ted brought us the Rotary Moment today, for this we watched a video named "A Rotary Moment With Mike Storey"

Mike Storey is a member of The Rotary Club of Ladner and he shares his Rotary Moment from an International event where he and his wife delivered water filters to a remote rural village in a 3rd world country. You can watch the video below:

Guest Speaker

Today our guest speaker was our member Jim Miller, giving us his classification talk.

These are some of the highlights of his presentation:

* He was born in the US but is now a Canadian citizen.

* He has a PhD in chemistry.

* He developed a drug that is now used to treat macular degeneration.

* He joined Rotary in Whistler in 2004.

Thought of the day: