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Wednesday May 6 online Meeting - "Asian Heritage Month/Expo Asian Festival 2020" by Leticia Sanchez

VAHMS is a non-profit society that is dedicated to recognizing Asian Canadian participation as an integral part of Canadian society. 
 
The society organizes explorASIAN, an annual festival celebrating national Asian Heritage Month to promote understanding and appreciation of Asian-Canadian arts and culture in the month of May. The festival includes programs, activities and events produced in collaboration with various partners from the diverse communities in Metro Vancouver. This year will be done virtually.
 
Leticia is the President of VAHMS, she holds a Masters in Education from Anahuac University in Mexico, and is a certified Overseas Teacher of English from Cambridge University via the British Council.

Zoom online Meeting 12 noon to 1:15pm (Members and friends, looking forward to see you)   

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Welcome Vivian into our Club!
The first ever in our 58 year's club history that we inducted a member virtually. Vivian Wu was inducted by District Membership Chair Tom Smith on our Wednesday Zoom meeting. 
 
Ceremony started with National Anthem, followed by Rotary People of Action video
 
Tom Smith talked about why Vivian wants to join Rotary, people have different reasons to join Rotary, Vivian's reason is loud and clear... "I want to join Rotary so I can continue contributing to the community same as I did in Taiwan. I look forward to join Rotary to enhance my knowledge, networking, charity activities, friendship and community involvement. I must say that helping each other makes me happy and that's the spirit of Rotary".
 
Here comes the impressive part, Tom asked Vivian to hold out her hand, with the members cheering on, a video showing dropping a Rotary pin into the hand of Vivian. Now its official! Congratulations Vivian, now you are part of the Rotary Club of Richmond family.
 
Thank you Jacqueline for getting the badge ready and PE James Kao for dropping off the badge before the meeting. The combined effort made this more fun. President Henry asked all to dress up for the occasion, Kudos to Dave Rogers the only one that dressed in a suit and tie! 
 
  
Note: We are still contributing Happy and Sad dollars, everyone has a chance to talk, $5 for under 1 minute and $10 for 2, as always PP James is a big contributor.   
End Polio Campaign in Vancouver
The scheduled "Rotary walk to End Polio" along the Vancouver harbourfront on April 26, 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a BIG THANK YOU to BC Place Stadium, Telus Science World and Vancouver City Hall, for still lighting up on that night to show their support of the cause.
 
Also thank you to Tom Smith, Christen and Kyle Downie and Gabor Gasztonyi for taking and sharing the beautiful pictures. Rotarian Gabor is a professional photographer, see his photo gallery...  He invites us to use the photos as we wish, with a "© Gabor Gasztonyi" credit.
 
More than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries have been spared the paralyzing disease of polio, thanks to Rotary and foundations, global health organizations and governments. Learn more of the Rotary End Polio effort...
 
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12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
 
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May 07, 2020
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Year Ahead Webinar #4 on Sat
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May 09, 2020
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COVID-19 #RotaryResponds Telethon

The live event was held on May 2, watch this one hour telethon to hear stories of hope, inspiration and gratitude from Rotarians, Rotaractors and friends of Rotary from across the globe as they share what they are doing to help their communities. The telethon also showcase how our polio eradication infrastructure is helping to combat COVID-19. You are invited to share this video to friends, family, and members of your community to see first-hand what Rotary's People of Action are doing to combat COVID-19. Watch on youtube... 
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