Posted by Dan Toppari

RESPONSE ABILITY = success

The Rotary Club of St. Catharines South is staying calm and carrying on.  We are losing a member or 2, but inducting a new member and hope to induct more by the end of the year.  One issue is how to predetermine if an interested potential new member has the “response ability” to succeed in one fashion or another as a member of Rotary.  The club's membership committee is looking into that.  The best way to ensure that members stick around is to get them involved, especially by getting them thinking about climbing on the ladder to become president eventually.  If not climbing on that ladder, they tend to fall off it at some point.
 
The club's Brock University Rotaract club is hosting their “First Vote” event on May 8.  This is for High School students who are going to be able to vote in federal and provincial elections for the first time.  They are bused in from all over Niagara to hear from Political Science professors and current public office holders.  Attached is the photo of Rotary President Elect Robert Eagle handing our club’s donation cheque for “First Vote” to Rotaract President Hope Tuff-Berg.  If Hope looks familiar, it is because she is in a photo promoting the Hamburg RI Convention!
 
The "South Club” will be hosting it’s second annual comedy night on Friday, May 31.  Tickets are only $25.  Call President Dan Toppari at 905-227-9288 if you are interested.