Dryden Rotary’s three year strategic plan expires on June 30, 2015. Rotarian Natasha has volunteered to lead the club through the process of creating a new plan for the 2015-2018 period.

 

Although the Rotary Year is July 1 to June 30 annually, our Club Strategic Plan is January 1 to December 31st annually so it overlaps between two club presidents. This creates consistency and cooperation and assists the executive with budgeting and priority setting.

 

The Clubs Vision and Mission mirrors RI’s but is customized to the realities of District 5550 and North Western Ontario.

 

On January 21^st, President Brian Braid did a presentation on the new www.rotary.org website. In particular he showed how to login as a member to the Rotary Club Central or My Rotary portion of the website.

 

Braid showed members how they could track our membership, annual goals, and participation in various activities, service projects and Foundation giving. He also described some of the Rotary resources, such as R I Newsletters members can register to receive via email a on topics that may be of interest to them.

 

President Braid concluded the presentation by showing members how to use the club’s ClubRunner website to send an email to all or just some club members.

 

Rtn. Marg Saville presented our Exchange Student, Alba with souvenir pins for her collection.

 

President Brian Braid presented a cheque for $307.50 to Ed Iskra, winner of our 50/50 draw on January 28^th.

 

President Brian and President Elect Jack McMaster shared an Interim Budget Review for the 2014-2015 Rotary Year. This included Year to Date Budget to Actual Review and Club Activity Review.

 

Finally, Rotarian Istvan, who had taken his entire staff to a dental conference in Orlando shared a picture of a Fellowship Award  he was given. Although Istvan never left the conference, his staff had Thursday free day to see Universal studios