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“ROTARY CONNECTS THE WORLD”

November 7th, 2019

Rotary Foundation Month

IN THE LANCE THIS WEEK

Rotary Foundation

Remembrance Day

Western Front Association

FUTURE EVENTS

November 14th - Rotary Foundation

Barry Sparkes

Nanaimo Hospital Foundation

Janice Perrino

November 21st - Global Village

Joan Hiemstra

DUTY ROSTER – NOVEMBER 14TH , 2019

Greeters: Ribicic/Slowski Cash : Lemmon

Sgt-Arms: Elgie Invocation: Rowley

Introductions: Taylor Foundation: DeJong

Rotary Minute: -----

|ROTARY CLUB OF LANTZVILLE |

|MISSION STATEMENT |

|Joining in fellowship to support growth and development in |

|education and health for those less fortunate in our local and |

|international |

|Communities. |

VISITORS and GUESTS

Joining us was Gavin Cooper, our guest speaker and Wayne Anderson, our assistant district governor.

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

On November 13th, Greg and Susan Devenish are celebrating their 43rd wedding anniversary.

MULTIPLE PAUL HARRIS FELLOW PRESENTATION

ADG WAYNE ANDERSON

TO BARRY SPARKES

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Barry began the meeting with a thank-you to club directors for their work and support.

And appropriately, we had a brief history lesson - in 1917 RI President Arch Klumph told the delegates to the Atlanta Convention that "it seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world." This was the genesis of our Rotary Foundation.

Barry also knew on November 7th, 1800 it became illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers; in 1885 the last spike on the CPR railway was driven at Craigellachie, BC.

FOUNDATION

$ 120 contributed to the Rotary Foundation. Many thanks! Michael Walker had the lucky ticket drawn for $ 16

SERGEANT AT ARMS – DAVE LOBAY

Happy $ from Dave Elgie, many thanks for the great support at the 7-10 breakfast. Brian M. told us there is a new ‘Landing in Normandy’ exhibit at the VI Military Museum. This exhibit marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. Also from Brian, his granddaughter is now a navigation officer in Victoria. Being home ‘alone’, Mark has a new appreciation for single parents. Listening carefully, Dale says our version of O’Canada is slowly improving. Some lessons are harder than others. Recently, Tess attended a ‘Canadian Frailty Network’ workshop. One of their areas of focus is to improve health and social care for veterans and their caregivers. Steven was very much pumped about the upcoming pumpkin cannon firing contest at East Wellington Fire Hall. This is a new fundraising initiative for Big Brothers Big Sisters. Wayne commented about ‘Movember’ and the importance of regular PSA tests. Troy was looking forward to watching in person the St. Louis Blues vs Calgary Flames hockey game. Lee did not draw the joker. Next week, the pot is $ 460.

ROTARY MINUTE – RACHEL ROBERTSON

“How to make your club irresistible” is the subject of a recent article in the Rotarian. Rachel did an excellent, personalized synopsis. Instead of asking ourselves how we get more members? we need to ask different questions. What does a first time attendee see? Are we easy to find? What do we eat? What are our projects? Are they fun? Is our 7:00 am club meeting a ‘not to be missed” event? In her work world, Rachel takes every opportunity to talk with her clients about the people and speakers at our meetings, what she learned, why Rotary works for her. Rachel’s challenge – we need to work on making Rotary appealing without making it look like work. Food for thought, thank-you Rachel!

‘It’s not how old you are, its how you are old.’

-Jules Renard, French Author-

THE GREAT WAR

1914 – 1918

A German Soldier’s Helmet

The Western Front Association was formed in 1980 with the aim of maintaining interest in the period 1914 – 1918, to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during the Great War. The Pacific Coast branch was formed in 1999 by Nanaimo resident Jack Patten (deceased 2013), retired Captain with the Canadian Scottish regiment.

Our speaker, Gavin Cooper shared with us, the work done to create a memorial for soldiers killed in a Belgium community. It started with a letter written by Jack Patten. Today, the memorial is one of many very emotional sites to be visited in France, Belgium and Germany.

The war on the Western Front was the decisive theatre in the First World War. Over a period of 4 years, 13 major battles took place in Belgium and France. Over 16 million people died. On November 11th, 1918, the guns on the Western front fell silent. The armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War One.

STORY OF THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR

The idea of a Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was first conceived in 1916 by the Reverend David Railton, who, while serving as an army chaplain on the Western Front, had seen a grave marked by a rough cross, which bore the pencil-written legend ‘An Unknown British Soldier’. The intention was for all relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the unknown warrior could very well be their lost husband, Father, brother or son.

Reverend Railton wrote to the Dean of Westminster in 1920 proposing that an unidentified British soldier from the battlefields in France be buried with due ceremony in Westminster Abbey “amongst the kings” to represent the many hundreds of thousands of Empire dead.

On September 7th 1920, in strictest secrecy four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.

None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-ter Noise. There the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random.

A French honour guard was selected, and stood by the coffin overnight. In the morning of the 8th a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court, was brought and the unknown warrior placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and shield on which was inscribed ‘A British Warrior who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 for King and Country’.

On The 9th of November the unknown warrior was taken by horse drawn carriage through guards of honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.

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There the coffin was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Verdun, bound for Dover. The coffin was place on the deck and covered in wreaths and surrounded by the French honour guard. On arrival at Dover the unknown warrior was greeted with a 19 gun salute, normally only reserved for field marshals. He then traveled by special train to Victoria Station London.

He stayed there overnight and on the morning of the 11th of November he was taken to Westminster Abbey where he was placed in a tomb at the west end of the nave – his grave was filled in using 100 sandbags of earth from the battlefields.

When the Duke of York (later King George VI) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyons in the Abbey in 1923 she left her wedding bouquet on the grave as a mark of respect (she had lost a brother during the war) Since then all royal brides married in the Abbey have sent back their bouquets to be laid on the grave.

History Lesson, Thank-You Doug Slowski!

CLUB MEETING NOTES

Community Services chair, Dale W. introduced three notice of motions: that we donate $ 2,500 to Big Brothers/Big Sisters for the Game on Project; that we donate $ 1,000 to KidSport to subsidize registration fees; -that we donate $ 1,000 to Tides Canada for the self-esteem enhancement project with the Inuit. A motion to donate $ 2,000 from general funds to the Nanaimo Hospital Foundation for the new colonoscopy surgical suite was approved. [pic][pic]

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